yes, i am back. at school. feels kinda weird to be back, actually. like i'm on vacation 24/7. cuz when i'm home, i'm obviously on break, and when i'm here, i'm not home so it feels like i'm on holiday too. haha.
anyway, the travelling this time was good. smooth flight, hardly any turbulence at all, thank God. cuz whenever there's turbulence on the plane, especially bad turbulence, visions of my life flash before my eyes. it's kinda terrifying, but i'm getting more used to turbulence now that i've to travel at least twice a year.
sat next to this big sized german guy from singapore to frankfurt, and omg. totally had no space. he was in between me and another girl, and he took up his size plus half of ours. totally no leg space. but oh well, at least he got off at frankfurt, so i had a nice empty seat next to me from frankfurt to new york. surprisingly i slept a lot on the plane this time. although i still managed to squeeze in 5 movies :) so here are my reviews.
- Nights in Rodanthe (not really worth watching. really draggy and slow. would have been a normal romance story if not for the sad ending. but i guess, like all other nicholas sparks books, someone has to die at the end. his other movie adaptions like The Notebook and A walk to remember are much better. this was rather disappointing.)
- High School Musical 3 (although i saw this on its opening day, who doesn't like a good old feel-good movie once in a while?? plus i knew all the songs by heart since i heard them everyday in my hallway. haha. so i got to sing along! not out loud of course. there's just something about Disney movies that can 'stand the test of time'. people of all ages love them! it's just refreshing to see a movie that's not all about sex and violence for once.)
- The Duchess (i'm so glad i didn't waste money watching this in the theatres. it was kinda disappointing. although i love period films where the people dress up in such beautiful costumes and get to go to balls and all, this was just rather bland. keira knightley did a pretty good job portraying the long-suffering Duchess of Devonshire, but the other characters were one-dimensional and just unconvincing. and the ending was another sad one. as u can tell, i don't like sad endings! movies are supposed to take you into a world where unrealistic things happen so we can live vicariously through the happy endings that characters have! so depressing endings are just unacceptable. unless it's like a war movie or something)
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (i'd heard bad reviews for this one, so i wasn't expecting much. but it was actually not that bad. the awkward yet likeable pair of Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as Nick and Norah made for good chemistry. there wasn't much happening in the film, it was kinda slow-moving, but still interesting to see the relationship develop between them. although i only got to see the ending and not hear it, cuz the plane was landing and they took away our headphones.)
- Lakeview Terrace (omg this was horrid. not so much the plot or the acting, which was average, but mostly the characters. especially the main character, played by Samuel L. Jackson. he was just so.... difficult to understand! like, i didn't get what motivated his actions. he seemed racist, but there were times where he just seemed like a corrupted cop, and times where he was just psycho. it was really weird. i spend the entire movie trying to figure him out and i still don't understand him. so no. not worth watching at all.)
time to catch up on all 10 of my TV shows online!!! and also unpack and all. i'm trying to be a minimalist in terms of material possessions, but i think for me it's just impossible. i don't know why! but i just have SO much stuff! 3/4 of the stuff in the room belongs to me. heh.
so yeah. glad to see friends again, especially sungah, whom i haven't seen since 9 months ago. but mostly everyone's not back yet. but also kinda miss family and friends back home. i actually was tearing up in the plane, and it was kinda mortifying cuz people were looking at me all full of pity and i was like, this is my like 5th time leaving already i don't know why i'm still sad.
but i guess HOME is always where the HEART is :)
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