Godspeed

I want to make good citizens. If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline and endurance. He gets a beautiful heart.

—Shin'ichi Suzuki

"The method discourages competitive attitudes between players, and advocates collaboration and mutual encouragement for those of every ability and level."

There are few things that engage my consumer behavior. It doesn't include food, clothing(unless someone tells me that I am out of fashion), or books.

The two things that DO engage my consumer behavior are: electronics and movies tickets. I am a bad impulse consumer in those two categories. When I want them, I usually purchase them without third thought (I do get second thoughts..). Luckily, I have been able to maintain the impulses within financial reach.

Such was the case with my 5.1 channel sound system Z-5500 from Logitech.
Such was the case with my 22 inch flatscreen HDTV (I use it more often as a secondary computer screen.)
Such was the case with Xbox 360.

Now, such was the case with PSP. Here's picture of my Piano Black PSP.

Thanks to my friend Bryant Bone, who has found me this awesome review for "The Dark Knight", I am very much excited for the movie. The review is simply beautifully written, and I hope you can also understand why I am excited. If for nothing else, the review is worth reading for the masterful language it uses to help you visualize the movie. Here's an excerpt to aid you in reading the review:

The Dark Knight creates a place where good and evil — expected to do battle — decide instead to get it on and dance. "I don't want to kill you," Heath Ledger's psycho Joker tells Christian Bale's stalwart Batman. "You complete me." Don't buy the tease. He means it...

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I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker. Miles from Jack Nicholson's broadly funny take on the role in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, Ledger takes the role to the shadows, where even what's comic is hardly a relief. No plastic mask for Ledger; his face is caked with moldy makeup that highlights the red scar of a grin, the grungy hair and the yellowing teeth of a hound fresh out of hell. To the clown prince of crime, a knife is preferable to a gun, the better to "savor the moment."

How could you not want to see the movie?

Recently I have watched way too many movies, thanks to meeting friends and not having much else to do. When I was younger, my friends and I would go singing at karaokes or go to internet cafes to play Starcraft. That was my youth.

However, nowadays when I meet them, there is very little to do other than go watching movies or hanging out at bars. I dislike the latter much (I have very very little tolerance to alcohol and usually the experience is bad) so my options are pretty much left to movies.

The following is the list of all movies I have watched recently:

Iron Man
Indiana Jones
Kungfu Panda
The Happening x2 (watched twice..)
Incredible Hulk
Public Enemy 1.1 (An awesome Korean movie, I highly recommend it to my American friends interested in foreign films.)

I would recommend everything but the Incredible Hulk and Indiana Jones.

Korean Lottery did not have a winner last week. For 4 years and 6 months it has not happened, and because the prize was great(last week's prize got added to this week's), it was pretty big deal.

As I have made it my custom to purchase 5~10 tickets(1 is about $1.00) everytime I am in Korea, I bought 5 tickets.

I didn't win anything. In fact, out of 30 numbers(5 tickets with 6 numbers each), I got 3 numbers correct. It is a good thing I am not a gambler and did not expect anything.