Tuesday, November 15, 2005 | 9:17 PM

My toe's 99% recovered. woohaas. (: At least it won't be affecting my running from now onwards, of course I'll still hv to be extra careful during training.

Went out w/ bro today to get his passport extended. Unfortunately I'm not given authorization to do so. We dropped by queensway to get a backpack (or it is bagpack?) for him next year. Didn't buy any of those nike/adidias/puma kind as they cost a bomb (at least it wld be a bomb to my monetary posessions). ahhas. Anyway I reckon at his age what he needs wld be a durable bag. muhahas. I'm so glad I'm entrusted the job of getting his bag. grins.

Finally managed to catch 2 movies today. (: Exorcism of Emily Rose and Sky High. Seriously, if not for the fact tt my bro begged of me to accompany him I wld nt hv bothered wasting time and money.

I like the Exorcism's complications and fight between unexplained supernatural and scientific theories. The show's smth abt demonic forces that happened to be directed and acting on a girl by the name of Emily Rose. By the way, this movie was based on a true story with media reports as support to this issue that was once brought up in the court of US. I was expecting more gory scenes of bloody stains or at least more of those unseen forces. Okay its a PG film so that explains why eh.

Sky High was just bullshit. Firstly, the plot sucks. The actors are avg. The entire string of events taking place leading to the discovery of the abilities of that Will dude is too typical. zzz. But I survived the movie w/o falling asleep.

I think I'll turn up fr tmr's trg at ecp. Crystal said it wld be a 5km run. For lord's sake, it wld be more than a challenge as a start to my training days. Sometimes I wonder why I bother to put in this extra amt of effort in exchange for this thing called stamina. Perhaps its just a sad thing tt I'm nt born with it.

I saw the news and the repeated warnings of whatever local authorities that are in charge of Singapore's piracy issues. Maybe I'm just being insensitive or ignorant but w/ so much and many more upcoming mp3 players, aren't they an icon encoraging piracy? Who in the right mind wld purchase a CD, copy it using the computer and finally moving it intot their portable players? There used to be this thing against the illegal copying of music until CD copiers and burners became so popular that they only managed to curb or at least try to stop copies made for the sole purpose of economical distribution. So I guess that will be the similar fate of the current issue over piracy. If they were to stop all sales/marketing co. related to cd copying or burning tt wld be too big a mess to clean up eh? I mean hw many ppl wld be jobless. The ipod management sector of Apple wld become so broke. Technology has its limitations. There's no way to stop such discrepancies in human's inventions. Just like the computer, viruses, trojan horses and spywares are here to stay. Anyway it they do manage to stop this illegal music distribution, there'll still be videos, software and other documents for sharing, although I don't deny tt music is the primary media chared across the world by whatever means. In any case, excluding foreign counterparts, Singapore shouldn't have too much difficulties handling this in their way. Afterall, we're much of a FINE country huh?

p.s. I'm sure Ms Leow wld love to read this. yea right. She'll start filling up all my loop holes with all possible debating points hurling straight into my face. ahhas.