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Village

Earlier this week we watched M. Night Shymalan's The Village. It was a curious choice, as Johanna had already seen it and spoiled the plot to me (by my own request). We watched it still, and why not - it's a good movie.

Good, indeed, and not exceptional. The basic idea of the movie (which I will not spoil for you) is interesting. It wouldn't stand for closer scrutiny, but if you don't think too much about it, it's just fine. I also enjoyed the use of colours in the movie - it was a pleasure to watch.

The Shyamalan movies I've seen this far rank this way: The Village and Unbreakable are the best, then comes Sixth Sense and finally Signs in the bottom. None of the films are very good, but even Signs wasn't complete crap.

4.03.2005 klo 08:13 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Chronicle

This is a meme that's been going around a while now. I'm not generally into these, but this one is more interesting than most. So, here goes:

10 years ago I was in the 8th grade in school. I had just found goth rock and live action role-playing. I was socially inept geek (I'm better now: I'm socially capable geek). Back then I was known as the walking encyclopedia, who knew everything about everything. I wonder if my current friends would consider that as my main characteristic? Anyway, I had planned my future: I was going to university to study computer science to become a programmer. Didn't happen.

5 years ago I was spending the last months of my compulsory military service, which I didn't do in the army. Instead, I was working in the Jyväskylä university student association, doing the basic office work. I was slowly discovering board games. I had already met Johanna and I spent most of my weekends using the free train tickets courtesy of Finnish state to visit Tampere. My plans had changed. Even though I had already cleared the exams to go to university of Jyväskylä (majoring in computer science), I applied to university of Tampere and information studies. I think I wanted to become a librarian - or anything else, but not computer science. Moving to Tampere was my priority number one, anyway.

3 years ago I studied hard and got an internship in the university library. I'm still there. We're slowly reaching written history and the first blog entries. That summer we moved with Johanna to our current apartment.

Year ago we were planning our wedding. I attended a course in XML, which inspired my master's thesis (or pro gradu). I also visited Helsinki to meet my future side employer, Marektoy.

So far this year I've worked hard: I've studied, worked at the library, translated games, updated web sites, written articles.

Yesterday we had pleasant evening with lasagne, good wine (Gazela, Portugese green wine) and good cider (Cidre Pays d'Auge, soft and smooth French cider).

Today I've been working hard: I finished my cross-language information retrieval exercises and two translations and wrote an article and a letter.

Tomorrow will begin a new week of hard work.

27.02.2005 klo 17:26 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Apocalypse isn't much of a movie, but hey - it was fun, it had lots of action and... well, that's about it. I had no previous experience of the earlier movie or the games, but that didn't stop me from enjoying this one. Nothing I'd recommend to anyone, but fine for quick entertainment.

27.02.2005 klo 17:18 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)