Finally watched Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button this week. Only took release on home video for me to do it, hey? And Taken comes out this Tuesday, so it'll continue onwards.
I've also finally gotten Fan Words under 100 submissions in the queue, thank goodness! Slowly but surely . . .
I'm also up to speed with Hajime no Ippo, even though technically I know these parts of the story from the manga. It's all good, really.
In less catchy-up news . . .
My hometown's anniversary festival (The Hyack Festival) is coming around the way. Along with fake 21 Gun salutes using red hot lances and overturned anvils, there's also an annual parade.
I've been in this parade three times in my life: once when I was in grade 5 and won a ballot to represent my elementary school on a giant metal scooter made by the high school, once in Grade 12 as a marching band thing . . . and once again some time after high school, again as a marching band thing - from what I understand, they were short on people, and asked around if old alumni could come help out, so my brother volunteered me.
Now we weren't a real marching band in any sense, and I'm sure all y'all down south would slaughter us. We were the concert band but marching. We were the militia of marching bands. So understand what I mean when I describe my third stint in the Hyack Parade as "being a conscript for the militia". It was as good of an analogy as I could think of at the time.
Aaaaanyways . . . parade . . .
This year'll mark my 4th time. Seems they've called up my kung-fu club to do lion and dragon dance in the parade. Something about the city celebrating its 150th anniversary, and the Chinese community's 100th anniversary in the area. So I'm game for that. Can't say no to a good lion dance, y'know. Especially if it's in the ancestral land.
Ahh . . . gotta love New Westminster . . . we've got the world's largest tin soldier, y'know.
