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Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Shadow Puppets is book in a series of books written by my favorite author, Orson Scott Card (OSC). I will write about him in another entry one of these days. Summary:
Today, I finished reading this novel, the 7th novel in the Ender Saga (or 3rd in the Shadow series depending on how you look at it). I have already read the previous ones and I had been meaning to get to this one a long time ago. I’m glad I finally got a chance to read this one. In all honesty, I had started this novel a few years back but I had lost interest. This might be one of the reasons why I took some points off of my rating. Like the 3rd book, Xenocide, I found this one to be a bit slow at times and sometimes plain too chit-chatty. Ender’s Game set the bar very high for Mr. Card and so his readers expect wonderful things! That said, this novel explores that same world that was developed in Ender’s Shadow and brings back and develops characters that we thought had passed. Bean will probably never play such an important role as he did in this novel and the same might go for Petra.
As always, I highly recommend the Ender’s Series to anyone who likes science fiction. Orson Scott Card is a master at combining action, turn-paging suspense, and tormentful dilemma in his work. If you do not like philosphical aspects of literature, I would advise you to read Ender’s Game and then skip to Ender’s Shadow. Otherwise, reading all the novels in order is definately worth the time and the learning experience is unique. Enjoy! |
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Airport Pickups!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
What a day… A few months ago I agreed to help with airport pickups because they’re usually fun and interesting. This year was no exception. There were a lot more students to pick up and this kept us very busy (8 of us). The headquarters of the Airport Pickups team, located at 2C of the CDG airport in Paris, was the meeting point and also the main setting for what would be an exceptional theatrical performance. In fact, I would not be surprised if it turned out that more people came to the booth to ask us completely unrelated questions than actual students who came to confirm their arrival! Such questions included: “Where’s the cafeteria?” “Where’s terminal 2B?” “Do you have scrap paper?” “Where is the bathroom?” “I’m going to Benin. Where should I check-in?” and probably many more that I don’t even remember! The constant questioning became so unbearable that we added a few signs to our stand:
Despite all those signs, people still came up to ask us questions; to which we simply laughed and pointed to the signs. Needless to say, an airport rep asked us to take them down after a while.
Other small anecdotes:
Got back home late at night after dinner with friends and members of this same team and slept till late the next day… In fact, I’m still tired. But there’s a bday party to get ready for and so I shall. Cheers! |
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Back from Spain!
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Just spent a little over a week in Spain with aZ and I must say it was great… Lots of sun, hot weather, Bikinis everywhere, and the greatest company ever. I’ll try to post some pictures up later on… UPDATE: Some pictures can now be accessed by clicking Photo Gallery on the right side. You will have to register and I will have to activate your account before you have access to the full gallery (including the Spain pics). |
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Welcome to my blog!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Hello everyone! Welcome to my new blog. It’s still under construction but it’s getting there and should be up and running full blast soon.
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