another life blog

It’s more than 3 months from today. But just the mere act of scheduling the exam created an immense stress/pressure ceiling … fear is already piling up within me ~ 1000+ dental deck cards, hundreds of pages of first aid NBDE prep book, hundreds of diagrams, countless bits of testable information.
I feel like I […]

For those of you who don’t know (I didn’t know), The Kingdom is Saudi Arabia, a holy place where unbelievers like us aren’t supposed to trod upon with our unclean feet. For some Muslims, even the minor presence of Westerners in the Kingdom was too much to bear. Knowing no amount of negotiation […]

I guess if the demand is there, crack will happen one way or another. I’m just amazed hackers really try literally everything… I mean, Safari’s ability to load TIFF is a vulnerability? It’s just mind boggling … good thing I’m not a programmer anymore =)

Since KH 2 is an old game, and those who liked KH 1, probably played 2 already - I’d just go on and talk about the game with spoilers and all.
So Kingdom Hearts 2 picks up where the first left off with Sora trying to find Rikku and get back to Kairi. Of course, […]

Made famous by Ong-Bak, Tony Jaa is back as The Protector of elephants! Yeah, elephants.
The story is nothing to brag about… basically, some crazies from Australia kidnaps Tony’s precious elephants and he goes after them with Muay Thai. It’s a lot of ass kicking by Tony ~ but I think this time around, […]

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about what’s been bugging me about Reservoir Dogs and why I don’t like it as much as I “should.” I don’t know why it rubbed me the wrong way ~ was it the soundtrack? The way the story was presented? Or… maybe it was just […]

I’m a little surprised that I haven’t seen Memento until now ~ it sure was unique enough to arouse my (and colleagues) interest that I’d rent it way back when!
Leonard is suffering a lot of hardship. The last thing he remembers with 100% certainly is his wife being killed in front of him. […]