#193 - Hmm.

Yahoo!Video Games: British gymnast is new Tomb Raider

Move over, Angelina Jolie. There's a new Lara Croft in town, and she's a 23-year-old gymnast from South London, Tomb Raider publisher Eidos announced this week.

Ever since actress Rhonda Mitra first took on the role of Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft in 1997, Eidos has sought real-life counterparts for its acrobatic archaeologist heroine, and they've helped propel the video game series to worldwide sales topping 32 million. Up until now the British publisher's picks have tended to be models or, like Jolie, movie stars, but Alison Carroll might just be the first Croft to have the physical abilities to do her famously acrobatic opposite number justice.

She's got this ridiculous quasi bad-ass pout in the first couple of promo pictures, but I guess you can't really blame her for trying to compensate for Jolie's...er, Croft's...Lips O' Doom. She doesn't really resemble Croft, but I like the fact that she'd be able to pull off Croft's more acrobatic stunts. Out of the seven pictures this article has of her, I kinda like this one the best. Mostly because she doesn't have that over-compensating pout but still manages to look suitably badass.

Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Tomb Raider: Underworld, it actually does sound like a pretty awesome game. And it's seriously being released for PS2?! Ohh, I think I need to get my hands on this game never mind that I still have, like, God of War and Xenosaga and a couple of Final Fantasy games to work through. It'd be so kickass if I could play it on a 360, but alas.

-Reileen
still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest

#194 - Something that struck me.

Origami
by Marjorie M. Evasco

The word unfolds, gathers up wind
To speed the crane's flight
North of my sun to you.

I am shaping this poem
Out of paper, folding
Distances between our seasons.

This poem is a crane.
When its wings unfold,
The paper will be pure and empty.

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Origami
(Cebuano version)

Mibukhad kining pulong, mitigom sa hangin
Pagpadali sa lupad sa talabon
Amihanan sa akong adlaw, ngadto kanimo.

Gilalang ko kining balak
Gikan sa papel, gipilo-pilo
Ang gilay-on sa atong panahon.

Kining balak usa ka talabon.
Inig bukhad sa iyan pako,
Ang papel motin-aw ug mahawan.

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So far this year, I've read 53 books. Not too bad.

-Reileen
I don't mind telling you my life was ended by your hands