Aspirations for a New Chapter

Can you believe it? I'm in college!!! After all the hurdles, I'm now in the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts. The course was started this year, which make me think it was made for me. =D

With college starting on Monday, there are some concerns that come to rise, what am I going to be aiming for at the end of these 4 years? This includes my choice of major and minor, but that isn't yet a concern for me. Right now, it’s the extra-curricular activities that I have my eye on.

Even though my professors would disagree with me on this, this year, the first year is going to be the lightest year as far as work is concerned, so it logically seems to be better to do more activities now than later. (Learnt though experience)

So, what would I be aiming to do?

- Join the Photography Club

- Buy a Cycle, get into shape.

- Learn an instrument

- Join the Student Council

- Continue writing my book and this blog

- Make full use of the Symbiosis Studio which is FREE for students =D

- Learn Archery

So my college is going to have clubs which we can join for a semester or a year. Photography is there for sure, so now the toss up comes up. I only have one choice left. I can choose between film-making and theatre.

The reason I don't say cycling, music, writing and archery club is because I'm planning to learn half of those things, and I'd rather learn comfortably than with the pressure of an event that the club is doing.

Plus, when I look at it, cycling is a done deal; writing the book and blog is also confirmed. I now have to find places to learn an instrument or archery or both!

Then there is cost, I’m planning to buy a cycle so that is going to come mostly (I hope) out of my money. Now, I’m interested in learning the Bass Guitar, cause that bass sound so awesome when it's played, in which case, I’d probably have to buy a guitar, again out of my money. I hope I have enough money.

Well, here's to hoping that I find a teacher for the Bass and if I do, that my parents will fund the payment for the guitar, ever so slightly. Archery can be done later... but it would be nice to do now...

Well it's either the bass guitar, or it’s the drums. \m/

New Directions For Spider-Man

I don't know whether any of you are fans of spider-man, the comics or the movies but I am.

A trailer has come out recently for the new Spider-Man movie set to be released one year from now. The trailer is still buffering on my computer but I can honestly say that I’m actually keen to see this one, unlike Green Lantern, which was a meh movie cause of the massive reliance on CGI.

The movie seems to be truly redefining itself in the way they are adapting social norms from modern day society into a pre-existing character.

The character of Peter Parker is that of a loser, in the 1960's it was the smart, studious kid, the 'Nerd' that shaped Peter Parkers character, and you could see that, in the 2002 movie. In the reboot, however, they have changed the character of Peter to a social outcast.

The new Peter is a child who was abandoned by his parents at his aunt and uncle’s house when his parents went on a "business trip" and as a teenager can be seen as a loner, working in silence, not visibly having friends. Possibly not even showing his true potential intellect. (Which would be a great thing to develop as a side plot.) But he's still a little cool; he skateboards and listens to music on the go, and has a really hot (girl) friend.

And just like that, the character and the whole mythos that defined Spider-Man changes.

There is also a costume change, in the 2002 comics; the movie costume was a direct copy of the comic’s costume. here, it has more of a blue theme and is a lot more 'stealthy' in appearance... cause face it, blue just blends in a whole lot more with the New York skyline, than that big blob of red.

The actual bite scene is also changed, from being bit on the hand, it has, in my mind, been creatively, repositioned to the back of the neck, closer to the spine, (perhaps to make the actual transformation more plausible.)

Only real negative thing that I found with the trailer was the fact that the entire scene running through New York in costume was completely CGI’ed. Not Transformers 3 CGI, but video game graphics.

It’s a good trailer but to me, with the movie completed a full year before its going to be shown, means that there is still a huge chance at improving the graphics in post-production.

The Future Looks Bright for the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!