Ok random thought… Morgan Freeman is AWESOME. It’s not like I just watched any of his shows recently but it just occured to me in the shower (of all places) that he appears in some of my favorite movies of all time!
Shawshank Redemption, Bruce Almighty, Lucky Number Slevin, The new Bat-movies, Se7en, Driving Miss Daisy…Ok maybe not that last one.
He just brings that certain level of authority to the role, you know; the “Important Old Dude” presence, similar fogeys that have this are Patrick Stewart and Ben Kingsley. Every scene they’re in its like everyone listens up and gives the “Important Old Dude” sage-like reverence, even if he has a crappy line like Batman’s junk got stuck in Singapore or something.
Hell, he almost saved Wanted by just being in it, showing his badassery side et all (esp when he dropped the F-bomb). It’ll be an honor to have a beer with God (or at least the person who played Him).
A Toast to the Important Old Dude.
Things have been quiet around here in KNCT; everyone at school is slogging away at the end-year exams and that means no time for fun with me. The Japanese students are a perculiar bunch, they seem so carefree until the exams come around. Then they suddenly have “mainland chinese scholar” work ethic bury themselves in their books. Can’t blame them though. They have like 17 (seventeen!) different papers to be taken over a 5 day period. Score one for the Japanese education system.
So Ben and myself have been left pretty much to our own devices; he’s mostly in his room (doing who knows what) but when he’s out with me we are mostly smacking ping pong balls together. I’ve gotten good. Well, much better than I was 2 months ago. Everyone was a noob once.
A nice session of Ping Pong is topped off with a nice hot shower (43 degrees, remember that!). Even more so when the temperature took a nose-dive because of winter, it dipped to 4 degrees just the other day.
Speaking of showers, it think they have a magical effect on me; I find that when I’m soaking myself in the shower room I get some of the most brilliant ideas of the day. Some examples include Poems/Scribing/Songwriting,Yo Momma Jokes, Programming Logic and of course Morgan Freeman. It clears my head for some reason. And for that I can officially say…Hot Showers are my Muse.
Since I came to Japan though, I’ve been rotating my bathroom iteniery like Benetiez does to them Reds. I’ve went through a couple and today I got to trying out a new set of products.
Bad idea.
Never… Ever… try new bath products all at once. Execute a phase-by-phase method of implementation. Or risk smelling funny. In more than one place.
Now I my body smells like Bandung and my hair like Chinese 5-Spice Seasoning (五香粉).
Great. Now if I was a national landmark, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) would write me off as having Rustic Charm.
*edit* : To Bill, Gloria and the rest; thanks for your gifts. This and this is for you.
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