Today a friend said to me “you should really see the Robin Hood movie, it’s right up your alley!”. And I said, “oh it totally is, and I’ve already seen it!”. And he said “but… but… but… but… but there’s nothing about it on your bloooooooooggggg!!!!”. Well, you can imagine the utter SHAME I felt at that moment! =P Oh my GOD, how did I manage to not write anything about my all time favourite version of Robin Hood?? So let me fix that now…

Yes, a couple of weeks a go we went to see Robin Hood. And I’m glad that despite a few discouraging comments that I heard / read about the movie here and there, I did go to see it. I have to say I don’t understand what’s not to like! In fact I enjoyed watching the movie IMMENSELY! =) The small but important modifications made to the plot felt like they were exactly what Robin Hood always needed to turn into a most interesting story. Since I know many of you haven’t seen it yet, I’m not going to say much more… but I just have to say that everything about this movie was very impressive. The cast were the best possible, and the the whole mood and feel of the movie really worked for me. So don’t listen to anyone who says otherwise…. and go see the movie for yourself. =)

Hmmmmmm. Nope. I’m not very happy. =/

Lost was one of my favourite series. Aside from the fact that I’m going to miss it, I also feel that it didn’t quite… well…. finish! And I think the main reasons I feel this way is because the season finale did not do such a fine job of closing the circle. It simply wasn’t enough. I was expecting something much more fascinating! I get the feeling that the story got sooo big, that the producers sort of lost control of the complexity of it and as a result they just cut things off. So many unanswered questions, so much unfinished business!

Also, it seems like a lot of people aren’t quite sure about what happened. For instance, there’s a common confusion about whether the characters of the story were dead the entire time. Nope, they weren’t! Everything that happened actually did happen… The after death “limbo” universe which was introduced in season 6, is the only part of the story line in which they’re dead, as Christian Sheppard clarifies. Also, I’m as much disappointed as everyone else that they didn’t bring back Michael and Walt into the story, but hey, it makes sense! I mean Walt didn’t exactly spend so much time with the team for him to show up in their made up universe, and Kevin… well Kevin would not be able to “move on”. He killed a couple of people, and turned into some sort of a stuck spirit on the island.

And, YES, Hurley could be in the limbo even though he wasn’t dead when the series was finished. Because he would eventually die, right? And there’s no real concept of time in the limbo universe. As you may have noticed he said to Ben “you were a great number 2”. So it could be that they were number 1 and number 2 for thousands of years before they died and went to the limbo. But eventually, they would show up.

I guess what was most disappointing for me about the finale, was that I was hoping for a completely different  ending for the “Man in Black”. I mean come to think of it, when he was alive, he was a much better person than Jacob. He was intelligent, courageous and in fact much more honest and interested in the facts than Jacob. But he was betrayed… by pretty much everyone. Can you blame him for turning into some vengeful spirit thang? Jacob was the real b****d in all of this. Unfair ending for the “Man in Black”…. how reality like!

Anyhow, I think that so many questions about the nature of the island and other things remained unanswered… and as I said, I don’t find limbo a very convincing ending for such an amazing story. I wonder if the series writers might do something like Joss Whedon did with Buffy… continuing the story as comic books. Well, I don’t really think that’s going to happen… but it would be nice to have Lost comics, eh? 😉

Happy anniversary Pacman, and thanks for all the fun! =D I have to say, I totally love Google’s interactive Pacman doodle. Way to go, very cute! =) I also like this embeddable flash Pacman…. =P

Check out the official Pacman 30th anniversary website here.

This has to have a blog post. =) I’ve been listening to this album for the past couple of days more or less non-stop… and I love it. Very nice collection of “bass-driven sounds from all over the world”. Totally recommended. Check it out! =)

This, I came across last week, on the FB items of one of my favourite musicians. It’s a lovely short film, with a beautiful message. I’ve been showing it to everyone so I decided I may as well post it here. =)

I just saw this on IEEE Spectrum. It’s a nice one, see for yourself!

“Dennis Hong, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Virginia Tech’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory, or RoMeLa, has created robots with the most unusual shapes and sizes — from strange multi-legged robots to amoeba-like robots with no legs at all. Now he’s unveiling a new robot with a more conventional shape: a full-sized humanoid robot called CHARLI, or Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence. The robot is 5-foot tall (1.52 meter), untethered and autonomous, capable of walking and gesturing. But its biggest innovation is that it does not use rotational joints.”

Last week, a Swedish friend of mine who is well aware of exactly how culture-curious I am, did me the huge favour of directing me to the deviantART gallery of a brilliant Danish comic artist. This artist has created a fictional character for each Scandinavian country, through which she depicts the popular stereotypical characteristics of the people and the culture of each of these countries. It’s of course quite satirical, and extremely funny.

In the past few days I’ve been going through this artist’s gallery, reading through all her comic strips, and I’ve had a great deal of laugh doing so. I highly recommend that you do the same. Here’s a more sophisticated version of her main characters:

From left to right: Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Don’t you just love the look on Sweden’s face? =)) And apparently Finland’s character has quite a fan-club [and I totally want his hat!].=D Iceland has a parachute, that makes me jealous. Norway has cute hair and a huge fish. =)) Somehow the first thing I did, was sharing this with a Danish friend [xo] who’s apparently been sharing it with just about everyone in Scandinavia…. =D

Oh wow, would you look at this? Yesterday I came across the coolest news here in this article. Apparently the first robotic amusement park of Europe is being built in Neuchatel [I’ve actually been there! ;)]. Check out the article for more info.

So you can imagine how excited I was to read about this. I feel like a million box… I’m actually going to be there! =D I now have to go see where I can find more information about this. This is absolutely AWESOME, WOOOOOHOOOOOOOWWW! =D

So I decided to create myself an “Ask Box” too [or whatever you like to call it! ;)]. Simple, ask me anything you like and I’ll answer it if I can. =) If you have an account on the website, you can choose to include your user info, or just ask anonymously. Otherwise, it’s basically anonymous unless you decide to include a name. Oh and apparently it’s also possible to add / follow people. So, here’s mine!

Yesterday, I turned 27. =) I like the fact that the number has a 7 in it, which has always been lucky for me. 😉 I guess it makes sense, given that this is most probably going to be the year of big changes. As in, _HUGE_Migrating Around The Globe_, sort of changes. Which I’m of course looking forwards to. We had a nice little party with friends, after which we went out to a Greek restaurant where I had one of my favourite dishes: Grilled Octopus. Ok, I know that maybe hard to believe for some, but Octopus really is VERY yummy, and I totally love it. =D I even took a picture for proof. [Yet again!]

I would like to thank all my friends for the very nice birthday wishes, cards, eCards and…. Thanks you so much, it means a whole lot to me. =)