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I Am Legend Redux

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Just saw I Am Legend again, this time with the alternate ending included in the blu-ray disc*. This ending made A LOT more sense and made the movie as a whole not only much better but now secures its place into my current all-time top tens.

Let me also add that watching the movie on my brother’s 36″ widescreen LCD and Playstation 3 is so wonderfully spectacular that it almost gives the feel of being in an actual movie theater. Just… wow.

Oh, and I also saw The Dark Knight twice now, once in IMAX. All in all I love it, but my thoughts about the movie are too complicated to express in a few words. Sometime I should have the inclination to write a full-blown introspective.

*It should be noted that I own the 2-disc DVD version which I got as a present from Shey. While the DVD has the exact same contents as the blu-ray, it was unfortunate that I couldn’t play it from my DVD region-locked Playstation 3. I bought the blu-ray for my brother, who was interested in seeing it.

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The Timezone Completist

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

This is Cincinnati, Ohio. It is currently 3:19pm EST – Eastern Standard Time! The last time I was under the CST (Central) in Chicago, and before that, PST (Pacific) in California and MST (Mountain) in Arizona.

Thus completes the Timezone Quadrumvirate, rendering my USA trip fulfilled and worthwhile.

Will be back with UTC+8 in a few days.

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Chicago

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Took the flight early yesterday from Los Angeles to Chicago. I am here! Finally, a place I could travel through buses and an efficient light rail system! Chicago… also known as:

Gotham City. And having just seen The Dark Knight, I am quite psyched for exploration!
Home to Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. Incidentally, I just received from my aunt (whose place I am staying in) my highly anticipated hardbound copy of the book.
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(Some might remember this as music from Little Miss Sunshine)

Where I stayed in California and Nevada, it was spacious, clean and serene. In this neighborhood, streets are smaller, some houses are quite old, and graffiti is everywhere – sordid little hints of the presence of gangs in the near vicinities. This is a place with something to tell. What’s not to love?

And by the way, that rhetorical question is written with some trepidation :D

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Singapore vs. Hong Kong

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

This is a hilarious take on what apparently is a rivalry between two nations that inevitably get compared with each other due to similarities in more ways than one.