A Prayer.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened with $100,000,000. And in just over a week, it grossed $400,000,000 worldwide. This makes it the 3rd highest debut for a film, and (so far) the 75th highest grosser of all time. It's moving up the rankings fast. Indiana Jones had the highest earnings on average (over the amount of cinemas it opened in) for that week.

HOWEVER, that's not the surprise.
Guess who was number 2?

War, Inc.! Which means, that if the directors had released it in more cinemas, if the proportion was constant, it would be one of the highest grossers of all time as well! So hopefully, this helps the studio make a decision for a wide release :)

*UPDATE!! : War, Inc. has done so well, that it is due for release across the United States! The film grossed more in 4 days than John Cusack's previous films did in their entire run. Can't wait to see it (and the full scene of Hilary Duff putting a scorpion down her pants)! :D
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Dear Lord God,

I'm sorry for lumping you inbetween wishing for expensive things I don't need, and probably don't really deserve either. I'm here today, praying to you on my blog instead of my ritual daily, because I want to claim responsibility for my own future disastrous results. I haven't been able to study, because the drive just isnt there. And when it's there something always happens when I'm just getting down into it.

I'm creating my own various ways of procrastinating without even knowing it. It's 3.17am, and I should be asleep preparing for a day of hard work ahead of me, but I'm here. I just finished doing all sorts of trivial things that I should be pushing aside at this crucial time. I'm sorry for squandering precious and expensive time instead of putting it to work for me.

So, God, I want to pray for a clean slate study-wise. Tomorrow when I wake up, please give me the strength and the will to push on and start studying. It might be impossible for me to finish even most of of my syllabus with the time I have left, but I know that you can make the impossible possible. I promise to do my best, and hardest, and I pray that you help me have the strength to let the only distraction to my studies be wanting to talk to You. Let tomorrow be a new day, and a fresh one, and help me start it with new zest and new freshness of mind.

Please be with my friends who are sitting for their exams, and striving hard dear Lord Jesus. Be with my family back in KL, here and around the world. Please be with those I hold dear, friends and family alike, who are on holiday, or who are on the opposite corners of the globe. Please give confidence and peace of mind to the ones who need it, and resolution to those who lack it.

And dear Lord God, please help me move past this disease that I have : this need for things that others have. Please help me be satisfied with who I am, what I am, what I do and what I have done. Please help me not need to prove myself, and help me improve myself for my own good and not for the sake of appeasing others. I'm sorry for today, my moment of weakness, wasting precious money just because I felt jealous of other people's posessions. I realise that it's not my money that I'm spending, but what my parents have worked hard to earn and sacrificed so much to share it with me. It wasn't only a waste of money, but of precious time that could have been well spent doing what I came here to do - make a future for myself with your help.

I was improving so much with Your Grace God, and please help me move past this momentary straying.

Thank You Dear Lord God, for everything you've provided for me, and for keeping me safe and well for yet another day.

Amen.