One Night with the King

This movie came out in 2006. It was pretty cool. 

I think they rushed through the plot a little too quickly though. They played out the love story between Xerxes and Esther really dramatic and awesome-like. But I was left wanting at the end when she risked her life to save her people. It seemed that the banquet scene did not do the protagonists justice. The king is constantly portrayed as confused when he was rather strong willed, hence the banishment of Vashti for not attending to his drunkards and festivities one night. He was also never, as I recall from the Bible, ever suspicious or angered at Esther. The Bible actually portrays him even willing to give up to half his kingdom. Those kinds of things never get offered up easily without love being in the picture.

The wedding scene was stunningly beautiful, and how she entered the courts was great cinematography. Spectacular work.

The soundtrack however, was the gem of the whole experience. Kingdom of Love by Redford was just heart rendering, warm and inspirational. Reminds me of the Gladiator soundtrack. Definitely epic.

If for nothing else, be a spectator of the ancient truths played out in history about faith, trust and loyalty toward God, Esther and her people.

BLARRRGGGHHH

I missed class. Thanks for catching me up, Drew.

Broken bits in oven or not, I am going to class next time.

Tech Graphics Mania

So I completed 14 Tech Graphics exercises (actual sketches of random objects) from the worksheets photocopied by our instructor, Lee. Don't get me wrong, I completely love making hand renderings of technical drawings, but boy, is it time consuming. I get dizzy every time I lift my head/look away from facing the graph paper. And now, I look around the room and anything geometrically shaped, or if there is some geometrical extrusion of sorts, I catch myself saying, "Hey, I can draw that!"

I shared this with my roommate, and she has asked me to take a break from tech graphics.

I wish I could. But Labor Day is almost over and I have much to do yet.

Settlers of Catan

...is extremely fun. I really appreciate my roommates pulling me away from homework -  but man, the homework-taunter-midgets keep screaming in my head to get things done through my time of rest. Causing it to be very stressful. I felt like I didn't deserve to be taking time for myself all throughout the festivities last night. I have a feeling i'm going to be this way all throughout Labor Day weekend.

Meh. No weekend is a weekend for me. Anymore. Long or short.
I kind of hate that.

But I really need to change my attitude about time management. It doesn't help with the misery. Stephen Covey would say something around the lines of "get over yourself". And he's probably right.

Life needs to be more than school. Help me, God.

This is Spinal Tap

I know, right?

Here's the story: I take Music Technology with Greg Gaston, and he is great! Recently, in one of our classes, he said that he would give us a test based off the movie "This is Spinal Tap" the Tuesday after Labor Day. I hadn't even known the movie existed prior to this.

Looks like it's an 80's music satirical mockumentary. I told a friend this shortly after I found out about the test, and he humorously told me to make Gaston take a test on the taxonomy of Malaysian music history and culture. I laughed pretty hard at the thought.

But watching this movie, for making me sit through 83 minutes of mockery, I am almost okay with making Gaston sit for a Phoebe-customized Malaysian music exam. Haha!

Nevertheless, after all is said and done, I'm going to be pretty great at music technology related terminology - that's a given.

Birthdays

So I just moved into this house with two other girls, right?

Well, yesterday I found out that one of my roommates' birthday was in exactly a month from now. October 2nd.

I got pretty excited thinking of a surprise birthday party for her. I started decorating in this little room in my head -- deciding the theme, balloons and a gift....

And then, later the same day, I found out that she would be away in Milwaukee for her birthday.

Packed away the thought of a birthday party pretty quickly after that. Empty thought bubble now.


Bummer.

Quick Webpages on Ms Word

Here's what I came up with for an in-class assignment:

Ready for some Ps and Dw now. Ecstatic!