Friday night Chelle’s and I joined Alex and Debstar and saw the London Symphony Orchestra play a collection of cinema theme tunes for the Canary Wharf Summer Festival.

It was wild seeing the crowd go nuts when the Stars Wars themes were played.

For those who regularly keep abreast of sticky, you will remember that I have blogged about playing psp with one of my co-workers during our lunchbreak. The thing is, it’s not something that we do on occasion, it happens almost every day. Sure we’re geeks, but we’re happy geeks.

Each lunch hour consists of a game of Tiger Woods golf, followed by a game of Virtua Tennis. The winner buys the other one lunch. Over the months our form has varied enough to generally even out the lunch payouts between us.

Today, however was a special day. I’m finishing up in my current job next Friday and Alex is on a course next week, so today was our last chance to get in a competition. To make things interesting, I declared that all previous results no longer counted and that whoever was champion today should be declared Master of the universe.

We set up an 18 hole course playing in Central Park New York. One of the hardest courses there is, and proceeded to play. It was a close game, until Alex got himself into an awkward situation trying to putt while standing in the water. This tough break helped propel me to an 8 hole lead, and I managed to hold him off finishing the 18 holes with a devastating 5 hole victory.

It was now up to Alex to come-back for an at-best draw. All he had to do was manage to hold his mental game together and beat me a game of 3 set tennis. Let’s just say that whatever was left of his ego after the obliterating defeat in golf, just couldn’t help him muster the strength, skill or talent to take a single set off me.

I am now and forever officially – Master of the universe.

There’s nothing worse than having the sniffles and having to do a big sniff when you visit the work loos after someone just dropped last nights curry.

Mainstream media love to pick on followers of Scientology. It doesn’t help that its most famous advocate – Tom Cruise – exhibits strange behaviour sometimes, but that by itself shouldn’t be a reason to reduce its validity amongst society.

But what about their belief that their current spiritual self was once a part of an alien life form in a past life or that there are many known alien life forms still in existence.

Sure they sound a little weird and out-of-this world but what differentiates these beliefs from those of any other faith, e.g. the belief that a man named Jesus was the son of god and that he was brought back to life to cleanse the world of its sins. Sounds like a revised edition of Greek or Egyptian mythology to me. To me every religion/spiritual course/faith/denomination has its beliefs that seem a little out there.

I figure the only reason mainstream religion and its associated dogma is deemed more legitimate in modern society is that the belief has managed to survive through many generations. Would more of us be a little sceptical if it was only 50 years ago that the story of Jesus and his resurrection had started to get off the ground?

I guess I’m just ranting, but my point is that I don’t think it’s fair to single out one or two religions for ridicule. To me, none is more or less ridiculous than any other. I feel it makes sense to either a) accept all religions have equal right to the same level of validity or b) ridicule them all for their crazy ideas.