2008 Beijing Olympics

This will be a three-way ranting post. Let’s start with something happy. Of course, the 2008 Beijing Olympics. You’ve probably heard all about it–if not, you’re probably been living under a massive boulder that killed Piggy from Lord of the Flies for a very long time. Sarcasm aside, this is actually the first time I’m actually following the Olympics–I watched the last 2006 Turin Olympics, but I am actually watching it almost 24/7 it’s on. This is exciting. I watched the Opening Ceremony twice–the live and the encore XD Only one word to describe it–spectacul-amazing. I wouldn’t have followed it if not for the controversies–how China is trying to overdo everything, the Tibet protests, the Sichuan earthquake, and the Weather Technology implemented. Overall, I think China’s done so well in dazzling the world with the Opening Ceremony.

Pictures courtesy of LA Times

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So. I’m currently typing on the living room floor in my new house since my room resembles the wreckage of Titanic. Clothes are thankfully already hung in my closet, yet out of my 30 boxes, I think I’ve got approximately half unpacked.

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The last thing I will be blogging about tonight is the latest book in the Twilight series. I bought it the day it came out–$25 out of my own pocket. Now I want my money back! The book was so awful, I wished I’d never bought it. First of all what is the message she’s trying to convey? That it’s okay to have a baby at 18, because everyone lives in a fantasy world with a “shiny black credit card burning my back pocket”, a super perfect husband, and of course, the amazing new family. I hate Bella. Not only she’s the weakest heroine ever created, she’s also the most pathetic, and the least developing characters I’ve ever encountered. First of all, the sole reason she wants to stay human is for sex. What happened to the word abstinence? Secondly, it feels like the characters were un-characterized in this book–Rosalie and Bella helping each other out? The only thing that makes Rosalie tolerate Bella is for the baby–not that I blame her or anything, but I wished having Renesmee had killed Bella.

Secondly, the continuous (Even thought not straight out) descriptions of sex through out the book was unexpected–if not disturbing. I can only see Bella as the B**** that she is. She hasn’t grown up one bit since the beginning of Twilight. She wants to be a vampire, and live with Edward forever, and that’s it. She’s obsessively, vexatiously in love with Edward, and I truly don’t see what Edward sees in her. She’d ‘die’ for Edward–a message consistent through out all four books. The message? Find a man, and fall desperately in love with him that you’re ready to die for him. She has the brain of an immature girl–no thoughts of future (Going to college for example), no thoughts other than her Edward and Renesmee, and there’s no need for money because Alice can see which stocks will skyrocket, and which will plummet, and Carlisle can work himself off at the hospital. She’ll just lounge around with Edward and Renesmee. She will continue to be a liability and a hole in the Cullen family. Jasper and Edward both at least have some interest to pursue education even after being turned. I can only visualize Bella sitting at home, ranting out at Jacob or Emmett, swooning over Edward, and drooling over Renesmee, and nothing else.

More disturbingly, Jacob imprinting on Renesmee/Nessie when she was a just a baby is frankly disturbing. You can’t get the mother, so go for the daughter instead? What kind of twisted, sick mind does Jacob have anyways?

So the book ended with Bella getting everything she wants–and more. She gets her Edward, gets to be a vampire, gets more sex, and gets the money. Amazing how this book turned out to be quite a joke–a monster baby just wants to chew its mother–break her ribs, bone, and pelvis, an idiotic, headless bit** for a mother. I’ll never be able to read the entire series and look at the characters without thinking of them in Breaking Dawn. And the Volturi, why throw them in?! A complete waste of paper–Ms Meyer should apologize to Mother Nature for this book.

I love Seth–the only sunshine in the book.

This should go on the review in my library. And I’ll write more on it.