5/4/08

So...

So,... I can finally shift into fifth gear while riding on the last stretch before I reach home. No, not because the stretch that was an excuse for a road earlier has been transformed into a smooth, wide, traffic-less road, but because it now just looks like a road with no traffic. It looks tar-black and not mud-yellow/red/whatever, it looks like there's no traffic, but I tell you it's all an illusion. The road just isn't there, they've only painted it. And the people, those pedestrians, they still think that it's an extra wide footpath and they still form the traffic.
You know when you hear about viruses (virii?) infecting the antivirus programs and you give a chuckle? You think "Damn, if that's not a bad antivirus, I don't know what is." Yeah, I felt like that. The road-laying (which by the way, took all of 4 months and 9 days) was supposed to be the anti-virus. And now while I'm bouncing along the road 'coz it looks like a road that I can speed on and not bounce along, I feel cheated by the "solution", 'coz all it's doing is making me go faster on an equally bad road as before. I don't remember clicking on anything that said that "I agree" to an EULA that led to this...


So,... I have my 8th sem seminar to give tomorrow afternoon and after putting a decent amount of honest effort into it, I goofed off all evening. Counter productive, yes, but more like me.
And a guest, my dad's friend asked me yesterday evening if this seminar thing was equivalent to a research paper/thesis. And it got me thinking. Well, not on whether it is or isn't; I know it isn't. But more on whether it's supposed to be.. Took me 6 seconds to decide that it wasn't. Mostly because I remembered the movie A Beautiful Mind and the kind of thesis that they had to give in that college.*

And so,... I just watched X-Men 3: The Last Stand. It was so bad that I had to write about it somewhere. To warn people that though the movie's over, that's just for today. There will be reruns. So, watch out!
I also went onto imdb.com to rate it a 4/10. But when I got there, to my surprise, almost 74000 people had given it an average rating of 7/10! Then I remembered that imdb was one of the sites infested with 13-year-olds. Rotten Tomatoes.com gives it 5.9 which is a bit more acceptable. But it gets worse with imdb. I found from the detailed reports that the imdb staff members gave it an average of 7.6! Holy Pre-pubescent Webmasters Batman! Imdb is run by 13-year-olds!
The only good thing about the movie was that Ellen Page is quite easy on the eye. She has a screen time of just around 10 minutes though. (10 mins spread over the whole movie.)


And also,... I saw a bit of The Prestige last night - one of my all-time favourites. Reminded me of how I tried suggesting it to a friend [who didn't like Batman Begins at all, but thought highly of The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.] Baad idea. Kids don't try that at home, or anywhere else for that matter.



*I know I'm makin' an unfair comparison. That's the fun part.