I shall not be a wet blanket.

I will try my very best to not be a wet blanket.

Trying.

Failing.

Failed.

Alright, here I come, in all my wet-blanketish glory.

I watched Twilight a few days ago. There, I said it. I am well aware of the fact that I may be upsetting quite a number of people with my not-so-positive review of the movie, but hey, it's my opinion, and nobody's holding a gun to your head and making you remain on this page.

COMPLAINTS

• Pacing: The beginning and middle were terribly s-l-o-w, and all of a sudden, the climactic scenes were over in the blink of an eye.
• Camera angles: I don't even know where to begin. All I can say is, numerous scenes in the movie could have been filmed better.
• 'Dazzling': When Edward stepped into the sun, I expected him to 'sparkle' like how he was supposed to do in the books, meaning reflecting sunlight in every direction, like a diamond. He ended up looking like he had bought one of those cheap body glitter in a convenient store and spread it all over himself.
• Baseball: I get it, the vampires play the game oh-so fast that even the human eye can't keep up, but really, in the movie, do they really have to play the scene out in slow motion? It was ultra snail-mail slow, that I was not the least bit excited.
• Out-of-place scenes and character traits: I do not usually do book-movie comparisons, because, well, sometimes certain things just had to be done in certain ways. But there was this one scene where Bella and Edward were at school, and all of a sudden, they venture into the woods nearby, and there popped out the meadow scene! How convenient, not. And Bella going all catatonic in the hospital because Edward threatened to leave her? It was so exaggerated that I had to hold in my laughter.
• Special effects: During the vampire showdown in the ballet studio, all the leaping and hopping and pouncing and flying was just too much to handle. I snorted loudly.

LIKES

• The running pepper spray joke
• The Cullens' clean-cut dwelling
• Jasper looking like Edward Scissorhands
• The beautiful landscapes
• No screaming fan girls when I was watching the movie in the cinema

On a brighter note, for those of you who still have not seen the latest Half-Blood Prince trailer, you simply must do so. This is, in my opinion, the best trailer yet, and I'm not saying that just because Draco is seen in this one. Really.

Oh my, Draco! The Millennium Bridge! The Gandalf-looking Dumbledore! The Inferi! *Melts into a puddle* I really feel like launching a wide-scale massacre on Warner Brothers now, for delaying the movie.

Oh, and here's something just for laughs (what a perfect combination, it has the two fandoms which I love so much) <- that was sarcasm, by the way:

I'm feeling: Bitchy     

*Blows away layers after layers of dust*

*Coughs violently*

*Chokes on bust dummies dust bunnies and stumbles blindly into gargantuan cobwebs*

*Screams hair-raisingly and flails arms wildly*

Well. Considering the condition of my long-abandoned and uninhabited blog, I have to admit that I have not been the best blog-guardian. *Hangs head in shame* Oh, well. What's done is done.

I have considered putting up a 'on hiatus until further notice' sign on this God-forsaken blog, but I didn't want to have something to look forward to, meaning, I didn't want to keep my hopes up that I can make it through the three-letter-word exam without dying in the process.

Speaking of the effingly blasted _ _ _ (fill in the blanks if you feel like it) exam, it's (thank heavens) done and done with. I can't even put my joy and relief into words. Too jubilant that I am rendered speechless. Yes, that should be a first.

After this, arguments on whether our ex-ex-ex-ex-king was shot, stabbed, hung to death, or sliced into pieces and boiled in a pot will turn into light-hearted banter about the weather, the shape of the Earth, or other trivial things; schoolbags loaded with revision books which are so heavy and thick it can knock a person dead on its own will be filled, instead, with playing cards, boardgames, and whatnot; and most importantly, the unseen, weighty burden bearing down on every 15-year-olds' shoulders will be lifted, and we will all be able to walk around so bouncily that people will start looking at out feet and expecting to find springs attached to them.

Now, I'm off to disinfect my dirt-infested blog, starting with the layout and music. Adieu!

I'm feeling: Rejuvenated