If you knew me well enough, you'd know that there is virtually nothing sufficiently enticing for me to throw my PS2 controller aside and settle for it. The sanity-robbing exams don't count. Don't be mistaken - it's not because exams are enticing; we all know that the adjective jars with its (the exams') true nature.

After eons of trying to find a new hobby, I realised that gaming was my life. Strangely, something displaced it from being the top priority of my weekend schedule this week. I did not lay a finger on my PS2, thanks to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. I know the book was published last year (or maybe even earlier), but I only managed to get my hands on it two days ago. Needless to say, the book was too good to be simply enticing. Whatever the book claims may or may not be bona fide, but hell, it got me totally engrossed. Some documentary about the truth of the book was shown about a month back, and it reckoned that the Priory of Sion didn't exist, contrary to what Mr Brown wrote in the Facts page. Thankfully, I am not a Christian myself, and it sure saves me a lot of time from deliberating whether Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. The extremely faithful will dismiss the book as trash of course, but isn't that the purpose of fiction? It's entirely up to the readers' discretion to view the work in different lights.

Now that I am done with the book, being a cryptologist sure sounds interesting... But I need to find my brain first.

P.S. If you want to know more about Mary Magdalene, you can click here. (No pun intended with the postscript, if you know what I mean.)

This entry was posted by Kelvin, on Sunday, July 10, 2005.