I just saw the news that Anthony Minghella died on Tuesday morning :( I couldn’t believe my eyes at first and had to go online to verify it and it turned out to be true… He was still so young, I just cannot believe he’s gone ;_; (I still remember four years ago when he came to Berlin to promote Cold Mountain at the Berlin International Film Festival…)

In related news, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke who co-wrote the script for Kubrick’s 2001 also died…

And speaking of the Berlinale, I decided to post a few impressions in two back-dated entries, the first of which is located here.

Wait, what happened to January and February? Someone deleted all my blog posts!*
January, January… is pretty much a blur of preparing three presentations, huge presentations which I didn’t fuck up because I know the importance of being brilliant. Or something. February = Berlinale (or Berlin International Film Festival or BIFF or watching too many weird and depressing films to remember in Berlin). February also marked the end of classes for the winter semester and the beginning of a horrible horrible French course. Taking that was probably the biggest mistake in my so-called academical career. But I survived it! Can’t shake the reoccuring bouts of francophobia now, but I’m trying to ease the pain with Versailles no bara and Gankutsuou. The Japanese take on French history is so much more bearable than the French take on French history. Uhuh. I also wrote a kick-ass paper on Japanese ODA for China (you wiki that) last week and now all I have to do is write another kick-ass paper, on Murakami Ryu (ha!), and a translation of … I don’t know, I haven’t decided yet, something for my Japanese class (oh, and I passed the JLPT 2, 今年は一級！？).
Fin.

* No, they didn't. Blogging is so overrated though, seriously.