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Based on 129 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an overall approval 'certified fresh' rating from critics of 84%.^[27] AOL reports that viewers left the screening mid-film not because they were dissatisfied, but because the film was so frightening.^{[citation needed]} The same article mentioned that the film may be rising to the same acclaim as The Blair Witch Project, filmed using the same video camera technique and because there was no real script per se.^{[citation needed]} Movie critics James Berardinelli and Roger Ebert each awarded it 3.5 stars out of a maximum of 4 stars.^[28][29] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman gave Paranormal Activity an A- rating and called it "frightening...freaky and terrifying" and noted that "Paranormal Activity scrapes away 30 years of encrusted nightmare clichés."[30]

Critical Reception | Wikipedia on Paranormal Activity

... I want my 10 bucks back. >.> Frightening, fresh, my arse! I've gotten more scared by my own imagination than this film. Seriously, dude. If you know me, you'd know that I'm generally not a brave soul. Saw and Sin City made me cry out of fear and disgust and I was mildly frightened by the American remake of The Ring. (also I'm too spooked to ever watch Ju-On.) I've also never watch The Blair Witch Project, instead choosing to read the books, and I was still scared. (though I was still in primary school then...) But this, this was an utter joke.

Only the end was mildly frightening but that's mostly because of the special effects... and there were actually parts where people laughed at the supposed scary moments. XD awesome, people! Oh yeah, and it's probably only rated NC-16 for language...

Oh. And to those who think that having someone watch you while you sleep is pretty cool and lovey-dovey cough twilight cough, it's not. It's freaky and whoever doing that should get his/her head checked. Pity Micah had to die even though he was trying his best to help Katie, ah well. Bet his last thought was regretting not calling the demonologist to exorcise the demon or cursing himself to picked a demon haunted girlfriend of all girls available.

Also, if I was the writer of this film, I would have made it waaaay more awesome! (because seriously, flickering lights, random footsteps and weird sounds can be more effective if used properly.) And I remembered how much I disliked the shakiness of Cloverfield. Which is repeated in Paranormal Activity. Even District 9's camera shooting was more steady. Certainly, the realism is there, but... it wasn't fully exploited enough.

I spent nearly the entire hour plus half wishing that they would grow some brains and learn to use the internet properly because hey, if you're reseaching demons, find out their names and how to get rid of them properly... Also, salt is pretty inexpensive, learn how to demon-proof your house, okay?

And the other time, I was half wishing that the Winchesters brothers were going to turn up and exoricse the shit out of this demon. Haha, really, I bet Dean and Sam would have finished them off in a jiffy. XD

It would also have been awesome if the demon wanted Katie to be his bride or some shit hence vengeance against Micah, and the psychic was actually pretty redundant, because hello, we know there's a haunting, we don't really need you around to confirm it! And since so, what's the real point of his role?

Though I've got to say, if they aired the third version, I would have been so bloody freaked out! (the one in which Katie returns and kills herself)

But anyway, it was still fun hanging out with Sneha, Sofia and Thon! Maybe next time, Jaswin will come too? Haha.

Once again, I have an ambitious project in the making. >.> let's hope I don't give up halfway.

Because I'm too cheapo to buy my own set of runes online and I can't find any locally, I decided to make my own set, using air drying clay. Which seems a little dubious to me, considering that I generally fail at crafts since lack of patience and finesse usually leaves me frustrated with a dead interest. (which was sort of what happened to my witch bottles, since I can't figure out how to paint the inner side of the glass container and I'm a little squeamish when it comes to drawing blood even though blood is a particular requirement though I think it would be pretty awesome... >.> okay, tmi.)

Anyway, Orchard seems to be becoming my second home these few days, haha.

Went to meet Faza after the annoying econs paper, had dinner and randomly browsed through various shops until we were both freaking tired before stopping for coffee and going home. And dude, I got your book already! :D

Then hung out with Kim today in which I caved in and bought myself the Paulina Tarot. Okay, maybe it was rather impulsive, but once I picked it up, it felt like it was the right one to get... all the others just didn't feel the same way... I don't know, guess I'm just rambling? Haha, but there seems to be quite a number of positive reviews, or so I just checked... On a superficial note, it is certainly prettier than the Whimisical Tarot that my brother gave me, heh.

Bumped into Sofia in Borders!! :D Haha, small island, nothing overly surprising, but overall, pretty nice! Also, could have met Sherilyn as well who was apparently shopping around too, but ah well...

Hmm and the music stores around are suuuuuper slow. Elliot Minor's Solaris has been out since October 19? And still not here yet. What is this, I ask you?! It's already a month and counting!!! And they aren't that obscure, right?! *pouts*

Yeah, also went to watch Kranji choir perform at SCH, in which I'm glad to say that they did improve though even I managed to spot the flaws in their technique, considering that I'm no expert after all. But since majority of the audience were parents and friends, I doubt most would care... the repertoire was quite varied, but nothing in particular drew my attention... the SYF piece was pretty decent? Mayhaps nicer than ours? Haha. And I miss Janger's excitement... Gah. I think I really want to continue singing in a choir, the blending of voices... can't find it elsewhere...

Lastly, going to Orchard again tomorrow to watch Paranormal Activity with Sofia, Sneha and Thon. Jaswin couldn't make it apparently ): Hope tomorrow's an awesome day too! :D Though I'm pretty broke too... ehhhh.

Okay, that's about it from me today. Gonna go kill some more time and not touch literature. :D Yup, that sounds like a plan.

我是一匹來自北方的狼 走在無垠的曠野中
淒厲的北風吹過 漫漫的黃沙掠過
我只有咬著冷冷的牙 報以兩聲長嘯
不為別的 只為那傳說中美麗的草原
齊秦 x 狼


so very close to freedom. :D after tomorrow and just one last paper for literature and hopefully that would be the end of mugging and I can finally choose to learn things that I'm actually interested in.

yeah, have already made a list of things I want to do, like research on ancient civilisations, pick up another instrument, spam my lj with fiction posts, whatever. the base line would be to get a life, basically.

read up for tomorrow's paper at the library with Sze and Ami just now, though I was horribly distracted - books, the lovely lovely rain, people, etc. let's hope my inane reading would be of use, or else I would have wasted all my time sitting in the library when I could have been sleeping comfortably at home. :D

econs tomorrow, oh joy.

(I used to dread math excessively, nervous stomach, some fear and all that and now I no longer fear math due to the fact that I've made my peace with the subject, my incessant anxiety goes on to latch on to econ.)

I'm reading and nothing's going in. So I'm very tempted to just go sleep and ignore the fact that I'm most likely going to flunk this paper. Totally disregarding the fact that I was busy doing gods-know-what just know... all I know is that it involves reading fanfiction and manga as well as eating kinder bueno. I guess I'm just terrible when it comes to temptations. (and terrible might just be an understatement.)

so many random thoughts going around my mind, so many emotions just coming and going. It's like I'm this whole jumbled mess of conflicting desires and feelings towards different people and there's so many things that I want to say but the words keep getting stuck at the back of my throat like poison and I find that I can't say anything after all, but then I realise that in the end, I'm just making everything worse by bottling it all up because it has slowly been growing, from since when I cannot recall, but I really hate this part of me. Just how much did I change to feel like that?

oh irony...

okaaaay, so maybe I have some sort of a Napoleon complex, and maybe I'm over reacting, but you know me, I have a short temper and I'm generally not good with people. yeah, so I was damn pissed off with these bunch of an bengs/lian. one of the dudes just totally mocked me, grabbing at above my head and definitely in my personal space. was bloody tempted to shove him the finger and well, if I knew martial arts, would totally have grabbed that hand and flipped him over. gah. I knew I should have forced my mother into paying for judo lessons! aha, yeah, but then I remembered that there were 3 guys and I don't think I can deal with a broken nose... argh, was so damn close to flipping him off! in hindsight, I wish I gave into that impulse, who cares about the nose!

oh yeah, and even though I'm waaay slow in watching Glee as compared to those who can just switch on a tv and watch it, here be spoilery ramblings.

anyway, Glee cheered me up! :D or actually, it didn't. felt really really saaaaad, and gah, I knew I didn't like Rachel! and I certainly hope that the writers are not going to make everything about her. seriously, she's so self righteous and all when it's convenient for her, and hello, since you know so much about equal opportunties, why so uptight about giving someone else a shot at the limelight? Wished Kurt got that solo though, it would have been awesome to shake things up a little, I mean, it's always Rachel dominating the lead with Finn, and they normally give the R&B stuff to Mercedes... more changes, maybe giving Brittany and Santana some more playing room too? I think Brittany was so cute, the whole 'recipes being too confusing' and raising her left hand when Kurt said right and yeah, giving Becky money to buy a cupcake, :D and Puck was rather sweet in this, it's a different facet from his normal jock self, and the part where he drugged the cupcakes was so awesome!

and it made me rethink about myself, think I'm quite hypocritical too? I mean, I'm certainly guilty of discriminating against people too, and selfish enough to think about my own convenience instead of other people's feelings... and yeah, I really really like Sue in this episode, because maybe those who are different from us just want to be treated as the same instead of having their differences being singled out and I guess we wouldn't want to be defined by our differences, in a bad way, of course, though differences or not, simply being judged as such would be too reductive. people are certainly much more than just that...

" [...] It’s about the desperate need for a place in the world and how we all fit in and how hard it is for some people to get by.” Ryan Murphy, creator. 

met up with Faza for dinner which was fun! :D It's rare that I like hanging out with people, haha, so yeah, you should be delighted that I willing spend time in your company, dude.

anyway, no more history after today! :D awesome, the next time I pick up any historic thing, would be way beyond the booooring syllabus we're stuck with. (unless I screw up so badly I need to retake the exams, good lords, no thank you.)

so I decided that hey, I ought to take a break from 'mugging', (in which I take so many breaks, I'm actually not productive at all. but hey, delusion is pretty good for the brain, no? XD) managed to finish downloading White Collar this morning, so yet, ignoring the fact that econs is totally my weakest subject, I indulge. I bet no one's surprised, haha.

White Collar is a new series, only 3 episodes so far, and I'm just getting started. The plotline is simple, main character who is a con artist, escapes from jail, an FBI who was the only person to put him behind bars is assigned to track him down. This apparently is easily down, because the main character, Neal, seems to be quite the sentimental dude. Anyway, he makes a deal with the agent in which he helps him with another white collar crime, he gets to get out of jail, within reason, of course. And the main reason why Neal wants out so desperately seems linked to his missing girlfriend.

It reminded me of Kurosagi. Which was one of the reasons that led me to watching it. And also, Matt Bomer looks extremely charming in his role as Neal. Seriously, he doesn't look like he's thirty plus. XD