power forward | RIP Mr Pausch

i used to think that the coming year's roster of movies won't be as cool as the previous year's. and each year i would be forced to eat my words.

it's exactly the same feeling i got back in grade three when i thought that grade five mathematics was just too complicated and that i would never ever get it.

it's a good eating of words. it's so good i wish i could taste them myself if only to warn me never to be too caught up in the moment, and just stay in that little area between too bored and too amazed. it's a great little area. there's not too much company, just right. the drinks aren't too expensive too and the bartenders are helpful but never overbearing.

and you never run out of words to say. nor to eat.

here's to the many fellow humans who are not so shy to share their talents to the world, and get paid doing it! from hans zimmer's wonderful score to heath ledger's wonderful shlurps.

and i thought mamma mia was goood. apparently...

it only gets better.

here's the theme track performed live:

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on a different note, Randy Pausch died today. (CNN article here)

may he rest in peace! his book was good.

from his book: if you're a head-fake specialist, your hidden objective is to get them to learn something you want them to learn. that's when you teach somebody something by having them think they're learning something else.

plus this: if you wait long enough, people will surprise and impress you.

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try listening to that song while reading Obama's speech in Berlin (full script here)

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if people would want to look back to the goodness of Randy Pausch, this video is a good place to start (with Eric Hutchinson's good song called "Back To Where I Was"):