I suppose I should study for my Korean history final next week, but… escapism!!!
(I have three finals next week and have done next to no studying at all, except loads of reading for Korean history which was one of the most interesting courses this semester and deserves a bit of work from my part.)

The Berlinale opened on Thursday! Oh the excitement. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen so many people with press IDs tagged to their woolcoats on Potsdamer Platz. But, did I mention the sheer excitement? :D The festival clashes horribly with my finals; I think I know where my priorities lie though. Sort of. Which means I’ll try and catch most of the films I want to see from next Thursday on, when my finals will be over. I’ve removed all American and/or mainstream movies from my festival schedule because they’ll hit theatres here sooner or later anyway so I’ve ended up with a nice list of Asian films:
- Women Liang (China)
- 4:30 (Singapore)
- Sabu’s Shisso (Japan)
- Bokura wa mou kaerenai (Japan)
- Bangmunja (South Korea)
- The Peter Pan Formula (South Korea)
- Dear Pyongyang (Japan)
- Mizu no hana (Japan)
And if I can fit them in anywhere, I might also see Mechilot from Israel, Grbavica from Bosnia Herzegovina and Vacationland from the US of A.

To prevent me entirely from being a good, hard-working student, I bought myself a Nintendo DS a few weeks ago. Some devilish demon placed one with a Mario Kart DS demo right in the middle of the store so I – the Mario Kart addict – thought why not play for a bit, and that was that. The graphics are absolutely fantastic and the game itself is, now who would’ve thought, highly addictive so I gave in and bought a nice shiny silver DS+Mario Kart DS game bundle thing. Goodbye hard earned money. Good buy.
(Blessed be the kind souls at Nintendo for acknowleding the importance of downward compatibility which allows us to play GBA games on the DS. I’m currently replaying Harvest Moon – Friends of Mineral Town and also dug out Dr. Mario. It’ll be all my fault if I don’t pass any of my finals ~_~)