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Day: 176(Monday, 10th June 2002)
Status: Week # 2
Days without PS2: 1 day(s)
Days without Cube: 1 day(s)
Listening to: Natalie Imbruglia - Wrong Impression
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SHIT! This is the 2nd time I had to write this update. All because I installed a game, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and it automatically restarted when it had finished installing! SHIT!

Not really in the mood to retype everything that I typed earlier so I'll just give you some of it.

If you're waiting for the continuation of the story, here's a summary. I called AL 1 hour after the first call like I promised but no answers. I tried a total of 3 times until about 11.45 pm and thought that it was too late, either they had gone out or they were already asleep. I tried calling the next evening but no one answered the phone again. Haven't attempted to call since then. Maybe some other time. THE END....for now.

Went to watch "Spider-Man" last night. Before that, we had dinner at a place called Carlton Curry House. Heard about the place many times before but it was the first time I've been there. I was expecting some fancy place with lots of Indian deco, and perhaps waiters in vests wearing turbans with a jewel at the centre of the forehead but it turned out to be a really simple place with minimal deco. Just some paintings and pictures hanging on the walls. In fact, the owner isn't even Indian but he's from Fiji!

What's so special about this place? Their curries are the speciality. They have 13 levels of spiciness, as they call it. They have mild curry/vindaloo followed by level # 1 right up to level # 13. Customers who manage to finish level # 13 get their photo taken and placed on the wall behind the cash register. Each additional level costs $ 0.50 extra. I just had a beef samosa (curry puff with spiced meat) followed by the normal Tandoori chicken and yoghurt sauce with saffron rice. DT,ML and P had level # 1 and mild fish curry respectively. DT and friends have tried level # 3 before and the end result is that they can't talk after that. Some of them sweat buckets. You know the usual, sweat and watery noses.

After settling the bill, it was off to Crown for the movie. "Spider-Man" was pretty enjoyable. It helps that I'm a fan of the comics as well. Here's some interesting but useless information about the differences between the movie and comic version of the origin of Spider-Man.

Movie: Peter Parker gets bitten by a genetically engineered/altered spider.
Comic: Peter Parker gets bitten by a normal spider that was just bombarded with radiation just moments before. It was hanging by its web and was just between the source of some machines, got zapped, got agitated, dropped on poor Peter's hand and bit him

Movie: Peter Parker shoots web fluid from his wrists and looks as if its from his blood stream
Comic: Peter Parker creates webshooters worn on his wrists,with the triggers on his palms and the web is chemically created, since he's the science whiz. He wears a belt which carries spare web-fluid cartridges and the buckle of the belt contains a micro-camera to take photos of him in action.
Note: There have been some pretty interesting notes about him shooting web from his wrists. Some reader once wrote a letter to Marvel (the comic publisher) and asked "If Spider-Man taps the web-shooter's trigger (on the palm) to shoot his web, won't he be shooting web fluid when he clenches his fist to punch enemies? The response to the question was: "Spidey has to do a quick double-tap on the triggers to shoot the web fluid from the web-shooters". Pretty interesting eh? Bet you wouldn't know this if you didn't read my journal. :p

Movie: Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are neighbours since they were kids and go to the same school
Comic: Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson don't meet until they're adults as far as I can remember. Nothing was ever mentioned about MJ being Peter's school mate and/or neighbour. MJ's a model/actress in the modern version of the comics.

Movie: Flash Thompson, the school bully has dark hair.
Comic: Flash Thompson, the school bully has blonde hair.

Movie: Peter is in love with Mary Jane as long as he can remember.
Comic: Peter has a girlfriend called Gwen Stacy, who's a blonde, but was killed by Green Goblin/Hobgoblin.

Movie: Uncle Ben dies after being shot in the chest while being car-jacked at the roadside by the robber Peter didn't stop. The robber dies in the movie.
Comic: Uncle Ben dies after being shot at home when the robber/burglar breaks into their house. I think the robber is just arrested here, or I think he died of a heart attack, result of being scared to death when Spider-Man catches him.

Movie: Nothing is mentioned about the webbing of Spider-Man after being shot out.
Comic: In the comics, the webbing disappears after about 2 hours. Must be one of Peter's brilliant inventions.

Movie: Spider-Man uses his webbing for swinging about and also about a few other uses, such as pulling objects and to cover up J.Jonah Jameson's mouth.
Comic: The webbing can be made into shapes, for example a shield, a safety net, a bat as a weapon and alot of other uses. It was even fireproof in the comics.

Movie: It is not explained how Spider-Man is able to hold onto the cable car full of school children. You just see that he's really strong.
Comic: It is said that spiders can carry many times its own weight and therefore, that makes Spider-Man as strong as hell.

Movie: Green Goblin wears a high tech exoskeleton/suit and throws mechanical pumpkin shaped bombs. The glider is equipped with machine guns, missles and blades.
Comic: Green Goblin wears tights which are green with a purple mask,purple gloves, purple vest and purple boots. He also throws pumpkin bombs. I don't remember the glider having missles. machine guns and blades.

I think that's about it that I can remember, the differences between movie and the comic. I'll stop here for now. Don't want to bore you all any further.

It's back to work tomorrow, already ironed my uniform earlier this evening. I'll update again soon. Promise.