progress

I'm looking at my life and thought; what have I accomplished?

I'm at my "prime" years as they call it and it only goes a bit higher before it goes down from there. For someone who is supposed to be twenty years old, I sure don't see myself that way. In fact when I travel on the subway, I feel like a high school student still. My appearance is definitely deceiving. Is that a good or a bad thing?

Anyway this random thing is about my previous project. I'm up to 120something pages and I've stopped working on it. It's been about two years since I have departed from high school and the memories are getting fuzzy. To not finish it soon means--it won't get finished at all. And so, I make an entire post just to remind myself of what's important to me... to finish the thing. But somehow I feel like there's never enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do.

some bullflop

This past Wednesday was supposed to be the nastiest snow storm in a while. The blizzard traveled all the way from X location (Washington DC). My Pittsburgh friend had no school for three days because the storm was severe. The night before the blizzard, Bloomberg announced that all NYC public schools will close on the following day. I found that amusing because it was unprecedented. Never before did schools close before a single snowflake dropped onto the ground. And yet, the next day when I looked out the window, the "blizzard" was a letdown. It was barely anything to fret over and schools were all closed. In fact it was raining half the time.

Planet Hulk (2010)

******SPOILER ALERT******

Planet Hulk (2010)

Synopsis

Illuminati decides the Hulk is far too dangerous to stay on Earth so they send him into space for a planet with no life forms. Hulk breaks the ship and it travels off course into the planet Sakaar. There, he is held prisoner and has to fight with other captives in gladiator matches in order to gain their freedom. The planet is ruled by a dictator and the prophecies say that a savior will come forth to relinquish the planet from the dictator's grasp. That savior is our protagonist, the Hulk.

Screenshots:

Our ally's hero has fallen!



HULK SMASH!


Apparently the Hulk bleeds green vegetable juice.


The last boss is just a man in a robot armor.

Thoughts

The plot was captivating. Hulk is sent away to another planet and we are eager to see how he will deal with the natives. The challenges set in Hulk's path can hardly be called challenges, for none can match the might of Hulk's fury. Hulk even demolished one of Thor's allies, Beta Ray Bill (who? the guy who looks like Thor), who was under the mind control of the evil dictator. After smashing the strongest person on the planet, there was no one who could possibly stand in his way. The last fight was a disappointing one because it reminded me of Superman fighting Lex Luthor in a robot armor. The outcome of the fight was obvious and the fight was too one-sided. Honestly, how can that guy think he can win versus the Hulk in a stupid armor? Another interesting thing is that Bruce (Hulk's alternate ego) never shows up in the movie. Hulk is also less savage in this movie because he is able to think and communicate. Anyway, this animated movie is definitely worth watching if you like the Marvel Universe.

vita

Baruch VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance)

Address:
151 East 25th Street (Library Building, 1st Floor) (Map)
New York, NY 10010

Time: WED 4-7 PM

I will do your tax for free! Visit me with your W-2's and I will file your federal and state taxes for you. Don't worry, I won't mess it up.


Baruch VITA is an interesting concept. The program is designed to train students on how to file federal 1040 and state returns. They allow like three months for people to sign up. After that, they start selling their textbooks. Those who are willing to spend the money to buy the textbook are to past a pre-test in order to get into training. They accept the first 600 people who past the pre-test into training. After going through a three day training, we take a post-test. Only a little more than 300 people are accepted into the program in order to volunteer. I'm not sure if I really want to do this now because it is insanely mundane and boring. Filing out tax forms is such a robotic routine it requires very little thought at all. The instructors even told us to not memorize anything because it is better to look things up. So that's all you have to do, look up directions and follow them. I feel like a monkey flipping through pages of a book, doing the same thing over and over.


Some humor: