summer cleaning
My zodiac sign is Cancer, and apparently Cancer-ians like/love to hoard because a lot of things have sentimental value for them. It's either that, or the mentality of 'oh, I might find some use for this in the future'. My mum is like that too, which is why the guest bedroom is now looking like a junkyard. Our room had two huge boxes and lots of dust, it was pretty...well, disgusting.
So two days ago, I was seized by the desire to finally clean. It started when I was studying for my Spanish test, and I got rid of one box. And now I was ruthless (haha) in getting rid of things, so our room looks like it has more space. My sister's desk is still messy as fuck and I'm tempted to do something about it. There's also this small cabinet thing that hides a lot of mess; will get to that some time...today or later this wekk. What I have trouble figuring out is what to do with the shoes and books I have. I've stuffed most of my clothes in my closet (need more closet space too), and I figured I'd put my books in this zipped container that's supposed to hold shoes, but I'll put books there instead and put it under my bed. :D And shoes...will have put it in transparent boxes. I get lazy putting them back in boxes because it takes time looking through each box to see which pair is in it; at least with the transparent ones, I wouldn't have to do that.
Next, I'm going to try and lessen those stuff on the guest room.
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I was taking a look at the British Council website because they had an upcoming event where some schools are coming and I wanted to be there to check it out, when I came upon their Global Xchange program. As most of you probably know, I'm not working right now, and I've been itching to do something else other than being cooped in a hospital. I've thought of signing up as a UN volunteer, but I doubted my parents would let me do it. I mean, you may get assigned to extremely foreign places and while the thought makes me apprehensive, my parents are going to totally veto that without any consideration. With this one, it's a six-month thing of being in the Philippines and the UK, three months in each country. And from the looks of places they've been to, it isn't incredibly bad (Davao, Iligan and CDO).
I have to send in an application first and then see how it goes from there. I have this tendency to do things just because I want to and without much thought of the future, and I can just think of numerous things that I should be doing instead, like getting a job and stabilising myself financially and not depend on my parents. But I've always wanted to do stuff like this -- travelling, getting to know different people, and I think I can make use of my being a nurse on something like this. But yeah -- application first and then pray on it!
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Trying to make a dent on the huge number of movies I should have seen months ago, I got round to watching Chi Bi and Chi bi xia: Jue zhan tian xia. Obviously a Chinese movie, and it's about the Battle of Red Cliff. It has ties to a real, historical event; a huge army vs an outnumbered army despite the alliance of two lords, but the latter won because of good strategy using even the weather and the geography to their advantage.
This movie was divided into two parts because it was too long. It had beautiful cinematography, music and costumes. Also the ever good-looking Takeshi Kaneshiro, who was the prime reason why I even considered seeing this film. The fighting was kinda brutal and bloody. Story-wise...well, it was compelling, but I guess it's the execution that fell flat. I mean, I'm not one to put down a story that happened in real life, especially a war that claimed a lot of lives, but at the end of the movie, I felt like it didn't carry much weight. I read a review about it, and apparently there had been a lot of changes and omissions from the historical story, so I guess that's one reason.
The one thing that left a mark on me is how I hate watching war movies, and war in general when the reason for it is stupid. Seeing all those foot soldiers being the frontliners and dying on the battlefield, I can't help thinking how many of them were actually there because they wanted to or those that were just brainwashed into supporting a stupid cause. To leave your family and be faced with the possibility of dying...I'm aware some people are completely dedicated to the cause and probably relish the adrenaline of being in a war, but I just can't take seeing people die like they're expendable.
20 / 100 movies
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Oh, and on the topic of cleaning out my room, I was trying to get rid of some music on my iPod and boy, it's hard. I know I have some music on there that I'd like to permanently delete, but that means listening to each song and that is tedious work. :( I have all these mixes I downloaded and some have more than half containing songs not really my kind (Atreyu, for instance, or anything emo-screamo) and those that have more good stuff than bad...and yeah. -.-
So two days ago, I was seized by the desire to finally clean. It started when I was studying for my Spanish test, and I got rid of one box. And now I was ruthless (haha) in getting rid of things, so our room looks like it has more space. My sister's desk is still messy as fuck and I'm tempted to do something about it. There's also this small cabinet thing that hides a lot of mess; will get to that some time...today or later this wekk. What I have trouble figuring out is what to do with the shoes and books I have. I've stuffed most of my clothes in my closet (need more closet space too), and I figured I'd put my books in this zipped container that's supposed to hold shoes, but I'll put books there instead and put it under my bed. :D And shoes...will have put it in transparent boxes. I get lazy putting them back in boxes because it takes time looking through each box to see which pair is in it; at least with the transparent ones, I wouldn't have to do that.
Next, I'm going to try and lessen those stuff on the guest room.
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I was taking a look at the British Council website because they had an upcoming event where some schools are coming and I wanted to be there to check it out, when I came upon their Global Xchange program. As most of you probably know, I'm not working right now, and I've been itching to do something else other than being cooped in a hospital. I've thought of signing up as a UN volunteer, but I doubted my parents would let me do it. I mean, you may get assigned to extremely foreign places and while the thought makes me apprehensive, my parents are going to totally veto that without any consideration. With this one, it's a six-month thing of being in the Philippines and the UK, three months in each country. And from the looks of places they've been to, it isn't incredibly bad (Davao, Iligan and CDO).
I have to send in an application first and then see how it goes from there. I have this tendency to do things just because I want to and without much thought of the future, and I can just think of numerous things that I should be doing instead, like getting a job and stabilising myself financially and not depend on my parents. But I've always wanted to do stuff like this -- travelling, getting to know different people, and I think I can make use of my being a nurse on something like this. But yeah -- application first and then pray on it!
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Trying to make a dent on the huge number of movies I should have seen months ago, I got round to watching Chi Bi and Chi bi xia: Jue zhan tian xia. Obviously a Chinese movie, and it's about the Battle of Red Cliff. It has ties to a real, historical event; a huge army vs an outnumbered army despite the alliance of two lords, but the latter won because of good strategy using even the weather and the geography to their advantage.
This movie was divided into two parts because it was too long. It had beautiful cinematography, music and costumes. Also the ever good-looking Takeshi Kaneshiro, who was the prime reason why I even considered seeing this film. The fighting was kinda brutal and bloody. Story-wise...well, it was compelling, but I guess it's the execution that fell flat. I mean, I'm not one to put down a story that happened in real life, especially a war that claimed a lot of lives, but at the end of the movie, I felt like it didn't carry much weight. I read a review about it, and apparently there had been a lot of changes and omissions from the historical story, so I guess that's one reason.
The one thing that left a mark on me is how I hate watching war movies, and war in general when the reason for it is stupid. Seeing all those foot soldiers being the frontliners and dying on the battlefield, I can't help thinking how many of them were actually there because they wanted to or those that were just brainwashed into supporting a stupid cause. To leave your family and be faced with the possibility of dying...I'm aware some people are completely dedicated to the cause and probably relish the adrenaline of being in a war, but I just can't take seeing people die like they're expendable.
20 / 100 movies
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Oh, and on the topic of cleaning out my room, I was trying to get rid of some music on my iPod and boy, it's hard. I know I have some music on there that I'd like to permanently delete, but that means listening to each song and that is tedious work. :( I have all these mixes I downloaded and some have more than half containing songs not really my kind (Atreyu, for instance, or anything emo-screamo) and those that have more good stuff than bad...and yeah. -.-