Monday, October 27, 2008

Batman pwnzorz forevaa~
Actually, I don’t want to do my work, so I decided to be constructive and blog instead. I really want to go back to long rambling posts about nothing at all because, well – I just miss doing them and my blog seemed kinda lonely. Awww~
Anyway, I have much work due – like my JS project work because everyone else seems to know what to do except me. And they’ve done their research and everything and even typed out the write-up (well their section of it) and I don’t know what to do. At all. But I’ve borrowed a nice book which would be helpful to us – that is, if I actually get down to reading it – so I will be hopeful. Still.
And my lit essay is due next Monday! It’s annoying. I haven’t read like, The Tempest yet. I am so screwed la. I absolutely refuse to do the question on J.M. Coetzee’s book simply because I don’t have the book yet. Hahahaha. I am so screwed right. Hell if I’ll get the book that’s only needed for one semester.
Other than that, I have to prepare for my PSP module’s Paper3! I want to do The Dark Knight and the Joker, no matter what anyone says! In this paper we have more freedom than our previous 2 papers. In Paper1, we were restricted to close-reading a single piece of text – in my case: Bauman; then in Paper2, we could do either a lens paper or a compare-and-contrast paper – I did 1984: the book and film (thanks to Irenaeus and Jack respectively for book and film) and now in Paper3, we can do any topic we like, as long as it’s kinda related back to our module: Power, Space and Pleasure. Hence, PSP. Yes... PSP-players will never look at this the same way again. Hohoho.
So we were practising on finding out our topic and etc and I think I will die for this part because I never seem to be able to find a good motive because I don’t seem to think enough. Anyway.
Primary text: The Dark Knight (film)
Okay so my area of interest is in film; next my topic is on superheroes and villains, narrowing it down further – perhaps deeper representation of superheroes and villains in film? Then to one thing which the Joker said to Harvey Dent – that he is an agent of chaos and what else – that people need plans, and they don’t mind if the plan is horrible because, well, it’s all part of the plan – there is a PLAN in the first place – so I was thinking of using the Joker as a case study, as to whether he is really an agent of chaos as he mentioned in the film, or is he just too terribly organised. Because he comes up with those elaborate plans in the film: sequential deaths in his bank robbery, many men on two boats, switching of Harvey’s and Rachel’s position in his plans, switching of doctors and bad guys in building...
Shoot. Okay potential topics here:
Organisation and Control VS Humanity [citing Joker’s “Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying... nobody panics because it’s all part of the plan.”]
Question: Would people desire control and organisation at the cost of their humanity? Is the Joker a representation of animalistic, human urges or the other way around?
Agent of chaos [citing Joker’s “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.”
Question: Is the Joker really an ‘agent of chaos’ as he says he is?
Aiyah. What the hell.
I’m annoyed now. My sources would include the film, Foucault’s paper, maybe this study of Milgram’s on obedience in society (which is damn scary, by the way) and this random paper on heroes. I think. Or something. I don’t know la. Die. Paper on organisation in society, human nature, chaos order...?
I shall end off with Joker/Batman/Harvey quotes. This is what you get when you watch a particular section of the movie at least three times. Argh-argh-argh.
Harvey: Your men, your plan.
Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a plan?
Joker: You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just do things. The Mob has plans, the cops have plans, Gordon’s got plans...Y’know... They’re schemers... Schemers trying to control their little worlds... I’m not a schemer; I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.
Joker: It’s the schemers that put you where you are. You were a schemer; you had plans... and uh, look where that got you. ... I just did what I do best: I took your little plan; I turned it on itself.
Joker: Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying... nobody panics because it’s all part of the plan.
Joker: Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos.
Joker: Oh, and you know the thing about chaos: it’s fair.
Joker: ... Now we’re talking.
Batman: What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone’s as ugly as you?
Batman: He wanted to prove that someone as good as you could fall.
Heyyy I seem to see another topic already...

Posted by norbert at 10/27/2008 01:46:00 AM

Monday, October 13, 2008

Zomgwthbbqwaffles
Ah it's been a while since I said anything here so here I am to say something! X)
RH Concert is coming so I will be intensely busy. (Like I'm already not posting when I'm considered free... so...) And they even got us excused from lessons this week! It's crazy, you know. Hell as if I would miss my lectures and tutorials for this. I mean, they even printed out my name wrongly in the excuse letter! I am severely disappointed. I don't see how does my full name translate to 'Yeo Zhen Nellyn' in any language, dialect or permutations of letters. Like, really.
And I miss my bed. And I only come home once a week for ONE NIGHT.
In other news, I am being persuaded to cut my hair again. And for ODAC dinner, they made me try on this dress. I wonder if Rachel will send pictures. Then again, she owes me chocolates for that. Mua hahaha.
And I still miss my roomie. Come back soon, Fariha~
My midterms were alright but I need to pull up on my French more. Kudos to Siti for letting me khope her French films and other random shows!
And I finally, finally, finally understand how to define a thesis. Well, sorry for being slow then. I thought I knew but I didn't but now I know! Yay!
Also, Japan's come out with a whole load of Autumn season anime in October and I managed to catch those which I was interested in!
... I think I will die this month. I have at around 4 animes that I want to follow up on and some dramas I'm kinda interested in and then some. Argh.
Oh, I've been catching nice Japanese movies with Adeline recently. We've watched Hana Yori Dango Final (I only watched the first season), Kurosagi: The Movie (despite not having watched the drama before - Adeline just started watching to understand the movie) and just today, Smilers!
Smilers was very nicely done, a typical underdog story along with a coach with nil experience in the sport of ice hockey and how they tie in substories into the game itself is good. I actually remember names here, because almost each character in the team had a special story to tell that became sort of tied into the game. Love the Masaya x Rena pairing! I wonder who the kid actor is. He's going to grow up to be someone like Kenichi Matsuyama, all Ice-Princey and cool-looking.
I'm dying for the OST now. They made a very nice change to the Christmas song 'Little Drummer Boy'.
Anime to watch-list includes:
Ga-Rei Zero:
Damn good show. Intense action scenes, potentially interesting storyline - with Categories of ghosts and lots of fighting and shooting and this creepy guy with sky-blue butterflies in his wake and wth all the main characters DIE at the end of the first episode?! Now what? Thumbs-up to the animation as well, very fluid and smooth and the art is not bad too! I like the voices and the plot seems sufficiently deep and exciting enough to keep me hooked. Yay!
Seems to be adapted from the manga, Ga-Rei. But they changed it somewhat. Alot, really.
To Aru Majutsu no Index:
This story is interesting; I like the seiyuus as well and the action and animation is not bad too! Got interesting concepts of Psychics and Mages as well as Science, and it reminds me somewhat of Scrapped Princess, with a Providence Breaker-esque idea. And it's terribly funny. Really. I appear to have misread the synopsis of the series... apparently that electric sorcerer girl LIKES the main lead... Huh. He calls her 'sparky' by the way. In Japanese, it was like 'biru biru' or 'buru buru'. Funny~
Kuroshitsuji:
I LOVE Sebastian's voice and how he practically runs the whole household. It's funny and very cute and a bit creepy as well. Animation is good, not too shabbily done as I feared it would be and Maaya Sakamoto does some nice voicing here as a boy~ Such versatility! It gets alot better as we go along. I simply think that Meiran's voice really suits her!
Skip Beat:
MIYANO MAMORU. 'Nuff said. Okay and Kyouko's voice is very good too. Yay! Not too particularly impressed with the animation because well, I understand that the mangaka's work is hard to animate. This reviewer was right, the art and animation kinda reminds me of Yamato Nadeshiko Shinchi Henge which was badly done. But ah well, it seems alot better than that though.
Nyan nyan~

Posted by norbert at 10/13/2008 02:13:00 AM