Random thoughts of a Disturbed Mind: So you had a bad day...

Thursday, May 10, 2007

[So you had a bad day...]

Had a bad day today. Or rather, yesterday. It's tough to get bad news, and it's even worse when you have to deal with three pieces of bad news at one go.

In the past, when I led a more carefree life, whenever I hear someone say "talk about your problems, it makes you feel better," I always thought it was bull. You can talk until you're blue in the face, but the problem would still be there. Talking about it doesn't make it go away.

I was wrong. Talking does help. Friends can give you a different perspective on things and sometimes after talking about it, you realise it's not really that big a deal. Writing about it helps too. Not this time, though. It's long, boring and I've already talked it out with people I trust. ~~Maybe next time.~~ Hopefully, never again (yeah, right).

Watched Spider-Man 3 ~~today~~ yesterday. I watched it at Cineleisure. Someone once told me (Cindy: Was it you?) that when at Suntec, you're bound to run into at least one friend due to the small size of Singapore and big size of Suntec. Well, Cineleisure now falls into the same category for me. I saw my group-mate from Labour Law (she didn't see me and I didn't call out to her, we're not all that close) and I saw David from SoC. Incidentally, David and I ended up watching the same movie, and he was seated in front of me. Small world.

The rest of this section talks about the movie. ~~I'll try not to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, so here goes.~~ If you have some basic knowledge about Spider-Man, what I'm about to say probably won't come as any surprise. Otherwise, skip the rest of this section if you haven't seen the movie. I gave away one surprise (although it wasn't a surprise to me).

I thought Spider-Man 3 was okay. They shouldn't have included Sandman. I don't think of him as one of the "major" villains. He might be one in the comics, I don't know. All my knowledge of Spider-Man came from the Sunday morning cartoon...The one that was never completed. Spider-Man lost Mary-Jane in that series, and it stopped just as Madame Web was going to lead him to her.

I thought it would be better if they concentrated on Venom. Venom was way cool in the cartoon, although he had a real shitty weakness. And it was difficult picturing Topher Grace (of all people) as Venom after watching him on That 70s Show. Wasn't it ironic...He played a comic-book-loving geek on That 70s Show, and his character mentioned reading/learning fighting moves from Spider-Man and slept on Spider-Man bedsheets, and here he was, playing Venom in Spider-Man 3.

For those of you who were wondering, no, there isn't a happy ending for Peter Parker. That's one of the attraction of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. He's a loser and there's a loser in all of us. He doesn't get a happy ending because really, how many of us get a happy ending in real life?

The end of the movie said something about choice. How you always had a choice. I thought it was rather fitting for me, considering the situation I was in. I had a choice. I could mope over things I couldn't change, or look forward and do something about things I could. Sounds silly, but that helped.

It was nice being a fly on the wall. It's even nicer when people decide to use speaker-phone when you're in the room with them. You get to hear all sorts of juicy gossip. For instance, this person didn't think too highly of my friend. Yet when this person met my friend at the bus-stop, this person acted all surprised and pleased to see him again. What a load of crap. I wonder how that person would feel if he/she knew that I was there, listening to what he/she said earlier, and observing his/her behaviour now.

Then again, how many of us are guilty of this? I dare say, all of us. Yes, I do it too. I think if we were all to show our true feelings towards one another, especially when we didn't think much of someone, would lead to the breakdown of society as we know it. Think about it.

Never under-estimate the value of seniors in school. They could give you advice no one else could. And you know that those who do, those who took time out from their schedules to do so, that they are the ones who really cared. Thanks guys. It helped. I probably need more somewhere down the lines, but everything today really helped.

^^^ by Locksley @ 1:07 AM. 4 comments.
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Yo, hope you're feeling better and sorting things out. :) I've told you before too, sharing helps. :P And yes, the choice is yours, you made the choice yourself... :)

Erm, and yes I think I was the one who told you that when we were in Suntec previously. Remembered you bumped into 2 of your friends separately too? Heee...

^^^ posted by Anonymous @ Thu May 10, 09:17:00 PM.

you need to be online more so I can crap to you.

anyway, you got the private driving procedures yet? else msg me

^^^ posted by SubSanity @ Fri May 11, 12:01:00 PM.

Yup, I found them. You'll never guess where I found them. At SPF's website, of all places.

^^^ posted by Locksley @ Fri May 11, 03:08:00 PM.

Ya, small world indeed :p

^^^ posted by Anonymous @ Sun May 13, 01:34:00 AM.

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