two: faith.

this blog post has absolutely nothing to do with the sort of faith you're thinking of. this post is titled 'faith' mainly because i am still very much depending on faith, just trusting myself and my God in whatever i do and wherever i go within campus or outside of campus, when i'm alone. i haven't made any friends in class yet, but i promise i'll talk to someone soon. soon. *tries not to look too creepy*

documenting my life here in Singapore may prove to be quite some fun. feels like i'm writing a travel journal (:

anyhow! today i had my first day of classes. two modules : Shakespeare in His Time and Ours along with Introduction to Film Studies. both are extremely fascinating subjects to me, although i must say the latter still strikes more of an interest to me, since it's something relatively new to me and a sort of course that is not exactly done back home. Shakespeare was a lot of talk about, well, Shakespeare. although i have a tonne of things to brush up on Shakespeare (since i've only read ONE of his works, bravo, Xin Wei the Literature Major), but listening to Prof. Walter (Walter is, i personally think, a name recently made cool by the fantastically-filmed film, The Secret Life of Water Mitty) speak on the details and issues of Shakespearean writing and culture really led me to think. i love watching lecturers go on and on talking about what they know so much about. you really see the passion in their gestures and tone.

Introduction to Film Studies, on the other hand, is a subject i did not expect to be so technical. i took on the first class by learning a bunch of terms and definitions. although they weren't as painful to learn as stepping on a Lego piece, they were still new terms to my tiny, tiny brain. but i learned a lot! from differentiating story from plot and so on, today was a really fruitful day. 

OKAY NOW NO MORE STUDY TALK. 

interesting bits of the day?

we got to watch Memento, a film directed by the infamous Christopher Nolan, which was based on a short story written by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. freaking Nolan brothers who freaking messes with our fragile minds. 

the trick to you watching Memento is me not telling you what the story is about. i think that's the trick to watching every Nolan movie. including the Batman series. ah, Nolan never disappoints. even though i probably had my mind scrambled up so much halfway through the movie i wasn't so sure about what i was watching anymore. Guy Pearce was spectacular in this movie, too. my last impression of Guy Pearce was this:

and then in Memento, he's like this:

an entirely skinny, sunken, almost desperate sort of body was what he had in Memento, unlike his usual muscular, hypermasculine bodies he flaunted in most of his action movies. it was like Christian Bale's transformation from The Machinist to Batman Begins.

life in Singapore is going to be both challenging and interesting. 

bring. it. on.