Tuesday, June 08, 2004
THR3E
I'm back, from a comparatively long hiatus from blogging. I was rather depressed after a most disappointing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, so much so that I could not even bring myself near a sufficient state of mental order to type anything.
And so yes, you now know how I feel about the latest Harry Potter movie. Suffice it to say the amount of summarising was, in my opinion, excessive, since the movie, at 140 minutes, is painfully short and could of course be a lot longer. And the blatant alterations to the original story so numerous that it was entirely scandalous. Appalling. Nauseating. And I have no intention of approaching the terrible ending with anything shorter than a ten-foot pole.
What a bitter laugh this has turned out to be, after all my almost (ok, I suppose you can remove the almost) ridiculous hyperinsane anticipation for the past week. Argh, I should flail myself and die. And now I am starting to sound like GF.
While we are on the same topic, I visited www.jkrowling.com and found it to be a rather enjoyable site to spend some time on, cracking the puzzles that J.K. Rowling has set up at various locations in the site and finding out so much about Harry Potter that I never knew before along the way.
Anyway, regarding the movie, I suppose if I had walked into the theater with that much less anticipation, and not having read the book again just 2 weeks ago, I would have found it a much more enjoyable experience. The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
Anyway, as always, the movie is totally redeemed by its stellar cast. I love Emma Thompson as an actress, and thought she was wonderful as Trelawney, though totally unrecognisable behind the glasses and costume. Which I realise is the point. And Alan Rickman, as Snape, is totally my favourite character in the movie (not the book). Which surprises a lot of people, I ascertain. The reason being Rickman is so good being Snape - who is not at all evil, just terribly flawed - that you love his portrayal. And also probably because I see a lot of Snape's flaws in myself, is why.
Something I found someone using as his/her avatar in a Harry Potter forum. Most amusing.
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Something I got from plhu's site (again, for which I am terribly apologetic).
Animals?? Urgh. And it changes if I add one capital letter? That is highly unexplainable. What is most disturbing is how both entries churn out results that are linked to Tucker. Eeee.
Anyway, plhu, I think you have a new Last Exile convert here too! Haha. I love it. Almost as much as I love FMA.
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Since I was terribly bored sitting around waiting for animes to finish downloading and all, I tried taking a dip into w33mz' SWMud blog and have a go at the game. I ended up drowning, is all I can say. A game that is so information-intensive is definitely not for me. My compulsive nature makes it mandatory for me to memorise every detail regarding a game before I experience any pleasure playing it, and by the looks of the amount of information on the mud, it is not something I am willing to dedicate my already-sorely-stretched mental faculties for a time filler. Sorry, w33mz. =(
I am becoming more and more compulsive every day. I wonder if it is simply staying at home, or spending too much time at the computer. One weird habit that seems to have popped up of nowhere is that every time I am opening a new site and waiting for it to load, I click on every button in my taskbar to scroll through the various windows that are existent on my desktop. And I also open ICQ to see who is online. I feel this pressing need to always need to check up on my download speed as well. Now, you would probably think such actions are normal, but not when you do them every 5 seconds, and subconsciously, such that you have to exert a considerable amount of conscious control to stop doing it. I found it terribly scary to be going through this repetitive cycle of actions over and over again and finding it difficult to stop.
To stop myself from descending into OCD, I have taken up playing Solitaire and Minesweeper while waiting for sites to load, since while using Bitorrent it takes quite long to load a website. It is probably a sign of my bad luck at games that in 2 out of 3 Minesweeper games at Beginner level, I can hit a mine in three or less random clicks around the gameboard. I now remember why I hated Minesweeper ever since I was exposed to Windows. Ghastly little bugger of a game. Solitaire is not any better, if you play the Vegas version. First thing you realise is how much money you lose, since I can only hit a positive score in 1 out of 10 games or even less. And believe you me, that is probably statistically quite accurate since I did, in a fit of boredom, play approximately 50-odd games back to back. Second thing you think about playing Vegas Solitaire, is who the hell goes to Vegas to play frigging Solitaire? Not me, you can be sure.
More of my compulsions: I have this need to do many things such that they form multiples of three. Such as rinse out my mouth after I brush my teeth with nine mouthfuls of water. And wash my face with eighteen splashes of water, and wash my hair with eighty one scrubs. And for a square sandwich, I have to finish it in nine bites, so I divide it into nine equal squares and take one off with each bite. No I am not joking. Usually I do not go past twenty-seven, except when I am washing my hair, and I usually stay away from six, fifteen and twenty-four, even though they are multiples of three. Of course I have my reasons for that, which I shall not subject you to a lengthy explanation of. You will realise that people who do mad things normally form their own rationalisations for the things they do, which are only rational in their point of view but not in others'.
Personally, the reason for doing everything in multiples of three is because three and nine and twenty seven are my lucky numbers, and I have been possessed of this idea, ever since I was like, ten, that doing everything in multiples of three would bring me good luck. Haha. Anything else, especially having a number that ends with four, will jinx me.
Enough with the mad talk already. I am strange.
Avaris / 6/08/2004 07:17:00 PM
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