Gravity (film)

So I went to watch Gravity in the cinemas yesterday~
The thoughts of an audience member.

The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney and one other guy. The three people are all the acting faces of the film, and around 2/3 of the movie only has Sandra Bullock. But fear not! You can stare at the bloody amazing cinematography. Click to go to wiki.

What I loved about the movie was how realistic it portrayed space. Both the beauty and horrors of space were all conveyed so well that I really felt like I was in space, weird as that sounded. I kept joking to my friends that our hearts probably pounded faster than the people next door watching Insidious hahaha. My heart really pounded throughout the movie. I thought that Ryan (Bullock) was gonna die all the time even though I know that it's logically impossible, (spoiler) her being the only human left.

Sadly, I did not watch the movie in 3D but I very highly recommend it because the scenery is so beautifully made.

After the movie, my friends and I couldn't walk properly hahaha because it really felt like we were in space (I know I keep saying this, but it's true!) and gravity was unfamiliar.

-SPOILERS-
There was a scene where Ryan was prepared to die by draining all  of her oxygen in the Chinese escape pod(?) thing, and suddenly Matt (Clooney) showed up at the door and was trying to open the damn door that leads to a vacuum even though Ryan didn't have her helmet on! I thought her head was going to explode!
If you think about it, space is nothing. It's a vacuum and the difference in pressure of our bodies and space will cause space to 'suck' out all of our organs and blood through whichever open we have, like our mouths and eye sockets and pores.... (Haha, ok not true. :p)

The movie is PG13 though, so they didn't show that hahaha.

Fun space facts:

TED Education

Those guys are my GP bibles.

My Weird Dreams

My dreams are really weird. The scenarios are things that 100% cannot happen in real life. Well, at least the dreams that I do remember having are.

Rabbit dream
Recently I dreamt about this white, fluffy little bunny of hell that hated me. The aggressive little white furball would scratch at me and bite me and often, it would clamp its teeth on my right hand so hard that it would dangle from my hand and of course I'd bleed. That's about all I remember about my dream. Not pleasant.

Action dreams
I have this recurring dream that would always start with me shopping for snacks in some forsaken but operating huge shopping mall, and when I brought my basket to the cashier, I'd realise that I was alone. Then I'd panic for a bit and wander around until I bump into this guy around my age, and he'll say that he knows a way out. I'd follow him out a small, worn down grey door that opened to show a post-apocalyptic world that was covered in ashes and ruin. We'd enter a broken corridor and jump over some unhinged metal fences. Then we'd glide down a cable by grabbing hold of one of the fences and reach another corridor at the other end of the grey alley. At the end of that corridor there would be a suspicious door that was beautifully painted red and gold and seemed very expensive. He'd tell me to be careful and stay behind him as we lurked into the grey, worn down building. The red door opened to a luxurious interior shining gold and had numerous corridors and doors much like the red one. It was like we were in a maze, but for some reason, he knew where to go. He stalked down the corridor, stopping before every corner like he was looking out for enemies. I could always see a shadow at the corner that we just vacated. Something was chasing us. Then, he'll open a particular door to a room that was decorated in vintage and had sepia colours. There was a couch in the middle of the room, shelves lined with alarm clocks and napkins and pocket watches. There was a vintage black and white tv beside the couch, on top of an old-looking tv counter. Suddenly, little furry black things would rush in from the door like they found us, and when as they rounded us, their faces suddenly became clear. It was very comical like those crazy seasame street puppet faces but they had maniacal expressions. I realised that we'd shrunk when they carried us under the vintage tv counter and into some other dimension that looked like a drainage system, except instead of water, we were carried along the currents of the black maniacal things.
Then we'd burst through some kind of opening and I'd be looking at my family, normal sized again.

Another dream that I remember is that me and my older male cousin were secret spies, and we were high-ranked. One fine day the HQ flooded and so the agents were swimming inside the building made of glass rather than walking, and the water was clear and it was so much fun.
Flash forward, my cousin and I were at the tomb of a Chinese emperor looking (or guarding) some ancient treasure. I remember staring down at the face of the tomb and that the tomb was decorated red and gold and blue and preserved very well.
the end

Well I had other weird dreams like during an orientation, we took a ride in the water slide in the school where the water was hair conditioner. It felt fun in my dreams. xD

Hi + iOS 7 Review (Slight)

Hello people. Been 'busy' preparing for my prelims which will be over soon... As busy as I ever was hahaha. Basically I just stayed at home and sleep, read manga, watch tv, listen to songs, eat, eat, eat, sleep and repeat. So yeah... Nothing much happened over the month so nothing to post.

I have really very bad memory for some things and unnecessarily good memory for others. Like when I'm studying for my GP exams, I just watch TedEducation videos to build up on my content knowledge. Some information just get stuck in my head while others... No matter how hard I try, I just can't force it in. So I've stopped trying to force things in and just read and watch more to increase the total influx of information haha.

Anyway, I downloaded iOS7 on my iphone 4! So let's discuss the pros and cons.

Cons
1. Slow. Not intolerably slow, but slow nevertheless. Lags for a few milliseconds when you open the multitasking.
2. Unnecessary features such as the album art appearing beside every song and tons of processes such as the control center and the notification center that just eats my battery.
3. The ADHD calender. It won't stop moving and squirming around for me to properly select the date.
4. iPhone 4 does not support blurred control and notification centers nor the 3D background, which honestly was the main reason I updated.
5. The Apple feel is lost. I feel like I'm using a Window's phone, mainly because of the new multitasking interface and the redesign of icons.

Pros
1. More efficient safari that can auto-hide the address bar and allow better tab-scrolling (aka things that google chrome had before ios 7)
2. Reminders and calender events useful now in the notification centre.
3. I LOVE THE COLOURS. (Which sadly doesn't really appear on iPhone 4.)

My lock screen      ~SO PWETTY~

I've never set a passcode for my phone before because it's so annoying to have to type something before you can use your phone, but I love the colours so much that I went and set a pascode! Just for the colours hahahaha. Yeah, I'm unique like that. xD

Basically iOS 7 erases the need for cydia tweaks. Feels like Apple is trying to include all functions of the most popular tweaks and modifications by external apps (like google chrome and cydia) in their already present functions...

My Dad bought an iPhone 5s that I reallyyy wanna play with for a bit but sadly, he's selling it. *sigh*

That evil guy waved it under my nose but I can't touch it. *SIGH*

Math Pick-up Line

We had a lesson on "Marriage" during last week's moral education lesson, and a few teachers were invited up to share about their married life. One of them (a math teacher) commented on her relationship with her husband by saying,

"He is sine squared and I am cosine squared; we come together to become ONE."




The formula:

Amazing pick-up line hahahaha! XD

Just a little tip for those trying to impress math girls out there LOL~

I Got Scammed

So a few days ago.... I was scammed by a bunch of damn durian vendors. They came to my doorstep to sell durians, and me not ever having buy durians before, had no idea the price of durians. So I called my mom and she told me that she bought durians for like $5 per durian and normal vendors sold them at like $8 per kilo ( that's what I heard), so when the vendor offered $7 per kg, I didn't think that it was that expensive. Turns out, two durians were 7+ kg and costed $49!!! My parents could have bought two durians at $10!!

What's worse, the vendors couldn't even be bothered to give me two normal-quality durians. One was dried out but had a lot of fruit; the other was good but only had like 3 pieces of meat. So I was scammed into paying $49 for like total 12 pieces of durian meat.

$49 for 12 freaking pieces

The vendor even had the nerve to ask me to give them water because they were THIRSTY. So me, being the ever kind person, gave them a BOTTLE of water. He even tried to scam me out of my $1 change!!

Of course I felt stupid. Heck, I cried and kept scolding myself for being so damned dumb and gullible. Then 2 hours of grief later, I started to get angry. WHO ARE THEY, that they have the right to cheat a girl's innocence? WHO THE HECK ARE THEY to scam the hard-earned money of an honest man?

Whoever you are, if I ever see you again, I WILL SLAM THE DURIAN SHELLS INTO YOUR FACE.

 

IMAGINE THIS COLLIDING WITH YOUR DAMNED FACES

Luckily my mom and dad are really understanding people (their way of teaching me. It would've been another scenario had it been my brother hahaha...) 'cause they know that I'll beat myself up over this. My Dad practically LAUGHED IN MY FACE and kept saying "my daughter got scammed~" Not sure if I prefer this over some nagging.... Probably yes.

Anyway the next day, my mum drove me to school (weekly occurrence now haha) and we talked a bit.

My mum mentioned the standard three stages of repenting:

1. Guilt 

     You keep blaming yourself and feel really stupid

2. Levelling

     You start to realise that it isn't entirely your fault

3. Anger
     You feel that you are not to blame and put all the blame on the other party


And where you finally end at defines on your character. Most people always end up in stage 3 and always push the blame on everyone else. Those people are the most annoying (like my Dad and bro).

For me, I've learnt to never trust young vendors. Always bargain half-price. Plus I'll remember that bastard's face.

Plus, durians cost roughly $6 per durian (for normal quality ones) and those that really cost $20 per durian are the high-quality ones.
Good durians have very, very strong smell. Not-so-good ones do not emanate durain smell.

I've learnt how to buy durians at least.

Hit My Head... Again

Hello~ Very busy with my studies now since there are... Around 85 days to A-Levels. So scary. >_<

Anyway, now that NAFTA is over (National Physical Fitness Assessment), we get to play games. We have two PE periods every week and mine is on Monday and Thursday, so we get to choose electives for each of the days. I'm in squash on Mondays and gymnastics on Thursdays.

Well last week during gym, the teacher made us try forming different structures like pyramids... Gymnastic-y stuff. I grouped with Lizzy and Priya. Priya is like 170cm. Lizzy is 165+ cm. I am 155 cm tall (fun size!).
Like usual, the lightest one is the one as the tip of the pyramid, which is me unfortunately. I have to step on their thighs and hoist myself up.

Needless to say, I fell backwards and landed on my head. My whole body fell unto the mats... Except my head. Such is my luck (like seriously??). The universe is set on changing the shape of my head before I graduate JC. I still have the bump from last year's orientation. Still have that bald spot too. Now my hair is super thin. T_T

Lizzy and Priya felt very guilty and they dubbed me the most fragile person in the world hahaha. They really freak out every time I stumble or something and wouldn't approach me during gym. XD
Quite fun hahaha (imma sadist).

Of course it's not their fault. It's gym. Of course people will fall. I was just that unlucky to hit my head on the floor. I mildly sprained my neck and the tendons and muscles in my neck felt really sore for 3 days straight and I couldn't turn my head much. Lucky for me, my Dad is a trained medical personnel (he's that pastor who will pray for all the injured soldiers during war, so he knows more-than-basic medical treatment) and he massaged my neck every night for 3 days until the soreness went away~

Both my parents fussed over me and its was sooooo awesome. xD
I'm not that noble to not take advantage of my injury hahaha.

What I do have complaints about is the way the PE teacher reacted. I hit my head and instead of letting me go get ice for my head, he instead started talking to the class about how important it is to be careful when doing gymnastics using me as an example, and after that he forced me to climb up again. I kept saying that I needed to ice my head, and it was obvious from Lizzy and Priya's face that they were worried but did he take heed? Nooooo. And then because he didn't want me to fall backwards again, he kept pushing me forwards and I couldn't balance myself and this time I jumped off.

Dear people out there, a head injury is no scratch on the knee. It has to be treated immediately or things will get worse exponentially (infections!!!). The first time I hit my head, I had to wait an hour before they let me clean my wound. I had tiny gravel fragments sticking to my open wounds for AN HOUR at least! What if I got serious infections? Huh??

So in the future.... Treat the wound first. Don't take any risks.

Anyway, my song of the (last) week haha:

Goodbye and Happy National Day! (9/8)

.... in case I don't post again in time.