i fell into a burning ring of fire.

walk the line most probably is your standard biopic; it's not really that great a movie, and it possibly takes liberties with the story of johnny cash. with that said, joaquin and reese are superb in it. my favourite scene would most probably be the opening set to the movie; the mad rhythmic thumping of percussion as well as the generally frenetic cheering of the inmates at the folsom prison. it's a brilliant build-up and the performance doesn't let you down once we get through the hour or so of flashbacks. the movie doesn't prod along at an arduous pace.

and i've never really been surrounded by so many grandparent-aged viewers before. which made it quite cool...in a way. because everybody knows johnny cash (especially if you're a penta/hexa/septa/octogenarian).

may ann and i spent the whole day shopping around after that. not much to tell, except that she bought a slim PS2 for her cousins for RM 699. it's menacingly small...i'd seen the machine on display, of course, but i never realized how incredibly thin it was. it's hardly sleek...it doesn't have the size to justify that description but i can say that it's a chick's machine. although the cousin in question is male. whatever, yeah.

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i'm starting to hate pet stores. i mean, dogs are cute to look at and all, but those poor bastards as living in a 3x3 glass bowl. with no proper sanitation and erratically scheduled food. if i had money, i'd buy them all out of their detention but the truth is, they're no better with me than they are at the current lodgings. i went to the pet store at ikano and just saw these two jack russells selling for RM 1,188 (for one)...which i think is a steal. but honestly, poor bastards. there was this beagle which was being "re-homed" for six months; i don't know what that means but he was already of age and didn't have a lot of space in his display.

it pained me to see them treated in that way. it probably is a way that things are going nowadays, and as schmaltzy afternoon special-like as it sounds, i hope those poor buggers get a home coz lord knows what's gonna happen to them once they don't.

it is not necessarily a dog's life.