His Dark Materials - Compass, Knife, Spyglass
Recently I’ve been busy with RT at Maju FCC (nothing much), and with this wonderfully good book as well, so I couldn’t blog. This book is a really good read (and most copies are on loan at the National Library, so I had to reserve it - there goes my $1.55), and I can’t wait for the movie to be released. Following C.S. Lewis’ style of alternate worlds, Philip Pullman’s rabbit hole is apparently quite deep - I thought it was a single novel, but it turned out that its a three-part series, so I had to borrow The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass from the National Library this evening. On a sidenote, I saw BioShock available for loan at the National Library - way past cool.
RT at Maju FCC is proceeding as normal as it is, with the exception on Sunday and Monday that the OC came down to debrief us on what happened to one of their regulars (only an NSF until recently) who had passed away only the day before Sunday. Life is fragile, and we should treasure life for what it is. Anyway, next week’s the first IPPT and I’d better pass it, or else I’ll be dragged into Phase 2.
I’ve been addicted to a new game, World In Conflict recently, and I’ve been playing it since Sunday (or was it Saturday?). By far, I think it’s one of the rare few RTS with an interesting storyline, especially in the way it turns the usual “Soviets invade USA” story (Red Alert 2) into something very intriguing (the overall story is more like a side-story) and personal (the backgrounds of the main and supporting characters in the game). Hopefully I can finish it as soon as possible, this quarter’s game releases are too much to play - Splinter Cell: Conviction, Clive Barker’s Jericho, The Witcher, Crysis, Hellgate: London, Assassin’s Creed and who knows what other games will be rushed to the shelves in time for Christmas.
Finally, I’ve sorted out 95% of my old blog posts…I’m left with a few posts that need to be fixed - mostly missing images. I discovered that I used GBK2312 encoding on my old blog, so my chinese characters are toasted and I have to fix them by hand, searching through my archives. Will probably spend the weekend doing that, while preparing for Sunday’s REAL Run in the morning and RT in the evening on the same day (hoo-ah!).