Help, I’m stuck in procastinating mode!
Again, I’m out of things to read. Finally finished the two books beside my bedside table. I have about a dozen or two more e-books on my PC, but I hate to read books on the PC. That’s odd coming from someone who is practically glued to a PC, but staring at a point in space that is fixed for a few hours can be really tiring. Toss in a few more images and you get the usual hassle of manipulating the size and magnification to get the desired level of detail just to make some sense out of the picture. Yep, paper is still the way to go. So unless I can get to freeload a couple thousand more pages of free printing, its back to the bookstores or Hypermedia Library again. If only I could sneak into TCSJ Library to print a ‘few’ more pages…
Well, the reason why I took weeks to finish just two relatively thin books is because I got my hands on BFME2 (thanks Bran, for the extra hours in front of the PC drooling over the beauty of Middle-Earth). Wouldn’t want to bore you readers, whoever you are with the details, but one thing is now irreversibly stuck in my mind.
SPOILER ALERT: Skip to the paragraph after this if you intend to play the Evil mission in the near future.
Goblins are pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. They should throw down their arms and go back into their mountain adobe and stay there! Why? Look, they fought a battle against the hobbits and lost! Loooong ago, as the story goes, the Goblin King came down to Shire to pick a fight with the Halflings. The King got killed, and his armies routed. Imagine! Scary Goblins losing to a bunch of docile half sized beings? Yeeesh! And yes, the new Goblin King was right at the end of the mission. Too easy! Except for Isengard who comes along to interfere, that is. The Dunedian rangers helped the hobbits, so it’s more or less evened out between Hobbits and Goblins, but it’s already stuck in my head. Goblins are pathetic.
Anyhow, I’ve finally watched X3. Since I had a break this afternoon, I just decided to make a dash for it before coming back again. Yes, I know it’s not ‘normal’ to go and watch movies solo, but I’m pretty much fine with that. Having company to go out with is an accessory and not necessity to me. Besides, you’ll never know if you become the accidental lamp post. 
Having said that, it seems to me that my favourite characters are also favourite targets to kill off. Harry Potter too. That’s not fair. Oh well, I don’t suppose they follow too closely to the comic books where the heroes practically survives through in one form or other. At the very least, my favourite characters don’t usually get picked off first. Plus, since it’s the end of the trilogy I guess we won’t be seeing the SR-71 Blackbird look-alike anymore. Not something to shout about, but still an enjoyable flick nevertheless.
BTW, that Scientific American magazine Beast was reading in X3 is actually a real life October 2005 issue, unlike the one you saw in Timeline. Nope, the article wasn’t talking about those kinds of mutations, but something more mundane like using mutations to trace human migration paths out of Africa. I don’t memorise the covers of every issue I read but that was incidentally the last issue I read while studying in college (library of course, since I’m not a subscriber). I do wonder if this is related to the decline in the population of nerdus americanus, so the movie producers are trying to help do their part in stimulating the new American generation’s interest in science and technology. If Q holds up a copy of Popular Science in Casino Royale, that’s gonna confirm it.
Now, if only I can try to drop by Summit and watch DVC this Friday. I would have preferred tomorrow, but I have work. Although I mentioned that I was supposed to have resigned a long way ago, my Store Manager managed to persuade me to stay longer. The coffee is having an effect after all on making people more open to persuasion. Thanks for pointing this out New Scientist (summary of the research available here). In the end, it was a win-win situation. I get to work at a bare minimum, earn some cash and help out at the store while enjoying the free drinks. As for the 30% discount, I hardly ever use them. So Pei and Nat, if you get your hands on me, you’ll get it. But I don’t think I’ll have it any longer though. I planned to stay till July 5th at the latest in the first place, and it’s really not feasible to stay any longer. And Pei, insafla! You should cut down on your Frappucinos! The sugar can make you slumberphillic! If you don’t believe me, here’s proof! 
Ok, brain’s emptied enough now.
