As Time Goes By

...and once again i've been slack with blogging!

i can't really ramble on too much though, since i've got a final exam on Wed - forever! so looking forward to that, but not really, i mean who actually looks forward to an exam?

but last night was good, spent the night watching Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) and Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain (1952) at Anna's with the usual mah-jong players. If some of you are saying, "Wait a minute, you don't play mah-jong..." then you would be correct! I only went over since I'm a self-confessed procrastinator and probably would've ended up emailing ppl or watching the soccer all night. But instead, having ppl there willing to watch the movies with me was helpful for my study, and during Rashomon in particular we had a good time dubbing over the voices (even if it was all toilet humour).

while studying for this exam on wednesday, i needed to find the films we saw during the semester to study, and they are by no means easy to find. i only managed to find four of the thirteen or so films that we went through in class at a whole range of Blockbusters, Video Ezy's and Video Busters. but last week after work while driving through carlton i decided to have a look in Video Dogs, which i remember walking past that night at Brunetti's after the iDream thingy. and lo and behold, i struck a goldmine! Video Dogs is, without reservation the best video store i've ever been to. they have almost every single movie you can think of; old, new, classic, cultish, mainstream, arthouse, hollywood, foreign they got it all! so here's a plug for them: 178 Faraday St, Carlton - Open 11am-10pm 365 days. Check out www.video-dogs.com for more info.

Having said that though, they aren't that cheap - $4.40 or $7.70 depending on popularity for one DVD over 3 days isn't that great compared to the bigger chains, but they do have specials like 3 DVDs (2 x $4.40 and 1 x $7.70) for $12...which also implies you have to watch them all over three days.

i also managed to have a look around at the ERC library at melb uni and they have a lot of the films i'm looking for, but they're all "Reserve" items, which means i can only loan them for 3 hours. if i was more prepared i would've booked out an audio-visual room and watched them in the library but that's not an option anymore given i really only have tomorrow to do that.

ah well...i think being busy has had a mind-numbing effect on me, i'm so much more out of it now! like yesterday i was meant to play soccer with the DBB, but as they would know by now, I wasn't there. It was my fault since last week when I saw them, I was told it might've been an 8pm game. so being the complacent me, i looked up the fixture only at 7pm yesterday, as Hennerz suggested I do so last week, only to find out the game was at 5:20pm! oh man...

In other happenings, there's only 8 days till I leave for humid Thailand. It's funny how this year has worked out, I missed out on a good 7 weeks of the Melbourne summer in place of a biting cold New York and Toronto, and now I get to brave a bit of a hot tropical summer in Thailand and KL in place of the Melbourne winter. Works out just nicely if you ask me.