Something to take my mind off work.

25 April 2008 @ 06:55 pm

I need a break. I really do.

The past week’s been a little hectic. Many projects, some of which haven’t been touched since the March holiday break (some even worse), are due this week. But seeing how nice the humanities teachers are, they have decided to extend the deadline to next week. Unfortunately, there are more assignments and even a seminar presentation due next week. So, it looks like I’ll have to prolong my suffering…

And there’s the problem of my Jap E-learning homework. I was quite looking forward to this week as there wouldn’t be any third language lessons, but now I have to complete assignments that are online and far more troublesome.

There’s something that I have been doing, and I don’t know if it is helping me to have a little fun or if it’s distracting me totally: reading Tom Clancy’s thrillers. I’ve read Rainbow Six, this thick book about a multinational counter-terrorism organization. SO COOL! I love it. And now I’m reading Without Remorse, this not-as-thick book about a man named John Kelly who later became John Clark, the CIA legend who happened to be more or less the main character in Rainbow Six. It’s pretty cool too.

Tom Clancy’s books make me feel as though I’m watching a Hollywood action movie with a well-developed plot, all in my mind. It’s a good form of relaxation, it really is.

Actually, it makes me more worked up, because it’s full of action.

Well, it takes my mind off work, okay. And Tom Clancy is a brilliant writer. Now that’s a valid excuse for me to read it.

It does make one think about certain morals too, you know. Is it right to kill people who “deserve it”? John Kelly kills drug dealing pimps who abuse their girls and often destroy their lives. These girls are treated very badly, both physically and mentally, and if they ever try to escape, they are killed in a horrid way in front of the other prostitutes so as to teach them all a lesson. Kelly had lost a wife some time back, and he finally found someone to heal his wounds. It was a runaway prostitute called Pam, and she was a lovely girl who wanted to change her life for the better. But she died in the end, killed by those pimps.

Kelly is mad. Really mad. So he goes after those who killed Pam, killing certain other drug dealers in the process. Is it right? Well, the fact is the people he killed were bad people who ruined a lot of lives and would continue to ruin more if not stopped. But murder is still murder.

Which leads me to wonder if there really is anything totally right or totally wrong in this world. Maybe it’s the annoying KI lessons I’ve been taking. (How do you know what is real and what is not? O.o) But it’s still something to think about. Maybe I’ll get more insight as I continue to read on.


Current Location: At home
Current Mood: Contemplative
Current Music: Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Original Soundtrack