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look outside…its super duper shit. rock. jus got back from a nice and relaxing weekend in joy-sey. got home around noon-ish to meet up with my sis and her bf (who came up too) and the whole fam went out to my mom’s fav chinese restaraunt, hunan cottage. we ordered a ton of food (including my fav, yiu tiau with hot soy milk…excuse my bad romanization). after lunch me, my sis, and her bf went mall-ratting. we then came back and lounged on our patio for a while talking about how my sis wants to inherit the house, rebuild the backyard double-patio, and install a hot tub. yea….ok. fish dropped by around 4 and we actually headed back to the mall. we grabbed some food (i got popeyes…yum!) and then headed over to the arcade to rock some soul calibur. then we headed over to the theaters and caught an evening showing of x2. afterwards we hit up our usual starbucks and had some coffee and chess while fish played with his new gundam. i lost the first game, but actually won the second game. holy shit! i had a good start…pushing my knights to the flanks and creating a pawn pyramid straight up the middle. after fish castled to his queens side, i noticed his 2 rooks sitting precariously close to each other. i pushed my kings knight up the flanks and forked them! after one of the rooks went down, i pretty much kept my advantage til i checked him with an aggressive queen and supporting rook. woo. after that, we jus lounged til starbucks closed and called it a nite.
as an aside. after watching x2, i felt a little indifferent. u watch it, u kno its a great film…but u dont feel anything. am i the only person who felt this way? i think it had a great plot, great characters…but i didnt feel any oomph. the “holy shit” factor wasnt there. dont get me wrong…im a big x-men fan. ive been reading since the days of whilce portacio and jim lee. but i jus didnt feel anything for the movie. i had that feeling from the very beginning. lotr and matrix i will (and did) reserve tix a month in advance. but for x2 i fig’d id jus catch it whenever. weird. its a nice appetizer for matrix tho.