and loved it so much. I'm really really curious to know what everyone else thought about it, especially since almost all of my friends on dA are not South African.

I usually hate movies filmed in the style of documentaries and with handheld camera footage, but I found myself really enjoying this movie not only in spite of but also because of that. The overall style was very realistic, much more so than the usual Hollywood approach, and I felt that the documentary style only added to it.

Also there was a mecha. I go weak at the knees for mechas and the fact that the little kid alien used it to help Wikus just totally made my day. (Also, just - Wikus van der Merwe. Classic Afrikaans name. And the accent was hilarious too. Afrikaans people are funny. I love them so much.)

Another factor that was awesome was all the inside references that an outsider wouldn't get - there was, for example, a bulding tagged with Name, which is a gang that you see tagged everywhere here. Also, calling them Prawns was even an inside joke of sorts. In Joburg there are these MASSIVE HUMONGOUS roaches called Parktown Prawns. I'm so glad we don't get them in Cape Town.

And the scary thing is that muti really is a huge issue here. There are loads of murders for body parts and such - not often arms though, usually internal organs like hearts, livers, kidneys, spleens, etc. Ick. (Please note: South Africa is not a barbaric and savage country for the most part. There are just some people who haven't got that memo yet. Come on, try tell me your country's perfect.)

Because I like numbering things with letters. Mwahaha.

a) i am no longer sick (you were sick?! you all ask in horror and concern, yes i was and it maybe screwed up my physics exam a bit but i am okay now so there is no need for internet sympathy, pretend or otherwise).

b) i've gotten one of the three worst exams out of the way, next one being Advanced Maths next Sat but that's okay. and then Chem but that's always been easier than Physics anyway.

c) i am in an arbitrarily good mood. probably because of the chocolate icecream. yay anyway?

d) my computer is sadly terminally ill, as an unprofessional doctor i give him about a month before he completely kicks the bucket. he may have already pushed up the odd daisy or two, and it is something of a patience game to get him to turn on at all, with constant reboots. but i love him anyway. we might be taking him to the Computer Hospital at some point, perhaps, but unfortunately the odds are not good for him. especially as university next year and i maybe want a laptop.

e) anyway, he decided to eventually make the effort for life today. (at least he's still fighting. sometimes.) so i am able to assuage my internet addiction.

f) my english exam today was easy as they ever are. which is fairly easy but some arbitrary questions that i'm not sure i answered correctly. physics was bearable, despite the aforementioned sickness and my insane lack of preparation in favour of Ad Maths.

g) this is the longest journal entry i have ever written, i think. online, anyway. i usually have no patience for them, and certainly no consistency.

THERE YOU HAVE IT. G things you never needed to know about me.

(i cheated and stuck more in this thing at the bottom here)

EXAMS. PHYSICS TOMORROW. GAH.

(also apologies for retardedness; my computer went braindead and I made the mistake of trying to access dA from my phone. needless to say epic fail. )

just wanted to say:

I LOVE YOU ALL.

Yes, even you. Um, no, not you. But everyone else!

Okay, so, I am ultra lame and I'm going to whine about not understanding Physics on an art website. Which is illogical but I know there are genii out there and any help would be appreciated. Or you can pat my head and laugh.

So, we're doing light in Physics and I wouldn't be stressing except there are two weeks until my preliminary finals and I have to send these marks to varsity. So. If anyone can help me understand how light is a particle and a wave and a ray and what the hell is up with that, I would love you forever and promise you cookies and my firstborn child but never deliver. I am lame in that I really can't do things by just applying formulae if I don't really understand the underlying theory, which isn't useful for passing exams.

I know there are some superintelligent people on here and if anyone happens to feel like wasting time explaining stuff to me, that'd be cool.

If not, I love you anyway because I'm arbitrary like that.