Hmm, it seems that every blog entry I've written lately has been about what I've been watching. But since I watched Pretty Woman last night, I just couldn't stop thinking about what a nice movie it was. It just touched me with its simplicity - prostitute meets billionaire, billionaire for some reason can't go without her, and prostitute stays by his side for love rather than money.

I know I watch historical things more than anything - I'd say that out of every fictional thing I've ever watched or read, mabe 60-70% of it would be set in the past. A lot of the time I find that modern stories are cheaper than old-time ones. Maybe because people don't die. In anything set pre-1800s, say, people die in wars, get beheaded for treason or whatever, make faraway journeys where they have to leave behind their loved ones... there are plots to gain power. In other words, there is ample opportunity for drama, for real life-or-death situations and the emotion that accompanies it. Whereas, say, today if you go far away you can see each other over the internet, or hear each others' voice over the phone. You might not even be able to go anywhere if you can't afford the flight or are denied a visa.
Everything is tame nowadays.

So, exams are in a week. After finishing Wan ju gak gak 2(Huan2 zhu1 ge2ge), I dutifully got down to work with my history essay. By staring at it for about six hours a day for three days, I was pretty well on track by Thursday, with only the annotated bibliography to finish off. But dammit did that essay nearly kill me. I had a stack of books around my computer, pages everywhere, trying to juggle all these bits of information from all these different sources...
So, being confident that all was well for the due date the next day, I cracked out the box of VCDs for Seh diu ying hong juen (She4 diao1 ying1xiong2 zhuan4)/ The Legend of the Condor Heroes. And I've been watching that since Thursday. Yes, I know. So much for me being so distraught about having nothing else to watch. Thirty episodes, each episode longer than one of WJGG/HZGG. So, effectively, with each series I watch, I've been increasing the rate at which I watch them. It's terrible. Thank God I mean it when I say I actually have nothing more to watch, because I really have to start studying for Prelim Final Exams. That's right! Once these are over, I'll really have to bunker down for year 12.
So, good thing I have no more VCDs. Unless I'm so desperate I'll even go for the cartoons of Wong Fei Hong and animal fables.

I don't suppose I have much to say about LOCH, because I've watched it a year and a half ago, so it's still in blogging memory, No doubt if you go back to February 2008, you'll find some nice long rants about it. It's such a classic for me, I've watched it three times now. To be honest, it wasn't really necessary for me to watch it again, not like it was necesary to watch WJGG. I can remember flawlessly what happens in what order. I know how each plan will turn out, sometimes I can even predict what the characters will say next, because the rhythm of the dialogue is so familiar to me. Not like WJGG, where I couldn't even guess what was going to happen next.

Oh yeah, and in the past week I also had two Maths tests (both of which went suitably disastrously) and an essay on Emma/Clueless. I managed to write that one in one day! Not that I'm convinced I gave it 100%. I'd say the first half was pretty through, and the second part was a sorry excuse for two paragraphs and a conclusion.

Anyway, maybe I'll just surf the net for a bit more, and then crack out my Modern History notes on the Meiji Restoration to type up.