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Friday, July 15, 2005
this week's been interesting, to say the least.
the breakdown of my calculator in the middle of an econs lecture test was part three in a running series of past few weeks called "ballistic: mike vs techno". coming after a rebellion from my ipod mini and the untimely death of my nokia 3200, this is too much to handle. brian suggests that my computer will die totally on me. zc brings that a notch higher, proposing that porn will start flashing all over making it impossible to do any work whatsoever. whatever the case is, i must have offended the technology gods for everything to be working against me all at once. even my spectacles had to join in the act, breaking for no good reason one fine morning. but at least i've got a nicer pair now, which eugene thinks makes me look "hipper" and brian thinks looks "retro". hrrm, whatever la. no one's said anything bad about it so far so.. i'll just be satisfied.
desperate housewives finale was pretty good. however, i think it deserved to be 2 hours long. i mean c'mon it's a freaking finale! then again if you go by the nature of the narrative which squeezes everything into witty little snippitysnippetshots of about 2min each per housewife per chunk between commercials + 2min for extras like the dysfunctional Young family (which is actually just an extension of boring ole susan's storyline) and edie britt (more miscellaneous riffraff to flesh out a charaacter in the comparatively normal housewife in susan, who is desperate yet anything but outstanding) you'd need to have like 634745 different things to happen, and marc cherry's not brilliant enough to do that. there's only so much you can tie up together. as steven culp, the actor who played rex van der kamp (bree's husband), said in an interview, his character was only supposed to die or at least get the fuck out of her life in season2, but things happened too quickly that it had to be pushed forward to the first season. i'm just afraid the show will be like a supernova and shine too brightly and quickly for its own good and be canned in the middle of the third season or something. that's pretty sad for an up-and-coming amazing show that tv hasn't seen in awhile. but who am i to judge? marcia cross (bree van der kamp)'s portrayal of tortured wife struggling to keep a positive calm exterior over the whole season was very well done and culminated well in the breakdown and wild abandon after her husband died. great! her character's the most interesting but really i rather meet a susan any day.. because i am like susan.
fantastic four was quite mediocre; disappointing climax finale finish. the final battle was hardly over a minute before it ended. and what a cliche way to end, hinting that he didn't really die. and even the characters themselves are boring. i mean there's nothing cool about any of their powers. invisible woman (hahaha see naked men!)'s silly self-explanatory power needed her to be saddled with some kind of jeangrey-esque psychic shit to make her more powerful. mr fantastic's pretty pathetic considering he's the leader. all you can do is stretch? besides getting A for sit-and-reach, it's not a really very powerful endowment is it? the thing is an ugly rehash of the hulk, perhaps with a tinge more humanity to compensate for that. i think the human torch is the best though. besides having an elemental attack, he can fly and none of the rest can. very, very important! you know, the fantastic four seem to be like a shuffled version of the incredibles. mr fantastic takes on elastigirl's powers. the thing has mr incredible's superhuman strength. the invisible woman has violet's invisibility power as well as psychic forcefield shit and the human torch is just like dash, with his quickness and hot-temper and jackjack with the fiery stuff. hell, even all their personalities seem transposed. but the incredibles wins because there's a greater creative liberty with animation pictures with no history to be bound to, whereas the fantastic four were already an established comic strip that couldn't have its story messed around too much with. and besides, the cartoon had a better storyline to boot. anyway, i think the x-men are generally cooler with more elemental attacks like nature(storm) and ice(iceman) as compared to the boring foursome, whose powers don't really work well together. highlight of the show was really chris evans as the human torch aka johnny storm, whose cocky yet insiduously slick and charming ways were such a joy to watch as the cheeky bastard comeback kid.
NS checkup was a novel experience. i over-estimated the volume of the tiny conical cup we were given to pee into and it almost overflowed.. soundcheck was quite funny with the repeated hand-raisings like an idiot. and ooh, i'm only 16.9% fat, i thought with my sedentary lifestyle and sinful eating habits that figure would be much higher, but thank goodness it ain't. pleasant surprise, that. what wasn't so pleasant was the ECG scan that felt like some S&M device with the nipple clamps and all which claimed that i had "abnormal right" something and at the end of the report was a most puzzling phrase - "probably old". by that, do they mean my heart? that it's older than it should be? quite freaky, that. nevertheless, i'm provisionally PES A, unless they find something screwed up within me through further tests. computer mental agility tests weren't that fun. especially the physics ones and the perspective ones. the pattern, math, logic and reaction sections were managable, though. they probably think now that i can't visualize for nuts because i didn't even understand the instructions and just did that section by guesswork. ugh. the most terrible part of the whole thing was the disgusting 19page survey on my attitudes towards life, myself, the saf and ns and yada yada yada. that was just horrible. oh well. maybe one day i'll be commando quil.indo (wah, rhyming assonance with same number of syllables sia!) or better still, commando Q!! get it at your nearest computer store.
mike just took up your time at
4:26 pm
th time!