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| 1. I really don't use Facebook. There's no real reason for it, but the fact makes me feel like an alien sometimes. Just sometimes.
2. I realized my Facebook is wasting webspace, so I decided to do this list. Get back in the blogging groove. And stop being an alien.
3. I have a feeling only 4 people will see this list. This gets me really motivated.
4. This is a boring list. I fell asleep for 10 seconds writing this sentence. On to better stuff now.
5. I once had a dream about building a roller coaster. Like, a real-life roller coaster. 8 hours, by myself, happy, as if I was building a Lego vehicle. To this day, I don't remember if I finished it, and I'll be damned if it ever had a meaning.
6. I could've been an American citizen. However, Mother was afraid of what would happen if she gave birth as a non-American, so she went to Korea for my birthday. A very regrettable decision on her part. On the flip side, my brother is American.
7. I hate flamingos. Pink, big-ass birds that fly. No... no. None of that. Animals over three feet should not fly. Unless you are a dinosaur.
8. Until last year, I believed that leaving a fan on while you sleep can kill you. Then I found out that the belief was a South Korean superstition. Still, I never sleep with a fan on. Old habits die hard.
9. I love taking showers.
10. Contrary to popular belief, I'm quite the empathizer. I have trouble hating people, unless they lack common sense or decency. I hate those people. Geez.
11. A reference to Yordan Kirby's #7, when I'm alone, I wish I had superpowers. Like flying, super-strength, super-speed, force powers, you name it. And then I think about saving the world with my most-awesome talents. And then I fall off my chair.
12. I'm legally blind in my right eye. This means that I cannot quickly calculate distance by eye, and cannot catch fast-moving objects thrown at me. Therefore, don't ever throw things at me, or I will force-push you with my imaginary force powers into a electrical tower and get you tangled in with all those power cables.
13. I hate the sound of markers on paper. Makes me want to pluck my eyeballs out.
14. I always wanted to start a music project. Not really a band, but an album with music contributed by anyone and everyone. It'd be a fushion of jazz, electronica, funk, and rock.
15. I really wish that interplanetary travel and terra-forming planets were possible. Watching a development of a barren planet will really be a sight to see.
16. I really don't understand politics. I just don't get it.
17. I really, really, really respect Bruce Lee, but I think his battle cries are idiotic.
18. I think the most epic game-to-movie adaptation would be Shadow of the Colossus. If you don't know what that game is, check it out.
19, One thing I really want, but I know I won't ever get, is a tattoo. This is mostly because it's stuck in my head that it's a no-no, told by my parents. But I know if I got it, I wouldn't regret it. Sucks.
20. I like olives.
21. I can sense when a television turns on if I'm in within a certain radious. You guys know what I'm talking about; it makes a faint whining noise that you don't really hear, but sense. However, LCD is looking to change that. Damn it all.
22. I like Keanu Reeves. He's not the greatest actor in the world, but he's not as bad as everyone says he is. I mean, what's everyone's deal with him?
23. I wonder what it's like to laugh maniacally, and really mean it. It's like... really? You feel that great?
24. I get a haircut averagely once a year.
25. There is a really random poster of Scrat from Ice Age on my bedroom wall. I really have no idea what its doing there. In fact, nothing on my bedroom walls are things I put up myself. What's going on here? | | |
| This morning, I thought my shoe smelled pretty bad. Since there was a Febreeze nearby, I thought I would spray that in there.
But that was a mistake. It created a smell which I can only describe as the Holocaust.
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| Past Monday, I'm driving Mother to work, furious at the fact that both of the dogs (Michael and Matthew) shat in the house in the morning. Since I like to live dangerously, I'm lost in my thoughts instead of paying attention to the road and I'm thinking: what the hell are those dogs thinking? We like waking up to dog fudge in the morning? Then as my anger started fading, the cynical question turns into a curious and amusing one: What do dogs think about? What would a journal of a dog look like if it could write?
So for that day, here's what I think the journal would look like.
Mikal's Jurnel
July 28, 2008
I woke pretty early in the morning, half afraid that I was going to get in trouble by Old Woman for sleeping on the couch. If they think I'm going to sleep on the floor every night, no way. But I hate getting yelled at, so I probably shouldn't...
I think I'll sleep on the couch tonight.
So I'm just sort of walking around, and I have to go poo. New Dog has to go too. I don't really like New Dog, but I'm kinda glad he's here at times like this. If I go poo on the floor, Family don't really know who did it. So we both get in trouble. I remember thinking we're gonna get in trouble, and that Family is going to come downstairs in a few minutes to let me out anyways...
And then I went poo in the hallway. New dog went in the living room.
Old Man came down a few minutes later, and saw poo. He yelled at me and New Dog. I try to run away, and New Dog barks at him. New Dog is brave, but stupid. Never bark at Old Man when he's angry. Everyone knows that.
I know I shouldn't poo, but I always forget that when I go poo. When I poo, I poo. I don't think about things like I shouldn't poo or anything like that. I mean, Family never poos, so they wouldn't know. The closest thing I've seen is that they sit on a chair in Water Room and all I know is that it smells when they leave. Come to think of it, I've never seen their poo on the ground... ever.
Weird.
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| I like Batman, but Bruce says it himself: A guy running around in a bat costume clearly has issues...
So I think I'm one of the 10 people in the world who haven't seen "Iron Man." I didn't really want to be on that list for "The Dark Knight," so I actually made the effort to watch it within the first week. Of course, I was still the last one to see it within my group of friends... so alone I went.
Like Batman.
It was rather depressing.
Anywho, after watching it, I was walking to my car in the rain, thinking: I can't believe that movie got 95% on rottentomatoes.com.
It wasn't a bad movie, I'll make that clear. I would score it a 7.5 or 8 out of 10. I just don't think it was "a masterpiece" like everyone is raving everywhere. I still stand by the fact that I still think "Batman Begins" is one of the finest movies I ever saw, and I can't say for sure if "The Dark Knight" is in that area as well. But you know, I remember all those editing sessions with Susan Snooks in my writing class, she would ALWAYS say that my writing is lacking something that I think the movie is lacking: focus.
Particularly, I'm not a Batman fanboy. I didn't even know what the deal with Joker was until I heard that he was going to be the villain in the movie. Upon that news, and my colleague Mike Klassen's excitement and enthusiasm of the franchise spreading around the class, I spent a hell of a lot of time on Wikipedia just reading about Batman and its universe. From what I've read, one of the most interesting thing about the villains in Batman is the relationship they have with the crusader. I think that is what the focus is in the stories for the most part.
In short, I think that's what was missing in the movie. The first one, the villain was someone Bruce personally knew, which created a strong relation between the two, thus more tension and such. But with this, Joker says that he and Bruce are actually very much alike each other, despite the fact that they only talked two other times: The first time Batman tells Joker to let Rachael go, and the second time he tells him to let Harvey go (which led to telling him to letting Rachael go... again...).
This is the thing with Joker and Batman: Although they want to kill each other, they can't because they feel like they are mirror-images of each other. When I first realized that in my research, it was so twisted that I got chills down my spine, and was really excited to see the two on the big-screen. Other than that there was a "Spiderman 3" vibe going on (too much going on at once), I guess I was just really disappointed that they didn't really expand on that very much.
Or maybe it was the fact that I was watching it alone.
It sucks to be alone.
Like Batman.
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But seriously, I need a Warwick
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