After a lousy first half, the Yankees are making a run! They are the winners of 8 in a row and every game they’ve played after the All-Star break. They are 1 game behind Boston and 2 behind Tempa Bay. The best part of all this is… they are catching up by kicking Boston’s ass!!!!!! They are playing in Boston right now and have won 2 out of 3 so far. If they won on Sunday, they will take over the Wild Card lead!!!

Let’s go, Yankees!

(Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the movie and don’t wanna know anything in the plot…)

As advertised, I went to see the much anticipated new X-Files movie, I want to Believe. The first thing I gotta say is wow… Mulder and Scully are officially a couple! No there is not sex scene in the movie but they were in bed together! I think by X-Files standards, that’s pretty exciting already.

In any case… I thought the movie was very disappointing. The whole thing about the X-Files is that “the truth is out there” storyline. Sure this movie’s is a story after the TV series, but it doesn’t really add anything new!

You know how the beginning of each season, you’d have some kind of closure for stuff that happened in the finale of the previous season. Then you’d have many many episodes when the story doesn’t really move you along the overall storyline. Then it’d become interesting again because the plot finally develops new twists…

Ok, so this movie is a lot more like one of those episodes that just didn’t add anything to finding the “truth” Mulder is after. So we know both Mulder and Scully are no longer with the FBI… Big deal… Are we any “closer” to the “truth” after seeing this movie? No, not at all… That’s why I feel a little cheated. The movie is more hype than anything else. It’s wrong that they stir up all the interest from old fans and not give us anything substantial!!!

I spent the day with mom first at Vivo City (Singapore’s biggest shopping mall that mom just had to go and see) and then in Sentosa. It was great to be on the beach, see some girls in bikini and see the ocean. But Sentosa is… small….. And frankly it’s more of a nice get-away for the locals than a resort attraction for tourists…

Just saw The Dark Knight tonight. I like it for the most part but I gotta tell you that more than half way through the movie I thought it was getting too long… Not a good sign when you feel that way about a movie. I don’t know what really caused that though. In the end I still like the movie quite a bit. Maybe it’s because Maggie Gyllenhaal (who plays Rachel Dawes) just isn’t quite as pretty as Katie Holmes.

I also didn’t know how Joker was depicted in this movie. It’s obviously different from Jack Nicholson play Joker. I thought he wasn’t creepy enough…

Next up, The X-Files movie!!!

Mariano Rivera will get the nod to pitch in the 9th inning of the All-Star game because he deserves it more than you do. Not because you said you’d yield to him. Don’t be an ass. Don’t make it seem like it’s about you. It is not.

It’s funny how these aging athletes just don’t know when to quit. They all wanna play as long as they can, which I understand. But they’d do that even if their skill levels clearly are declining and they are hurting their own legacy. In my opinion, that’s when you should know to stop. But I guess they don’t realize that….

(Even better is that I can take screen capture of the video feed!)