Well, sitting in school now, on break. Just took my student photo ID with my new last name! :) - as usual, I look horrific on a picture! But still nothing beats my drivers lisence, I guess.

So yesterday we were at my mom's, hanging out w my cool cousin from Israel. It was fun, we watched Amelie. She didn't like it as much as I did, but she did say it was visually beautiful - which it was.

I don't know.. to me, Amelie is kind of a " perfect" movie - it is beautiful, it is original, it uses lots of different media, I liked little sub-plots, and I liked the way they showed scenes of her imagination in some crazy photo montage.. and the beautiful Paris. It has the coolness of "Run Lola Run", it has the romance without being sappy - I doubt that it was targeted towards women per say, like most "romantic comedies" of Hollywood. It has laughter and sadness. In my perception, the movie did not idealize Amelie - and even her "do-good" actions weren't without element of mischief - faking a letter, setting up the poor pharmacist with psychotic customer. It even showed that such a forced "good" can very easily turn to evil, as they say, with best intention paves the road to hell, or something like that - because at the end that woman was quite miserable around this psycho.

And I hated the way the critics said oh, it's such an unrealistic movie because in real life this girl would never amount to anything because she was a disfunctional dreamer. Well, really, the movie's "happy end" wasn't THAT far-fetched. So she ends up with some, equally insane, dude. She didn't become a famous star, she didn't win millions in lottery, or found some extremely rich guy, she is still a waitress, and the dude works at the porno shop. And now take the loved by everyone Pretty Woman - how big is the chance of a millionaire falling in love with a hooker in real life? Comeon.

Anyway.. It's probably silly ranting about the movie like that. But it's my diary, hey! :) And the music was so beautiful, they had Edit Piaf playing in the train station. Ahh.

On another subject... My cousin bumped into one of our crazy relatives, my uncle in the store. It wasn't pretty. Basically, they hate my family - as they accert, everyone except me (oh what an honor!) - but my cousin is their niess, and after hearing everything from my mom (I don't want to write details here because they are painful and not pretty) - she decided she doesn't even want to see them during her visit. So she didn't plan on calling and all, and fate had it that my uncle (he's her uncle as well) bumped into her in the store.

Well, they had a talk and my cousin flatly said that she would never step into their house after the way they treated my mom. And, my mom always told her, that she should do what she feels is right, he's her uncle so their relationship shouldn't be affected by her. But my cousin just felt it was absolutly horrific, what my uncle and his family did, so she simply said no.. after which, this moron started this whole big tning on how my mom is really a bad person, blah blah.

Anyway... We already know not to listen to him. He's paranoid, sick person, and his wife did everything in her power to make him hate my mom - his sister! - and our whole family. He literally repeats her words, and has no brain of his own. Everyone knows it. But what saddened me is that my cousin had to be subjected to all this shit, and she's a very sensitive person, so she was visibly disturbed by the whole thing. She told me she didn't know whether she should tell my mom or not about the encounter. So I told her it's up to her, but she got to relax and not take it to heart. But it's hard. My mom is taking it pretty hard herself, but she's dealing with it for years.. my cousin only knew remotely about the whole thing, but she told me she never realized how deep that hate is, and how destructive... and how she almost felt pity for him, because he's such a moron. And pity for him because he was literally begging her to come to their house. But she just firmly said no, once again, because she told me she wouldn't be able to just sit there and look at my uncle's wife in the eye after all she did. I understand that.

Sometimes I think that no family is better than such family. He caused my mom so much grief, it's not even funny :((((

Anyway.. It's his loss, that's all. They didn't even come to my wedding, and supposetely they "love" me.

So... that's that.