Well, it's the end of the weekend, and obviously none of my random readers have placed any requests on my messageboard for me to look and rant on about. That was expected, so I'm not too bothered actually. For those of you who don't have a clue about my message board, there should be a link to it at the top of my blog, otherwise the link is:
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Friday night I stayed in and watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The best in my opinion out of the three. Also the last one so far in the trilogy to become quartet soon with the release of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Last Crusade focuses upon the finding of the Holy Grail, the cup where Jesus Christ drank from during the last supper, and the same cup that held his blood when the romans pierced his side when he was on the cross. Hailed to hold legendary powers of healing and immortality, it was being sought by a power-hungry rich man, with the help of German Nazi forces during Hitler's Reign of Germany.
The music is by John Williams, and it is created with Lucas and Spielburg magic, featuring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery with amazing locations, excellent cinematography, witty and humorous dialogue especially between Dr Jones Snr and Dr Jones Jnr and a few wonderful adventure/action sequences. Quite an impressive movie, considering it was filmed and produced in 1989.
An all round classic, if you haven't seen it, it is a must.
9/10
Well, Saturday training was interesting to start with. They were tree chopping out the front, supposedly the trees were dying. I smell BS in the air, I think it is the first stages of clearing the trees in preparation for the building of the new Vice Chancellor Gavin Brown Pavilion. Sneakily cutting these trees down will probably save some kind of logistics and cost later methinks. Anyway, the carpark was shut out, and thankfully I got a spot behind the Grandstand early enough that the AFL match going on number one oval hadn't started. Training itself was pretty good, but our instructor had injured his wrists and wasn't going to be bogu playing. He had a look at my footwork and men cuts before we started and gave me some positive help for once. Highly unusual! In any case, it was well appreciated.
It appears that I need to focus more on spreading my footwork out a little to be better balanced, and he also cleared up a question I have had (but it had never been answered satisfactorily for my liking previously) about the use of the back left leg. The pushing motion needs to be a complete leg action with a little bend in the leg. I had previously not been sure since I had seen/read/heard that it should be all a push from the foot/calf, but then I could never really do it well, nor fast/powerfully. Not that I can do it any better with the bent leg at this point in time, but hopefully in time it will be better.
Maowei took the bogu training waza in the usual rotation, and we did quite a few rotations of cuts and that went fairly smoothly. I didn't feel like just doing men cuts, so I followed everyone else in doing the normal waza, but I can definitely feel and see an improvement in my kihon men cuts in general from the week or so I only did men cuts. Pretty nifty. Once again when we broke for jigeiko/shiai, I was in jigeiko. I didn't mind really, and I played Jimmy, Jeff and was waiting to play Ervin but we ran out of time unfortunately.
Lunch was at Broadway before I went to a friends place for Korean style BBQ dinner, homemade. Then we sat around talking, and one of their flatmates had a keyboard and was a really good pianist and had quite a large range of music repertoire so we ended up singing and naming a lot of music LOL. A fun night actually.
Sunday, normally a day of rest. But not so today.
I was helping out being crew in filming a short film for someone's media studies subject. They have to film a five minute short film. It is normally a group task, but somehow or other, they ended up having to do it alone. It was apparently cleared by the tutor that they could get external help, so that is where I came in. The two main actors, director and myself (mainly being cameraman) bummed downtown to Market City and Paddy's Market to do some filming of scenes there, as well as Capitol Square for the Harry de Wheels Pie shop. We were going to go to the Opera House Forecourt too but the weather was too crummy for what we were going to be shooting, so we decided to leave it at that. It was quite a long day with moving around, filming different angles, discussing what worked, what didn't and so forth. We will have to do more shooting for the rest of the 'city' scenes, while the start and finishing scenes will be done elswhere instead of the city. Hopefully when there is nicer weather too.
Once I got home, my brother surprised me with a very early birthday present, Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare. I've played this before at City Hunter (it's a LAN PC place on Sussex St, and other locations downtown), and had been considering buying it for myself, but just never got around to it. Anyway, I installed it, and it's quite fun. I only played the first two stages or so because it was getting late (though even later as I blog this) but I think I will have fun with the single player mode. As for multiplayer, it'll be interesting to see how the ranking progressions go too.
Well, tomorrow/today really, is the start of another week. Tuesday, oh Tuesday is interview day...... Anzac Day on Friday too....... Hmm.
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/58748.html
Friday night I stayed in and watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
The best in my opinion out of the three. Also the last one so far in the trilogy to become quartet soon with the release of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Last Crusade focuses upon the finding of the Holy Grail, the cup where Jesus Christ drank from during the last supper, and the same cup that held his blood when the romans pierced his side when he was on the cross. Hailed to hold legendary powers of healing and immortality, it was being sought by a power-hungry rich man, with the help of German Nazi forces during Hitler's Reign of Germany.
The music is by John Williams, and it is created with Lucas and Spielburg magic, featuring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery with amazing locations, excellent cinematography, witty and humorous dialogue especially between Dr Jones Snr and Dr Jones Jnr and a few wonderful adventure/action sequences. Quite an impressive movie, considering it was filmed and produced in 1989.
An all round classic, if you haven't seen it, it is a must.
9/10
Well, Saturday training was interesting to start with. They were tree chopping out the front, supposedly the trees were dying. I smell BS in the air, I think it is the first stages of clearing the trees in preparation for the building of the new Vice Chancellor Gavin Brown Pavilion. Sneakily cutting these trees down will probably save some kind of logistics and cost later methinks. Anyway, the carpark was shut out, and thankfully I got a spot behind the Grandstand early enough that the AFL match going on number one oval hadn't started. Training itself was pretty good, but our instructor had injured his wrists and wasn't going to be bogu playing. He had a look at my footwork and men cuts before we started and gave me some positive help for once. Highly unusual! In any case, it was well appreciated.
It appears that I need to focus more on spreading my footwork out a little to be better balanced, and he also cleared up a question I have had (but it had never been answered satisfactorily for my liking previously) about the use of the back left leg. The pushing motion needs to be a complete leg action with a little bend in the leg. I had previously not been sure since I had seen/read/heard that it should be all a push from the foot/calf, but then I could never really do it well, nor fast/powerfully. Not that I can do it any better with the bent leg at this point in time, but hopefully in time it will be better.
Maowei took the bogu training waza in the usual rotation, and we did quite a few rotations of cuts and that went fairly smoothly. I didn't feel like just doing men cuts, so I followed everyone else in doing the normal waza, but I can definitely feel and see an improvement in my kihon men cuts in general from the week or so I only did men cuts. Pretty nifty. Once again when we broke for jigeiko/shiai, I was in jigeiko. I didn't mind really, and I played Jimmy, Jeff and was waiting to play Ervin but we ran out of time unfortunately.
Lunch was at Broadway before I went to a friends place for Korean style BBQ dinner, homemade. Then we sat around talking, and one of their flatmates had a keyboard and was a really good pianist and had quite a large range of music repertoire so we ended up singing and naming a lot of music LOL. A fun night actually.
Sunday, normally a day of rest. But not so today.
I was helping out being crew in filming a short film for someone's media studies subject. They have to film a five minute short film. It is normally a group task, but somehow or other, they ended up having to do it alone. It was apparently cleared by the tutor that they could get external help, so that is where I came in. The two main actors, director and myself (mainly being cameraman) bummed downtown to Market City and Paddy's Market to do some filming of scenes there, as well as Capitol Square for the Harry de Wheels Pie shop. We were going to go to the Opera House Forecourt too but the weather was too crummy for what we were going to be shooting, so we decided to leave it at that. It was quite a long day with moving around, filming different angles, discussing what worked, what didn't and so forth. We will have to do more shooting for the rest of the 'city' scenes, while the start and finishing scenes will be done elswhere instead of the city. Hopefully when there is nicer weather too.
Once I got home, my brother surprised me with a very early birthday present, Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare. I've played this before at City Hunter (it's a LAN PC place on Sussex St, and other locations downtown), and had been considering buying it for myself, but just never got around to it. Anyway, I installed it, and it's quite fun. I only played the first two stages or so because it was getting late (though even later as I blog this) but I think I will have fun with the single player mode. As for multiplayer, it'll be interesting to see how the ranking progressions go too.
Well, tomorrow/today really, is the start of another week. Tuesday, oh Tuesday is interview day...... Anzac Day on Friday too....... Hmm.
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