colloquium

Way to go Andy. Good luck Lance.

So it’s been a while. New responsibilities at work.

I’ve cancelled my upcoming trip to Shanghai and Dubai. Not swine flu. Just pressure. Traded it in for a week holiday in Ibiza. Going to watch Tiesto at Privilege on the 21st of September. Accommodation for two. Who wants to come? Used my expiring SAA Voyager miles to London, my expiring United Airlines miles to Madrid and expiring timeshare points for a week on the party island.

Finally we can download some proper music in South Africa with Nokia Music. I’ve downloaded a couple of songs. Only problem is that it’s .wma and not .mp3 and I still prefer iTunes as my music organiser.

I’ve been watching quite a few series since September/October last year – around the time I got my HD TV.

1. Medium Season 1 and Season 2: Very good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. All episodes are fun watching and good quality. No filler episodes.
2. ER Season 1 to Season 13. Took me a good couple of months. Interesting but what really can be innovative and original after 13 series?
3. Torchwood Season 1 and Season 2: Cool British Alien Drama: Takes some time to get used to the accent, but refreshingly different from American series.
4. Jericho Season 1 and Season 2: If you suffer from or ever had a depressive episode, stay away. I found it very very dark.
5. Alf Season 1 and Season 2: I love Alf! Takes me back to my high school days. A wholotta fun.
6. Oprah 20th Anniversary Collection: A very interesting look at Oprah’s career and her ups and downs. Finally got to see the Tom Cruise incident.
7. Millennium Season 1 and Season 2: Even though the X-Files is one of my all time favourite TV series, this series written by Chris Carter is utterly macabre. I’m not sure why I want to see the 3rd and final season, maybe to have some closure. I don’t know.
8. Freaks and Geeks: An interesting look at the life of geeks in American high school. Some very funny and peculiar incidents I can totally relate to. Not that I’m a geek, I think.
9. Roswell Season 1 and Season 2: Season 1 will probably go down as one of my all time best season of any series ever, although I guess it’s teenage romance and drama meant for teenagers (pretty sure Jason Behr was a contributing factor…) Every episode was really contributing well to the overall storyline and there were no let downs. But in Season 2 they lose the plot entirely. I was very disappointed. Ordered Season 3 from Amazon. Still waiting. Probably lost in the post somewhere.
10. Spaced – The Complete Collection: Even though I’m not into British comedy, this was quite funny. My kind of twisted humour. Of course Simon Pegg became Scotty in Star Trek.
11. Smallville Season 1: As I said before, just how many people can die before anyone notices anything suspicious?

OK, that’s enough info for now…