Fragments

                It’s been a while since my last post. The break hasn’t been for a lack of ideas on what to write, more so too many ideas. Too many fragments of ideas, half baked text documents left unfinished. Now as I am typing this I wonder if the fate of this document will be to join the others in a folder of unfinished documents.

                Exam week has come and gone. Stresses were high, resulting in physical problems for once. Grades were “meh” at best. Definitely need to step it up or else bad shit will certainly happen.

                The other night my delusions of being in good mental shape were broken by a simple game, Brain Age for the DS. I found myself getting caught on simple math problems. There was no pattern as to what type of problems I would get stuck on, and the problems were as simple as they could be. Yet I got stuck arbitrarily which was frustrating. As if to confirm this, today I made a mistake and it took the mistake to be obviously pointed out to me along with a few additional minutes for me to realize the problem and for the full emotional response to kick in.

Iron Man 2: B

Movie had good action scenes, too much yackity yack from some characters that really needed to STFU and not enough from characters that needed more development. Robert Downey Jr. always funny.

Shutter Island: A (?)

Disturbing and mind opening psychological mystery that managed to give me the chills. Need to watch at least two more time.

Splinter Cell Conviction: (Single player only) B

This game is lawlz. Short single player, interesting production values. Random shits and giggles.

Beat Hazard: C

Lack of responsiveness from the game and not accurate controls hurts the rating. The way it makes my eyeballs melt and then implode increases the rating.

And thus concludes my most incohesive post.

Twinkle Twinkle…

                I consider myself a bit of an astronomy nut, especially with stars. So after a long day of many unfortunate events but good exercise (running from Van Munching to Hagerstown dorms, then back to Van Munching in dress shoes and pants), lying on a picnic bench and staring at a star for a good long while was perhaps the second highlight of my day.

                A simple spark in the night sky, defined by a single five letter word, holds within it some of the most complex and powerful forces in the universe. Billions of particles are constantly colliding to actually create energy that takes hundreds thousands, if not millions, of years. Gravitational forces strong enough to contain and maintain the constant all the volatile energy. All this is occurring in an object so large that no eye can possibly witness, all at a distance beyond our reach. And yet all we see is a single speck in the sky.

                Somehow, a single word describes all this, something that is just barely understandable, complicated beyond the point of imagination unless in a small scale, and impossible to control. Life without it would literally and figuratively not be as bright. On long days and tiring nights, I do believe it provides a sense of hope for the next day.

                Oh and after all that, I stood up from the bench too fast, lost balance and face planted into the ground.