just watched xmen 3 and in summary it is about the UBER COOLNESS OF JEAN GREY! she's like the epitome of girl power- exotic, striking, intense... and then of course there's the thing about how she can levitate a house and fragmentise people with her mind. my new aspiration is to be like jean grey. i have decided to learn telepathy and hone my psychic powers so that eventually i will be able to read people's thoughts and move things just by thinking about them. this would definitely thrash being a spy any day! apart from jean though, there actually wasn't much else Xcitement (ha, ha) unless you consider a nearly naked hugh jackman towards the end. this was when jean was trying to kill him but ended up ripping his shirt off his body instead; talk about putting psychic powers to good use! anyway i was quite disappointed that cyclops died so early in the show (and in the most RETARDED way possible, i must say) although james marsden did seem much diminished in hotness from x2 and x1 so his presence was not missed much. on the whole i think x3 struck quite a good balance because its special effects were just enough to make it cool but not mindblowing to the extent that they detracted from the plot or jean grey or made it too unbelievable. after all, i still want to be jean grey ;)

oh, and i have just been given a holier-than-thou-comic-fan movie critique from haynes so, this is as a disclaimer: i haven't actually read any of the comics so i can't offer any valuable comic buff perspectives. i have however watched the prequels and you can bet i'm familiar with the actors, i mean, characters! ;D

yesterday i was forced to watch over the hedge. forced because i vowed never to watch another cartoon after finding nemo, in which the plot of fish finding fish was so boring that i slept through the middle of it. mark says that i am heartless! i suppose this is true though, since i rarely even laugh during shows except at sadistic things or "geek humour" like in who's line is it anyway. anyway, i must say over the hedge was a more pleasant experience than i expected, thanks to the cuteness of garry shandling's turtle and the selfish genius of the raccoon so aptly called RJ. i totally could not recognise bruce willis' voice, especially since it lacks the charisma which hugo weaving's oozes! the other cheap thrill was that avril lavigne was doing a bit part, so i spent most of the movie waiting for her character to talk. i have to say she is quite useless as a voiceover but in my defense as a former avril fan, there WAS once upon a time when being an angsty punk rocker wasn't just the greatest turn off since christina aguilera. my favourite character in the movie is hammy, because i think a semi-schizo squirrel with a major ADHD problem is actually quite endearing.

omg, i'm beginning to like cartoon characters! if i keep this up, i might start liking babies or wanting to carry them and then i might drop them or something disastrous like that and it is SO NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

apart from that, it has been a rather ho-hum week. i've been having a backache which has systematically radiated from my neck to my tailbone, so moving about and sitting down has not been very fun. this is despite extra yoga and the fact that i'm probably more fit than i've ever been in my life (which is not much, haha) so it is quite infuriating. luckily though the great singapore sale has begun, so there's at least something to occupy me. i hit robinsons on friday armed with the buying power that is The Mother, and actually got a shirt and a pair of pants that doesn't make me look like an elephant. but they're both only appropriate as office attire, which only means one thing: more shopping!

as for the birthday gift list, i've decided that it's too materialistic, even for me. now that i've started earning my own money, i don't actually feel compelled to buy things all the time and can actually walk away from stuff which i really like but don't need even though they're on sale, AND i don't think about them afterwards and feel incomplete or sad because i didn't buy them! this is definitely something. there are however, a few things which i suppose i COULD appreciate. like plain diamond (or even crystal!) ear studs to replace my most favourite crystal ones which are missing the back pieces now. or a nice medium-sized bag which can fit an A4 paper in and will look good on my shoulder in uni. or a pair of wedges with a ribbon around the ankles which i have been dying to own since i missed out on them on chinese new year. or a cute pair of flatties or slippers which go with jeans. or a nice comfy sweater with a zip in the front and a little hood at the back! teehee. not necessary of course, but definitely welcomed ;)