JOSHUA: Familiar Face
I watched the 1995 film "Hackers" again. Did you guys remeber the fact that Angelelina Jolie showed her boobies in that movie? Another thing that was working in the back of my brain was that the protagonist Dade Murphy/Zero Cool/Crash Override (who later I found out was actor Johnny Lee Miller ex husband of Ms. Jolie herself) looked kinda familiar - he's also the star of the "Mindkillers" movie I was watching last night. He also played "Sick Boy" in the movie Trainspotting .
Weird.
JOSHUA: Mindhunters
Tim once told me about this film so when I saw a copy I decided to get it. Basically the story goes something like this:
"On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time?"
After watching the film, I kept trying to remember what Tim wanted to me see. I knew it was something to do with the characters, but not exactly what. Though so part were "like duh", basically I liked the concept.
Tim once told me about this film so when I saw a copy I decided to get it. Basically the story goes something like this:
"On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time?"
After watching the film, I kept trying to remember what Tim wanted to me see. I knew it was something to do with the characters, but not exactly what. Though so part were "like duh", basically I liked the concept.
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Friday, July 30, 2004
JOSHUA: Photographer of the Year
It’s official, I’m the Photographer of the Year . . . well for the company’s Photography club/workshop anyway.
We’re just wrapped things up for the 2003-2004 block and I won the overall monthly competition by 2 points. It’s kinda funny that the photo that game me the last few crucial points were from an instamatic camera which fought against the SLR cameras of the other members.
I was supposed to get a medal for my efforts, but I guess they’re still having it made. They did give me some high definition professional film and some ASA 100 film. Which I kinda found weird since I prefer using the digital camera over that of the traditional one.
They did have a raffle and I did win the grand prize of a free Digital Photography Training. I guess that kinda makes up for it.
It’s official, I’m the Photographer of the Year . . . well for the company’s Photography club/workshop anyway.
We’re just wrapped things up for the 2003-2004 block and I won the overall monthly competition by 2 points. It’s kinda funny that the photo that game me the last few crucial points were from an instamatic camera which fought against the SLR cameras of the other members.
I was supposed to get a medal for my efforts, but I guess they’re still having it made. They did give me some high definition professional film and some ASA 100 film. Which I kinda found weird since I prefer using the digital camera over that of the traditional one.
They did have a raffle and I did win the grand prize of a free Digital Photography Training. I guess that kinda makes up for it.
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Monday, July 26, 2004
ZAK: More Powerful Than A Super-hero
Had another one of those weird days at the office.
There’s this quarterly thing called “Breakfast meetings” held at the office to discuss how the company’s doing for the last couple of months. Each time this is done, some sort of twist is made in order to lighten things up. This time the theme was that of Super-heroes! As if that’s not weird enough, each of the presenters had to come in costume and at the same time try to present their report in reference to the theme.
Anyways, I was one of the reporters and was surprised to think that most of the other reporters were thinking of this as some sort of contest. There one who was planning to go as Kato (Green Hornet’s sidekick). Yet another one was going as Superman. Some even got to get their department mates to play part of a group thus some were in going as the Power puff girls (complete with the Professor) and yet another one was going as the X-men. Seems everyone wanted to better the other’s presentation and even bought their costumes.
Left to my own resources, I was wondering what I should do. So I went to the store and bought myself a Spider-man T-shirt. Not a costume, but just one of those with “Spider-man 2” written on front and a big drawing of Spider-man at the back.
Come presentation day, I was the last to give my report. So clad in a white long sleeve sweatshirt and the T-shirt on top of that, some jeans, rubber shoes and a pencil tucked in my ear I started to explain: “I was forced to think of someone who was more powerful than the super-heroes that came before me. Since most of the heroes came from comic books, I guess coming as a simple comic-book artist gives me better leverage when dealing with them. I may not be the one fighting crime but I’m the one who’s instructing the heroes what they should do – kinda like when you’re at Finance and dealing with the Sales people.”
Anyway, I then proceeded to present my report. I found some comic panels of spider-man before hand (those panels with drawings but with no dialogue yet), which is in turn I made a flash presentation just like those dot comics found in the marvel site. It kinda fit nicely into the comic book artist theme I was going for.
Everyone was line, “He got us there didn’t he?”
Had another one of those weird days at the office.
There’s this quarterly thing called “Breakfast meetings” held at the office to discuss how the company’s doing for the last couple of months. Each time this is done, some sort of twist is made in order to lighten things up. This time the theme was that of Super-heroes! As if that’s not weird enough, each of the presenters had to come in costume and at the same time try to present their report in reference to the theme.
Anyways, I was one of the reporters and was surprised to think that most of the other reporters were thinking of this as some sort of contest. There one who was planning to go as Kato (Green Hornet’s sidekick). Yet another one was going as Superman. Some even got to get their department mates to play part of a group thus some were in going as the Power puff girls (complete with the Professor) and yet another one was going as the X-men. Seems everyone wanted to better the other’s presentation and even bought their costumes.
Left to my own resources, I was wondering what I should do. So I went to the store and bought myself a Spider-man T-shirt. Not a costume, but just one of those with “Spider-man 2” written on front and a big drawing of Spider-man at the back.
Come presentation day, I was the last to give my report. So clad in a white long sleeve sweatshirt and the T-shirt on top of that, some jeans, rubber shoes and a pencil tucked in my ear I started to explain: “I was forced to think of someone who was more powerful than the super-heroes that came before me. Since most of the heroes came from comic books, I guess coming as a simple comic-book artist gives me better leverage when dealing with them. I may not be the one fighting crime but I’m the one who’s instructing the heroes what they should do – kinda like when you’re at Finance and dealing with the Sales people.”
Anyway, I then proceeded to present my report. I found some comic panels of spider-man before hand (those panels with drawings but with no dialogue yet), which is in turn I made a flash presentation just like those dot comics found in the marvel site. It kinda fit nicely into the comic book artist theme I was going for.
Everyone was line, “He got us there didn’t he?”
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Friday, July 23, 2004
GENE: Ragnarok Offline
Rico fixed the computer! Yehey! Joshua would be so happy!
Got hold of a copy of the Ragnarok Offline game. It's the server version actually, which means one can play it without connecting to the level-up-games servers. I think this is a beta version or something. I had to guess some of the commands which were still in korean. I was able to try a couple of characters and would probably try the others when I find time. It is pretty much addicting but there's something missing from it. Playing with yourself is not as fun as playing with someone else.
Yuck! Joshua! Get your mind out of the gutter! Piper!! Joshua's thinking dirty thoughts again!
Rico fixed the computer! Yehey! Joshua would be so happy!
Got hold of a copy of the Ragnarok Offline game. It's the server version actually, which means one can play it without connecting to the level-up-games servers. I think this is a beta version or something. I had to guess some of the commands which were still in korean. I was able to try a couple of characters and would probably try the others when I find time. It is pretty much addicting but there's something missing from it. Playing with yourself is not as fun as playing with someone else.
Yuck! Joshua! Get your mind out of the gutter! Piper!! Joshua's thinking dirty thoughts again!
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Monday, July 19, 2004
RICO: House Computer Fixed
Found time to format the hard disk and finally got the computer system working. Much to Gene and Joshua's delight.
Found time to format the hard disk and finally got the computer system working. Much to Gene and Joshua's delight.
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Saturday, July 17, 2004
JOSHUA: KING ARTHUR
Was bored at the office so I left early to be able to catch a movie and try to get rid of the boredom I was feeling. Went to Greenbelt three and watched King Arthur. Was sitting beside Deither and Kristine for two hours of more boredom. I expected something more from the movie but then again what could you get from a film who wanted to be based on a more realistic version of the myth?
Was bored at the office so I left early to be able to catch a movie and try to get rid of the boredom I was feeling. Went to Greenbelt three and watched King Arthur. Was sitting beside Deither and Kristine for two hours of more boredom. I expected something more from the movie but then again what could you get from a film who wanted to be based on a more realistic version of the myth?
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Friday, July 16, 2004
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