Michael Owen signs for Newcastle United in a new record fee for
Newcastle.
Awesome. Whether or not the ex-England partnership of Shearer and
Owen is going to work immediately is another question, but for now,
it looks promising, to kick start a horrible start to the season.
Message from Daniel:
'Katrina sure got me wet.'
(In reference to the Hurricane Katrina that is sweeping across
Mississippi and Louisiana as of this moment)
And so it seems like the Arts Theater outing will be a regular thing,
now that couple of friends who are interested in catching these
obscure movies return. Since it was the end of what seemed like a
long first week back in school (maybe it seemed like that to me as I
didn't have that much of a break between housing training and school)
it was only fitting that we go do something enjoyable. We skipped on
the BT gig last week, as I was kind of tired and the others seemed to
want to stay in their new rooms. But not this time, I was itching for
some movie watching.
I still do want to catch 'The Aristocrats' but since that was being
shown in a theater that's some distance away and none of us had a
car, we decided to go to the good old Midtown Arts Theatre. With this
group of people, it seems like it might start to be a regular thing,
which makes me happy. There was a Latin American film being screened,
named 'Cronicas' (or in English, 'The Chronicle') that seemed to be
pretty interesting, so I called up some friends who also expressed an
interest in catching the show.
The movie was about a renowned reporter from Miami who works for a
news channel. He seems to have a knack for solving cases while doing
a report and is sent to Ecuador where there is a child rapist/
murderer aptly named the 'Monster of Babahoyo' lurking about. He
comes in at a time where there is an accident that results in a man
who 'knows' about this monster getting in contact with the reporter.
The tagline for the movie read 'What you see on TV has to be the
truth.' That served the theme of the movie pretty well, as I started
out watching the movie thinking that the man was the Monster, but by
the end, I wasn't exactly sure. Karun and Phani seemed convinced that
the man was the monster, whereas James, Gautam and I couldn't be too
sure (for some it maybe obvious, but there are lot of facts that
still leaves me unable to answer the question). Regardless, it
conveyed the message that if a news is reported inaccurately, it
could potentially send a murderer back into society, and I think the
director did a pretty good job at that. I enjoyed the thrill aspect
of the movie a lot, I haven't seen something like this in a while.
Also, I got to see the beautiful Leonor Watling from 'Talk To Her' in
the movie, so I'm definitely not complaining.
Before school started I also managed to catch 'Igby Goes Down,'
'Primer' and '12 Angry Men.' The last one was absolutely fantastic.
I decided I shouldn't take 21 hours after all. The Material Science
class that I'm taking this semester is going to be pretty technical,
and the International Affairs class that discusses Political
Philosophy and Ideologies seem very interesting, but with a lot of
reading involved. Besides, I'm better off staying this way, I can
concentrate on the 3 important classes in Calc 3, Java and
Probability, and do enough research into Green GDP, and I've got my
17 hours for this semester, while managing time doing Housing work.
If I take 6 hours of online classes while doing work in the Spring
and 16 hours over the summer, I'll still be a senior by next Fall, so
everything should fall into plan.
I guess I'm turning in for the night now.
Has anyone watched Thievery Corporation's new video 'The Time We Lost
Our Way'? The music and the music video is such a calm serenade, it
makes me feel great. You should be able to find it in iTunes' music
video section, or go to their website.
Final Score from St. James' Park:
English Premier League
Newcastle United 0
Manchester United 2
Wayne Rooney (66)
Ruud van Nistelrooy (90)
After a few days of uncertainty, I managed to get the ticket to the
Auburn vs GT football season opener game.
What happened was that there was a lottery for the tickets, since its
an away game and there are limited number of tickets. Some 2000
people signed up, apparently. But what these people didn't know was
that they needed to pay $50 (it's expensive, but GT's one of the
cheaper few with $38) for the tickets. So a lot of people didn't buy
the tickets. Leaving the other people who didn't win the lottery to
buy them. Some people I know planned to go for this since the summer,
so I planned to go with them. I didn't realize their means of going
meant applying for the lottery (I know, its stupid) so I freaked out
when I found out that I needed to apply in order to get the tickets.
So I woke up early this morning to go to the ticket booth, hoping
that they will sell whatever remaining tickets they have unsold, and
found out that I needed the failed lottery to buy, even though they
had many unsold. I frantically went about for anyone who applied for
the lottery but didn't want to go (chances are slim) but fortunately,
Gautam's roommate had it. Only that when I went to him asking if I
could have it, it was torn up and in the trash. It wasn't in bad
condition, so I picked up the pieces, went downstairs to the Housing
office and patched it up, hoping the Athletic Association ticket
booth will take it. The guy didn't even look and asked for the 50
bucks, which I gave, and got my tickets!
The trip is going to be fun. Many GT fans think we have a good shot
at an upset, but I honestly don't know too much about football to
predict those sort of things. But it'll be a great road trip
nevertheless.
I signed up for SWARM last night. SWARM is basically the fan's
section, where we sign up to be on a special section where all the
enthusiastic supporters are. I'm not a big football fan, but I
figured I might as well get in on the fun since it's only fun when
you're in college and I only have 3 more years of it.
Auburn, Alabama. It'll be fun. September 3rd, can't wait.
It's weird, but school starts tomorrow and I'm excited! It must be
the break that I had from school while working that re-energized my
desire to study in school. I'm planning on taking a full load, and I
have yet to get the EAS course that I applied the overload for, but
I'm going to start attending the class anyway, as I won't know about
the status of the overload request until the end of this week. By
then, they would have taught some stuff and I wouldn't want to miss
the intro part. So it's gonna be hectic, I'm basically going to
attend for 24 credit hours worth of classes as I have yet to drop
Psychology until I get my EAS. Maybe I should just drop Psyc since
I'm taking that as an online class in the spring while I work.
In any case, I can't wait to get things started.
And now our ranking is tied along with NYU at 37th.
Considering how Tech's College of Management soared in the Graduate
Rankings, I expected our Undergrad rankings to jump. But then I
always forget, we don't have that much variety in majors, so it's
impossible to climb to the top.
I don't really care, Engineering is still top class at Tech (though
it dropped to 6th) and the ranking for my major is still No. 1 in the
country. That's all that matters to me.
