Illusion of Words

Sunday Sermon 09/10

Looks like I’m doing weekly reviews of sermons from Wesley Church…

Anyway, today was Rev Lau preaching. For one who almost never speaks, much less preaches, in English, it wasn’t too bad. Although it did feel like listening to a bad French accent. Which is quite yucky. But really, not a bad try.

She had the congregation laughing. The title of the sermon was ‘The Steadfast Love’. And we are to have steadfast love. I can’t remember though how we are to love…whatever. *hides ashamedly*

It was the first time in my life sitting through a morning service in Wesley, that the congregation clapped hands when the pastor finished. It was amazing, almost scary. Mainly because the sermon was finished, and nobody was sure that it was finished, so Rev Lau said, ‘Amen!’, which made everyone laugh and clap loudly.

One word about the powerpoint in the morning service: Obviously whoever did it can’t read Chinese, as he or she sort of got lost during the Chinese slides.

Then youth worship. My mom preached today. On purity. Which is quite a sensitive issue for youths. Everybody was pretty much interested and nervous. But I believe some were touched and perhaps will change. Thank God for those who will strive to live a holy life from now on.

Don’t ask, ‘What about you?’ Really.

Nothing to do with sermons: I am going to change the template and stuff, as I think the current one is horrendously horrible. And by the way, for the first time in my life, I tried my hand in drabble (exactly 100-word piece of writing). Not really good. Perhaps next week I’ll post it, as I don’t have the time to do now. Got to go watch Smallville, coming back to TV3 tonight. Whatever season it is.

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First Icon

Episode 1, ‘Prophet Five’, was somewhat inspiring and prompted me to create the first icon I’ve ever made. Okay, so not really the first one, but at least the first one that looks a lee bit better. I don’t think it’s pretty, because I’ve still got a loooong way to go. But actually, not bad for a first icon. Allow me to post it here.

Credits
Font: Scriptina, Adobe Garamond Pro
Textures: ofthesky
Nothing else, I think that’s it. Whatever.

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Episode 2: …1…

The episode begins with a flashback of what happened, i.e. Vaughn being not-Vaughn and car-crash and him dying and stuff. And then there’s Syd meeting with Renee (whatever).

So Syd meets this Renee person because she wants to find Dean and sort of get revenge. They get some hard disk thingie and extract a video from it. Video is on Ivan Curtis, the guy who killed Vaughn, and some Heinrich guy. Syd goes to ultra-sound scanning for her baby, alone, which is pretty pathetic.

So we arrive at Amsterdam, where Dixon and Weiss go on point, while Syd directs them. And the two guys do some cool acting in front of Heinrich. Then Curtis comes, unexpectedly, to get the package ordered from Heinrich.

Curtis gets the stuff, and kills Heinrich, cold-blooded man he is. Syd and Dixon and Weiss capture him though. And they start to question him and stuff, and find some green whatever stuff in the box, which reminds me very much of Rambaldi and the season 3 green stuff.

It is definitely to be used for powering something, and they don’t know what because Curtis won’t blab. So Syd kicks Curtis crashing out of the window, storeys above water, after he drinks some water with tracker in it.

Meanwhile, Jack recruits a new guy, obviously very naughty and rogue, called Thomas Grace (Balthazar Getty).

Curtis is tracked to somewhere in the air, flying towards North Korea with the thingie wanted. Which is a big no-no, so the three get into a fighter jet and intercept the plane, climbing into the cargo place, all without his knowledge.

Syd starts fiddling around with the cargo, Marshall on comms, trying to find a detonator, except there isn’t. Meanwhile, aboard the plane, Dixon and Weiss jump the people and a fierce battle ensues.

Curtis gets into the cargo area, and catches Syd. Who has just found out that the bomb isn’t a bomb — it hosts a frozen body. Syd doesn’t have time to marvel over her new find, and she and Curtis exchange sharp talk.

The guy keeps telling Syd that she doesn’t know what she is getting herself into. And he won’t tell where Dean is. At that point, the pilot is shot to death accidentally, and the multi-talented (all of them are actually) Dixon takes the controls.

The walls of the plane behind Curtis suddenly opens (or whatever, I’m not really sure what he did), and he gets sucked out into the air, while Syd looks on sadly.

Back at APO, Syd has a heart-to-heart talk with her dad, in which she invites him to come to her next checkup, which Jack readily agrees. She’s really sad because they lost their last lead to Dean. And the body is being sent to DSR.

Thomas Grace the new agent comes in, and Weiss has a sort-of-sad moment with Syd and Dixon, knowing that he won’t be there soon. Dixon tells Syd something, and later Syd calls Renee, telling her that the body was intercepted.

Renee agrees to check up on it, but right next to her, there’s the body and ‘coffin’! And the fingers begin to move — Frankenstein’s monster!!!!!!!!! (nah, the fingers move, and that’s it)

Rating: 6/10

the green stuff…

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This Morning

This morning. Sigh. Everything is normal now, as everything always is anyway. I must admit that I did not enjoy the whole thing.

Watching the little kids screaming on top of their lungs, jumping up and down frantically, sweating furiously isn’t exactly the best thing to see. Though it may be a little cute, it was bothering. Just for the sake of promotion the school has to force kids to go. Those kids are so into the games, it’s like the World Championships or something like that.

They were late 15 minutes. Everything was so chaotic at the end that you practically had to scream into your neighbour’s ear to be heard. Some people were getting upset and angry.

And was I glad when I left. I hope I won’t have to do such a silly thing again.

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Work

Who works on a Sunday?

The answer? Poor students/prefects who have to help out in their school.

And well, there was no proper excuse for escaping that problem. So I have to. I have to go tomorrow, 7:30am to 12:30am. *weeps*

Just for the sake of Primary Six kids who are to come play games. And on a Sunday too! Do they think we’re that free? Do they think that we are just slaves to come and go at request? We have to go church, we have to have our rest day!

Come on, stop torturing prefects. I never see other schools forcing their kids to go back for work. On the other hand, we’re different from them. Private school vs. Public school. One surviving with the donations of kind people, one swimming in the pool of government resources.

I can’t believe that I’ve to go. Once I got away from having to ‘pluck CDs off the boards after the record-setting thing’ (now that is another rant of its own). Looks like I don’t have the luck to get away twice. Being the pianist on Sunday doesn’t seem to be such a good excuse.

Now that I think about it, it could have been a wonderful excuse. But it is too late. Perhaps I can enjoy it, crazy as it may sound.

In any case, leave me alone to my sorrows for tonight…

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Episode 1: Prophet Five

Alias is back, after months of absence, and I just had the honour of watching the premiere episode. Before I proceed further, YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup, that’s better. Okay so now. Back in season 4 we were left hanging with a bone-rattling car crash. Syd and Vaughn (I’ll call them S/V to save time) are in the car, and there’s a medical team coming to help them. Syd is conscious, but Vaughn isn’t. And Syd sees the medical guy with guns all over the belt, so she kicks his butt and runs off into the cornfield.

Where they play catch-me-if-you-can, which ends up with two ‘paramedics’ killed and Vaughn brought off in a helicopter. Well, so right now it seems like it was an extraction, especially after Vaughn had just said that he wasn’t Vaughn.

Syd gets back to APO, where there’s a guy called Dean from Langley who asks her questions. Jack steps in and interrupts, and in a way chases Dean away.

Meanwhile Vaughn is in some place, getting tortured because the people want to know about ‘Prophet Five’. Probably something (or everything) to do with Rambaldi. Anyway he somehow escapes and calls Syd for his father’s watch, which has something to do with decoding the mystery.

Then everyone is against Dean, including Marshall, trying to protect not-Vaughn. S/V go and meet some old guy called James Leaman who is a cryptologist trying to figure out about Prophet Five. Previously Vaughn had tried to find that guy with a girl called Reine, who is a terrorist. Whatever. The technical part is not easy to understand.

So the Leaman guy wants them to get a book from some place in Cape Town, where S/V go. They get it successfully. Then meet with Leaman at some train track. But not before Syd receives the news from her doctor that she is pregnant.

Somewhere out there, Dean has this agent who finds out where Vaughn is.

Vaughn goes by himself to meet with Leaman, and suddenly cars pull up, Dean the Langley guy pops out with some people, and they fire round after round into Vaughn and Leaman. And steal the book. Syd watches helplessly as a train rattles past between her and the scene.

Vaughn ends up in the hospital, where Syd waits anxiously. Jack comes in, and scolds her for being stupid. But Syd flashes up her final defence: “Vaughn and I, we’re having a baby.”

Which changes Jack’s mind, and he sides them. Then Syd goes in and has a little talk with Vaughn, and suddenly the machines start to beep red and doctors swarm the room….and Vaughn’s dead.

Cut to funeral. With closed coffin, which arouses suspicions.

Then four months later. Syd finally finds Reine, and says that it has something to do with Michael Vaughn.

THE END.

So Vaughn died. Can my dreams be finally coming true?? I doubt so, but I do hope Vaughn’s dead. Give me reason to enjoy the season all the more, man! But indeed, not too bad a premiere.

Rating: 7.5/10

Vaughn’s coffin flanked by colleagues of APO, front line: Marshall (tech guy), Dixon; second line: Weiss. Syd and Jack are unseeable in this shot.

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