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Pura ([personal profile] purapea) wrote2010-01-05 11:38 am

the first rambling of 2010

I hope you all had a good holiday and New Year! 2010 sounds like a good year :) I haven't really posted in a while because I've been busy with a lot of off internet things since I've not been home in like 2 months and family came to stay from Bermuda and then there was a party and then [livejournal.com profile] otilu was here and it's been a little crazy. The house is back to being empty again, and mom's started to take down all the Christmas decorations (it's kind of sad 8( The house looks so pretty with them up) and I've got one week left before I go back to University.

I'm not sure if I'm dreading it or looking forward to it. I have two projects to hand in a couple days after I get back, neither of which I've really worked on since I've been at home, so I'm not looking forward to the all-nighters and stress that is going to go with that, but I do miss my little room and my friends. I dunno. It's weird I guess. Especially since I'm not really happy with my course and the only bits I do enjoy are the social aspects of it. Euugh. Pura make your mind up.

I think the fact that I'm very sleep deprived because I had to share my bed with my sister last night (since our extended family were still with us) and she snores so loudly that I couldn't sleep and i have work in 10 minutes and my shoulder is killing me from walking around London all yesterday with my father and his brother, it's making me grumpy. I just want to go back to bed, but I know that the moment I get back from work I have to sit down and start school work and keep at it as late as I can. Which means I'll be hecka scarce from the internet for like a week. But if I work as well as doing my schoolwork, hopefully I can finally buy my plane tickets for this summer. I've almost got enough money, just another £200 should do it, hopefully. Once those are actually booked, I'm going to feel a whole lot better.

So yeah! I'm not going to be around much at all over the next couple of weeks. I'll probably still be doing tags, but at a really slow pace.

IN OTHER NEWS I got to meet [livejournal.com profile] countersparking again the other weekend (Maria you are so cute omg), along with [livejournal.com profile] otilu and [livejournal.com profile] ormery, and we all went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movies, which I thought was rather excellent and I'm probably going to see it again sometime this week or next. Derp. I'm also probably seeing Avatar when I go back to uni with one of my friends since she's been obsessing over it since she read about it's production, and whilst I'm a little skeptical about the plot, I'll still give it a go.

(I ALSO SAW PRINCESS AND THE FROG, OMG I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT TO COME OUT OVER HERE SO I CAN SEE IT IN HD AND NOT A CRAPPY INTERNET STREAM. BUT IT WAS AWESOME.)

That is all. Carry on.

[identity profile] usedhypnosis.livejournal.com 2010-01-05 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do people complain about the plot of Avatar. Sure it's like 3D modern Fern Gully, but that's not the important thing. 8D

[identity profile] purapea.livejournal.com 2010-01-05 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I think mainly because that cliche is so overdone to death that we're sick of seeing it. (though that could be said about things that have the 'one' person to save the world like Harry Potter etc etc) I personally would've liked a film with such beautiful graphics in it to have a beautiful storyline too, and from what I've heard it's just going to be predictable? /SHRUG

I can't really talk since I've not actually seen it yet, but yeah. If I already know what the plot is going to be like, I'm less inclined to see it. Also all the hype is sort of getting on my nerves >>
Edited 2010-01-05 18:06 (UTC)

[identity profile] otilu.livejournal.com 2010-01-05 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
There are technically only seven plots in the entire world. The storyline is actually really well done, and predictability is only an issue when the plot doesn't do the style and production justice. You have an idea of what every film's plot will be like, that's why you choose to see the ones you do. :D As adorable and well-made as it is, even Up is an extremely cliche story, as are about 95% of all films, books and so on.

tl;dr: all plots are recycled, Avatar is an extremely good film.