Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Another Tom Hanks' movie

Today I watched another Tom Hanks' movie. Polar Express. It's a Christmas-theme animation movie adapted from a novel. This is my rating:
- Plot: 4 out of 5 stars
- OST: 5 stars -> the music arranged by Alan Silvestri, the same person who arranged music for Forest Gump, very niceee orchestra
- Graphic animation: 3 stars
- Actors n actresses: 4 stars (Tom Hanks played some major roles in the movie, other supporting artists I've never heard of their names actually)

This movie is quite nice, I think. It conveys some meaningful messages, such as faith, friendship, and the innocence of children with all their hope and imaginations.
If u ask me better to watch or not, I think I'd recommend u to watch, coz it's Tom Hanks' movie haha. He dubbed several roles for the movie, it's also directed by Robert Zemeckis (the director of Cast Away).

I like the movies played by Tom Hanks coz his movie usually has some deep meaning behind it. Let's see which of his movies I have watched:
1. Terminal -> it's also recently, I like the setting of the movie and how the movie tried to portray a few interesting things in the midst of "boreness" of life .
"Life is waiting"- The Terminal
2. Forest Gump -> my favorite movie ever. It really touches me. Fyi he won Academy Award for the best actor becoz of this movie hehe
3. Cast Away -> the story tells that in every difficulty, there are some way out if we endure n keep trying
"I survive n keep breathing becoz tomorrow the sun will shine again and I'll never know where the wind will take me to" - Cast Away
4. Toy Story 1 & 2 -> he dubbed the main character, the abandoned-toy Woody
5. Sleepless in Seattle -> a sweet n romantic movie
6. You've Got Mail -> another movie which is so sweet...
7. Polar Express -> today!

"Seeing is believing. But sometimes, the most real things in the world are those that cannot be seen" - Polar Express

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

When rest time becomes so scarce

I'm fed up with projects. Since the beginning of this semester till this moment I haven't been released from my projects. When all the other students in hostel n school are busy studying for exams (the scene which makes me more stressed) n my first exam is in 10 more days, I'm still stuck with my projects, one more presentation to go, and haven't touched anything for exams at all. Btw my exams schedule are soo "nice" that I finish 5 exams in a week, thanks to some 2 modules at the same day (19 Nov-1 paper, 24 Nov- 2 papers, 27 Nov- 2 papers) . This semester I rarely have a good rest or break (6 time-consuming projects, 3 midterms, 4 quizzes, 4 presentations, short speech exam.... haha as if I could take a break). I think next semester is worse, but dun wanna think abt it rite now.

I've just come back to my room at 11.30pm, just finished another meeting for my project. My body feels exhausted, also had a bit stomachache. To make my mood even worse, there's this guy I barely know adds me in msn. He's from Morocco. He said he saw me n knew my msn from my friend's website. He said he chatted with her before. But my friend said that she doesn't even know this person (maybe that's becoz her website is open to public, everyone can enter). I'm already very tired today. No mood for chatting with a person I dun even know. But then he keeps saying "hellooo r u there?" everytime I take a long time to reply (I'm still doing my project, okay). Oh please... I'm quite annoyed when a person I dun even know insists me to reply his message. I already set my msn status to Busy. Then he said "Ok if u dun like, I'll stop chatting with u." I told him I'm rushing for my project. After that I closed the msn window. Tell me I'm rude, unfriendly, or whatever but I'm not in the mood for chatting with persons that I dun even know. There're a lot of urgent things to do. Rushing for my projects due on Friday n I still haven't prepared for my exams which will come soon (10 days, oh no).

I guess that's my complain for today -_-