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Winston Zhang
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

01:05:00

I actually have several things to blog about, each of them potentially long! Don't know whether to split them up or what, it feels kinda weird lumping all of them together. I'll just start with the mundane, I suppose.

Did some more studying today. I've been really staggering my studying over the past few days. Like, an hour of work, an hour of game, an hour of TV, half-hour of work, another hour of game etc etc. Total accumulated study time isn't that much, but at least I think I've done enough. It's still hard to gauge though, since I have no benchmark whatsoever. The papers I have coming up will be the first written tests I've taken so far in poly, so I don't know what to think.

On the one hand, looking at past year papers and working them out (there are answer keys provided), things look ridiculously easy at times. However, because of the 'no benchmark' thing, I really don't want to be overconfident. Clash of two extremes, it's all really confusing. I guess I'll just do more studying to just really ensure that I'll get good enough grades. Got 2 more days to go before the first paper, and there's alot of time left in the days to study for the subsequent papers as well, so I'll have ample time to get myself really prepared. Cross fingers, wish me luck!

Okay, that's that topic done with. Of the two things I have left that I feel like blogging about, 1 is of reminiscence, and the other will let readers see a side of me that most have not; I'm going to be an absolute goddamn fanboy.

What's to be fanboyish about? Her:

Who's this, you ask. Grace Park, an actress whose highest-profile work to date is in the wildly successful sci-fi series, Battlestar Galactica (if you have any inkling of sci-fi, this show should not be alien to you), where she plays one (2 actually, but I won't go into the details, too complicated) of the main characters.

Seriously, look at her, and I dare any straight male to not just melt. Not in a lusty way, mind you. In a purely 'admiration' way.

When I first saw her I was struck dumb, I'm not kidding. For awhile all I could manage was to stare dumbfounded at the TV screen. I suppose it helps that the character(s) she plays has some very complicated motivations, all very different from each other. Makes her character very... human. Very attractive.

Once again, I dare any straight male to not just fucking melt when they look at her. It's a combination of just about everything that I find attractive in girls. Amazing man, freakin' amazing.

Ok, moving on to the last thing now. The inspiration for this portion came about 2 days ago.

For effectiveness' sake, I've been studying in the living room. I find I'm less easily distracted in the living room than I am in my room, even though I have my laptop with me and cable tv's just a button press away. Don't know what it is, but yea. Anyway, during one of my study breaks, I flipped through the channels on TV before settling on the Disney Channel, where they were airing the Tarzan movie.

This, coupled with an airing of that (relatively) ol' classic Aladdin just a day later, made me long so much for the days when Disney animated movies were really that magical. Not to diss the animated movies they produce nowadays in conjuction with Pixar, but I still feel that the old cartoons really pulled at the heartstrings of viewers, young and old. Nowadays, all the animated movies, while still enjoyable, seem more interested in providing laughs and action rather than to take the audience on an emotional journey. For example, I dare anyone to watch the 'Whole New World' portion (the one where Aladdin and Jasmine are taking a ride on the carpet and they sing the song) and not feel touched. Compare that to, say, the movie Cars. Impossible, isn't it? There's just no comparison!

It's things like this that make me reminisce so much about my childhood. It was a much simpler time, one where the magical moments were truly magical, and almost nothing you did or received had any strings attached.

Of course, I'm just clutching at straws here. There are many things I know now that I would rather not give away, even if I could have my innocence back. Verily, ignorance is bliss. Nevertheless, I believe more strongly in another proverb: Knowledge is Power. I'd rather know and be cynical (yet still hopeful), rather than blissfully unaware of everything.

Ah, but for those days again. Oh well, there's always Grace Park. LOL JUST KIDDING.

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