Had a rather un-exciting day today. But not complaining.
The morning and afternoon was spent lounging in front of the idiot box. It feels good just lazing around with nary a care in the world. I watched the 1953 movie adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel "The War of the World", which is not to be confused with the 2005 one with Tom Cruise in it and directed by Spielberg. It was short by today's standard of movies, less than an hour and a half long, believe it or not. The shortest non-animated movie I've ever watched. It was quite interesting. The way the director portrayed the Martians was actually pretty cool. I liked the ending as well which seemed to make some sense to me in any case. This is so unlike me to be watching a sci-fi movie, but this was an exception. Mainly because this was a book adaptation so I had to watch it of course. Now, I just got to read the book. Yeah, weird I know. So, the movie. It was the typical old and classic type of movie with grainy type film and exaggerated movements and acting. I can't believe people actually acted like that before 1996. Anyway, the story line was pretty much straight forward. How forward can one get with Martians attacking and invading planet earth? It got mildly boring towards the middle of the story with some soppy love story going on at the same time, this being Hollywood and all. Sigh. But I liked the ending. Very . . . sensible. I can't imagine the earth being taken over by aliens, which might be far more superior to us in terms of knowledge and technology. So, I guess that's why we have the movies. To help us imagine it all so that we don't have to do the hard work ourselves.
There. That was how I spent my day today. Pretty uneventful for a change. So, yeah, Nic went to spend the next two nights at Sharon's place now. Oh, and I can finally use my bedside lamp to its full effect tonight. Nic and I visited our old high school this morning to get my official SAM results certified and also pay a visit to the old alma mater. (if that's how you call it) The school changed a lot in just two years I have to say. It looks so much more neater and there're new paint jobs everywhere. Even the management at the canteen has changed and more types of food are being served now. We didn't get to enjoy roti canai two years ago. Other than that, the teachers mostly seemed the same with the exception of a few new ones of course.
I'll be applying to HELP Institute tomorrow. I'll feel so much more relieved knowing that there is some place that I'm heading to in the near future, rather than to be a wandering and aimlessly floating around with no college or university attached to. I just hope that the uni I want to attend next year will allow me to twin with them and will let me study the majors that I want. My dream majors will include Business Law or Commercial Law (however you want to call them) and Accounting or International Business.
I don't mean to brag or sound like I'm bragging but I just realised that I am actually good at accounting. The sucky thing is that I don't like doing it. But you know what they say about playing to your strengths and so here I am. I'm going to be sticking to the safe route. I remember swearing that I'll never study accounting after SPM but I got an A for it when I did my SAM finals. And now I'll be doing a major in it. Sigh. It's funny how future can take a totally different turn and send your words hitting right back at your face. Okay, not so funny actually.
Oh and 1Utama shopping and movie catching is on the agenda for tomorrow. Yay that I get to get out of the house again. And double yay that I'll be getting some OJ from DQ as well. Gosh, I miss their fruit smoothies. Further good news. My hair will be straightened or rebonded on Sunday. I think I mentioned that already in my previous post. Umm, yeah. Three to four hours of rear sitting, here I come.
