A Weekend at Blue Mountain

So, I was at Blue Mountain this weekend, just enjoying my skiing, enraptured by the awesome Georgian Bay that I will take a picture of someday but have not yet at this point due to my camera-less existence. [/run-on sentence] ANYWAY, I was on a lift, talking to two girls, who, at first seemed kind of nice. Then the conversation started to go like this:

Me: ...and thus the secondary coefficient of the square root of the hypotenuse is tangent to the reciprocal of the vector. (obviously that isn't actually what I said, I just can't remember what I actually did though.)

Girl 1: Woah, do you have an accent?

Now, if I may digress quickly, that is the dumbest question I have ever heard. And I hear it surprisingly often. Just because you haven't left your white suburban Canada bubble doesn't mean you shouldn't have the sense to realize "Hey, I guess I must have an accent too...". But anyways:

Me: Yup, I've lived all over the place so I guess I do.

Girl 2: Where have you lived?

Me: England, Belgium, USA, South Africa, Can-

Girl 1: WTFZOMGBBQRTFMORLY SOUTH AFRICA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Me: Yes, that is what I said....

Girl 1: But...but...you're not black.

Me: Why should I be?

Girl 1: Because you're from Africa

Me: *headrestrainingbar*

Girl 2: *sigh*, like oh emm gee Girl 1? Are you, like, totally, like, that, like, dumb?

Me: *Thank god, she knows not all South Africans are black*

Girl 2: South Africa isn't, like, even in, like, Africa.

Me: *loses faith in humanity*

Luckily, I never saw these two characters again, but if they happen to be reading this, please never reproduce, thereby never handing down your genes to another generation. That is all.

~Setsanto

The Contrast Dilemma

I use Ubuntu, a great, awesome, FREE Operating System. Now, one of the reasons I love it so much is because of the customization possible on it. This customization has presented me with a rather large dilemma though, namely dark or light.

You see, this was my desktop a few months ago:



Then I realized, I want multiple backgrounds. So it became this (every single wallpaper is on its own desktop):



But that started to get ridiculous, and I started to get tired of black, so along came this:



But now, when I look back at my old desktop, I kind of miss it. So I'm starting to wonder whether I should migrate back to a darker desktop. Then again, the light one is kind of awesome in its own way...and this is why this is a dilemma...

~Setsanto

Der Untergang Review

Rating: 9.5/10

So, today I saw a movie called Der Untergang (Downfall for all you English speakers). The movie profiles the last days of the Third Reich, through the eyes of a woman named Traudl Junge (a real woman) who was Hitler's youngest personal secretary. I'll cut right to the chase. This movie is amazing. And as a person who understands both English and German, the translation in the subtitles is amazing. You will lose nothing from not knowing German.

The acting in Der Untergang is impeccable. Bruno Ganz plays a very good Adolf Hitler, and the makeup job is unbelievable. My mom, who was born and raised in Germany, couldn't finish watching the movie since Ganz reminded her too much of Hitler. He has everything down; the idiosyncrasies, the voice, the insanity...

Alexandra Maria Lara, as Frau Junge, is incredible as well, especially considering the fact that this is only her second major film. Though at times she is clearly not the strongest actor on the screen, this is due to the strength of others rather than her own weaknesses.

Other than the major two, my favourite actors were Christian Berkel as Ernst-Günther Schenck and Heino Ferch as Albert Speer. The last hour of the movie should make you cry. If it doesn't, you're not human. Let me give you a rundown. Everyone commits suicide. Everyone. Some, such as Magda Goebbels, go as far as wiping out their entire family with them. In Frau Goebbels case, this includes her six children, all of whom aren't even teens yet.

Overall, a simply impeccable movie. But very very depressing. If you have any interest in World War II, or just want a way to destroy all happiness in your life, watch this. Now.

~Setsanto

This Weekend Is Done!

If you live my side of Greenwich, you are probably currently pointing out that no, I am retarded, the weekend is clearly not done. But it is! You see, this weekend was rather busy for myself since I had to present both of my previously complained about listed projects in their finished form.

Project A is finally done (good riddance!). We could not have presented it better, it was really the best we could have done, which is awesome. We didn't qualify for the international competition, which wasn't exactly a heartbreaker.

Project B is also done (=(). Project B was Model United Nations, and it was awesome. On my committee we saved Obama's daughters from a guy trying to blow them up, allowed a cruise ship full of French tourists to be blown up, let Russia blow up an American sub, prevented Italy from blowing Libya up and were 40 seconds away from letting Russia/China and the USA to blow each other up and take 3/4 of the world with them! Not to blow this out of proportion, but it was a fun weekend. HAHA FUNNY PUN. not.

So now I think I'm going to just stare at walls for fun. There really is nothing else to do. Except for school work, flute practice and theory. There really is nothing else to do.

~Setsanto

My Classes this semester

WOOHOO SEMESTER 2! *does happy dance due to rhyming* Alright, so here's a quick (and yes, it will actually be quick) rundown of my classes this semester:


Physics - There is one main reason I'm excited for physics this semester. It involves a cow eyeball and a sharp knife. Oh, and two psychopaths wielding said knife. =D.

English - I hate English in general, and my teacher is a ditz. I'm not even that excited about the people in the class. Oh well, it is my only bad class this semester,

Lunch - I should eat more healthy food....

French - I like the language, so I took it. The teacher seems pretty nice (though even I can tell her French isn't the best. She says classe (clahz) as clah-uz. That probably made no sense), and I know a lot of people in the class.

Gr 12 Music - I thought this was going to be awesome, then I met the teacher and I thought it'd suck. But it's going to be awesome. This is essentially my credit-earning spare.


So there you have it.

~Setsanto