Stringing
I already had my humble new raffle-acquired Kimoni MP200 stringed at Shuttler’s Station. I had a hard time finding the shop and it took two expensive calls through my cell before I finally spotted it, situated in the middle of the mall’s tech section. It was like finding a shuttlecock among tons of cellphones.I thought the gift certificate covered the cost of the string and not just the stringing service. If I had known, I would have gone to my favorite stringer at Toby’s instead. At least now I’m using 22lbs tension. The RSL racquet can wait to be re-strung while I get used to my new tool.
While waiting for the staff to string the racquet and wrap the handle with an over-grip, I went around the shops for new shirts and was glad that I used up the 30 minutes allotted to me to spot the best finds. I realized that I already needed to update my wardrobe, make it less corporate and more kikay…not that it isn’t already one, but funkier perhaps? I look too serious with the current garb I usually put on and that isn’t me at all unless I feel like bitching about or when I’m harassed at work. God knows this girl loves to dress up.
In my three years of blogging (I celebrated my 3rd anniversary last week), I don’t think I have ever suffered blogging depression. I blog when I’m depressed, but blogging does not depress me. Still, it’s a cute poster to stick to your walls whenever you feel the urge to blog about how life is unfair and everybody else treats you like $h!t.
I know it looks like another shot at improving the American image and sell history from the eyes of Americans, but I will still watch The Great Raid when it comes out. The setting is Cabanatuan, my hometown, host to the biggest US POW camp in Asia. Towards the end of the war andwhen Dugout Doug had re-landed in the Philippines, some 500 American POWs were still waiting to be rescued in Cabanatuan. Failing to take them away from the camp could mean their death as the Japs were surely to burn them alive (like they did to the POWs in Palawan) to hide evidence of their crime. Members of the US Army’s 6th Rangers were tasked to accomplish this secret mission–so secret that only their leader knew what it was all about, Col. Henry Mucci–and bring back everyone alive. How my history teachers in both grade school and high school failed to teach us this part of our province’s history still baffles me. check the trailer here. Read Hampton Sides’s “Ghost Soldiers” for the touching account.
I learned from Fred, a Battling Bastard’s son, that the female character, Deep Pockets, slept with Japanese soldiers too. That wasn’t mentioned in the books and I don’t think it will be mentioned in the film. She and that character played by Joseph Fiennes didn’t have an affair, as the trailer suggests. His dad was one of the key witnesses who sent “The Tiger of Malaya” to his death. I miss Fred.
