Catch-up / Ketchup
Well, it has been an absolute drag - housemates have gone back to Colombo, and there is nothing like having an house to yourself to remind you that why friends and family are important - I guess the fact that they are away during the holiday season makes it worse =( However, they will be back soon - but since I am on leave I have like a lot of time to myself!
Nothing much to report - December was a slow month - probably the draggiest month at work since a long time. The highlight was spending the day with the kids from Metta school - we tagged along to Sentosa and I think both adults and children had good fun. We went to the 4D cinema - and gosh! it was awsome - you have to have to check it out if you are in Sentosa! Then we proceeded to the Underwater World - that does not excite me too much but it was nice to see the dudes in the tanks feeding the fish. Being the morbid and sadistic person that I am, I kept wondering if one of the sharks decided to break the coveted rule of "do not bite the hand that feeds you"... The dolphin show was also nothing special - it was my second time in less than half-a-year so it explains why it did not feel "special".
Of course, given the extensive time that I have, I spent a lot of it watching movies. Two notable flicks were Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Trainspotting. I think I had watched them when I was too young and was unable to appreciate them fully. Now I do. By far, now I understand, why they are so highly rated - they deserve to be in the Top 10 of all time. Enough said?
Also, some of my Sri Lankan bohra mates were down from Colombo. Still the same old really - nothing has changed. Still loud. Still uncivilized. And still funny - most of it is corny and usually noise but you cannot help and laugh with/at them =P
One bad flick I watched was "The Game of their Lives" - a true story about the 1950's American team beating the English team 1-0 in a remote part of Brazil in the World Cup football. Now, I can respect that it was a big deal especially since the American's were HUGE underdogs - so much so that "bets" were not open for the game. However, the movie was a terrible failure - for instance, there was only the three of us in the cinema. If that was not enough to hint that the choice was horribly wrong probably rested all doubts - I mean, I am unable to take inspiration since it was basically a bunch of almost-dysfunctional dudes - barring a couple - taking on an awsome English side. The truth - is that they got lucky. They had a good goal keeper and he saved like a million shots with the bar (goal bars) featured in another million saves - geesh! and overall, I would have been watching Happy Feet. (That is sarcastic - sorry, for those people who actually liked Happy Feet)
Another piss-off was the PS2 controllers - I managed to break an analog stick in each of them - I have no freaking idea how. So now I cannot play most of the games - at least not well. So I went on this gaming marathon playing Far Cry Instincts - typically, I am stuck at this stage where I am looking for the "Red Highlight" - I mean, I appreciate you wanting me to be intelligent in this gameplay but making it obscure in the middle of a fucking jungle is not my idea of relaxation. Then I tried God of War - fantastic gameplay and the graphics compared, especially to Far Cry are just top notch; then guess what - another dead-end - no matter what I do I cannot kill this Hyrda (the fourth dragon who had two mini-hydra's which I massacred) ; dang after trying for like an hour where his health kept miraculously replenished. Then some dude (thank you!) mentioned online that if this happens, I might have a malfunctioning copy. And I get my stuff from JB - you know the not so original stuff - which means there is a good chance that it is =) Well, I gotta get my controllers fixed so I can get the copy changed as well.
Well, that is it - gotta get some shut-eye =)
Merry Christmas =) and Happy Birthday Mom - miss you and love you loads =)
Nothing much to report - December was a slow month - probably the draggiest month at work since a long time. The highlight was spending the day with the kids from Metta school - we tagged along to Sentosa and I think both adults and children had good fun. We went to the 4D cinema - and gosh! it was awsome - you have to have to check it out if you are in Sentosa! Then we proceeded to the Underwater World - that does not excite me too much but it was nice to see the dudes in the tanks feeding the fish. Being the morbid and sadistic person that I am, I kept wondering if one of the sharks decided to break the coveted rule of "do not bite the hand that feeds you"... The dolphin show was also nothing special - it was my second time in less than half-a-year so it explains why it did not feel "special".
Of course, given the extensive time that I have, I spent a lot of it watching movies. Two notable flicks were Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Trainspotting. I think I had watched them when I was too young and was unable to appreciate them fully. Now I do. By far, now I understand, why they are so highly rated - they deserve to be in the Top 10 of all time. Enough said?
Also, some of my Sri Lankan bohra mates were down from Colombo. Still the same old really - nothing has changed. Still loud. Still uncivilized. And still funny - most of it is corny and usually noise but you cannot help and laugh with/at them =P
One bad flick I watched was "The Game of their Lives" - a true story about the 1950's American team beating the English team 1-0 in a remote part of Brazil in the World Cup football. Now, I can respect that it was a big deal especially since the American's were HUGE underdogs - so much so that "bets" were not open for the game. However, the movie was a terrible failure - for instance, there was only the three of us in the cinema. If that was not enough to hint that the choice was horribly wrong probably rested all doubts - I mean, I am unable to take inspiration since it was basically a bunch of almost-dysfunctional dudes - barring a couple - taking on an awsome English side. The truth - is that they got lucky. They had a good goal keeper and he saved like a million shots with the bar (goal bars) featured in another million saves - geesh! and overall, I would have been watching Happy Feet. (That is sarcastic - sorry, for those people who actually liked Happy Feet)
Another piss-off was the PS2 controllers - I managed to break an analog stick in each of them - I have no freaking idea how. So now I cannot play most of the games - at least not well. So I went on this gaming marathon playing Far Cry Instincts - typically, I am stuck at this stage where I am looking for the "Red Highlight" - I mean, I appreciate you wanting me to be intelligent in this gameplay but making it obscure in the middle of a fucking jungle is not my idea of relaxation. Then I tried God of War - fantastic gameplay and the graphics compared, especially to Far Cry are just top notch; then guess what - another dead-end - no matter what I do I cannot kill this Hyrda (the fourth dragon who had two mini-hydra's which I massacred) ; dang after trying for like an hour where his health kept miraculously replenished. Then some dude (thank you!) mentioned online that if this happens, I might have a malfunctioning copy. And I get my stuff from JB - you know the not so original stuff - which means there is a good chance that it is =) Well, I gotta get my controllers fixed so I can get the copy changed as well.
Well, that is it - gotta get some shut-eye =)
Merry Christmas =) and Happy Birthday Mom - miss you and love you loads =)
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