Battle Royale Reflection, great movie!

Battle Royale

The general story line of this movie, is about the Japanese government putting a class of high school students into an island, forcing them to fight each other to death in three days, there should be only one survivor left at the end of the three days, if not they will all be killed by the explosion of headband they are wearing. This program is called Battle Royale, in short, the BR program.

This movie is labeled as R15 for its violence scene, but the main focus of this movie should be the humanity shown rather than the violence and blood.

There are two other characters that is not from the original class but added to the game, they joined the game under their free will. Kazuo Kiriyama, whom just wanted to kill people, and Shogo Kawada, whom survived the previous BR program, wanted to find out what is the true meaning of the smile of his girlfriend whom died in his arm(but killed by him as she shot him first).

The two main characters Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa did not do much in the movie, they did not try to kill others but to avoid it, they got help from Shogo Kawada, who basically knows and prepared for everything, that is also the main reason why the two survived till the end.

The students made different decisions in this situation, some choose to kill themselves, out of pride, like Sakura Ogawa, she threw her bag that contains supplies in the first place, and Kazuhiko Yamamoto(Sakura’s bf), he jumped down the cliff together with Sakura, from the reluctance he had shown in the movie, I suspect he died out of fear and peer pressure from Sakura rather than pride.

Student like Takako Chigusa did not even seem to be affected by the game, she was jogging like how she usually do, but this time, the boy she like was not cycling behind her. She only died when Kazushi Niida, a guy that liked her wanted to have sexual intercourse with her hurt her face, she stabbed him to death and then shot and killed by Mitsuko Souma.

Which we can now move on to my favorite character, Mitsuko Souma. The girl who tired to kill the others from the very start, she did not struggle mentally to kill, she was determined and strong. She was in state of mind for a reason, she was sold to a old man for sex by her own mother when she was still a kid(about 7 to 9?), she did not give in, instead she pushed the man down the floor. This line from her really moved me, ‘You just have to fight for yourself; no one's going to save you. That's just life, right?’.  Also, at the end of the movie, there were this scene where by the boys in the class a are playing basketball, all the others are cheering and having fun, she was into the game and staring at the side. When the game ended, all the classmates where screaming and laughing for the players, but all she do was looking at the crowd with that reluctant look and walked away, she is not used to participate in such activities, she could not blend in, she isolated herself from the others. No one was born to be cruel and strong, it was her tragic pass experience that have shaped her that way. 

Well, the moral of the story may be that, some people who have hope and love in their heart my survive till the end, like Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa, even Takako Chigusa, she was completed unaffected till the point she stabbed and killed another person. Kazuhiko Yamamoto died after he found out the true meaning of his gf’s smile, his mission have completed. Some refuse to give in and choose to run away (aka committing suicide) like Sakura and her boyfriend Kazuhiko Yamamoto. Mitsuko Souma and Kazuo Kiriyama was also killed despite being two of the strongest characters, which shows that strength and power does not mean everything.

The teens in the island are like everyone in the society, we are forced to do things we do not like, we have to compromise to situation, even to hurt others to survive.

Generally, this movie is not about how to kill people, but how to survive.

Buildings with funny faces around the city area & Around my house.

So we where in city area last week, found some interesting buildings with weird faces!! Below is some photos taken by me!

Looks like a blank face with round eyes.

Looks like it is smiling

laughing with mouth wide open

Happier than the previous one.

This might be the only sad face I found

Still smiling.

The above two builing looks like the same expression, they looks kind of shy, as if they have rosy cheeks.

Looks like some kind of animal.

Expressionless to me.

Smiling.

Also, I tooke another ten images around my house area that contains "face" in them.

The wall with stains, which looks like tears dropping out of the eyes, full of sad feelings.

The side of my wardrobe, giving a stare that could suck people inside of it.

From the nearby mama shop, some how looks like a cow, a happy and cute one.

Socket, with power on having red eyes, looking surprised.

Dining table, emotionless, robitic eyes.

The stove, does not looked pleased.

The ground under my block, having a shocked look with mouth wide open.

From a stone in my house, having a ghostly feeling that have lots of stories to tell.

The sink in my house, like a person who have not slept for 48hrs, as if there is blood vessels seen in the eyes.

A box from the supermarket below my block, really cute looking, looks like a kid who is very forgetful.

This is all I got, I would say interesting art are all around us, we have to notice them and feel them on ourself.

Lesson+Video Reflection, And some random thoughts on where would I be if I were not in NAFA.

During the previous lesson,we talked about lateral thinking.

So what is lateral thinking?

From the notes I took in class, lateral thinking is to look at the problem at different point of view, solve problem by using creative method, as we need to look for different answers for the same question.

There are many different solutions to one problem, they may not have exact right or wrong answers. 

Below is a video on lateral thinking by Edward De Bono, he was the one who came up with in method of thinking.

 I would say that to me, lateral thinking is a form of thinking habit that we can pick up, also, like what Mr Edward De Bono said in the video, lateral thinking is a skill that can be learnt.

 We do not assume that some weird ideas that came to mind may be wrong, we have to look at the question at different perspective in order to generate new thoughts, be open-  minded and think through other people’s opinions to see if they may be right.

 Lateral thinking focus on finding a wild range of solutions, which differs from vertical thinking, this other method focus on solving problem using conventional and logical process, requires step by step logical thinking and many calculations. 

 I think that both method is essential in solving problems, but we can’t focus on just one of it. For example, we can’t be creative when we only use vertical thinking skill. 

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Where would I be if I did not got into NAFA?

I would  probably retake O level and go for JC next year.

Here are the ten reasons.

1. Subjects I took in secondary school back then was not my strong suit, this time I would take Chinese Lit（which my previous school does not even have this class）, study geography rather than history, take art instead of pure sciences, hence my score should be much better.

2. I’m very interested in Chinese Lit syllabus， want to study it.

3. I’m fine with extending my holiday, so i do not need to go to school from Sep 2014 to Jan 2016

4. I do not want to do nothing and wait for next year to re-select poly courses.

5. I might want to kill myself 5 years down the road if I did nothing at this point of time.

6. There are more choices and wider range of selections of courses, I have more time to think on what I want to do.

7. My parents would be satisfied.

8. I heard temasek JC have lots of cute girls, I might aim to get in there.

9. The food at home is better than food in NAFA school canteen anyways.

10. I do not want to work in Mcdonald‘s to earn a living as there is a possibility that I would poison the customers that causes a decrease in Singapore’s population, then I might need to get marry at a young age to re-increase the overall population, then my kids may take revenge on the society and causes environmental problems that led to global warming, as a result Singapore might sank in ocean. Hence, I think re-taking O’s and get into JC is a better option.

Night Festival Trip~

On the 21st of augest, the previous friday, I paid a visit to Singapore Night Festival loccated at Bras Basah.

I meet my friends around 6.30pm in bugis and slowly walk to the venue.
We did not actually have a plan at first(or maybe it is just me) due to the lack of info, later did we receive a booklet on Night Festival, we then had a better idea of where we would want to go.

(The booklet I received later at night.)

6.40pm-The seven of us meet up and walk towards the place.

7.00pm-We arrived the venue.

Lots of people already gathered around this area.

How can they make macaroons so cute!!!

And they actually sell random snacks like cookies and ice-cream.

Love it!

7.15pm-We proceed to the stage area.

7.35pm- We realised this is not the performance we are looking for.

7.38pm- We begain our journey in finding Mr Ezzam Rhanman.

7.45pm- After making a very big unnecessary turn, we finally found him.

(Seriously, till this very point, I don't have a full understanding on this.)

7.55pm- Nothing interesting seemed to be happenning, we turned back to the stage area.

(Selfies~)

8.00pm-The stage is having performance.

(I managed to squeeze through the crowd and took a few videos of the performance, this is one of the video I took.)

8.15pm- We went back to see our beloved lecturer.

(Some random girl doing strange things...seriously?)

(I personally like the third pic the most hahaha)

(BTW I can smell the baby powder even outside the glass room, can't imagine how strong the smells inside the room.)

8.30pm-We went back to the place we first arrived at.

(crowded)

(drawing of people.)

(We ate macroon Ice-Cream!!! <3)

(Finished some beer and the ice-cream.)

(Group photo we took with a car that you can draw on.)

9.00pm- We start to proceed to museum.

(Spark! by World Beaters Music.)

(Le Desir Et La Menace, by Cedric Le Borgne.)

(they actually moves around in air, having different arrangments.)

(Nice lights.)

(Another group photo~)

9.15pm- We finally got into the musueum.

(A VVIP Dendrobium Elizabeth Orchid to commemorate HM Queen Elizabeth's visit in 2002.)

(Swings)

(going down another level.)

(This thiny is called- A Little Nonya's Dreams.Sooo cute.)

9.50pm- We decided to go home.

(On our way back, walked pass some places, still lots of ppl here.)

10.05pm- In MRT!!! 

(Hahah finally can go home after a tired long day.)

This is the end of my blog entry on the night at Night festival, had a fun time with friends while visiting different booths and performences,really appreciate the hard work that was put into this event. 

Though I did not have a plan at first, I still managed to visit most of the attractions.

Ps: The beer was really nice.

PsPs:I need more sleep.