Wall-E, with Friends

Today, I went out (with a few former summer camp counselor friends) to see Pixar latest feature film and short animation. Both were phenomenal.

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 96%, and I whole-heartedly agree. As always there are a bunch of Pixar Easter Eggs, and a number of Apple and Mac product placement, sort of. For example, among Wall-E's personal collection was something that closely resembled an iPod, and Wall-E's boot up sound paid tribute to the start up sound of the Macintosh, since 1984. Plus, the Eve character was said to have been designed by Jonny Ive, the father of the renouned iPod and iMac designs.

As usual, Pixar created a film that was fit for viewing by both children and adults. In fact, I feel this movie came out at the best time possible, in the middle of Apple's ascent to supremecy (maybe?) and the human realization of global warming and the downfall of the human spirit.

Also as typical of Pixar films, there is action, suspense, comedy, ominous times, sadness, and downright great story-telling. I highy recommend Wall-E. At first, I doubted how Pixar can play a movie with two robot leading-role characters with the majority of the dialogue limited to clicks and whistles, and "Wall-E" and "Eve", at least for the beginning half of the movie. They pulled it off really, really well. (There was robot love between the two.)

See here for great high resolution Wall-E images.

Hamburgers

I tried making make-shift hamburgers for dinner tonight to get rid of the rest of the ground beef I had left. I got the inspiration while watching Kitchen Nightmares by Chef Gordon. Heh. I tried to copy what he said on the show.

I mixed in egg, salt and pepper, and Worcester sauce with some red onion.

It was a bad experience, but it all ended well. I do not think I will be doing it again though.

One Down, One to Go

We just completed our first final exam of the summer (for System Dynamics). We have a final for Fluid Mechanics tomorrow which I have to seriously study for. Regardless of how I did or will do tomorrow on the exams, I am just glad that is all over soon.

I will be heading home tomorrow via Shortline. (I HATE buses.) I am not sure when I will depart, but it will most likely be very late. The final begins at 9:00 am tomorrow, and I should be done by 11:00 am. I have some last second things to take care of though; I have to clean and secure my room, and be all ready to start class again once I get back. I should be home by Saturday morning, I hope.

My schedule is like this: Friday, June 27 to home, and I will be coming back to school on Sunday, July 6. I hope to see many old friends since I have been away for so long. Sadly, this will be my only chance to be home this entire summer.

Cooking on a Sunday

Yesterday, I had said I cooked the "most elaborate dinner I have cooked for myself this summer." Today, I claim to say that again. I spent two hours on it today. It was okay ...

For breakfast, I had potato hash with egg and buttered whole-wheat toast.





For dinner, I had chicken and green beans with rice. The marinade was made with water, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, green onion, and corn starch.









Chicken and Broccoli

This is so far the most elaborate dinner I have cooked for myself this summer. It came out really well. Take a look: