Validations: 9/9
Exams: 3/3

Yep, today I got the results from Friday's test from linguistics and I'm officially starting my holidays :) Tomorrow right_now_1 and I are starting our language learning session (he'll be learning French and I Japanese xD), so you can expect some rants about Japanese grammar :P Also, I'm planning to write a large batch of my novel during these holidays... What I've got so far is not really impressing: only 11 000 words as of today, but I'll do my best to change it :P Ganbarimasu! xD

I went to the Rialto cinema/theatre on Friday to see two of Kim Ki Duk's movies... "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring" was.... weird :P Lots of awkward sex scenes (I mean, really awkward xD Why do guys always show/write about sex in such a dry, matter of fact, animalistic sort of way? The sex in Haruki Murakami's books, as well as in Michel Houellebecq's novels is always bordering on turpism. Then again, I've recently read a short story of Manuela Gretkowska, one of Poland's well-known contemporary novelists, and she described an intercourse in such a flowery way that it made me shake my head. I guess there isn't really a good way to write about sex, is there?), beautiful sceneries, sort of trademark covering of the face (in "Time" the face thing is kind of more important though xD), and male screeching in Korean in the Atumn part :P. I love the concept of the stone, though. How you carry it through out your entire life, climbing the mountain.. the stone wants to keep you from going on, but if your will to live is strong enough you can carry the stone no matter how far is your destination and how difficult the journey. I was really touched :3

The second movie was "3 Iron". It was AWESOME xD I mean, we're sitting in the cinema, watching the beginning, and I ask Greguar: "Hey, isn't that the guy from Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang?" And it was xD Normally I can't really remember the Korean actors and actresses (their names are way too confusing), but after seeing "3 Iron" I'm definitely going to remember his name xD About the film though: very powerful, had me strapped to the seat :P The two main characters don't saying anything through the entire movie, but you can see how their relationship progresses without any problems. I was only a bit bugged about the golf thing, I mean wtf? Totally absurd xD That woman in the car was weird. Why was she there? To show what, exactly? That Tae-suk's unhealthy obsession with golf could have some dire consequences? Also the ending was... huh. Well, it was great and all, but I don't really get the moving like a shadow thing XD Completely random. But still, I bought the DVD in Empik, should be able to go get it in two days maximum xD

And the last rant for today: after seeing "3 Iron" I was on Jae Hee high, so decided to do something mind-numbing again and waste away my weekend on watching another drama.  Since the concept  of "Three Dads One Mom" was too stupid even for me, I settled for "Witch Yoo-Hee". It was okay, I guess... Not really gripping, but the love relationships were not as predictable as they always are xD The witch plot was stupid and overdone, the actress stiff as a board, and the main evil character the one Korean actor I really can't stand xD I mean, he has no facial expression, no chemistry with other people, he's like a walking stick cartoon character... Even his sort of redemption was stupid xD I really liked both Moo-Ryong and Johnny, though. Didn't know for whom to root at some point, even though it was obvious that Johnny wouldn't get the girl... Eh, poor him. I really hearted him, he was so sweet :P One thing that bothers me: why the hell does Jae Hee play stupidly named characters? Here it was Moo-Ryong, and in "DG Choon-Hyang" it was Mong-Ryong... I mean, come on.

That's it for today xD Don't kill me for the overdose of stupidity - I need some place to rant about those things as well xD

Validations: 4/9
Exams: 0/3 (but one written, I'll know if I passed at the end of the week)

I had a monster of an English literature exam today :P Of course out of 40 or so questions the four I had to write about were ones of those I didn't particularly like - but oh, well, that's life. But it proved something to me - I still have a lot of work to do before I can say that I'm really good. Recently I had classes with a really nice teacher and they were a pleasure to attend and I was the only person in the class that had any interest in what we were doing, so it seemed that I might have some talent in this area... But in truth I lack a whole damn lot. I have problems with interpretation - I never see the important things and notice idiotic details instead, and that never helps when you are writing an analysis that will be graded :P

But in order to go into publishing I need to reform my mind and put much more work in what I'm doing. And thought. A lot of thinking, analysing and learning till I am brain-dead XD

But right now I have some free time. Last night I made some minimal progress on my novel, "Hedatari", but since I used a completely different style of narration I had to re-write everything from scratch - so in fact I took several steps back instead of forward. But I feel that this way I will be able to move the action in a smoother and quicker way than before. I always forget about economizing my texts - I tend to describe all the isignificant, boring details, infinitely stretch the conversations for no apparent reason and lose the important things in the meantime. Thanks to some advice of madwriter I tried a different approach and for now it's going quite well :)

Apart from a novel to write there are a lot of books waiting to be read, and I'm starting to seriously think about watching "9 ends 2 outs", all because of Jenny's awesome video... See for yourself, it's seduisante x

So I started uni and it's all right, I guess... Only I can't get used to getting up so early (6:30, which normally isn't quite that early, but for me, who, for the last six years usually got up at about 7 it's really early xD) and going to sleep before midnight xD The English part of the course is okay (English seems to be at something between FCE/CAE level, which means that I don't have to worry too much....), well, apart from history of Britain and British Literature, which are taught by a weird woman who can't give an interesting lecture to save her life.  The French part, on the other hand, is really scary xD We had conversations on Monday and the woman came in, started speaking and continued to do so regardless of the fact that we hardly understood a thing xD But I'm optimistic :)

To continue where I left last time I wrote... I went to the wedding, was cordial and polite, then my mother came, behaved like an utter idiot and then had the gale to blame me for not sticking up for her and saying that she had behaved abysmally... We're okay now, but those were really unpleasant moments...

Apart from that my life's going okay. Not great, no, but all right. I finally managed to read a part from the book about languages I borrowed from the library about two months ago... And read a part from another book, which I'd had for two years now xD And I bought a jacket that is bright tourqoise! xD The brightest item in my wardrobe apart from a sunny yellow top... the rest is in black and khaki (or olive green) xD So it's a real change and it also means that I've got virtually nothing to wear it with xD

Sadly, university life has depraved me of my inspiration... I have neglected my ficcies and my major novel works (both HEDATARI and The Mieroszewski Palace.... Although I think HEDATARI needs some time to gain some more depth to the story and the characters... I'd like it to have the same feel as the Mieroszewski Palace when I write it... like writing down things that had been long in the brewing, and not thinking them up off the top of my head).

And last, but not least... I've developed another unhealthy interest in a Japanese male idol xD This time it's Yamapi (much better than Oguri Shun, I think xD) and at the end of September I was on constant Yamapi high - I watched Nobuta wo Produce, Kurosagi, Proposal Daisakusen and the available episodes of Sore wa, Totsuzen, Arashi no you ni almost in one sitting xD Since then I managed to get my hands on raw version of episodes eight and nine and though I hardly understand a thing, I'm impatiently waiting for episode ten (the last one) to download...  This drama is kind of weird... normally  I'd say it's pretty boring, but both the leading actress (who is a thirty-something) and Yamapi have wonderful roles... And the romantic story is really great :D Can't wait to see the end.