US TV Shows I'm Following

Well, as with every new year, there are some television shows you start following, some you stop following, and some you continue on from last year. A notable disappearance is Heroes, which went on hiatus due to the writers' strike in the US. So what am I following now? 1. The Celebrity Apprentice - no, I don't think I like it very much anymore, but it's fun when some of these publicly successful people start fighting or complaining about each other.

2. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - I don't know if it'll get bad towards the end, but the first two episodes of the series indicate that it'll go the way I want. The fact that it doesn't have to tie itself into the T3 canon is also promising to me, since it doesn't have to kill itself trying to work its way there.

3. Boston Legal - The cases have gotten more ridiculous and the current focus on the newer members of the law firm while not particularly favourable sometimes, does keep the show fresh.

4. Mythbusters - A new series of episodes has come again (it's so spotty now it's ridiculous, I'll just assume it's new since it has a 'new' opening sequence) - with some long awaited more ridiculous James Bond myths. The show is starting to get old to me. There was an episode several episodes ago that I thought was nice. I realised that I like the slower tempo of the older shows much better than the faster tempo of the newer ones. Probably because a lot of engineering and troubleshooting gets cut out nowadays - even the part that does get put online feels rushed.

5. Stargate Atlantis - The second half of the season has started airing. I didn't particularly like the series when it started, and unfortunately I still don't. I haven't watched the latest few episodes at all. While I'm still hoping it won't suddenly suffer the fate of the now-cancelled SG-1 series, I somehow don't particularly care as much about Atlantis as I do about Earth. So excuse me.

NFS Carbon

I decided to go back and try to finish Need for Speed Carbon. I didn't like Prostreet very much - it's not that it's bad, but the driving feels really foreign to me for now. (I said the same thing about the Need for Speed series six to seven years ago, I think)

Stuff I Do Miss From Australia

Reply to a reply to What I Miss from Australia 1. Having everyone within walking distance - I think everyone who's left home to study will share this feeling - most people are no more than 15 minutes walk of each other, and going out together is a regular occurence rather than a special occasion. This is probably the best part of uni life. (Heck, our neighbours, kl and I kept going from apartment to apartment, sometimes leading to me locking kl out. Whoops. :P)

2. Boost and Bacio Dolce Melbourne fruit smoothies - Heh, I think there isn't much of a need to explain. Fruit smoothies taste good and make a good meal replacement.

3. My bed - usually one would miss the bed from home, I miss my bed from there. I spent a good amount of money on a good bed there, and it's comfortable, and its location is unbeatable - close to my table. Where the monitor and speakers and computer are. 'Nuff said.

4. The nice weather - In summer, I'm not there, but the rest of the time, the cold weather is heavenly. Even when it rains in Melbourne, it usually does its work in bursts of five to ten minutes. And no lightning storms to threaten your modem. (OK, so almost none.)

5. My file server and network - it was so convenient to have a file server that does BitTorrenting for you. As for my network? Well, I could stream video and audio to anywhere in the apartment. :D