Iron Man (2008)

Almost didn't make it for the movie on June 1st; I told Ying Ying that the cut-off point was at 3.45pm, since the movie started at 4.10pm. If the landlady didn't come by then, she and Shekar should just go on without me.

Luckily for me, the Rent Lady came at 3.35pm.

We were late for the trailers, but we weren't late for the movie proper. Whee.

Iron Man IS as good as they say it was. Or maybe I'm easily impressionable. Either way, one of the reasons why I found Iron Man such a bundle of fun was because of Robert Downey Jr. Honestly, without him, the movie won't be that good, since Downey Jr practically deadpans everything, and made Tony Stark this really cocky and sarcastic dude. And yes, after watching this movie, I am officially in love with Robert Downey Jr.

Spoilers ahead:

One of the best lines from the movie is the bit near the beginning:

Reporter: You've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
Tony Stark: Absolutely ridiculous, I don't paint.

Oh yes, word of advice: There is a scene after the credits, and for those of you well-versed with the Marvel Universe, it's big news.

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The rat's back!

Yes, he is! Umangi told me that he was about in the kitchen, this morning, and after he scurried off into the washing-machine-cum-bathroom area, they closed the door. But then later on, someone opened it (probably because they didn't know and needed to go), so right now, we don't know whether he's left the area, or is still within the vicinity.

I told my mom about this, and she said to check the washing machine thoroughly first, before dumping my laundry in.

Heck, I'm gonna do the hop-back the next time I pop the lid on the washing machine!

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Myst.

I had an Auditing lecture at 8am this morning, so as groggy as I was, waking up at 8, I found that it was a bit blurry-looking outside. My first thought: "HAZE!1!"

Turns out it was a misty morning.

Luckily I wore three layers out (well, three and a half, if you count the singlet I was too lazy to take off), and as I was running across the highway (and panting like mad), I was spouting mist! Whee! Like on TV, when it's cold and people are wearing heavy trenchcoats and mist (I know 'mist' doesn't sound really right, but for the lack of a better word... someone enlighten me, please) comes out of people's mouth when they talk. And I was on the phone while walking back, and seriously, the cold was biting into my hand (the one holding the cell phone) so much that I had to switch hands every other minute and shove the colder one into my jacket pocket.

It was totally awesome, I must say. Cold as hell, but way awesome.

In other news, the Uni bookshop's having a sale, so I went to check out what books they had. They were selling a hardcover Terry Pratchett's Thud, but even after the 20% discount, it still costs $17, which, after conversion, equals RM50. Which is really too much for me. My mom's already kicking my ass for spending so much on Harry Potter 7.

Then I saw The Crime Code, by Michael Cordy, selling for $5. Summary looks interesting: Putting a stop to crime by genetically altering caught criminals so they don't become repeat offenders. As usual, there's always the person with the token ulterior motive. I read the back, and it states "Praise for The Messiah Code." So I thought, "Then I should be getting The Messiah Code instead," but there wasn't any around. Actually opening the book (to find out more about the author) led me to the fact that The Messiah Code was formerly known as The Miracle Strain. Which I've read. And which is a fantastic book that I love. Really thick, but good. So I bought it, since books like these retail back home for at least RM30. Cordy wrote another book called The Lucifer Code (Yes, I know, the Codes are glaringly obvious), which seems WAAYY more interesting, since it's about life and death, and the existence of heaven and hell (ya know, the usual), but they're not stocking it at all. Not even for $5. They also have The Venus Conspiracy, but as interesting as the summary may look (about manipulating human emotions using chemical drugs), there wasn't any comment about it in the back of The Crime Code (the ones that advertise Other Books By The Same Author and heap massive praise onto said books).

I have a Stephen King novel I've yet to finish (plodding rather slowly through Bag Of Bones, only fitting, since it's a REALLY slow ghost story), but I've finally finished Clive Barker's The Great And Secret Show! Fantastic book, now I've to find a cheap copy of Everville.

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Cooking.

Yesterday I bought two packets of pasta elbows from Coles at $2.30 each, only to find out later on that Safeway was stocking them for $1.90 each. Anyway, as horrible as I am at cooking, I have to say that I found the secret ingredient that makes my cooking a little more tolerable:

Pepper.

Liberal amounts of it.

(I'd love to say salt, but it'll still be tasteless even if I upend whole bottle.)

I accidentally poured (yes, POURED!) a whole bunch of it in as I was mixing the elbows around with the eggs. So for my case, black does not mean burnt-and-blackened carcinogenic, cancerous crap, it just means pepper.

Instead of ONLY being tasteless, it's just hot now.

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Random Little Britain-laden post.

So today, when ordering lunch, I told the girl that I'll have 'the beg-and-eh-kon roll, please.' And this wasn't the first time I was having the egg-and-bacon roll.

This month's Flasher competition is about picking a song, and writing a story based on said song. Story must not retell story in lyrics. I'm so screwed. And this month's prize is fantastic: $40 Borders book voucher. That totally trumps last month's $30 JB Hi-fi voucher, which I absolutely, did not win.

I am SO addicted to Little Britain right now, having found videos of all three seasons (and specials! Except for the Comic Relief Does Little Britain Live ones) posted up on YouTube. For the unitiated, it's a two-man skit show depicting the lives of Britons, albeit in very derogatory ways, making it a very bad pick for UK tourism videos. That's why it's so hilarious. Think of it as Goodness Gracious Me with only two white dudes.

There're a lot of gems from the narrator (who spouts nonsense most of the time), but my favourite has to be the one in Little Britain Abroad, bringing in the Daffyd Thomas skit, where the guy (played by Matt Lucas) wears really tight acrylic shorts and tops and always claims that he's the only gay in his village. Only this time, they're on this gay-friendly Greek island:

"In Mykonos, it's opening night for Myfanwy's Bar. Look at those two. He's a gay, she's a lezzer, they're both morbidly obese, is this entertainment??"

And also in that episode, we have Bubbles Devere (another morbidly-obese woman) singing a rather old, but well-known song, that of which I've added to my iTunes.

Linkie for those who are a bit bored and can't think of anything else to watch: Little Britain Abroad, E1, 3/3. That bit of narration's around 02:55, and Bubbles' sequence begins at 05:20.

EDIT: Another fabulous one I just remembered:

"At number 10, the government is celebrating another election victory. I love an election; in fact, I'm having one right now."

Replace the 'l' in 'election' with an 'r'.

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Still awake.

Well, it's 1am right now, and I'm still at the lappy, doing my assignment. I had an-hour-and-a-half nap in the afternoon, because after my morning lectures, I had this massive headache and couldn't even watch YouTube.

I spent the first 40 minutes dozing for what felt like 20, the next 10 minutes wiping drool off my hand, and then, the remainder of whatever minutes I have left actually sleeping. Which was good, really. Lovely nap, yesterday afternoon...

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Bloody @#$% assignments!

So for the past week, two of my assignments have basically gone down the drain, with another two more ABOUT to, this coming Monday. Financial Modelling's pretty much half there already (according to my group mates, we just have to get together on Friday to discuss the kinks and finalise everything), but for Auditing.... That's another matter entirely. In a nutshell, we're supposed to pick a company, and study the financial and non-financial issues surrounding it so we can pick out the inherent risks (yeah, I don't know what the hell 'inherent risk' is, either). At least I picked out my company already, and not because I think that there's stuff to write, but because I'm cheeky. Why is that, you may ask? Well, because Wotif.com is listed on the ASX as WTF. Yes, that's right. W. T. F. I can't help it; the company name calls to me. And nowadays, I have a tendency to swear. A lot.

Besides finally choosing a company (that has an abbreviation to my liking and makes me go, "Teeheeheeheehee" whenever I think about it), I still don't know what we're supposed to write about. Oh dear. I really have to focus if I want to finish by Friday. Exams are coming; gotta start studying.

OMG new Sam Jack episode uploaded! I'm so gonna watchignore it!!

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