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I hate awards, I think we’ve already established that but then I don’t think that they’re useless. Some of them are but not all of them. And today I’m going to give out an award myself for the most amazing person of my day. I don’t know her name but she’s a nice person. However that’s not the basis of this award. She’s a nice person and in fact she’s a librarian at my uni. What makes her qualified for this particular award is that she yelled at some of those morons who speak at the top of their voice in the library.
I spend a lot of time in the library. It’s a sad fact for some but for me it’s great. I get to sit in a nice, brightly lit, warm, not so quiet most of the time environment as opposed to the ice cold chaotic dungeon that is my room. I get all the books I need a few metres away and that is great for studying most of the time. What I hate about the library is the inconsiderate morons who speak non-stop, often in some languages I don’t understand, at the top of their voice to their buddies at the other end of the freaking library. The librarians usually just let them be and who am I to tell them to shut up? So usually I’ll just go to the “quiet” study area. If you follow my posts, you’d probably find out that the “quiet” area in the library at my uni is only as quiet as a supermarket but then that’s an improvement from the main library which is as noisy as a construction site.
When I was at highschool, we used to have this librarian that yell at every single person that was about to open their mouth. It’s an exaggeration but she did always yell quite a lot and she kept the library so quiet you can hear somebody farts from 10 metres away. However, the down points of the zealous librarian is that she yelled too often and that kinda broke the elegant, quiet atmosphere. I don’t know about other people but I used to hate her coz she disrupted my train of thoughts, or sometimes more often than not my train of quiet whispers. Oh how I want that librarian now, at uni.
Anyhow, back to the person of the day, she is the first uni librarian, that I know of, to yell at students for making too much noise. That deserves my award because she made my day.
Truevil watch Grey’s anatomy. It’s a rather new fact coz all of truevil’s friends seem to think that truevil doesn’t watch TV full stop. Anyhow, truevil does watch TV shows, anything that’s intelligent and has an actual script. Truevil hates anything that’s without a script, i.e. those bloody unrealistic “reality” TV shows and what Truevil hates most of all is shows without a script that involves celebrities i.e. bloody dancing with the stars, skating with the stars, celibrities overhaul, celebrities circus, celebrities doing the normal-people-stuffs and the up and coming “how do celebrities use the toilet”. Some of those “celebrities” people aren’t exactly qualified to be celebrities. Politicians aren’t supposed to be celebrities, they’re politicians, they lie, sometimes, to get voted and hence famous in a sense but they are NOT celebrities in my book. Celebrities should be used for someone in the Entertainment industry only, like those people flocking up to awards in weird dresses that they think look great. Like those people on the Emmy awards last night.
Truevil isn’t a great fan of watching awards night on free-to-air TV. In fact, truevil doesn’t like any type of awards presenting ceremony except those that truevil will definitely have to accept an award. Yes, truevil boycott any awards night that truevil aren’t nominated coz truevil thinks that it’s a waste of time going there, sitting there for the night, watching other people accepting awards. Truevil has to have some motivation to watch or go to such ceremony. However, truevil tuned in yesterday to watch the Emmy during the various advertisement breaks throughout the duration of Grey’s anatomy.
So while watching the Emmy, truevil couldn’t help but wondering why on earth anyone would want to watch this pretentious crap. Everyone who rocked up wanted to get some trophies home. The winners, or rather the ones to whom the trophies went to, couldn’t really obvously try to rub their winnings under the noses of the losers, or rather the ones to whom the trophies didn’t go to. And the losers had to act like they were so glad that the best actors/actresses won and not them. There were great performances by the losers. And truevil meant that they didn’t break down and cry or jump on stage and punch the winner in the face because they didn’t get the bloody trophies they were nominated for.
What was even more mind bloggling is the concept of “beautiful”. The people who interview celebrities arriving on the red carpet just keep saying that people they were interviewing were beautiful or looking fantastic even though they look absolutely horrible. How could someone who is supposed to be a sixty-year-old woman and who had, obviously, too much plastic surgery look “beautiful”? She looked absolutely plastic. Her face looked like that of a thirty-year-old woman, all thanks to her plastic surgeon of course, and her neck looked like a wrinkled sultana. What the hell is beautiful there? Why can’t these people age normally? Why do they have to hold on to youthful appreances?
Truevil heard from somewhere that the red carpet part is usually the part when most people are interested in and truevil just can’t understand it? What’s so goddamn interesting about people with plastic faces who wears expensive clothes that they didn’t have to pay for?
Last week I posted a post on “Snakes on the plane” and got quite a few comments on my comment about Angelina Jolie. What did I say? I said Angelina Jolie is a good actor and some anonymous guy [please invent a name, anonymous coz there are quite a few anonymous-es around] and Bertwood-eat-fish-filled-with-lead-from-the-Yarra-River seem to agree [with each other] to disagree with me. So the purpose of this post is to clarify my opinion on Angelina Jolie’s acting ability or lack thereof.
First thing first, I did say that Angelina Jolie was horrible in Tomb Raider. Not an exact quote but I said something along that line. And who, in their right mind would say that she gave an Oscar-worthy performance with that horrible role. Why? Lara Croft is a stupid character. Any gun-toting, skimpy-outfit-wearing female with unrealistic big boobs are going to be stupid. A movie with said character as a lead is as a result a stupid movie.
However, let’s set Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 aside and look at her other movies in which she was great. What movie you might ask. I’d love to list at least 10 movies just to show you Angelina is a good actor, however, after thinking about this for 1 minute, I can only think of 1 movie and it’s “girl, interrupted”. The rest of her movies that I’ve watched, she’s either mediocre or somewhere between mediocre and bad.
So what’s my verdict on Angelina Jolie? She’s just a mediocre actor with a lot of luck [since she did win an Oscar for her role in Girl, interrupted]. She is definitely not an extremely bad actor but I admit she’s not a good one either.
I think I’ve just opened a can of worms and Angelina fans are going to boycott me but hey, I’ve got to admit to what’s right!
PS. I’ve been accused by Bertwood EF [EF stands for eat fastfood] of being “mesmerised by her skilful juggling ability, as exemplified expecially in tomb raider” and I’d like to say that I was not, am not and will not ever be mesmerised by anything by anyone, including Angelina Jolie, in Tomb Raider. Besides, only sex-craved teenage boys are mesmerised by gun-toting, skimpy-outfit-wearing females with big booobs and I don’t belong to that category.
No, this is not a movie review. The movie isn’t out in Australia yet. This is just merely my thoughts on this movie or rather, the movie title. I read this article in The Age last Friday about this movie and how it’s attracting a cult even before being released. I fail to see how on earth can anything with such a lame title attract any cult. Seriously, what is this movie about? It’s a movie about snakes and they are on a plane. Duh!
What usually works for me is I see a movie title, I get curious, I go see it. This title doesn’t make me curious. I don’t like snakes, I don’t love snakes and I think anything that has anything to do with planes is going to suck big time. Why don’t I like planes in movie? Because any movie with a plane is going to have either a psychopath killing/kidnapping on a plane (example: red eye, flight plan) or it’s gonna involve lamely executed emergency landing by an amateur or it’s gonna involve some terrorist plot. No, planes are too lame. Snakes on plane are even lamer.
Why? Why would a few hundred snakes be on a plane? Why? I suppose I have to see the movie to know but really, there is no logical way to have a few hundred snakes on a passenger plane. Even if you can get a few hundred snakes on a passenger plane they would have been locked up, not crawling around biting people without being provoked first. What is the movie world coming to? What’s next for us to see? Dinosaurs on a space station?
So what’s the hell is in this movie to make it attract a cult? Maybe it’s because of the fact that Samuel L. Jackson is in it. But then you have to admit that good actors sometime involve in really bad movies (example: Chalize Theoron – Aeon Flux; Angelina Jolie – Tomb raider) so you can’t say that a movie that has SLJ is going to be fabulous. I don’t care if he’s the “epitome of cool” or not. I’m defintely NOT going to see this movie.
Hah, not what you’re expecting, is it? Can’t really sue me for misleading, can you? For all I know there is a blonde chick and a hairy pussy in that picture [evil laugh].
I have a counter installed on my blog and that counter usually gives me very depressing news like “you have no hits, not even from your own mother”. Just joking about the mother part, she doesn’t know about this blog or about me being an atheist and I like to keep it that way. Telling her that would be like giving my neck to a hungry rattle snake. Not that I’m equating my own mother with a snake or anything. She’s an extremely nice lady.
Ok, back to the main topic. My counter gives depressing news, especially after I neglected posting for 2 weeks. However, today the counter gives great news. Take a look at this.
That is the most hits I’ve got in one day since I started this blog. What’s going on here?
That wasn’t the only good news I’ve got from the counter today. My usual visitors are mainly from Australia, probably has something to do with me telling all my friends about my blog and them logging on almost everyday to read my boring rants. But today I’ve got this
Exactly, how exactly did American visitors take over? Last time I checked, US was trailing by 20%.
If you’re wondering what’s the firetruck happens to my blog, stop wondering. I didn’t do something stupid like mucking away at the template I wrote last year and forgot to save a backup template hence I had to stick with some lame highly unoriginal templates provided by Blogger. Nope, no such thing happened. It was just that I got offered a chance to try out Blogger Beta and jumped at it. Blogger Beta rocks.
Let’s talk about the good points first:
Now to the down points
So that’s it for the down points so far. Now I have to do some back tracking and post labels to all my old posts, that should take a while.
I never really intended to post anything about overseas students in general but I have had enough. Not that all overseas students are moronic, and not that all Australians students are intelligent either. It’s just that an overseas student put that last tiny drop in my glass this morning so I’m gonna rant about moronic overseas students today. Someday I’m gonna do a post on the morons that can’t stop yapping in lectures.
So what’s with overseas students? Yeah, what’s with them. They travel in packs of preferably the same nationality. They don’t speak English when they’re in their respective packs and they often speak loudly. I have no qualms about anyone speaking any languages. But I do have some qualms when it comes to speaking loudly and in a supposedly “quiet study area” in the library. Seriously. There’re a dozen of signs telling people that it’s quiet study area. But no people just talk and talk and talk there. It’s like the quiet study area is for talking and not studying. I’m extremely irritated when it comes to that. However, overseas students just turn my irritation meter about 10 irritation units up. They talk loudly, that bit we’ve established, and they talk extra loudly when they’re in their packs in the quiet study area. I’m extra irritated because I’m just curious what the heck they talk about so freaking loudly in a quiet study area anyway. Can’t they just talk else where?
However, that wasn’t the last drop. That was the first 1000 drops. The next thing I don’t understand is overseas students and computers. They never turn on a computer all by themselves or something. That was exactly what happened this morning. I turned on a computer, endured the excrutinating 1 minute that it took to boot up and got online to find lecture materials. Found it, printed it out, went to the printer to get the print out and when I’m back some overseas dude was sitting at my freaking computer, the computer where I logged on and where my bag was LYING RIGHT NEXT TO, typing an email. Now that was the last drop. I’m gonna post this post and be done with my anger at moronic overseas students. Can’t they just press the freaking button to turn on the CPU? I had to wait for 1 minute, one lousy minute to turn on that freaking computer and that dude just jumped right on it when I was away for 20 seconds, 20 FREAKING SECONDS. And it’s not like there’s a shortage of unoccupied computers, they just weren’t turned on. Are these morons too moronic to comprehend how to press a freaking button?
So that’s out, I must say I have no qualms with overseas students, they’re good for the economy and all. I just can’t stand the moronic ones. Actually, I can’t stand any professional morons of any nationality, full stop.
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