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Does anybody look at the brighter side of life? I’m fairly sure that nearly everybody complains about their lives. Introspectively I think I’m fairly lucky. I’ve got fantastic friends, a loving family, an education and a decent life. Surely everybody dreams of being flooded by limitless cash, big houses, expensive cars, the jet-set life. Dreams are all they could be. I feel elated today. I don’t feel lifeless anymore. I think its the thought of going back cycling is returning the light in my eyes. Or maybe I’ve been heavily playing sports, badminton to be exact. A competition is coming up next friday. I haven’t been competitive in a long while, not since the days when I was in the saddle of my mountain bike, grunting and panting while pedaling up an insane hill whilst racing against the clock because of a little small wager our mountain bike team put aside. I sincerely miss those days where smoking was a complete no-no, physical and mental strength is priority and our life is just one big adventure. Life was so carefree back then. In times of trouble where the brain and soul are in knots I’ll hit the tarmac with my mountain bike, pedaling as hard and as fast as I can until I can’t feel my body and all my ears could hear are the fast beats of my heart and all my brain can comprehend is “faster”. Just me, my muscles, my bike and the road all alone riding hard and fast. Relationships does not exist during those time. Friendship, adventure and the endless strives to be faster and stronger is much more important. How could I have so much passion on something as simple as a  bicycle? Most probably the adrenaline, might be the endless effort to be stronger and faster. To be frank I have no idea really. What is for sure I will never permanently stop riding. Bicycles are my life. In three months time I will kiss nicotine and tar goodbye forever, a willing sacrifice for my passion. I’ve always said that the only enjoyment that I have are fags, cross that, I’ve found my replacement: The world, me and my bike. Fullstop.

School’s been heavily sucking up my time even though it only started. They said that second year subjects are tougher and more time consuming. I have to agree, next week I’ve got a presentation on Human Resources (Whoopee Doo!) Eventhough my schedule’s tight I’ve managed to catch M.I.3 which is one of those rare sequels that manage to out-trump their formers. So here comes a brief review on Mission Impossible 3!

Well typically theres plenty of action, shooting and what not employing a manic range of high-tech weaponary which won’t look out of place a century from now. The movie employs a slight flashback methodology which is rather popular with t.v. serials nowadays. No surprises there where they employed J.J.Abrams who’ve created the award winning serial drama ‘Lost’. The production company made some really good moves employing a writer/director who has a nack of playing with people’s emotions through the art of cinematography. Lets move forward to what I liked about the movie shall we? Primarily action: There was plenty of mind bending action from start till end. I particularly enjoyed the scene in the Vatican where the IMF (Impossible Mission task-Force. I never thought of that!) under a guerilla mission suppose to capture the evil Owen Davian which is superbly acted by Philip Seymour Hoffman. The scene of abducting Davian was very well done, smooth and leaves no loop holes for one to wonder how this person appeared out of nowhere managing to do something illogical, the vatican scene managed to cram in humour, action and a huge dosage of bewilderment. Hoffman must be commended as he did a fantastic job of potraying an obnoxious bastard with no conscience. Action was top-notch in this film, rescue scene, bridge scene and especially the ending was very well executed. I find no complaints in the action department. The plot isn’t top-grade but I wasn’t expecting the ending though, it was rather unexpected. M.I.3 is a fairly good watch. A few things that didn’t rocked my boat was Tom Cruise in particular, the opposite side of the spectrum would argue that he is handsome and all that, but frankly I don’t enjoy Tom Cruise in his typical Cruise-ness method of acting. He just seems to be particularly good acting tired and desperate. I won’t be surprised if he is such a person in reality. I’ve also gotten myself a copy of The Strokes new album. A detailed review would be coming up soon.

A little update on the website. In drastic response to the unbearable spamming of my shoutbox I’ll be deactivating it for a week or so. If you’d like to leave a message just leave a comment. Sorry for the inconvenience.
These past week while being busy with school work, I’ve also been contemplating on seriously going back to mountain-biking. Its been a long time since I rode: nearly 2 years to be exact. And frankly my bottom is begging for a good beating from the unforgivable bicycle saddle. I miss the days of riding hard and long in sun and rain, day or night with our old pose of mountain bikers. I miss terrorising the mountain and forest trails. I miss being smothered in mud, sand and animal faeces. Most of all I miss being at one with nature. Well the contemplation involves bringing my mountain bike here to Kuching. But before bringing it here I need to fix her up, and there are plenty of things to do on the bike which equates to a rather hefty bill. And since I need every part of my body to cycle the idea of selling off a few ‘un-important’ parts of my body to gather some cash is thrown out of the window. I estimate about RM1000 to fix my bike up. Which is a lot for something which is basically an aluminium frame, some gears and tyres to the undeserving. I’ve always loved mountain biking and I doubt that I’ll quit. Eventhough I haven’t been riding in such a while I still maintain my passion with bicycles.

Now. I have to get back configuring my notebook for UNIX and SQL or else I might fail this semester. The rigours of studying: bittersweet really.