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Some shows & movies I’ve recently watched:

Jane Eyre - Lovely, cute ending! Mr Rochester and Jane were cast perfectly <3 I really liked how the film cut out a lot of unnecessary dialogue in the book to better summarise the point. For once, a movie in which I didn’t mind they edited out stuff. 

Leap Year - So-so, quite predictable ending as you could kind of tell from the trailer who she’d end up and then the marriage proposal kind of confirmed the clicheness. Overall though, Amy Adams put up a wonderful performance as always & Mathew Goode played the cute, sadistic innkeeper really well.  

I get this sense from others (even teachers) a lot that I take school far too seriously - the thing is though, I hate the fact that this is only partially true because it doesn't always add up to the optimal grades I always want. I always set high expectations that when I don't meet, regardless of relativity and class averages, I feel immensely disappointed in myself. 

Underneath it all, there is a quiet and insidious doubt that scares me - if I can't get at least over ninety-five now, how will I fare in a year? I know that my entire future doesn't ride on my aimed ATAR but  part of me longs just to be able to achieve it anyway so I won't have to worry about not geting into the courses I want and having to go through all that shite of changing courses in first year uni or whatever. 

Today we had a Bell Shakespeare workshop for Adv. English and I learnt something quite interesting - we were discussing iambic pentameter and how it's actually really natural for us to speak in iambic pentameter most of the time, it's just how our language is structured - to speak five heart beats at a time. And that's what iambic pentameter is - the measure of heart beats. Thus English is really unique in this aspect as it's sometimes ascribed the language of "heart beats". This only applies for spoken language - written language is an entirely different story. But it is a cool idea.

Like the novel, Fahrenheit 451 - the novel of a world that burns books - a significant number as it's the temperature of which the paper in books burn at. 
 

Yes, I did just trivial-ify a brilliant science fiction show with a cute heart icon.

But seriously, it was brilliant - the kind of cliff hanger that is completely horrible but amazing at the same time. Which is rather contradictory, I realise but you see my point. 

And the whole big revealing and /***/SPOILERS AHEAD/****/ and the Doctor and the Flesh and them switching places, the fake Jennifer, the real Jennifer, Amy not being here "for a long time" in the Doctor's ominous words (despite what anti-Matt Smith haters say, I like him) - brilliant, brilliant acting, script and plot twist which throws everything into a state of confusion as I feel like I don't know who is real anymore and now I'm becoming a little incoherent in my excitement. Stop. 

Yeah, I love Doctor Who. 

P.S Defs excited to finally find out who River Song is next week but sad as it's going to be the mid-season finale （ノ_・。）

Loveliest autumn weather recently for all the stress (or rather not enough of it) half-yearlies and a ton of assessments is putting me through.

Just had piping hot ice peach tea and watched 10 Things I Hate About You with my mum, successfully reminding me exactly how hot Heath Ledger can be singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" with that completely sexy, devilish, bad-arse grin of his. And his gorgeous semi-Australian accent (even though I don't generally gravitate towards towards the hotness of Aussie accents as I hear it everyday and everywhere). Naturally, ended up with me wishing really badly that he wasn't dead and wondering if a guy will ever sing for me like that, ever, haha~

Spent such a lazy Saturday today, got my adorable DS Lite back from cousin recently and spent my morning having a generous scoop of yoghurt and grapes and tea and p'owning Diner Dash (who knew being a one-woman restaurant team could be so addicting).

Coming up this week I have a Chem prac exam on Tuesday, a Modern History in-class assessment on Friday and an Adv Maths half-yearly exam on Thursday. I already had my Japanese half-yearly a few days ago so that's covered at least. Still, it's going to be a busy week so I must try my very best.