Poseidon Revelation

I think I know why the movie Poseidon was directed the way it was.

With fewer people in the later scenes, the fewer the lines the scriptwriters have to create. Plus, with fewer characters there will be fewer costumes too. Basically what we're looking at is lower costs.

The movie started off with a ship-load of people, then a maverick decided to find a way to escape on his own and ended up having a bunch of other people tagging along with him. 2 died along the way, but at the end, you are left with what, 6 /7 people? So from hundreds down to 6... (everyone else died on the ship as it sunk)

Pretty genius, I have to admit.

I Literally Woke Up On the Wrong Side of the Bed

I had a totally bad start to the day.

Woke up feeling like I needed an extra week of sleep.

Couldn't decide what to wear; kept on changing my mind till I left my house later than I should have.

Stepped on my earpiece and heard that awful crunching sound.

Dropped my phone (not in the pouch) right smack onto the marble.

Missed my bus.

All this before 7am.

A Bromance!?

That's what the tabloids are calling it. I prefer to call it a tragedy of immense proportions.

Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney collaborated at the Grammy's; where Grohl drummed for Paul, who sang,"I Saw Her Standing There". Obviously I have many gripes with the collaboration. Let me clear the air first, by saying that I love the both of them. They are legendary and are geniuses at what they do. Thus, I had very high expectations for the collaboration.

Individually, they are magnificent, but together they were appalling! I felt that it was an odd clash and that their styles were too different to compliment one another. Of all the Beatles songs, why that song!? Why not something later or even remotely impact-ful. It felt like a revival item; like some homage was being paid to the band. Bad song choice. McCartney was flawless, though, even managing to do the "ooooh" bits.

Dave, oh Dave, I know Paul's one of your heroes, and you looked like a school kid (grinning and all) whilst playing but really... the song wasn't rock enough for you and you were definitely limited by it and you couldn't fully show off how freaking awesome you are. Plus, you looked real stiff and awkward. Performance pressure? Your timing was impeccable, though.

Tragic, really. Such a promising collaboration and that was the best that they could come up with?!

I can't believe I stayed up just to watch that. I am terribly disappointed.

A Bomb or The Bomb?

If it weren't for my brother, I wouldn't have known that Milton's Paradise Lost is in production as of this moment. They started some time in '05 and hope for it to be ready in '10.

Who is so bold as to take this on? Scott Derrickson, director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Hellraiser: Inferno. So he does have some experience of Satanic subject matter but I doubt that that will be enough.

I'm assuming the movie will be mainly in CGI and that it will undoubtedly be awesome to watch the epic battles. Honestly, I have no clue how Milton's imagery can be translated visually especially since about everything is described in simile with most of it juxtaposing itself. That and the fact that throughout most of the book, Adam and Eve are nude right up till before the end. I'm pretty sure the censors will have much to gripe about that with Legendary Pictures who'd be developing the movie, since he plans to make it a big Hollywood blockbuster hit.

I realise I'm completely thrashing the film even before trailers / spoilers / tv spots have been released but if you've read the book, you'll understand where I'm coming from. The transition from print to screen has not been successful for the many who dared to take on the challenge. The written word is meant to titilate and to set your imagination free whereas it becomes limited once it's been directed through the eyes of an individual and the audience is forced to interpret how he interprets those words.

Plus Milton was slightly off-tangent, theologically and it will be interesting to see how the script writers work on that without offending / disappointing any religious groups or even Milton fans. Things like who's going to play Satan, God, Adam & Eve, the fallen Angels etc? Will the dialogue be in Modern English? Will it based or loosely based (like Troy - come on, Archilles was supossed to be DEAD and he appeared to fight!?!?) on the book or will it be an adaptation / snippets of some of the books?

I can't wait!!

Dear You

Stop. Really just STOP.

Junior is so wrong for you... and Senior is a worser choice.

But we all have to make mistakes because there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know that it's a mistake because the only way to really know that it's a mistake is to make the mistake first and then look back and say "Hmmm, yea, that was a mistake."

What I'm trying to say is, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake, because then you'd spend the rest of your whole life not knowing if that something was a mistake or not.

So maybe I won't stop after all.

Reality Check

Some things are beyond my control and I must learn to accept that fact. I cannot solve everything or even fix everything. Some things are meant to happen in ways I don't expect them to and I'll just have to let them run their course.

On the other hand, there are other things which I can foresee and have absolute control over. These are the things which I know I can persuade to work in my favour. These are the things which I can manage and handle to the best of my abilities.

Then tell me why do I fret over things I cannot control and as for the things that I can, I let them go awry?

I'm turning 24 and I still have much to learn.

Because After 2am is When Things Get Legendary

Cluedo is a God-send! I have spent many late nights the past week suggesting and accusing and I am so addicted to the game that I find myself looking forward to coming home just so that I can play the game with my brother and his wife. Addictions are nasty business indeed.

On one such night, my brother and I were deciding where to take the family for dinner. Every weekend, we pick a location that we've not been to before and once a decision has been made, he drives us all there. To make said decisions, we entrust the help of this site, Hungry Go Where. I absolutely am fascinated by how organised the categories are and you are literally spoiled for choice! It caters to lifestyle choice, time of day, craving, preference of location etc. That's how David's birthday dinner location was finalised and believe me, it was a memorable dining experience.

But that's not my point. A couple of days back, my brother asked if I knew any nice places that he could take his wife to. Without blinking an eye, I very casually said, "Oh, go to boredgowhere.com" and he really did! I think my natural passive nature fooled him and he couldn't tell that I was pulling a fast one on him! Damn.

Then it hit me, BoredGoWhere.com does sound like a legitimate site. Think about it, if there really is a Hungry Go Where, why not the one which I made up? It must have been the night air but the hamsters in my head were racing on their wheels; I started coming up with ridiculous yet believable site names.

• Bored Go Where - I would honestly visit this site quite religiously.


• Antisocial Go Where - For those, like me, who shun crowded spots. The only downfall is popularity would defeat the purpose of the site.


• Emo Go Where - For those who are tired of sitting in the bathroom slitting your wrists, visit the site for more locations to brood with your posse.


• Lazy Go Where - Haunts located a stone's throw from your area of residence.

A crazy thought was to have one that catered to your lifestyle choice (Straight Go Where, Gay Go Where, Curious Go Where etc...). Come on, it's hilarious!! Don't get me wrong, this is just meant to be a joke but as Barney (as in Neil Patrick Harris' character in How I Met Your Mother and not the purple dinosaur) would say, "If you don't laugh, it would just seem mean."

Plus I was awake way after my bedtime so I had to stop coming up with site names... and for the record, if those names do get used, you heard it here first.

Oh and Aqil, stop reading what I KNOW you're reading before you get addicted. Ask me nicely and I may just share with you my favourite stories *wink wink*.