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I finished three movies today: Phone Booth, 50 First Dates, and Kill Bill Vol. 1.

Phone Booth is not too bad–not the best movie but certainly not outstanding either. It’s pretty interesting to watch the exchanges between Stuart, a publisher, and a sniper hiding somewhere behind a window of one of the building surrounding a phone booth–where Stuart was kept hostage. But other than this, the movie was quite so-so.

50 First Dates tells a story about Lucy, a girl who was involved in an accident and lost her short-term memory. The last thing she remembers everytime she wakes up was the day before her accident. Watch for yourself the attempts made by Henry Roth who fell for her but had to convince her every single day that they really liked each other and they were really dating. This movie is quite a refresher from other romantic comedies I’ve seen, although unfortunately such a condition of Lucy’s is completely fictional. <evilmode>Otherwise, just think about the possibilities: cheat your spouse every single day and he/she won’t even remember the next day! Mwahahahahahaha…</evilmode> Of course, I’m joking just now. I’m a nice rational nerdy bookworm anyway. Ula and Ten-second Tom is quite amusing side-characters in the movie, although Tom’ll get on your nerves pretty quickly.

The last movie, Kill Bill Vol. 1 is very disappointing. I expected a good story served with just the right amount of violence and gore a la Battle Royale. Ok that’s a bad one–Battle Royale is full of gore, but at least the gore was within common sense and the story has quite a plot. What I got with Kill Bill Vol. 1 was basically just a movie full of blood spurting out of severed body parts. The movie seems to suggest that the human body is just a container for blood which is under a high pressure–hence when you cut off a body part, blood will spurt out like a red-coloured water fountain. The music used isn’t great either–some seems to be out of context compared to the scene.

Interestingly enough, IMDB (the Internet Music Database) ranked Kill Bill, Phone Booth, and 50 First Dates in descending order, while I personally would rank them the other way round.

Let’s see what I think of The Ring the day after tomorrow when I watch it–I’m supposed to watch it today, but considering that I have to sleep through the night and wake up pretty early tomorrow, I didn’t. I’m worried that The Ring may contain some really scary scenes which will leave a scar in my brain at least through the night.

I’m supposed to wake up early tomorrow because I’m going to Bogor to attend the Christmas Mass at my old school, Regina Pacis High School. By the way, as if it’s now my habit, I haven’t slept yet now even though I’m supposed to wake up in about 3 hour and 30 minutes time. The Mass itself is in the night. I have to go there early because Sis is performing in the choir for the Mass and she has an early rehearsal.

Right-o… I’m 62% through my download, which will end in about 20 minutes time. I’m wondering what I can do now. Hmmm…

I’ve been wanting to talk about death for quite some time, but let’s leave it for another post. I don’t think it’s that nice talking about death too near to Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be filled with joy and happiness. I shan’t spoil the mood by talking about death.

Alright, the next few lines will be filled with random things I can think about while I wait for my download to finish.

69% - Ok, I’m pretty hungry now, so I shall go and make myself a cup of Energen cereals.

77% - Back. Ah, it feels much better now…
79% - Long time ago, I wrote I’d do an entry on my thoughts on long-distance relationships. I haven’t until now. And I doubt I’d do so anytime soon.

82% - No matter how much I quarell with Grandma, thus seemingly imply that I don’t care about her at all, I still think that she’s overworking herself. To her, there’s almost no rest at all. She never watches TV, never listens to music. It’s very seldom that she actually walks out of the house to just at least take a break like going to the places that the rest of the family do. Everyday it’s the same routine, from the time she wakes up, she sweeps the floor in front of the shop, prepares the shop, works until the afternoon, cooks lunch in betweek work and dinner afterwards, and by the time she finishes it’s time to go to bed. No time to at least sit down and relax and talk to the rest of the family. It’s always work, work, work for her. Honestly, I’m pretty worried especially thinking about her age…

96% - My mouse is starting to act up. The mouse pointers runs to random locations sometimes somehow. Maybe it’s time for me to change the mouse–I’ve broken it once a long, long time ago and fixed it.

100% - Woohoo!

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