Omerta

some things i HAVE to blog about

american ninja 4
yes
a rather brilliant show i managed to catch towards the end
here are some rather hilarious things about the movie

- there are bad ninjas all over the place. dressed in red, blue, yellow and black.
- best thing is, they take orders from an arab who gives commands to 'the faithful'
- when the arab mastermind runs away from a gunfight and into the escape copter with a bomb 'big enough to blow up new york", a convo ensues
copter pilot- "where to??"
arab mastermind- "mecca"
- one good guy catches fire and instead of rolling about the ground to try to get the flames off, he stumbles around moaning "noooo"
- bad ninja dies the same way
- rag tag rescue team turns up armed with shotguns, grenade launchers, machine guns, and one guy carrying..wait for it... a frying pan.

american ninja 4, showing in all good cinemas

on to more intellectual things
the ib symposium today was rather cool
interesting speeches, questions etc..
some quotes, extracts i thought were particularly meaningful

" This generation isnt willing to lay their lives on the line for something they want"
" We are all subservient to western culture"
" your generation may be open, but its a consuming openness, its not an openness [to ideas] that produces, it consumes."
- Mr Tay Kheng Soon. If theres one thing i learnt from him today, its that i need to question more. ALOT more.

haha, actually, thats about all i really remember
i guess i was entranced by mr tay's outrageous almost conspiracy theorish ideas and concepts
hmm
to be able to develop such criticism of the surroundings
to formulate such in depth and piercing observations
fantastic.

last but not least
decision making time!
where i go this saturday will decide my priorities in the upcoming school year
prefects?
debate?
both?
yes
whether i turn up or not
may the force be with you umaga
open up the floodgates and begin the scoring fest!
and bring back the series!
add it to the collection ;)

thats all for now, more later as i regress into a more reflective mood!





his mastery of language was robbed by grief

posted by S @ Tuesday, July 05, 2005