randoms #35642

taking a break from the 40 days reading of the purpose driven life.. here are some random good things that i thought i should share..

the hobbit & wreck it ralph
so i havent catch a show at the cinema for quite some time, so it was really nice that i managed to catch the hobbit as well as wreck it ralph over the christmas-new year holiday period. despite what the critics say (i seem to always disagree with those people), i really did enjoy the hobbit. a fan of overlapping stories and cameos, the hobbit really had a fair share of them, especially since i read and watched LOTR quite a few times. speaking of cameos, wreck it ralph was full of them and i really like this show too. produced by disney, this animation is so different from the usual disney cartoons. a show whereby a bad guy from a video game had enough of being a bad guy and wants to be the hero instead. this show is especially good for video game fans with cameos from the likes of zangief, pacman, as well as the infamous contra cheat code from the era of NES.

once upon a time
it is this show that's showing on channel 5 on wednesday nights. its basically about how the evil queen sent all the fairy tale characters into a town in the real world, and most of the characters cant remember who they were. so each episode, it focuses on one character and the modern version of their fairy tale story.. with a twist. if you like how wicked tells the story of the witches of oz, you might just like this show. like today's episode was about how the mad hatter (from alice in wonderland) became the mad hatter, why he attends tea parties, how he ended up in wonderland.

when you drop a G2
im a big fan of pilot G2 pen since.... forever. it has been my choice of pen since ever... it saw me through the Os, the As, the countless lit / geog / econs essays.. the only complain i have is that it is easily spoilt if you ever drop it. so last week, i went to popular to restock on my G2s, and after I picked it up from the shelf, i dropped it on my way to the cashier. not thinking that it is spoilt, i went ahead to pay it. to my disappointment, when i got home, i discovered that it isnt working very well anymore. and strangely, no bookshop in singapore keep stock of the orange refill, i thought that's like $2+ down the drain. i was about to throw it away when i just thought i should try and pull out the tip from my old pen and change it, not being sure whether that is possible or not. it turned out that the tip comes off easily! so next time if you ever spoil the G2 tip, you can just swap it with an old one!