Septimus looked serene; his eyes were watery, and his heart slippery. His troubled mind did not seem all too cooperative with his unblemished inner self, and he just sat there, evoking a feeling of both awe and pity in the passer-bys, with his halo of floating despair and bits and pieces of clumsy silence above his head. He felt as if he had been yelling for hours, yet knew that he had not uttered a word for the past couple of days. Or maybe he had yelled, but the sound frequency of his voice was unrecognizable to his fellow humans. Was he even human? Certainly, the halo didn’t make him an angel; the halo doesn’t make the angel, Septimus thought. Besides, angels have golden halos, and his was sort of dirty blonde, murky, and it had an unsavory texture and an inappropriate weight- it was heavy, it was one heavy halo to own. Incidentally, it was also an invisible halo, because no one except he could see it; thus, it only had Septimus to victimize. He looked up. Oh, how the clouds stumbled in and assembled stupidly in the sky. Great, obese clouds. Dark and plump. Bumping into each other. Apologizing. Moving on and finding room.
“What is that above your head?”
Septimus turned. He was used to strangers talking to him, but never had someone taken notice of his notorious halo.
“Above my head?”
The woman looked confused. She looked around inquiringly, moving her eyes at a pace Septimus found hard to follow. She was wearing a long pajama, had huge eyes, enormous eye bags, not much of a hairstyle, but she was beautiful. And beautifully confused. She looked as if she had just miscalculated something very important; a miscalculation that could bring about the end of the world.
“The grass,” she whispered “it’s green.”
Septimus considered the possibility of her being an escapee from the asylum Dr.Bradshaw wanted him sent to.
“Is this Antarctica?”
“Regent’s Park.”
“Washington?”
“London.”
“London!?” she screamed. “How did I end up in London? Why are you intruding upon my hallucination?”
“Hallucination?”
“I was supposed to be sent to Antarctica. My travel agent, he promised.”
The woman seemed deeply disturbed by the fact that she had not, after all, landed on Antarctica. Septimus had never met such a woman before, and, although a little intimidated, decided to comfort her.
“Don’t worry Miss. London is an exciting place. I am sure you will have more fun here than you would on Antarctica,” Septimus continued, doubting his own words. “What’s so special about Antarctica anyway?”
“Everything is white there,” the woman said, “and there are no people, only snow. And Eskimos. And I can build an entire city just the way I want it to be. And,” she continued fervently, shaking from excitement, “I can have a baby there. I will be all by myself. Wonderfully alone.”
Septimus’s eyes widened; his halo felt heavy.
“May I come, too?”
“Ahem. You will have to arrange that with my travel agent. But I am quite sure you may join me,” she smiled her vague smile.
Septimus smiled as well. Two people in Regent’s Park, a man sitting down and a woman standing next to him, kept smiling at each other, finding each other, groping for recognition. There was something familiar about the man, she thought, and felt how he noticed there was something familiar about her as well.
“I will now sit beside you,” the woman said, very matter-of-factly. Such an awkward woman. Such a lonely heart.
“Harper Pitt.”
“Septimus Warren Smith.”
A handshake. Silence.
“I have emotional problems,” Harper broke the silence, which was not in the least awkward. “Actually, my husband thinks I have emotional problems. I don’t think I have any problems.”
“My wife thinks I am not sane,” Septimus joined her. “She takes me to this doctor, and he keeps telling her to send me away.”
“Why don’t you leave your wife?”
“Why don’t you leave your husband?”
“My husband is a homosexual.”
“My wife is Italian.”
Silence.
“I want one of those things over my head. It’d make me look special, so heavenly. Like a martyr.”
“Martyrs suffer on behalf of their causes,” Septimus said thoughtfully.
“What’s your cause?” she asked.
“Preserving,” answered Septimus. “What’s yours?”
“Searching,” she answered, smiling again. There was something so splendid about the way in which the woman formulated her responses, but at the same time another feeling would not let you admire it.
“What do you say that we continue our quests on Antarctica?” Harper stood up, “I think you might have a better chance at preserving there, don’t you think?”
“And you would have a broader searching area,” he added. “Besides, it’s easier to find something if everything else is white, isn’t it?”
“Agreed.”
Two people, holding hands, walked through Regent’s park in London, and headed south. They were two people who, although they had never met before, recognized each other and decided to embark on a journey. As the sun set and the light left London, two lone owners of two lonely hearts walked south, their haloes illuminating their path, making their way to Antarctica.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Alienation required?
Alien. ALIENATION – a broad term which has gained several different meanings in different contexts. Over the years, the term alienation has been utilized to describe various situations from our existence. The term has gained its place in the writings of several well-known philosophers, of which most famous Karl Marx, who spoke of workers being alienated from their work and the products under capitalism. In modern law, alienation came to signify the transfer of ownership of property rights. However, ALIENATION is mostly associated with a demoralized state of the soul due to isolation, or difficulties in relating to the society. It is widely recognized as the state of estrangement or separation from one’s environment, or self. Consequently, it has gained its negative connotation instilled in the head of every high school student familiar with the plethora of literary works that contain some form of social or self- alienation as an underlying theme.
However, the other side of the coin reveals an important aspect of alienation that has been overlooked. It is the impartiality that comes with estrangement. Devoid of emotion and bias, to which no human is resilient, one could cool-headedly pass the right judgment and eliminate the tendency to be swayed and driven astray by one’s mood, circumstances, or relationships with others. An emotional distance is required to reflect on a situation in an objective way. Detachment often gives a clearer view on a situation and thus, better understanding.
In many ways this is similar to being an audience of a play: one critically observes the situation, yet, tries not to identify with the actors and to pass right judgment on their actions. However, even when a part of an audience, humans tend to bond emotionally to some characters; thus, even in the theatre, the need for estrangement has been recognized by some of the playwrights. The 20th century German playwright Bertolt Brecht used the term ‘Verfremdungseffekt’, with is often translated as the ‘alienation’ or the ‘distancing effect’ in English to explain this need for isolation. He believed that some devices must be instituted in the play that would, as he says, "prevent the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer." Hence, various techniques, such as addressing the audience, have been employed to disrupt the stage illusion and allow the audience to be an “analytical spectator” of the play.
Many of the everyday conflicts require from us the role of an analytical spectator that Brecht wished for the audience of his plays. The objective assessment of situations has a key importance in our lives. Yet, distancing is much more difficult in the real life, because the human tendency of emotional attachment is added to the equation. And with the addition of human nature, the equation rarely results in impartiality, which is needed not only in everyday activities, but more importantly, as an important aspect of some professions.
Health care professionals, for example, are widely considered as the ‘caregivers’, the ones that need to deeply and genuinely care for their patients. I disagree with this assumption, as these professionals need only be benevolent and act in a caring manner, but not to get emotionally attached to their patients. In this case, care becomes the vice of health care professionals as it impedes their reasoning and decision-making skills at work. A distance between the patients and the health care professionals need to be kept for objectivity in health care is of essential importance.
Another important field, in which this ‘self imposed distancing’ and ‘alienation’ would prove to be of great use, is our own journalistic one. In the time, when information is reaching the homes of thousands peoples in less than a minute, the threat of mass disinformation and manipulation is immense. A responsible journalist would not let his/her feeling interfere with the way in which he/she reports a story; on the contrary, an individual like that, aware of the responsibilities that his/her job brings, should be able to build the required distance from the subject and be able to approach it objectively. Same applies to judges and other arbiters.
But perhaps the most important type of required alienation is the time of self-estrangement that one should experience in order to assess one’s own actions clearly. It the fast – paced world we live in, most of us rarely have time to be contemplative about their lives. It is highly important to be able to critically evaluate not only situations and other people’s actions, but also one self’s – something that only few are able to do.
The same distancing from the topic of study and its accepted definition that I strive to promote is what led me to write this article in the ‘Alien Issue’ of our newspaper. Despite the negative connotations that ALIENATION has acquired, I sought to present you our desperate need for estrangement in some social situations: a need that should be recognized as an inevitable aspect of human life.
However, the other side of the coin reveals an important aspect of alienation that has been overlooked. It is the impartiality that comes with estrangement. Devoid of emotion and bias, to which no human is resilient, one could cool-headedly pass the right judgment and eliminate the tendency to be swayed and driven astray by one’s mood, circumstances, or relationships with others. An emotional distance is required to reflect on a situation in an objective way. Detachment often gives a clearer view on a situation and thus, better understanding.
In many ways this is similar to being an audience of a play: one critically observes the situation, yet, tries not to identify with the actors and to pass right judgment on their actions. However, even when a part of an audience, humans tend to bond emotionally to some characters; thus, even in the theatre, the need for estrangement has been recognized by some of the playwrights. The 20th century German playwright Bertolt Brecht used the term ‘Verfremdungseffekt’, with is often translated as the ‘alienation’ or the ‘distancing effect’ in English to explain this need for isolation. He believed that some devices must be instituted in the play that would, as he says, "prevent the audience from losing itself passively and completely in the character created by the actor, which consequently leads the audience to be a consciously critical observer." Hence, various techniques, such as addressing the audience, have been employed to disrupt the stage illusion and allow the audience to be an “analytical spectator” of the play.
Many of the everyday conflicts require from us the role of an analytical spectator that Brecht wished for the audience of his plays. The objective assessment of situations has a key importance in our lives. Yet, distancing is much more difficult in the real life, because the human tendency of emotional attachment is added to the equation. And with the addition of human nature, the equation rarely results in impartiality, which is needed not only in everyday activities, but more importantly, as an important aspect of some professions.
Health care professionals, for example, are widely considered as the ‘caregivers’, the ones that need to deeply and genuinely care for their patients. I disagree with this assumption, as these professionals need only be benevolent and act in a caring manner, but not to get emotionally attached to their patients. In this case, care becomes the vice of health care professionals as it impedes their reasoning and decision-making skills at work. A distance between the patients and the health care professionals need to be kept for objectivity in health care is of essential importance.
Another important field, in which this ‘self imposed distancing’ and ‘alienation’ would prove to be of great use, is our own journalistic one. In the time, when information is reaching the homes of thousands peoples in less than a minute, the threat of mass disinformation and manipulation is immense. A responsible journalist would not let his/her feeling interfere with the way in which he/she reports a story; on the contrary, an individual like that, aware of the responsibilities that his/her job brings, should be able to build the required distance from the subject and be able to approach it objectively. Same applies to judges and other arbiters.
But perhaps the most important type of required alienation is the time of self-estrangement that one should experience in order to assess one’s own actions clearly. It the fast – paced world we live in, most of us rarely have time to be contemplative about their lives. It is highly important to be able to critically evaluate not only situations and other people’s actions, but also one self’s – something that only few are able to do.
The same distancing from the topic of study and its accepted definition that I strive to promote is what led me to write this article in the ‘Alien Issue’ of our newspaper. Despite the negative connotations that ALIENATION has acquired, I sought to present you our desperate need for estrangement in some social situations: a need that should be recognized as an inevitable aspect of human life.
Aliens exist? Or not?
It’s one of the greatest mysteries. It has proofs for and against. It has been a controversial topic since ancient times. Aliens. Extraterrestrial life. The others. Do they exist somewhere out there in the universe? Or is it all a conspiracy theory of the governments?
Can we ever prove any of the theories or just speculate and choose to live an unknown and maybe safer life?
But first of all, what is considered under the term alien? Unlike most of the other articles in this issue, where the terms “alien” and “alienated” concern a human being, who has somehow been separated, distinguished and lost touch with reality, here alien means someone from another planet, a non-human being , an extraterrestrial form of life. It can be of any size and shape, as long as it shows signs of life, recognized as breathing, moving, feeding. Different, extraterrestrial forms of life have been noticed throughout history. Many myths and legends from various parts of the world confirm the visits of aliens to Earth. The oldest proof dates from 12000 BC and it was found on the Sino-Tibetan border by Chinese scientists. It is known by the name Dropa Stones and this alien proof is composed of hundreds of stone disks, all nine-inches in diameter. It is supposed they were used as primitive form of phonograph, because later it was discovered it contained a spiral groove as well. On the spiral groove, thousands of hieroglyphs were inscribed that told the story of the arrival of creatures from another planet. In early forms of Hindi, Mayan and Chinese texts, there are the descriptions of visits of “weird, non-human creatures” that these cultures considered their deities. They prayed to them, built monumental objects (sometimes it assumed that these creatures helped them built the objects, because all of them are built under suspicious circumstances and in an incredibly short period of time). That’s the case with the Egyptian pyramids. Many people believe they were built by aliens. Why is that so? Due to the fact that the pyramids were built in 20 years, with 2.3 million stones that weighted from 2 to 15 tones and were brought from Aswan and Luxor (which are 1000 km far from Giza, Cairo). Is this possible? Many people think it’s not a human work and another fact that further supports this observation is the Mayan pyramids, which are very similar to the Egyptian ones although they are far away from each other.
But what about recent evidence of alien visits? The most famous stories include the Roswell case, the Area 51 mystery and the Varginha case. Most popular and believable is the Roswell case which occurred on July 4th, 1947. A small, brightly glowing object was observed to crash near Roswell, New Mexico and in the next few days strange things were happening around that region, which is believed that were later covered by the US government. Unusual objects were monitored on the radars; the citizens saw weird flashes on the sky and then the explorers found THEM. Five non-human bodies lying on the site of the crash, next to the metal leftovers of the object they arrived with. They were short, 3.5 feet tall, had slit mouth, and large oval eyes. One of them was found to be alive and it was taken to the ambulance together with the other bodies. However, after that there is no trace of the mysterious creatures found in the Roswell fields. Stories have been changed, newspapers published censored versions, witnesses mysteriously disappeared… All in attempt to cover up whatever happened on July 4th, 1947. But why? Why would people want to hide the existence of beings from another planet? Maybe they didn’t want to create panic, maybe they were smarter than people and then the whole anthropocentric representation we have would be ruined, maybe they didn’t want to ruin the natural balance on Earth and create conflicts and wars. Or maybe this didn’t happen at all? Perhaps it was only a water balloon, and not a flying saucer, but what about the many witnesses and the photos of the creatures? However, this is not the only case. So far, 50 million people reported they have seen UFOs and 15 million of them said they have registered close contact with aliens. Can all these people lie or misjudge the situation? That’s highly unlikely.
We live on Earth, a planet part of the Milky Way galaxy. And even if there isn’t proof of life in our galaxy, the Hubble Space Telescope estimates there are 125 billion galaxies, out of which 3 billion are observable. And it would be very ignorant and self centered if we as people think that in that vast number of galaxies with even greater number of planets, there are no other forms of life. The potential “aliens” might not exist in the form of something similar as humans; they might only be tiny, micro molecular organisms, as it was the case with the discovery of such on Mars in 1996. On August 6, the scientist from NASA confirmed the existence of fossil life on Mars. It was labeled "Allen Hills 84001" or "ALH 84001" and the presence of a complex organic compound was found within it, which points out to a biological origin. However, this doesn’t prove anything because it is not the “tiny, oval eyed, slited mouth, green or gray aliens” that we all expect to see, but it is a progress in the discoveries connected to extraterrestrial forms.
But what about the other side of the story? Which is the evidence against alien existence? Some people claim they do not exist at all, other say their technology is far too advanced or far too different than what we use and therefore we can not realize communication, others say that scientist do not know where to look for them and that they might not be able to detect them, because of their existence on a higher scale. The skeptics or the ones that are afraid to acknowledge their existence say that they would have just showed up by now or would have been discovered by the scientists.
Whatever the true reason is, it is up to you to decide whether you are going to believe in aliens and extra terrestrial existence. By the time we truly discover which of these theories and speculations is correct, we can continue watching sci-fi movies and read fantasy books and articles that attempt to expose the truth and keep wondering what we should believe in, in this world of uncertainty and myriad of information and speculations.
Can we ever prove any of the theories or just speculate and choose to live an unknown and maybe safer life?
But first of all, what is considered under the term alien? Unlike most of the other articles in this issue, where the terms “alien” and “alienated” concern a human being, who has somehow been separated, distinguished and lost touch with reality, here alien means someone from another planet, a non-human being , an extraterrestrial form of life. It can be of any size and shape, as long as it shows signs of life, recognized as breathing, moving, feeding. Different, extraterrestrial forms of life have been noticed throughout history. Many myths and legends from various parts of the world confirm the visits of aliens to Earth. The oldest proof dates from 12000 BC and it was found on the Sino-Tibetan border by Chinese scientists. It is known by the name Dropa Stones and this alien proof is composed of hundreds of stone disks, all nine-inches in diameter. It is supposed they were used as primitive form of phonograph, because later it was discovered it contained a spiral groove as well. On the spiral groove, thousands of hieroglyphs were inscribed that told the story of the arrival of creatures from another planet. In early forms of Hindi, Mayan and Chinese texts, there are the descriptions of visits of “weird, non-human creatures” that these cultures considered their deities. They prayed to them, built monumental objects (sometimes it assumed that these creatures helped them built the objects, because all of them are built under suspicious circumstances and in an incredibly short period of time). That’s the case with the Egyptian pyramids. Many people believe they were built by aliens. Why is that so? Due to the fact that the pyramids were built in 20 years, with 2.3 million stones that weighted from 2 to 15 tones and were brought from Aswan and Luxor (which are 1000 km far from Giza, Cairo). Is this possible? Many people think it’s not a human work and another fact that further supports this observation is the Mayan pyramids, which are very similar to the Egyptian ones although they are far away from each other.
But what about recent evidence of alien visits? The most famous stories include the Roswell case, the Area 51 mystery and the Varginha case. Most popular and believable is the Roswell case which occurred on July 4th, 1947. A small, brightly glowing object was observed to crash near Roswell, New Mexico and in the next few days strange things were happening around that region, which is believed that were later covered by the US government. Unusual objects were monitored on the radars; the citizens saw weird flashes on the sky and then the explorers found THEM. Five non-human bodies lying on the site of the crash, next to the metal leftovers of the object they arrived with. They were short, 3.5 feet tall, had slit mouth, and large oval eyes. One of them was found to be alive and it was taken to the ambulance together with the other bodies. However, after that there is no trace of the mysterious creatures found in the Roswell fields. Stories have been changed, newspapers published censored versions, witnesses mysteriously disappeared… All in attempt to cover up whatever happened on July 4th, 1947. But why? Why would people want to hide the existence of beings from another planet? Maybe they didn’t want to create panic, maybe they were smarter than people and then the whole anthropocentric representation we have would be ruined, maybe they didn’t want to ruin the natural balance on Earth and create conflicts and wars. Or maybe this didn’t happen at all? Perhaps it was only a water balloon, and not a flying saucer, but what about the many witnesses and the photos of the creatures? However, this is not the only case. So far, 50 million people reported they have seen UFOs and 15 million of them said they have registered close contact with aliens. Can all these people lie or misjudge the situation? That’s highly unlikely.
We live on Earth, a planet part of the Milky Way galaxy. And even if there isn’t proof of life in our galaxy, the Hubble Space Telescope estimates there are 125 billion galaxies, out of which 3 billion are observable. And it would be very ignorant and self centered if we as people think that in that vast number of galaxies with even greater number of planets, there are no other forms of life. The potential “aliens” might not exist in the form of something similar as humans; they might only be tiny, micro molecular organisms, as it was the case with the discovery of such on Mars in 1996. On August 6, the scientist from NASA confirmed the existence of fossil life on Mars. It was labeled "Allen Hills 84001" or "ALH 84001" and the presence of a complex organic compound was found within it, which points out to a biological origin. However, this doesn’t prove anything because it is not the “tiny, oval eyed, slited mouth, green or gray aliens” that we all expect to see, but it is a progress in the discoveries connected to extraterrestrial forms.
But what about the other side of the story? Which is the evidence against alien existence? Some people claim they do not exist at all, other say their technology is far too advanced or far too different than what we use and therefore we can not realize communication, others say that scientist do not know where to look for them and that they might not be able to detect them, because of their existence on a higher scale. The skeptics or the ones that are afraid to acknowledge their existence say that they would have just showed up by now or would have been discovered by the scientists.
Whatever the true reason is, it is up to you to decide whether you are going to believe in aliens and extra terrestrial existence. By the time we truly discover which of these theories and speculations is correct, we can continue watching sci-fi movies and read fantasy books and articles that attempt to expose the truth and keep wondering what we should believe in, in this world of uncertainty and myriad of information and speculations.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
30 things you can learn from the good, old blockbusters
The good, old Hollywood blockbusters “taught” us many funny and often unrealistic things. However, we still continue to watch them with the same passion and enthusiasm trying to forget the expected, and hoping for the unexpected resolution of a situation. Unfortunately, that happens rarely, because we all know the famous Hollywood “and they lived happily ever after” ending. You have probably seen all these things in dozens of Hollywood movies and sometimes they make you laugh, but sometimes they can also make you frustrated, because they keep repeating in almost every movie you watch. Nevertheless, just continue watching these movies and don’t get angry; just laugh at these 30 common things you can learn from the Hollywood blockbusters when you encounter them.
1. If you have decided to start dancing in the middle of the street, everyone would just forget about what they were doing and join the dance.
2. Everyone can land a plane, as long as he/she gets help from the control tower.
3. If you try really hard, you can escape the explosion for sure.
4. If a man and a woman meet each other in the beginning of the movie and they can’t stand each other, they will definitely marry by the end of it.
5. The mother always makes eggs, bacon and pancakes for breakfast, even though the children and the father never finish them.
6. The dogs always know who the evil character is.
7. The good and hardworking cops always die two days before they retire.
8. The hero never detonates a bomb unless is one second to explosion.
9. The hero will not show signs of weakness during a most painful fight, but he will cry when a woman cleans his wounds.
10. Even if you are shot by couple of bullets, you will continue as if nothing happened, as long as you have an important task.
11. Even if you drive on a perfectly straight road, you would have to drive in curves and take sharp turns, just to show the abilities of the car.
12. Every door can be opened with a credit card, unless it is a door in a burning building and there is a woman or a child locked inside.
13. It is very easy to pull off the safety pin of a grenade using your teeth.
14. The detective always solves the case after he is suspended.
15. The action heroes never face charges for murder, theft or even ruining a whole city.
16. You will always survive if you jump from a roof top and fall in a swimming pool.
17. If someone chases you on a street in a big, busy city, you can always hide in the parade for St. Patrick’s Day, no matter what time of the year it is. If you can’t find a St. Patrick’s Day parade, there would definitely be one for the Chinese New Year and you can hide in the dragon.
18. The boats and the bases always have only one emergency radio.
19. You can see the Eiffel Tower from every window in Paris.
20. The make up of the women is permanent-it never wears off, even if you swim, dive or cry.
21. There will always be an available parking lot in front of the building that you are visiting.
22. If there is a scene involving big glass of a window shop, soon there would be someone “flying” through the glass.
23. If there are two identical twins in a movie, one of them is always evil.
24. The school bell always interrupts the teachers in the middle of what they are trying to say.
25. No matter how big and sloppy it is, a monster can always come behind your back without you noticing it.
26. All writers are rich, all publishing houses are glamorous, and all the artists are independent and have fancy apartments no matter how successful they are.
27. If the CSI team is digging a field in search of important evidence material, they always know where exactly to dig.
28. If you are running away from zombies that can barely walk, they will always get you in the end.
29. If a man and a woman are exposed to the same weather conditions, the man always wears more clothes than the woman.
30. If the standard medical procedure for revival doesn’t work, you can always bring back someone to life by saying, “You can’t do this to me! I love you!”
1. If you have decided to start dancing in the middle of the street, everyone would just forget about what they were doing and join the dance.
2. Everyone can land a plane, as long as he/she gets help from the control tower.
3. If you try really hard, you can escape the explosion for sure.
4. If a man and a woman meet each other in the beginning of the movie and they can’t stand each other, they will definitely marry by the end of it.
5. The mother always makes eggs, bacon and pancakes for breakfast, even though the children and the father never finish them.
6. The dogs always know who the evil character is.
7. The good and hardworking cops always die two days before they retire.
8. The hero never detonates a bomb unless is one second to explosion.
9. The hero will not show signs of weakness during a most painful fight, but he will cry when a woman cleans his wounds.
10. Even if you are shot by couple of bullets, you will continue as if nothing happened, as long as you have an important task.
11. Even if you drive on a perfectly straight road, you would have to drive in curves and take sharp turns, just to show the abilities of the car.
12. Every door can be opened with a credit card, unless it is a door in a burning building and there is a woman or a child locked inside.
13. It is very easy to pull off the safety pin of a grenade using your teeth.
14. The detective always solves the case after he is suspended.
15. The action heroes never face charges for murder, theft or even ruining a whole city.
16. You will always survive if you jump from a roof top and fall in a swimming pool.
17. If someone chases you on a street in a big, busy city, you can always hide in the parade for St. Patrick’s Day, no matter what time of the year it is. If you can’t find a St. Patrick’s Day parade, there would definitely be one for the Chinese New Year and you can hide in the dragon.
18. The boats and the bases always have only one emergency radio.
19. You can see the Eiffel Tower from every window in Paris.
20. The make up of the women is permanent-it never wears off, even if you swim, dive or cry.
21. There will always be an available parking lot in front of the building that you are visiting.
22. If there is a scene involving big glass of a window shop, soon there would be someone “flying” through the glass.
23. If there are two identical twins in a movie, one of them is always evil.
24. The school bell always interrupts the teachers in the middle of what they are trying to say.
25. No matter how big and sloppy it is, a monster can always come behind your back without you noticing it.
26. All writers are rich, all publishing houses are glamorous, and all the artists are independent and have fancy apartments no matter how successful they are.
27. If the CSI team is digging a field in search of important evidence material, they always know where exactly to dig.
28. If you are running away from zombies that can barely walk, they will always get you in the end.
29. If a man and a woman are exposed to the same weather conditions, the man always wears more clothes than the woman.
30. If the standard medical procedure for revival doesn’t work, you can always bring back someone to life by saying, “You can’t do this to me! I love you!”
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