Sci-Fi... you will become my undoing =P

Syriana just came out on DVD. Naturally after giving it my two thumbs up after watching it in the theatre, I had to buy it. So I did. But of course, I needed to buy something else to reach the minimum $39 for free shipping with Amazon... so I finally got around to buying a book I really wanted to read. Unfortunately, it isn't exactly the most... intelligent or meaningful book in the world...

Yes... I've gone around and bought another Star Trek book...

Deep Space Nine is still my favourite of all the Star Trek series. The reason being was that... well, it was well written by the later seasons, and quite frankly, it was... different. Some might say it deviated from the original Star Trek vision, but if it did, it was done very well. They had interesting characters and not everything or everyone was as happy-go-lucky as we were used to. It was more... dark... and dealing with some dark realities that the original Star Trek would make you think no longer existed. I like that.

I would say the books continuing the DS9 story deviated from the original vision even more so than the TV series... Basically the authors just took the DS9 universe and its characters, and played with it. They created a new vision of where they wanted to take the storyline. They created new adventures that easily wet my appetite for mind-numbing action and yet still appeal to my thinking side with some interesting lessons and storyline twists. I had the audacity of opening this book at 11pm and ended up reading it completely by 4:30am... Now I'm stuck wide awake at 5am writing this blog... ugh... doesn't help that I just came from night shift and have to work day shift soon. Oops.

This specific book is more about action and setting up a much larger adventure in the next book. Thus it didn't have any thinking stuff or any live lessons/insights I've come to love from the other books. But the larger adventure it has set the foundation for sounds VERY exciting to me. Anyone remember the tv show Sliders? The show about alternate parallel universes? That show always intrigued me. Unfortunately I stopped following it after awhile. Star Trek had a similar idea in the Original Series when they encountered their own parallel universe where humanity was evil and ran some cruel galatic empire. DS9 took that old idea and updated it with what might have happened in the same timeframe. Now this book is taking that idea even further.

You're probably bored with what I've written, but if you've come this far, I'll skip to the point of this... pointless blog =P. The idea of parallel universes interests me. The infinite concept of infinite universes is mind-boggling. Imagine the past 5 seconds, a new universe is formed by the different possible choices we could have made in that short time, whether its what we were thinking, how we moved our hands, what we typed, what we saw, every little movement of our body we chose could have created a new universe! Then multiply that with the choices of every human being in this world! Multiply it again with the WHOLE of human history!! It's sooo out of our grasp! Thinking about these things always makes me smile... (yes, I'm THAT crazy.)

A book I bought when I was on the way back from HK in 2003 was a military What If book. Like, what if certain things didn't pan out the way they did in certain wars. What would have happened instead? What if Germany won WW2? What if the American revolution failed? Things like that. It's the same idea basically. It was interesting to read what historians think could have happened in those cases. It makes me respect time, fate, circumstance, and decision making even more so. One simple choice could have huge consequences.

... of course, that lesson I decided to learn painfully in 2004...

Ok... maybe I shouldn't read these books so much... escapist books are baaaad mmkay? Now, if only I could get to sleep! Grrr...

Twenty Seven

Another year...

Things are going good so far.

Two good things are coming up in a month's time.

One more thing to take care of by year end.

Life couldn't be better... ish...

Twenty Five...

Responsibilities and the Sine graph

"... the fault, dear Tain, was not in our stars but in ourselves..."

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Although I try to put it behind me, it always ends up coming back.

And if I try to push it away even harder, it will always come back even stronger.

I think I'll eventually revisit it again despite always encountering a null in between, so I will revisit it. What else can I do if no progress is being made?

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Speaking of progress though... a lot of things happening on the job front. Opportunities have sprung, a slight error on my part might have repurcussions, but apparently a lot of things are happening behind the scenes that I wasn't even aware of until now. Crossing my fingers...

Dear Lord... if this works out, I know what will happen next. I SWEAR IT.