the good, the bad, and the satisfactory

The Good

TopmanUK had an online sale and I bought four items =)!!!

One blue sweatshirt, one burgundy hoody, one black-and-white checked hoody, and one yellow round-neck t-shirt. My friend said I looked like a chav wearing the checked hoody but I've been praised for the blue sweatshirt and the burgundy hoody when I wore them to hospital =). As for the yellow t-shirt, I just want something yellow.

Gahhh, given the amount of online shopping I've been doing, it's no surprise I can recite my 16-digit debit card number without even looking at the card. It's 492...wait, I'm not as shallow and stupid as I lead people to believe =P!


The Bad

What's bad was the fact that I was fined for riding the metro without a valid ticket =p!!!


It's definitely a classic case of 'sepandai-pandai tupai melompat, akhirnya jatuh ke tanah juga.' That's a Malay saying meaning that no matter how good a criminal is, he'll eventually be caught. That was me.

Ever since I move to Sunderland, I'd need the bus or the metro to go to Newcastle. While I'd normally take the bus because I've the monthly bus pass, I'd occasionally become the devil and dare taking the metro because it's sorta quicker and I normally managed to do the crime unscathed. Not last Sunday.

I was caught and I was fined. There went 20 quid. I was such a bad-ass =)!!!
The Satisfactory

I'm, of course, talking about the latest installment in the Harry Potter franchise; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1. Normally I'd write a super-long review on films but these days I just couldn't be bothered.

Suffice to say that this movie didn't disappoint me. Many have said that it was the most loyal adaptation when compared to the previous ones and I'd agree to that despite the fact that, in my opinion, they seem to have excluded some major emotional internal struggles Harry was going through especially with matters related to Dumbledore. Then again, there's gonna be Part 2 so they might be putting that particular story arc in that one.


Many have also said that the movie was very emotional and some even said that they cried several times while watching it. I didn't cry once. Dobby's death was expected and the scene, emotional as it may be, was not enough to make me cry the way I cried reading it in the novel.  Having said that, credit was due with respect to the scene where Hermione had to erase his parents' memory (one of two scenes where I felt like crying), the scene depicting the legend of the Deathly Hallows which I thought was brilliantly crafted, and the scene where Bellatrix Lestrange tortured Hermione (the other scene where I felt like crying - I would've cried had they shown more of it).

So yeah, it was satisfactory. It didn't live up to my expectation because my imagination while reading the book was a lot wilder but David Yates managed to make it above average. I'm now looking forward to see how emotionaly well-driven have they made the scene of Severus Snape's death together with all his memories and the story of Ariana Dumbledore in Part 2. That is if they didn't cut it out!!!