'I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.' - Celine, Before Sunset

Monday, July 30, 2007

Sword and Sorcery: The Year in High Fantasy



The Dark is Risin
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When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back;
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.




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One fateful night, Tristran Thorn promises the most beautiful girl in the rural, English village of Wall, Victoria Forester, that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the wall that borders their village and separates it from the Faerie realm. Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and therefore win the hand of his love, along the way encountering witches, faeries, and unimaginable creatures.



The Golden Compass
In The Golden Compass, the heroine, Lyra Belacqua, a young girl brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, and her dæmon Pantalaimon learn of the existence of Dust, a strange elementary particle believed by the Church to be evidence for Original Sin. Dust appears to be less attracted to the innocence of children, and this gives rise to grisly experiments being carried out by Church-controlled scientists on kidnapped children in the icy wastelands of the distant North. Lyra and her dæmon journey to save their best friend Roger Parslow and other kidnapped children from this peril, with the aid of the Panserbjørne (armoured bear) Iorek Byrnison, John Faa and Farder Coram, leaders of the Gyptians, the aeronaut Lee Scoresby, and the witch Serafina Pekkala.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Simpsonized!







I am thus immortalized!

Saturday, July 21, 2007

"NOT MY DAUGHTER... YOU BITCH!"














Go Mrs. Weasley!

Sunday, July 15, 2007

A New High (or a new low?)

Platinum Elitist

Wow. I really thought it was a myth achieving this status. Would I be sitting beside the pilot on my next flight now? I guess it's a testament of how much traveling I've been doing. I need to put this new status to the test. Tingnan natin kung ma-upgrade ako for an international flight. I seriously doubt it though.


Federer-ation


Good clutch play Roger! He almost had you. It was certainly a psychological blow for Rafa. 4 more for Pete's record. Hopefully I can catch the Cincinnati Open this August.

Shipping & Handling

I recently bought something online that had to be shipped from Hong Kong. Bad experience. I ended up having to pay tariffs and handling almost half the cost of the items I bought. No wonder why online commerce hasn't caught on here in Manila.