⇒ kicks in the head/the #23

23 today. I never imagined that I'd still be involved with Uni up to this point in life. 23 on the 23rd. I hope this year brings me great fortune (I don't mean just money)

I squandered a bit today (I think I deserved it!). As with my 20th back in '04, I picked up some especially significant things, as a way of sort of closing the circle--in '04 I picked my first Jack Purcells--Off White/Navy in size 10 mens and several volumes of Lone Wolf. Fast forward to the present, I've collected a pair of black Jack Purcells along the way, Chuck Taylor All Star laceless slip-on (I kept my promise never to pick up regular Chucks--too prominent), and now I add a Black/Milk Chuck Taylor All-Star Double Upper low cut in size 9 (hard to find at this point in time).

I also picked up a Chuck Taylor All-star Double Tongue in White/Green/Olive. It's awesome the way these colors come together. Minty green-fresh. After letting the parchment/navy Chucks Double Upper low cut in 9 get away from me, I wasn't about to let the same thing happen again. These babies are full-fresh, the just got out of the box on Friday and I didn't notice them on the shelf yesterday so I have no idea how long they've been in the wild but it couldn't have been longer than 23hrs!


I also got 2 sneaker collecting books--I won't start sneaker collecting mind you, but I do follow the culture to a point.


I've actually been trying to get my hands on the Parchment/Navy Chuck Taylor All-Star Double Upper low cut in size 9 (very hard to find at this point in time--damn limited edition!) so I dunno, that might be a future project for me. That and the white leather Jack Purcells! I got kicks on the brain!


I also placed an order for the final volumes of Lone Wolf and Cub I'm missing: 12, 23, 27 and 28. This finally completes that saga of my life. I hope I can open up something exciting and new with the dawn of my 23rd year...

BTW, we gave mum her present early. I think she really loves it =)

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⇒ zombie/computer

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Apple Science: Inside the Image | Penny Arcade take the Zune down (another) notch. I love those guys. |

Zombies! I salute thee! I'm down with most-things zombie. George Romero, Resident Evil (the games, not the Godawful movies), ... of the Dead, 28 ... later, Slither, and all that jazz...Dawn of the Dead (1978) imdb listing. THE mind-blowing original | Dawn of the Dead (2004) imdb listing. Check it out, it's pretty good. wiki entry | Tom Savini. He's great in From Dusk til Dawn | Zack Snyder did good on his first go. Edgar Wright went one better. British humor and zombies. A winning combination--Shaun of the Dead |
Actually, I dig most horror movies now. I used shat my pants whenever they were on but now I get a big kick out of watching horror (good horror, not that Hostel sh!t).

NAS' Illmatic wiki entry. listen to it | Iron Butterfly's In-a-gadda-da-vida | Greek cuisine |

Intel Core 2 | Comparison of Intel processors | Multi-core computing | SLI | ATI crossfire | NVIDIA Quadro | NVIDIA Quadro Plex | Dell's Quad SLI. Crazy | Radeon R600 | Wii. Already sold a million | ATI FireGL | Pentium D | Overclocking a Dual-Core to 4.1Ghz and getting stable performance. Here | Itanium 2 | Xeon | Netburst | MAC Leopard. I eagerly await | Supercomputer | IBM POWER | Hybrid Kernel | Embarrassingly parallel |

Australian Open started today (hell yeah!). Here's a pic of young Federer (ha-ha!)

read the article. Interesting, Federer first clashed with Hewitt at 15 and had a big losing streak before his ascension |

Galatea: the statue brought to life by the gods in the Pygmalion myth

Wheels on Meals (1984). I love this movie. Sammo's double sword action kills Attack of the clones, while JC shows off his fighting and acrobatic talents again. The movie's also frickin hilarious with cameos/support from Lola Forner (Miss Spain '79), Richard Ng, John Shum, Benny 'the jet' Urquidez and Keith Vitali. The final battle goes right up there with Project A, Dragons Forever, Young Master, Drunken Master, Armor of God and City Hunter. JC back in his prime was King of the mountain. When you ignore the silliness/comedic elements of his work, you realize he kicked serious ass! The scene in the middle of Legend of Drunken Master, add that to the list.

to cap off this post, here's a pic of my lone wolf collection, all in near-mint condition (and that's the way I likes them!)

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⇒ Lone Wolf/Federer loses match

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I was alerted to a book sale today. And when they say sale, they meant it. Lone Wolf and Cub for 5 bucks a pop! I couldn't believe it. I picked up 12 volumes (13-22, 25, & 26) which were in very good condition. There were 2 more volumes there that I didn't have but the condition wasn't worth getting. I know it's gonna bug me down the line. Now in order to complete my entire collection of Lone Wolf, I just need vols. 12, 23, 27 & 28. It's taken me almost 5 years to collect 24 of 28 volumes. Sometimes I was broke, most other times I was preoccupied but I never lost interest.

After that, I dunno, I might start up a Lady Snowblood(partially inspired Kill Bill and spawned a movie or two), Path of the Assassin(about the legendary Hattori Hanzo) or Samurai Executioner(the sort of prequel to Lone Wolf) set. Something by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima--I'll sample 1 volume of each and see which one is worth adding, like what I did with Lone Wolf. Or I might look into Crying Freeman. The movie kicked ass (mostly due to Mark Dacascos) so the comic should be promising. It's also by Koike and Kojima. Midnight Eye Goku is also worth a look, thanks to the hellacool anime. I wonder if there's some anime floating around of Miyamoto Musashi, preferably by Goseki and Kojima. Or even Onimusha. Yeah, that would be awesome.

Here's Musashi killing a whale that dare cross his path!

I also picked up a book called Moving Pixels today. Normally it goes for $60 but I got it for $10. The dust jacket was a little worse for wear but nevertheless still a great get.

Had Subway for lunch. Footlong Roasted chicken on Parmesan Oregano. All salads except carrot, cucumber & spicy pepper. Cheddar cheese. Toasted. Ranch dressing was a bit on the thin and bland side. No salt and pepper. Got the meal (cookie and drink too). Anzac cookie. Large Coke. Also, I like my subs slightly crunchier and cheese a little more melted/burnt, so leave it in the grill longer! I ate too much. Felt so bloated and immobile after chowing down. I should have gone with the swiss cheese and maybe honey mustard.

The Kooyong classic final on today. Roger Federer lost (wtf?!?). Roddick downed him 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. I'm shocked, I can't remember (if ever) Federer has lost by such a margin. But 2 things about this final:
1. you only need two sets to win, so if Federer played for another 2 sets, who knows, Roddick may have gone down.
2. it's considered the preliminary event to the Australian Open. According to experts, most tennis players don't take it seriously/play with full ability. Whatever.

I will be tuning in to the Australian Open telecast. Every year at this time I used to watch it during breaks at my graveyard shift. Two memorable moments: when Roddick and El-Aynaoui played a 5 setter finishing with a record breaking tie-breaker for 5 hours; and Federer dispatched by a peak performance Safin is the semi-final (which we all knew was the true final). Good times.

listening to: Queen, Ennio Morricone's Lolita soundtrack (1997)--it's amazing, it gives me shivers, David Bowie, T-Pain, Three-6 mafia.

watching: Croupier (interesting-->I swear Clive Owen would've made an unbelievable Bond, but Daniel Craig is frickin' awesome too, I'm just referring to his amazing physical and characteristic resemblance to the description of JB), Pet Sematary (sh!t, what a waste of time, I wasn't scared at all and the movie had almost nothing to do with the title).


we are the champions, my friends,
and we'll keep on fighting, til the end...
we are the champions, we are the champions,
no time for losers, cause we are the champions...of the world!

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