I have not watched much movies because I’m the queen of procrastination and by the time I get down to wanting to watch a movie, it’s off the screens. But last week, I got dragged to catch my first in, what, 2 months? The movie seemed dodgy initially because I judge movies by looking at their posters and I couldn’t find the poster at the cinema. So I was a little wary till I finally saw this…
…Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds who is sooo cute I yanked my friend right into the cinema for tickets! The show was pretty good. A lil draggy at some parts but mostly really funny. I couldn’t stop laughing!
Basically, The Proposal is about Margarate Tate (played by Sandra Bullock) who has to get married or risk getting deported back to her hometown. She decides that the easiest solution would to be marry her personal assistant Andrew Paxton (played by Ryan Reynolds). The story goes on and I’m not gonna spoil it for those who have not watched it. But trust me, it is definitely worth the watch!
Strangely, the movie kinda reminded me of an Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) elective module I took last year called ‘Understanding Relationships: Love & Sexuality’. For those of you who don’t know, we Ngee Ann students get to take all kinds of IS modules throughout our 3-year course, like Sports & Wellness in Year 1 (you can choose from 20 electives like Sport Climbing, Hip Hop or Yoga!) or like ‘History of Rock and Roll’, ’Serious Fun with e-Games Design’ and ‘Starting a Business’ in Year 2. In our final year, we get to sign up for modules like ‘Events Communication’, ‘Mobile Robotics’ and alot more. The point being that just because you’re taking Accountancy, for instance, doesn’t mean you’ll be restricted to dabbling with numbers the whole time. After all, we have a million other interests too, no? (:
Ok, ok, AS I WAS SAYING, the elective module ‘Understanding Relationships : Love & Sexuality’. I could have selected many other more interesting modules but I thought it would be really funny to find out what this is all about. I mean, I had a sneaking suspicion it may be tacky and alll, telling us how great love is and how we should all just fall in love, get married and be happy. Surprisingly, it wasn’t anything like that.
In fact, I have to say it taught me quite a bit about handling relationships of every sort - love, family, friends. We learnt the basic concepts of communication in relationships, like techniques to help others better understand our perspective. During every lesson, we also wrote a reflection piece which kinda worked for me (: . I have to say that my friends and I were definitely proven wrong about this!
Anyway, before I end off my loooong post, just wanna say…HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAY to all the teachers and lecturers out there! What would we do without you?! (: