Well I just lost $5 AUD

I've just finished watching MI:3 and I just lost a bet.

Overall it was a pretty average action film. It had the right explosions and number of bullets to fit the criteria but sadly didn't really hold my interest. I thought out of all the series that it was the best of them. Obviously JJ Abrams was the right choice as director. As always Tom Cruise was not very good, but I've come to expect that with most of the movies he is in.

At least the movie was short.

And as it pains me to say, it was a better film than The Davinci Code.

I have now fulfilled my half of the bet and Dave, I hope you enjoy your $5 AUD. Make sure you spend it wisely.

Free does not equal good

Yesterday I did something very silly.

I work in a hospital and yesterday they were giving free flu shot to anyone who wanted one. I thought "we'll that's probably a good idea. That way I won't get the flu". And so I had them put a needle into my arm. Before that happened they made me read a sheet which pretty much said "you might get sick" if I have the shot but I thought "pfft what are the odds". The next clue that this might not be good was when they asked "So which is your writing arm, I'll give you the shot in the other one". It made me pause but I went ahead with it anyway.

Guess what. I got sick!

It came on slow. Didn't notice it at first. I expected to have a small affect, after all the shot is a smaller form of the flu anyway, whether it was killed or weakened so my immune system could take it over and make sure it didn't have house keys anymore. The it was time to get some lunch. That's when the high fever hit and I started to hallucinate. I saw a chicken-man getting a chicken burger at the kiosk. I couldn't help but stare and then I went and got my tuna wrap. On the way over to the new building where I had to go provide some training, before I got outside, it started raining on the inside. I put up my umbrella and got some very funny looks (also a bought of bad luck as its really bad to put up an umbrella indoors, usually for the umbrella).

That abated after the Tylenol kicked in and then I completed the training session and then went to check out the new lecture theatre. I was going to go and be part of another meeting when the Operations Manager said I looked dreadful and that I should go home. And so I did. And last 30 minutes before a migraine rendered me almost unconscious (luckily enough time to clean the dishes) and I went to sleep for 2 hours before Shannon got home.

And thus I was sick for most of last night with the hot-cold flashes. What was worse was that I had "the Grand ol' Duke of York" stuck in my head for several hours yesterday.

And I still feel like crap.

This whole experience reminds me of plif.

We paid for blood!

Last night I went out with Rob to a Canucks game. It was my first live Ice Hockey game (if you don't include the game we played back in Sydney) and it was Canucks vs the Detroit Red Wings. I can surely say I picked a good game to see. Full of penalties (of which a few I had to query Rob over) and rough housing enough to satisfy the next person (and did, they were cheering all the way through).

The Canucks wanted to win. It was obvious to see. However the Red Wings seemed to want it more. In the end I think the shots on goal from the Red Wings was double that of the Canucks. 3-2 final score. Luongo did his best and saved a hell of a lot of Pucks but the Red Wings got lucky and the Canucks defense could have been better.

The best part of the game was a shot on the canucks goal. Luongo missed it but it hit the top of the goal and bounced off, the ringing noise could be heard from up where we were sitting. It then got stuck in the net and we could see a guy trying to shake the net until the puck dropped out and he caught it. He got a lot of cheering and jeering for that. But, as Rob said, if you paid for tickets where he was sitting it was well worth trying to get a puck.

The main foul came when the Canucks got a third goal disallowed as they said there was "Goalie tampering" because the Goalie was on the ice. But it was plain to see nothing had happened. There was a lot of yelling at that point and my ears started to hurt. But I was yelling to as I was outraged! Outraged I say! Those poor Canucks.

Anyways, I had a great time and would definitely go back and see another game any day.

Its a trap!

Last night Shan and I completed Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on the PS2. We rented it from our local Vid store (or should I say DVD, I don't think there's any "videos" in the store no more) and had 5 days to play through.

Now I got to play about 30 minutes of the first game at Tancred's place last year and it was fun but a little finicky with camera angles. However I was really looking forward to this game as the original 3 are my favorites (and to go further down which is better search the internets).

The game combines two of my greatest joys, Star Wars and Lego (three if you include the fact that its a computer game). So already I was having fun. You start of as Princess Leia and Captain Antilies. Now I could go further down the story line but you pretty much know it already. There are some creative liberties taken with the story (and overall story length). However the fun came with the silly hats you could make the lego men/woman wear and the silly things they do. And the fact that it was all LEGO! The levels were not overly hard (apart from the ones where you have to fly ships, where each wrong move flips both characters and usually ends up running into blaster fire, snow banks or tree stumps (or all 3). The short clips are hil-arious!

After finishing the game we had only completed 41.9% of the game. I had played the first levels two chapters as single player but to be honest got quite bored without a 2nd player. The only advantage of single player was that the camera angle handled a little better without dragging the other player of cliffs or platforms.

One big thing I noticed while Shan and I were playing was that unless it was absolutely necessary to progressing during a chapter, neither one of us wanted to play the whinny farm boy.

I would give it 4 stars but since I feel the game doesn't really have much replayability I give it 3 1/2.

Now, back to playing Guitar Hero on Hard and defeating the 4th boss in Shadows of the Colossus.