Aaaah! Time to relax :)

I've taken today and Monday off work so I can have a nice relaxing 4 day weekend. No particular reason other than I wanted to get away from the stress of work and make my weekend last longer (as we all wish for.... "Why does the weekend always go so quickly?").

Today, I've been playing games mostly. My brother got his Saturn out and played a few games on that so I got inspired to get my Dreamcast out. Have been playing a bit of Sega Rally 2, Space Channel 5, Crazy Taxi 2, Cosmic Smash and Ooga Booga. I had forgotten how good these games all were... Shall have to play on it more :)

I also played Super Monkey Ball on my bro's Gamecube and completed all the levels on Beginner including the extra levels, got past that impossible level 15 in advanced and unlocked Monkey Bowling :). I may have to get a Gamecube when things like Unity come out but by then, I expect the console will have gone the way of the Dreamcast and Gamecube 2 or whatever will be on the horizon.

In an hour or so, I'm off for a pub lunch with the family but after that I have no plans to do anything. I'll probably just play more games, do my course work and look for jobs. Can't do much else as I'm so low on cash.

Before you die, you see The Ring

The Ring being a very good film indeed ;). That topic not being entirely true considering I'm not dead (yet?!). Even though I had seen the film in crap-o-vision (downloaded from the net) before, I certainly gained a lot from seeing this in the cinema. I missed a lot of vital details from just seeing the downloaded one.

For those who have yet to see it, I will not reveal anything about the plot. I will just say that the film was expertly executed and left me feeling genuinely unsettled! This was like one of the first films that I can recall which actually made me jump from fear rather than just a sudden sound from the film... Yes, very scary indeed.

I shall have to borrow the trilogy of Japanese films which this Hollywood version is based on cos allegedly, they are much better. I've not seen any of them yet but my friend has them on DVD. I have The Eye on DVD and that's very good as an Asian Horror and can expect Ringu to be even better.