we're bad at this

Oh god! It hurts… So Gouken brought to our attention this climb marathon and Frank and I joined in. Frank is a cool chap that likes traversing the mountainside. At the start we met with some of Gouken’s classmates and we were like a small team. All of us managed to finish it. It was nice to see I had the determination actually. “Do it! There are medals!” was what I was thinking the whole time. The control time for the souvenir medals was 5 hours and most of our crew did it 3 hours and a half. I did it in 4. Of course the medals were absent, the transport back also was not enough for all participants. The way back took 4 hours with lift, 2 buses and a tram… I ate too much after the race. And as usual when I push my body too far I got sick. Real sick. Sick enough to get off the computer again… and cry about my denied medal ;(

Gosh… Just when I was setting a decent pace for my studies it all went for naught. Strangely I am way to sleepy for anything and once I go to bed, I barely manage to get out of bed at noon. Really unproductive… Wonder if it is due to the still hot weather or the many hours spend on the computer.

Jill is still unaccounted for which leaves me in charge of this joint. I guess she has locked herself somewhere to study for the exams. I haven’t witness anything of interest myself. Well, I saw “What Just Happened” which was mildly interesting but a bit boring at times. De Niro was awesome as usual. Oh, my favorite dictionary – Merriam-Webster revamped their site. Really nice. I am in search of nice trance/electro music to go along my studies. Drop your suggestions in the comments… or don’t…

My son had to take the dreadful flight back to the US to attend his second year of college. Said airplane food sucked bad. I wonder if “Cataclysm” will be released before he comes home for the winter holidays. We have this weird habit of communicating through alternate personalities.

If a post should be considered a rant this one should… Jack doesn’t give the impression but he is a cold bastard… because… well, Life is a bit of a bastard and that’s how things usually go… But recently for good or bad, I don’t know, things have happened that make me wonder… So tonight I was having some beers with a friend and on the way home a man stopped me. He had various books on the side of the pavement. He said “I won’t lie to you. I don’t want to buy some snack or what not. I just want to buy one Beer to share with my mate…” who was lying a bit to the back in something that looked like he was an asleep state. “But I don’t want to beg! Please choose any of the books here!” I gave him a little dough after I chose a book. Before that he suggested some psychic thriller novel. What I got was part one of ”A World of English”, lessons 1-7. My First English Textbook back in High School. Some of you might know of it. He even wanted to give me back change. “Just get two beers.” I said. He then shook my hand and said I was the first person to reply to him since noon (it was almost midnight). So here I am back home, eating the last remnants from the Chinese from yesterday with an English Textbook, wondering whether I did well or bad… and remember if you are melee you need 8% hit softcap…

Sorry I left everything to Jack this last month. I didn’t realize so much time has passed while I wasn’t around. I was busy, really. That’s an opposite to what the About section says but everything has the ability to change pretty fast for me the last two years. Not that I’m complaining. And who needs excuses anyway.

Today I read a book by Tove Jansson. Every book by this Finnish author reminds me of my past (when everything was so simple) and is a personal favourite. The book is called “Moominsummer Madness” and I started precisely this one because it is about the Moomins Valley during very very hot summer. I like it when I’m picking this books up in the right season. You will know what I mean if you read “Moominvalley in November” some late autumn evening with a cup of tea as a company while it rains outside (is this too much?). The books about the moomin family are all about this. About family. You can see the father who loves his wife and the comfort of his home but still craves for adventure in the see; the mother who takes care of everybody in the valley and the son who can be like everyone of us: curious, shy, kind and .. fluffy. You can also find more and more creatures that are different and unique and are also a part of the family, there’s no question about that. And the stories are simple and unpretentious but still deep enough to touch your heart.

I don’t know what else to say. And I would really like to sleep now.

“Inception” is one of the movies that you can hardly comment on without dropping a spoiler so we better leave any plot related discussion in the comment section below. So let’s speak about the presentation. It was powerful. For many this movie might be the first time they jump on the bandwagon of dreamchasing and I was really surprised that the movie managed to deliver the intangible realm of dreams so smoothly to a motion picture. Until now the media I recognize had good stories running through dreams were comics (“Sandman”) and anime (“Paprika”). Luckily “Inception” and “Paprika” brush on each other only on few elements and don’t rip much on each other. The cast was very very nice. DiCaprio already outgrowing his sugarcoated adolescence is again delving into the role of an emotionally broken character (maybe he should jump into something more positive in his future acts lest he gets stuck on playing the same template without hope of escape), the enigmatic beauty of Public Enemies – Marion Cotillard haunts the dreams of our dreamcatchers – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe and Dileep Rao who fill up the “Ocean’s Eleven”-ish band of dream agents. The visuals were on a high level as expected from a big production of this magnitude. It was nice to see slow motion used somewhere where time was supposed to be going slowly for once. The action scenes were paced amazingly on the many levels the story rushes us through. The music and sound effects were enthralling. The Shores of Creation stunned me each time the story turned there.