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How have you guys been?

Well, I rented out The Shawshank Redemption on Saturday, but I didn't get a chance to watch it because I was busy with Math all weekend. I had a chance on Saturday night, but as soon as I go to grab the DVD, the lights went out. They didn't come on until about ten minutes after I went to bed and I was already comfortable in the warmth of my sheets, so I didn't bother getting up and watching the film.

I watched Requiem for a Dream a second time. I think that film has already become one of my favourites, but I have a heap of other films to watch.

I haven't gamed that much in the past week. Whenever I can, I try to sneak in a bit of Uncharted into my day, but it's difficult to do so when I have to go to bed early in order to get up early the next morning for university. Management & Marketing is still boring, but the stuff is starting to make sense. I haven't bothered reading through my notes or anything, but whatever.

Has anybody finished Uncharted 100%? How difficult is it to finish it on Hard and Crushing difficulties? The same with Killzone 2? I've had a bit of trouble picking up trophies in that game, besides the level completion trophies and a few others.

I mucked around with Photoshop a bit more during the week and came up with the following:

A Dexter avatar for Tv.com

A banner for Tv.com (Click here for the proper scale)

A few sigs and a banner (Click here for the proper scale of the banner)

They're all simple, but I like them that way. I would love to do more complex things using Photoshop, but none of the tutorials on YouTube are worth watching.

A question for anybody who uses Photoshop here: how much do you normally reduce the quality of a banner or blog header in order to fit it on GameSpot? Oh yeah, and is there a way to put a speech/thought bubble into an image using Photoshop?

Um, I guess that's it for now. I haven't got much to blog about these days. There's nothing interesting happening in my life. Well, that which I would blog about.

But yeah, I hope you guys are doing well and have a fun week.

I am sitting in the library listening to "Prison Sex" by Tool, all the while, annoyed by the presence of random people around me as I continue to think of a reason for why I shouldn't gnaw on my left fist for amusement. But I realised that doing so would just make this blog more difficult to type and force me to wash my hand in the cold, cold water running from the rusty taps of the washroom, which I do wish was just the slightest bit immaculate.

I just started my new semester at university last week, and it has been so dull and monotonous. I have to take up two new subjects this time, the subjects being Management & Marketing and Mathematics & Statistics. Math is alright because I've done all of the work in high school, but Management & Marketing is killing me. I don't think there is any way I could show interest in that subject. Like, the teacher is unbelievably boring and slow. Every lesson, she stands at the front of the class room and reads out stuff. She doesn't even get the class involved by changing her tone a little bit or passing a lame management or marketing joke. Luckily, Shrek's in this class too, but he plans on skipping every Friday because he dislikes the subject that much. I'm starting to take a little bit of interest by reading the notes at home, but going to class is like mental suicide. According to the teacher, she's been teaching the subject for about twenty years and she isn't even bored with doing so. If this is her being interested, I really don't want to imagine what the subject would be like if she were to lose interest in it.

With university on its way, you'd think that my dad would've taken back the PS3. Well, he hasn't, and I'm so glad. I've been playing Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for about half an hour per day since last Tuesday, but I play about one to one and a half hours on the weekends. The game is just brilliant. I'm already in Chapter 10 and it hasn't let me down yet. The pacing of it is just perfect, and the graphics, music and gameplay just add to it. The story is surprisingly interesting too, and quite comical at times. I haven't picked up Killzone 2 to beat Radec yet, but I plan on doing so as soon as I finish Uncharted.

I finally got around to watching The Silence of the Lambs on the Monday of last week and I loved it. The film was thrilling and an absolute masterpiece in its own respect. I wish I could have watched it once more, but I had to return it because another DVD I had reserved at the library came in. The DVD was Requiem for a Dream, a film I had talked to LD about a few months ago. Seeing that The Wrestler became my favourite film of last year, I was instantly interested in the previous works of Darren Aronofsky. In all honesty, Requiem for a Dream just blew me away. It's such a powerful and amazing film, dirty but with a sterile feel to it at times. I'm just amazed at how Aronofsky took a novel and turned it into a piece of urban artwork. The film's soundtrack was quite astonishing too. I've been repeatedly listening to "Summer Overture" off the soundtrack and it never seems to tire me. Well, not yet. I'll try and watch it once more on Friday, if I can.

Did anybody here watch the ICC Twenty 20 World Cup a couple of days ago? I was so annoyed that Sri Lanka lost that game. They hell deserved to win, especially against Pakistan. Also, Dilshan got out for a Duck! The team relies too heavily on him, but that doesn't surprise me considering he got the player of the tournament award for being the most consistent batsman out.

I've also been screwing around with Photoshop a bit because my older brother got a Mac a couple of weeks ago. Actually, Pretzel got a Mac too, but we haven't fixed up his one yet. Anyway, I made this sig from said screwing around:

Anyway, I'm sorry for wasting your time with this shotty attempt at an interesting blog. I've been annoyed with stuff in the past week or so, and I'm just tired, to tell you the truth. It doesn't help that I had Management & Marketing at 8:30 in the morning today, when it was ****ing freezing outside and I could barely breathe because I caught a cold on Thursday.

Hope you guys have a fun week.

Oh, nothing much really. My holidays are over now and I'm at the university library at the moment. I got up to quite a bit during the past two weeks, I guess. As some of you may already know, I got my PS3 back during the holidays. Considering that I have been missing out on trophies a lot, I decided to borrow a few games off my friend, Corey. I got Killzone 2, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Battlefield: Bad Company off of him.

I ended up spending most of my time playing Killzone 2 and I'm almost done with the game. I just need to beat that doouchebag Radec and I'm done. Does anybody have a tip or two on how to beat him? Allan and I both had a go at that boss yesterday and we both couldn't beat him. What's even weirder is that this is on the normal difficulty setting, and yet the boss is still damn difficult.

Anyway, Killzone 2 is bloody brilliant. The graphics are just amazing and the gameplay is quite impressive too. The story is just boring and I barely pay attention to it, and I absolutely hate my AI buddies, especially Rico. Stop randomly swearing you mofo!

I gave Bad Company about an hour or two and I'm almost done with the first act. I never realised how long the acts in this game were. I borrowed this game from Corey before and I got up to Act Three, but the acts never felt as long as they do now. Odd that.

Uncharted has been excellent so far. It's a lot of fun, but I've decided to put that game off until I finish KZ2.

Besides gaming, I've actually been watching a lot of films. Well, not a lot, but more than most people. I started borrowing DVDs from the library at my university, and I've found some excellent films there. The films I watched during the holidays were:

• Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
• I'm Not There
• A Clockwork Orange
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Sex Drive (Corey rented this film out for me from the local video store)
• American Psycho

I also have The Silence of the Lambs which I am still to watch. I think the films I enjoyed the most out of the list above were Donnie Darko, A Clockwork Orange and Pan's Labyrinth. I can't pick out which one I enjoyed the most out of those three because all three were brilliant.

Donnie Darko was surprisingly good. My friend, Chris, considers the film as one of his favourites and has told me quite a bit about it. I can't really explain why I enjoyed this film so much, so if you really want to know, just watch it. The humour in the film was quite good too, and I liked how Jake and Maggi Gyllenhaal played brother and sister in the film.

I'm Not There was quite a good film too. A tad boring at times, but I still enjoyed the performances. The best performance was probably Cate Blanchett's, followed by Marcus Carl Franklin and Heath Ledger. Heath's performance in that film was quite good, but I thought Marcus' performance was better than Heath's considering the age difference between the two actors. Christian Bale, Ben Whishaw and Richard Gere were quite good too.

A Clockwork Orange was... I think the best words to describe the film are 'powerful', 'brilliant' and 'disturbing'. I didn't even end up watching it a second time because I found some of the scenes in the film quite disgusting for some reason. Still, it was a brilliant film, I won't deny that.

Pan's Labyrinth is a film I've been meaning to watch for a while now, and I'd discussed this film with LD a couple of months ago. It's an amazing film and quite impressive. The ending to the film was emotional though and left me in tears. All in all, I just loved the film.

I'd wanted to watch American Psycho for a few months now, mainly because I wanted to see Christian Bale's performance in this film, as well as the fact that my mum is refusing to purchase the book for me until I explain why the book has been banned from libraries. Anyway, I didn't really enjoy the film that much. It was alright but something about the film left me disappointed. Bale's performance was good and quite funny at times, especially when he's talking to Paul Allen (Jared Leto) about Huey Lewis and the News while dancing to their song, 'Hip to Be Square'.

Sex Drive is another film I'd wanted to watch for quite a while now. I saw the previews for this film last year and had wanted to watch it ever since. I missed my chance to watch it at the cinemas late last year, and I'd looked up Amanda Crew a bit after seeing her in an interview for the film (LD might remember me mentioning her in a PM a few months ago). The film was friggin' hilarious though and so awesome. I don't think I've laughed that hard at any other comedy in recent years, besides The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Plus, now I'm more in love with Amanda Crew than ever. She's so cute in that film.

Besides gaming and watching movies, I've also been up to a bit of reading. I borrowed Nineteen Eighty-Four from my friend, Shrek. I still haven't read it much as I have been occupied with watching movies and all, but I hope to get to it soon. I also got out A Clockwork Orange and have spent most of my reading time on that. I just finished the first part of the book, with my Nadsat dictionary by my side, and I enjoyed it a lot. The use of Nadsat is quite interesting and is quite unique. I guess it makes the novel more enjoyable, in a way.

Allan also had his 18th birthday this past Saturday. It was quite a fun night and I wish I could've stayed there longer. Most of you must know by now that I abstain from consuming alcohol. I also do the same with smoking and doing drugs. I hate myself for doing this, but I ended up breaking my pledge that night; Allan and Corey forced me to drink that night. I didn't really want to, but I eventually decided to do so just this once only because Allan and a couple of other friends have wanted this to happen for quite a while now. Corey brought along a bottle of Southern Comfort and served me three large glasses of it with Sprite. I think Corey took the whole 'getting Dilshan drunk' thing a bit too far though. For my second glass, he poured like half a glass of Southern Comfort, topped it off with some Sprite, but when he was serving himself, he intentionally over poured his glass and said "Oh, I poured too much" and tipped most of it into my glass. I would've tipped my glass from time to time just to make it seem as if I'd drunk a lot, but Corey kept his eye on me and would've nagged me to pay for that. I didn't end up getting drunk, but I was more like between tipsy and drunk. I still remember most of the night, but I just don't remember why I said the things I said or did the things I did. Corey became a total nagger by the end of the night because he kept going off at me for drinking half his bottle of Southern Comfort and kept telling me that I owe him $20 when he's the one who wanted me to get drunk off that crap. I didn't even end up eating that night because Corey poured half a can of Wild Turkey and Cola on my food. He also nagged me to go with him and talk to Allan's hot cousin. Well, I don't know if she was actually hot but she looked pretty good when I was tipsy.

Luckily my older brother was at the party too and kept a watch on me. Corey even tried to get him drunk too, but I kept telling him not to drink. I never realised how annoying and mean I could be when I'm under the influence of alcohol though. I remember constantly going off at Corey for no particular reason, hugging a lot of people, laughing a lot, having to pee a lot and losing my balance most of the time. A former friend of mine, Jason, as well as a couple of other guys I knew from high school showed up to the party eventually, uninvited of course. They were already drunk but decided to bring in their stash of alcohol too. I eventually had to leave because my brother kept nagging me to go. Luckily, I drank a lot of water and Coke so I became somewhat sober again.

Probably the most memorable and embarrassing moment of the night for me was when Allan was making his birthday speech.

Allan: Thank you all for being here. Really appreciate it and all. Glad to see that all of you are sober enough to see this happen... Except for ONE! (Meaning me)
Me: *Leaning against a pillar with my hand up, trying to steady myself* Hey, that's ME!

Apparently after I left, Corey tried to hit on Allan's cousin. She went and told Allan about it, and apparently he was going to bust his head in for that but he was too drunk to do anything. Also, according to my friend Hemi, Corey said this when checking out Allan's cousin's hot girlfriend:

Corey: *Sitting one meter away from the hot girl* Hey Hemi! Check out that chicks t!tties!
Hemi: That girl? *Points to her* THAT GIRL?! SITTING ONE METER AWAY FROM YOU?! ONE METER?! WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU ****?!

It was a fun night, I won't deny that. Hemi ended up crashing at Allan's, Corey ended up crashing at Jason's (He has no idea how), and my friend, Rob, ended up crashing at Allan's neighbour's house. Allan came over the next day and hung out for a few hours and gave me all the details on what happened after I left.

But yeah, it was fun. I'm never doing that again though.

That's pretty much all I got up to during my holidays. Sorry for not being online that much during the past two weeks. I know LD is waiting for a reply to a PM and a comment in a blog. I'll get to all of those very soon.

I hope you guys have a good week.