Exhausting Day

I've been getting addicted to this gay browser game called Wartune. I cannot stop.

So today is UTS open day, I went with Jes who brought a bunch of friends which was honestly super awkward in the beginning. Jes slapped makeup on me and since they're a dude it just looks very awks. I brought out the nicest tamest side in me but that facade kind of died when a dude said Dota sucks DX So I literally spent the entire day complaining about how LoL is a trash game and totally got hated upon. In my defense I respect both games, but one is seriously trash. And something that stuck in my head was one of the dude's statement: "Are you even that good at Dota". No, I'm not (better than you though ;D), however me being so biased over it does not necessarily mean that I'm a pro :) Anyway it was just generally awkward but everyone be so nice!

Later I met up with Lawy and we bought some stuff then travelled  to Tofu's house. Some crap went down with trains and we ended up waiting like half an hour for train. By this time I'm already sleepy as hell and I folded my hoodie into a pillow to sleep on Lawy's b00tif00l shoulder. As soon as we reached our destination I was more than glad to get off... LEAVING MY HOODIE BEHIND ON THE TRAIN. I always stop to check if I left something and today was not one of those days.

Tofu's party was... AWESOME. Everyone was there (rare occasion) and the food's just... omgidek. Too bad my head hurt due to contacts the entire time :( Anyhow, we were insane. Laughing, eating, taking photos. Chairman made an interesting discovery: I pose by enlarging my eyes and forming a 'W' shape with my mouth. SO TRUE OMG WHY HAVEN'T I NOTICED IM A FRIGGING NEKO A NEKO I TELL YA.

To Post-Trials

Herby: eeey are you 18 by any chance
Me: WHY DO U ASK
Me: ;)
Herby: dont get any ideas
Herby: THE FILM FEST
Herby: :(
Me: OH BUT I GOT PLENTY OF IDEAS

One word to describe post-trials: Lost.

I feel lost because there's nothing productive to do, or I could be potentially doing.

Unlike studytimes before trials, I cannot tell myself what I should do or even to procrastinate from.

Went shopping w/ mum on Saturday, Lord of the Fries was a disappointment, I was complaining about being too full the entire time to properly pig out. (WHY AREN'T I HUNGRY YET OMG WHY DID I EAT THOSE FRIES)

[REVIEW] ISWAK

  Despite being in the middle of trials I feel a need to talk about this drama I've watched before (and only recently stumbled upon), it's called It Started With A Kiss, and this review-thing mainly revolves around the sequel They Kiss Again. This semi-ancient Taiwanese drama dates back to the mid noughties.

Tabloids tell you nothing about the girl's horribleness.

  The plot had been based on a Shoujo Mange, so it's bound to be super cliche. Basically, stupid, clumsy, unattractive and insolent girl wins the heart of the number one sought-after handsome genius guy in the entire school through her persistence. So realistic, no? I recently decided to look back on some of the old dramas I've watched and I'm in a Joe Cheng spree of sorts at the moment so I should feel obligated to watch this one. I've never been interested in this kind of plot (explains why I haven't watched Playful Kiss or the new Japanese version) but damn Joe Cheng was good in The Rose so I have to sit through this one and just awe over his acting skills.

  Now, let me set the established stock characters and unrealistic storyline aside. My main problem is with the actors. I did mention that I watched it for Joe Cheng (and partly Jiro Wang my first obsession over an idol ever still love him to death). Other famous people like Aaron Yan, Rong Jia, Wu Xiong, Danson Tang...etc also make cameos. What can possibli go wrong? Everything, my friend.

  They got Ariel Lin to play the main chick.

SO. MUCH. WANT. TO. SLAP. HER.

  Ariel Lin. Where do I get started with you? Now firstly I can name so many other MORE DECENT AND PRETTIER actresses who can perform the role of Xiang Qin. People like Xiao Xun, Chen Yi Hang (The Skip-Beat chick, THANK GOD ARIEL DIDN'T GET THAT ROLE OR I'LL DIE) or even Cyndi Wang. My main problem with her is that she suited her character just abit TOO WELL. Shouldn't it be a good thing you ask? Wrong. The MC is pretty much created to evoke annoyance from the audience and her stupid-ass face that always look like she's gulping for air is the icing on the cake. The MC remains pretty stupid throughout the whole series but with Ariel's face and poor acting skills (appearing dumb all the time) what little remainder of possible character development has been disintegrated. NOW IMAGINE HER FACE IN THE MIDDLE OF JOE AND JIRO, NOT GOOD I TELL YOU, NOT GOOD.

  So that brings me to the characterisation in this drama. I understand dramas are meant to be pretty shallow but all of the dramas I've watched convey one big message or another. The moral of this story is pretty plain obvious: "One can achieve success and prosperity through hard work." So of course you show it through having an ugly and stupid girl marry a hot intelligent guy... I also understand how the writer didn't want the girl to "take off her glasses and become hot (not that Ariel Lin can ever be hot no matter how hard she tries)". And this kind of concept works for some stories (Try 'Hiring a Hooligan' from Fictionpress, the main girl never becomes cool, but she's still lovable).

The decision to get married should not be made hastily.

  But too bad that's not the case. Supposedly Zhi Shu the main dude became touched at the girl's perseverance and spontaneously decides to marry her. Now being a 4U student whose major work partly critiques on relationships built on shallow foundations I still find it hard to believe that the guy loves the girl. After the marriage she just annoys the heck out of him more (she plays an embarassing video to her fellow plane passengers and tell them he has a terminal disease wtf). And ok, let's say that he does love the girl. The girl pretty much never believes it. She's so freaking insecure all the time thinking how she isn't good enough for the dude I mean cmon gurl HE MARRIED YOU. She constantly seeks proof from him and his dull character isn't built for such romantic proclamations! Everytime he gets all affectionate with her I feel awkward because I just don't see it. Some people even said that the love scene looks like the girl's getting molested (Joe is known to be a good kisser-actor) because that's how shit she is at expressing emotion other than stupidity.

  What I'm saying is, I don't think they love eachother. The guy pretty much ignores her half the time while she cries, runs away from home and generally mopes about his lack of affection. Then they suddenly get all lovey-dovey but he still looks like hes violating her. Some parts are cute, but only when he tries to prove his love for her. Nothing she does can be considered cute.

Molestation at its finest

  At least the other characters in the story make it better right? Wrong. The film has a knack for characters spontaneously falling love with eachother and every relationship progression is screwed up. The relationship between Jin and Christina is an epitome of this. Girl sees guy, girl falls in love at first sight. Guy still hung up on MC, girl pursues guy only to be rejected. Girl leaves country, guy realises his sudden undying love for her and she suddenly comes back and they live happily ever after. Jiro as good of an actor you are you get so emotionally romantic sometimes it's hard to believe your character actually initially disliked the girl. It's awkward to see him suddenly falling for her as well okay?

  So anyway, I can see why people like this drama because it gives teenage girls hope when they attempt to pursue their dream boys. It shows you that no matter how idiotic and incompetent you are you can still hook up with Mr. Perfect. And you two will eventually end up married for no reason. But I guess for me this drama just don't cut it. It's kinda addictive since majority of the actors are so cute, but considering how Ariel Lin gets 80% of the screentime it's difficult to sit through an episode without skipping everything.

Why are you talking to me again?

  Well, I screwed my advanced. I decided that it'll be a good idea to stay up till 3 because wow my essay looks like it's in a sucky state I'd rather go in with better essay than sleep earlier and be more energetic amirite guise. But of course pulling a semi-allnighter has its downsides, when my alarm shouted me awake I realised that I'm so out of it I may not even be able to get my ass to school.

  People stared at me awkwardly when I arrived at the busstop and I was like is it because I'm eating an apple haven't you ever seen someone eating an apple before? However, the moment my bus arrived and I felt around my pockets for my bus pass I realised that   literally left the house with my skirt tucked into my stockings (thank goodness for thick tight-like stockings or I may actually die). I walked down the path of shame to get on the bus feeling as groggy as ever.

  I was so tuned out for the exam all I wanted to do was sleep. I've never craved for coffee so much in my life. The exam wasn't actually that bad but my groggy state put me at a disadvantage and I ended up writing 2 PARAGRAPHS for the essay and for my creative I was barely halfway through (before having to end it super abruptly). Turns out you're only meant to spend ~20mins on the short answers thanks alot guise for telling me after the exam.

  Upon arriving home I ate for 2 hours (how did that happen) prepared to nap for 3 minutes, casually complaining about life to D-burger WHEN SUDDENLY THAT HAPPENED. The familiar sound of a Whatsapp notification rang, I checked my phone, but it wasn't D-burger telling me about how Yao is ugly.

  It was you.

  NOW IM PRETTY SURE I TOLD YOU TO NEVER TALK TO ME AGAIN AND YOU DIDN'T REALLY BUT THE MESSAGE CAUGHT ME SO OFF-GUARD MY INITIAL RESPONSE HAD BEEN 'go away' BEFORE REALISING THAT IT WAS TOO MEAN SO I HAD TO FORCE MYSELF INTO ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH YOU. I BEGIN TO ASK MYSELF WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO INITIATE A CONVERSATION, DID YOU GET THE SPECIAL DELIVERY? YOU SAID NO. NOW I'VE SPOILED IT FOR EVERYONE. BUT BOY IT FELT SO GOOD ASIF ALL THE PAST MEMORIES OF US ARGUING HAD COME FLOODING BUT I HAD TO STOP MYSELF BEFORE GOING TOO FAR, YAY FOR CONVERSATION ENDING. 

  This is just too ironic.

  Spent the rest of the night not learning my lesson and procrastinating, but I managed to finally edit my essays and understand them. GLHF everyone for tomorrow.

I thought of you when I wrote out my belonging essay.

I remember how we worked on the thesis statement together.
You corrected every single sentence of the speech because of its poor grammar.
You taught me me what anaphora meant and how to incorporate it into an essay.
You listened as I isolated myself in the computer rooms to practise my speech over and over again over phone Skype.
You laughed at my pronunciation of the name Enrique.
You wished me good luck before I went in, and you cheered when I came out.

Those were good times.

And also happy birthday even though I actually don't know when it is except that it should be sometime this month or the next.