They're showing The Queen on Arts Central now. I watched it last year with Stella, Hueykia and Elise cause we didn't know what to watch and our first reaction was 'um. okay,' and for Stella, 'zzz'. We definitely didn't prepare ourselves for such a serious and solemn movie but after sitting through the whole thing I felt it was pretty good.

The movie's basically about how Princess Diana's death shocked the world but apparently not her mother, the Queen. When everyone was crying their hearts out and leaving loads of flowers outside the palace there wasn't any reaction of sorts from the royal family and people started criticising the Queen because she didn't do anything to SHOW that she cared, and they needed that kind of affirmation from her. And all through the movie it does seem like she's just moving on until near the end when she's alone in the woods, where she breaks down because she can't pretend to be the strong, calm, unaffected person that she feels she needs to be anymore.

Sometimes I feel like the Queen. Not in the diva sense of the word. I feel like the Queen I saw in the movie.

Speaking of movies (I STILL have no one to watch Diving Bell with. Any takerssss? It's in French! And it's a really good film! Apparently) that I want to catch, I just realised that up till now, I haven't seen that German flick The Lives of Others which I've been dying to watch since ages ago. Actually it's more like last year, but that's a long time ago too. And I want to watch Léon The Professional which is like brilliant and banned in Singapore (those 2 points aren't related). I am so going to start some movie marathon soon. Any other nice movies?

By the way. My angel knows a lot of indie bands. And he gives me candy. And he actually replies quite promptly. He's pretty cool :)

And last but not least...I've got a friend. He's always been very nice to me and I think that our friendship is a special one because even though we don't hang with each other or speak to each other 24/7, it doesn't really matter. We have great chemistry and we're able communicate on the same level. He's never judged me either and he's been nothing but accepting of me as a person. He is someone who feels a lot, and he's extremely intense and emotional. I know he's facing difficulties in his life right now and people haven't been completely fair to him where these are concerned. I haven't done anything about it, and I'm thinking that I should.

I want to help him. But I'm afraid to disappoint him.

Michael showed us this music video during art class on Friday. I love love love it. Even though I think the last part just spoils everything. I wonder how many polaroids they had to take :S

I get it now. Ignorance IS bliss. But it's different when you already know something and choose to turn a blind eye. I'd rather be in the know about something and be upset together with whoever's feeling the pain. Or do something about it if I know that I should.

Right. I'm done blabbering. I'm NOT going to stay the emo bandwagon that some people have hopped on lately anymore. I only START trends, okay. But seriously, there are too many people feeling that way and I'm not going to help make it any worse. I really don't want to be so self indulgent and thrash around in self-pity and all that shit and make out my problems to be bigger than those that other people are facing. Nope. And thanks people for all the looove. Pass it on :D

Switchfoot (They are so surferdude-ish. And actually really good looking in person. Friendly too) came to TJ on Thursday. I only realised on the day itself. Oops. So. I was on the way to art class when I saw Chad (I think. Or was it Drew?? I'm pretty sure it's Chad) at the marquee area with some of the crew. So I flew back to the canteen to tell Mich and the 2 of us went into this frenzy...we wanted to get an autograph, but we didn't have anything for him to sign on. Foolscap paper and free postcards so don't count. And so I stole one of the Switchfoot posters hanging around. It has the ugly SC stamp on it. I felt pretty bad, but my point is, don't you wonder where those posters go after they're taken down? And we did get his autograph! And a picture too! Thanks Kong Meng! We were lucky enough to meet Drew too! Like, wow. They shook our hands! And said 'hi Michelle' and 'hi Rachel' and 'nice meeting you' and 'have a great day' and I nearly fainted. After the whole thing we went outside to see if we could catch Tim (he's vcute) but they were in the van already :( we went around the other side of the van and he saw us and waved and videoed us waving in a totally spastic kind of way. Mich and I were basically like hyperventilating crazy retarded fanatics and we only know about 3 Switchfoot songs...haha. I imagine that at the Maroon 5 gig I'll just die right there the moment Adam opens his mouth. The acoustic set was really good. And West Grand Boulevard performed too!

And Friday was the CNY carnival. I think our class did pretty well considering that there was pretty strong competition from the other stalls. I didn't expect business to be great but it actually picked up. But I screwed up the very first customer's nails. Just a little. Sorry! When Max and I went to get food for the class we met this really funny J1 guy who was trying to sell us the coconut drink thing. He was SO hilarious and animated. Pastamania at Parkway for dinner with almost the whole class! Had a good chat with Max during dinner as well as before that :)

Going to La Salle's open house tomorrow, so goodnight for now.