A movie-full holiday and new semester
28 July 2008, 8:54 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Holiday, Miscellaneous, School.
It was rushing a criminal essay during the last week of my three-week semester "break" and cutting the number of words from 2870 down to the maximum of 1800 the night before deadline (actually went down to 1798 woot).
And it's movies and anime to welcome the pile of work to get started on. In order of movies watched:
Flushed Away: very, very cute adventures of mice.- The Comebacks: fucking gay and wrong in every single way possible. The 1 point is for being so bad that I could better concentrate on my work rather than watching it.
- Ratatouille: absolutely godly! Cute genius definitely.
- In the name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale: some mock-Lord of the Rings-ish thing.
- Devil Wears Prada: watched it for the second time. I love the pretty dresses.
- One Piece: only watched four episodes so far. It's good, but I still like Bleach better.
- Enchanted: creative, beautiful, happy, simply great, great, great!
I've never watched so many movies in such little time. In addition, I also watched four movies in the cinema during the short break:
- 21: I liked it for the smart students but it was much too kiddish cheating, highly unrealistic for Las Vegas casinos.
- The Incredible Hulk: other than the admirable digitally-created green giant itself, the plot and ending is by far worse than the previous Hulk movie.
- Kung-Fu Panda: so incredibly cute and funny, I like the strong links to actual Chinese history on martial arts. A must-watch!
- Hancock: very average. Funny etc. in the middle but ending wasn't anywhere near good. I repeat: very average.
Now just waiting for the bumhole New Zealand cinemas to hurry their arses up to get "Wanted" and "Wall-E" out!
Changing my future within 24 hours
13 July 2008, 6:40 pm. 27 Comments. Filed under Personal, School.
I know what everyone says... That it's important to do what you love etc. How about if two things you love are in conflict with each other? Prioritize, right? 
I love Law and I love International Economics/Business. So that combination was what I was planning to do all along. However having done my first International Business paper this past semester, I now realise the amount of workload involved together with Law far exceeds what I had in mind. My International Economics/Business papers next year all require highly time-consuming research essays and case studies. I can write essays, but I take a considerable amount of time. My overarching strength lies in mathematics and numbers. The Law component has enough research essays for me to do, and I want to put more time into Law instead of Commerce. So I don't want my Commerce load crushing my Law grades. Aside from that, Finance seems to have a richer and broader future than Economics and International Business because large firms tend to be more interested in Accounting/Law, Finance/Law or Taxation/Law people. But Finance just sounds so much more boring than what I had planned before and I'm really scared of what I'm going to face in it.
I don't know what's with all these "big" sudden decisions I make right after a downfall in something. For example, "suddenly" deciding to skip my last year of high school right after breaking up in 2006 because there are supposed to be more and bigger fish in the sea. (Which turned out to be oh-so-wrong but it was a great decision anyway.)
And I think I sort of freaked my friend out by declaring to change my commerce major in the last minute. I start my next semester in a week and I'm having to change all my future papers. My originally-organised future plan is now a complete mess and I feel like I'm facing a new and uncertain three years ahead.
I really do believe Finance would give me a better future with more choices in the future. I just hope that I'll grow to enjoy it so I won't be stuck with something I find boring and fail all the way. I wouldn't call this giving up something I love but perhaps a trade-off in the process of practically considering future workload and career prospects.
Just leave me to rot
25 May 2008, 9:31 pm. 25 Comments. Filed under School.
I did come up with some good blog ideas over the past 20 days, but they were so easily crushed with work stress I decided to just give up—until the stress is over.
I've been having at least a test or large assignment due every single week for the past however many weeks and will continue having this stream of workload until exams are over around the end of June.
So hey, just leave me rotting. I'll maybe post every now and then. But pray that I'll survive, and I'll come back later probably with a mock-Amanda-and-Tracy-style competition thingie. (Because I just found the cutest gift idea(s) in the store I work at. 
) Now I return to Bleach Economics assignment.
