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A Time for Laziness

I guess unemployment always does this to me. I'm starting to get use to the cycle maybe, finding work then being out of work. Actually, I've been lucky I suppose, I don't burn many bridges and some of the ones I still have up have given me work. I'm still teaching at SME Education Centre, and Readership. Part-time of course, but combined with tutoring Kevin's cousin I make barely enough to survive. I really need to budget my trip to Japan but there seems to be a lot I can buy when I go there.

I went to see Underworld:Evolution Sunday with Denise. My first time at the Broadway Cinema in Mong Kok. The theatre seemed kind of small but the movie experience was acceptable. I enjoyed the action (there is nothing else to the movie, the romance was thrown in there but had no purpose aside from being arousing) and the whole theme of the movie. I use to play quite a bit of roleplaying games when I was younger. I attribute a lot of that roleplaying to my current development. Though some people tend to get trapped within the fantasy world of roleplaying, it does allow people to develop their imagination and creativity. I don't recall where but I remember reading an article that talked about how children are losing some of their creativity because the games they play these days have everything defined for them. They don't make up sounds for their guns or swords, the dialogs are all pre-recorded. They play through set storylines without dreaming up possible endings. Will they all grow up thinking inside the box? The big screen feel was nice, but it really wasn't a great movie. Usually when the movie is done I feel like I'm back in Canada. This is the first time where I still felt like I was in Hong Kong. Shuffling out of the back door like I'm evacuating a building reforced that feeling.

DJ Lee is visiting Hong Kong. I met up with him today and took around some of the local sights on the Kowloon side. Of course we eventually headed over to the Star Ferry pier and we met up with Tiff down in Causeway Bay. Tomorrow we have a Hiking trip to Sai Kung with my co-workers at SME Education Centre, it should be a fun trip I really do miss clean air, and this hike should help clear my lungs a bit. I was feeling sick the last two days, maybe a touch of the flu that has been going around, but so far tonight I feel better.

On a side note I finished reading Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game again. I loved the book when I was young and I love it again now that I've read it again. It would be really interesting to see how they make a movie out of it, but I don't suppose it would compare to my imagination. I don't know why I've been feeling so nostalgic, reading the old novels I use to read when I was young (I finished the first two novels in C.S. Lewis's Narnia series recently as well) but these stories are just classics and so well written. I'm thinking about going back to Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time as my next stop. First thing is first, organizing my trip to Japan.

posted by Tempest7 @ 00:43