Knight Rider 2008

I don't know about you, but suddenly I feel older when all those cool stuff we watch on the idiot box when we were a child, is coming back at us, bigger, and (sometimes) better!

About a couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon Knight Rider's new telemovie site, and got excited. Of course, seeing some flops in remakes makes me a bit cautious, since we had more powerful vehicles running on the silver screen and the idiot box after the K2000 (Viper, Cyclone).

Then, last night I found a copy of the telemovie on bootleg. I know that the pilot would take some time to reach our shores, so I took the most logical step. And after watching it, I would like to say:

• It has the old Knight Rider's feel to it, somehow. I don't quite know what, but the pacing of the pilot feels like the old series.
  
  
• The car seems tougher, although the capabilities are somewhat limited. The pilot only showed its speed (which a 4x4 still can somehow catch up), durability, camouflage, and other which are just claims of KITT.
  
  
• The new driver's also named Michael Traceur (pronounced like "tracer"), has a connection with Michael Knight, but more like an afterthought, since the only time the connection can be seen is when the Michael Knight (a cameo by David Hasselhoff) mentioned it. It seems that everything can be explained in just one line these days.
  
  
• another cameo by the old KITT, but only a part of it.

All in all, it's an OK effort, but the series doesn't have the kick it needs to properly make the fans drool, and the new generations excited. Right now, it's just another pilot for a new series with CGI. Hope they'll have better writers for their series, since we're so spoilt by choice nowadays.

Down

Down Down Down Down
Lower Than The Ground
Wanting To Rebound
Wanting To Turn It Around
While Am Safe And Sound
But Am Tied And Bound
So I Will Still Be Down
Until My Heart Is Found

Me and My Near Future

I'm not quite sure if you know this, so let me get this out of the way first. I'm the kind of a guy who don't just look at the glass half full or half empty, but I either drink it up or try to refill it and drink it up.

More often than not, it's the former.

So talking about my near future, I'm working my asses out to have something decent to drink out of, and look for oppoturnities to refill. The current situation is not making it any easier, but nothing in life is actually easy, right?

I've set up some plans for future funding of my life, but in enabling those plans, I would need a steady income for at least another 10 years. That would also mean that I can scrap any plans to get laid married anytime soon.

So, my focus is now maintaining my current lifestyle. I know, with the rise of staple food and petrol, I should be trying to living a more modest lifestyle, but it is as modest that I can muster while giving some comfort to my parents.

If any parents would say that it's hard to raise a child, I would say that the child would have it worse trying to take care of his/her parents. No, I'm not complaining, just making clear about the myth.

But I digress.

The current economic condition also worries me. The Company I'm working in is still relatively young, and never faced any serious economic recession in a regional or worldwide scale, so I'm being skeptical of its sustainability. That being said, some things are going the right way, and that have renewed hope to continue working there.

I know my bosses are most probably reading this, but this is a fact, and denying it does not make it go away. Don't worry, I've yet to get a better offer, to work somewhere else. Not yet.

As I said earlier, I had to halt my love life to maybe another decade, but that would be very hard to do. I simply have to much love to give out, and need a lot more. I'm trying to drink out of whatever in the glass right now, unable to refill any. I can't have any commitment in my situation, nor give any hope to anybody. Any feeling I have, I'll just have to do my best to suppress it, and held on to sanity. It's holding up right now, for the following reasons:

Friends.

I know that I'm not the best of friends. Thus maybe hindering some from being close to me. But to those who do, I am very thankful for you have helped me a lot in a lot of departments. I know I can't be there all the time for you all, but I try.

Some say that Family is more important, and I'm not denying it. But since the lion's share of my problems is family-related, I had to rely to some other shoulder to cry on.

I'm trying my best to keep 2 of my biggest asset, my laptop and my car in their best shape, as they are also 2 of my best friends. I've been in a condition where nobody else were able to hlep me but these 2, so if anything may ever happen to them, It would have a great impact in my life.

Yes, this blog has been a bit slow these days, for a lot of stuff is filling my head and pushing away nice thoughts that I usually blog about. Hit counts have reached an all time low.

But I'm still livin' and kickin', not to mention drinkin' and refillin'!!