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Saturday, December 23, 2006 Hmm, I really believe that renting a car that uses manual transmission and putting my dad in the front passenger seat to act as an instructor so i can practise driving around would be a better way to spend my $48 every week. (unfortunately, my father thinks otherwise) Learning manual is fun but i feel my progress rate is dismally slow. After 5-6 lessons i am still trying to master the U-turn which requires rather good control of the clutch which sadly i am lacking in.Note to self. Do not do stupid stunts. While cycling back home after driving lessons, i got a call from a friend and so i rode one-handed which was fine since i had lots of experience with that. The problem was when i was trying to pass an old man, i had to ring my bell which was on my right side and i was holding my phone in my right hand. Without thinking, I used my left hand to ring the bell. End result: a mild crash into a rubbish bin. lucky i was going quite slowly. i quickly left the scene lest some policeman ask me to put back all the trash. We had platoon cohesion dinner down at marina south area, seafood steamboat. quite good stuff for a first timer like me. can really eat until die. our gift xchange was a riot with all the cheapskate gifts waiting to pounce on their hapless recipients. Gift No. 17 - 1xSnicker Bar 1xPocky 1xCD-R 1xFreshMints there was a column in ST Insight today abt people being busy. I find what Linda Stone said about continuous partial attention(i.e. multi-tasking) really meaningful, "We're so accessible, we're inaccessible. We are everywhere - except where we actually are." but I cant help feeling i like the busy lifestyle better. It makes you feel more alive somehow. Besides, i would never say i am busy. it is all a matter of time management. And i really want to get a laptop. Wireless surfing is just so cool! Some thoughts about Eragon. A simple mish-mash of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings dumbed down. Eragon finds his uncle killed in his home, with smoke rising and Saphira playing the role of Obi-Wan, "You couldn't have saved him." The damsel in distress (whose name i cant rmb) a la Princess Leia. Substitute the Orcs for Urgals. The ending battle where Galbatrox's army attacks the Varden stronghold(which btw looks uncannily like an Arab village, with veiled women and elaborate dresses) looks like a poor mans' Battle of Helms Deep. I liked the dragon's animation though. It was very well done. As well as the quote by one of the characters, "One does not choose his father." I felt his character was the only interesting one in the whole show. Oh yeah, Brom dies saving Eragon too, (Episode IV Star Wars anyone - expect Brom to return as a ghostly figure too.) Eragon is the upstart Dragon Rider who threatens the dominance of Galbatrox who thought he was the last one left around with a big lizard so the bad guy sends a Shade to do his dirty work to kill the boy. Luke Skywalker is the new Jedi whom the Emperor is secretly scared of so he sends dear Vader to go get him. Extremely cheesy lines that shame the fantasy genre. Especially at the end when Eragon says his goodbyes to his crush who he recklessly rushed off to save, endangering himself and the Varden's hopes.(Luke convinced Obi-Wan to go on the fool-hardy rescue mission to extricate Leia) Must wait for 300, it looks FANTASTIC. |
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