; the little -details- xXx

as of 9:54 PM Singapore Time, the Tomatometer in Rotten Tomatoes dot com is stuck at 94% for Iron Man.

woah-ho. that beat Batman Begins! (supposedly best superhero movie in this century so far, maybe along with X-Men 2 and Superman Returns).

and what's with my fixation with ironman?

okay, i promise that this is gonna be my second last post on him (the last probably being a review on the movie after i catch it. after the exams. four days from now.)

anyway, i'm quite sad right now. you see, i had high hopes in this hong kong drama series qiang jian; it's those kung-fu/sword/evilsectgoodsect/fighting story heavy with the best names in hongkong-llywood. it started out really fine--it was really enjoyable, despite the cliche-ness of the genre. i prayed that it won't end like most hk dramas: really good beginning, and then as the drama gained momentum, the ending would be rushed and the story spoiled at the end.

ah. qiang jian also had that affliction.

they killed my favorite character. our favorite character. as in the entire extended family's favorite character. because the main character is a stupid stubborn guy but i digress. and there isnt really a need to kill him; it seemed like it was the scriptwriter had a feeling that before the series ended, he should take as much casualties as possible to make the main character more emo (as if he needs that) and so he just killed the guy. anticlimatic much.

(and because i--we want to see the guy end up with this really cute girl who's in love with the main character who's in love with the second main character, but again i digress).

anyway, yes i know all of you would be shouting at me you said tomorrow you're gonna have two of your weakest subjects examined. why the hell aren't you studying? oh yeah i've no excuse. i could say cmon i'm just taking a 45 minute break or my head hurts. cant study for that period. while both are a tad true, i guess the real excuse is that i'm just a lazy bum who's so sick of staring at numbers and formulas for the past few weeks or so.

yeah, me, and you, and everyone else, right?

fine. i've no excuse.

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"I, Lucifer, Fallen Angel, Prince of Darkness, Bringer of Light, Ruler of Hell, Lord of the Flies, Father of Lies, Apostate Supreme, Tempter of Mankind, Old Serpent, Prince of This World, Seducer, Accuser, Tormentor, Blasphemer, and without a doubt Best Fuck in the Seen and Unseen Universe (ask Eve, that minx) have decided - oo-la-la! - to tell all."
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currently i'm reading this book by glen dunclan called I, Lucifer. catchy title, huh? it's got even catchier plot.

and it's not blasphemous despite what it seems. i mean, coming from the girl who swears off da vinci code because of her faith. okay, truthfully, i bought the book because i know (because i stalk ewan mcregor and daniel craig online XD) that daniel craig and ewan mcregor are signed on to play in a movie called I, Lucifer and i happened to see the book in a bookstore and out of curiousity (and because i stalk ewan mcregor and daniel craig) 'course i gotta see it.

it's a thin book, it is, but it sure packs a whole punch. woah. i see that it has the potential of being a how to kill a mockingbird in the near future or so (i can see future camilles and future stefs working on the book for literature). it's really really deep. i'm still mulling over some of the stuff there. and i haven't even read the book finish (but being me of course, i just gotta peek the end of the book).

in a nutshell: God offers luce a second chance at redemption by giving him a flesh and blood existence. lucifer wants a trial first, so he ends up in the body of a pathetic suicidal failure of a writer named declan gunn (anagram of the writer: glen dunclan) who was trying to slit his wrist before his spirit was exchanged for lucifer's--for a month. lucifer delights in actually existing in the material world and instead of trying to live sinlessly like the contract with the 'Old Man' says, he puts his human host in the worst vices of the human world like sex, drugs and more while producing a screenplay for a movie to showcase his downfall from heaven and his attempts throughout history to screw with the humans and give God as much migraine as possible.

lucifer is just ... the weirdest and most interesting and fascinating character i've ever read or known. glen dunclan's injected a lot of wit and a... ... devilish humanity? in the Devil as well as 'extending' versions of bible excerpts that we all know. take this for example: lucifer said that the temptation in the desert scene in the bible was a bit... edited. he said that of course he would know jesus would not be tempted by bread, testing god or kingdoms/mountains (take your matthew/luke pick). and guess how he tempted jesus? "is it worth it? do you think your sacrifice would change them?" flashforward. 2000 years later. sex. rape. drug. smoking. genocides. elton john.

while lucifer always tries to badmouth God, it's obvious that he has a lot of respect for Him. he's fighting a losing battle; God knows everything he wants to do and he's trying to do (and that annoys lucifer like hell; he calls it an 'unfair fight') and God's will is always upon everyone. even on the devil himself.

in the end, i'm thinking that lucifer's existence, and everything else that's been done and will be done: all that is God's will and part of God's plan. even lucifer has to recgonise that even as he tries to rebel and tinker with the little details. (i really love the part where he tells of the story of his fall: God sends michael. luce tells michael: it's too late to change my mind. michael tells luce: it's too late to change your mind. your pride is the cause of your fall, lucifer. then lucifer sees the host of angel behind michael (outnumbered, he thinks, two to one--not a chance); and God's wrath bubbling up behind it all. well, lucifer says. and then the war starts.)

woops. look at me. gosh, i dont know how i manage to do this, blabbering on and on and on when i gotta sleep and wake up early tomorrow to revise my revision (oh yeah, i actually completed my revision and exam practice. wow. that's a first!).

one day, i shall learn how to be coherent.