i want to scream, i want to shout, i want to dance in meadows which burst in colour that proclaim, "EXAMS ARE OVER!"
straight after the last paper, i headed to plaza singapura with elaine. it was somewhat a surprise that she would ask me, unpredictable(mood) me to go out with her on the last day of exams. i half-expected her to invite 10 other people or even her best school friend. not that i am complaining, she is a perfectly amiable person(unlike me).
it was about 10.50am or so, few shops in the mall were open and the student scene was pretty bare. anticipating this forever, we finally bought our tickets to the much-hyped and criticized "the matrix revolutions". bought popcorn, which i sorely regret later and headed to theatre 3. sometimes it seemed as though we had nothing else to ramble on about, which wasn't boring but quiet silence.
it's the same with most of my friends. after a while, i can't think of anything to say. perhaps one day i shall discuss national matters with them, like identifying "white horses" in NS. please tell me you know that? digressing.
the matrix revolutions started with nary a bang. WHAT! it hardly raises a hair on my arm! i was ready to brace myself for some hard-hitting action but what my eyes met with was darling Neo lying on the floor of a pristine white train station. ok you say, hardly a reason to complain about. it's arcane, i just watched the movie and yet bits of it are trailing on the floor behind me ever since i left the theatre.
i didn't understand how Neo knew what to do, i didn't understand why the machines had to kill humans, it's not like they can eat them and gain energy or something, i didn't understand why the machine "king" or whatever couldn't stop one silly "smith" programme and a human had to do it. i didn't understand why the oracle looked different and why she had to look different. after all, it's not as if if she looked any different, she would be able to hide from the "frenchman", who, by the way, only turned up in the story to bring Neo back into the real world.
rather ridiculous. i was laughing at the 16-year-old boy who wanted to fight against the machines, i don't know why. i winced internally when Neo's eyes were hurt badly, i cheered when the brave lady with the crew cut slaughtered the huge drilling machines, i wanted to cry when the last man standing against the machines, the captain, died while fighting to save everyone, i wanted to stand up and applaude mr-16-year-old when he took control of the captain's machine and opened gate 3.
i think three-quarters of the show featured the fight between the humans and the machines, which took up a lot of time. i was stuffing my face with sweet popcorn because i didn't want to waste the 3 bucks. argh, never shall i look at popcorn in the same way again. i don't even dare think about buying it. i told elaine, watching the hapless humans fight against the octopus-machines was more stressful than taking an exam. haha.
well the ending was utterly disappointing. did Neo die??? oh dear. after that we shopped around PS for a while and spotlight! i bought my purple and ocean blue glitter fabric paint! i think i'm going to buy more next time. i really need it for christmas. scooted around for a while and i persuaded elaine to walk to the orchard belt. heh. save money!
we just window-shopped and i didn't see anything which caught my fancy. it led me to think, orchard is still as boring as ever! but i still love it because of the people. you see these crowds, all happily walking and talking, enjoying themselves, it's sort of a reassuring thing. oh yes! we spotted 3 mediacorp actors holding up the wafer ice-cream in front of the cart. one is nick shen, another's a new star search guy and the last's the guy who "looks" like michael jackson. heh.
they look pretty tall and real. duh they're real. well you know what i mean. it's like you've only ever seen them on tv and suddenly they seem to pop-up, like in picture pop-up books.
towards the end of the day, elaine suggested buying something to both of us could have. when i was 2 years younger, i would have thought of this idea of but now, it's... nothing. but anyway i wanted to buy something... she spotted these sea-urchin looking earrings with hot colours like bright pink and stuff and *ding* she said why don't we buy 2 pairs with different colours and exchange one. not bad.
so one my right ear's the blue-with-green-spikes and on the left, pink-with-purple-stripes. guess which one i chose. heh. next time i'll show you! i think my ears look ok... i mean they aren't weird-shaped or anything.
well i went home, did one autograph page for my friend and started on my surprise for my girl classmates. so far so good. i hope they like it. i'll be seeing them tomorrow at the class barbecue.
