The "Meeting"

Had a meeting in the wee hours of the morning recently (ok so it was more like 8 am but I was still sleepy folks!) Meetings are of course routine fodder. However the nature of this meeting was rather unusal.

It was basically an "updates" meeting you know one of those meetings where you sit and talk about whaat you've achieved and incredulously wonder what happened to all the objectives? Yup one of those.

Well I had a very surreal feeling this meeting since most of the attendees were of comparable "rank" I felt like a red indian! Allow me to explain myself. The conversation went something like this:

Red Indian 1:" Well Indian Chief, I almost caught that huge fish but because Red Indian 2 didn't sharpen my spear, it got away"

Red Indian 2: " That's true Indian Chief but I couldn't because Red Indian 3 didn't didn't find me a suitable rock"

Red Indian 3:" I would have helped to find the rock Indian Chief but Red Indian 1 said he would give me a fish first so I had energy"

Red Indian 1:" Oh no but my friend it's all because Indian Chief didn't ask me to keep a store of fish!"

Red Indian Chief:" That's the end of our very productive meeting let's have fish for dinner!"

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Avatar review - Spoiler Alert

Avatar... officially rocks my world! The creatures in the lush world of Pandora were fashioned in great detail and there's no doubt countless hours were spent bringing them to life. Unfortunately the 3-D effects were unspectacular, albeit that could be because of the very distracting humpty dumpty head in front of me blocking the screen 90% of the time. Incidentally if you were wondering,I wasn't being mean the head WAS that huge seeing as it comprised of two heads lovingly sharing one seat. I wonder if they got a discount? But I digress, other than the wonderful creatures, world and special effects, Avatar rocks because it is a show with a LOT of meaning. (please don't watch avatar online or a cheap pirated disc and bash this movie.. of course it's not good viewed that way. It was NOT meant to be viewed that way see?)

In this world right now, James Cameron's Avatar is like rain during a drought. Not only does he tingle our senses with beautiful scenes he overloads our sensibilities in a cloak of movie excitement. This movie while based in the world of Pandora reflects the problems of a very real "Mother" Earth.

The outright destruction of the home tree, the marginalisation of the Na've people, the outright disbelief in Religion and all things supernatural plus many many more are very real problems we are facing today. We are destroying habitats all around our Mother Earth (Mother in Avatar) with total disregard to the plants, wildlife and indigenous people, belittling these, willing to look the other way to build new resorts and condominiums in a mad dash for cash (raw material in Avatar). In the movie Avatar, "Mother" fought back, sending hordes of wonderful wild creatures after a species so weak it has to wear clothing just to survive, Man, the most cruel animal of them all. Our Mother Earth IS fighting back too. Our climates are changing and snow is falling where it has never fallen before... the signs are here.. we don't need a professor to tell us... we just have to decide if we'd like to become a warrior and spearhead the fight for change or stay quiet and let the vicious arm of technology fueled by greed change the face of this earth... perhaps.. forever...

Weekend!

My weekend was great! (well MOSTLY great).

J and I went for an intensive gaming session at a games cafe (I shall keep it undisclosed for now, don't want the rate to increase!) We played guitar hero world tour wii sports and raving rabbits for FOUR whole hours and I only had dinner at 10 plus! At risk of being labelled a mountain tortoise it was my very first time playing wii! I am so tempted to buy it now :p Think the weather forecast will have heavy thunder with periods of money falling soon? :>

Ah but piano was a disaster. I actually did practise my piano but because i gamed so much on saturday, I didn't really practise during the weekend. Ah second time in a row being chided. Doesn't feel good :P