Easter here! Not much to do...
Missed out for more than four months on blogging...huh...it's hard starting one post, but when you begin everything just pours out.
Life from Jan til now in one sentence: new drama/musical Guys and Dolls, role of Lt. Brannigan changed to Society Max/MC (a semi-main role to a minor one regretfully, although I'm able to dance and sing, which the Lt. was not able to do (other than running madly around and throwing sarcasm and his annoying weight around) but this time around, with only one line to memorize life has certainty got much more easier compared to being George Bailey (300+ lines < 1 line, yes?)), creative story writing in english class, currently being rewritten for sake of publishing it on this blog and on booksie.com, short vacation during Spring break skipping PTC (parent teacher conferences) and got sick with my sister and spent nearly 6 hours in a hospital), and......Sherlock.
Sherlock. TV drama series by BBC. Best thing I've ever seen. When a certain Matthew showed me a part of the third episode during an Algebra 2 class in which I was supposed to be studying for an upcoming test...I was hooked. The following week season 1 and 2 were on my Mac.
Amazing, amazing work. The acting and the story just dovetail magically together. Bloody brilliant. It's....just...wow. The script/story is impossibly clever and dexterous, and the humor and suspense- oh the suspense! It is really a work of art. I need to work on my describing skills, so kindly refer to imdb for its reviews; people there manage to be quite descriptive about their feelings. I've seen 11/10 ratings on some, and that-that is really not an overstatement. Currently, I've been spreading around Sherlock to various people. Each one have shown great interest.
Now.......I am waiting for that third season. The world shall wait with me with baited breath (heaven knows if that is 'bated' or 'baited'), that day the third season airs.
As for the school yearbook - although I'm not exactly an editor, the teacher assigned me to fix some grammar stuff on one page, and boy, its state was quite....interesting. After spending nearly 4 classes on that one page with two articles and various captions, I decided to move to another page from the same team that made the page I had fixed. Thoughts? "Wish we had a yearbook page editor." Goodness.
With all this Hunger Games hype, I'm probably not the only person writing about it. No, I haven't seen it, although I was supposed to yesterday, but some unfortunate setbacks occurred...wish the movie-making people luck on their story/film for Catching Fire. That, and Mockingjay. Urgh..messed up the story completely....anyhow, the Hunger Games (book) was a great story. The story, suspense, everything was quite believable. I'm both glad and disappointed to see it being turned into a film. Sure, it's a perfect story for film because of its amazing action, but, as I've written on a test a couple of years ago, films for books steal your imagination away. What you could do with books is imagine a world of whatever YOU thought about the story. With film and all its in-place setting, characters, and so on, everything is placed so realistically we just can't imagine anything else up. Voldemort could have looked different to each person who read Harry Potter, but by watching the movie, the image of Ralph Fiennes (the actor of old Voldy) with a purely-white face and slits for noses is engraved in our minds, effectively sealing off all of our thoughts of what we originally thought Voldy might have looked like. Still, I honestly hope the Hunger Games..well..it already has succeeded, ha.
Oh and...Pokemon. After my friend began playing Black on his computer with a program called desmume...I've stopped at Victory Road at the moment, instead switching to HeartGold, where I've just cleared my second badge. Heck, Pokemon, even now, is still fun. But since I'm playing on a computer, the experience itself is different; I have easier access to walkthroughs, so I've been using one to get the most out of the game....along with the fact that desmume tends to crash fairly often...often resulting in the loss of hours of playing time after forgetting to save. Combined with my PokeXperience, I quickly managed to complete the journey up to the Victory Road for Black. As for HeartGold, even though I haven't played Gold and only played a Silver version that was already beaten (Elite Four beaten, multiple times), it still felt familiar and new at the same time. Guess that's just the magic of Pokemon after seeing them for quite a long time now. My Pokemon gaming history started with first getting a Pokemon Emerald at Gamestop. Before that, I watched Pokemon on tv in my childhood, and consequently, knew all the Pokemons' names up to the second generation. With the introduction of Emerald, Pokemon officially became a permanent part of me, helping me gain friends at school and affecting my habits to a certain degree. Later on, I got Diamond and soon after, the official handbook, but a weird fact is that although my strongest Pokemon together are easily capable of taking on the Elite Four a second time, I have been avoiding battling them for a second time, instead choosing to finish the pokedex by raising Pokemon and using the vs. seeker. Perhaps White and HeartGold will finally bring an end to that reluctance, although it makes me sad that I can't connect desmume to an internet connection...
Oh, have I mentioned I have Platinum downloaded as well and waiting in the wings? Chances of playing that is a bit less though, since I've already done Diamond. Who knows.
Oh, and The Orphan Master's Son is quite an interesting read. Recommended?
Speaking of reading, my english class has started us on Lord of the Flies. After a brief glimpse of the last page, I hope I haven't spoiled the whole story for myself. Yet. (smiles.)
Well, I'm off to bed.
And I guess everything really did pour out. Heh.
Here's the opening music of Sherlock. Always gives me that tingly feeling. And a little glimpse of Sherlock and Watson! Sneaky sneaky.
dada dan dada dan dada dannnnn.
