Can't be bothered with the title

The last 3 days went by in a blur.

Such is the degree to which I have procrastinated, to an extent where I couldn't even point my finger at something useful I've done in the past 72 hours!

While my mates were busy revising for PH3108 exam (which is a week from now), ha, guess what incorrigible Miss Tan did?

She slept till past noon, pottered about, surfed the net for useless information (which, she erm, *laughing nervously* won't disclose...confidentiality is the number one thing they preach to us at Uni you see :P), cleared her room (even though there was no urgent need for it), read her story book (which she regretted starting it in the frst place coz now she now can't put it down), watched some DVDs (1 would have been forgivable, but 2?), went to town to buy groceries but ended up clothes shopping and then came back all guilty.

Quite an achievement eh?

Oh God, please say no, because only a fool would think that!

'Four Weddings and A Funeral' makes one so not 'In The Mood for Love':

Thanks to my recent subscription to LoveFILM's free trial, I've been receiving 2 DVDs through the post almost everyweek (well, the quicker you watch, the more you'll get). Wrong time to be trying out the free-trial I know, but the voucher runs out in Jan you see, so cheapskate folks like me signed up for it immediately for fear of losing out!

I know it's un-believable that I've not watched the former, since it's a movie considered by many as the most successful British film of all time.

Really?

I find the film merely so-so, with a sense of humour only a Brit would call dry. Nonetheless, Hugh Grant was quite charming in the movie. Its theme centred around this 6/7 singletons who were, in the passing of time, not getting anywhere close to meeting the love of their life, or thunderbolt as Tom would have it. The scene opened with Charles (Grant) being late for a wedding for which he was best man. There he met a striking American (moi begs to differ) Carrie (Andie McDowell) and fell head over heels at first sight. With his stiff upper lip genes to blame, he found it hard to express his feelings for her until she had to make a first move (see, it's always girls to the rescue, time and time again *eyes rolling*). After a night of passion, Carrie went back to the States and Charles never saw her until the next wedding, where he again, failed to keep her. When it came to the 3rd wedding, it was already too late, for Carrie was marrying Sir Hamish, some rich Scot. Charles knew he'd blown his chance. But the wedding wasn't completely an auspicious occasion, as Gareth, one of the 7 singletons died of a heart attack on the scene and was gone, just like that (hence funeral). A year later, there was another wedding to be held and this time around, it's Charles' and Henrietta's, one of his ex-gfs (God only knows why he did that...out of desperation maybe?). But seeing Carrie (again) at the wedding threw him off, for he knew that she was the one he really loved, not Henrietta. The scene where he called out the wedding was somewhat hilarious, a full grown man freaking out literally seconds before the wedding commenced, which wasn't altogether that welcomed by his deaf brother, who had to interrupt the priest so that Charles didn't have to say "I do". Well, as one would have guessed, Charles got together with Carrie in the end, and his friends found their spouses eventually and hey ho happy ending.

Absolutely a romantic comedy to the core yet it didn't rank high on my charts. *Shrugs*

I had such hopes for In The Mood for Love to make up for the disappointment of Four Weddings but it turned out that the former too was a drag. Chow (Tony Leung) moved into a house where Chan (Maggie Cheung) was renting the other room. Both were married and in a spiritless marriage, where each suspected their spouses of cheating on them. Chow and Chan got close as loneliness bit on, but they (contrary to popular belief) restrained themselves from committing adultery because they didn't want to be like their morally unscrupulous partners. Set in 1960s Hong Kong, the pace of the movie was as slow as life was simple and mundane. If it weren't for Maggie Cheung's classy outfits each time a new scene come on, I would have snored very nyenyak-ly!

Going through the motions:

Went to work on Wednesday and pretty much did nothing in the evening. Oh wait, no, now I remembered. Had been busying myself with editing my CV for hospital placement applications...that was what took up so much time!

"When the going gets tough, the tough goes shopping." - Sophie Kinsella

Seriously, it wasn't planned.

It's just that when I see the words 70% off, I get itchy. My legs start to propel in directions that I try very hard to stay away from!

Sigh, blew another 30 quid by customing Oasis, MK-One and H&M, where the latter is having a buy 1 get 1 free promotion on sale stuff! How to resist you tell me? HOW???

Bought a nice top for sister (konon-nya), a formal shirt, another black top (kinda goth but I like it), a stretchable cheong-sam dress and some undies.

When I was in Capitol shopping centre, I also popped into Coast, Phase Eight, Kookai and Karen Millen. OMG, those dresses were just so pretty! Couldn't resist running my hands through the fabric and wishing they'd be on me...someday...

But I do thank God profusely for not being rich (or that rich) to be able to afford 'a-few hundred-quid-a-dress' prices, because if I had, I would have bought every single thing in those shops!