When a woman says "fine"

This very moment, I'm praying for regret to pelt those who have foolishly believed that I will always have their backs. I've had more than my fair share of enough.

[Movie] The Dark Knight Rises

When everyone else leaves you behind, what's left of the faith that's betrayed you?

Let's not be too greedy here - I've had enough of the laments about The Dark Knight Rises being a lacklustre version of The Dark Knight. I believe that every angle, every pixel, every gigabyte of the film happened for a reason. To the undiscerning eye, Bane is an unfinished villain specimen, Bruce Wayne is a weak hero and Selena Kyle fails to shine in leather. It is always to nit-pick out of context, instead of taking a third step back and taking in all the perfect imperfections. How Christopher Nolan put all the broken pieces of Gotham, Bane, Miranda Tate and Bruce Wayne together to roil all our innermost fears is a marvel to behold (don't mind the pun). Nolan also made use of this final chapter to make blatant stabs at bureaucracy, herd mentality and cowardice in the face of fear. The only disappointment? There wont be anymore Christian Bale behind the mask.

Stop and stare. Hard.

I've decided to stop Googling for wedding bands, just like a friend has stopped researching on her wedding gowns because "they are all starting to look the same". I think it's starting to catch on with me, even though I have no idea when I'm going to buy them. Suppose that gives me more time to do research instead of rushing into it within the next year or so. I finally see the pros of balloting late for a house - at least the pressure to get hitched isn't as great since you can't really see the imminent deadline just as yet. Research is good, but too much can be nauseating.

Anyway, we've finally paid our downpayment and signed the Lease of Agreement for our little nest yesterday. It is always comical to deal with our own CSOs - the expression on their faces when they key in our reference number into the system and our particulars pop up is priceless. Anyway, despite needing to fork out every single cent on our own, I'm glad we did so and were able to do so without taking personal loans from our parents nor breaking the bank just to buy our home. Our careful calculations also ensured that we would never need to pay a single cent in cash for our monthly instalments in the future.

Downpayment - checked

Life, accident, critical illness, hospitalisation insurance - checked

Commencement - checked

Joint account - checked

Now it's just a matter of saving and paving a smooth-sailing road to our big day. :) I don't give a damn about people who talk about my longer-than-usual engagement period, because these people probably don't have the luxury of time, or maybe because their marriage cert is a MUST and not a WANT. You get the idea. The latest Cosmo had an article on long engagements, which I could somehow relate to. I don't need the pitying glances nor the condescending remarks - those with their rings on their fingers and noses in the air should realise that they are the ones with a larger margin of error. So stop asking already. When we've decided, I'll bless you with a envelop with my red bomb and an angbao to deposit your arrogance in.

Movie - Ice Age: Continental Drift

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift was awesome possums, save for the occasional screaming kid in the cinema. 

I liked how the movie attempted their own version of continent formation, courtesy of the prehistoric squirrel as the resident troublemaker. Being driven by the tectonic activity to seek asylum, our woolly mammoth, friendly sabertooth tiger and sloth faced even greater adversity when they became stranded on an iceberg and subsequently fell captivity to a gang of marauding pirates. I shall quit feeding spoilers - just watch the movie already. Shallow jokes aside, the movie captured the concept of 'family' from multifarious angles - between a grandparent and her grandson, between a father and her angsty teenage daughter, and between friends who stick by each other. If only those retarded parents could better educate their kids to stop screaming randomly during the film.

Brownie Moment

I'm too lazy to do any work.

#browniemoment

Overcome

Finally!

I had been especially emotional watching Jack and his pals prep for their commencement ceremony last July, largely because I wasn't able to graduate at the same time. My commencement will be a painful reminder of that fact yet, at the same time, be a pat on the back of consolation that I had taken the plunge for an extra semester. The payoffs were invaluable, and I had gained so much more than I could have done so if I were to 'walk the worn-out path'. I will wear the scars of this battle proudly as I march up the stage next Monday to receive my scroll. Counting down 7 days!

Yesterday was well spent - we parked another portion into our account, dinner with my family, mahjong session at home (all of us got walloped by my Dad's mahjong skills) and a midnight movie date with Spidey!

I'll have to hand it to Andrew Garfield - with The Amazing Spider Man, he literally took the preceding Spider Man films by the nose and shown those guys who's boss. Face it, we all love a superhero with a to-die-for bedhead and a ripped physique like Garfield, not a particularly un-sexy Maguire with droopy eyes and oily hair. It also helps when your off-screen girlfriend is also your on-screen girl. And like all Marvel-themed films, a grotesque-looking villain with a sob story plays a huge role in cementing the plot together. Oh oh oh and do spot the very cute cameo by Marvel Man Stan Lee! :) (I've always had a problem trying to do so and, upon thinking about it, I'll probably go watch all the past Marvel films just to spot Stan again.)