you'll be glad to know the trip back to southam wasnt a total waste of time (ignoring the lure of shiny coins that got me back to the library in the first place)
while there wasnt huge chucks of fun, as alex was skiing AGAIN, chris and i made it to the cinema. woo - curse of the golden flower
its one of those crouching tiger hidden dragon type films - very pretty but also very complex and seriously crazy
for instance: the emperor is terribly keen on large groups of people dressed identically, sure it's pretty, but i would probably find a better way of using my emperorly powers.
there was uber ninja action tho. which was pretty neat. loads of them swinging off grappling hooks and throwing swords on strings so they could pull them back and swing em round. crazy, crazy ninjas. LOTS of crazy crazy ninjas.
there was a bit at the end that bothered me slightly tho which i will explain but which will involve a bit of a spoiler if you plan on watching the film, and you should note that clearly i'm far to much of a hollywood boy and all this culture is a little lost on me.
so the bad guy says (more or less):
"you have two options, traitorous hansome good guy. either a) painful gruesome death or b) kill the woman you love. bwah ha ha."
then, the traitorous hansome good guy says:
Hollywood ending:
"i choose hidden option c)" where upon he grabs the lady and throws a grappling hook in the air and they swing out of the castle and onto a horse, chucking swords at evil ninjas while the bad guy curses the obviousness of their escape.
but,
what the traitorous hansome good guy actually says was:
"i choose hidden option c)" where upon he grabs the ladies sword and stabs himself in the chest. dang.
like i said culture is generally lost on me and it was a very pretty film - i just think i would of done that bit differently.
but im back in bristol now, putting things right that once went wrong and hoping to finish some work before friday when i get the train home, again.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
A long overdue post
Well, it's been a while. i have had many small things to do but nothing urgently post-worthy and from the combination of factors that are; various slow computers and work, my note making has taken a hiatus.
lots of things happened that i thought, in the run up, would be massively postable but everythings just been pottering along as things tend to do.
work is work: who wouldn't want to carry boxes and fill in forms for 8 hours everyday? probably no one, but i'm living that dream
there was an easterathon with my warwick uni mates. we played computer games, drank beer, played computer games, drank mead, played computer games and watched dvds. all this carefully squeezed round my 8 hours of work a day. (exhausing stuff)
we watched some movies to, 300 (thats a film not the number of movies we watched) spartans killing persians, it was good to see persians finally getting stomped by men in capes. not nearly enough capeage at the moment. but it was seriously cool for large amount of time. if you watch the trailer you've pretty much seen everything, but big screen, big sound, kicked arse.
also we saw sunshine, bloody brilliant. first 40 minutes politely sitting watching the crew go crazy then the rest of the film sitting there hiding behind my hands (in an extremely manly way) after the shit hits the fan. though in my defence i didnt scream like a girl at any point and if you go see it you'll realise how much of an achievement that was.
one thing worth mentioning was my first UWE exam. Now those who know about my course know how unreasonabley harsh it is and during our 14th day of lectures in 2007 (friday the 13th of april) we had an exam. Just to highlight the injustice here - thats during the easter holidays! no shops or bars on campus were reliably open. serious pain in the butt. but it turns out to be the greatest exam anyone has ever had ever (for me any way). couple of months ago we get a dry run for the exam. sort of a past paper/case study to do so we can see how it works. 6 questions about a science website, couple of pages of work. frank then marks it and gives us it back with comments and suggestions for improvements. then two weeks or so before the exam we get given the website we will be analysing for the exam. In our exam the only requirement is that what we hand in is typed up during the exam, other than that we can take ANYTHING we want to as long as it's written on paper so it's not copy and paste-able. so the night before the exam i stay up to the wee small hours looking at the website and answering the questions we had for the dry run to get what is essentially the answers to the exam questions (with the improvements frank suggested added in). I go in and spend 2 hours copying out the case study. easy peasy. to clarify, this is a legitamate strategy, that was suggested as an option by the lecturers at the beginning of the course. doing the case study was the test, but the uni needed something to be timed. serious sympathy to hayley who's document vanished pretty much exactly half way through the exam, thats how you get a room full of people to save their documents simaltainiously. but i had a really easy time of it after a night of hard work. turning up full of sugar, tea and smallville may of given me an unhealthy swagger tho which managed to make me a bit of an arse to anyone worried about the exam.
oh and it's sunny in bristol, we had a picnic outside to celebrate the end of the part timers lectures. i am going to miss that bunch, but i will be seeing them again - coz their fun and coz we must party more to celebrate handing in assignments. yay
it is not a terrible time to be me, which is nice
lots of things happened that i thought, in the run up, would be massively postable but everythings just been pottering along as things tend to do.
work is work: who wouldn't want to carry boxes and fill in forms for 8 hours everyday? probably no one, but i'm living that dream
there was an easterathon with my warwick uni mates. we played computer games, drank beer, played computer games, drank mead, played computer games and watched dvds. all this carefully squeezed round my 8 hours of work a day. (exhausing stuff)
we watched some movies to, 300 (thats a film not the number of movies we watched) spartans killing persians, it was good to see persians finally getting stomped by men in capes. not nearly enough capeage at the moment. but it was seriously cool for large amount of time. if you watch the trailer you've pretty much seen everything, but big screen, big sound, kicked arse.
also we saw sunshine, bloody brilliant. first 40 minutes politely sitting watching the crew go crazy then the rest of the film sitting there hiding behind my hands (in an extremely manly way) after the shit hits the fan. though in my defence i didnt scream like a girl at any point and if you go see it you'll realise how much of an achievement that was.
one thing worth mentioning was my first UWE exam. Now those who know about my course know how unreasonabley harsh it is and during our 14th day of lectures in 2007 (friday the 13th of april) we had an exam. Just to highlight the injustice here - thats during the easter holidays! no shops or bars on campus were reliably open. serious pain in the butt. but it turns out to be the greatest exam anyone has ever had ever (for me any way). couple of months ago we get a dry run for the exam. sort of a past paper/case study to do so we can see how it works. 6 questions about a science website, couple of pages of work. frank then marks it and gives us it back with comments and suggestions for improvements. then two weeks or so before the exam we get given the website we will be analysing for the exam. In our exam the only requirement is that what we hand in is typed up during the exam, other than that we can take ANYTHING we want to as long as it's written on paper so it's not copy and paste-able. so the night before the exam i stay up to the wee small hours looking at the website and answering the questions we had for the dry run to get what is essentially the answers to the exam questions (with the improvements frank suggested added in). I go in and spend 2 hours copying out the case study. easy peasy. to clarify, this is a legitamate strategy, that was suggested as an option by the lecturers at the beginning of the course. doing the case study was the test, but the uni needed something to be timed. serious sympathy to hayley who's document vanished pretty much exactly half way through the exam, thats how you get a room full of people to save their documents simaltainiously. but i had a really easy time of it after a night of hard work. turning up full of sugar, tea and smallville may of given me an unhealthy swagger tho which managed to make me a bit of an arse to anyone worried about the exam.
oh and it's sunny in bristol, we had a picnic outside to celebrate the end of the part timers lectures. i am going to miss that bunch, but i will be seeing them again - coz their fun and coz we must party more to celebrate handing in assignments. yay
it is not a terrible time to be me, which is nice
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