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Echinococcus Cannibilus Thursday, April 13, 2006

Went for another loner movie trip on monday. Watched ultraviolet at the new cathay cinema. The building was ok i guess and the elevators were super smooth and futuristic looking. The place was kinda normal i guess but instead of normal movie posters, they had digital ones. And there was this shop that sold movie memorabillia and another that sold kachang puteh. Then because i sort of got the message that we werent supposed to bring any food at all into the theatre, i went to go eat popcorn chicken at kfc before the movie only to see that quite a few other people were bringing popcorn and drinks in. The best thing about the whole place is the toilets. The sinks are so uber sexy. Instead of curvatures where the sinks are supposed to be, theres only a square 1cm depression on the long, singular slanting inwards piece of black marble.


The movie was awesome, the cinematography, the fight scenes, the gagets. I loved her color-changing outfits, her bracelets that were able to store infinite amounts of matter, this thig that alters gravity so she can walk on walls or the ceiling or allow her to drive her bike on the side of buildings, the public phone that issued a piece of paper that you fold into a disposable cellphone. However the way the story progressed was kinda weird and quite a few things were kinda confusing and unexplained. And i dont get how the swords could catch fire in the end. I mean they're metal rods. They dont catch fire. At most they turn red hot. But thats it.

The movie was similar to this book i just read, in that vampires arent magical creatures, but just infected by a disease that increases human abilities. But the diff is ultraviolet's is a human created virus and the book is a very old and long prevailing parasite, way before black death. And also, the books one are closer to real vampires in that the infected tend to hate sunlight and kill other people and live for hundreds of years. The thing is, the parasite messes with your brain, but since it needs the host, keeps it alive for as long as possible, up to a few centuries... and also gives you superhuman abilities, as a cited example that a mother saving her baby could lift a car, its all in the head. And in the book, there are two strains, one where the infected are insane and one wher the infected are sane... the latter being the older. The myths of vampires hating cricifixes came about cause of this thing called anathema... where the infected person starts to hate all the things he used to love, and since many were religious, they hated crucifixes and since the sun is so familiar, they turn to hate it as well. And it seems garlic and mandrake root seems to supress the insanity in the more sane strain. Well anyway, the book is real cool and every even numbered chapter has facts about a particular totally weird and disgusting parasite. Take the guinea worm, that can be found in ponds, and if you happen to drink the water, they get into your stomach. Then i makes its way into one of your legs and sends out chemicals to evade your immune system. There, it grows to about 2 feet long and gives birth. The babies set of your immunes sytem and your leg starts to swell and gets blisters and in the old days, people would relieve the feeling bu dipping their lags in a pond and the babies just swim out of the blisters. The adult however has to be carefully drawn out. It used to be slowly pulled out by wrapping it on a stick, a process that took like 7 days... otherwise it would just break and the half thats left inside you rots, causes infection and you die. So the whole thing wrapped on a stick used to be displayed by doctors... like some accomplishment, and thats how the medical symbol of the snake around the stick came about. And malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium that takes over your blood cells. Here's some others you should check out. Vandellia cirrhosa, Toxoplasma gondii, Dicroelium dendriticum, and Wolbachia that the filarial worm caries that makes you go blind and dominates over many insect species.
And theres actually a disease you get from a lack of parasites, Crohn's disease. Severe stomach pains and diorrhea. Only found in 1st world countries where there is clean dinking water. Because of the lack of parasites, your immune system becomes paranoid and attack your digestive system.

Lesson over. Well, i dyed my hair at the jean yip academy at united square. 30 bucks for cut and dye. Real cheap. However i didnt get the color i wanted... which was this kind of dark blondish, greyish brown that i pointed out in a magazine and they identified it as ash. But they said i couldnt get that unles i bleached my whole head. And that would cost extra. So i asked, couldnt they get like a darker version of that without the bleaching and they said yes. But somehow, after waiting for half an hour with the cold dye on my head, then another 20 minutes with the blue, ice-cold dye paste and i turn out like a relative of the golden lion marmoset. As in most parts are dark brown, but other parts is this orangish kinda gold color. But well i dont totally despise it. I'll put up a pic as soon as i take one.