This afternoon.
penny July 2nd, 2008
I sported a very bad headache this afternoon. I had meant to meet with an academic today, but by some fate issue (don’t ask me what I mean, I know I’m cryptic, I’ve been told many times) we ended up in two different suburbs. So anyway, the headache. It literally felt like my head was a tree trunk with two axe blades wedged on it. I spent some time walking in Parramatta streets to get some air. I ended up spending a lot of time in a shop called JB Hifi.
It’s mostly an electronics shop with all the merch I can look and handle all day. Today I hovered over PSP games, DVDs, CDs, earphones, headphones, desktops and laptops.
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Dr. Gregory House, infectious disease specialist and nephrologist, is head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine in the Princeton Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. House is a brilliant diagnostician. What does a diagnostician do? Duh, he diagnoses. Often those medical cases whose causes are most mysterious and brain-racking; the evasive virus, the benign but troublesome tumor, the hiding bloodclot or the invisible bacteria. After all, puzzles are what drive him in his job. He would take risks on his patient’s health, be it spelling life or death, not necessarily out of hopeful hope, but because he has (or not even) statistics to back up his decisions, or maybe just because he says he knows he’s right. He is the administrative nightmare: incomplete documentation, red tape, extortion, even blackmail, harassment, breaking-and-entering (his patient’s homes, research for medical reasons) and assault! 
House has 3 doctors to his bidding; Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) the lovely immunologist who cares about everyone and insists on always doing what is right; Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) the dashing intensivist who loves his job and will do anything to keep it (for now); and Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), the black car-thief neurologist, seemingly second-in command but why bother finding out when House always gets his way anyway.
House surprisingly has a confidante in the character of oncologist Dr. Wilson (what’s his first name?), played by Robert Sean Leonard. Yep, that guy from Dead Poet’s Society. Despite House’s neverending pokes at his supposed clandestine affairs with the nurses, Dr. Wilson remains a friend. For how long I wonder? Sela Ward appears as his ex-wife. You may remember her from the Harrison Ford blockbuster “the Fugitive” where she plays Dr. Kimble’s wife.
They started as Seargent Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Seargent Murtaugh (Danny Glover) and ended up as Captain Riggs and Captain Murtaugh. It was a blast watching the movie series again - this time consecutively and the Director’s Cut version. The classic scenes were relived once again during my marathon session. Unsurprisingly, the first movie gave me goosebumps while watching it. The first installment was released last ‘87 and I remember watching it in our trusty old betamax player. I can’t distinctly recall the plot of the story but I know the general twists and turns of the story. The Do you really wanna jump? scene is one of the highlights for me. But do you know the scene directly after that scene? Murtaugh confronted Riggs and condemned on how he handled the situation. Murtaugh gave his gun to Riggs and told him if he wanted to end his life, do it now. Now that scene was intense. You could almost sense that Riggs would never hesitate to pull the trigger and end his life just like that.
