AAAAAAAARGHHHHH! *pulls hair out*

I have TEN minutes of the movie left (including the credits) and I just can’t watch it yet!!! I spent a total of FIVE hours trying to watch the movie!

I had put in the DVD into the computer DVD rom because my brothers had occupied the TV with the DVD player (we only have one in our house even though we have 4 TVs – VCD players were the big thing before) using the Play Station. As soon as I wrote the blogs, I put the movie into the DVD player. The computer kept freezing and I had used a few programs to finally get the movie started.

3 seconds into the movie, Dad comes in and asks me to drive him to the mechanic so he can pick his bike up. Oh, ok... if I have to… On our way there, we see some cut down trees and stop to pick up some wood. Hehe. And then we stop at a store to by charcoal and another to get a watermelon for the high school class reunion my dad was hosting in an hour.

Then I get home, start the movie again – mom asks me for help. ARGH! I wasn’t too happy about that, but hey, she slaves like mad for my parties, I won’t complain. So I scrub some potatoes for our barbeque (we throw them into the fire), stabbed holes in them (I felt like I was performing voodoo or something) and wrapped them up in foil. It was 7.30 our guests had started arriving.

Thank goodness, my parents were cool about me disappearing. I don’t mind having guests over. But I don’t enjoy playing hostess and having to entertain my parents’ friends. I love it when MY friends come over, but I hide if it’s anyone else. I don’t mean to be rude (I may come across that way) but if I can get away with avoiding the guests, I do it.

So finally at 7.30, I get my movie started again. It would freeze every 15 minutes and I would have to take the DVD out close the program, sometimes restart the computer…. I repeated scenes a few times… and then, 11.30 pm, after 2 hours and 6 minutes into the show, it freezes!!! I couldn’t get it to work again! I was already seething that whole time because I thought my computer was screwing with me.

I sent my brothers to bed (they were still on the Play Station – I have NO idea what my parents were thinking!) so I could use the DVD player. Turns out, I had a crappy DVD (piracy doesn’t guarantee quality) and I couldn’t watch any of the last 3 chapters. I was lucky I got that far on the computer.

*stomps foot* (Faith, you are getting to me!) YOU COULDN’T JUST LET ME GO ANOTHER 5 MINUTES?! Grrrrrr…….

I have to say, though, I was lucky to have watched it on the computer alone. I would’ve watched it in the living room with my family if I could. Heh. Uhm… nobody thought about warning me ahead of time!

I LOVED the movie. I was confused at first and need to go back again to get all my characters straight (everyone with blond hair look the same to me, hehe) BUT – I probably couldn’t get away with watching it again. And am not sure I want to. Maybe I can get an original censored copy. (The government here censors movies because this is a Muslim country) Or maybe even a Clean Flicks version.

I should’ve known. British comedy. I mean, they LOVE to drop the “f word” all over. And sadly, it doesn’t even phase me anymore (it did once upon a time). I have to be careful – watch too much of it and I may actually start saying it instead of just thinking it.

Freak. Freak is good.

And then – all that nudity! I tell ya! HELLO was the porn star thing REALLY necessary?! I thought it was freaking hilarious but uhmm… I shouldn’t. (Don’t worry, what made it funny was how all that nudity was completely NOT erotic and just plain satire stupid.)

*sigh* Now I’m really at a loss at what to do. I want to watch the end at least (is it safe too?) everything was wrapping up so nicely! But that means I have to go back and exchange the DVD. And I’m going to be keeping a movie that I shouldn’t be watching.

Ok, I won’t pretend I haven’t kept stuff worse than that before… but this is like a DVD movie, one that is suppose to go into my collection with Finding Nemo and Pirates of the Caribbean and Rat Race and Shrek and Back to the Future… and I won’t be able to watch it with friends or even watch it again – unless it’s away from everyone, and I don’t have my own private DVD player. Especially not in college. And if I did, my conscience will get to me.

Hrmph. I’m surprised I still have a conscience! I thought I killed it ages ago.

I should’ve checked its pulse.