About time

I have my first assessment on Wednesday but haven't prepared myself yet. The materials are all in my iPad already but I still haven't found the drive to open those pdf files and immerse myself in the literature. Tough.

Also, Family Guy's new season is airing this week so that will make everything tougher. Makes me review my weakness at managing time.

Despite that, I keep being my usual self and take everything nonchalantly. I even had the time to get out of the house and watch a movie instead this afternoon with my good pals. At first we were thinking Prisoner or any action flick but I insisted About Time, and so luckily that was the only movie available at 3 o'clock.

It is supposed to be a romantic comedy sci fi movie and indeed it is. But the essence of the movie lies in the underlying theme of fatherly love. I admit I almost bawled in the theatre when Tim Lake's father played by Bill Nighy is dying of cancer and how the he keeps going back in time to spend time with his dear pop. Then he himself shows his fatherly qualities with his fondness towards his children, even 'sacrificing' his own father when he decides to extend his love to more children. It made me feel like calling my family instantly at that point but quite luckily I didn't because I would have cried like when I was a baby, and that would have caused a ruckus in the theatre.

Good job by director Richard Curtis. I've always liked him since I watched that underrated masterpiece The Boat That Rocked.