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Ok, I’m really regretting taking Medical Leave on Friday now; the look on both of my bosses’ faces says it all. It was black…so black I swore you can write on ‘em with chalk. The tone and words they used…sheesh…like I’m some JI cell member and they are the ISD personnel.

“You know you have taken 9 days MC since May blah blah blah”, “I will not accept your MC cause there is nothing written in the remarks column”, just some of the crap I had to put up with, one ear in, one ear out…BITE ME!

But its’ been starting to dawn on me, why do I even bother? Am I gonna really do this shit after I get my degree? Am I really gonna live and breathe Public Relations? I hate meeting clients now, hate doing reports, writing, etc etc, anything associated with it. Lame is an understatement.

I’ve been considering the possibilities that lay before me, should I major in journalism and PR? Which equals writing, boot-licking in the real world or media studies which leads to broadcasting, producing (ie. Sheryl Fox) Ok I know, that’s just the glam factor, but I really am beginning to think this isn’t my cup of tea, sure theory wise I scored big in PR, but studying it and working in it for the rest of your life is totally different.

PR is just a small fraction of Mass Communications. Media Studies plays a bigger role too…I was thinking, since diploma levels was theory-based and I studied the writing part to bits…why not encompass the final spectrum of my course structure, the practical side…

All this while I never even went close to a television station, safe for my brief run in with Stephen at MTV Asia…other than that…absolutely zlitch…nada, zero, nothing! So why not? The opportunity has presented itself before me should I seize it? Coming back I sure as hell can work in the broadcast industry…hmmm something to ponder over the next following days.

Ok I must apologize for only bloggin’ like once a week, no mood to write anything. I caught AVP over the weekend. To the uninitiated, it stands for Alien Vs Predator or it could also mean A Very Painful Show. Why you ask? Believe the critics when they say these show is absolute trash…but did I listen? NO!!! I spent $17 bucks to watch the most brain dead piece of garbage ever manufactured from actually 2 pretty likeable franchises.

Alien was a sci-fi horror that scared the hell outta me back in the early ninties, Siggy and crew are always trapped in the bowels of some space station that’s crawling with the saliva drooling Aliens – this made for some really tense and terrifying moments, all of which made the show really kick ass and never dumbed itself into B-grade campiness.

Predator on the other hand was pure Macho-actioner, P1 was based in the jungles and pitted action superstar Arnie and his team of marines against a killing machine so advanced and overpowering nothing could have stopped it. P2 starred that black dude (from lethal weapon whom I cant’ remember for the life of me) but that was good too…cause both films never tried to be something they were not…they made the Predators extremely ruthless, extremely macho, merciless and ultimately they sold the idea that Predators are unstoppable. Bravo I say!

But what’s my problem with AVP? Wouldn’t combining these 2 characters into one movie make it an instant hit? Not if you screw up the whole plot! The Aliens thankfully are still kinda gross, but Predators…ugh….they sorta evolved into sissies…within the first 30mins, 2 of the 3 Predators have been satayed (advanced killing machines eh…so much for thermal sensors…I thought the 2 were like blind or something) then towards the end, the last predator even makes crude shield and pole thingy for the female heroine out of a dead Alien’s head and tail…OMFG!!! Read that line again…yes! Predators have all gone soft and mushy…at one point I thought they might even throw in a brief sex scene where the Predator implants something foreign into the female lead…the horror!!! Where is the mercilessness of the Predator race? Or was just that Predator a little on the “other” side? Add to that the dumb running scenes where the Predator and the girl run together with explosions behind PURE CLICHÉ!!!…It was just plain awful…so bad I could only cry in disgust. 1 out 5!

On a side note, I did like to congratulate 2 buddies of mine. Firstly, Stephen Tan who recently became the proud daddy of a baby (not sure is it boy or girl) on the 20th August 2004 at 7.45am and my brudda, Edmund “relac in one korner” Ng who recently found the love of his life, congrats brudda! Now you can experiment with all the things you always fantasize about. Wahhaha!!