"High Fidelity"

Question 1:
What is the movie about?

- The movie is about a guy name Rob Gordon and his love story, up until the last one told by him. It is interesting because the love portrayed in the movie is not just a typical love story. The director is creatively goes against the typical love story normally told by people. Rob, a record store owner had a girlfriend name Laura who has just left him during the beginning of the movie. This final breakup leads him to recall his five most memorable breakups and to wonder what happened to his ex-girlfriends and why they left him. Being rejected is part of life. However, being constantly rejected in love means that there is something wrong with you. Therefore, Rob recalls his past and locates all his exes. He managed to get information about them and asked them why he was rejected. The answers is there. Even though Rob could not see it, we as the audience know the problem. This is unique to me due to men normally do not dig their past love life. They normally move on. However this movie shows us many beautiful quality n Rob. Nevertheless, I must say, it is still a beautiful love story between Rob and Laura when he finally knows what went wrong in his relationship and work his relationship well.

Question 2:
How it is different from love fiction?

- This story relates the love with songs. I personally think that those songs played in the movie are significant to Rob's love life for example, "You're Gonna Miss Me, Always See Your Face, and Fallen for You". Somehow, it reflects to his story "The 'Best' Breakups Story". Furthermore, it obviously shows that men are just equal as women. They have personal feelings and men do cry sometimes. It is never wrong to cry even for a guy. This is not a stereotypical love story where the hero acts gentleman and macho kind of guy. Those are just another part of men. But, deep inside men's heart, we cry a lot. Sometimes, we let out emotion takes control on our intellectual judgment. This movie is unlike an ordinary or typical love story ever produced in the world. The reason I am saying this is through the character "Rob" is playing. He is totally different from the typical guys that we normally look at. The idea of not showing Rob as a romantic person is unique. It shows that not all men are like that. That is so lame when we are expecting men to be polite, nice, gentleman, 'cool', easygoing etc. Rob is totally out of that zone. He is more frank, clueless and there is nothing that woman adore about him except his pretty look. One more thing about this movie is; it displays the characteristic of Rob as a straightforward person. He talks whatever he thinks. Even his proposal to marry his girlfriend was too sudden and too frank. I would say that this comedy is brilliant in a funny way. It is not just a love story, it is about men's world and relationships around them. They deserve to be treated as fair as they treat women.

Question 3:
Who is your favorite character and why?

- I would say Rob Gordon is my favorite character. He represents all men in this universe. Men are not as macho as they think they are. Rob leads a pretty messed up life. He owns a record store which was failing as his life was failing. However, he is surrounded by loyal friends who helped him a lot. When looking at his love life, I think most guys are as same as Rob. They are clueless especially when they have no idea what is going wrong in their relationship. Nevertheless, in the end, Rob manage to overcome his messed up life and work on his relationship with Laura. They disagree on things but they can work out together well. One more thing about him that I like is because he reflected on his past to review on what went wrong with his relationship previously. He is a straightforward guy. This value is nice especially when you want to express your feelings precisely to your love ones. I like the message through the comedy brought up by Rob. It is not just dry comedies. It is full with messages. I like him in terms of he always think he is good in everything. He possesses self-confidence in his attitude and he somehow questions about his breakups. He is so down-to-earth to be brave telling the audience about his failure relationships before. Kudos to Rob Gordon!

Question 4:
Provide an alternate ending.

- This is just my personal opinion. I just think that the end should be this way. Rob has faced many breakups. Therefore, there will be times in his life where he hates women. He feels like he has been ill-treated by women. He rebels. He hurts himself and find a way to forget about loving woman. Suddenly, he is having a thought of becoming a homosexual guy. He goes to gay clubs and bars to enjoy himself. One day, he meets a queer at a club and they flirt. Rob brings the guy to his apartment and there comes the explicit scene. Both of them live happily for quite a while. Rob succeeds in his business this time with his success through the promoted band. He makes a lot of friends especially with the gay community.

Five years later, Rob holds a reunion with his friends and exes. There we can see how sorry those girls become when they actually still have feelings on Rob. They feel that they have done a terrible sin of rejecting Rob. But it is too late to say sorry because Rob is leading a happy life with the humor continues.

I am pretty sure this idea is lame and unacceptable. However, there is possibility in everything.
Just for the record, the original ending is beautiful in a comedic way.

Problems faced when I write...

Writing is easy. However, to write a flawless piece of work comes with price. There's a price to produce a creative writing. Therefore, reflecting to my experience, I will list down some of the problems I face when I write.

During the pre-writing, I normally have problem in organizing ideas. How to let my ideas flow is one more thing when I write. When there are too many ideas, I get confused on which to locate in my writing. Next is when i draft the outline. This is when I put everything after I select things from the pouring ideas, earlier. In building a framework for my ideas, there are many things to be considered. I always messed up with my thesis statement. When I jot down the thesis sentence, I tend to choose on unnecessary points to be elaborated. Then, I will have problem in sequencing and I will be perplexed with my principle of selection.

During the writing stage, I always have problems with grammar, tenses, pronouns, thesis statements and the exposition. The blatant problem with me is I tend to mix the tenses. If only I know on how to stick on certain tense. I wish there's a tense that can be used for all purpose. People say that writing is speaking on paper. One question, if you speak in mess, does that means your writing is a mess too? This is why we have to devise and revise the writing. A lot of editing must take place. "To improve is to change, to be perfect, we have to change often!"

After I write, I revise my writing. Surprisingly, I notice that I overwrite the essay. I overstate my points. This leads to many needless words and details. I also notice that my piece of writing is not simple and straightforward. Therefore, when I show my essay to my friends, they are clueless on what I am trying to explain. Obviously, I do not know on how to add color, excitement and style in my writing. I make things complicated when they are supposed to be simple. My teacher told me long time ago on her principle in writing. That would be "KISS". It simply means to "Keep It Simple and Straightforward!" I have to be organized! I am learning to organize points easily and effectively. That is why I am in this course.

Those are some of my problems in writing. I am definitely certain that normal people face the same problems too. I wish to improve in writing and produce a masterpiece before I graduate from this program. I really hope to learn on how to develop my ideas effectively, to get my points across, and to write something that hold my readers' attention. This is why I am in this course.

The New Semester...

Pheww…laziness employs sarcasm in me. At least, they have a better job to keep! New term means new ‘friends’. The ghastly idea of being in class, filled with notes in hand makes me want to throw up.

Every semester I have to remind myself that all I need to do is to keep the game going. Last time I checked, I procrastinated a lot, I slept too much, I ate heavenly till my tummy grew bigger. As every other semester, I am still discovering myself. I seek my identity in toughness. Hopefully there will be some light inside the door I am about to knock. Who am I? This is me.

Sometimes, I wish I know the value of not knowing. Sometimes, I wish I do not know some things I knew. The more I excavate the more I become nauseas. There are times when I think I should not care what happens in this world? Malaysia is shaking already. There is nobody to trust. Seriously, what is happening to us? Hatred fills our heart. Kindness is looking for a new land, far away from what we have here. I cry when nobody is looking. I scream when nobody is listening. I crawl when everyone goes with speed. I am just a minute part in this humongous factory of ‘plasticity’.

The new semester offers more homework, more extra hours of reading, more pressure and expensive hours of typing. My aim for this semester is to be NORMAL. Normal is not an average term for being me. That is unacceptable! Normal is going beyond my abnormality. I have to be brave to cross the border. This time it is for real. There is a price I have to pay for being abnormal today. Let’s just say, the price is priceless.

We live in a beautiful, fat world, filled with greed and fake smiles. I have relapsing myself after I improved a little. Sometimes, I feel that I am so cheap. They say, “Not knowing is bad, but not to wish to know is worse.” There are many things I wish I did not do, but I did. Bad things.. I did what I had to do and I am sorry to those who got hurt during my dominion. I am sorry.

The new semester remains as new semester. Soon, it will flutter away. Then, the new term approaches. The cycle goes on until the last day I stamp my feet during my 8^th semester here. Then? Sayonara I guess to this ‘plastic’ camp.