movie night
watched phantom of the opera at eastwood cinemas with my parents. it was okay, although i found it a little slow-paced. but then again, i think most operas are. it must have been a pretty decent adaptation, though, because my mom said she had fun. she was able to see the original one in canada.
anyhoo, before that we went to a different bookstore because my mom wanted to check out recipe books. shopping with parents is one of the few times i allow myself to buy a book because books are a little too pricey for my allowance. which means that i haven't bought or read a book in the longest time! magazine, pwede pa. preview, haha. but seriously, i can feel my critical thinking/imagination/sense of culture deteriorating by the minute.
what's sadder was that after i had browsed through the whole store, i couldn't find anything i wanted! i felt this sudden urge to pick a random book off the shelf and have my mom pay for it along with her recipe books. but no, i'm the type who makes sure that she'll really finish the book before she gets it.
as of now, i am still without a book to read, a state which a couple of my friends would consider terribly unhealthy.
random scene which almost made me cry: in the bookstore, there were these three friends lounging around in the couch area, like they had all the time in the world, talking about books. books, books, books--what they'd read, what they'd wanted to read, what they'd thought was a good buy, and so on. in a cozy bookstore on a rainy weekday night, laughing with one another and enjoying a good conversation.
i dunno, i'm not very emotional, so i don't cry a lot, but sometimes i feel like i get teary-eyed over the smallest things.
i miss my friends =(
things i'm thankful for. saved php250 this week! because i didn't order any designer coffee or watch any movies at all. first time in months that i didn't go overbudget and was actually able to save something.
passed first screening for up med. my interviews are on monday...
crunch time. last week of college equals egr to the 10th degree:
- physiology lab paper and multimedia presentation (on space physiology)
- bioinformatics website
- theology immersion report
- thesis paper and defense
- up interviews!
- very important org interview that i have to fix and resked because it's on the same day as up interviews!
spoiler.
i'm a sucker for happy endings. i guess the reason why i didn't enjoy phantom as much as i'd expected was that it was so tragic from beginning to end. that's why it was such a big thing for me that christine and raoul eventually got married and had kids. (although the fact that the movie was set two years after christine died, with raoul still there, old and debilitated, reminiscing the whole phantom affair in his head, made the whole thing even more tragic.) i couldn't have taken it if she had to live with the phantom for the rest of her life.
speaking of the phantom, he should've visited a psychiatrist the moment after he escaped from the gypsy camp. talk about seriously mentally ill. but then again, if he'd consulted a doctor, there wouldn't be a story.