Michelle cooked up a wonderful dinner of fettuccine with tomato sauce and meatballs. All covered with cheese. Unfortunately, we had run out of parmesan so we we had to make do with grated cheddar. Yum!
Finished A Feast for Crows last night. More like a feast for flies. This book is where things became mundane. Pretty much nothing happens. Good thing it’s short. Things did start to pick up towards the end. But then it ends… in multiple cliffhangers. What’s really disappointing is that it seems you can skip quite a lot of this book and it wouldn’t have mattered much. We’ll have to see on the sixth book because while this book focuses on what happens on the south, the fifth book focuses on what happens in the north. I just hope fifth book is not of the same content as this.
Google’s predilection to default to Tagalog even when I’m already logged in irritates me to no end. Alex tried to invite me to Google+ and I clicked the “Join Google+” button. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Already miffed at still not being in, I got more so when I saw “+Ikaw” and the rest of the page in Tagalog (“Palagi Akong Balitaan”, etc). As John Malkovich’s character said in the latest Transformers movie, WTF to that! And then it gives me an option to translate it to English like it’s an afterthought. Also, is there anything more awkward than “+Ikaw”? How do you read that anyway? “Dagdag ikaw”? “Karagdagang ikaw”? I generally mislike Tagalog on the web but I just hate this stupid behavior of Google’s. I expect it to be smarter. And before anybody starts preaching about loving your own, Tagalog is my third language. My first and second are either of English and Cebuano. So there.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is more of Michael Bay’s mindless death, destruction, and mayhem. And less of Megan Fox. In fact, there’s no Megan Fox. In her place is a cocky English girl who doesn’t seem to have any reason to be. And the death, destruction, and mayhem part? Boring boring boring. Reminds me once again these are not your juvenile movies growing with you but rather your juvenile movies being spiffed up for the current generation of juveniles. It’s freakin’ long, too: 157 minutes! I’m sure it’s all of those slow-motion fighting, walking, and kissing. And it didn’t help that the damn cinema seat is so damn uncomfortable.
Rating: 2/5
The Song of Ice and Fire continues. I finished the third book A Storm of Swords yesterday. True to its title, there are battles, skirmishes, and breathtaking sword fights everywhere. In the north (including north of the Wall and even on the Wall itself) , in the South, and even in the East. Yes, Daenerys’ storyline is finally picking up steam (guess it just needed the fire from those dragonlings). Nothing epic like the Battle of the Blackwater at the end of A Clash of Kings but just as well since the book is already long without having to be burdened by a long narrative for a single battle. In fact, sometimes the pacing becomes a bit ponderous and the twists and turns start seeming like a soap opera. But somehow George Martin redeems himself at key sections and kept it compelling enough to turn the next page. Or two. Or chapter. Or book.