House/Serenity Firefly/unexpected gift.

So I just finished watching house episode 19 season 3, and boy did I enjoy it. Though some people might not agree with me,(hint hint..)
I watch house for soap opera 1st, medicine second. Ever since I started watching house during 95% I've been hooked and now my only regret is that... wait .. I have no regrets. I enjoyed every single episode mostly because of the characterization of House - as an arrogant sonnuvabitch modern day doctor version of sherlock holmes - and bad medicine doesn't really bother me.

In fact I remember asking a medicine school friend "hey what's an oncologist?".

I remember his response being something like "OMG WTF you've been watching house all this time and you didn't KNOE???".

Well not EXACTLY like that obviously, gotta give the guy some credit for not making feel too much like an idiot for not knowing the medical term ( he claims it's a general term) for "cancer specialist". ( Now thats a general term)

I've also watched Serenity lately and hot damn that was a good movie.


Rated no.1 sci-fi film of all time? oh yeah agreed totally. Firefly the most undeservingly canceled tv-series of recent memory? yeah probably. As in will probably agree after I watch the series. Seriously serenity and firefly have been written about so many times it's not even funny anymore. Anyone interested do yourself a favor and check out the show(s).

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On a completely unrelated note, the other day I was walking around, and I walked into the school library, wanting to print out my booking confirmation for the London accommodation that I had booked. (very bad sentence back there)

I was quite surprised that the black and white printing services on offer was not free. In factit's quite obnoxious. Pretty much like the LKW computer room printing service, except even more so. Or maybe not. Fact is that it wasn't free, and I couldn't dump coins into it to make it print. I had to buy a printing card, which was a white long slender piece of plastic shit and then put money on it before I can print.

So I aksed around, and made my way to the machine which dispenses white long slender plastic pieces of shit and searched my pockets for change.

It needed 50pence for a blank card, and more for printing credit. These University blokes sure know how to rip someone off. I thought. Anyway I searched my pockets and all I had was 50p.

Damn. I remember feeling disheartened, and disappointed, and angry maybe, but nevertheless I walked away, thinking of coming out again the next day just to do this... or rather thinking that I don't want to do this, but I have to. Yes I'm lazy, and also because it's windy and cold.

As I was walking out the door, a black british african guy said to me " it's not working?"

" no, I just don't have enough change for the machine since..." then I rambled on and somewhere in the middle he said "Oh", and pulled out some coins, one pound gold nuggets no less, and showed them to me.
They're worth RM7 damnit!

Of course I was stunned, so I in turn took out my wallet and flashed my bling out a ten pound note and said "well this is all I have.."

I was of course, assuming that he offered to change my bigger note for some smaller coins, and I reacted accordingly, but apparently that was not the case.

"How much do you need?"
"10p, or 20p..."

He thrust a 50p coin in my direction and still stunned, I said

".........uhh.... umm... thank you?"

It caught me completely off guard and for me it was an extremely awkward moment, I even went so far to ask him if there was anything I could do to make it up to him. Of course in true gentlemanly fashion he brushed me off and said he just wanted to help.

I thanked him. Twice. The second time on my way out. I think that creeped him out a little. Or maybe not. In any case that really made my day. It wasn't a bar of chocolate, but it certainly made me smile all the way back to the dorm room. I regret for not having asked his name and I feel like I haven't thanked him properly, but I hope he hears this, one way or another.

This marks the first time someone has been nice to me voluntarily since I'm here. What can I say? It makes me smile just thinking about it.

Yeah it IS good knowing that well meaning people still exist.

WHEW this is getting really long. I should be getting to sleep now, tomorrow's a big trip to london. nights.