Came into work to work early this morning, alert, refreshed, brimming with enthusiasm to take on the world again after a week off celebrating raya. Booted up my laptop, opened up my outlook mail and... 187 mails unread. After a slight tinge of panic, i thought to myself, must be those goddamn spammers at work again. Off i go deleting emails telling me that i have won a gazillion bucks, some holiday at some exotic beach resort and also all those goddamn forwards from the ppl who have me on their mailing lists. OK done, check my inbox again.. 132 mails unread. Shite. Thats a lot of mails that i have to read. So have been spending the whole day today replying those emails from god knows where asking about supposed i supposedly am supposed to know. Oh look, i've replied my last mail, so now i can actually start doing work. Oh, look at the time. Freaking 5pm. Looks like its gonna be another long day in the office.
Watched the third Matrix movie over the weekend. Yeah yeah yeah, i've ONLY seen it. The thing is, i just couldnt be asked to wrestle through the crowd at Mid Valley and queue up for tickets just to watch it, so i thought i might as well wait til much later and see it in peace. My stress levels are high enough as it is without having to endure waiting ages queueing up for the tickets at the cineplex. You could say that i could've watched the Sunday morning show since it isnt that crowded then, like since nobody watches movies during Sunday mornings, but thats the point, nobody watches movies on Sunday morning, including myself. I wanna wake up at 2pm on Sunday and vegetate in front of the idiot box the whole day.
I dont understand what the big commotion was about. Almost everyone i know said that the movie was a huge dissappointment. For me, i guess, it wasn't really that bad. It was OK. It wasnt the WORST movie i've seen this year. Not the best either ( I shall refrain on deciding on my best movie of the year until i've watched what happens to Frodo and friends ). Probably since i wasn't putting my expectations TOO high up like i did with reloaded, since that was a huge huge disappointment. I guess i just enjoyed watching the not-so-over fighting scenes and the battle at Zion.One thing i have to point out is the silly silly way that they have to reload the guns on the robot things. I mean, i find it so ridicolous that someone has to actually run out with trollies carrying bullets to the robots and manually inserting them. I don't know. I just found it so massively hilarious.
Some people say that the ending was a huge disappoinment since *spoiler to whoever hasn't seen it yet, ok maybe not that many ppl, but just to warn those of you yet to see it* trinity dies, and there was no huge scene of ppl waking up from the *farm* and unplugging themselves from the matrix, which i guess would have been a grand finale and i expected it to end that way as well. But i guess the way that they ended it wasn't too bad, since it still leaves the plot open for ANOTHER sequel. I mean, if they killed all the robots, who are they gonna be fighting in the NEXT one?
I was also thinking (suprisingly) the other day of the parallels between the Matrix trilogy and the Star Wars trilogy ( Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi ). I mean, just look:
Star Wars : Luke Skywalker finds out that he has amazing superpowers to be the top jedi warrior, and is trained by Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda. It ends with Luke using his powers to defeat the Empire and blow up the Death Star with the Empire running away pissing in their pants.
Matrix 1: Neo finds out that he has amazing superpowers (or sometthing like that) to be "The One" after being plugged out from the Matrix. Is trained by Morpheus to harness his mental ability to bend the rules in the Matrix world. It ends with Neo using his powers for the first time to defeat the watchamacallits agents at the end and ending up with the agents running away pissing in their pants.
Empire Strikes Back: The empire gets stronger, and at the end of the movie, the empire is on the ascendancy, and Luke finding out the truth about Darth Vader being his father. It ends with Luke getting injured having had his hand chopped off.
Matrix 2: The machines gets closer and closer to Zion, and at the end of the movie, the machines are on the ascendancy, and Neo finding out the truth about the Matrix and how he is the person to choose whether the people in Zion live or not. It ends with Neo getting injured / going in a some sort of coma.
Return of the Jedi: Luke faces his dad, his dad decides to be on his side, ends up in a battle where the people on the planet are battling against the empire with those cute lil ewoks and Luke somewhere up there battling with the emperor. The battle of the rebels against the empire in space hinges on the ppl down on the planet blowing up the force field thingamjib.
Matrix 3: Neo faces the Oracle, who decides to help the humans instead (if i am not mistaken), and then it ends up with a battle in Zion against the machines and Neo is somewhere up there battling with Agent Smith. The battle in Zion hinges on whether the last ship can make it in time to blow their EMP at the port. (On a side note, i am also amazed that they themselves in Zion didnt have their own EMP, like just in case. Either that, or i missed something ).
Oh well, i could just be talking utter nonsense here, or it is widely know around the world already, but still. I wouldn't be suprised if they come up with "Matrix episode 1: The Washing MachineMenace where they tell the story of how the robots came into power, where one machine was thought to be the best machine in the world, a machine that could fly planes faster than any machine can ever fly before. And then they come up with Episode 2: Attack of the Toaster Ovens, where the fast flying machine meets another female machine and decide to start running around in fields together, rolling around in beds of flowers, running around trees and riding on horses. Obviously, the fast flying machine is also a very hot headed machine who can't stand authority where in Episode 3, he runs away with the female machine and decide to create their own machines which will end up giving birth to the Architect and the ORacle!!! Ok i am talking crap now. Enough of that.
Oh yeah, i bought the latest Championship Manager 2003/04. Looks like some endless sleepless night ahead of me now. It seems to look much better than the previous version, and the bugs, most of them are gone already. It seems like the original version was released so that the buyers could do their testing for them. Sneaky basterds. Anyway, my Liverpool team currently is third in the league. Only 5 points behind Arsenal and Chelsea. Seems the scum aren't doing too well. He he he.
Speaking of football, our very own donkey scored what i would say the most amazing goal i have seen from him so far. Chesting the ball from the Salif Diao (shockingly inept for most of the game, being given the runaround by the "wing wizard" from Birm they call Stan Lazaridis), and then semi-scissor kicking it into the goal, leaving me with a gaping mouth, amazed out of my head. Honestly speaking, good for him, but its just so goddamn hard to take, seeing what he can do, only to see him do it once a decade. An optimist would say, "Now thats more like it, sunn, now you've got ur confidence back, go on and show us the real Emile Heskey and score gazillion goals up the Mancheter United arse!!!", but most people, i hear, are saying "Lucky basterd, now that you've scored that, Houllier will be saying that he has been proven right by sticking to him, and will continously pick him based on that one goal, only for us to endure painful games watching him fall on his arse countless times again and again, and hearing Houllier defend him again and again saying he only needs some confidence back!!". On a side note, i feel that Pongolle does indeed fall to ground oh so very often. I mean, he is a quality player with bags of potential, but diving is just not on. I despise diving as it is cheating and that is not Liverpool football club is based on. So get that "falling to ground at the slightest of touches" habit out of your game son! Anyhow, the penalty awarded to use was indeed a bonafide penalty, considering the way Cunningham was man-handling him.
Anyway, gotta be going now. Got some work to be done. Hmm.. where did my San Francisco Coffee go?
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