The Word For World Is Forest

Book from Ursula K. Le Guin.
Some time in the future, when people on Earth run out of wood they sent ship to planet where forest covers most of land. On this planet there are also people, much smaller then humans and covered with green fur all over the body. Humans enslave all of them that they encounter. They use them for working force to help humans chopping trees and shipping them back to earth.
Planet lies 27 light years away from Earth. That is why they do not have any contacts with their home planet and no explicit instructions how to or how not to handle race on this planet.
Even though the people here are much different and smaller then humans, the man are raping women, because there are no human women there yet. The autochthon people are harmless and do not show any signs of aggression until …
One day when homey pupil Sam finds out that some commander has raped and killed his wife. And that is when the forest people start to show signs of aggression. Sam tries o kill his wives killer but he fails. He sure is half as tall as human but his will is very strong. He manages to run away from sure death. And after some time he returns with army of his own and burns down whole camp, kills all the humans and frees all of his kind.
Soon after a ship arrives to the planet that brought an interstellar communication device that enables immediate communication with Earth and many women for workers and soldiers on the planet. They told them that the world alliance was established and that all the known worlds were connected in this alliance.
The commanders from Earth order that there must be no killing any more from their side, and that all the slaves must be freed. The chief commander obeyed the order but one of his inferior commanders did not. He continued to kill forest people. Meanwhile the space ship continued to its destination.
That is why it happened. Soon an assault was carried out in which the main human base was demolished, all the women were killed and many man to. Survivors were imprisoned.
The disobedient commander was not captured so the killing wasn’t ended. They hunt him and his team down and put him on a devastated island. They made peace with others and they were allowed to stay on the planet.
In three years time the great spaceship returned. There was another ship with them. All the humans were embarked on the ships. There were also two members of alliance on the ship and they talked with some of forest people. They told them that they have their peace back.

Miami Vice

You know that America is fighting drug criminal with undercover cops. Well this is one of those stories about that.
Some day many undercover cops are killed because their identity was uncovered. This is when two really good cops come in. They infiltrate the drug business by offering transport to the USA at great efficiency and low cost. The problem is that one of them falls in love with a girl that is property of great drug boss. The supervisor of their business gets jealous of him and is making their living very hard.
At some point in the movie he, well his colleges, kidnaps the other mans wife. They have luck and find her pretty soon, but their luck changes when she is badly injured and is lying in the come for some time.
When the big boss finds out that his girl is not only his he tells to get rid of both cops, he still does not know that they are cops. The jealous guy tries to take care of that, but he fails and ends dead with all his helpers. The “drug” lady is set free and escorted to safe place. However she never sees her love again and neither does he.
Great thriller with fast cars, fast boats and lots more.

The Wild

Do you remember Madagascar? Sure hope you do. This one is on the same topic. It also has lion in the main role and they are going to The Wild again.
Only this time they have different reason. This time they are in the rescue of the lion’s son who wanted to know what the wild looks like.
The characters are more detailed and the story is great too. The gang is not entirely same. So the adventures are great. The chameleons are the best. They just know what fun is. There is also weird love between giraffe and a squirrel.
Its fun. Makes you feel good.

You Me And Dupree

Another great romantic comedy in a short while.
It’s about young fresh married couple that starts to live together. His best man Dupree, also best friend loses roof over his head and starts to live with them. While husband is working his ass of at working for wives father he’s doing nothing.
Dupree is just like an immature man that has never left his teenage life. He can’t find a job isn’t good at anything at all, except talking, that he is good at. He makes great mess while, acts improbable and does things without asking.
Wives father is pushing hard on his new son in law. Combining all that husband is very pissed off and doesn’t really know what to do. He sees only bad things and becomes much stressed.
However in the end Dupree cleans up all the mess and they live happily ever after.
Even Dupree finds him self a suitable job.

Click

Yea that can become from our lives. But we'll make sure that it doesn't.
So get out there and stop clicking.
Adam Sandler still rox. Great comedy about what may become of your life when you just want to work. It makes you thing about some other things too.
It shows how other life companions are seeing the life you’re living. So look around and listen to surroundings. That is how you will what and when to do. And all will be happy.
Great comedy.

Lolita

Not pretty story really.
It talks about child abuse in first half of 20th century. About a man who loved young girls. It also explains why.
When he was young, of age 14, he fell in love with a girl he got to know during summer holydays. They were young and they both loved each other. But tragedy happened and she died few months later. He never recovered the loss. That is why he fell in love with 14 year old child many years later.
He moved to a house with lady and her daughter. He spotted her soon after his arrival. Mean while the lady fell in love with him and he married her just to be closer to her daughter – his Lolita.
The daughter knew he had feelings for her and provoked him many times. Some time after the wedding his wife found notes where he describes his feelings. She waned to get away. But she doesn’t succeed. She dies in a car accident.
Lolita is in a summer camp all this time. So he packs the things and goes to her. He takes her with him and they made love. He tells her about her mother.
They travel all over the country and do the forbidden things. Until one day Lolita gets lost. Well, she was not lost. She ran away with another, even older, man. He searches her but never finds her. Few years later she writes him for money. She was with another man and pregnant. She tells him what happened back then.
He gives her money and kills the man who stole Lolita from him. In the end he gets arrested and imprisoned.
Film is shot after a book Vladimir Nabokov. Can not believe that some people are so different.

Series

Now that the StarGate series is on pause for few months the other great series are starting again.
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
Desperate Housewives
Great to have you all back and can't wait for SG's to come back.

Done with exams for now

Well yes. I'm done for now. Not as good as I hoped but still. Seven exams left to finish my undergraduate study. Really can’t wait for graduate study.
It’s probably even better this way so that I’ll have higher average mark. It’s better for my scholarship.
Now I’ll focus on the next semester and work in A.I. Lab. I shell work on Orange or something connected with the Orange. Great stuff really.
Soon I’ll buy myself a notebook. I’m waiting for apple to bring up the new MacBook Pros.
Another thing; I’ll start to play WoW again.
But most important I’ll have more time to share with my girlfriend.

Over The Hedge

This is really great animated comedy.
It talks about animals that live near civilization. In particular about those who had been surrounded with new grown suburbs. They slept over the winter and the whole neighborhood was build around them. When they woke up in spring they start gathering food for next winter. But that is where all began. A raccoon that had a depth to a bear convinced them to go out and gather human food. He however didn’t tell them that it is not really for them.
So they gather all the food with some problems, but their head – a green turtle took it back so that people wouldn’t hurt them. But raccoon was not happy with that so he convinced them to do it again. These time all the animals but raccoon get captured. He however brings food back to bear.
In the end he changes his mind and saves the band. So he becomes a part of the family too.
Happy ending after all. Those animals do some hell of tricks getting food.

Asterix And The Vikings

Do you remember Asterix and Obelix?
They are back, in yet another adventure. This time they are dealing with the Vikings. The Vikings are mighty fighters and every one is afraid of them. They do not have any hard goal any more. So they want to try something new. Their shaman tells their people that a champion exists, in the world out there, which can teach them how to fly. Something exciting to do after all. They prepare for a journey to the Gallia where the champion lives, which is what shaman said.
In the mean time there is a visitor in the Gauilsh village, chieftains’ nephew. He came to the village to learn how to become a man and a warrior. But he is a very tender soul who does not like fighting and eats only vegetables. He is afraid of everything. And he fits perfect to description of a champion that the Vikings are looking for. One day they catch him and take him with them to their homeland.
And here all the good stuff begins. Let’s put it in short. He is not the champion and Asterix and Obelix rescue him with his newly found love and they go back to the Gallia. They make a fest there. And we are waiting for another adventure of theirs.

The Time Machine

I don't know why I did not watch it before. It is great movie. Sci-Fi of course. That is why I like it even more.
It all starts at the beginning of 20th century when young physicist loses his beloved one. He starts to study really hard and in 3 years he makes a very real time machine. He decides that he will change the past and save his maid from dieing. But he fails. He realizes that he can not change the past, at least not with his knowledge. So he decides to go to future and tries to find solution there. But they don’t know what time travel is in the future. They are high tech and that stuff. He tries to even further in the future and at his next stop he realizes that the mankind has destroyed the moon and let it self to edge of the extinction.
He accidentally travels far in to the future for as much as 800.000 years. And at that time the human civilization is divided in two parts, one that lives on the surface and one that lives below it. Those living below are creatures organized in a working community like ants and they eat upon those that live on surface.
Our young time traveler realizes what is happening and how disgusting that is, so he decides to help the people on the surface to get rid of their hunters. He also finds another love of his life there. He succeeds and they live happily ever after.
The other thing I like about this movie is the music. It’s really great, so I’ve got my self a soundtrack album.

Seom

Jet another Korean movie. This one is really ugly. I do not know where they get ideas.
It is about a floating brothel where men can bring prostitutes and enjoy in peace of big river. They can also fish.
The story is about a man that runs from law and hides in one of the floating houses. The owner is a young woman who is taking care for the guests. But not only for food and drink, she also takes care for all other needs they have.
The runner and the owner fall in love. But they are both quiet and they do not want to show it to each other.
Because of jealousy she also kills a prostitute that also falls in love with him. And when her pimp comes to find her she kills him too.
Later in the movie some guest loses something in a river and he calls for divers. They discover the bodies and their rides. That is why they have to run and they run with a floating house down the river.
The end is very open and we do not know what exactly happen.

Samaria

A Korean movie about two young girls, that are prostituting to get money for them to go to Europe. Once a police almost catches one but she escapes by jumping through the window. She dies in a hospital few hours later. The other doesn’t want to accept the fact that the other is dead and she also doesn’t want to go to Europe any more. She believes that she will feel better if she returns the money to all the customers. But this time, she will pay them for everything they do.
One time her father, who is a cop, sees her in a motel room with a man. He can not believe his eyes and so he starts to follow her. He ensures that no one gets his girl any more. However he fails by the last customer from the list. He was too late. The guy went to the men’s room and he gets him there and kills him. Afterwards he finds his daughters diary and realizes why was she doing all of that.
The same evening he goes on a last trip with his daughter to her mothers’ grave. While they are returning home, he teaches her how to drive a car. And while she is practicing he gives his self up to the police.

It is not very nice movie to watch. It shows how the youngsters in Korea should not live their life.

The Lake House

This is a romance in Chicago with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.
Story is about a couple that is living two years apart. Their connection through the time is a post box by the lake house. The lake house was built by his father. They used to live there as a family, until parents got separated. He moved in a few years later and found out a strange thing about mail box. It was sending messages to the future where a very nice doctor read them and replayed. They start to write to each other and fell in love, even thou they can not get together at that time.
At the end they finally meet four years after he got the first letter. And they lived happily ever after.
A very nice and romantic movie, that almost makes your eyes wet.

Seven Swords

A Chinese story that tells us how could have life in Chine look like in time of swords.
The emperor orders to kill all who practice martial arts. His army is paid to kill people. More they kill more they get. But greedy as they are, they do not kill only those who are practicing martial arts, but are killing all even women and children, just to get more money. However the old legend comes back to life and seven swords are back in action, helping people.
The group of seven people, with seven powerful swords, fights whole armies of emperors’ people. They are so skilled that no one is match for them.
There are also some love stories behind.
If you liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon then you should also like this one.

The Fast And The Furious - Tokyo Drift

Another action movie from this series. It’s not bad. Makes you relax and tries to compel you to go and play Need For Speed (great game by the way).
This time it’s not Vin Disel in main role. It’s a new, young face that makes nothing but troubles. That is why he must leave the States and moves with his dad in Tokyo. When he was in states he was trying the muscular cars, but they are not “in” in Tokyo. There they adore drifting, something new for our youngster.
He must teach firs, because he doesn’t really know what it’s all about. And that is how he gets in the trouble at first place. Trying to race in drifting, he smashes a borrowed car, so he must repay it.
However this is only the beginning of his drifting career.
At the and we see Vin for a second. How he is giving the racing to the next generation of drivers.
Movie worth watching.

My Super Ex Girilfriend

Comedy. At last.
I really needed one. And it's not bad either. It’s about a guy that meets a super-girl. But he does not know that until she tells him. After a time he realizes that he doesn’t really love her. But he is too afraid to break up with her. She is very controlling, demanding and emotional. He is afraid what might she do to him.
However he does it any way.
And that is where the show begins. Because she does not appreciate the break up, she is teasing her ex. So something strange happens to his car. He makes complete fool of him self at work. She even throws the shark at him.
Meanwhile he realizes that he is in love with another woman. A coworker of his. But lets leave something for pleasure.

Totem

Taborniško Odbojkarsko TEkmovanje na Mivki or in English Scout Beach Wolley Tournament in Ilirska Bistrica.
Yes we were there this weekend. And we were 4th. The other RJZ (Rod Jezerski Zmaj) team was 3rd.
The day did not start well for us, because a car hit us in the back, nothing serious, but not a good sign at all. Firs day we were playing preliminary round in two groups. We ended second in our group and we continued to playoffs. We lost the first game and played for 3rd place with our second team.
The weather was windy on Saturday but sunny on both days.
It was great. Can’t wait for next years tournament.

The Elegant Universe

This documentary takes us on beautiful journey through modern physical theories and on the quest for final theory of everything.
The host is Brian Greene, author of Book with same title and contents. Great book by the way.
It explains some things that are hard to imagine. It explains why the world of small and world of big are so different and what is wrong with quantum mechanic and theory of relativity.
The string theory is explained from the birthday to modern days. We can follow the evolution of string theory, how and why were there five of them and to their conjunction to M theory. We meet the author of M theory that tells us what he has done. Eleven dimensions are explained. Where they are and why we need them. We also find out why are string so small, how should they look like and why they are. At the and the (mem)branes are also explained. It is shown why and how could there be more parallel universes. And what could be the Big Bang.

You can watch whole series free online here.

Dispossessed

Just can't stop. I'm reading books from Ursula K. Le Guin like they were meant for me.
They are just so good that I can't stop reading them.

This one is about two twin planets. One has life on it but the other doesn't. The first planet called Urras is much like Earth (yet is not like we realize from book). There are many nations and they have conflicts (wars in common language). Most of the planet is hierarchic so there are great differences between poor and reach people.

But in a point of time many people wants to have anarchy, so they emigrate to the other planet, Annares. There they live in peace. They do not have any kind of authority they are all the same. No money, no property. They all do what it takes to survive. They Share. They even have their own language.

The story is telling us about a young physicist that is researching a new field of science that no other has discovered yet. He runs in to "trouble" when his mentor publishes his work as work of both of them. The mentor is being selfish and that should not happen in society like this. A young scientist wants to share his research with people on Urras that know at least something about domain he is working on.

The story is leading us through his life on Urras and Annares and shows us the differences between both of the planets.

I enjoyed the book very much.

Lady in The Water

Good one.
I just love fiction tales like this one.

It brings to life an old story about water people and how they used to help us to know what to do. They told ordinary people what they should do so they will live in peace and harmony. But their paths separated. And the ordinary people had forgotten about water people and their advices. That is when the war started and people start to kill each other. However water people did not give up, so they sent their children to us, to tell us what and how to do. Children were young and many dangers awaited them in world of ordinary people. This is one of them. It shows us how some people are still willing to believe in fairy tales and what happens when a tale is true.

I've enjoyed it very much

Mountain Expedition 2006

Well it's about time that I write something about it. It was great

I went on expedition during my staying in Ribno (we had a Scout camp there from 29.6. - 8.7.). It took me five days to cross the following track (10.7. - 14.7.):
Day One:
Ribno - Pokljuka (Rudno polje) - Vodnik cottage - Triglav cottage (Kredarica)
Day Two:
Kredarica - Triglav - Trst cottage (Dolič) - Kanjevec - Zelnerca - Tičarca - Cottage by Triglav lakes
Day Three:
Cottage by Triglav lakes - Komna - Vogel
Day Four:
Vogel - Rodica - Črna prst - Soriška planina
Day Five:
Soriška planina - Ratitovec - Jelovica - Radovljica (Hitchike from Jelovica to Radovljica) - Ribno

It was altogether around 100km. I slept on mountain cottages and ate there too.

p.s.
I've also added photos from my mobile phone that I made along the way.

The Left Hand Of Darknes

Another great book from Ursula K. Le Guin.

A story describes how the league of 81 worlds is expending and trying to join new worlds in union. It is not story of war but story of slow process where one man tries to convince the governments of many nations to join the league of worlds.
What it should be easy job (it looks like that at beginning) changes into struggle for survival.
The main character is Genly Ai. A delegate from Earth. He is a dark tall man and does not completely merge with planets society. The most unusual is that he is always a Man. The people on Gethen are bisexual. And they take one sex (if we can call it like that) only once a month. Most of the time they are somewhere in the middle and they do not know what sexual desire is. But once a moth they convert to "man" or "woman" so they can mate.
Gethen is very cold planet. There is snow almost through all the year. Winters are very cold. That is the environment that Ai is in.
There are much more strange things on the planet but you should find them out by yourselves.

The story is very tense. There is always something happening.

Great reading.

What The Bleep Down The Rabbit Hole

Just wonderful.
Very good documentary. It's about many aspect of science. From quantum physics to neuro-biology to trans-humanism, consciousness and religion. It literally takes you down the rabbit hole.
As well as connecting all this fields of science and culture together it also explains some pretty advanced stuff at very simple way. So it is good also for people who do not know much about any of these fields.

A really worth watching documentary. Opens up your mind and makes you thing broader.

A Wizzard Of Earthsea

Great book from Ursula K. Le Guin.

A book about Earthsea and about a boy that becomes great and powerful wizard. The story runs in a world where some people are born with magic skill. In this world a boy with great power is born. A great wizard is teaching him how to control his magic power. On boys wish he goes to the magic school. In this school he experiences a accident. After the accident the shadow is hunting him.
The rest of the story is about running away from shadow. And later on about pursuit of the shadow to the End of the world. There are great adventures along the path.

The end is good, but too short.
I'm waiting for new parts (they are not yet translated to Slovene).