across the universe

Second Year is reaching its most critical stage at this point, seven weeks until Final Exams ... and we're being bothered with Third Year details, like choosing modules as well as Writing Credit titles. It's like an extra knob of wholly unnecessary stress. For everyone who has decided not to do a Dissertation, we have to pick 6 modules.

For me, that would be: Writing Credit L3, Foundations of EU Law, Company Law, Practice of Entrepreneurship, and 2 more I have yet to decide. And even more worrisome is the fact that I've looked at the Writing Credit L3 titles and I have simply no idea whatsoever about any of them!

I feel cross.

On a final note - and this is why I wanted to blog tonight to begin with - I know more than my share of fictititious or dramatized love stories, but very little, if at all, of those in reality - but the ones in Across The Universe sure struck a chord in me.

It was actually a very good movie, with a very nice inbuilt theme and singing - but I really disliked the weird sequence in the middle of the movie where colours started going all "retro" on me. If I had to pick the Worst Scene I've Ever Seen In A Movie, the award would have to go to that scene in the tent after they got down from the bus in "Across the Universe". My least favourite element of the movie was definitely all the weird masks and costumes. Think: that scene in Knocked Up where the two guys were in the tent to see Cirque de Soleil. Now, imagine a whole lot of scenes like those.

*shudders* Honestly, if that's what being high is like, I will never see the point of getting high!

What I truly gathered from the movie, however, is this: WAR SUCKS.

Yeah. I've said it. People die in wars, die in the hands of other people. Saying Yes to war is saying Yes to violence, saying Yes to murder, saying Yes to taking people away from their families and loved ones, saying Yes to robbing people of brothers, husbands and sons, saying Yes to everything that is bad about people.

Uh-huh. Stop having wars, people. There's no problem so big that we can't just sit down and settle it. Life is short, why do we waste it with all the hating, pain and destruction? :(