Memories....

Allllll right!!! Am back with my full pep and vigor. All this upswing- downswing is truly weird but shall just put it down to hormones. Am not mad. Weird, but not mad. Heh. Thanks to all dear friends for reassurances and care and concern. Hugz!

Went to the library today - Nazir sort of forced me off my lazy butt for a walk. But hey, it worked. And of course, the library! Man, I love libraries - hence, why Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) was so distressing for me. Anyway, today I got "Matilda" (Roald Dahl) and the first in the Narnia chronicles for Nazir - he has finally gotten into the whole fiction thing. So much for only non-fiction. Of course, it's a handy excuse for me to revisit my old friends (not that I need an excuse to re-read anything! ha ha). He passed up on Artemis Fowl for now unfortunately. Still, having infected him with Phillip K. Dick, Star Trek, Kevin and Sadie (Joan Lingard) and now, just fiction in general, am quite satisfied. One of my secret fears was to marry someone who did not READ. Sob. Btw, comic books do not count unless it's X-men. ;) And if you know Dune through the game, ARGH. Don't even tell me, please.

Right. Back to the point of today's escapade. Rented from the library an anime DVD - Katsuhiro Otomo presents "Memories", three short animes by different directors. Haven't figured out how Otomo ties in with the lot since he directed only one of the three but doesn't matter at the moment. My favourite was a hilarious piece by Tensai Okamura - "Stink Bomb". It is about how a young chemist ingested a pill which he thought was a sample of new fever medicine and inadvertantly turned himself into a biological weapon. The pill was in actual fact a prototype of a bio weapon contracted by the government. He sets off to Tokyo, under orders from the head of the company which made the pill, with papers and the sample. When the powers that be finally figured out he was the source of the gas, they tried to shoot him down. Ha ha. It's really quite funny esp since the guy is blur like sotong. He's like, ooh, why are people shooting at me? Snort. And people dropping like flies as he passed and he didn't make the connection. The Americans (involved, of course) steps in, captures him and bring him back to HQ in a space suit to contain him. Hee.
[Spoiler warning] The ending was hilarious. After handing his boss the papers and pills, he got out of the suit, knocking everyone unconcious. "What a stink" was the final words from our intrepid non-hero, still not realizing what he had done. Mwhahah. V funny.

Nazir was entertained despite protesting he hated Anime at the start. Hiakz. More influence on our poor Ustaz. Better than MTV, eh?

The other two stories were quite good but I felt a little sense of deja-vu. Again, been reading too much sci-fi. I suppose, some themes do not change but the spin on the themes (a Miss Havisham computer gone nuts and the other a Phillip K. Dick type story told from the point of view of a kid) was good.

That's all for today. Ta-ra.