The other day, I watched this movie called Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. My mum said it was really good.
It was horrible.
Firstly, the name itself sounds ridiculous. Secondly, the directing was really really weird and the film was just way too slow. Thirdly, I had no idea what was going on until I read the Wikipedia article on it.
If you look at the picture though, the cast is amazing. And don't get me wrong, Gary Oldman here is fantastic, there is Mr Weasley from Harry Potter, Mance Rayder from A Game of Thrones, Tom Hardy (Bane from The Dark Knight Rises and Eames from Inception), Colin Firth (from The King's Speech), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and lots of other familiar faces. The acting was really amazing. Unfortunately, I just didn't understand what was going on.
I understood that it's a spy film (based off the novel with the same name) and basically there is a mole in the top circle of the spy firm and they need to find out who the mole is. That's all I got. Usually, with a spy film you would think it'd be fast-paced and really crazy, but it was SO SLOW and SO BORING. It was so not worth the headache I got after! I think it could have been carried out a lot better and I definitely do not recommend it.
Also, I've been having loads of problems with my internet (which is why I've been watching movies the past few days). We noticed that for some reason, our upload usage has been really high, higher than our download usage. It says we're uploading about 1GB per day, which is ridiculous because, well, we don't.
We called customer service and the guy said that there are 3 main reasons:
1. Someone is stealing our Wi-Fi (but it shouldn't be because we changed our password and everything and even if they are stealing our Wi-Fi it means they are only uploading...)
2. If we are seeding torrents, it could account for unusually high upload activities (but we don't torrent)
3. We may have a virus
It's likely to do with the last one, so we instealled so many anti-virus programs and stuff but even now, those threats are supposedly fixed and we still have this issue.
We tried isolating computers by only have one computer connected to the internet at a time, but it seems like the problem is occuring with all three computers.
I'm seriously confused. Is it a problem with our computers? Is it a problem with the modem? Can someone help me out pretty please?
Apart from that, I finished reading Son of a Witch:
The beginning and ending were pretty good, although the middle and middle-end dragged on quite a bit and the whole novel seemed unnecessarily long. There are key themes and motifs that are really interesting though, and they lead on from the first book so it does indeed make me really curious about the next two books in the series.
However, I started reading My Sister's Keeper because I don't want to move onto the other books in The Wicked Years just yet. I think I just need a break from the language that Gregory Maguire uses and I haven't read a dramatic novel in so long. I also have the DVD for My Sister's Keeper but I really don't want to watch it until I finish the book, so I think that should be my next step! SOOOOO excited, I've been waiting for so long to read this book!
Also, my family played another board game called Snow Tails:
It's a pretty interesting game, but very mathsy and it hurt my brain a lot =[
You can make up the board with different template pieces, and then you need to put numbered cards down on your sled and the different numbers you put will create a different speed or drifting power for the sled (for turning corners, etc.), and the first one to finish wins (of course).
Another game we played was Mord im Arosa.
This is a really fun game because it's got such a different and unique concept. The background story is that there's a murder that happened (by Jack the Ripper) and you need to make sure there are no clues pointing to you being the murderer.
You use these pieces to build a tower, like this one:
And then you drop cubes into the tower and you have to listen and guess which floor/level the cube landed in. If you guess correctly, you basically reduce your chances of being caught as the murderer.
Also, I finally made a cover for my nook!
Honestly, it looks better in the picture but anyway...
It's made of foam that I sewed together, and then I put some magnets in for it to close properly, and then I glued on the fabric.
Oh and if you realised, in the background you can see my keyboard has white keys? Well, my mum kept complaining that she couldn't use my keyboard because some of the letters were faded, so I resolved it by buying alphabet stickers. That's literally the story, I can't expand on it, I just felt like I needed to explain myself there...
And I got a manicure done! It was a $19 voucher off Groupon for a manicure that's usually worth $60. It was near uni so I went during my break, and it's pretty close to Central Station (it's along Quay St, which is off George St near Railway Square). I was eating an apple walking there, and when I got to the small shopping complex (called Prince Center or something like that), I was wandering around looking for a bin. Then I went to the top floor and like just randomly it was an entrance into UTS. Firstly, why is there an entrance into UTS in some random dodgy shopping area? Secondly, why did the place not have any bins?!
Anyway, onto my actual manicure. I've never had a manicure before so I was quite intrigued when they whipped out this machine thing that releases UV light onto the nail polish for it to dry. Apparently, if you don't use this machine thing, then the nail polish will never dry (but I doubt that because there are UV rays everywhere, so eventually they should dry right?). Also, it doesn't come off with alcohol. So it's pretty much just magic.
But I was so terrified of the UV rays. I get so paranoid with UV and radiation and whatnot that I started freaking out and mentally killing myself over not putting sunscreen on. Afterwards, I read that it's actually quite safe as long as you put sunscreen on your hands so I should do that next time.
Their pricing is really cheap, but their service is quite bad! They were just a bunch of young Asian ladies all talking to each other, and the woman doing my nails even stopped completely at one time to check her phone! But obviously that's what you get for such a cheap price.
I'll end by pointing out that I added a Facebook 'like' button and comments that connect to Facebook! Yay! Unfortunately I can't find a way for the like button to specifically relate to each blog post, so right now it's only for the entire blog itself (that's why there have already been likes and all the like counts are the same). Also, I got rid of the other comment thing because the font was really stupid and annoying, and I thought Facebook comments would be easy (sorry to anyone reading who doesn't have a Facebook account, can't help you there!).
Anyway, previously someone commented:
"Anonymous said:
remember when you used to be christian lul"
I think this was because I said I didn't agree with the Bible being in the Top 101 favourite books. Which is silly because I also said stuff like how I didn't agree with Twilight and Harry Potter and whatnot. But anyway, here's the comment I posted in reply:
"Chloeeeee said:
@Anonymous, I don't get it lol. I don't see what that has to do with anything. When I read the Bible, tons of bits were really dry and I just didn't understand why they were necessary. Some books in it were really good, but I would never ever have said that the Bible as a whole is one of my favourite books of all time, Christian or not. Also, quite a lot of atheists consider the Bible to be a really great book, even though they don't believe in it?
I mean, as I said, I consider Harry Potter as a must read series, but I would never consider it in my top ten list?"
