Just started a new diet, in an attempt to be able to fit into my clothes once more!
I’m measuring progress using my weight, and also my fat index (there’s a machine here which can apparantly work it out). So, the starting stats are:
Height: 178cm (5’10”)
Weight: 80.8 kg (12st 10lb)
Fat Index: 21.6%
Apparantly the normal weight range for my age, etc is 63.4kg – 78.9kg, so I’m a little bit over! That said, I do think it didn’t quite get my height right!
Another very nice film – no great action, just great acting and human interaction.
The basic premise is that a wash-out film director comes across some software that enable him to create an virtual actress (Simulation One), who is drop dead gorgeous and everybody immediately loves.
Of course it all spirals out of control, and when he deletes her program in order to kill her off, he ends up charged with her murder!!
But a very high calibre cast, and a very nice concept – how long before it’s true? (is it already?)
You have GOT to see this film – the funniest sweetest film of 2002 by a long way! A laugh-out-loud comedy, which retains it’s subtely and empathy throughout.. You really care about the girl, and really understand what she’s going through without it settling into either sentimental rubbish or desperate cringing (although there are cringeful moments.)
Just a very nice, entertaining film, set a gorgeous pace in today’s post-Matrix high speed film world.
Just a quickie to mention the films I caught on my recent trip to the states. Will do reviews when I have half a second (it’s a mad time for me right now), but at least if they’re listed I might be around to it one day!
So, in full and in no particular order:
Part of my lack of time has been contributed to by a couple of new games – Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness and SOCOM: Navy Seals, the latter of which also happens to be an online game!! But more about that in the games section
Yes- managed 15 mins @ 10kph.
Also went to the theatre on Thursday – saw Up on the Roof – and am going to the cinema tonight to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
This is a really fun play/musical about 6 college friends who form an impromtu barber-shop type vocal group on the roof of their student digs. There is a plot, of sorts, about their relationships and life choices, but the main appeal is the songs.
Heavily based on Motown numbers, and just fantastic singing (but I’m a fan of acapella anyway) – a really good night out, and well worth the effort.
Gym update.
Another morning to the gym – 15 mins @ 9.5 kph.
Followed it up with some messing around with the multi-gym, but nothing serious.
Gym update.
Went last Tuesday and this morning. Last week I did the treadmill – changed speed a bit, but probably averaged out to about 15 minutes at 8.5 kph.
This morning did the ergo – 3k in 14.05 minutes, followed by 3 minutes on the treadmill @ 9 kph, before it hurt to much to continue! :)#
A great action film about a super secret agent who forgets his identity and has to try and work it out, while being tracked down by the very agency which created him.
Seen at Ster Century, Leeds
I have to say I was a little disappointed by this film. I’d seen all the best bits in the trailers, and I felt like Will Smith was struggling to hold the film on his own.
Tommy Lee Jones is once again the man – his comic timing is faultless, and he plays off the other characters so well. The baddie was also just great this time.
… but it was just lacking something. The freshness of the original film wasn’t there, and although many of the old characters were back, somehow the magic wasn’t.