This is not a typical time for me to update.  After all, it's holidays now and I can, and do, usually wake up late (11 AM).  But somehow I got up early today, and I thought, why go back to sleep when I can do some useful stuff?

Anyway, the last few days, I've been busy with a little Doom II level called Congestion Control 2, so that's why the lack of updates.  More on that in the next post.  I've also started learning driving (from May 1).  Many people who know me would say it's about time I learnt to drive a car, and it's finally happened.  This is in the afternoons and by the end of this month I will get my drivers' licence.

And as usual, I watched a few movies, old and new:

• The Craft - HBO, May 1 - Interesting movie about 4 high-school girls who just happen to be witches.
• Hard Target - STAR Movies, May 1 - Jean-Claude Van Damme is hunted by Lance Henriksen!  This is John Woo's US debut, and is a great movie.  STAR Movies is showing it again at 7 PM this Sunday.  Last night, I wrote a review for this, which you can find on the Movie Reviews page.
• Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood - HBO, May 2 - The most evil vampire the world has ever known is resurrected, she sets up a bordello under a mortuary, to prey on unsuspecting men.  Similar themes as (the superior) From Dusk Till Dawn, but fun.
• Snatch. - HBO, May 3 - Guy Ritchie's follow-up to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.  An assorted group of characters are after a diamond.  Two boxing promoters, a gangster and a gypsy boxer (Brad Pitt) also figure in the plot, although I am going to have to see it again (and hopefully read the script) to understand it fully.  Very enjoyable though.
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - HBO, May 3 - The first Austin Powers movie that I saw, and really liked.  I wrote a review for this, it is of course, on my Movie Reviews page.

Speaking of reviews, I've now added quite a few of mine to the Internet Movie Database.  If you look at the "External Reviews" section of certain movies (Operation Condor, Cold Harvest, Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel, City Hunter) you will find a link to my review.  I am planning to add more.

The soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me has a very good hip-hop/rap song called "Just the Two of Us", (which is sung in the movie by Dr. Evil to his clone Mini-Me), this song I downloaded a couple of days back.