My Pokemon Alpha Sapphire

So I finally got this game in my hands, and is now at the stage where I'm trying to get Kyogre...
1st try: fail
2nd try: KOed Kyogre

Let's see if third time's the charm

[edit] 3rd try: Kyogre 1-hit-KO with Leaf Blade *screams in frustration*
[edit] 4th try: KO again
[edit] 5th try: I FRIGGIN GOT HIM FINALLY! HALLELUJAH!

Results: 5 tries with Pikachu, Sceptile and Pelipper fainted.

Watched The Hobbit: Battle of The Five Armies

Well, I've back to Indonesia since the 14th now.

As you can see from the title above, I've actually watched The Hobbit. They just released it in Indonesia yesterday, but I've watched the London one on the 12th, the day before my flight.
So, what was my thought on it? Personally I like the tension, and the fighting stuff. Tauriel's role, Fili's lack of dialogue and the CGI (especially the CGI) bothered me though. Tauriel is the cool badass female elf with the cool fighting moves, but they had to make her as Kili's love interest. I don't mind making her as the love interest of someone, but at least keep her like the cool lady she is and not make her look like a damsel in distress with her cheesy dialogue to Thranduil...

And then there's Fili, Thorin's heir and his oldest nephew, hidden behind the limelight of Kili because he's not the dwarf in love with an elf. Fill is handsome, of course he is, but everyone adores Kili perhaps of the lack of beard? Kili's adorable, sure, but with him being in love and so serious in trying to get Tauriel's attention kind of... puts me off personally. When Kili yells at Thorin about not wanting to let people fight their fights for them and then Thorin fondly touched his forehead with Kili's... WHERE IS FILI IN THIS SCENE?! Fili's lack of presence just makes me feels sad, especially because of his fate under the foul orc's hand.

Tauriel, the badass she-elf, who turns out to be the desperate girl when Kili dies. I kind of get it that she'll be desperate, her dialogue with Thranduil at the end though... that is not what I expected. "Because it is real" Lee Pace, your face makes me want to laugh so hard when you said that line. Kili is still a young dwarf, falling in love so seriously like that kinds of... dunno.

Now, CGI. You cannot possibly imagine how this distracts me in this film. For your information, I have never watched the two previous films on the big screen and I tend to fast forward on my laptop. I was just sitting, tension high on my shoulder, waiting for the war to end, and then the CGI had to distract me of all things. There were some scenes in there where you can CLEARLY see the moment they're using Green Screen to shoot. The characters outlines were blurry and visibly edited into the background, some of the special effects (rams/goats) did not combine well with the background making it look un-seamless.

Oh, just a few opinions from my friends who watched this with me. Frankly, they were disappointed by this third and last movie because the fighting scene is just too long and the focus shifted away from Bilbo. They said the book is supposed to be about Bilbo going on an adventure and then Bilbo going home. Bilbo is the narrator, and it was supposed to be "There and Back Again" not "The Battle of Five Armies". I was torn, I like the fighting scenes, but they made sense.

Favourite scene: Bilbo and Thorin's smiles at each other when Bilbo showed the Dwarf King the acorn from Beorn's house. That is pure perfect romantic/bromance moment right there.

Rate: 7.5/10 (although tissue-worthy, still a bit rough here and there)
P.S.: GALADRIEL IS THE COOLEST. CATE BLANCHETT ROCKS! MARTIN FREEMAN IS BOSS!

One More Week Until Christmas Break and Cancelled Lecture

I'm really excited about going home now, only one week left! I still have lab reports to be done, and courseworks which will always be a chore, but I have a really good motivation to finish everything: HOLIDAY!

So I'll be going back home to Jakarta for Christmas and my flight is on Saturday 13th December 2014 and back to London on Sunday 11th January 2015, almost a whole month! One downside is that I have to study for the maths exam on the 15th January, oh well. I had told my friend that I'm going to meet her and then give her all the stuff she asked me to buy (Martin Freeman's Richard III stuff and signature). Recently I was just told that my friend whom I met here for Richard III's stage door have a secret twitter for her fangirl side and have followed this friend of mine and have been talking to each other about Martin. She said she found my twitter in one of her tweets and then asked me if I have a twitter, at first I didn't know but then she mentions me and my friend and we kind of had a spazz moment there for a minute asking how do you know each other etc.

It's a small world, and the King of Sass Martin Freeman had brought many people together to fragile about him. Sweet sweet man.

Anyways, I'll probably still post blogs over the christmas break unless I'm in the mood for a whole day of walking around the shopping centre. Or go to different shopping centre in a day, which is probably not fair to my driver.

Oh! Before I forget, just wanting to tell you about last Tuesday's sudden lecture postpone. I usually go to the 2-4pm session but because there are a lot of people from 4-6pm deciding to just go to the 2-4pm making it crammed I decided to go to the 4-6pm time slot instead. So I came to campus from 2, do my business at the library until I decided to go wait in the building. When I got into the building and walk towards the lecture theatre there were still people but there was a paper taped on the door saying that my lecture is cancelled and please check moodle for more information. I opened my moodle, nothing was there, it was 3:45pm and someone else came to the door and was also confused. After a few minutes he went back out and I decided to open my email, and lo behold! There was an email telling me about the cancelled lecture because the lecturer mixed his calendar and his UCL timetable so he went to the wrong place at the wrong time. The email was received at 3:10pm, which is an hour to the 2-4pm session... with probably pissed students inside the auditorium. It was sudden, and a bit of a waste of time so I decided to go to Westfield to go and see the UNIQLO coat I've been eyeing. I planned to go to Westfield before going to campus, but I decided not to and how I wished I did...

I went to Westfield, went straight to UNIQLO to try the coat on even though I tried it on the day before and took pictures with it and other coats. I wanted to try how warm it is, and when I found that it's quite warm I realised that there was only 2 coats (I thought there was only 1 left before I found another L-sized coat with a wrong-labelled hanger) left in my size so I asked my aunt if I should buy it then. She told me I should and I could just return it if I don't like it so I bought it. UNIQLO's Military Coat for £69.90, which is not bad. I even got a free box from them, was looking at the pink one but they ran out so I got the blue-coloured one. When I was at the till, my brother called but I didn't realise. He was asking where I was and if I have eaten, I told him I ate some cakes earlier and told me to buy something from Waitrose. So I did, despite the confusion about what and I needed to FaceTime him to see what he wanted.

Thus ends my day, I went home, had lunch, FaceTime with my parents and did whatever I did.

See you in the next post!

Disappointing Hobbit Battle of Five Armies Premier Experience

Let me just make it clear, all the problems for my disappointing experience was because I had classes in the morning until 6pm, I was alone and standing in a very not strategic place because I was late... not to mention I have to get the wristbands the day before to be able to get into the supporter 'pens' if I wanted to get a better view.

So, most of you guys probably already know about the wristband rule Warner Bros set up (which is pretty unfair from all the complaints scattered around online). The wristband is a tool for you to get into the pens/barrier, if you don't have those you couldn't get it and will probably get shoo-ed away by security personnel. Continuing on, I had classes and they'll finish at 6pm but I bailed half an hour earlier to rush to Leicester Square. When I arrive to Leicester Square, I was told by the security to go around because there're no more place left on that side (across Vue cinema). Then I went around and got to Odeon's Costa door, the security lady was telling me to go because the waiting's finished, she even said 'finito' to me before she saw my wristband and ushered me into the pens...

I met a friend, who told me she was going to come as well with her friend, and the moved so we kind of separated. I waited and waited, I'm smaller than other people so I couldn't see much and we're just too far away from everything. I should have gone around to the Nickelodeon store because that was where the actors drop off! Oh I'm so disappointed and so sad, I was so tired I couldn't only see everyone's face from the big screen and even that is quite hard to see. Not many actors came by to the side I was standing at, only Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, someone I don't recognise, Ian Mckellen who walked quite quickly to greet everyone and Luke who just ran to say hi and ran away again. I'm happy I could at least get a glimpse of these people and got to get Jed's sign on my art, but my overall my experience of this premier was quite disappointing seeing that many people couldn't get into the pens because they don't have the wristband.

I saw many great cosplayer (Mary and Leigh from tumblr amongst them), but they don't have the wristband and they came all the way from Germany... I don't know where they went when they walked away. Their friend who cosplayed as Thorin was there, they were just A-mazing!

Going home, pretty hungry, not too late to make spaghetti for myself... all in all I think this might as well be my last premier because I'm just so tired unless my friends come together with me for another premier with Martin (ESPECIALLY HIM) or/and Ben.

I'm going to watch the movie next week on the first night before flying back to Jakarta the next day, if I'm in the mood (and not emotionally incapacitate like on The Imitation Game) to put on a brief review. Later taters!

Premier Experience rating: 2/5

John Cho look-alike?

Hiya guys! You guys doing alright? I'm kind of okay, if you're wondering... just excited that I'll be going back home to Indonesia for christmas later on the 13th of December. I'm going alone though, my brother is staying in London for a project. Maybe I'll stay behind next year, it's getting cold nowadays.

So, just now I was in a live music workshop organised by the live music society that my friends (H & M, as well as another called V) are in. I was curious about the society so I decided to tag along, and I'm not disappointed. Because it's a workshop, we did vocal warm-ups, harmonisation and such. Some people step up to sing something they prepared and then we gave our opinions about it. It was really helpful, I mostly kept to myself because it was my first time but I really enjoyed it. There was this girl who sang Eponine's On My Own and she was AMAZING! After she sang the pianist (the organiser for the workshop) gave his opinion and some of the participants did as well, about emotions or how the interpretation of the lyrics and things. It was out of my depth, but hey I'm learning as I go along. The same girl told us that she's going to go for an audition, I really do hope she get the part, she's amazing. Her presence is a bit of like a 'BOOM' thing, so I hope she does great in her audition.

And one thing that amazes me, as you can see from my title, is that there is this guy who really looks like John Cho it's not funny. I kept trying to get a clear look at him from the corner of my eyes and my brain keep telling me that he really really looks like John Cho, it's like his doppelgänger. I have my suspicion that he might really be John Cho, but there is no way he'll be in a workshop like this... right? Still, it was mind-blowing to see how similar this guy is. I forgot his name when he introduced himself... was he even there when we started introducing ourself? The guy left early though, so that's it.

This live music workshop is really amazing, but the piano guy said this is the last free workshop. Next time we'll be charged £3 for members and £5 for non-members. If there is a workshop each week, I'll be broke. But I really like this live music society, especially considering the gig they have in UCL's Print Room Cafe before the workshop. I think I'll join them, I'll talk to my friends because they haven't even paid the memberships themselves.

What is my life

So, just wanting to tell you guys a story that happened to me on Monday and then today that relates to each other. It starts with something that I have been hiding from all my friends and family, which is the fact that I own a soundcloud account and I used to upload covers. For your information, I did that because I was bored and covering songs were in at that time and I feel like doing it.

Let me give you a rough dialogue of what happened on Monday. This happened on the morning class (9-11am) and we were having a 10-minute break. My friends who were sitting at both of my sides started talking to each other, which is why I leaned back so they could talk. This is what they talked about while I was trying to not fall asleep in the morning.
A    : "Hey, H! Did you know that there's someone named Janet on Soundcloud?"
H    : "Really?"
Me  : (I was trying to act cool, but my heart did skipped a beat. I ignored them thinking that I really shouldn't flatter myself)
A    : "I heard she's a student in UCL as well!"
H    : "Oh yeah, I heard of her!"
Me  : "... fuck" (this is when I realised I'm doomed)
A    : "Her first song was a korean song, wasn't it? And she also sung blackbird!"
H    : "It was good, wasn't it?"
Me  : "..."
Me  : "H-how did you?! HOW?!"
Me  : "Oh fuck it. fuck fuck fuck fuck. That was supposed to be a secret!"
H    : "Why didn't you tell us? It was from last year, since our foundation year! How could you, we've been friends for a year and you didn't tell me about it then!"
Me  : (mind blown, too much thoughts running through, face is heating up)

So basically... they asked me why I never talked about it. Of course I never talked about it, it was embarrassing and was part of my life that I rather bury forever until my death.

And then earlier today...
M   : "Hey, did you receive an email about the workshop for the live music society?"
H    : *goes through her email, joked about how the guy who sends the email might not want her to join because her performance was bad but finally found the email* "Is this one it?"
Me : "The live music society sounds nice, it looks fun... I might be interested, do they still let people join at this time?"
H    : "You should join! You should! You sing!"
Me : "Ssh!"
M   : *she's giving me the stink eye here* "You sing? You sing!? I'll kill you for this!"
H   : "She does, she has a soundcloud!"
Me : *desperately trying to hush H*
M  : "Soundcloud?! I'll kill you, you never told me!"
H   : "She does, it's nice! She sung A Thousand Years!"
M  : "I like that song! Next time we'll do a duet with me on the piano and you singing!"
Me : "No... nonononononononononono"

That's it. My life has officially turned haywire. My secret is out, I am doomed.

Watching The Imitation Game

I'll be watching The Imitation Game with my friends this Friday night. I have to confess that even though I am looking forward to it, I'm not very much keen on going to the cinema because I always feel anxious whenever I am inside the studio. When all lights are off, all I wanted to do is move and not watch the film. This might be anxiety but I just don't feel good sitting too long inside a dark room with lots of people and just sit there doing nothing but watch a film play on the big screen. My fretting isn't going to do me any good, but at least I'm going to meet my friends from when I went to the stage door of Martin Freeman's Richard III play.

I'll probably say my rating of the film and what happened to me when I'm inside. So no spoilers here, because I probably wouldn't want to think about the film anymore because I seethed at the way people think at that time. I still think it's unfair for Alan Turing, poor guy. And also... I'm a bit grumpy about Benedict Cumberbatch because I'm just tired of seeing him everywhere at this point.

My life is dedicated for Martin Freeman, that's that. Also Julie Andrews, Pink, Maggie Smith, Amanda Abbington, Simon Pegg and some other people whom I am not remembering.

Aaaaaaanyways, expect something new to be added here on Saturday!

[Edit 15/11/2014 10:50am]

Well, I did say you're going to see me sooner or later updating this post.
One thing that I must tell you who are going to watch it: brace your hearts, keep tissues on hand. This movie is not for the weak hearted, but I really recommend you watch it if you want to know the tension of war. It's pretty heavy at the end, because of the tension and a really sensitive issue at that time period (homophobia).
One more thing: don't watch it alone. Seriously, if you're going to cry like I did at the end, you'll need hugs. I thank thee friends for hugging me when they saw my tear-stricken, whimpering and sobbing self.

The movie was amazing and the tension was just too much to handle. The tension came from the characters because they're in war and running out of time. Then as the story unfolds, the tension seeps into those who watched the film. In the end I still thought it was unfair to see what had happened to Alan Turing so my heart broke and I cried.

Alan Turing has become someone I give my heart too, it's a shame I've never heard of him until I know about this film. He should be in text books, not just someone who only people studying Computer Science or other computer department knows!

May Alan rest in peace, knowing that he is not forgotten and his legacy still going strong.

Rating: 9/10 
I dub this film as a tear-jerker. I'm voting for this film in the oscar, definitely.
(I'm no professional rater, I don't often go to see films that often, which is never)