Well well.

Here are some excerpts from the English essay I wrote for my Final Year Examination.

I shall not reveal the teacher in question, lest TK takes legal action against me. Since that seems to be all the rage now. If she happens to chance upon this entry, and decides to express her outrage at my actions, she will just be admitting to her mystifying, unfathomable marking.

By the way, I did question 2. Hah.

Incomprehensible example 1) "True, her accent sounded [weird, but] was it her fault?"

I consulted The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White. Let's just allow the rules to speak for themselves, shall we?

Rule number three- Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.

Rule number four- Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.

I believe both rules mentioned above apply to example 1.

Incomprehensible example 2) "I spent half the lesson staring in fascination at Jo's [braids, which] were tied so tightly to her scalp you could see the white bits of her scalp." (Rule three/four)

Incomprehensible example 3) "I sighed [mentally, and] prepared to face my doom." (Rule four)

Incomprehensible example 4) "Nod nod."

What is wrong with that??? Although it is a clipped sentence, I am certain the emphasis was warranted. Is it not permissible to make an emphatic expression serve the purpose of a sentence?

There are many more, but I shall not bother to list them all out; it will just be a waste of my time and effort. But this doesn't exactly speak well for the Engligh teachers of TK, does it?

On a lighter note, I watched two movies yesterday- Transporter 2 and Election. Paid for the first and sneaked in for the second. Yayy! $9.50 for two movies isn't that bad.

Transporter 2 was mindless entertainment; it was quite a fun movie actually. The British lead actor Jason Statham is super hot. And all the action fighting car flying off roof-top spontaneous combustion of cars were choreographed superbly. Although one doubts most of the action sequences are actually possible, it is really an excellent piece of mindless fun. I have a couple of complaints though. The length of the movie, for one, and the assuming ending. I suppose the makers of the movie didn't want to crack their brains over how the antidote would be extracted from the corpse's body, supremely diluted I would assume? with all the plasma and the like and save all those stuffy politicians? And just assumed the viewers would accept that yes, it would be done, and The Transporter would continue on his World-saving journey. And of course, the movie was too short. But apart from that, Transporter 2 was a highly enjoyable 87 minutes.


Election (Hei She Hui) was..amusing. That's all I can say about it, since as it approached the end it increasingly became more entertaining and I was prepared to give it a watchable status but it sadly degenerated into a let's educate the public and instill loads of wonderful morals movie. It started off promisingly enough, with the audience gasping in horror as two gang leaders were bundled up in crates and kicked down a steeply inclined slope, and retrieved, and kicked down repeatedly. And later as their bloodied bodies were disposed off on the road. Couple of less than thrilling chasing scenes. Lao das being locked up in jail and denied of their belts, and the supreme lao da having to hold up his pants because he was so fat they threatened to slip down everytime he took a step. And this other not so supreme lao da getting whacked up but refusing to surrender this item of power, some gun and sprouting all those jiang hu vows of brotherhood. Really hilarious. There was even a really cool twist nearing the end where two lao das ganged up (haha) to beat the shit out (literally) of a rival triad lao da. But at the end it adopted the give the good public message persona and made one lao da turn on another in some rubbish power gone to head and the police wrapping up the gangs. Simply moronic. Dumb.