The Pensieve

Saturday
Morning: Go SGH
Afternoon: visit relatives
Night: marathon tuition

Sunday
Morning: practice route
Afternoon: print my blog/read
Evening: celebrate dad’s birthday

Monday
Morning: pray (that my no. does not appear in viva list)
Afternoon: sell my stuff, meet cousin
Evening: KIV practice route/read

Tuesday
Morning-Afternoon: shopping trip! woohoo! (provided all goes well on monday)
Evening: self-rotting / read

Wednesday
Afternoon: Meet lulu for movie, book air tix
Evening: 630pm city hall (TF n gang)

Thursday
Afternoon: Go SGH. again.
Evening: KIV dvd marathon or something.

Friday
Evening: meetup with spanish gang, 7pm

Saturday
Afternoon: CG outing! 1pm.
Evening: plan trip

Sunday
Afternoon-evening: KIV go airport

Would lurve to squeeze in some time to catch ‘Dorm’ (if finances suffice)

Great! now i have adequate excuses not to go out with certain pple! :)

Rating: ****1/2
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
My second film in Hebrew! (please dun ask me why a movie in Hebrew has a French title!? apart from the fact that the grandad likes to reminisce about the world war in French…)

First of all, Shalom! heh heh… I only learnt this word. This is a coming-of-age film about a 16-year-old student, Shlomi. (the ‘i’ is almost silent) Unlike other coming-of-age films, especially those by the spanish directors, this one doesn’t focus much on s.e.x. (ok, i can sense some pple nodding off already…) Shlomi grows up in a broken home; his father being driven out after he had a one-off affair with his mother’s good friend. His brother, Doron, is an arrogant spoilt brat who thinks that his younger brother is an idiot. Apart from managing all the housework, he also has to take care of his grandad, who hmmm seems to be a bit senile. But then again, he makes the most astute observations from time to time, providing fresh breaths of witty sarcasms. :) Such an adorable old man…

Shlomi always knew he was a little slow (read: retarded, to others). He didn’t understand how to explain the miraculous ways he managed to arrive at complex equations and even stuff like literature. But he always flunked his exams, because they thought he was cheating, or they could not understand his depth of thinking. For example, when everyone thought that David (in David and Goliath) was brave, Shlomi felt that he was merely arrogant.

Turns, out, he had some dyslexic-schlexic… dunno what thingy… And through proper guidance from his principal and teacher, he’s encouraged to be more confident in his own ideals and to finally live his own life, instead of living for other people. At the same time, as in all coming-of-age films, a beautiful mysterious woman always features. heheh…

It’s a subtly made film, and the intensity of emotions can be seen pooling in Oshri Cohen’s (Shlomi’s) eyes. Aya Koren, who plays Shlomi’s love interest is so beautiful! Framed by a porcelain-smooth almond shaped face, with such long lashes, large eyes and delicate features, she is breath-takingly gorgeous. And that’s not considering her lanky limbs, they just seem to go on and on… … … and why am i spending one paragraph gushing about a gal? heh.

Ok ok, I think u all know what mode i’m in by now… I’m in the mood for inspirational-tender-candy-floss-mushy-chocolatey-subtle-witty-movies… yay!

Rating: ***
Comments: Might be hard to understand for people unfamiliar with genetics, DNA, the Bible and history during that peroid…

Well it was great to find out the prolific anthropologist has produced her 8th book (how on earth she finds the time is a mystery to me, what with shuttling between Charlotte and Montreal as their forensic anthropologist, appearing in court as an expert witness as well as spending up to a year studying materials for her current book and travelling to Jerusalem to participate in archeological excavations…) Unfortunately, I was unable to wholly enjoy this book because it was all about forensic pathology. She went into great detail about mitoDNA and aDNA, how it can be used to tack down the maternal lineage, and based on statistical analyses done on anthropologic data, how they can hypothesise the identity of a shard of bone. Very impressive! But also very remniscent of the recent exam.

I felt a bit sick reading it in the clinic that day while waiting for my flu jab… I had nothing else to do and the waiting was horrible… didn’t know my GP was so popular… She asked me about electives and travels… coo-ed a bit about wanting to go to spain as well and then told me that the scariest thing for her in med school was going to see the viva list. I think she had a nasty encounter once. And then… hmmm… she proceeded to say: ok, can u pull down yr pants on one side, give you the jab on your butt (only she said backside)… eh… so unexpected. Heck. Now my butt hurts! She said it wouldn’t hurt so much :( I think she forgot i have to sit on my butt! (ischial spines i mean)

Anyway, back to the story… This is a complicated story weaving in the Christians, Muslims and the Jews… source of their troubles? An un-named, un-identified skeleton of an elderly man found in Masada… some purport it to be the skeleton of Jesus, twisted together with the discovery of the James ossuary (something like a stone coffin which seals in the bones of the dead a year after they’ve been buried), basically, findings that would shake the entire Christian foundation on the basis of virg.inity (because Joseph had already ‘known’ in the biblical sense, Mary when Jesus was born), resurrection (because if the aged skeleton was Jesus, it probably meant he didn’t die, then get resurrected) and celibacy (because Jesus married).

It made archaelogy sound really glamorous and Jerusalem sounds like a plausible next destination. heh.

Ok, anxiously waiting to devour the next Temperance Brennan series, and please leave out all the details on DNA profiling the next time!