Chuckang's 2007 Blog - 1y Law: 2005.09

Wednesdays are cool now.
Monday, September 19, 2005

Every wednesday I have a 3 hour class in the afternoon. Sounds pretty crappy, but the class is on Japanese cinema - we watch a new Japanese movie every week, and have a short discussion afterwards.

In September, we're covering movies by Akira Kurosawa, who happens to be a mighty impressive cinematographer from the 1950s. Last week we started watching "Seven Samurai", a movie about a village of farmers who hire seven samurai to save their village from a group of bandits. It sounds like a simple plot, but the movie has a lot of depth to it, and it's got a healthy dose of comedic relief and samurai 'kewlness'.

This is a great quote:

Gorobei Katayama: You're good.

Heihachi Hayashida: Yeah, yeah. But I'm better at killing enemies.

Gorobei Katayama: Killed many?

Heihachi Hayashida: Well - it's impossible to kill 'em all, so I usually run away.

Gorobei Katayama: A splendid principle!

Heihachi Hayashida: Thank you.

Anyway, I'd recommend this movie if you're ever in the mood for a black and white japanese classic.

Song of the Moment:

Death Cab for Cutie -
Marching Bands of Manhattan

Posted byCharles Ang at 8:02 PM 0 comments

Comes around once a year
Saturday, September 10, 2005

It's that time of the year again.

No, it isn't crazy hat day. It's my birthday - the big 2-1 to be exact.
I already had a nice little dinner party on my behalf last weekend at Kirin - it was short and sweet, just as I like it.

I got a good amount of hong bao (red pocket) money this year, so I should invest it properly... hmmm, ipod or xbox 360?
Hehe, well unfortunately I can't celebrate too much - the October 1st LSAT is creeping up, so it's back to practice drills for me :_(
Thanks to Eric for his anime birthday e-card - it was highly appropriate (^^)

Song of the Moment

Yui - Feel my soul ~acoustic version~

Posted byCharles Ang at 1:12 AM 3 comments

Revise and Recap

I think this is chuckang.blogspot.com ver. 05 already.
Anyway, I switched providers, so any images that were on my shaw server are gone, gone, gone :p

It's been about a month since my last post (which is about average for me) - here are some things that have happened since then:

Finished my second summer school course (obviously >:P)

Wow, if I was smart I would've just gone to school in the summer.. I dunno if it's because profs give u more slack in intense courses, if my profs liked my writing, or if I was just really lucky, but I've gotten my highest mark ever in this course. Don't be a fool - take summer school.

Eight trips to Ikea, Four trips to Linens&Things, Three trips to Costco, and Two trips to Home Depot

In other words, I finished moving. The place is still missing a few things, but it's more or less shaped to our liking now; by 'our', I mean my sister and mom's liking... I just ordered a few coffee table books - a taschen architecture book, a book about business cards, and the book of exodus ala Brick (not u Eric... but Lego ^^). I'll post photos of the place later.

Family road trip to Portland (aka P-town) and Seattle (aka Emerald City)

Here come the photos: