I just watch Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. No spoilers here, in fact this post is not about the film even. Well, seems like a lot of people knows how it ends anyway.
It’s a great film. It’s a great trilogy too. So great a trilogy that it’ll put Peter Jackson’s name into the film history books. It is, in fact, too good for a B-list (or C-list) director to work on.
For once, I actually feel that the film critics have done justice to a film. This time, I see loads and loads of praises. I mean, these critics are notorious for slamming both the good and bad movie. That’s why they’re called “film critics” and not “film praisers”, if there’s such a word that is.
There’s one thing for sure – people love to critic. At least most, myself inclusive. Every time I watch a film, listen to a piece of music, my review goes like, “it’s good, but..”. I can’t help it. It’s just in me that I have to criticize.
But I never criticize (puny) human beings. I always praise. It’s simply because I think so many people is better than me in terms of character etc. I am also afraid of hurting other’s feelings.
We had this module called – Web Publishing. Then there’s this assignment to make a web site from a scratch. So everyone did their web pages. These are first-timers. Most completed the assignment one week before the dead line. So everyone strut, I mean show off, their stuff.
People whose web pages I have viewed include: Ernest, Hai Jiao, James, Pei Shan, Shawn, Xinni and Zhi Yuan. The best I have seen is James, followed by Xinni, Hai Jiao, Shawn, Ernest, Pei Shan, lastly Zhi Yuan.
But I daren’t critic them much, I do, however, told Zhi Yuan that his web page seriously needs a lot of amendments. For the others, I praise and praise. James really did put out something decent, very good try for first-timer. Xinni’s design is great too, very consistent, right choice of colors. I shan’t comment on others though.
Being able to criticize so much, thankfully I can accept criticisms rather well too. If people criticize me or whatever, I do not get upset. Well, not much. I do get sad when people say things like, “Hate your blog’s writing”. Who doesn’t anyway.
In this blog, I try not to criticize too much. I makes me feel that I’m arrogant, and I try hard not to show it, although fact is, I am kinda arrogant nowadays.
I just keep reminding myself that when I think I’m good at something, there are 6 billion people out there who has a chance of being much better than me. That way, I feel pretty much er.. humbled.
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