... Leave Me Breathless

The Corrs sang that line, and now I do.
There are 2 words that EVERYONE has to know about.
SIN CITY
I've just finished watching one of the most amazing movies ever made!
Imagine Kill Bill meets Pulp Fiction meets The Matrix meets Max Payne meets Comic books and you'll only be half way there.
Based on the Frank Miller comics of the same name, the movie follows 3 main stories involving 3 main characters, all narated by the main themselves. Not only is it beautifully film noire (with a few colours chucked in) but it's beautifully done. Direction, style, elegance, violence, acting, and just all in all a brilliant film!
I can't remember when was the last time I ranted so much about a movie (maybe house of flying daggers) but I can't stress strong enough for you people to GO SEE SIN CITY. NOW. THAT'S AN ORDER. DOCTOR'S ORDER.

Tiger

I'm officially back
not blogged for ages now, main reason was work :(
just out of the hellish week-of-nights, each night was busier than the one before. The cream on the cake? 6am on the very last night, 68 year old lady with a heart attack. Needed the full works (takes around 2 hours). Oh well, at least she's still alive (as far as I know...)
Tiger? yup. The new Mac OS X (that's read Oh Ess Ten) version 10.4 to be exact. It's added alot of new features to the system (including an excellent search system called spotlight, and a "dashboard" that has lots of useful "widgets")
But who cares about all those things. THE coolest thing has to be the iTunes Album Art screensaver, which gets all the album art you have and turn them into a very stylish display. It's absolutely stunning....
One more thing tiger did was turn good-delicious into an RSS feed! totally cool, I can now read my own news as RSS!
More to come from the house of SoB. Till then, be hyptonised by the snap below

Nonsense Poem

Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange. (from wikipedia)
Why you ask, do I mention this late on a Sunday night?
well cos I just read one of the funniest (and cleverest) nonsense poems! not that I read literature, but I tend to browse around wikipedia alot (come on, everyone does it! just pick a random topic, read about it on wiki and then follow the links around various other topics! and NO I'm not a geek :p) and I stumbled on this great nonsense:

One fine day in the middle of the night,

Two dead boys got up to fight.

Back-to-back they faced each other,

Drew their swords and shot each other.

A deaf policeman heard the noise,

And rushed to save the two dead boys.

A paralyzed donkey walking by,

Kicked the copper in the eye,

Sent him through a rubber wall,

Into a dry ditch and drowned them all.

(If you don't believe this lie is true,

Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!)

Amu Ali

That's 7 days I've been offline!
yup, was in London doing a PASTEST course for MRCP-1 (AGAIN!!), very useful stuff, I feel a better doctor already :p
anyhow, over there I cancelled my 2mbit adsl and went for the big 8! yup, that's 8mbit of bit heaven (for the same price as the 2mbit one! my contract was old and overpriced!). The line still isn't active and hence I haven't been online till today, where I'm back in good old Colchester.
Lots of news to write about, I'll post later in a longish entry. But the important thing is that my bro's wife and kids are here now! They arrived on Sunday and are still trying to figure out which way to look when crossing the road.
Here's a picture of my 2 (yeah there was one when I left, but he must have duplicated!) nephews, Mohammed Hassan (The big guy) and Abraham.