Last couple of weeks
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008I took a great vacation from computers. It was actually fabulous, not opening up my laptop, or being chained to it, for nearly two weeks now. During that time, I had:
- a Christmas party - photos will be up soon enough
- visited Hanoi, Halong Bay, and a few other sites
- spent some time in Maison, and Sunshine, on Jln. Doraisamy (aka, Asian Heritage Row). This is a new change, considering we previously only liked to hang out at Thai Club
- watched quite a bit of TV
- didn’t read as much as I’d have liked
I have taken a tonne of photos. I’d upload it all soon, but first, I’ve got to cook up an RPM (the software I use is well, unusable on Fedora).
Work? It was a good break from it, I must say. Deluge of email of course upon returning, with a tonne of action items. And I’ll be off travelling again in a couple of weeks. There just isn’t enough time, these days it seems.
Got a bit of a cough. Sigh. I’m trying to rest and get it cured, but its just not happening for some reason. Maybe I have to visit a doctor and get it fixed?
Movies, recently (crap largely thanks to cable TV):
- Mercenary for justice
- I am legend - caught this in the cinema with Eileen. It was pretty good
- Out of sight
- Dragon boys - the inner workings of triads in Canada? Yum
- American Pie - Beta House - lots of comedy, the shows seem to be getting a lot more vivid
- The Interpreter
- Little Manhattan - nice, childhood love story. Feel good alright
- The Omen - ooer, Damien is scary
- The Darwin Awards - the lady (winona ryder?) made the movie!
- Lucky Number Slevin - Lucy Liu is a really good/interesting actress
- Pride & Prejudice
- John Tucker Must Die - teeny bopper, funny-ish movie, however largely a waste of time
- The Engagement Ring - could’ve been done in under 0.5hr, yet it was a prime time movie?
- Snakes on a plane - when everyone was talking about it, it made me want to watch it. It was well, okay at best.
Well, Happy New Year and a belated Merry Christmas. Still got a few more days left, if you’re into the 12 days of Christmas.