Frustrated but I have Sarah Mclachlan

I was not blogging for like ages already as I see it, because I have been too busy with my work. A lot of rework for the current modules I am doing as the initial project plan was sort of scrapped but not totally though. Lots of coding and my head is swirling already. I'm thinking of whether its me or just the way the leads have planned. In my point of view they don't have a clear cut process. I was coding for example the CVS reader, retrieving static data for insurance shopping and booking and was done with it. It took me a day or two to finish the whole thing, but there was a change of plan to have an xml schema and xml instead. Waste of time for both parties.

Anyway they have paid me for wasting my time and theirs. But the stupid thing is they are rushing everyone on the team to burn our asses. How I wish the pay was like super big which includes payment for frustration and all the pushing around and stuff like that. I am not a robot you see. Well since I have watched BSG, I should shift gears and act like a Cylon so I can just switch-off some emotions that I have.

Anyway thanks to Sarah McLachlan for making things easier. Her songs are the tunes I'm listening while focusing on my work and forgetting almost anything around me. Her voice is so soothing, it fills the crevices of my soul. What a relief!

Tomorrow is another busy day. Good luck and God Bless to me and my mates. Hope I get more lessons and values out of this. Of course hope our leads will learn from this huge mistake they have done.

A doze of Galactica

It finished with a bang, quite mesmerized and little quizzical on my part. My marathon for BattleStar Galactica season 3 ended yesterday, and currently watching season 4.

Kara Thrace was supposedly dead already like for four months, but at the end part of the season, she showed up. It was the time when the four of the final five Cylons were revealed. It was also the time that Lee Adama resigned from being a CAG and went on to serve the civilian government of President Roslin. Well, Roslin's cancer went back. Dr Gaius Baltar who was on a trial for a crime against humanity was acquitted and he is now leading a religious group that preaches monotheism, the belief in one true God. The Cylons on the other hand, are in great peril brought about by the move to not know the final five Cylons and for that they have vetoed to alter the intelligence of the radar. And so a great protestation from Leoben, Caprica 6 and Sharon Valerii forcing them to make the Cylon robots, more intelligent. The Cylons went on a blood bath. Kara Thrace went on a military mission to find earth based on her gut feeling, based on her pre-conceived destiny.

So many questions arise from these turn-out of events in BSG. I would like to entertain as to how will the four become, as humans or Cylons? Who is the last Cylon to be revealed? Will Kara's team onboard the Demetrious will ever find earth? What will happen of the Cylons who are discorded?

I would love to surf online and look for definitive answers on questions aforementioned but, it's still nice to go and discover them through watching the series. I am still in the office right now, damn work (fracking work hehehehe), waiting for the build. I'll sleep again super late to finish at least three forty-something minute episodes.

Ciao!

A love that kills.

His name is Col. Tigh and married to a woman named Ellen.

In the third season, a twist of events arose. Dr. Gaius Baltar was elected president of the colonies and that the fleet came to find and established a New Caprica. They settled their and on the 4th month, the Cylons discovered them. Many civilians and some military men, who decided to settle in the New Caprica, were left by the Galactica fleet. The Cylons occupied the planet, as Dr. Baltar surrendered to the invaders. Many were held into detention in extreme conditions, and one of them was Col. Tigh. The only way for the colonel to get out of his jail was for his wife to go to a Cylon and sold herself. Her husband was released. After so many days of unrests from the human insurgents, they had established contact from the BattleStar. Colonel Tigh now leading the insurgents was planning for massive scale of bombings. The Cylons decided to create fear among the humans by rounding them up, arresting civilians believed to have one way or another helped the insurgents, detaining and enlisting them for a summary execution. The colonel and his team were able to gather the information leaked by an unknown civilian who had access to vital information from the now puppet president, Dr. Baltar. Ellen was still seeing this Cylon and at that time, Ellen was threatened that her husband will be detained again, and this time he will not just lose his eye, if she won’t give any information about the plans of the insurgents. On a meeting by the insurgents about the rescue mission, they had this map and when they had to dispose it, Ellen got the map from her husband and slip it on her dress and burnt a different paper. When the initial plan for the rescue mission took off, the insurgent who went to fetch the Galactica forces led by Sharon Agathon, a Cylon who took oath to side with the humans, they were ambushed. After the crossfire, an insurgent found the map which was used on the plan. They already had inkling, as to who leaked their information - it was Ellen. Colonel Tigh talked to his wife about it. They sat on a huge wooden box as Ellen explained to her husband why she had to do what she had to do while tears were running in her cheeks. She deeply noted that she was willing to do anything just to save him, anything.... After the discourse, Col. Tigh gave Ellen a drink. She collapsed and was not breathing anymore. Colonel Tigh uttered the words, "I love you", to Ellen and wept.

This narrative was from the BSG season 3 episodes 1-4. I was left in tears at that very moment where Ellen and Colonel Tigh talked things out. I so loved it! The series wasn't just a sci-fi. It shows the human vulnerabilities, human will and spirit, it questions morality and it provokes the viewers' thoughts.

That was one of the moving scenes I saw in BattleStar Galactica. Though I forgot to tell you any fun and heart pumping scenes from seasons 1 and 2, one of these days I think I will.

Good Will Hunting

Just last week, I have written that I started watching BattleStar Galactica(BSG). Well, I got hold of my first original DVD when I planned to buy an album of Richard Poon at Tower Records and got the rest of the package from my Muslim friends at Makati Square where you can buy pirated copies - though wishing to have the originals.

To give you a synopsis, the story started when the Cyclons - robots or machines with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) created by humans; rebelled and attacked the twelve colonies of Kobol. It was a doomsday with that nuclear annihilation from the Cylons. The remaining survivors on board the space ship called Galactica went to journey the space and beyond in search for the fabled 13th tribe who settled in a new planet called Earth. The rag tag was lead by Commander Adama. The Cylons at this time have human features already - physically resembling like humans. This has threatened the fleet plus the political turmoil that has risen, due to the fact that there was no civilian government. The power sharing and shifting created more difficulty. But, when Laura Roslin, an education secretary, was sworn to power due to constitutional provisions, and got the approval of the majority including the commander, things went a little lighter. The fleet journeyed long with all the risk from the Cyclons following them.

I hope that was enough for a synopsis.

Anyhow, I was really fascinated with the script though there has been some major changes when it was first or originally created. I didn't know about the original script but fortunately, the DVD I got did have some clips about the making, casting, you know featuring the writers, characters and some interviews with the original casts. I finished seasons 1 and 2 and currently watching season 3.

Well anyway, you have to get your copies for seasons 1 - 4, for you to appreciate it, and spice up your sci-fi spirit.

Bye for now!