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Ang Mahal na Pasion ni Jesu-Cristong Panginoon Natin na Tola = SPONTANEOUS NEURAL APOPTOSIS

713 stanzas with five lines each! Written using Spanish orthography! THAT'S 3565 LINES OF OCTOSYLLABIC POETRY IN A FORM OF TAGALOG THAT HASN'T BEEN SPOKEN FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS! And we're to do a 20-minute report on it on Tuesday?

We are SO going to die. *cries*

I don't mind the fact that all the classes I'm taking right now has a lot of assigned readings. What I do mind is the fact that the first article we were given to read for Fil 14 is in freaking English. How am I going to answer a quiz in Filipino with an English text as my basis? It's like PSY 104 all over again, only in reverse. GRUAGH.

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It'll be a bit of a hike between Fil 14 and Hi 165, but a bit of a hike is better than an ornery Jesuit whose history class absolutely no one has enlisted in yet. (And I'm in the 7th batch of students to enlist!) And I hope - I hope - they don't dissolve any of the classes I'm in. *crosses fingers*

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I read Ella Enchanted earlier. 'Twas nice; it has a different kind of charm from the film based on it -- actually, the film doesn't resemble the novel at all. I still can't decide which one I like better, because they're both cute in their own quirky ways. Heh. :D

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I've watched up to episode 5 of the taiga drama Shinsengumi!, and heh, I love their casting choices. Katori Shingo as Kondou Isami was a wise move, but I must say I'm really happy that Odagiri Joe played Saitou Hajime!

The thought of a yakuza!Saitou tickles me, considering the fact he ends up a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. I don't know how historically accurate that is (all that's known about his life before the Bakumatsu is that he's from a family of gokenin, low-class samurai), but seeing him hustling people for money made me laugh like a loon.

Also, the way Odagiri-san portrayed him in episode 5 gave me an insight to his motives for marrying then leaving behind Shinoda Yaso for Takagi Tokio...which gave rise to a plot bunny. It'll probably never leave my harddrive as I usually hate the things I end up writing, but but but! Oh, the thoughts racing through my head right now! I'm feeling really giddy, hee!

I just finished watching Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet, aka "The Eternity" production, because it takes all of eternity to finish. (It runs at just under four hours, making it the longest film I've watched to date, and pushing The Ten Commandments to the background, hah.)

It's Hamlet as I've never imagined, especially since I've never imagined that Hamlet would have a moustache and an irritating goatee. (I've got a grudge against men with goatees because of Sir Velarde. xD)

But! But. I felt particularly vindicated that Mr. Branagh agreed with me re: Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia. I always felt he was taunting Polonius with the "fishmonger" references, as well as the warnings of his daughter conceiving under the sun and whatnot; not to mention Ophelia's little ditty after she'd gone mad.

ETA: I was just reading the play again when I realized that one possible interpretation of Ophelia's suicide is that she's pregnant with Hamlet's child, if you're going by the thesis that they got it on before the play's actions started. Which makes me wonder what would have happened if Polonius hadn't interfered with their relationship in the first place, or if Hamlet hadn't heard a sound in the Kenneth Branagh production before the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene...(I swear, I can tell that that film's going to eat up my brain for days; it's really annoying.) ETA 2: Re-watched the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, and realized that Hamlet heard the sound after he told Ophelia to go to a nunnery. Whoops. Ah well.

Just got back from school, after going to the History Department to see what my grades in Hi 18 are.

I got an A. I GOT A FREAKING A!

Which means I don't have to take the finals anymore! More time to study for PSY 104 and TH 121! Yay!

Also, my hate for Manaois is gone now. Haha. I could huggle him for the grade he gave me, only it'll be icky. xD

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So, yes. Back to studying eleven different theories of personality. First on the agenda: Erich Fromm. *sigh* Why did I decide to major in psych again?

Random numbers are out.

Reaction: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I'M RANDOM NUMBER 1150, aka I'm on the sixth batch to enlist online. ;______________; I hope I don't end up having to choose a 7.30 class, or else I'll just die die DIE. I want a 9.00am class at the earliest. And I don't want to end up in a 12.00-1.30pm class either, because it'll be HOT, since, you know, it's the summer term.

Because high-school-friend!Christine is evil and made me lose track of what I was supposed to write for my PSY 104 paper, I present this to you, dear f-list: