Thursday, April 23, 2009

A Month to Home!

I realize I don't really say much about what I do in school over here, mostly because I'm afraid it will bore all of you, and plus I don't have any pretty pictures or anything. But just to explain why I haven't been blogging that much, I've been quite busy this semester, been spending most my days doing mostly Japanese and French homework, preparing for upcoming, once again, Japanese and French tests and exams, playing polo (twice a week now and I'm getting better at cantering), working for a professor and other miscellaneous activities.

This week, for example, is the Ivy Film Festival, the largest student film festival in the US and I assume the world and I'm going to watch a movie tonight - 500 Days of Summer. Should be interesting. A couple days ago I spent the afternoon playing polo and then tomorrow I have dinner at a Prof's place, on Saturday a couple of us will be going down to MIT to meet the other Singaporeans in the region and to play some games. So even though I don't have a lot of regular work per se I've been doing a lot of stuff like that.

But even so I've found time in between for my favorite pasttime - watching dvds on my computer, like this one:

I suppose everyone already knows what this movie is about - a dog and his life with an average growing family, basically. Of course the "average couple" = Owen Wilson and Jen Aniston and seriously how can they be average. I watched it thinking it was one of those sweet, funny movies and it really was sweet and funny but also incredibly, incredibly SAD. I cried so hard at the end I actually had to pause the movie to take a tissue and I swear my face and eyes were swollen by the end. Goodness!! I guess this movie really deserved all the boatloads of money it got at the box office even if it wasn't supremely impressive if you really must be anal about it.

On a sidenote, also watched Quantum of Solace, and even though Daniel Craig really is a hot piece of ass, and it's a good thing that M (Judi Dench) has a lot more screentime in this movie, everyone was right - not worth watching!