For the avid fans of X-MEN, especially to those who watched X-MEN2, read this....

X-MEN Trivia... anyone???

Mystique is the foster mother of Rogue and the biological mother of Nightcrawler.
Magneto is a former friend of Prof. Charles Xavier. He's also the father of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, both The Avenger members.
Jean Grey was formerly known as Marvel Girl and will transform into Dark Phoenix in the future.
Cyclops and Havoc of X-Factor are brothers.
Pyro fought DareDevil in a suicidal frenzy, and became badly hurt in the process.
Rogue was formerly a villain, a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,
lead by Mystique. At one time Rouge had an encounter with Ms. Marvel of The
Avengers. In this event, Rouge accidentally absorbed Ms. Marvel's power of flight, superstrength, and invulnerability. She absorbed even Ms. Marvel's memories. This has brought her stress and even a double persona. She sought help from the Brotherhood, but unfortunately, to no avail; this made her decide to seek help from Professor X of the X-men.
When you first see Magneto, he is reading a book named "The Once Future King." Near the ending, Professor Xavier is teaching his class while the sound is fading out but he says, "Have any of you read a novel named 'The Once Future King?...'"
What is it with Rogue and seat belts? First she can't get out of Logan's truck in X-men and in this new film, she can't get either restraint buckled and is sucked out of the Blackbird...
In the scene where Mystique is printing the files on the security guard and she spots the Cerebro folder, there are 2 more folders there as well, Omega Red (one of Wolverine's enemies) and Muir Island (Banshee's home in Scotland).
The little mutant boy, Artie, (the one with the green forked tongue) is indeed an actual character. Anyone who has read the comics knows of the "infamous" Artie and Leech.
The girl in the mansion who lets out a super-sonic scream when the Marines attack her is Siryn, daughter of Banshee.
The entire computer list that Mystique is looking at on Stryker's
computer are mutants from the Marvel universe: Keniucho Harada is The Silver
Samurai; Garrison Kane is Kane from the Weapon X program; Remy LeBeau is Gambit; Eric Lansherr is Magneto, though it is supposed to be spelt Erik; Artie Maddicks is Big Eyes; Jamie Madrox is Multiple Man; Xi'an Coy Mahn is Karma;
Maximoff (2) are the brother and sister Pietro and Wanda, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch of the Avengers, both are the children of Magneto; Kevin McTaggart is Proteus, Son of Moira McTaggart; Danielle Moonstar is Mirage, Psyche; Ororo Munroe is obviously Storm; Franklin Richards (You only see the "Lin Richards" clearly), the son of Reed Richards (Mr Fantastic) and the Invisible Woman (Sue Richards).
In the Museum scene, the Chinese girl with the yellow pouch is Jubilee.
The ending is very reminiscent of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. The person with the closest relationship to the leader of the group sacrifices him/herself to save the rest of the group, and just before the closing credits we hear the dead person's voice recite a speech previously spoken at the beginning of a previous film/episode ("Space the final frontier..."/"Mutation..." from the first film). They even left a way for Jean Grey to come back in the next film (apparently in the cartoons she came back from the dead as a phoenix - look at the water and you can see the shadow of a phoenix).
Mystique transforms into a blonde woman to seduce the security guard. This blonde woman is actually Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, a.k.a... the very Mystique
herself. The only time we see her without the blue makeup...
When Mystique is morphing into Yuriko and back the sound she makes is exactly the same sound the T-1000 makes when morphing in Terminator 2.
In the comic, Xavier had a son named David Haller who became known as Legion. He was mentally disturbed, suffering from multiple personality disorder. He had several different psychic powers, and each personality controlled a different power. One of them was a young girl. His left eye was green, and his right eye was blue. In the movie, Stryker has a son named Jason. He is mentally disturbed or catatonic. He has pychic powers. In the illusion he creates for Xavier, he appears as a young girl. His left eye is green. His right eye is blue. It would seem that this is supposed to be the movies version of Legion.
Watch the 20th Century Fox logo closely at the start, the X stays illuminated for a short time after the main logo fades out.
During the scene in the bar with Mystique and the prison guard the person on the TV is called Dr. Hank McCoy, this is the real name of x-man The Beast.

   posted by at 5/10/2003 01:52:47 AM 

When a Student Teaches the Professor...

One of our officemates in COEXSYS was one of our professor at La Salle. Although he's very much proficient in AUTOCAD, but the tool that is used in the office is CATIA. Thus, Sir Kenneth told me to teach him CATIA and so I did.
Now, I can say that patience is indeed a virtue and it is good that he is quite a fast learner.
He even borrowed my Installer. Hehe.

New Office Space

We have just learned that we will be renting a new office space (a larger one). It will still be near La Salle. It's located at Alejo Aquino corner Don Pedro near Vito Cruz. By Wednesday, we will transfer the things there and set-up two new computers.

   posted by at 5/7/2003 08:51:46 PM 

Burger Machine

If you want to eat something that is below 50 pesos, you might as well go to Burger Machine. Me and my OJT-mates went to Burger Machine for lunch. I've only spent 43 pesos. The 43-peso budget meal is comprised of Jumbo Burger plus cheese and coleslaw and Rootbeer. Hehe.

MATLAB Self-Exploration

In our OJT, we had our MATLAB self-study. I literally played with the Image Processing Toolbox and well, I am having a lot of fun doing some image enhancements there such as Converting an RGB image to a grayscale image, cropping an image, diluting an image, eroding an image and the like. Hehe. And the exploration never stops at the office. I just installed MATLAB in my PC and it will really suck up your hard disk space for it requires almost 2 gigabytes.

   posted by at 5/6/2003 10:32:22 PM 

Official Start of OJT

Tomorrow will be the official start of my On-The-Job Training at Coexsys. We had our orientation just this afternoon. Francis, Donald and I will be having our OJT there. I chose to work on the Mechanical Component, Francis decided to work on the Electronics Component while Donald will work on the Software Component. I have just finished printing the handouts with regards to the basic know-how of using MATLAB.
As for the mechanical component, Sir Kenneth noted that I should review my robotics, mechanical design and of course, CAD. The software that we will be using is CATIA which, for me, is more user-friendly than that of AUTOCAD.

CPA Board

I just bumped into one of my High School buddies this afternoon before going to the orientation. Ronald said that their board exam will start this coming Sunday and will push through until Monday. Then, same schedule goes for next week.
To the board exam takers, God Bless to all of you, we wish you all the luck.

   posted by at 5/5/2003 11:50:16 PM 

Jollibee... a fastfood???

Just this afternoon before going to our meeting at the Church, my father and I went to Jollibee. We went to the drive-thru and seeing that we might get stuck there, Dad suggested that we will just park the car and go inside to order. To my surprise, only one lane is open. What's more irritating is that the service crew in-charge is so slow. Argh! I was making faces already due to my irritance and I was clenching my fists already and playing around with the money that Dad gave me. It was really a long wait to think that I was only third in the line.
When it was my time to order, I felt better. But then, an additional irritance is about the Palabok Fiesta. I have no choice but to go ahead to the Church since my batchmate in BL-DWTL is already there waiting for me. Upon arriving at the church, my dad called up saying that I left something in the car so he came to the church and gave me paper and the pen that I left.

   posted by at 5/4/2003 07:25:49 PM 

 

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