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		Thursday, 29 May 2003
Just this evening, the TVIQ channel under Astro showed the documentary about Shoguns and that immediately got me on the sofa and glued to the tv. A piece of ancient history which I have always loved and admired, and that is the Japanese warlords of old times and this documentary talked about the history of the three famous Shogunates; Kamakura, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa. The history of how Tokugawa was formed was the most spectacular and dramatic in Japanese ancient history. The end of Tokugawa era saw the rise of the Meiji government and now putting history buff aside, this is where the samurai anime Rurouni Kenshin (or Samurai X) was set. Furthermore, as a little announcement here, this period of history will also feature Tom Cruise!! Yeah, there will be a movie coming end of this year with Tom the Top Gun Cruise starring, and the name of the movie is called The Last Samurai! Can't wait for it and now it's only the month of May :( And I got to finish the Fellowship of the Ring DVD special edition set last night. Two DVDs and you can't imagine how many scenes that were deleted from the theater version! In this edition, it's about 4.5 hours long. My brother happened to borrow the Two Towers DVD from his friend and he recently watched it, now passed to me for my movie night tonite :)
~ stopped dancing at 12.53 am. WinAmp was playing Rock is Dead by Marilyn Manson.

		Tuesday, 27 May 2003
Two friends and an acquaintance came over to my place in the evening for a visit. It was their first and the big guy Alex was hoping for a nice anime VCD/DVD to borrow, only to discover that his collection is far better than mine. He noticed my Lord of the Rings DVD Special Edition Set and mistook it as being original, which in fact a 'genuine fake' copy. The pirates do know how to make their products look good huh? When they left, it came to my mind that I should start watching the LOTR special edition and off I went. In this edition, there were heaps of scenes that were not shown on the theaters (the standard edition), such as the extra scenes of Bilbo and Gandalf meeting, catching sight of the Wood Elves by Frodo and Sam, the Hobbits drink and dance, Boromir mistook Aragorn as an elf, and etc. Heck, the special ed came with 4 DVDs.
~ stopped dancing at 4:23 pm. WinAmp was playing An American in Paris by George Gershwin.

		Sunday, 25 May 2003
"Everyday Is Like Sunday", this song came into my mind and what would life be if this is real. Never heard of the song? Don't bother as I don't even know who the singer was. I first heard it when I was in Adelaide back in 1996 for my studies. My pet dog Julie went through shower and the first thing when she got clean and entered the interior house was to head upstairs to look for me or my sister. If she couldn't find either of us, I thought she would head back downstairs and continue searching. No! She would just stay upstairs and frolicking around. She just loved the upper floor, even let off her 'chrysanthemum tea' on the carpet once. Yesterday, the KL city centre had an unusual event that was called Citrawara Malaysia, which was just cultural dance. Therefore, many major roads were closed in the early evening, and since it's also my weekly badminton game, I had to attend via LRT. It's been some time taking the LRT and so happened that the train that I got on was the train the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong and Raja Permaisuri graced in the opening ceremony back in 5 March 2002. The Counterstrike game session at the usual spot was switched to a nearby centre this evening as it was temporarily closed. The law enforcement officers had raided that Internet station on Wednesday probably after being tipped-off. Several PCs were loaded into a truck and taken away, and the station operator at that time was even handcuffed and sent to the police station! Something big had happened to them and some said the Internet station did not have valid licence but one guy, who presumed to be close to the station operator, said they have the licence and everything but those officers were just looking for some free coffee. For the first time, that whole shoplot was dark and quiet for days, which was normally noisy, lively and full of people. A new noticed was pasted at its windows recently, announcing that they will reopen on Monday 26th, and even put up there 'Grand Opening' ^o^
~ stopped dancing at 4:08 pm. WinAmp was playing Ching Kum Tek Lei by Leslie Cheung