The Blizzard

December 26-27^th: A blizzard hits New York City. By the end of the night, many areas have collected more than a foot and a half or more. In fact, the night before I couldn’t sleep because a plow truck was stuck plowing through the same block over many hours. On Monday, we heard all sources of public transportation have been completely shut down. The city plow trucks couldn’t keep up with the amount of snow fall the night before. Roads were covered in snow and parking vehicles were buried. The city literally stopped running. No one went to work and no one could go anywhere. I spent the day playing computer games all day.

December 28^th: I woke up 7 AM in the morning that day to get ready to go to a funeral in Chinatown. I raged in the morning because it was still awful outside. Most of the trains were experiencing delays and most of the Brooklyn trains were suspended (B, Q, D, N). Luckily for us, the bloody F train was still running! Since my dad said we would have to go to the funeral no matter what, we journeyed across Brooklyn to take the F train to Chinatown.

As we ventured to the closest F train, the path was quite challenging. Brooklyn looked like the result of an apocalypse. As I traveled the streets, it looked like I was inside the world of a disaster movie. Cars were abandoned in the middle of the streets and pedestrians traveled not on the sidewalk but on paths made by cars. As we made our way through the streets, we saw many people were struggling trying to get their cars out of the roads. Good Samaritans would stop and push the cars as they tried to force their way through the snow. It was a disaster. Avenue X was the worst. I don’t think the plows got to these small streets so therefore people simply abandoned their cars. Cars that entered couldn’t get out of this trap so the drivers just left their cars hanging around. It took us an hour to travel from Sheepshead Bay to Avenue X on McDonald Ave. After we got there, it took another 20 stops to get to East Broadway. Chinatown looked terrible. Whereas the snow in Brooklyn looked fluffy and clean, the snow in Chinatown looked like tar and oil spill material.

This was my second funeral event in my life. As far as funerals go, Chinese funerals are very superstitious. The older generation have all these rituals and customs that they follow. I must have bowed at least 20 times that day. There’s usually a ritual in which the family goes back to where they live to visit the home one more time before they head to the cemetery. Of course, once we attempted to get out of Chinatown we realized it was going to be impossible to get into Brooklyn. It took like half an hour to get out of Chinatown because the traffic was so bad. It took us all day to travel by car back and forth to all these places. After dinner, it took another freaking two hours to finally get home. By that time, the snow was starting to melt. However, many unfortunate cars and drivers were still stuck on the roads. I pity them because once they entered the one way, there was no getting out. MTA buses were stuck and personal cars couldn’t pass through. It was quite a day.

Last Post of the Year

Remember this?



Damn this cerberus dog is mad cute.



Anyway so the semester is over and winter break is here. I haven't really been posting much lately because I recently bought a new PC on Black Friday and ever since then, I've been playing a ton of games on the PC. My old system was utter trash so all I could ever play on that was browser games (lmao). I also bought SC2 Wings of Liberty during finals week, which I do admit was a stupid move. HoN 2.0 and SC2, yep sounds really productive alright.

The Walking Dead: S1E6 TS-19

S1E6 TS-19 - Season Finale

Summary

In the beginning of the episode, we are shown a flashback of a scene in which Shane attempts to get Rick out of the hospital bed. In the present, the survivors are momentarily saved in this government facility, ran by a single scientist. The rest of his team have either deserted or have commit suicide. The survivors have a decent meal and hot showers and everything seems to be great. But Shane has one too many drinks and confronts Lori once again about their relationship. Shane forces himself on her and Lori is luckily able to fend him off. In the morning, they discover the facility is running out of power and is going into shutdown. A timer goes off and the scientist locks them all inside to await their timely destruction. Some survivors threaten the guy, others plead him. In the end, Rick convinces the scientist to unlock the doors and let them choose their own fate. While some choose to leave, Andrea and another woman decides to stay and die in the explosion with the scientist. Dale manages to convince Andrea to escape and we see them all barely get away from the explosion.


Thoughts

This episode only set things in motion for the next season. It's a great cliffhanger. The survivors get to a government lab thinking they will be saved but in the end, they add one more to the death count and also lose some more ammunition. There was a scene in which they were each taking a shower and we as the viewers are shown the emotions of each individual. While some people were happy to finally take a shower (a luxury), others are all messed up in the head. One of those people is Shane. He almost rapes Lori after dinner, however the consequences probably stopped him from doing it. We are shown in the beginning of the episode that Shane truly tried to save Rick when he was in the hospital, so he wasn't lying when he told Lori that Rick is dead. I can empathize with Shane because he lost both Lori and his relationship. However, this also makes the viewers loathe Lori because there is nothing redeeming about her. Towards the end, the scientist whispers something to Rick as they were fleeing from the facility. I am going to guess that he saw the Shane vs. Lori conflict on camera and decided to tell Rick about it. Only time will tell.

But I love you Lori! You can't do this to me!

Let's threaten the guy who already chose to suicide, that will work.

Yo dawg, I theres something you need to know.

Girl you craze?

And it goes kaboom

The survivors (from left to right): Shane, Dale, Lori, Rick, T-Dog, Andrea, Carl, Glenn, Sophia, Daryl, Carol, Jacqui, Scientist Edwin.

End of the Season:
So who is left after season 1? Headcount would be: 11

Rick - leader of the group
Lori - Rick's wife, former affair with Shane
Carl - useless son
Shane - messed up in the head
T-Dog - minor character with no back story
Andrea - some back story, also the only hottie left
Glenn - Korean guy is still alive yeah!
Dale - old guy who seems to care a little too much about Andrea
Daryl - hothead badass
Carol - useless character
Sophia - useless character's daughter

Thoughts:

A six episode season is just retarded. They hook the viewers attention and then makes us wait for another year before we can watch the second season, which will be only 12 episodes. Due to the good ratings, AMC will probably produce a better second season, so I guess it's worth the wait. As far as what has happened so far, I think it could have gotten better. I thought they would spend the entire season focusing on how Rick tries to find his wife and son and along the way, meet different people. But he found them in episode 3, which was a huge letdown. They have so many characters but barely any of them have a back story. It's reminds me of Lost, except in Lost they went into depth with each character and make you care about each one of them. The problem with this series is there isn't enough character development. People seem to be dying every episode and we as the viewers can't sympathize with their deaths because we don't know them. Okay so you died, who cares? The love triangle relationship was given way too much emphasis and created far too much hostility towards Lori. I think every viewer wants her dead because she's a slut. Anyway, I hope they go above and beyond my expectations for this series because so far, it's been great. Each episode does serve it's meaning and it isn't like your typical American drama in each there is no linearity in the show. Don't you just hate shows in which stuff just happens and there is no point?

I would also like to thank everyone who followed me through this season.

The Walking Dead: S1E5 Wildfire

S1E5: Wildfire

Summary

The survivors are cleaning up the camp by burning the fallen walkers. While the rest of the dead get a pick axe through the skull, Andrea is still mourning over her dead sister Amy. She refuses to let anyone near her and threatens Rick when he offered to help her. Amy reanimates and Andrea shoots her in the head. They also find out another one of their crew got bitten and they debate on what to do with him. Rick suggests they move out and into the CDC, where there is supposed to be medical research on the disease and shelter. Rick and Shane have a long argument about it, stating it is a big gamble to move everyone out of the woods. However, with limited food supply, they head for the CDC. Inside the CDC, we are shown a single scientist still doing experiments. However, an accident destroys his only specimen and he gives up. Rick and the rest of the survivors make it to the CDC and finds nothing but dead bodies. When the group prepares to leave thinking the building is empty, Rick notices the cameras moving and begs for his group to be allowed in. The doors open as the group of survivors look on astonished.


Thoughts
The beginning half of the episode was emotionally intense. We see Andrea holding Amy's corpse the entire time and we wonder whether or not she was going to take care of the matter or commit suicide because of her sister's death. By letting her sister reanimate into a walker, she put everyone else in danger. It was really heart breaking to see Amy wake up again only to get her brains blown out. Another interesting thing that happened was Shane's shady moves. Rick and Shane went out into the woods to have their argument and while Rick was looking for something in the bushes, Shane had a deranged look on his face and held the shotgun toward Rick's back. We all know that Shane banged Rick's wife and one has to wonder how this will get resolved. This might be a foreshadowing of Shane trying to kill Rick when he gets the chance.

Back off, I'm going to take care of this.

Brains... want brains... (she doesnt speak but groans)

Hey Rick guess who is behind you?

The army (of the dead).