The logo for the series Heroes

I admit it. I’m a huge fan of Heroes. Actually, I’ve never had a problem admitting that before, so it’s no big deal that I’m admitting it now.

It was my students who got me hooked. I don’t follow TV shows normally, because I just don’t have the time to watch TV. But what happened was, 2 years ago, one of my students in my homeroom, Danil, had most of the episodes of Season 1, and he passed me a copy to watch. Except that I didn’t get around to watching them until MONTHS later during the holidays. I watched it while marking papers, and I got so hooked that I watched them 2-3 episodes in a row every day during my marking. I was so thankful I had all those episodes at one go. I couldn’t have waited for a whole week to pass to watch the next one.

Except that I didn’t have the last few episodes. I had to bug another student, Matthew Pang, for them!!!

Heroes Season 2 was a major disappointment for me though. There were only 11 episodes due to the Hollywood writer’s strike.

I didn’t give up hope though. And when I got hold of Season 3, I watched SIX episodes all in one go!!!

Actually I was supposed to only watch one. I wanted to pace myself, watching one episode a day, but unfortunately the episode endings were too juicy. Plus, my Windows Media Player automatically plays the next episode, and I couldn’t bring myself to press the Stop button. I was doing work on my laptop while watching the show on my other PC, and during the entire six hours… I didn’t even move from the spot to use the washroom. My @$$ was aching after that.

I can’t believe I did that! There went my resolution to be in bed by midnight. I only peeled myself off the chair and into my bed at 3.30am. The only reason I stopped was because I didn’t have the following episodes after episode six.

Oh, and here’s something to make you die-hard Heroes fans jealous. MILO VENTIMIGLIA HAS THE SAME BIRTHDATE AS ME!!!! Well, he’s actually born 2 years earlier than I was. But we have the same birthday!!! Finally someone famous (besides Kevin Bacon) to share my birthday! Check out the date for yourself here.

Not that it would really make any difference in my life though …

Milo Ventimiglia

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