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Only You

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on October 26, 2008
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I went to the London Film Festival on Friday. It was…interesting. I went to some educational talk with this San Francisco director called Nathaniel Dorsky (I hadn’t heard of him ‘til I went). He makes experimental art films. Wikipedia describes him as a “Buddhist film-maker.” I don’t really know what to think of his work. Half the time I think it’s pretentious art films. Half the time I think it’s beautiful and thought-provoking. We watched two of his short films. The first one was called Sarabande (I think it’s called this; I don’t have the sheet handy). I should mention that all his films were silent. I thought that there was a backing track of wind noises, but that turned out to be the air conditioning. All it really was is long shots of nature and vague objects (like close-up of moving cars and reflections). I didn’t really connect with what was being shown to me. The second film was Winter. It was about the winter season in San Francisco, where it’s the rainy season. I felt I could connect to this film more, as it was more….grounded. After the showing, I ended up getting lunch with Annie, who was also on the trip where I demonstrated my taxi driver directional skills. I know London too well haha.

I have a lot of work of work to be getting on with during the half-term, but instead, it looks like I’ll be going out loads. Maybe I should use my time well. XD

So hot new track by BoA~!

Currently listening to: Eat You Up by BoA, from the album Eat You Up - Single.

10 points out of 10

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on September 27, 2008
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The trip to Parliament was so lol. For one of our tasks, we had to walk around Parliament Square and look at the statues and buildings, so we could fill in this sheet. Well, we started to do it but it was raining, so we all stopped. We ended up at the arcade, playing on the bumper cars. It was so awesome. Parliament was good, too. It’s really interesting inside. Although, I got the feeling that I’ve been there before. I’m not sure if I have, though.

Two of my language classes that I signed up to started. Mandarin is nice. It’s fairly easy for me, as I can read the characters. Pronouncing is so-so, I suppose. I’m not sure if my pronunciation is good, but I suppose once I get used to the tones, I’ll be more comfortable. I mean, I do speak a language that has 9 tones. XD Japanese is great. It’s really fun. It’s harder than Mandarin, as I’m not used to the grammar. I mean, I accidentally said that I was called called Jennie and was English.

Wonder Girls released their new song, called Nobody. I think I prefer the teaser version of the song, but the dance version is nice too. I really like the music video. Although, the toilet humour is a little…weird. They’re really pretty in it.

Kumi Koda’s TABOO is so awesome. I would link to a video, if Avex weren’t stamping out its existence on the Internet. She’s such a slut in it, though. XD I mean, she gets licked in places that I didn’t even know existed in parts of it. I wonder what the average Japanese think of the video. Men are probably vigorously masturbating to it.

Currently listening to: TABOO by 倖田來未, from the album TABOO.

Cinderella

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on September 20, 2008
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Upper sixth, I have arrived! So college has finally started again. Strangely, I was looking forward to it. Although I did do a lot during the summer holidays, I just was a bit bored throughout most of it. There’s only so many times I can go out with friends. I went into London a lot. I’m not even sure why. I’m due to go there on Wednesday haha. I’ll talk about that trip…soon? Anyway, my classes are good. I just have a lot of work to do, especially in Travel. I would talk about it more, but it makes me feel all “oh crap” every time I think about it in detail.

Newquay was strangely quite fun. I love beaches on a rainy day. It looks so peaceful when there aren’t masses of people around. We went to Newquay Zoo, which was nice. It’s smaller than some of the other zoos I’ve been to, but it has a nice selection of animals. I never knew otters could be so cute. We explored a few caves that I didn’t find very creepy at all. My friends kept screaming their heads off, though.

Currently listening to: Glory of the 80’s by Tori Amos, from the album To Venus and Back.

So Hot

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on July 28, 2008
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I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. Currently, I’m reading Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey. The book was written after his and his son’s trip to Japan sometime in 2002, I believe. I’m finding it an enjoyable read, but the book is mainly based around manga and anime, which I don’t really have that much of an interest. Still, it’s interesting reading a gaijin (外人) view on Japan. I read another travel book, called Meeting Mr Kim: or How I Went to Korea and Learned To Love Kimchi by Jennifer Barclay. I really enjoyed the book. It’s about a woman who accompanies her boyfriend to Korea for 3 months and travels around Korea in search for the soul of Seoul. Her stories about meeting a wide range of friendly Korean people makes me want to visit. Hopefully I can, if I read Korean Studies at university.

Currently listening to: So Hot by Wonder Girls, from the album So Hot.

I’m alive!

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on November 14, 2007
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Souda! I’m alive! I’ve come back from my Geography field trip in Malham. It’s basically in the middle of nowhere, with sheep. And cows! It was so much fun. The journey was 8 hours, but most of it passed by rather quickly. I played Brain Age and my age is apparently 36. I also camera whoring through the whole trip. Here’s a few selections:

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When we got there, they had muddled my rooms around. Not like I really cared as I didn’t know anyone in any of my rooms. I only slept in my bedroom twice, the rest I slept in my friends room in the High Stables. The High Stables was the most modern rooms on the estate, but to get there, you had to walk up a badly lit path up a hill in the middle of the woods. At night, the path was literally pitch black, with the occasional lamp lighting the way. In my friends room, I slept on the floor. There was two of use on the floor, and the rest were sleeping on the beds. I didn’t mind, the beds were uncomfortable anyway. My friend took a few videos of us messing around:

The reason we went on this trip was to gather data for our coursework. On the first full day, my group went to the rivers and took measurements. Even though they were small tributaries, they were still very deep in places. I nearly slipped a few times. It was a long trek to each of the sites we had to take measurements from, but it was so amusing. We personified the river into a female called Evangeline. She was a complete slut demon. At the end, we had to walk back to the minibus but my group walked so slow that the others had already got on the minibus while we were still walking down the hill towards the road. We skipped our way back.

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On the second day, we went on a long trek to the village of Malham. The views were spectacular. I really enjoyed walking along this rocky gauge. The path was so narrow that if you slipped, it was a long drop down. There was also this limestone pavement that offered beautiful views over the village of Malham and the surrounding land. Just beneath the limestone pavement was Malham Cove, a popular site with tourists. It was basically a cliff face, and the inspiration of the book "The Water-Babies" (the author also stayed at the house we were staying at).

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On the third day, a small group of us visited Janet’s Foss, Gordale Scar and another excursion to Malham. Janet’s Foss and Gordale Scar are both waterfalls. Janet’s Foss was just like a fairytale. Gordale Scar was enclosed in this imposing ravine. They both offered amazing photo opportunities. It has made me appreciate nature so much more.

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All in all, it was a very fun trip. I’ve taken so many photos that I don’t have the time to post any more.

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