Happy Birthday To Me!!!

....gosh..I've been meaning to do this blog post since well...earlier today. Ok!...I'm 19 now. My last teen year. goshh. I'm really tired and sleepy right now.. Just watched the movie - Babel. I know, I know I'm just seeing it for the first time, cos right around the time it came out I was infatuated with Dreamgirls.....but wow..Babel is a brilliant movie..If you haven't seen it...go see it. You'll love it!...it's the kind of movie that when it ends....you really don't have anything else to say to the person beside you...you're all just in awe. It's funny how earlier today I was talking to my brother about movies...like I don't watch a movie just cos it's a movie and people say it's good. I have a purpose....it's either I have some affinity for the director or any of the actors...and when it's the actors...I'm only interested in seeing the parts of the movie that they are in...For example...Cry Freedom with Denzel Washington......the movie for me ended when Steve Biko(Denzel) died. Cadillac Records with Beyonce...I skipped the first 45mins or so..until Etta James(Beyonce) showed up. Smokin' Aces I only watched the bits with Alicia Keys. But I should learn how to watch movies from beginning to end....and there are a few movies that I've watched without actors that are familiar and I still loved them...Little Miss Sunshine for example ..and now Babel.
I did all my assignments for Thursday..yesterday..so I would be FREEEE on my birthday. LOL..I know the 11th of Feb is just a day like any other.....wait..a minute..It's not...That's why I took the day off from anything work-related. I slept in..until it was midday...then did my laundry...Oh my gosh...I've been meaning to do my laundry since the weekend..but it's like my housemates read my mind...anytime I'm thinking to myself .."ok, time to do laundry"...the next thing I hear is someone shoving clothes into the washing machine..and then after that I probably have to leave for class or it's too late to wash. But today was my day! so...I got to do my laundry!!
Okkkies...having a slanting ceiling actually isn't such a bad thing..except when you wake up on that side and hit your head against the ceiling...which has happened to me only once by the way. I recently found a good use for it.......you know how sometimes you have to read in bed....and it's soo stressful cos your hands hurt while holding the pages up and turning...well....if you have a slanted ceiling you can use it to your advantage. I was reading for my geography class, and I realised at some point that my papers where touching the ceiling, so it dawned on me..how about I just pin it to the ceiling, cos it takes about 8-10 mins to read a page, so I got my pins out and stuck the my sheets to the ceiling so you can fold your arms and just look up to read, when you're done with the page, you flip it and pin it. I swear it was a eureka moment..so I had to get out my camera and take this shot. ...OK! I have to go to bed now.....
I really lost hope of today being a fun day...after the Barrel disaster(I'll dedicate another post to this matter) in the early hours of the 11th....but I'm actually feeling pretty happy...and well..all the gifts and cards and birthday wishes made my day. So big thanks to everyone who remembered and made me feel happy today!!!!



Speaking of Denzel playing Steve Biko....just a reminder to people who didn't know..but I was born on a rather historic day.

************* History Time*********************

On this day......19years ago. 11-02-1990
Nelson Mandela was freed after spending 27 years in prison.










*Feels like I a good time to insert Labi Siffre's 'Something Inside So Strong'


And Labi Siffre leads me to something else which I would talk about in the Barrel disaster post.