Movie Renting

One of my big weakness is buying DVDs. Whenever I see a movie that I haven’t watched yet, I can’t help myself from buying it. I usually buy 6-8 movies per month. And yet, I hardly have time to watch all of them. So my list of movies to watch kept piling up while I kept buying more and more DVDs.

Yesterday, I came home thinking that I will watch “Inception”, but I couldn’t find it. I bought that movie a couple of months ago, but I never found the time to watch it. I always put it up in front of other DVDs to remind myself to watch it. I searched everywhere and still I couldn’t find it. The reason was because my sister had lent it to someone without my permission. I swear I absolutely hate it when someone takes my things without my permission. I know that I have tons of other movies to watch, but I only wanted to watch it. If I can just buy it easily again, I would have go out and buy it, but that movie is out of stock, unless I buy the expensive version. She really had no right to lent it to anybody without asking me first especially when I specifically told her not to lent any of the new movies that are put at the front. After all, I paid for 95% of all the DVD Movies. At least I’m grateful that she didn’t touch my Kpop MTV Collections because I’ll definitely get into a huge fight with her if she did. I only lent them to close friends who are really into Kpop. Since they were expensive to buy, I can’t afford to have scratches on the DVDs.

Actually, I did think about hiding all the new movies in my room, but I didn’t think she will disrespect me like that. What makes it worse is that, the movie has been lent for 2 weeks already her informing me at all. Now, I never do that. I always ask her first before lending any movies that she hasn’t watched yet, even when I bought the movies. This is not the first time it has happened, but I can’t stand it anymore.

I’m not a stingy person. I always lent movies to my friends whenever I could because I like sharing. But, I hate it when they take a long time to return it back to me. It’s not like I pushed them to borrow from me. I still have one friend who borrowed a couple of movies from me but hasn’t return them to me yet. I know she’s busy, but I would like it she could return them back to me so that I can share them with other friends.

So, now, as a last resort, I have to put up a sign on the TV stand to warn her not to lent any more movies without my permission. Call me petty and childish, but I won’t be able to put it out of my mind unless I do something about it.

The sign says “No movies are allowed to be rent without seeking the owner’s permission unless they have been bought with one’s own money.”

Tackling Another Assignment

Even though I promised to write daily, I can’t even write weekly because I am quite busy with schoolwork. I have to submit an assignment on Feb 22 and I’ve been quite busy with that assignment. Even though it’s a group assignment, not an individual assignment, it still feels like an individual one for me. I have to do all the background readings to understand the subject well to decide on the methodology and to write a literature review. Actually, this assignment is a mini-thesis in the disguise of the word “assignment” because we have to follow the thesis writing procedures.

Our topic is concerned with code switching and code mixing in interviews with celebrities. For our scope of study, we chose NOW! magazine journals because I have all the volumes at home. So far, I have asked others to do data collection and write the analysis. I have decided not to do everything by myself anymore because I have learnt my lesson from the previous assignment. I don’t know how it will turn out this time. I can’t ask my group to take leave from school to work together on the assignment because they are frequently absent from class all the time. If they don’t have 75% attendance, they won’t be able to take the exam. But I can’t meet with them this weekend because I don’t want to take leave from work. The exam is drawing near for the kids and there are just too many corrections to do. Also, the students who I tutor in the evenings only study when I’m around.

One way or another, I think I can finish this in time. Then, I’ll have to work on another assignment . I only have a month left before our exam and I still haven’t prepare anything to study at all.