Habitually Good

For the past 4-6 months, it seems that I have been surrounded by dragons (not in real life, thankfully). There is so much of it, that I had to put it together in a post. So, here goes, in no particular order, my experiences with Dragons this year:

Minecraft – one of my favorite games this year (whenever little I got to play it). When it finally released to a full version, Notch (the creator of the game) had built dragons into it. Nice, I thought.

The books by Christopher Paolini – I finished reading Inheritance a few weeks ago – and one of the main characters is a Dragon (named Saphira). I like the four books quite a lot. Good reading if you like fantasy adventure type books.

Lord of Ultima – this one is a minor one – I checked out this MMO recently, and one of the magical creatures in this game is a Dragon.

Skyrim – last week, I played Skyrim for the first time on my XBox. And my in-game character is actually a “Dragonborn” who can absorb the powers of Dragons. And there are dragons all over the game.

I have watched re-runs of a number of Dragon movies on the Tele (How to train a dragon, anyone?).

Finally, a dear colleague at work highly recommended A Song of Ice and Fire (a series of novels which are all the rage in the US right now due to the highly popular adaptation of the novels into a TV series by HBO). I just finished reading the first one called “A Game of Thrones”. And while the book refers to dragons in the history all the time, it ended with one of the primary characters ending up with 3 real baby dragons. So well it looks like the next few books are going to see some dragon action.

And if all of this is not enough, the year 2012 will be the “Year of the Dragon” as per the Chinese Calendar. So, it looks like I am going to be surrounded by dragons for a while now. Not that I mind (as long as I am not in real life).

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