damian + turion

[180309] remember, remember the fifth of November

Caught 'V for vendetta' on channel 5 yesterday night for the first time and was surprised that it was actually a pretty decent movie. I always had the notion when the film first came out years ago that it was a poor movie to watch despite the rave reviews by many of my friends, turned out that it was a pretty good movie with a rather dark and Gothic feel to the entire film set in an alternate history.

Caught a movie along the similar lines today, 'Watchmen' by DC comics, the major rival of Marvel comics. For the uninitiated, DC comics produced the likes of Batman, Green Latern etc while the likes of Iron Man, X-Men belonged to the rival Marvel Comics. Unlike the superhero flicks produced by Marvel comics, this film was anything but family oriented or friendly with clear 'good triumphs over evil' overtunes, instead, it was more adult, x-rated, mature, dark and gory filled as the 'heroes' in the film not only exhibit the only virtues expected of in superheroes but also a darker side to them. For those who watched it and didnt pay close attention to the dialouge, they could be easily lost in the plot that traverses freely between the past and present making hard for some to follow along. An enjoyable movie with wonderful scripted characters and rich dialogue along with some kick ass fight sequences with much blood and gore, 2 things you dont usually expect in a superhero flick.

Reported at 1st Division for pre-ICT briefing, as i expected, it was indeed a waste of time as the time spent waiting for the briefing to start was actually longer than the actual briefing itself. To make matters worse, the briefing was pretty basic and was pretty much redundant, they could have just mailed us the ICT orders along with written instructions on general instructions and infomation. The LTA that gave the breifing looked lost and for most of the extremely short briefing was basically mumbling to himself. WTF?!? what a complete waste of time and to think because of this, my JNB-CPT flt was cancelled. Thanks ar, SCDF.

Realised once again that one should be more realistic in his goals and even when dreaming that dreams should be realistic instead of reaching for the unattainable,the unreachable and the impossible. That's when you get your hopes high and as always, hope is the first step on the road to disappointment and ultimately leads to the inevitable conclusion of failure and the feeling of defeat stings harder than ever before binding one to a never ending cycle of self pity and indifference.

Yesterday's memories