Today I watched 'Wall-E' with my siblings and with my bratty 4-year old niece who thinks Wall-E is an ugly, rusty robot. I have been hearing a lot about Wall-E being so tear-jerky and all, and I felt deceived as I walked out of the theater with popcorn stains on my shirt, how the hell can a movie about two near-copulation robots become tear-jerky?

On that supposed to be primary issue that is 'Is Wall-E a good movie? I tell you: yes, because it's not a waste of money, and to a certain extent it washed away my stress from cramming and caffeine overdosing during Ipil's cricket-laden nights. Wall-E was good because it made me think when in fact I should have been slouching and chewing popcorn. It was good because it was something new and it was about robot love. Thank God for the concept of neo-creativity.

BUT, channelling my sense of world hate and misanthropy, let me answer: Is Wall-E freaking bad? I say with a resounding tone as concretized by the exclamation mark: YES! Simply for the fact that my niece kept slapping me during the earlier parts of the movie because she just doesn't dig the philosophical undertones of the Earth turning into a trash bin! Honestly Pixar, how can you make children contemplate about world causes? By telling them to burn their Barbie dolls because Mattel oppresses its laborers? By telling them a waste disposal robot will be crushed to death because his girlfriend took home a plant?

Still, the verdict boils down into Wall-E being a really good movie, for the fact that I simply love futuristic themes and settings and for the fact that I still cannot escape my Stat exam hangover. So any promise of fun will do.

Besides, my niece later on realized that robot films by Pixar aren't really that bad, since, to my surprise, she got the point about earth-abandonment, futuristic human habitats, sustainability [lol] and most important of all, love. Naks, mana kay Uncle.

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I just finished my first round of exams for my own horribly stressful exams week(s). First was on Environmental Science which was just a group quiz. Jeez, I ditched my Pi Sigma debate for a group quiz? Anyway, later on, in some screams for joy effect courtesy of Shiela and Jeremiah, we found out our group got the highest score. And then due to the really dehumanizing time intervals between exams, I had to cram myself to study for Statistics.

This meant again, due to my poor sense of time and schedule, ditching Deb Soc required tambay debates just to convince myself that Stat is so important in my plain, unassuming existence. And the evil part in here is realizing that my Stat prof has fantasies of being 'elevated' into the terror prof status, as she took exam problems from a Stat major subject. Dyosko naman Mam, kung bad trip ka kasi hindi ka pa nagswesweldo, wag mo idaan sa exam. Lol, tagalog.

The best part of this week will then be, of course, my new favorite subject: Econ 100.1! Yey!

I don't know, but I feel so lucky that with only about 12 hours worth of studying, I was able to actually feign a sense of confidence throughout my answering. Prior to that I had to coerce Brad, EnvSci classmate-slash-BAA majormate-slash-dorm kapitbahay, into teaching me the Math parts of the chapters since those were the parts Monsod was blabbering about when I was always tardy for class, absent or when I simply cut classes to go somewhere less Econ-ish. So yey, I somehow think the caffeine overdoses had at least prevented me from panicking and from feeling that usual after-stress 'ang tanga tanga ko' effect.

I Love You Economics! I love you na rin Monsod, lol.

Basically, this week was stressful, but since Wall-E and mall skip-and-hopping had neutralized all my potential whinings, I surprisingly end this post in a non-complaining, non-hateful mood.

And all the unnecessary emo parts have been translated into pure love, pure bliss, pure compassion and pure happiness. LOL ulit.