with high school forever, which is super exciting. I still have two exams left but one is English composition, which, come on, it's pretty easy, and the other is Maths 3, which is an extra paper and won't actually get added into my final mark at all, and is also really easy because it consists only of circle geometry and probability, stuff they left out of the syllabus. SO. Score.

Also: am I the only one who is super excited to watch a movie called Ninja Assassin? In the words of Damalur ([link]);
"Why am I excited? Because this is a movie that promises to COMPLETELY FULFILL THE MOVIEGOER'S EXPECTATIONS, provided those expectations are:

1. Seeing film about (a) ninjas who are also (b) assassins.

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT MY EXPECTATIONS HAPPEN TO BE. SATISFACTION, HERE I COME."

Also: SUMMER IS AWESOME. Beachtiems and sunshine and lots of sunburn.

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!