Minutes to Midnight Review

After the disaster of the last few papers, I decided to take a break to review Linkin Park's newest album, Minutes to Midnight.

I'll start it off by saying that I'm disappointed with what they have to offer this time around. Seriously! Minutes to Midnight sounds so unlinkin-parkish...in this album, they sound like a mixture of random mediocre bands. Eight out of twelve songs on the album are slow, sleep-inducing ballads. I mean come on, this is Linkin Park, not Keane! I want to listen to all that noise! If I wanted music that's soft and melodic, I'd go for Keane, or Coldplay. Linkin Park? Heck, now I really miss all that noise in the first two albums. Hybrid Theory was awesome, Meteora was not too bad, Reanimation was cool and now Minutes to Midnight...is just different. Way different. Still, it's an okay album, if you can get pass the fact that it's Linkin Park we're listening to. There are a few good tracks in the album, and change is good and all, but when and if they release their fourth album, it'd better more energetic!

My opinions on each song:
1. Wake - an instrumental; a good start, sounds like Keane though, minus guitars
2. Given Up - nice song, but what's up with the fucks? O.o
3. Leave Out All The Rest - one of my favourites, but is not that impressive
4. Bleed It Out - sounds like their old style, however I hate this song!
5. Shadow of the Day - is it just me, or do they sound like The Rasmus on this song? Anyway it's ok...too balladish though
6. What I've Done - lead single; it's ok, nothing to shout about
7. Hands Held High - good grief, they sound like the church choir or something! Hate this
8. No More Sorrow - now this is more like it! Love this
9. Valentine's Day - it's not something I'd want to listen to on Valentine's Day...
10. In Between - stick to rap, Mike. Hate this song as well
11. In Pieces - pretty good, finally something other than Chester's voice
12. The Little Things Give You Away - ah my favourite song on this album. And one of my favourite Linkin Park songs from all albums too. Good job on this one!

Verdict: I'd give this 3/5. For a Linkin Park album, this truly sucks. However, if you can just get past that, it's pretty good actually. Too many mushy, balladish, U2-ish songs, why on earth did they change their style that much? Can you imagine? 8 out of 12 songs are SLOW songs! I honestly think I'm listening to some other band other than Linkin Park. Next time boys, stick to what you know best. I've read most online reviews for this, majority of their fans hate the fact that they changed their style, and I hate to say this but I agree with them. Strangely enough, some fans (or non-fans) really dig this album!

EDIT: There's a song that didn't make it to the album, when it should have had! QWERTY (they don't even have a proper name for that song...) rocks!~

That's it. I'm screwed. ELS sucks! I hate that paper.

Jigoku Shoujo

Well, I finally finished watching Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori today. I know that I'm suppose to study, but I just can't wait till after exams to finish it off :P

Jigoku Shoujo has got to be one of the most depressing shows that I've ever watched...it's just so sad! T_T I actually cried watching the last few episodes...poor Ai. One thing that I don't understand is why didn't Ren, Hone-Onna and Wanyuudo stop those idiotic villagers??!! I mean, they were beating up Ai! Surely they could have done something...It's just so sad to see Ai die that way. At least, she no longer has to ferry people to hell, and that's good enough for me (despite the fact that I wished that she did not have to die like that - again!)

Anyway, I'm glad Takuma had a happy ending, that poor boy suffered way too much in this series. Ai sorta had a happy ending too...afterall, she is no longer the jigoku shoujo, and her parents' spirits are also free. And I hope all three of them have gone to Heaven and not hell. If heaven exists in that show, that is. I'm really sad that this show has finally ended :( I'm gonna miss it, Jigoku Shoujo's definitely one of my favourites.

And if anyone's wondering, yes, today's entry is completely dedicated to Enma Ai. May you rest in peace.

Purgatory - Getting ready to enter Hell. Or maybe I'm already in it?

"You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility. Through contrition, confession, and satisfaction by works of righteousness, you must make your way up the mountain. As the sins are cleansed from your soul, you will be illuminated by the Sun of Divine Grace, and you will join other souls, smiling and happy, upon the summit of this mountain. Before long you will know the joys of Paradise as you ascend to the ethereal realm of Heaven."

Well, I got that from http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv. The first time I took it, I was in the 5th level. Second time however, I ended up in the first level of Hell. So what does that mean, I went down 4 levels? O.o Well anyway apparently i worship Pagan beliefs. Cool. In a way I do, I guess...check it out if you've never seen it before. It's fun. Mrs Hatia, my English lit lecturer, however would keel over reading that though XD

Anyway. History Paper 1 is finally over...and my reaction when i first read the questions was 'OMG! OMG! OMG! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!". Despite that, I still managed to write TEN WHOLE PAGES. Honestly, I am surprised at the amount I wrote, considering the fact that knew almost nothing. Which probably means that I was repeating myself. Again and again and again. I didn't bother to double-check it, I just wrote whatever that came into my mind, and holy cow, ten pages of nonsense. I'm in shock, and in denial. Surely I didn't write that much? Because, sincerely, my mind was blank. Maybe my hand had a life of it's own. Or maybe I was ranting, like what I'm doing now. If that's the case, I'm in big trouble then! And my handwriting was huge, uneven and messy. With lots of crossouts. Darn it.

Oh and I have no idea why I did question 2. I didn't even understand it! Policies of King Louis XVI? What policies??!! As far as I know, he did nothing. And that's the only thing I kept writing about. Him doing nothing. And him getting executed in the end. Does that answer the question? I don't think so. 5 1/2 paragraphs of that. Hah. Brilliant. That means one question screwed. The other 3? I can't remember what I wrote. The only thing that I could answer was the source base question. And even that I don't think I answered correctly. For those people who think length means everything, trust me, it's not. I've seen people writing about half of what i wrote, and they have better results than me. And I can assure you that I repeated myself. Great. I am really screwed then.

On the bright side, there's a 5 day break before the next paper, Lit Paper 4. Dramas. Thank god it's not poems! Cos I really dislike poems. I don't understand poems, and I don't want to understand them either. But I have to, at least for paper...5? GAH I don't even know what paper that is!

One whole month of torture

Noooooo I can't believe that the A Levels Finals will start this wednesday! And I'm so not prepared for it...quite close to freaking out. And it lasts for about a month. ONE WHOLE MONTH T_T Because of exams, I won't be able to watch a few movies that I've been really looking forward to since last year (JACK SPARROW!!!! SHREK!!) Well yeah, I can still watch it after my exams (sorta), but it's not the same as watching it on the day it premieres. Right? Right?? RIGHT????!!!!

And of course, back to exams. I have no mood to study at all. I keep reading the same paragraph again, and again, and still nothing goes into my head. I just can't stop thinking about Capt. Jack Sparrow *drools*. Or that grumpy but lovable green ogre. And his feline sidekick. And also this week's episode of Heroes! Suspenseful episode, although I've pretty much read the spoilers for it :P I still wanna watch it, I'm very determined to do so since Peter did not appear AT ALL in last week's episode. Thankfully my very first paper will be over by then, so I can relax a bit.

Ode to how blur I am

Well, I discovered something unexpected today while *attempting* to update my blog today...guess what - i've made a blog here before, like 3 years ago! ->http://royaldarknessangel.blogspot.com/

and look at it...I chose the same layout and everything O.O That is totally...unexpected...I've forgotten about that blog...