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Prawns

District 9

I watched District 9 yesterday. I thought it was quite decent. Reminded me of his old Halo stuff, mostly. It was a competent human drama, and definitely one of the better science fiction movies in recent years. I thought the plot was a little… predictable (I think?), but it was still great to watch. It was otherwise pretty original and a thrilling ride. I think the racism themes run the risk of being interpreted as a tasteless take on the actual issues by the more uptight audiences, but I guess you can’t please everyone.

Friends In Strange Places

While I was doing a lab session on Wednesday afternoon, one of the teaching assistants popped in and borrowed me from my lab officer for a while and I was introduced to three new students who had come in from one of the polytechnics. I had initially thought that I’d done something wrong. And well, I suppose you get to make acquaintances in the strangest fashions.

I knew a couple of other engineering students who came in from polytechnics too, and they sort of struggled a bit initially because it seemed that the syllabus in polytechnic (and maybe the style in which it was taught) didn’t quite tally with the university’s imagination, so they had to pick up on some things themselves. It overall made it it hard to adapt. So I’m hoping that these three new acquaintances don’t have to suffer the same thing, and I’ll try to help them as much as I can.

Zoo Done

I finished putting up all my zoo pictures (I went there on June 11), and you’ll find them over at the flickr set. [via Flickr]

Something Random

And I suppose this is sort of random, but look, a Domo bento. [via AnnaTheRed's bento factory]

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