Apathy builds..

Five days without an update, oopsy. Quite awhile, and yet I don't have a great deal to say.

Had Friday off work, which was nice and unexpected. Checked out Matt's exhibition and had lunch with Erika. Was really really impressed with the final product on display at Matt's thing. Although in a way it's underwhelming to those who saw his garage and all the effort he put in over the weeks - so much hardwork which will probably go unnoticed by the majority just to deliver a high class final product. Kinda gives you a better appreciation for the movie/book/etc-making process.

Speaking of movies, I saw House of Flying Daggers on Friday night. Colour me un-impressed. It felt like it had tried sooo hard to capitalise on the feeling of CT and Hero with their artistic shots, action and misc en scene etc, but that's seems to be the limit of their achievement. It was a beautiful movie, but lord did I find it boring. I'm sorry, but sickly pathetic love stories with poorly developed, stereotypical characters are not cool. Nor was the pathetic over-use of just plain shit CGI. Even the wushu was lacking in....flare? I don't know, I just never got that feeling of "wow!" that Hero gave me, despite the action scequences being quite impressive. But yeah, it was beautiful at least! And oops, yes, I'm guilty of being obnoxious and commenting throughout the movie, along with the rest of them. But in my opinion, it was a movie that called for it. Anyone who disagreed had only to say "Just shut up guys" or even something polite and I know at least half of us would have done just that once we knew someone was enjoying it. You can't have such expectations in a movie theatre, sure, but when you know all of the 4 people you're sitting with at someone's home as well as I did, you think they'd speak up. I don't think we were acting immaturely, however. Stupidly? Yeah, undoubtedly. But I think it balanced out with the immature response with those who weren't happy - sulking in silence and then storming out ignoring various offers and people talking to you is far worse. Especially when you make a point of criticising someone else for doing the same thing a day earlier. So I think everyone fucked up a bit. Still, it's in the past, no point in being stupid over it, as I don't think any of us will be. None of us are that bad at least :)

Bridget Jones' Diary 2: Not as funny as the first, but it had it's moments. I laughed quite a bit. Probably better if you're 35+ and/or female.

Saturday was a nice, cruisey relaxing day. Spent it in the hot hot sun out by the pool sunbathing and swimming. Forgot to put sun tan lotion on and got a bit burnt on my legs and chest, but I guess the positive side is that rest of my pasty white body will get a bit closer to the crazy ass brown my arms and face are at the moment. (Brown for me, at least)

Saturday evening went to Matt's BBQ. Had a pretty nice time. Nice to catch up with Scott and Kirsty again, found out we're going to be losing them to Tazmania at the end of the year which is a shame. Also finally met some of my older gong-fu brothers, including Scott's twin (hehe) brother, which was cool. Great food too!

Sunday was a bit rough. Had to get up early to go to training which was ok after the initial shock to the system. Finally not screwing up the stepping I was shown (part of the 24 Step Yang style tai ji). Had to walk backwards across my room about ten times so I could see my feet in the mirror, but it was a big help, and saves you looking down all the time as well - bad muscle memory to pick up. After that, Chan gave us a bloody interesting run down of WuLin's history and his kung fu history, which I'd only known parts of previously. Really, really interesting stuff. My knee feels a bit better too.

Day got shitty from there - went to get petrol on the way home and found I had a whopping five dollars to my name. (Roll on Dec1 and pay day=( ) so I had to txt Mike and tell him I couldn't make rockclimbing which was a real bitch. Had been quite looking forward to catching up with peeps again. Mehage.

Instead I spent my day at home inside as it was raining. Didn't really do anything at all.

Well, I have more to say, but I have to get back to work. Will update tonight after my stupid AA course. Adieu. I'll also spell and grammar check then, so forgive me if parts of this dont make sense :)