2006. Well now. Feels just like 2005, wouldn't you say so? Doors are opening so grab the opportunity before it slips through your fingers. I should make that my motto this year.
I don't really want to start off the new year with some boring recount of my ongoing preparations to Melbourne but if you must know then I shall reflect on some of the more interesting bits.
The school life and college students mingling around cafes, halls, and registry counters are back with a vengeance. I'm glad for once that I don't have to experience this till late February only but I still have to return to the dreaded college to get the academic transcripts sorted out and certified and stuff. Driving back and forth to the IDP centre in Subang is starting to be a pain and annoying me as hell. Why can't there be an IDP centre somewhere near PJ too so that I don't have to ferry myself up and down the highway every other day. It'll make my life and everyone else's so much better and easier on the environment as well. The waiting process continues as the bloody COE is still pending. I hate this whole waiting business and am starting to miss being all busied about and getting things straightened out. I think it's the adrenaline rush that I'm missing and not exactly the things that I have to do. I've basically gotten my stationery and papers and notebooks settled and bought so not much worries in that department. It's the clothes, bags, shoes and toiletries that's getting me uptight and wrinkling me up now. There is absolutely no way that I can fit the most or even the least of my stuff to be taken with me there. Officially speaking. I would need to dump more than half of it all to get it passed immigration and checking procedures. Woe is the girl with too much stuff to bring with her. I hate that I have too much to think of and deliberate on what I should take and what I should leave at home.
If there was only one teen movie you could watch in your entire life, make it 'The Breakfast Club'. Yes, it's an 80's movie. Yes, it's a teen high school movie. But it's probably the best damn teen high school movie ever made. And it was in the 80's. I know that teen movies are not the type of movies I ever watch and try to avoid them as much as I can since the 'American Pie' genre movies exploded into the scene so obscenely. But this one was different. They had bad fashion sense but it was probably the 'it' thing back then and just doesn't apply to any of us in this century. Bad fashion aside, I can see why this movie was really the pinnacle of teen movies and that really started the trend for all to follow but just doesn't emulate it as well or even comes close to. It has all the elements and slightly more that simply translates to a great movie on screen. I mean, I know I'm past my high school days already but it was and always will be fun and nice to relate back then. High school here is never and probably never will be like those as seen in the movies but there will always be some part that we can liken ourselves to them or a situation like that. Sure, the movie mainly revolves around the five characters that holds everything together. There's the jock, the brain, the prom queen, the criminal, and the outcast or misfit. What more could define the quintessential motley crew of a group of high school typecasts? I think I could be typecast as a misfit back then. Notwithstanding the pretty faces, I actually loved the cliched match-ups between the jock and the misfit and the criminal with the prom queen in the end. Oops, spoiler warning given too late.
Boy, those 80's directors sure knew what they were doing back then as compared to the paltry servings of movies we're being shoved into watching now. Sometimes I wish I can transport myself to those times when good movies were really good movies and not cheap junk that we are used to suffering through now. The point I'm trying to get to is to just watch this show and forget every other high school movie you've ever watched. I so have to scrounge for the vcd now. Wonder if there're any deleted scenes I should know about?
Still harpering on the topic of movies, 'King Kong' was good. I liked it. Seriously. You can really tell that it's a Pete Jackson work. The close-up shots, the comical moments, lavish backdrops, gross-out factors. All PJ's trademark. After watching the LOTR movies several ten's of times, it's hard not not to notice his style. But, yes. The point being it is a good movie and you should watch it when and if you can. A tad bit too long for my liking as the "fight" or rather chase scenes were too drawn out but when you push that aside, it is a fittingly satisfying movie.
Spending my late mornings to afternoons reading lazily and lounging around the couch and bed is my usual routine for now. After spending the last two weeks basically out of the house and hobnobbing around town shopping for last minute CNY stuff, I really need a break. I haven't been able to really laze around the house like I normally do during the holidays since exams were finished with and returning home from the China trip. That's almost a month ago. A month lost in non-lazing around the house. Yikes. Anyways, happy 2006 to everyone who bothers visiting my blog these days and thank you in advance for continuing to do so for the rest of the year.
