The X-Files: I Want To Believe

I can't believe my eyes, Mulder and Scully are back! Six years after the series ended and ten years after the first X-Files movie (Fight The Future)... indeed, it has been a long time. Watching The X-Files: I Want To Believe was surreal to me, having not seen Mulder and Scully on a weekly basis for the past six years. Seeing how their relationship grew from when the series ended back in 2002 was believable yet unreal at the same time. I am, and always will be, an 'X-Phile' (it's a nickname for X-Files fans, in case you were wondering) and a semi-'shipper' (technically means, a supporter of a Mulder and Scully relationship beyond being FBI partners) but the last scene in this movie left me feeling a bit weird. I don't know.

Anyway, I was pretty pleased with the movie, although, it can be a bit draggy at times. It is set apart from the whole 'mytharc' (a term for extraterrestrials / government conspiracy theory) theme and a bit more on the 'monsters-of-the-week' theme, though there wasn't really a monster here! I was a bit bummed that someone had to die in the middle of it. What the... I was not too happy with that!

Overall, this movie brings back great memories of watching The X-Files in my old living room, occasionally not being able to sleep at night when a particularly haunting episode was shown and how my 'passion' for forensic science started. Ahh, good 'ol memories.

Scalpel, anyone?

A Day in the Rain...

There's something different about playing in the rain... Granted, things may get a little slippery here and there, but it definitely beats having the sun beating on you every minute of the game, at least, that's how I see it.

I have not played in the rain since... frankly, I don't even remember when. But I had the "privilege" of playing football in the rain last Sunday with a few kids (if you can even call them kids anymore!) from the Rifle Range blocks.

We were running on a drenched basketball court, certain parts filled with little puddles of water but it was a pretty entertaining game. Our team (the FPBC players) lost to the Rifle Range boys but it was quite a fun game overall. I think, the best part was that they waited for us to play with them, and even in the rain, we enjoyed ourselves.

I guess, sometimes, instead of soaking up the sun, we should just let go and soak up the rain...

Boring Weekends

Sigh... football season is still a month away. My weekends are currently lacking in the football 'watching' department. I have to say, though, that the current Frank Lampard and Cristiano Ronaldo saga is keeping me entertained at the moment. These are deals that are just waiting to happen; Frank Lampard misses old coach and is being offered to reunite with Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan and Cristiano Ronaldo is having the prospect of playing for Real Madrid, supposedly the best club in the world, and being paid a ridiculous sum of money to do it, dangling in front of him. This beats reading all the nonsensical political hoo-hahs plastered in our newspapers daily.

And to think dramas only come from TVB Hong Kong...