tHe chuah's world

New Year Resolutions

2010-12-31T02:32:00.016+08:00

It's the end of 2010 and here comes 2011. I know it's a bit late to write this since it's 10th January today, but who cares! haha..
Anyway, time really does flies, can't imagine that 2010 pass that fast, so many things happen, so many things changed. Neither good or bad, it's still part of the memory.

As I have mentioned before, the thing that concern me the most would be our relationships with relatives. It's sad and disappointed for what had happened. Can't imagine that they'll do that to their so called "family". People are selfish, people are all self-protected, and sometimes people willing to do something to hurt their family just because they're selfish.
I can't imagine that a relative of ours back stabbing us. Purposely went to the singing class just to convince someone not to work in my parent's office because she felt threaten if we hired someone helpful to boost up our business, pathetic! Not to mention they snatched our customers and two of our employees. And that bastard that never remember who taught him that much. Who given him opportunities, and after he learned all he needed to learn, turned back against us.

And the bitch who called and scolded my father. My father almost got heart attack after listening her phone call. His face turned green and sweaty. Oh, just for your information, that bitch who tried to kill my father is my father's sister who is a teacher in primary school (bravo). A sister who knew that her brother got heart problem but still called and scolded him. If anything happen to my father that time, I would have kill her. Mother fucker bitch! One of my new year wishes would be run into her someday and give her a middle finger and fuck her in her face!
I'm going to announce her name here!

Chuah SXXe HXXXg!!

That bitch is currently teaching in 槟城公民二校 SJK(C) Kong Min Cawangan (2)!
She scolded my father on the phone until he have no chance to talk or argue, which makes him so angry and almost got heart attack! You tell me, is this the right behavior of an educator? It sounded like something only hooligan or samseng will do! BRAVO TEACHER!! Plus, that bitch back stabbing my mother few years back at her school! She was like second-class human being in their eyes! FUCKING BITCH!

It's sad that we were forced to lose contact with other nice relatives as well. All relatives from my father's side were totally cut off now. But I think it's better this way, after all these years, my mother had it enough. They never treated her like a human, they never respected her. They were all look down on her. Fine then, it's all over now, I should feel relief.

Other than that, my grandfather also just passed away last month on 21st December 2010. Sad, regret that I didn't communicate much with him when he was healthy. Anyway, it's good for him at least, he was tortured for 2 months in hospital, this might be the best way to get over all the pain.

Last but not least, I think in 2011, there will be a big change for me. Change of environment, change of directions. Not convenience to write it out now, will update you guys when the day comes, just wish that the laziness wouldn't come over me then I'll blog about it :P

All about Harry Potter

2010-11-05T13:33:00.012+08:00

It's November! Which means Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 would be release on this month! 18th November 2010! Excited about it!!
Although, many non-book-reader audiences in Malaysia isn't looking forward to the movie, for example, my dear colleagues. Only one of them is looking forward to the movie. The others said that they're not interested. Well it's understandable.. Because Malaysia audiences are VISUALIZE audiences THEY LOVE TRANSFORMERS!! Well, whatever..
I've bought the tickets for 18th November, but after that only I realized in Malaysia it will be release on 17th November instead!!! ARGH!!!

Ok, for those who're interested but cannot remember all the storyline of Harry Potter 1 to Harry Potter 6, I'll try my best to summarize it and make a clear picture for you before you go for Harry Potter 7! So here it goes!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

It all started with The-Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter. When one night the darkest wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort, hunt down the Potter family, killed James and Lily Potter.
By the time Voldemort wanted to kill Harry, the killing curse backfired for some reason and so Voldemort falled.
The world then believed that Lord Voldemort is gone forever, except for Dumbledore.
Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer of all time. He is the only one person that Voldemort ever feared of.

After that night, Dumbledore left Harry in the Muggle world with his mother’s sister, his aunt Petunia and his uncle Vernon. Dumbledore appeared at Number 4, Privet Drive, Little Wingin. He uses the Deluminator to turn off the streetlight. The Deluminator is a device, which can suck in all the lights around the places. (Keep this device in your mind, you will be reminded in Harry Potter 7).

His aunt and uncle Vernon then brought up Harry, who hates magic and hate Harry because of his parents were wizard and witch.
He grew up with his cousin, Dudley, who is awful to Harry as well.
When Harry reaches 11 years old, he received a mysterious letter from a place call Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry.
His aunt and uncle tried to stop him to going back to where he belongs, the magical world. And so, there was Hagrid, the half giant, half human man came by their doorstep, told Harry that he is a wizard, and he is going to Hogwarts.

Hagrid brought Harry to Diagon Alley to purchase the things he needed like wand, spell books and an owl. Before that, Hagrid brought Harry to the wizard bank Gringotts to withdraw his money that his parents left for him. (Keep the bank Gringotts in mind you going to see it again in the last movie, Deathly Hallows Part 2). While Harry was choosing his wand, or to be more precise, the wand choosing Harry, the wand maker Olivanders told Harry that the wand chosen the wizard. And the wand that choose Harry, and the Voldemort’s wand is made by the feather of the same phoenix. This is the first sign showing the connection between Harry and Voldemort.

His journey started, when 11 years old Harry went to King Cross, on platform 9 3/4, he took the Hogwarts Express and set off to his epic journey.
He met Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger in Hogwarts and three of them become very best friends to each other.

During his first year in Hogwarts, he accidentally find out about Nicholas Flamel, a wizard who is immortality by owning a stone known as, the Philosopher's Stone. The spirit of Voldemort that wondering around tried to come back by stealing the stone that is kept safely in Hogwarts.

Harry, Ron and Hermione found out about that and stop him.

Voldemort attached himself on one of the teacher's head, Professor Quirrell.
Harry accidentally found out that Professor Quirrell couldn’t touch him. His skin burns when he touches Harry. Harry wonders why and asked Professor Dumbledore. Dumbledore told him that it was his mother's love.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret

Harry's second year in Hogwarts started weird when a house elf named Dobby appeared in his room and stops him from going back to Hogwarts.
He met Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister, who admires Harry very much while he visited Ron's house.

Meanwhile, in Hogwarts, there were people been petrified and they claim that the Chamber of Secret has been opened again.
Harry then accidentally found a diary that belongs to a guy named Tom Riddle. The diary has been enhanced with magic that it can respond back to those who wrote on it.
Harry asked Tom Riddle about the Chamber of Secret. Riddle show Harry that 50 years ago there was a Mudblood (those who aren't from magical world, their parents aren't witch or wizard) killed and the suspect Hagrid has been expelled from Hogwarts.

Harry then also found out that he is a Parseltongue, who can speak snakes language. It was not a good thing even in the wizarding world. They say one of the founders Salazar Slytherin can speak snakes language too. So now the whole school thought that Harry is a descendant of Salazar Slytherin (which is bad), and he is the one who opened the Chamber of Secret.

In the end, Ginny was taken into the Chamber of Secret. Harry and Ron went tried to safe her in the Chamber of Secret, and they realized that Tom Riddle came to life via Ginny. They then realized that Tom Riddle is actually the same person as Lord Voldemort.
Tom Riddle is Lord Voldemort original named after his Muggle (non magic folks) father.
Harry then successfully safe Ginny from danger, and destroy the memory that came back from the diary by destroying the diary.

Dumbledore then told Harry that Lord Voldemort will try many ways to come back to life and they must be well prepared when that happens. He also told Harry that he believed, Lord Voldemort transfered some of his power to Harry the night he tried to kill him. That's why Harry can speak snakes language, because Tom Riddle is actually descendant of Salazar Slytherin.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

On Harry's third year in Hogwarts, there was a prisoner named Sirius Black who escapes from the wizarding jail called, Azkaban.
The Azkaban Prison is guard by a terrible creature called, the Dementors. Sirius Black is the first and only prison that escaped from Azkaban ever. He was captured because he murdered 13 Muggles and a wizard. He is also a well-known Voldemort's supporter.
Harry was warned by Ron's father, Mr Weasley, that Black is going to after Harry and warned him that he would not go looking for Black no matter what rumours he heard.

He then realized that his father, James Potter, has 3 best friends when he was studying in Hogwarts. Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew. 4 of them created a map called the Marauder's Map which shows everyone of what they're doing in every minute in the Hogwarts ground. They had known themselves as Mooney (Lupin), Padfoot (Sirius Black), Wormtail (Peter Pettigrew), and Prong (James Potter). Because of Remus Lupin is a werewolves, he have to transform every month. So the other 3 of them took some time and master human transform and became an Animagus (human who can transform to an animal). Sirius transforms into a black dog, Peter transform into a rat, and James transform into a stag.

Harry again found out, that the massive murderer Sirius Black is his godfather, and the wizard he murders is Peter Pettigrew. Rumours said that when they know that Voldemort is trying to hunt down the Potter family, they used the Fidelius Charm, which works by assigning a person as a Secret-Keeper of a certain house, and no one can reach to the house, unless they're told by the Secret-Keeper himself. In this case, rumours said that Sirius Black is Potter's Secret-Keeper and he sold their location to Lord Voldemort, ending up tragic in the Potter's family. Then Peter Pettigrew tried to stop Sirius and so Sirius Black killed him. (The Fidelius Charm was not mentioned in the movie!)

In the end, Harry realized that, Sirius is not Potter's Secret-Keeper, it was Peter Pettigrew instead. They purposely spread the fake rumours that Sirius is the Secret-Keeper to confuse Lord Voldemort. Unfortunately, their plan failed because they didn't know that Peter Pettigrew has became a Death Eater (Voldemort's followers). Wormtail aka Peter Pettigrew, fake his own death by killing the 13 Muggles on the crime scene, cut his own finger, and then escape by transforming into a rat, acted as a house pet in the Weasley family for 12 years. Sirius Black is innocent. Wormtail then escaped that night because Lupin transformed into a werewolves. Harry could not clear his godfather's name, and so Sirius Black is still a running prisoner.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The forth year of Harry Potter in Hogwarts is full of adventures as the Triwizard Tournament were hosted by Hogwarts this year.
This competition has been stopped for almost a century because of the dangerous of the tournament itself. This time the ministry of magic planed it well and make sure nobody got hurt.

It started by Harry, Ron, Hermione and the other fellow friends went to watch the Quidditch World Cup.
After the match ended. Suddenly the Death Eater (Voldemort’s followers) turns up and attacked the Muggles. While the Auror (it’s like wizarding world’s police) tried to stop the Death Eater, Harry Ron and Hermione run and hide in the woods. Suddenly they heard somebody turns up and conjured the Dark Mark (Voldemort’s mark). They believed that the sudden show up of the Death Eater is just for fun and when the Dark Mark appeared frighten them because it hasn’t been appeared for 14 years. They were afraid the return of the Dark Lord (Voldemort) because they scare that Voldemort would punish them for not finding him in the past 14 years.

Back to Hogwarts, someone submitted Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire and made him the forth candidates of the tournament (which usually only have 3). Someone helped Harry secretly in order for him to precede and win the tournament. His new Defense Against the Dark Art teacher, Professor Mad-Eye Moody, has been watching over Harry over the year. He taught them the 3 Unforgiveable Curse, Avada Kedavra (the killing curse), Crucio (the torturing curse), and Imperius (the compelling curse).
When it comes to the third task of the Triwizard Tournament, which is a huge Maze, someone helped him secretly and make sure he gets to touch the Triwizard Cup first. Unfortunately Harry decided to touch the cup together with Cedric Diggory who is also Hogwarts candidates. Someone has turned the Triwizard Cup into a port key (an magic enhanced object which allowed to transfer people from one place to another, it is convenience for people in the wizarding world to travel).

Both Harry and Diggory were brought to a graveyard, which has the name Tom Riddle written on it. It was the grave of Lord Voldemort’s father. They saw Wormtail aka Peter Pettigrew; he killed Cedric Diggory, and brought Voldemort back to live by using the bone of his father, the blood of his enemy, and the flesh of his faithful servant. Voldemort is very much alive again. He chooses Harry’s blood to come back to live because he needs to finish off Harry himself. But he cannot touch Harry.
Harry’s mother, Lily Potter, cast a protective charm over Harry to protect him from harm. However, in order for the magic to work, Lily must sacrifice herself. The charm works for the best when Harry is close to someone blood-related to his mother. This is why Dumbledore put Harry under his aunt and uncle’s care even if they’re awful to him. When Harry still live with his aunt and uncle, when he still call their house as home, the protective charm will still worked.
But now, Voldemort uses his blood, he can now touch Harry. But the protective charm will still worked when Harry is around his aunt.

While Harry duel with Voldemort, something happened between Harry’s and Voldemort’s wand. Their wands connected to each other curiously. Dumbledore explained that this happen because Harry’s wand and Voldemort’s wands made by feathers belongs to the same phoenix. Other than that, also because the existence of the strange connection between Harry and Voldemort. Keep that in your mind too, you going to need it while watching Deathly Hallows Part 1.

In the end, they realized Harry’s teacher, Professor Mad-Eye Moody, was an imposter after all. He drank the Polyjuice Potion (which allowed someone to change his/her appearance to someone else). He is the one who put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire, he helped Harry secretly to make sure he can goes until the end, he is the one who make the Triwizard Cup into a Port Key.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

On the fifth year of Harry's Hogwarts life, things have been different.
Harry feel unsafe and curious while he is staying in Privet Drive with his aunt and uncle, feeling being cut out from the wizarding world. 2 Demontors attacked Harry and his cousin, Dudley, and he was almost expelled because he performs magic in front of a Muggle. He then realized that thing have changed in the wizarding world since Lord Voldemort came back. The Ministry of Magic wouldn't believe him that Voldemort came back. They were too afraid and so they refuse to believe that. They control the newspaper (the Daily Prophet) to destroy Harry's and Dumbledore's name.

After Harry struggling at Privet Drive, finally Dumbledore sent people to bring Harry to headquarter of the Order of Phoenix. The Order of Phoenix is a secret society founded by Dumbledore many years ago before Voldemort fell. Harry's parents James and Lily Potter was one of the members of Order of Phoenix too. Now, the new headquarter of the Order of Phoenix is at Sirius Black old house number 12 Grimmauld Place. They used the Fidelius Charm to hide this place and Dumbledore is the Secret-Keeper. The Weasley family and Hermione were waiting Harry at headquarter too. Harry, Ron and Hermione spent the rest of their summer holiday in Grimmauld Place.

Meanwhile, Harry realized the connection between him and Voldemort grows stronger since he came back to live. Their connection was strong while Harry is sleeping. So he has been doing a lot of weird dreams lately. Seeing the things that Voldemort desired the most. He always saw a dark corridor in his dream; at the end of the corridor he saw a door. He felt desperate to go behind the door, but right before he open the door, he woke up. He never really has the chance to go into the room. He wonders what's inside the room that Voldemort desire so much. And then Sirius fill Harry in with the brief ideas what are they going to do in order to fight back. He said Voldemort wanted something, a weapon, something that he didn't have it last time. Due to Harry is an underage wizard and he is not the member of the order of phoenix, Mrs Weasley (Ron's mom) stop Sirius from saying too much.

Harry's year in Hogwarts has been miserable. The Ministry send someone, Dolores Umbridge, to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts in Hogwarts, or I shall say spying Dumbledore and Harry, to stop them spreading "rumors" about the arising of the Dark Lord. Harry got himself into detention because he was arguing with the Umbridge women!
So Hermione suggest they organize a secret group to learn the proper way to defense themselves, to prepare what is out there. They call themselves, Dumbledore's Army (DA). But then Umbridge found out and Dumbledore sacrifice himself by saying it was his idea they form this group, which the Ministry think that Dumbledore intended to gain power in the Ministry. So Dumbledore have to run because they wanted to put him in Azkaban. Umbridge then take over the school and became the headmistress.

Meanwhile, Harry is still dreaming about the corridor, and seeing what Voldemort has been doing sometimes. Dumbledore realized the connection between them, so he arranged with Snape to teach him Occlumency, a way to block the connection, to shut down his mind from the Dark Lord because Dumbledore think that when Voldemort realized the existance of this connection, Voldemort will use it against Harry.

However Harry having trouble mastering Occlumency. So while Harry was taking his exam, he fell asleep and he saw Sirius Black was captured inside the door he has been dreaming all along. He saw Voldemort torturing him and asks him to fetch something for him. Harry woke up and freak out. He tried to contact with Sirius with the floo powder. He went back to headquarter of the order of phoenix, which Sirius should be staying in all time because he is still a refugee. But he can’t find Sirius there, and the house elf Kreacher told Harry that Sirius went out. Harry was then sure that the dream he saw is true. However, Umbridge suddenly came in and catch him in action. She thought that Harry was trying to communicate with Dumbledore and force him to speak. She request Veritaserum (the truth potion which make the drinker to speak only the truth) from Professor Snape. Harry suddenly remembers that Snape was one of the members in the Order of Phoenix, he said “he got Padfoot, he got Padfoot at where it’s hidden”. Snape shows no reaction because Umbridge was there.

Harry felt hopeless and when he got away from Umbridge, he, Ron, Hermione together with some of the other DA members, Neville, Luna and Ginny, flew to London and go inside the Ministry of Magic, the Department of Mysterious. Rumors said that the Ministry used this place to discover and research on some weird and unexplained magic. They went in, and Harry goes to the prophecy room according to the dream he saw.

When they were inside the prophecy room, Sirius was nowhere to be seen. He saw a crystal ball on the rack with Harry's name on it. He took it, and suddenly a few Death Eaters show up. Including Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy. They understand immediately, that Voldemort has fooled them. He make Harry saw Sirius captured here, so that he can come and help Voldemort fetch the crystal ball for him. He felt bad for being such foolish and putting his friend in this situation. They fight, and of course they don’t stand a chance because they are still students. Suddenly, Sirius and some of the members of Order of Phoenix show up and they have this epic fight. It was Snape that inform them about Harry so they came for the rescue. During the fight, Neville drop the crystal ball, and Bellatrix Lestrange killed Sirius. Harry was furious, he ran chase after her, and he even tried to use the torture curse on her. And then, Voldemort shows up. Before he tried to kill Harry, Dumbledore was there too. Voldemort having this most epic fights ever with Dumbledore. They were equally strong, but then Dumbledore is old. Voldemort disappear when the Auror (wizard police) and the Minister came. They saw him, they saw Voldemort. So finally they believed Dumbledore and Harry.

Back in Hogwarts, in Dumbledore’s office. Harry was furious, he was angry and sad that Sirius was killed. Dumbledore wait until Harry calm down and decided to tell him everything. Why would Voldemort kill Harry while he was just a baby? It was all because of a prophecy. Dumbledore show Harry a memory of his, showing Dumbledore interviewing a teacher in a bar for the Divination subject (a subject in Hogwarts that teach student to predict the future, reading tea leaves, reading sign of the stars to predict future). And then, this teacher, Professor Trelawney, suddenly make a prophecy, a prophecy between Harry and Voldemort.

“The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies ...”

Because she made this prophecy in a public area, someone overheard her, and pass the message to Voldemort, but then it was not complete, he didn’t heard ALL of the prophecy, he only heard until “born as the seventh month dies”. Voldemort felt threaten after he heard this prophecy. He must destroy this threat. And so, after tracing according the prophecy, he “think” that Harry is the one. Harry was born on 31st July. Actually, the prophecy didn’t mention who is the boy. It was all depends on Voldemort, if he hasn’t overheard part of the prophecy, if he hasn’t tried to kill Harry and pass some of his power into Harry accidentally, the prophecy won’t come true. It’s a little complicated here. Imagine, if Voldemort didn’t kill Harry’s parents, what would happened? Harry wouldn’t hate Voldemort as much as now, Harry probably wouldn’t be as tough as now, Voldemort MADE Harry this way. Voldemort is the one that fulfilling the prophecy. And he never realized about that. And now after he came back, he wanted to hear the rest of the prophecy. Each prophecy that has been made will be store in a crystal ball in Ministry of Magic. And the crystal ball can only be retrieve by those who were mention in it, which is Harry. But the crystal ball was destroyed. So he never gets the chance to hear the rest of the prophecy.

After Harry knew all the truth. It turns his world upside down. Sirius is dead, he must be the one to finish off Voldemort. “either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives”. Means either Harry dies, or Voldemort dies. Harry is the Chosen One.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry’s life has been miserable. He felt bad about Sirius’s death. He thinks he is the reason that causes Sirius’s death. He has been wondering around while he was in Privet Drive. He subscribed Daily Prophet to keep track of the news in the wizarding world. Voldemort is now started to kill people in the public again. People in the wizarding world were live in fear. Even the Prime Minister in the Muggle world was warned. One night Dumbledore appear in Privet Drive. He told Harry’s aunt and uncle Vernon about the situation. And Harry was told that Sirius’s old house Grimmauld Place is now belongs to him.

After that Dumbledore brought Harry to an old colleague of Dumbledore, Professor Slughorn. He wanted to ask Slughorn to teach at Hogwarts, but he refuses. Slughorn likes to “collect” famous people. He likes to make good connection with those talented students. So Dumbledore tried to “use” Harry to convince Slughorn to go back to Hogwarts. And he succeeded, Slughorn finally agreed to go back to Hogwarts. Dumbledore told Harry, that Slughorn is the key. He needs something important from Slughorn. Harry was then spent the rest of his holiday in the Burrow, Ron’s house.

Before they go back to Hogwarts, they pay a visit to Diagon Alley, which looks much less people nowadays. Many shops either close down or were destroyed by the Death Eaters. However, the twin brothers Fred and George Weasley’s open a joke shop called Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. Surprisingly they have very good businesses. They met Draco Malfoy along their way. Harry saw Draco were afraid of the tailor touching his arm while she were help him measure his robes. So he suspected him and followed him. He saw him entering to Borgins and Burkes. He was asking about an item. He asked how should he fixed it and he said there’s another pair reserving in the shop. He threatens him by showing his arm and the shop keeper looks scared. Since then Harry suspected that Draco Malfoy has already become, a Death Eater.

After Harry, Ron and Hermione back to Hogwarts, they realized the security of the school has been tightened. Every student were checked by the Auror while they were entering the school. The main entrance was sealed. And Harry heard that Dumbledore has put a lot of protective spells and charm to protect the school from unknown outsiders, or the Death Eaters. Besides, he received a note from Dumbledore, that Dumbledore is going to give Harry a private lessons through out the year.

Dumbledore was preparing Harry this time. Since the prophecy said, that it must be Harry who finish off Lord Voldemort. Dumbledore must let Harry know everything. Not teaching him very advance spells or incantations, but let him know the history of Voldemort. How he cannot be killed, how he still can wonder around while his body is dead. The very first memory Dumbledore shows Harry is a officer from the Ministry of Magic visiting an old dirty hut beside a Muggle’s town. A man name Marvolo Gaunt lived in it together with his only son and daughter, Merope Gaunt. They were the descendent of Salazar Slytherin. They can speak Parseltongue, snake language. There was a locket around Marvolo’s neck. He treated his daughter badly because she was a witch who couldn’t perform magic, a Squib. He thinks that it was a shame to have such abnormal witch in their house.

The officer visits their house because Marvolo’s son, use magic against a Muggle because his sister were in love with that Muggle. The name of the man is called, Tom Riddle, Voldemort’s father, and guess what, Merope is Voldemort’s mother. Marvolo and his son were captured and lock up in Azkaban. Merope was free, she made a love potion for Tom Riddle senior, and so he fell in love with her. After they were together for a while, Merope decided to stop giving him love potion expects him to love her as much. However things changed. He left her and went back to his fiancé. Just then, she realized that she was pregnant. She gave birth to Voldemort in an orphan and she passed away. She named her son after his father, Tom Marvolo Riddle. Before that, she sold their family heirloom locket for money because she was having a hard time.

The second memory Dumbledore shows Harry is the first time Dumbledore met him in an orphan. His name is still Tom Riddle back then. He doesn’t have any friends. He trapped the other orphans that bullied him in a cave. He stole things from the other kids. Dumbledore felt strange about this kid, but he never knew that he would become the darkest wizard of all time.

And then, Dumbledore show few more memories that he had collected about Tom Riddle’s past. He went back to his grandfather Marvolo’s house, killed his Marvolo and get another heirloom of Slytherin, a ring. Then he went to his father’s Tom Riddle senior’s house and killed all of his family. Because he feels disappointed and hates that his father is a Muggle. And then, he came apply a job as the teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts. But obviously Dumbledore never hires him. And then he went to work in a dark items shop in Knockturn Alley called Bargins and Burkes. Dumbledore also shows Harry a memory retrieved from a house elf. While Tom Riddle were working at Borgins and Burkes, he went to this collectors house, to see a treasure she collected. It was a historical item from Hufflepuff, a trophy cup from Hufflepuff. This collector was then died mysteriously, and the Hufflepuff trophy cup is nowhere to be seen.

Dumbeldore suspects that the reason Voldemort wish to work as a teacher in Hogwarts is because he wanted to collect all the historical items that belongs to each houses in Hogwarts, Godric Gryfinndor’s sword, the locket and the ring from Salazar Slythrin, and the trophy cup from Hufflepuff. And then Dumbledore shows Harry the last and the most important memory of all. It was the memory of Professor Slughorn. The memory shows that Tom Riddle seems to be very interested in an object called, the Horcrux.

The Horcrux is a dark magical object, which hides part of the dark wizards soul in the object for the purpose s of attaining immortality. With part of a witch or wizard’s soul thus stored, he or she becomes immortal so long as the Horcrux remains intact. This is why Lord Voldemort could not die. He asked Slughorn that what would happen if someone created 7 Horcruxes. This gives Dumbledore clue that, Lord Voldemort, has created 7 Horcruxes. The diary in the Chamber of Secret, it was one of the Horcruxes, and Harry destroyed it. Dumbledore found the ring of Slytherin and destroyed it, which down to 5.

Last, Dumbledore found another Horcrux, which he thinks he can’t retrieve it alone. This one was hidden in the cave that Voldemort trapped the other orphan while he was a kid. Harry and Dumbledore get into the cave and they found that there was a basin in the middle of the cave. The locket is inside the basin and the basin is full of some kind of potion. They can’t get the locket, unless you drink the potion. Dumbledore asked Harry to force him to drink the entire potion. When Dumbledore started to drink the potion, he looks aweful. He keeps on begging for death as he was suffering. It seems that the potion brings guilt to the drinker. And finally Dumbledore finish the potion and the locket lies inside the basin. They took it and leave.

After they back to Hogwarts, they realized that there’s a dark mark above Hogwarts, The Death Eater is inside Hogwarts. And that night, Dumbledore was killed, by Severus Snape. However, Harry then realized that the locket they risk their life to take from the cave, it was a fake. There was a note inside the locket said that the locket was took by someone that declare himself as the R.A.B. Harry decided not to go back to Hogwarts next year and finish what Dumbledore left him, trace and destroy all Voldemort’s Horcruxes so that Voldemort can be mortal again and then finish him off once and for all.
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So these are basically the things that you need to know before you went to watch Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I know it’s a little bit long but :P well what do you expect it’s summary of 6 books of Harry Potter. Took me awhile to finish typing this. Hope you guys like it. HAPPY WATCHING the final installment of HARRY POTTER, the end of the epic journey.

PS: for all other professional fans of Harry Potter, please point out my mistakes if I wrote something wrong :P Long Live Harry Potter

Keep my blog alive~

2010-10-11T02:45:00.003+08:00

It's been awhile since I update my blog! >.<
Getting lazier and lazier, there are 3 draft in my posting list and I still haven't finish writing..

First it was about Chinese New Year movies combo (gosh it was long time ago)
Second it was the review of S.H.E Is The One Live in Malaysia Concert 2010
Third would be the post about our Gizwiz Macau & Hong Kong Trip. To be honest, I prefer our Bali trip.

Guess I wouldn't and couldn't finish it anymore :P as the memories are flushing away.. couldn't blog about it anymore.
So, what to expect in my blog now? I guess.. I will post one post about Harry Potter soon, since it's only have 38 days left before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 to be release! 18th November 2010
It would be a summary of Book 1 until Book 6 and the important points the previous movies has left out. So that those non-readers wouldn't get confuse while they watch Harry Potter 7.

Other than that, well in this, more than half year time, many things changed, for one thing, I'm officially switch to Mac! Just got myself a MacBook Pro not long ago.. Not trying to show off just telling!
Another thing would be my target in my career changed. It has been a confusion for awhile, and although now it's not really clear what I wanted, but still it's getting clearer.. Have to believe in what I want and have to set a goal for myself to archive! Not to mention have to force myself to take action and the determinate to reach my goal!!
One more thing was, the relationship between our family and our relatives changed. This is a regret and it was unavoidable. I'm sad that I have to lose contact with our relatives like that but, it has to be this way. Otherwise my parents couldn't have a peace of mind. I couldn't say that it was fully their fault for all these things happened (actually it is their fault), but, sigh, I don't know what to say. If any of you read this, I want to let you know that, the way you treated us, this is not what I call as "family". Family don't do these to family. End of story.

Okay, so I guess, the purpose I posted this just wanted to keep my blog alive. Hope I can blog more in the future! Your support would be my motivation!
It's 3am now, so I got to go! Cause it's Monday and I hate Monday. For the Monday Blues sake!! Good night!

Anniversary Trip to Singapore!

2010-01-16T21:31:00.029+08:00

WooHoo! It was me and my girlfriend's second anniversary, and we decided to go for a trip for this anniversary, and so we went to Singapore for 3 days 2 nights! This was actually the first time I planed the whole vacation and went for a vacation on my own. Including flight tickets, map, tourist spots research and etc. Luckily I have a friend Wesley who is now working in Singapore and he guided us on our second day of our trip.

We departed at 8th January 2010 morning from Kuala Lumpur by Air Asia of course, couldn't afford more :P, at only RM25 per person! Believe it or not, believe it! Then we reach Singapore at around 12pm. The first thing we arrived in Changi Airport, we went to the tourist information and double confirm the correct way to go to our hotel, Value Hotel Thomson.

Our journey going to our hotel was little bit stupid. We have heard that Singapore MRT is very very very convenience but we didn't know it is THAT convenience! It make us looks like stupid.

First, when purchasing MRT tickets with the machine, we were still confused with the Sing Dolar so it took us awhile and there were people queuing behind us.

Second, when we took the MRT interchange, we didn't know their "interchange" really means "interchange"! Unlike Singapore, in Kuala Lumpur LRT, when we need to make "interchange" we have to get down from the train, get out from the station, go to the opposite or some took 5-10 minutes walking distance to the next station under the hot whether, buy another tickets and get on the train. BUT THERE IS NO NEED IN SINGAPORE! You just have to buy the tickets directly to your destination no matter how many interchange, then at the interchange station, you get out from the train, the next train arrived in front of you just right after you get out from the previous train. There is no need to go out to the station and re-buy tickets to your next destination. Both of us looks like ape-man from the jungle cause we went out from the station and bought another tickets on each interchange for 2 times =.="

Value Hotel Thomson
(MRT route: Changi Airpot -> City Hall -> Novena)

It looked high class from this photo right? Well actually, it was cheap! I've search through the net for Hotel in Singapore and realized most of the "liveable" hotel in Singapore are very expensive! Those that "unliveable" mostly located at Geylang, which is the place where people find hooker. Hotel in Geylang only around RM100 - RM200. My early budget for accommodation was actually not more than RM200, but then after search through I increase my budget to not more than RM300 :(

Right before I gave up and decided to go for a hotel cost RM280++ per night, I found this hotel! It was only S$89(RM215 approximately). Check out the photos..

Small, but clean, neat, and nice interior! Saw high review online before we went for it. Although there was a distance between the nearest MRT station to the hotel (about 15 minutes walking distance), but it was still acceptable cause there were still buses to the MRT station (S$1 per person, 5 minutes distance). It only cost S$7 per person for breakfast, but we didn't take it.

Bugis Street Market

Our first stop was this Bugis Street Market. It was a waste of time!!!! My friend recommended me to go shopping there. There was a banner wrote "The Biggest Street Market in Singapore", but this street market have nothing to shop =.= Maybe because the things there doesn't suitable for us. They mostly sell those cloths we saw online before. And also some pirated branded shoes, cloths and etc. It looks not much different like Malaysia Pasar Malam. The only difference is it was indoor. So it wasn't as hot as street market in Malaysia. **sigh**
We reach there around 3pm and leave there around 5pm =.="

Singapore Night Safari

Our second destination was this Night Safari. In order to get to the Singapore Zoo, you can take MRT to Ang Mo Kio station, and then walk opposite the airport-alike bus station to take bus number 138. Really amazed by their bus station, it was so clean and convenience. People like me who don't like to take bus also amazed, imagine LOL.

In Singapore Zoo there were 3 sections which are the Singapore Zoo, the Bird Park, and the Night Safari. I was doubted to visit there at first when we were planing our schedule because it sounded so like primary school trip to zoo and feel that it was kind of lame. Not to mention the entry tickets was so expensive! S$22 per person + tram to round the safari S$10 per person!! However my girlfriend like to see animals so, okay we decided to go there.

When we arrived there, my doubt goes away immediately! The interior were nice! It was really Safari feel! The main theme was like we went into the minority village. Looks old yet high class! So with no doubt, bought 2 tickets! Here are some photos..

Glow in the dark gift shop which feels like Planet Pandora!!

Then We were told that there will be a night animal show at their arena called Creatures of the Night Show, which was included in the entry tickets so we went for it. I didn't expect much from the show, as I thought, animal show were all almost the same. However, I got excited when I went into the arena! Amazed by this..

After the show started, it amazed me more when we saw a full grown adult size wolf walked on the cliff howling!! This behavior was just like what we saw in the movie or discovery channel! I never imagined that I could actually saw that with my own eyes! Not to mention the dangerous striped hyena was walking around the stage!! It really looks dangerous and fierce! In case you guys don't know what hyena is, this is it..

Unlike normal animal show, their show was so much fun! Even the trainer hosting the show, an indian women, were so funny and and so active! 20 minutes passed so fast and I hope there was more cause it was really interesting! Besides, there were also many interactive with the audiences like, they faking they have animals escaped and make it as thought there were some emergencies and they searching for the animal within the audiences. Some naughty trainer scared the audiences on purpose by screaming out loud! Guess what they found in the end from the floor, a giant snake! Python! Luckily the snake wasn't search out from the place we seat, imagine a giant snake on the floor and you were seated there for about 10 minutes and never realized! But of course, it was caged. LOL

Okay, I'll stop describing all the details of the show so that you won't be spoiled :P Go see for it yourselves! It was the best animal show I've ever watched! Sorry because I couldn't took photos there as it was dark and we were not allowed to use flash light.

After the show we went for our dinner in Night Safari! Bongo Burgers.

Desing's Fish & Chips (zebra plate)

My Pasta (with zebra table ^^)

While we were enjoying our dinner, there were show to watch too! Some aboriginal were messing around with fire!

After we filled our stomach, we proceed to the tram to round the whole safari! It was really huge! You can actually choose to not taking the tram and walk around yourself, but believe me, you'll need the tram. You don't even have enough time to finish the whole safari as it is only open after 7pm. I'm not sure what time they close but, really you need the tram! S$10 T.T

The tram was just normal, there was a tram guide explaining along the way. Their English were nice to listen, not those broken English but very proper English, with some humors added along the explanation. Along the way we can see the wild animals on the run, some herbivores even walked around us freely and uncaged. I wonder how they keep them in that area.

After about half an hour journey, the tram came to the pit stop. Where this is one of the walking trail that is available in the Singapore Night Safari, the Leopard Trail. They have the Leopard Trail, Fishing Cat Trail, and a Forest Giant Trail. However, and sadly, we don't have enough time for all the trails especially the Forest Giant Trail were huge :( Because, the Leopard Trail already can see a lot of things! Leopard for sure you can see here! And also Cheetah, one of the most memorable was the Flying Squirrel!!! They build a huge cage, where visitors have to walk through a lot of chain curtain to avoid the flying squirrel flew out from the cage, then at the inside, you can actually see the flying squirrel flew around! They "jump" or "fly" from one side to another side, you can say that they were jumping, but it was like fly-alike jumping LOL. Also, same concepts applies to the Bats! A cage with a lot of doors we have to go through, then we can see a real live HUGE bats flying around! Although I saw one in Bali before, but these bats in Singapore, they flew! XD The one in Bali were just hanging there upside down waiting to be fed. You know what reminds me from these cage they used? If you guys watch Jurrasic Park III, the huge cage they built to cage the flying dinosaurs, yes that. But not as huge as that of course that was for dinosaurs!

There were so much more animals that you can see from the Leopard Trail, I only mention those that are interesting. So we continue to our next half of the tram's journey. The next half of the journey we can see lions, tigers and lucky us saw the tiger roar! XD And there were elephants too, with huge teeth! We passed through the Forest Giant Trail but we have no time for that, it was already 10pm and we have to get back before the MRT close :( sad. And that is all of our journey, really really really memorable, unforgetable, worth the tickets price. The next time I go to Singapore, I want to visit their Singapore Zoo and the Bird Park as well, which are located at the same place but in different section.

Sentosa Island - The Underwater World

On the second day of our trip, we went to the Sentosa Island, where we heard there was an Underwater World which is nice to visit! And so I asked ex-colleague of mine, Wesley, who is now working in Singapore to go there along with us. He has been working there for about half a year but he never went to the Sentosa Island =.=" And the GREAT NEWS he brought us that day was, "hey you know, I have a friend working in Hard Rock Hotel in Sentosa and it is now open for their staff's family and friends for testing purposes, and you know how much per night? S$38!!!!!!!!" OH MY GOD!!!!! HARD ROCK HOTEL WITH S$38!! It was too late, it was then fully booked and I've already paid for my hotel :( It's even cheaper than my hotel S$89 T.T

Okay, so the Underwater World. After we visited the Night Safari, I've high expectation in the Underwater World, but it disappointed me a little. The interior was so so, the dolphin show was kind of boring, you know just dolphin jumping around. Although their dolphin were little bit different, their so called "the pink dolphin". However we think that the pink dolphin wasn't pretty, their skin were gray in color but here little bit pink there a little big pink, looks like sick dolphin. LOL

However, the underwater tunnel was impressive! the water wasn't deep, but the tunnel was long. They even build the automatic walkway in the tunnel so that visitors doesn't have to walk when they wanted to see the underwater animals. They have a lot of sharks. Their animals was more grayish. Lack of colorful fishes. Here are the photos.

After we came out from the Underwater World, both of us bought some souvenir there. A very nice Underwater World bookmark. And then we went to see their beach in Sentosa Island. Our friend told us that the whole Sentosa Island were built! It wasn't natural island! Impressive how they build an island. And the sand were imported from Indonesia. On our way leaving the Sentosa Island, we saw the Universal Studio were under constructions! Woohoo.. Next time I come here I wanted to go Universal Studio. However my final target is the Universal Studio in Orlando, because there is The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park!!!! XD

Chinatown

My friend told us that the Hainan Chicken Rice in Chinatown were very nice! So he brought us there to taste the Hainan Chicken Rice!

It didn't disappoint us! The chicken rice were really nice!! Even my girlfriend who didn't like steam chicken because of the "chicken smell" said that it was nice! Haha :P

Esplanade Theater, Merlion Park, and Clarke Quey

Our next station was the Merlion Park. So we went to City Hall MRT station and walk to Merlion Park. Although it was quite far walking from the MRT station to our destination, however, they built an underground tunnel! And the tunnel have air conditional! Impressive, doesn't felt hot at all. The tunnel linked to the Esplanade Theater, or the Durian Theater. XD

Compare to our own KLCC Philharmonic Orchestra, this Esplanade Theater was impressive! Huge, high class, high standard. Wish I can watch an Orchestra performance here one day. ^^

Then the Merlion Park was just 10 minutes walk from the theater. So we walked there and here we are. The Singapore landmark, we saw the mermaid + lion statue.

Beside the statue there were Coffee Bean and Starbucks, so we went to the Coffee Bean and chit chatting awhile there. Their drinks prices of their Coffee Bean were around S$6. Although it was almost same with the prices in Malaysia, but think again, example if we earn RM2000 in Malaysia, we pay for the drinks for RM14, and Singaporean earn S$2000, and they pay for the drinks for S$6!! So their Coffee Bean and Starbucks were actually a very normal cafe and not the 'high class' or 'expensive coffee'. What we can do, all I can say is same people, different fate. **sigh**

And then, right before we departed to our next destination, the riverside Clarke Quey, it was already went into dark and we have a different view of the Merlion Park and Esplanade Theater!!

That is what I called a successful city. Not to mention 2 upcoming Casino opening in Singapore, impressed.

It was about 15 minutes walking distance, we were now here at the riverside Clarke Quey, Singapore night life is here! Although we didn't go into their club, both of us don't like clubbing so much, some more the head charge were expensive (we guessed cause we never asked :P) so we were just take a walk and have a look. It was so lively and there were a lot of 'ang mo' tourist.

Sorry cause I couldn't get a clearer photos because my camera were out of battery! Forgot to recharge the night before this. These were just taken by my iPhone :P
So we went back hotel after that. That was our second day in Singapore, saw more stuff compare to the first day cause wasted time in that Bugis Street Market! Urgh!

Orchard Road

Our third and the last day in Singapore, our flight departed at 6pm, so we estimated we have to reach the airport at 4pm. And so, after we checked out from the hotel at about 11am, we went to shopping in Orchard Road, with the luggage!!! It was suffering, shopping with 2 heavy luggage. Because after we consider for awhile, we really don't have much time go shopping then go back to the hotel to get our luggage. So, we were forced to shop with our luggage :( Really spoiled our shopping mood. Although the shopping mall in Orchard were all high class and impressive buildings!

So we were just shop shop shop then bought some cloths. And starting to depart to the airport at 3pm. So sad that we couldn't really enjoy shopping there :(

The Changi Airport

After we checked in our luggage and get our boarding passes, we still have more than one hour in the airport. So we were walking around and try to find something to eat. On our way to the restaurants section, we pass by a butterfly garden! Yes they have a butterfly garden in the Changi Airport! Never imagined that they have a butterfly garden in the airport! So sweet of them, tourist couldn't get bored in the airport while waiting for their flight!

Then we took our lunch in Ajisan Ramen. And Desing went to Chales & Keith to have a quick look of the high heels she saw back in Orchard Road. But she didn't buy because we didn't really have much time for her to try to shoe properly. Lucky her cause she found the shoe back in Kuala Lumpur Pavillion LOL. Although the price were little bit higher in Malaysia.

Oh one thing I must mention in the airport. I want to put this on a big highlights so that if next time you guys go visit Singapore won't make the same mistakes as we do.

KEEP ALL YOUR RECEIPTS FOR EVERYTHING YOU PAID IN SINGAPORE!!!

EVERYTHING! Like the receipts from the restaurant, the receipts when you shopping in Singapore. You know why? Because, TOURIST CAN CLAIM BACK THE GOVERNMENT TAX IN THE AIRPORT!!!!! It was too late when we found out because we have already checked in our luggage and the receipts were inside our luggage!!!! You know how much you can claim? 7%!!!! That is a lot!! Especially when it's in Sing Dolar!!! SO SAD!! URGHHH!!~~

So, that was all of our Singapore Trip. Really happy and memorable. A success trip for us "beginners" of traveling. Although the time was short, only 3 days 2 nights, but for Singapore I think we have it enough. Because, for us Malaysians shopping in Singapore isn't really that suitable cause of the currency. Some of the things were expensive and some have not much difference in Malaysia. Then what's the point of shopping in Singapore right? China or Bangkok is still the nicest shopping heaven!! My next target would be Bangkok!! But my next trip is Gizwiz company trip to Macau & Hong Kong! :P

There was a little bit accidents happened when we wanted to go back to Penang from Kuala Lumpur. We missed our flight!!!!!! We were 10 minutes late after the counter closed! We have a wrong estimation of time T.T Forced to purchase a new flight tickets that cost me RM344!! The flight we missed were only cost around RM120 T.T A sad ending of our trip :(

Total cost us about RM2000 for 2 person in this 3 days 2 nights trip.

Sherlock Holmes

2010-01-14T23:49:00.006+08:00

**Cautions! Spoiler Ahead!!**

It has been awhile I didn't update my blog. Acting lazy lately, haha. So I think this post won't be long either :P Well, this movie we watched it about 3 weeks ago :P I think now GSC also stop screening already. We went to watch this movie on movie day (Wednesday), before some of the MU Gang (Qian, Haow, and my Des) went back to KL to continue their new semester :(

Talk about Sherlock Holmes, we have our own short movie back to 2 years ago. When we were forced to take liberal art for our course. And so there was a subject called "Short Stories" but not in my course, we took Psychology that semester. It was Zing who needed to shoot for a short movie from one of the short stories they studied. And so, Zing get this story, Sherlock Holmes's short story, The Adventure of Speckled Band. Because of his group has lack of actors and actress, he asked for our help. So Hins become Sherlock Holmes, John become Dr. Watson, and the actresses Desing and Qian, last but not least, Zing as a maid of Sherlock Holmes Mrs Hudson! LOL. Me as a camera man and the editor, director was Zing. Ops, looks like I'm out of topic :P Because of this, we claim that "our movie" is now finally release and so we went to watch it together. Trailer trailer..

As you can see, this movie have 2 amazing actors! Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law! Both of them were great great actor! Especially Jude Law! Love his British accents and British type humors they used all the time. And I love the movie sets. It looks so detailed, so antics and really feels like went back to that old time of London. And also! Hans Zimmer soundtrack!! In case you guys don't know, Hans Zimmer is a famous composer for movie soundtrack. Most of the famous movie where they have great soundtrack were composed by him like The Dark Knight, The Holiday, Pirates of the Carribean where it was so great that I can recognized the music at once and know which movie it's from when I heard the it. In the nutshell I love the whole production of the movie, everything were so detail and fine.

Oh! And one thing I should remind you guys. From the trailer it looks like an action movie more than a detective movie, but actually it's not really what the trailer shows. It really has mind trick and very detail and amazing investigation going on. That's the first impression after I watched the trailer, I feels like it would be another "popcorn movie" until I saw Rotten Tomatoes rated it 68% which is really not bad!

As for the story, I've never read any Sherlock Holmes's book, so I'm not really sure if they follow the originality. I've heard people in forum said that Sherlock Holmes shouldn't be acting like that and his outfit is so not "Holmes". But for us non-readers we were okay with it of course. I always love detective story, like Death Note. Although this movie doesn't have a great mind fight as Death Note, but still I love it. Love how Sherlock Holmes can analyzed a person just from him or her attitude, outfit, behavior and even smell.

I like how the procedure of the investigation where every single details at the beginning of the movie, where some of you never think of the small little thing that mentioned was one of the clue. It was just like JK Rowling style where we never expect, some small little incident, or small little object, could twisted the storyline.

Besides, I love the interactions between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It was funny, and some say gay. Haha. Yeah, both of them were so close until it was a little bit gay. It shows how Holmes jealous when Watson decided to move out and live with his fiancée. And how Holmes lure Watson to join him in his investigation like forgot to bring a gun on purpose on a dangerous mission and forced Watson to follow him. It was actually quite funny to see how they interacted and show how strong their friendship were, yes friendship, not gay because Dr. Watson has a fiancée and Sherlock Holmes has a women he love. LOL

I rated this movie 8/10
It would be greater if they play more mind tricks and more mind fighting thing in the movie. Something like between Kira and L in Death Note XD
In this movie there was a villian which, I forgotten his name :P but I heard Sherlock Holmes book readers said that he is Holmes biggest enemy and there will be a lot of mind trick in the sequel! Hopefully can see the mind fight between them ^^

Avatar

2009-12-21T00:07:00.009+08:00

**Cautions! Spoiler Ahead!!**

AVATAR!!! AVATAR IS HERE!!! Oh my goodness, I've just watched the most amazing movie ever! James Cameron! Director of Titanic, Terminator 2,3! SALUTE! YOU ARE GOD!
This whole movie, is written and directed by James Cameron, took him more than 10 years to complete this movie! Because he was waiting for the technology!
AND! TODAY! I've just watch the most amazing movie ever! Originally I can't watch it in this weekend, however, I've squeezed out the time because I can't wait!!! Too bad the 3D tickets was sold out! But it's okay, because I'm going to watch second time in 3D!!!
For those who haven't watch the movie.. 3D is a must for this movie! MUST! Oh my God, I'm too excited :P
Okay, trailer first!!!

Wahahahah! How should I start the review.. Hmm.. What I can say, is that it's more than a movie! It's not just a movie! I was totally went into Pandora! I was totally into the movie!
James Cameron, how on earth you be able to create this world?
I love Titanic back on 10 years ago. Although I didn't have chance to watch Titanic in cinema, but still..
And now, Avatar is totally brought the movie industries to the next level!
Hey Micheal Bay and Roland Emmerich, this is what I call a movie! This is what the money worth spending on! Not gigantic robot gaying around, not massive explosions, not massive CGI, not overused hot girls, not over-childish-humours.. Storyline is always the backbone of a movie! Creativity will always win!

And for those CGI admirers, explosions admirers, PLEASE WATCH THIS MOVIE! This is what I meant by the combination of storyline and visual effects! Stop letting those meaningless popcorn movies earn the money and destroy the movie industries!

Now let's talk about the story! We have watched enough of Aliens trying to take over planet Earth, it's enough of Aliens trying to destroy Earth! Nowadays, (like in District 9) human, are far more evil than Aliens! Human are far more selfish than Aliens! Now, we watch how human taking over other species's planet!
Pandora, is a wonderful planet, it was so so so so beautiful! James Cameron focus on each and every little details in Pandora. Each steps they walk on the stone, it lights up, each and every little insects and plants that were so beautifully glowing in the dark. The mysterious and unbelievable connection between each species! The whole Pandora, is a huge network!
AND! I love the Na'vi freckles! Their freckles can glow in the dark! XD

Unlike human, the Na'vi loves their planet. The Na'vi worship their planet, worship their "Mother". The Na'vi loves each and every species on their planet, even if they have to hunt for food, they prefer do it fast and clean, without letting the animals suffering.
There is a wonderful connection between the Na'vi and the animals. They "connect" to the horses they ride, they "connect" to the Mountain Banshee (a flying creature) they ride. They even can "connect" themselves with the plant, or they called it as Eyra, their God. Their God Eyra, is like a server of a computer network. Every creatures in Pandora that dies, go back with Eyra. They can hear than ancestors while they "connect" themselves to Eyra. The Na'vi understand that, all energy is borrowed and one day they have to give it back.
Well this is the spirit that we human should have learned!

Meanwhile, the cruel humans and scientist, trying to collect the valuable "stone". The Na'vi home was build on the riches source of the stone. And so, the greedy human was trying to get the stone by asking them to leave their home, move to other place. Or else they will use the gunfire to get what they wanted. As the Na'vi doesn't have great technology or any super weapons against humans.
This movie, again show how cruel and selfishness of human being. Unlike 2012, this movie delivered it in a creative way, in the wonderful Pandora. That is very memorable and convincing.

Jake Sully, who has a mission, to learn the way Na'vi live, to sneak into the Na'vi and gain their trust, to convince them to move away from their home.
Finally, Jake fell in love with the Na'vi, he fell in love with Pandora, with Neytiri (a Na'vi women). And he decided to turn against the greedy and cruel human instead.
While Jake was learning to become one of the Na'vi, James Cameron has successfully brought the audiences into Pandora! Everyone fell in love with Pandora with such beautiful CG..

This movie success, not only because of the great CG, but every little details that director focus on. James successfully introduced planet Pandora which doesn't exist to the audiences. After I watched the movie, I do really hope that Pandora do exists and I wanted to go there to ride the Mountain Banshee XD

In a nutshell, this surely is the MUST WATCH MOVIE! Avatar will be classic!
After watching a few rubbish movies, no doubt, I rate this movie 10/10!!!
First movie that get full marks in my blog :P
Hope James Cameron can make another movie to introduce Pandora in more details! Like describing how beautiful is the planet before human come conquer their land. That would be great!
Besides, this movie also teach us human that we must love our Earth. Save Earth Now! In the movie Jake mentioned that we once have a beautiful planet, and we destroyed it, now we cannot let human destroy others planet again.
Although, it was just one line of dialogue, but the impact was much more stronger than 2012! Impact that remind us to protect our environment.
So please, for those who didn't participate in Earch Hour on 328, SHAME ON YOU! Some people said that turn off electricity for one hour doesn't make any differences. Hey are you stupid or what? The whole point of this campaign is to remind people to save the Earth! Not actually saving Earth in this one hour can make difference!

PS: If you haven't watch the movie, remember to watch it in 3D! If you have already watched the movie in 2D, please watch again in 3D, otherwise you'll regret XD

The Storm Warriors II (風雲 II)

2009-12-19T12:54:00.005+08:00

**Cautions! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Wow!! Finally!! Storm Warrior is back!! The first episode was 11 years ago!! I remember I love this movie so much!! Rewatch it in VCD again and again. Can't help. You know, kids always like to do that. Haha.. But seriously I miss the movie so much. Each characters was unique and the storyline was so creative and memorable. Especially 黎耀祥 as 泥菩萨. I always think he is a very good actor. Especially when I saw him in TVB Journey to the West. Big congratz to him lately for getting best actor in TVB award ceromony. By the way, back to Storm Warriors, I believe there're a lot of people out there waiting to watch this movie. Here is the trailer!!

Interesting right? This time it will be directed by the Pang's brothers. I was looking forward to it when I first heard they'll be the director. As we all well known, the Pang's brothers were known famous at making ghost movies. From their first movie "The Eye" were good, scary and good storyline. Not to mention they help our Malaysian actress Li Xin Jie become an Asia well known famous actress. And the movie before Storm Warriors II by the Pang's brothers was 鬼域 by Li Xin Jie as well. That movie was not bad, and the CG was good too, if compare to other Hong Kong movie CG. And I remembered watching The Eye II by Shu Qi, the CG was nice! Especially when the way of ghost's hair floating. I like it :-P So I have quite high expectation on this movie. However.... IT DISAPPOINT ME A LOT!!!

The CG was really good, it can be declared as the best CG in current Hong Kong movies, or any other Chinese movies nowadays. U try compare with the pirated China Transformers movie and you'll know the difference =.=" But still it's not good enough if compare with Hollywood of course. I've heard that it was film in indoor blue screen for all the scenes in the movie. It makes me feel narrow all the time. It was like not enough space to fit all the actors and actress in there. Unlike the first episode there're still some real outdoor set which have a nice view and large. They should have use the nice space and view in China well instead of depending on CG all the time. It makes me feel tension and uncomfortable. Besides, I heard people said they have copy the way movie 300 filming the war part. I can't comment much on these as I have not watch 300 before.

Talk about the characters. As we all know, the character Cloud is still Aaron Kwok and Ekin as Wind. However, the character Chor Chor has been changed. It used to be Shu Qi who are much more better than the "vase" now in the new movie. She was so "kalefeh" and her existance in this movie was pointless.. Not to mention Ah Sa as Dream in this movie. This is the new character which doesn't show up before in the first movie. But the director didn't explain well who she is.. She just show up suddenly and it looks like she have something with Wind and we don't know what is their relationship all about!!! I heard from my friend who is the comic fans of Storm Warriors only I know that she is his wife! As for the movie are they married or not, I'm not sure. I guess they haven't. =.=" and the villain this time is 绝无神 which, the non-comic-reader audiences don't know who he is at all!! Just know that he was strong and invincible.. And show up suddenly to conquer China by capturing the Emperor. Oh ya, I've almost forgotten, Nicholas Tze was in this movie as well, as the villain's son. Well, what I can say is his existence was pointless as well. I almost forgot that he was in the movie =.="

Then you all know la, after I mention what that villain did. Of course he was trying to take over China and wanted to be a legend in the wushu world and become the Emperor. And then our super hero Cloud and Wind were the only hope. LAME!!! Actually, the true point of this movie was not the villain, he died easily and fast. =.=" The real backbone (a weak backbone this is) of this movie is the "epic" fight between Wind and Cloud. Where wind become evil because wanted to use the power of the evil forces to defeat 绝无神. Actually it was no need, because Cloud learn Kung Fu from 无名 in 3 days and become very powerful as well =.= he invented the new sword strategic. Talk about this, it was funny. About how Cloud sifu try to think a name for this new strategy. He invented a new Chinese word as well, but the director make it as his sifu is uneducated and simply invented a word to foul Cloud. This scene was actually exist in the comic but the director delivered it badly!!! Sweat..

Talk about the "epic" fight, the director really was overused the slow motion! If they remove all the slow motion I think the movie duration will be shorten about 30 minutes =.=" Even when Ah Sa got punch into the face they made it slow motion. I'm really speechless.. And the fight between Cloud and Wind were dragged so long! It was like an endless fight and it makes me feels sleepy! And the two famous sword, 绝世好剑 and 雪饮狂刀, although they appear a lot, however they have lose the power back there in episode one! They were used as like a normal sword only! Not to mention Cloud's exclusive technique 麒麟臂 wasn't used at all! If I haven't watch back the first movie I can't remember he changed his arm before into this powerful arm. And Cloud's technique that control water and attack enemies with water were appeared only ONCE in the movie, which looks like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix where Dumbledore used the giant water ball to attack Voldemort =.="
AND! They've also copy Spiderman! There was a scene where Cloud use something like spiderweb to tied up the bad guy =.="

Last but not least, the storyline of this movie is already so weak, but their dialogue were weaker! All the dialogue were so simple and it was like kids dialogue! Especially Chor Chor and Dream these two "flower vase". They were like 风大哥 and 云大哥 ALL THE TIME! Makes me frustrated and wanted to slap them.

I rate this movie 4/10 for great CG.
The CG was really the best among Hong Kong movie industries. However, the storyline were so weak, and the directors delivered the story badly. Disappointed.
Looks like I better watch back the first episode instead to remind me my passion towards Storm Warriors :(

Quote from the first episode to describe this movie:

成也風雲, 敗也風雲

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

2009-12-06T00:45:00.009+08:00

**Cautions! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Time for another movie review! This time is movie that everybody talking about - The Twilight Saga: New Moon. What I can say about this movie is, the advertising done extremely well, everybody is talking about it, especially Fly FM. They have been discussing about this movie for over a week! Some said nice, but most of the listeners and DJ said that it's bad!! Well, as for me, it's not good. Not until sucks but still, below my expectation. Why? Well as my tradition in this blog you might have already know, I'll post the trailer first... :P

As some of you might have heard in Fly FM, the Rush Hour DJ criticize this movie badly! Especially the actress Kristen Stewart as Bella, was totally sucks! They even came out with a contest called "Can you be a better Bella?" that require listeners to call in and act as Bella because they think EVERYONE can be a better Bella. Not to mention the bad storyline of the movie itself!

In the first movie, Twilight, I heard that it was a low budget movie as they never expect this movie to sell good when it hit on the Cinema. Obviously, this movie was popular was just because of Edward, not Robert Pattinson, but Edward. Do you guys think that Robert Pattinson really is that SO good looking? I don't think so, there are more good looking celebrities compare to him. As I heard it from my friend, the author of the Twilight novel describe Edward is the most perfect man in the world that makes girls so crazy about this novel. After I've watched the first movie, it was actually so so, however it was so popular, so I reckon the novel must be nicer and considering to buy the book for read. Luckily, one of my Harry Potter novel's fan friend urge and warn me so seriously that the book were totally "for girls only" and told me that the book were popular just because of Edward. Well I think she is right.

As the new moon came out, what I've heard from people discussing, were just Edward and Jacob good looking. About how Jacob have such great and beautiful body shape this and that. I've even saw my friend wrote in Facebook "why so many people like to watch half naked guy running in the big screen?!". Those who don't crazy about Edward and Jacob said that the movie were boring, that they always talk talk talk and there were less fighting scenes or visual effects stuff. Well that I'll ignore as I'm not the "visual audiences". Come on, this is a romance movie, what do you expect? Werewolves fighting Vampires for 2 hours?

So what do I expect from this movie? I was actually expecting some touching or memorable romance story instead of the fighting scenes. However, it really disappoint me so much. The love story between Edward and Bella, 0% touching, the single love from Jacob towards Bella, 0% touching. One of the reason, is because of Bella were so bad in acting! She looks like heart attack when she were crying in the forest!! Throughout the whole movie, while Edward leaving Bella behind, there were no one shed of tears from her. And Bella acting selfish about how she treat Jacob as a spare tire, I can't feel the bad feeling towards Jacob at all. What I see from this movie, were actually just SELLING HALF NAKED GUYS REALLY!!

Besides, the storyline itself were just sucks! A vampire leaving a human he love because he though that was the best way to protect her, and the girl acting stupid and being reckless just wanted to see the vampire, and when she were disappointed she turn to the werewolves instead, and then she turn back to the vampire when she knows the vampire was in danger. Lame and pointless =.=" Not to mention when Edward though that Bella was dead, he almost exposed himself just want the vampire committee (I don't know exactly what the committee were =.=") to kill him. What a misleading act to teach the youngsters! And it was totally pointless!! When you heard some story like that, about how a guy can't live without a girl he loved, it was suppose to be touching, but honestly, totally 0% touching.. I felt nothing at all. LAME!!!

The only thing I can give compliment to this movie is they didn't affect by the movie trend nowadays were people were just looking for visual effects, CGI, and massive explosions. That's the only good thing that I can think of this movie =.="

I rate this movie 4/10
No idea how this kind of story can get best selling novel.. My younger sister is one of the fan =.="

2012

2009-11-15T02:06:00.017+08:00

Cautions! Spoiler Ahead!!

It's movie review again.. Haven't write one in 2 months. I've already skipped few movies like, Surrogate and Michael Jackson's This Is It.. :P Been busy for last 2 months. Today, movie that everyone were waiting for - 2012

I've got 2 free movie tickets from OCBC Bank for this movie. My dad gave it to me as he can't make it for Saturday afternoon movie. OCBC Bank has taken the hall 10 in GSC Gurney Plaza for their clients, and with free popcorn and drinks for each person ^^

Well, another dooms day movie, end of the world. Getting bored with dooms day movie, so if this one didn't do anything epic it's gonna be a failure. Luckily, it was epic. As you can see from the trailer, great and impressive CGI effects. However it was still a popcorn movie.

What do I normally expect from a dooms day film? Actually, from the trailer, I didn't expect much. Knew that it would be a popcorn movie, so the thing I expect was actually simple, seeing many people run for their lives and get killed, earn audiences sympathy and make people feels sad and think. At least send a message to audiences that we must love our earth, appreciate what we have now and appreciate our loves one. It was actually a very common facts that we can see in a dooms day film, but not this one. All I get from this movie were just temporary entertained by the visual effects and temporary excitement.

2012 were mostly focus on how the world destroyed. The world I mean doesn't mean any living creature, but the buildings, and the land. Mostly what you can see were buildings and earth collapse. Believe it or not, you can't see much human dead body from this movie. They were too focus on how the main characters run for their life and makes me feels that, there were not much people get killed although the whole United State were destroyed. :P

Other than that, the humanity part, they were focus on how ugly human can be when they were tried to survive. Government selling tickets to survive for those rich person to get on to the arc. However, if you really wanna see how ugly human can be, you better watch District 9 instead of this one. This movie were actually using old storyboard and old techniques, which usually we can guess what will be happened next. As you know, most of the time when came to the end of the world sure they'll be politicians selfishness, a bad guy to create climax bla bla bla.. Boring..

Besides, the movie doesn't really have any logic. Not because of the way how earth doomed, but because of the main character were far too lucky! Each time he were just seconds from being killed, it was like the earth waiting him to run before it collapsed. I know these can create climax and make audiences felt nervous, however.. not logic lor.. And if every movies using same technique to create the exciting scenes, wouldn't you feel bored and expectable? And I must give compliment on this, the main character, Jackson, really good in running, his speed of running can beat the cracking earth, must nominee him to Olympics sure get Champion. Even a guy that only attend for few weeks pilot lesson can drive the plane SO WELL! That they manage to escape from a collapsing building.. Not to mention a plane can took off in a such short distance track! For those who watched the movie, you know what I mean right? **sigh**

In a nutshell, 2012, a movie that everybody were waiting for, has disappoint a lot of people. Yes, it was quite entertaining, however, it was not a memorable movie that inspire the audiences.
The director doesn't use the Mayan prophecy about 2012 well as many people were now paying attention to it. This prophecy were just touch and go in the movie =.=" This cause that the movie wasn't convincing at all.

If you just want to seek for visual effects, you can go for it, otherwise, better save your money, this movie if it wasn't watched on big screen it was nothing.
Therefore, I rate this movie 5/10 for the temporary entertained and temporary excitement and awesome CGI..

I hereby attached link to the Mayan Prophecy about the REAL 2012 prophecy..

PS: I've get the OST of this film from you-know-where, and surprisingly found Adam Lambert singing the theme song, Time For Miracles.. Great song, enjoy ^^

Gizwiz Halloween Party

2009-10-31T12:56:00.024+08:00

It was Halloween!!! I've never attend any Halloween Party before this. I've always wanted to do something on Halloween! Attending a costume party.. Guess what I would be if I can choose what costume to wear on Halloween! Some of you might have already know! YES! CORRECT!! Lord Voldemort!! The Dark Lord! He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named! However, too bad this time I can't choose what I want to be! :(

We prepared this party 3 weeks ahead. Before Kenneth and Esther left, they have to trace rats, bats and spiders, print out from the computer, and cut out all the rats, bats and spiders. Then Jasmine and Andrew went to buy some spiderweb, and small Halloween plastic pumpkin, and some materials for us to decorate. Me and Ding Ren's job was less difficult. Doesn't need much designing skill. We have to make a huge spider to hang at the ceiling, make ghost with some cloths and balloons, hanging some stuff here and there. My expertise was hanging spiderweb. I can make a nice and real spiderweb! This were the outcome!

Of course, not to mention, our decoration supervisor, Ms Tee, her responsibility was think and design the main entrance, which was the most important because that was the first impression for our guests. So, this was her sketch..

And Ding Ren do the magic!!

Tada!! Impressive huh?! Hardly imagine, our programmer Ding Ren have a nice handcraft, cut and join all the houses with a few pieces of cardboards (branded cardboard bought by Jasmine, must be expensive because it were really thick).

When the lights off, and add some lighting behind the castle.. Spooky huh~~

Besides, we have a runway stage! For a fashion show.. Kenneth getting excited when he heard this, he love to imitate Project Runway..
So, with this deco, this time is going to be a big party huh! We've invited about 20 guests. And what are we going to play this time?

This time (Jasmine's plan), there was a costume competition. Previously all our parties were just wii tournament, which our Jasmine think it wasn't fair because most of the time girls lose cause they were not that good in console game, and because she said we were "pakat" at the Moon Moon Celebration and cause her lose the game and have to wear a weird costume (made by herself) and distributing moon cake along Gurney Drive! And so, this party was also known as "Gizwiz Halloween Party - Revenge of the Queen"!!! Scare huh? So what was her revenge plan? Yes, this time was her field! Design!! Costume design!! Argh! Nightmares for me and Ding Ren cause we were both programmers! Not to mention Zing round a big round to curse me!

Quote:
"Zing Chuang
Keng~ but even u last minute pun sure will not lose lah....lol...other ppl without design exp lagi teruk
October 27 at 12:05am"

So what's the punishment this time? Distributing gifts at Upper Penang Road, WITH THE LOSER COSTUME! BOTH THE MODEL AND DESIGNER!

Rules:
Each of us have to draw and see who will be our model, and draw for what you gonna dress up your model, with only the materials provided, we were not allowed to bring our own materials, and we were only allowed to complete our costume in the office.
My model, was Jasmine! And I'm suppose to dress her up as an Axe Man!

TOO BAD!! My designer, Esther, HAVE A VERY BAD LUCK! BECAUSE, SHE HAVE TO DRESS ME UP!! AS A SEXY PRINCESS!!! Thundershock T.T I couldn't accept this, IF (touch wood) I lose, I HAVE TO GO TO UPPER PENANG ROAD AS A SEXY PRINCESS!! Oh my god, took me a week to accept the reality. I can dress up as whatever costume, ghost, Vampire, Dracula, Lord Voldemort, Werewolves, ANYTHING! But not a "ah kua" T.T This is really serious because it will affect my dignity T.T I even have insomnia 2 nights before the party.

And then, there was a wii tournament a week before the party, the highest mark get to choose from the limited materials provided, which included MONEY! There were 3 RM10 waited to be picked. Fortunately, I won the wii competition, first place, and so I picked a RM10, and an axe for my Axe Women, Jasmine. And so the competition begun, we have a week to prepare and make the costume.
With that RM10, I bought brown color cloths 2.5 meter for the top, black color cloth 1 meter for the mask, a black rubber glove, and I still have RM3.50 left..

and so this was the first stage of my costume..

Boring huh!! I was freak out!! WORRIED!! And thanks for Andrew and Jasmine on giving me advice what I should add on to make it looks interesting, plus with my creativity.. I bought more materials with the RM3.50, yellow gold glass paper, shinning powder, and shinning moon and stars..

FINALLY!! The big day is here.. 30th October 2009.. Guests started to arrive around 7pm, and all the models were starting to make up while the guests enjoying the food!!

Me.. T.T

And then, the show begun!! May Yen as the host.. Now all our guests were the judges, they have to give marks base on the costume, runway music, and performances.. Here are our contestants!!

Contestant No. 1
Model: Kenneth
Designer: Ding Ren
Role: Scary Clown

Contestant No. 2
Model: Apple
Designer: Etee
Role: Puppet

Contestant No. 3
Model: Etee
Designer: Jasmine
Role: Big Boobs Bunny Girl

Contestant No. 4
Model: Jasmine
Designer: Chuah FT
Role: Axe Women

Contestant No. 5
Model: Ding Ren
Designer: Apple
Role: Evil Witch

Contestant No. 6
Model: Esther
Designer: Andrew
Role: Scary Ship Man

Contestant No. 7
Model: Andrew
Designer: Kenneth
Role: God of Death

Contestant No. 8
Model: Chuah FT
Designer: Esther
Role: Sexy Princess

And now.. After the marks were calculated.. We have 2 winners! So they'll have to PK!! And the guests will cheer for the real winner!! The 2 winners are.......
**drum roll**

CONTESTANT NO. 5!!!
Model: Ding Ren
Designer: Apple

CONTESTANT NO. 7!!!
Model: Andrew
Designer: Kenneth

And after the judges cheers...
The REAL winner..
IS...

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CONTESTANT NO. 5!!!
Model: Ding Ren
Designer: Apple
Prize: RM100 CASH

And now..
The time that everyone were waiting for..
Who, will be the loser..
Who, will be walking around at Upper Penang Road with their costume..

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CONTESTANT NO. 2!!!
Model: Apple
Designer: Etee

Poor Apple, she was the winner, AND the loser.. LOL

Group photo..

And now.. TIME FOR PUNISHMENT!! Andrew were so kind.. Accompany them walking around Upper Penang Road, and Esther accompany them with the make up only.. LOL

Etee enjoying herself..

Group photo..

--The End--

Gizwiz Studio Bali Trip - The Food

2009-10-10T21:07:00.019+08:00

Finally, I came to the last post of the Bali trip. It was more than a month since I came back from Bali and I have no time to blog since then. Because of working overtime, because of accompany my girlfriend who came back to Penang for her industrial training for 3 months and etc etc. Guess most of you guys have already cold down and getting less interested about our trip, even me myself has forgotten some of the things that happened :P

Okay, the food in Bali was actually so so. Not as nice as Penang's food. Especially for the Balinese food it was so so. Disappointed. But for the seafood it was FABULOUS!! I'll introduce one by one, some which weren't nice I won't blog about it anymore.

Onde Onde

This was our first restaurant we step into on the first day we reach Bali. It was nearby our hotel (Holiday Inn Resort). We took Taxi there and ask the Taxi driver to bring us to somewhere we can eat. Most of the taxi driver likes to bring us to seafood restaurant which were very expensive, don't know why.. =.=" And so when we walk along the street we found this quite economic and nice ambiances restaurant - Onde Onde

They served the Balinese food, as for us defined as, the Malay food. Which included some Nasi Lemak alike rice, Nasi Goreng and etc etc. Before the food were served we took a lot of photos here, I wonder if the waiters there thought that we were 'shua pa kao' or not :P

This candy alike things, sorry I've forgot the name :P, it was very nice..

My Nasi Goreng Nanas, tasted not bad.. Still can be consider as nice..

Sorry I can't remember what's the name of the other food.. paiseh.. just check out the photos la! :P

Flap Jacks

On the next day, we decided to do some shopping at Kuta! Before that, we ate our lunch at the Flap Jacks. I'm not sure whether this restaurant is only available in Bali or it's a franchise restaurant. However we decided to give it a try as the ambiances was not bad :P

For the drinks, I've ordered this White Ice Coffee and Nuts. Tasted really really nice!! Especially the nuts! The taste of white coffee mixed with the nuts were perfect!

Ding Ren's latte..

Etee's orange juice..

As for the food, I've ordered spaghetti and it tasted really really nice!! I love it so much. Cheesy and salty! But won't over cheesy or over salty. However my colleagues felt that it was too salty and too greasy. So in the end she can't finish her spaghetti and me and Ding Ren help her clean it up!!

Ding Ren's omelet (if I'm not mistaken :P).. Tasted so so.. My spaghetti was nicer :P

Bali Colada

We have our dinner here at Bali's Discovery Shopping Mall. The mall was build by the beach. We took our dinner here while we were walking to Hard Rock Cafe. This was actually the worst we have eaten in Bali.

Balinese food, aka Malay food, like Nasi Goreng this and that. Tasted so so so normal and some don't have any other taste except spicy! All I can tasted was spicy!! No more! Jasmine ate so little there and put the food aside and stop eating. Terrible..

My don't know Nasi whatsoever.. Tasteless except spicy..

Only Ding Ren's beef was not bad.. the others.. speechless..

Jimbaran Bay

This was the nicest food we ate throughout our 5 days trip in Bali!! Nicest, and expensivest! Haha.. Thankfully, it was a treat from company, THANK YOU GIZWIZ! This was also the first time I tasted lobster in my life! :P

Jimbaran Bay, is a famous place in Bali for seafood! There were hundreds of seafood restaurant along the beach! Our tour guide brought us here around 5-6pm, so that we can enjoy the sunset while having our dinner! Before we arrived, our tour guide told us that this place was bomb before too!! @.@ But still we couldn't miss out this place isn't it? :P Okay, there were hundreds of restaurant, how do we choose which one to walk in? The prices for all the restaurants were same, so no chance choosing the cheapest. This one, sorry I have no idea what's the name, were recommended by our tour guide, that he thinks that they have the most fresh seafood compare to the others. However, there were not much customers in this restaurant compare with others! I wonder if we were cheated and the owner of the restaurant pay our tour guide to bring us here. Luckily, the food were still very satisfying! Especially the lobster and Satay!! YUMMY!!

The coconut, nothing special about this.. :P

The soup.. tasted so so..

The prawns!! Very nice!!

The lobster!! Sipek nice!!

The red snapper!! Super nice!!

The crabs!! Also very nice!!

The best satay ever!! Don't mention Kajang satay it was nothing compare to this!!

Guess how much we ate!! RM600

Thanks to Gizwiz again! For this most expensive meal in my life! Haha! Next time if I come back here I wonder if I have the wealth to eat all these!!

In a nutshell, This company trip was really really really nice! We all enjoy it very much! Relationship between colleagues also getting better. Definitely have build up a nice and friendly working environment! Looking forward to the next company trip! Wonder where it would be XD

--The End--

Gizwiz Studio Bali Trip - Places We Went

2009-10-07T00:03:00.007+08:00

For the first day, we walk around the town area at Kuta without any tour guide. It wasn't really a good idea as we didn't know any places there and walk blindly. Wasted a lot of time actually. The first impression Bali gave me, was actually quite a 'kampung' place. Because their road was small, many motorcyclist of the locals doesn't wear helmet while they were driving. But there was a big contrast. Although the road was small and old, as we walked along the road we saw many many nice ambiances restaurants and hotels. And they were quite expensive.

Kuta Beach

After some blind walking and shopping (wasn't really nice place to shop!), we came to the Kuta Beach. My jaws drop when I saw the beach. So many 'ang mor' there sunbathing, swimming and surfing. It was like in the movie where you saw many people walking around and playing around at the beach. Although Penang have a lot of beach but I never saw that kind of scene before. Not to mention that I never see people surf before as it doesn't exist in Malaysia!! The sun was shine and hot! But once we get into the sea, it was cold! So comfortable playing water there. The waves are so pretty and big. Not as big as tsunami of course, just big enough to surf. There was something funny about the sea. There were quite a distance of the sea where the water were very shallow, just as high as my ankle only. So it wasn't really dangerous if you surf there. However, we don't have enough time to surf either :(

Besides, we saw many Japanese there too. There was a bunch of gorgeous Japanese girls. They were drawing a temporary tatoo on their chest!! The Balinese tatoo artist must be excited while he was drawing on her chest! Just on top of their boobs! Oh my God.. They were really really pretty. All of us standing there watching for quite a few minutes, and sorry I didn't take any photo of theirs :P

Then we decided to walk around Kuta and found this branded street where they have all the branded beach wear outlets like Billabong, Quick Silver, Roxy and etc. We went to the Billabong Factory Outlet where they have discount up to 75%!! But we were disappointed as the design wasn't nice. Then we went to another factory outlet where they have all the branded products like Quick Silver and Roxy. Which was really cheap! I bought a Quick Silver beach pant with RM108 and a Roxy t-shirt with RM50+. Poor Andrew couldn't join us for these. He arrived at Bali a day later than us. And so he joined us after our shopping.

Hard Rock Bali

We walked to Hard Rock from our hotel. Took us about 10 to 20 minutes.
I've heard of this for a very long time but never been one before. Heard my colleagues said that Hard Rock just open in Penang! Will find a day to go there and see the differences! In Bali's Hard Rock there were no head charge. We just order a cup of Heineken for each person and we were allowed to go in. I don't know about the Penang's branch, high possibility we have to pay head charge for that =.=" Dam expensive, not worth it. Plus I can't drink. It took me ages to finish a cup of Heineken, in the end Ding Ren finish it up for me because when we were leaving I still haven't finish mine :P

However, I enjoy it very much as they have a stage and live band performing Rock songs there! It was like a concert! Just there weren't much people there. Hard to heat up with such numbers of customers @.@ Then we visited the Rock Shop, where they sell all Hard Rock products like t-shirt, caps, bears, key chain, lighter and many more. Saw a nice t-shirt that cost about RM100+ and our Ding Ren bought it ;)
A good thing stop by Hard Rock, there was FREE WIFI!! HURRAY! Not easy to find free wifi hotspot in Bali! Our 5 stars hotel charge $0.10 USD per minute!! Gosh..

On the next day, we went to swim at Holiday Inn's swimming pool because we were going to check out already. The pool was nice, a relaxing-type nice, not the fun-type nice. Because there was a bar in the middle of the pool. Some 'ang mor' sunbathing there and some sleep and relax themselves by the pool.

After we check out, we have a tour guide took us around Bali Island for one day and a half starting on our third day of our trip, which was extremely not enough! Many places we went were so nice and I can't get enough of it!

Cultural Park

Our first stop was this Cultural Park. This place was amazing. Again, they have nice view and decorations. Our researcher, Ding Ren, saw the unfinish hand of their God on the net before. This place really was a nice place for photo shooting!! :P

We never really know the history of this place, because we were not interested :P

Uluwatu

This was the most amazing place ever! The whole Bali trip, this place was incredible!! The view.. Gosh.. Hardly describe with words! The sea, the sky, the mountain, the cliff, the sea wave was blue in color. You can't amazed by the photos, you have to see it with your own eyes.

Before we came here, our tour guide told us that there were monkeys there and the monkeys were all aggressive! He told us not to wear any glasses, ear rings or any other things that will attract the monkeys because they'll come snatch your stuff! Truely, we saw a Japanese tourist camera were snatched by the monkey!! It was terrible..

Uluwatu Beach

Not far from the Uluwatu cliff, we stop by Uluwatu Beach for 30 minutes. The beach was short, but many 'ang mor' sunbathing and surfing again. Saw a lot of handsome guys and pretty girls! Satisfied both guys and girls.. LOL

Tirta Empul Water Temple

We went to this place first thing on the next day in the morning. Nothing special about this temple. I never really fancies "temple tour" :P Well except for the pretty lake. There was a pretty lake there where it was the farmers source of water and so they build this temple here to worship the God and the lake. There was water coming out from the bottom of the lake. It was pretty..

Bali Coffee Farm

Our next stop was this coffee farm. I didn't know that Bali is famous with coffee until I went there :P First time saw original fruit-type coffee bean, it was red instead of dark chocolate. I know that it only turns into dark chocolate after it was fried but then I didn't know the original color la. Other than that, it was my first time saw the original look of vanilla plant too. It was dark chocolate instead of white! A little bit curious how come the color was so different :P

We have free coffee to drink there. There were coco which was very nice and tasted chocolate. Ginger tea which, tasted very ginger, I don't like it but then they said it's good for "Ng Ng" as I didn't have output for 3 days already, so I drank some, result was so so, have output but very tiny and less in quantity :P Then there was my favorite of all, Ginseng Coffee. It tasted really really nice! And we can't found Ginseng Coffee back in Malaysia!

Besides, there was also a special expensive coffee, called Musang-shit-coffee lolz.. It was a shit of an animal called Musang, the animal was kind of look like squirrel. It only ate high quality coffee bean and then poo it back out. So, they take the poo (ewww) and process it and make it into a coffee. The guy told us the coffee is like 'Tongkat Ali' and good for MAN!! Haha.. But this coffee wasn't free, have to pay for it, $6 USD per cup. So 6 of us share 1 cup. I drank only a little bit cause I don't like it. Tasted weird and bitter.

As people say, there was no free lunch in this world. After you drink the free coffee, now they bring you to their shop to buy their coffee. Aihz.. Spend a lot of money here cause I like the Ginseng Coffee a lot. Then bought some souvenir here, a special gift pack of coffee which contain the coco, ginger tea and ginseng coffee. Bought it for my relatives.

Batur Volcano

Our next stop was this incredible Batur volcano! I tell you, the view was really really really incredible!!! What you see from the photo above, it was nothing, nothing can compare with seeing with your own eyes!! It was like a huge poster in front of you and it was so brilliantly pretty until it was too perfect to be true!

With this incredible view, people sure have tourist business to do here. They build a restaurant there, facing the incredible view. So comfortable. We were suppose to have our lunch there, but then we ate too much from our hotel buffet so we were just order some drinks and enjoy the view..

Rice Terraces

Doesn't get to stop here and enjoy the view for long. They have this multistory rice terraces! It was pretty. Before I came to Bali I always wished to take a photo in the rice terraces which the rice are ready to harvest in gold-yellow color and tall. It would make a wonderful pictures. Too bad the season we went there just pass the harvest season. Most of the padi field we saw were just normal green just like the one in Malaysia :(

Ubud Art Market

Our last stop of the tour was this Ubud Art Market! For the girls, they were so excited because they can shopping at last!! However we only have one hour here as we have to rush back to our resort and catch the free shuttle van to the pub street after this. There were so so many nice things to see and buy! However, the fun of shopping here was not shopping but is to bargain the price with the locals =.=" I feel like I was in China, where you have to bargain at least 50% of the price they give you. It was quite tired. If you have no interest in that item U MUST NOT ASK FOR THE PRICE!! Otherwise they'll stick on you and keep on narrow down the prices! Feel so annoying. However I still bought a lot of souvenir here. For those who didn't get my souvenir sorry la har! Can't afford so many souvenirs :P

Legian Pub Street

Our last night in Bali, we went to the Legian Pub Street, where few years ago a bomb case happened here. We were little bit scare when we going there. Didn't stay for long, just walk around and have a look that's all.

There was an interesting story while we getting to Legian. The free shuttle van was actually stop us at Seminyak, which we were told that from Seminyak to Legian was actually walking distance. When we tried to walk to Legian, I asked directions from a local and he point us the wrong way!! The more we walk the darker the alley become! Terrified, we asked directions from a security guard and he told us we went for the wrong way! So they help us to catch a taxi and we took taxi to Legian instead. IT WAS FAR!! Oh my god, can't believed we plan to walk there.

Also, our dinner that night at Seminyak, guess what, mee cup at a high class convenience store! Why? Because they have free wifi so that I can upload photos to Facebook! :P

Below is the memorial stone for those who sacrifice in the bomb. No Malaysian found. Mostly Australian. Rest in peace~~

Tanah Lot Temple

On the next day, we forced to woke up 5am in the morning because we have our final stop at Bali which was the Tanah Lot Temple just located beside of our resort. The purpose we choose this resort was actually because of this temple because we might not have the chance to take a close look when there's high tide. However we still unable to go inside the temple :( sad..

On our way walking to the seaside, we saw this huge bat!! It was really huge and ugly! Never saw a bat this close before. It wasn't tide up there but still it won't fly away. What a lazy bat. The wings really looks like Batman's :P

It was really a waste that we didn't have time to enjoy spa and massage!! REGRET!! I will come back Bali one day.. Stay at 5 stars hotel and do spa there!!

to be continue...

Gizwiz Studio Bali Trip - The Hotel

2009-09-21T02:00:00.022+08:00

Wahahaha!! Sorry for the late post.. Been kind of lazy after I get my iPhone 3GS!! Spend more time on my iPhone nowadays :P
I know some of you already waited for very long time especially Apple, and Etee, they said that they're going to link from their blog to mine because they're lazy to blog =.="

It was 14th September 2009, that was the Bali Day!! After one month plus I worked in Gizwiz, I get to join their trip to the Bali Island for five days!! Extremely excited!! YoHoo! We have six person traveling together. On 14th Septemper 8am, we gather at Penang airport and took flight to Kuala Lumpur LCCT airport. While we were checking in at LCCT airport, we realise that Andrew's passport was expired!!! We didn't know that the passport was not usable 6 months before it due! Thundershock.. Andrew unable to join us to Bali at the first day. He was forced to enjoy his Bali-Peng at Seremban, Kuala Lumpur and renew his passport there. Then join us on the next day. Poor thing.. Think positively, this could became a memorable trip for Andrew :P Anyway, five of us manage to get on the flight and we were heading to BALI!!

Air Asia services was okay. However, it was little bit scary for me because we were taking long distance flight which took 4 hours before arrived at Bali, but the plane they used was small plane which were same as internal flight in Malaysia! I thought they have a bigger and more stable plane for long distance flight =.=" But still, we arrived safely at Bali at around 8pm. Denpasar airport was small and old. They already have many traditional decorations at the airport but Penang airport actually prettier than theirs. We took some tourist leaflets at the airport..

The one thing that we couldn't get use to at Bali was their currency value!! I took my RM1000 to change into Rupiah and I got 2.8 millions!! Before I actually saw the money I thought I have to travel with those money in a suitcase like in the movie with all cash keeping neatly inside :P We became millionaire at Bali! When we decided to took taxi from the airport to our hotel, we paid Rp90,000 (RM32.29) for two cabs. I was shocked at first because I thought it was expensive, after I convert into Ringgit Malaysia with my new iPhone 3GS applications (not trying to show off please don't be sensitive :P) then it was actually quite cheap.

Hotel

During this five days trip, we stayed at two hotels. Holiday Inn Resort located at Kuta, and Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort located at Tanah Lot. Both were 5 stars hotel!! We stay at Holiday Inn Resort for the first 2 nights and then changed to Le Meridien for the next following nights.

Holiday Inn Resort

We were impressed by their services when we first arrived Holiday Inn Resort. The bellboy brought us a wet tower, and a glass of lemon juice at the lobby while we were checking in. And the interior of the hotel... picture tells million words..

The balcony of our room were so so so comfortable, there was a nice comfortable sofa at the balcony, although our room doesn't have great view, but still, the sofa was like a magic sofa, once you lye on it you doesn't want to do anything except SLEEP on it!!

Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort

Our second hotel was Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort. This hotel was HUGE!! There was a distance between the guard house and the lobby! Our driver told us, the first them he went there he got lost and he can't found the lobby! It was really huge as they have golf field in the resort! This hotel have different style compare to Holiday Inn. Holiday Inn use card key for the room and this hotel, was more tradition because they used key, and their decoration was more classic too! However, the view, was INCREDIBLE! It was huge!! There was a louche bar where a perfect singer singing oldish songs and Jazz songs during the night, they have snooker, wii, and indoor golf to play. So comfortable spend time in this hotel. I have a video for this..

Photos of Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort..

Too bad we don't have enough time to enjoy all their facilities. Our driver told us we need at least a day to enjoy all the facilities in the resort. I WILL COME BACK HERE NEXT TIME!!

However this hotel was far away from the town area, took us about 45 minutes to get back here. But it was definitely worth it! When we came back to the hotel by taxi, the taxi driver took us to a dark alley and he told us that place was mysterious! By meaning, GHOST! Haha, Jasmine was freak out when she heard that. It cost us Rp160,000 and when I wanted to pay him, I was confused with Rp100,000 and Rp10,000 because both were red in color! So the driver asked me "what do you mean?" with the unhappy tone. So embarrassing and I have to explain that I can't get use to Rupiah yet :P

to be continue... Next post - Places we went!

Kung Fu Cyborg (机器侠)

2009-08-31T21:35:00.014+08:00

I still can't believe I watched this movie, and I can't believe I'm reviewing this movie =.=" Why on earth I went to watch this movie? Have a gathering with my ex-classmates and since there was no other activities, we were forced to watch movie. I wanted to watch Orphan, however, due to God know what happen, GSC Queensbay and Gurney doesn't have this movie available. See the poster? Looks familiar? Check this out..

Don't feel like talk much, watch the trailer first..

See? Pirated Transformers? What the hell =.=" Why China have so many pirated stuff? Movie also they have pirated? Did Dreamworks know about this? Can't they sue them? No idea.. Other than pirated Transformers, they also copy some element from Power Rangers. Saw the chinese zombie huge robot from the trailer? There were actually 2 people sitting inside his eyes controlling the robot. Is this the morphin time?? And what's wrong with Alex Fong's hair? Copy Elvis?

Let's talk about the cast. They have really good cast! Wu Jun, Shun Li, Wu Jing, Zheng Zhi Wei, all are good acting actors and actress! Why on earth did they take this job? Is Hong Kong movie industry (who knows Hong Kong or China?) heading to an end until they made this kind of movie? What is this actually? Pirated Transformers or Pirated Scary Movie series? Where is our childhood memories Hong Kong style movies? Is this dropping phenomena cause by Chinese audiences who bought pirated DVD and illegal download or cause by Hong Kong movie industry lack of potential directors? **sigh**

This movie, visual effects and CGI sucks. We don't compare it with Hollywood's or west countries technologies, just compare it with other Hong Kong movie 鬼蜮 by Pang's brothers, it sucks!! When there were robots, there were no humans, when there were humans, there were no robots. They can't make both appear simultaneously. So, the selling point of this movie, visual effects and CGI, fail. Heard they invested a lot to do the CG, but I can't see their effort at all =.="

Storyline? Started okay, with the theme "If God made human, human made robots, why can't robots doubt human, as human doubt God?". Sound familiar? Remember i-Robot from Will Smith? Okay, that was fine. However, it was pointless, seriously pointless, so I'll skip this part. Appearance of Wu Jing was pointless. What a waste!

Another line of the story was love story between Alex Fong and Shun Li. It started well, as their love story was quite romantic. And then the robot Alex Fong realized robot is not suppose to fall in love with human so this was actually another no happy ending love story. If Alex Fong start the relationship with Shun Li there was a program to destroy him. When I started to focus on their love story and started to think "hmm, this might better than Transformers 2!", it disappointed me. Because in the end when he decided to fight for his freedom, the government sent a bunch of robots army, there was one robot who looks like Devastator from Transformers 2, he gave up because his policeman friend, persuade him to stop fighting and surrender, so that big huge pirated Devastator was no chance to use =.=" So he decided to say "I love you" to that girl and self-destroyed by his own anti-love program. It wasn't touched as the foundation of their love story was not strong enough.

Jokes. Lame jokes, not funny at all jokes. Again the appearance of Ronald Cheng was pointless. His character was the most lame and not funny. Appearance of 罗家英 was pointless too when he first appear in the movie, his theme song from Steven Chow's "Journey to the West" which sounded like "Only You~~ Can take me 取西经" was so lame and I can't laugh but I sweat =.="

The only thing that I can give compliment in this movie was actress Shun Li. Good acting skill and pretty. Although the love story foundation wasn't good, but when Alex Fong died, her acting was good when she cried. Still, it was a waste for her in this movie as it can't let her unleash or show her skills perfectly.

I rated this movie 3/10
For Shun Li and the not so well love story. Others... I'm speechless.. disappointed with Hong Kong movie industry.

District 9

2009-08-28T01:20:00.021+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Finally! I watched this movie! It has been awhile that I wanted to watch this movie because the rating is very high in Rotten Tomatoes which is 89%. Other than that, I heard people said that this movie used different shooting skill which was like Cloverfield if you guys remember.

I love Cleverfield because it was so real, the whole movie was like recorded with DV camera. When Cloverfield released in Malaysia in 2008, there was two sided reviews, one group which was like me, love the story and the shooting style, another group of people hate it and some of them even vomit during the half way of the movie because of the dizziness. Well, I think it is more difficult for Malaysian audiences to accept new element. Most of them were like typical movie watcher who only enjoy those popcorn movies, action or movie full of visual effects, pathetic.
Here is the trailer of District 9..

As you can see in this trailer, there are some scenes which were like interviewing, and some black people saying their opinions about District 9. Actually that was in the movie, the first half of the movie were like documentary, interviewing and scene taken from breaking news, some of the scenes taken from CCTV videos. Maybe some people can't accept this type of shooting style, but please la! Open your mind and focus on the story instead of visual effects, action and explosions!!! Gosh..

District 9, is a movie about aliens, but it was not like those usual alien movie from the past, which normally about alien attacking human, alien wants to take over the world.. bla bla bla.. NO! In this movie, alien were treated badly on earth. They were like low level animal and they called them 'prawn' and they were quarantined in a slum area at Africa called 'District 9' for more than 20 years. There were 2.5 millions of the alien's population and they're still growing! They were not welcome but they can't go back to their planet because their spaceship have not enough materials which was like a power source.

On the other hand, human are so cruel and selfish! They can do anything just for their own benefits! In the beginning of the movie, when the main character, Wikus who worked with the government department called MNU, they went into district 9 to tell the aliens that they have to move to another area called district 10 because the locals not welcome them and wish them to move far away from human habitat. Then they found a house which full of alien's egg, I feel so uneasy when they poke the egg and there were alien baby make suffering voice but the man torturing the baby still smiling happily without any guilty face. Then they burn down the house and saying to the camera (because this part were like recorded with DV camera) "Did you hear that? There were some popping noise, it was incredible!".. So CRUEL!!

After that, he found a device and he accidentally exposed to the liquid from the device. That liquid was actually the power source where the alien found from the junk for 20 years and collect from some of the broken parts of the aliens equipments. Then after the exposure, Wikus DNA transforming slowly into aliens! His injured hand transform fully into alien's hand. Again, human are so selfish!! When the scientist saw that phenomena, they captured him and make him to do experiments to use the alien's weapons. Because their weapons doesn't work with human's hand. Then in the end, the scientist said that Wikus was valuable with all those biotechnology experiments and they have to kill him to take all his organs for experiments!! So CRUEL!! Luckily he manage to escape and hide inside District 9 because he got no where else to go.

But what I not understand in this movie is, since the aliens have so advance and powerful weapon, why don't they fight back and stop bullied by human?
Since they have so high technology weapon they can actually fight back and take over earth. But then it'll become another another popcorn movie la :P I heard some people said because the aliens that stuck on earth were actually the "workers" not the "fighters", so that is why they don't fight back. But workers can also fight back if they were seriously mistreated isn't it? :P
Another thing confused me is, how human and alien can communicate? In this movie human can understand alien's language and alien can understand human language as well. Some people said because the alien already stay on earth for 20 years of course they must have learned to communicate with human. But alien language don't have dictionary or translator as reference, how can those human learn the alien language without having any references? Hmm.. Curious :P

In the end, (well maybe I'll spoiled you for this, but I've already written caution on top of this post :P) one of the alien (they called him Christopher) successfully escape using the liquid energy he found, he drove their spaceship away. But other alien still remained on earth. He said that he will go back to their planet and call for backup to save his own kind and help reveal Wikus back to human form. Here is the question, what will going to happened next? District 9 has been moved to District 10 and that place were far more worst and jail-alike. Is Christopher is going to bring back an army and attack human for their revenge? Or he'll just come back to save his own kind? Or he'll not come back at all? Let's wait the answer to be revealed on the second episode!!

Before the movie end there were a small action packed where Wikus was chased by the MNU. And he ride a alien-made robots and have a little fights scenes there.
Highly recommend everyone to watch this movie, you can see how selfish human can be. And I like movies that have both storyline + visual effects.
But sadly many people don't know how to appreciate this type of movie. My girlfriend and her friends wanted to watch this movie and while they were buying tickets, the ticket seller told them this movie not nice! And they end up watching Orphan instead =.=" How can he influenced customers?!! Unbelievable.. PATHETIC!!!
I rate this movie 9/10.. Two thumbs up!!

P/S: I am listening to Penang Hokkien Live Podcast ghost story while writing this post, so if there's any mistake please point it out to me la :P By the way, the ghost story so scary, I have to sleep with lights on :(

Party at L'Opera

2009-08-26T20:42:00.013+08:00

It was my third and last day in my KL trip, before I came back to Penang, we decided to celebrate Qian Qian and Foo's birthday at this L'Opera Italian restaurant. It was, erm, probably can consider as a surprise party for them, because they didn't know in the beginning. (or they already did but we don't know? hmm..)

Before I start, there's something I need to say. Mr. Zing Chuang! It was his idea to go back KL to celebrate Qian Qian's birthday with her. When we were holding mine and Mr. Zing's birthday, he was touched and he felt that he must have repay our friends something, which he decided to go back KL purposely to celebrate her birthday. But then in the end, he decided to give up after he knew that I'm not driving to KL, because he wanted to go Ikea buy some furniture and need me to help him fetch all his furniture back to Penang, I thought he said he will give Qian her present personally, but end up sharing the present with us =.=" I'm sure he got something to say after he read this.. lolz

Okay, back to the party, again this wasn't our first choice. Originally I found Tony Roma's online and decided to go there. However, we realized that it was too expensive and some of us couldn't afford it, so my girlfriend simply found this restaurant. It was located at Jalan Bukit Bintang, between Lot 10 and Pavilion. It was actually a restaurant inside a hotel, but then we knew that they have set lunch which are quite affordable (RM15, RM25, RM35), so we decided to go there. It wasn't easy to find a nice and affordable restaurant @.@

That morning, me and my girlfriend went to Genting Klang to get their birthday cake first, and then we drove to Titiwangsa monorial station and took monorial to Bukit Bintang because we were afraid of traffic jam. Then we met Sean and Sing Hui at monorial station. When we were there, the restaurant was empty! No other customers except us, we were joking that we book the whole restaurant! Haha.. After awhile, the others join us. The interior of the restaurant..

Chit Chatting..

The birthday girl..

And then, the day before the party, we went to buy their birthday cards, and all her classmates wrote their wishes in the restaurant on spot without the birthday boy and girl acknowledgment..

I wasn't in this photo because my girlfriend wrote on behalf of me :P

After everyone settle down, it's time to order food! It was tricky, as there were so many of us (15 people), if everyone order the cheapest set lunch which is RM15, it would be boring if everyone eating the same food, so we decided to order 2 sets RM35 set lunch which are the Chicken Pasta served with soup, RM40 Lamb Leg with Rosemary and 2 large Pizza!

Other than those Pizzas, the other food wasn't enough! 15 people sharing 3 sets of set lunch which were only for 1 pax, pity huh? =.=" So everybody were paiseh lai, paiseh ki, here eat little bit then leave it for the others, I pass you this you pass me that.. lolz.. However we still enjoy ourselves la :P But the food can't satisfied me, so I order another RM15 set lunch individually, share with my girlfriend

Beverages we have Chin Lun and his girlfriend's Cow Boy milkshake, and me and my girlfriend's Melon Paradise.. The others I didn't take photo sorry :P

Okay, after everyone were full, it's time for party! The cake!! Pretty, Special and Saving!! Chocolate Tiramisu + Mango flavour!!

Make a wish~~

Blow the candles..

Birthday tradition, pick up candles with mouth..

Group photo..

As for their presents, my girlfriend already planed with her classmates, and decided to buy them more realistic birthday presents, Gift Voucher!! MNG Gift Voucher for Qian, and TGI Friday Gift Voucher for Foo

After the party, I have to leave as I have to go back to Penang on 5.30pm bus, before that, I headed to Times Square to buy Krispy Kream Doughnuts! Recommended by Jasmine!! According to her, this is the world famous doughnut and it doesn't sell in Penang yet. She was shocked when I told her I've never heard before, did you? :P
I bought one dozen, 5 for my family, another 7 for colleagues, Andrew and Jasmine at Gizwiz Studio.. And another extra 2 for me and my girlfriend.. Sadly, I forgot to take photo, and when I remember it was only 2 left :P

Tasted good!! As the name said, Krispy Kream, it was really crispy and there were cream inside the doughnuts!! However, one turn down which is - way too sweet!!

Finally, some wishes for our birthday boy and birthday girl..
Message for Foo: "dai gor zai lor" 21 years old already, fast fast get your girl and get married! Wish your dream come true!
Message for Qian: wei! 22 years old liao, old liao, hor mia eh already become mummy liao.. mai siao siao or blur blur liao! lolz.. Wish you get very good result in your final!

Dinner at Tony Roma's

2009-08-24T22:31:00.015+08:00

I spend my last weekend at Kuala Lumpur with my girlfriend. Has been awhile since the last time I visited her, the last time was my convocation on June. This time, we decided to spend our day at Sunway Pyramid. Planed to go for shopping before the Mega Sales end. Plus, we seldom shopping at Sunway, because last time even I have a car there, but I don't know how to go, this time I drove my girlfriend's car and go to Sunway Pyramid by GPS on her handphone. Talk about GPS, I was impressed with the GPS system in her handphone, Nokia 6210 Navigator. When we were going to Sunway Pyramid, because I know roughly how to get there which is by the MRR2 highway and go through Petaling Jaya, but the navigator showed another route which I think it was a shorter path, but we don't believe it and continue to go through PJ, ended up we took the long route :P

I bought a shirt from Padini and another T-shirt from Kitchen

And then, we went to have our dinner at Tony Roma's, which wasn't our first choice actually. I search through the web and I found another nice and affordable price restaurant which called Magical Theatre, but then it was closed down when we get there! This leave us to no choice because I doesn't want to go to normal restaurant for our special dinner which only held about once a month and ruining our mood. So, I made this decision although I know this place is expensive **sigh**

Luckily, it turns out to be satisfying so that it doesn't ruin our mood. Here are some photos..

There wasn't anyone sneezing actually, it's just us playing around :P

Sweet Cherry, by ordering one main course get 50% discount, RM6.45
tasted sweet and sour, nice and refreshing! And the cup was quite huge, definitely worth it ;)

My Tuscany Pasta, RM27.90
Tasted so so :(

Pacific Cod Mojo-Grilled with Pineapple Salsa, RM44.90 including dessert
Well although it was expensive but I think it's worth than the pasta, at least it tasted very good! I like the cod fish, nicely grilled, and the rice was awesome!

Brownie cake with ice cream
Tasted nice! But not much special as we can eat this at other places.

Last but not least.....

Special Curry Chicken, and I was so lucky to witness how it was made!!

With some decoration... hmm.. nope

definitely no!

TADA!!~~

Well if some of you doesn't get what I mean, it was actually made by my girlfriend with the bread of our starter =.="
And I was forced to eat..

Tasted... bread.. lolz

Overall it was satisfying, but it was really expensive!! Probably the second expensive restaurant we've ever been. The first place goes to Tao..
Most of their customers in the restaurant were all grown up people who looks like have a stable income, well although I can be considered as having a stable income but it was like my forth month in my career life =.="
However they have good services (of course, they charge RM7.95 for that!), there was a black foreign waitress who was polite and all the waiters and waitresses were polite too ^^
You guys should go try it, as I heard that their steak and lamb are good, but I heard people at forum said that their pork is nicer but not available in Malaysia because it's Halal here, can try it at Singapore ;)

After the dinner, we went to watch UP 3D, so that was my second time watched this movie, still touched and funny..

We both like this photo a lot ^^

-The End-

Up 3D

2009-08-20T22:13:00.009+08:00

Yahoo! Watched this movie in 3D with Gizwiz movie day!! Thanks for the movie and McDonald's dinner again Andrew and Jasmine ^^

Well this movie, Up, was actually release on 29 May 2009 at USA, but you know, our country is really "boleh", and now only they have it on cinema on 20th August 2009. Listen this movie trailer for so long on Fly FM and saw a very good review for this movie at Rotten Tomatoes (97%) and IMDB (8.7/10) which is even higher than Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (87% in Rotten Tomatoes) made my curiosity grow bigger and bigger! Even me, who don't really like to watch animation in cinema, feels like wanted to watch this movie very much!

Hmm.. This time, this review I'm going to write it differently, skip all the synopsis and write about the real 'review' and what I feel :P as the synopsis you can just found by Google! So here goes.. the trailer ^^

Before the movie start, there were this special 3D trailers to watch! It was really awesome! If you guys remember, the old style 3D was using the red and blue glasses. I remembered I watched it in cinema for Spy Kids 3D and Shark Boy and Lava Girl. Well, what I can say about those movies were sucks! The 3D effects was so so, but the red and blue thingy makes the colors looks awful! It looks like watching bootlegged VCD. Not to mention the story, they were too focus on making the 3D effects until the story were so lame, meaningless, childish and sucks! I prefer Spy Kids 1. So I didn't really have happy experience with 3D.

However as technologies nowadays keep on growing, Disney and Pixar made it again! They always stay ahead in the movie industries! Especially in animation ;)
The first time I watched Disney Pixar animation was Toy Story, I remember I watched bootlegged VCD, so even if the graphic was great I can't really see it :P and then the animation that impressed me the most was Finding Nemo, the sea, the water, the graphic was so real and pretty! And then there was interesting story of The Incredibles. And then there were competitors of theirs we have something like Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge bla bla bla which I don't really like.. although I know Shrek was very popular but I didn't watch :P The only animation that I like, which is not Disney Pixar production, is Ice Age. Love the squirrel thingy the most, SO CUTE!

Okay, way too far from the movie :P
This time, Disney Pixar made it in 3D! Not the 'lao beh' red and blue 3D effects they using, but they use a special and more advance technology which gives better effects! We have to wear a special made glasses from Dolby Digital which cost RM200. So, there were counter setting up at the entrance and exits for the hall to make sure you give them back the glasses after the movie. The screen was different! The colors was so sharp and clear! Compare to other hall, there were no black strip or annoying noise that made by the films. There was a second that I though they were using LCD screen!! Until I saw the projector light came out from the back :P Even the advertisements looks more interesting than ever! After the normal advert that we used to see on the cinema, there were these special 3D trailers from Disney Pixar! We saw many movies from Disney Pixar coming soon in 3D including Toy Story 3!! The effects were awesome! the snowflakes, the broken glasses, magic powder, it really looks like coming out from the screen! Too bad the screen wasn't big enough! It was a small hall.

Up, was really different with any other animation. I think this animation wasn't made for kids, but for adults. Although it still have the normal funny scenes and act that normal animation will have, but there were also scenes which fell silence, let the audiences feel the sad and touching atmosphere for awhile when the old man, Carl Fredricksen, thinking and missing his dead wife.

I like how the movie started, while a cute and cubby kid Carl met his soul mate, Ellie. The process of them falling in love to each other, get married, move in to a shabby house and renovate themselves into a lovely house, and grow old together. It was a warm and lovely love story of theirs. Until one day where they found out that they couldn't have kids cause of physical problems. So they focus on their dream since they were kids, which is going to the lost land in South America. So they started to collect money until both of them become old. Just when they collected enough money to fulfill their dream, Ellie passed away. (Sorry this was just the introduction of the movie, so I'm not going to say more :P)

My feeling towards this movie? I would like to say this is really a nice movie. Really worth those high marks in Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. Not because of the funny scenes, but the meaning behind that. Appreciate what you have, fulfill your dreams so that you wouldn't regret when you're old, let go of what you've lost and always look to the better future instead of looking backward. Just like Carl, who felt regret after his wife passed away and wish to fulfill their dream on behalf of her. And finally, he realise that time doesn't goes back, we can't hold on to our past and give up or doesn't see what we have now in the present, or the future. Deep huh? lolz

Finally, I rated this movie 9/10. Don't know why I can't give full mark, just don't feel that it's perfect :P

Back to Gizwiz Studio

2009-08-06T22:58:00.023+08:00

Yoyo! Finally I'm back into Gizwiz! Haha, glad and happy about it. Been trying to come back to this company since I graduated. However, due to economy crisis, I was forced to wait. But finally, thanks Andrew for not disappoint me :P

Now, what do I miss about Gizwiz? The sea view! Wii! The ikea interior! The treats!! Colleagues, Etee, Apple, but sadly Ewejin wasn't there anymore. And of course, our friendly boses Andrew and Jasmine ^^

For some of you that may have already know, I've done my industrial training program under this company. How do I get into Gizwiz? Well I have to thank Zing for that! I was first offered to do my training under another company that was found by our college which I have already forgotten the name :P But then the allowance they offered was low, not to mention the office was located at Bayan Baru area which is like hundred of miles from my house, feels like thousand if traffic jam!! The allowance was not even enough to cover my car's petrol fee! And then, after our 'tiao keh' Zing rejected so many offers, finally he was satisfied with Gizwiz and accepted their offer. He told me their office was damn pretty and the allowance they offered was also higher than mine! Not to mention their office located near to my house! Feeling envy, I asked him to give me their contact number so that I can give it a try. Thankfully! Jasmine arranged an interview with me and finally I got it!

It was my first official job actually, I've never done any part time as salesman or whatsoever before, and I felt lucky to go into such wonderful company on my first job! (Jas, don't get too touching yea :P)
We have 4 trainees went to this company, which are Tinkai, Steven, Zing and me. We work from 9am to 5pm. They have a welcoming lunch for us at Gizwiz by ordering Pizza Hut, which some of the designers still remember some funny act of Tinkai. Ewejin asked him "Do you still want some pizza?", he said "no thanks", after he finish his sentence, he grabbed another piece. LOL
And our BBQ farewell party 6 months later at Andrew's condominium, you can view the photos and games that we played here. Then there were this unforgettable badminton tournament! Tight competition between 2 teams which were Me + tinkai VS Conman + Andrew! But finally Conman won! You can see the photos here.
Really miss those days where there were so many of us and I was just a trainee that work without worries. Now I'm a permanent employee, things get different already. **sigh**

My first week in Gizwiz was great. Although I went back home later than last time, sometimes around 6.45pm, sometimes almost 8pm, but still I feel happier than before. At least I stay late willingly and happily. ^^
And thank you Gizwiz, because I got the offer of joining your company trip to Bali even before I start working! Finally thanks for the second welcoming lunch on my second time of first day work! :P
We headed over to Tsuruya at Times Square, I dunno the foods' name and belongs to who already, I can only remember mine, so.. Here are the photos.. :P

My Unamadon

Ding Ren's set lunch

Jasmine's set lunch

Andrew's set lunch

Esther's Ramen

Etee & Apple's set lunch

Kenneth's set lunch

Andrew & Jasmine

Colleagues

the interior

Went back to work after the lunch. Thanks again for the welcoming lunch ;)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-07-17T00:13:00.026+08:00

NOTE: Please read the half top of this post before you watch the movie, and another half after you watched the movie if you wish to really understand what Harry Potter is all about. Friendly advice, don't expect epic fighting scenes or any explosions.. Because it was very limited.. concentrate on the storyline, it's all the point in this movie.. don't worry, there were much humors added to keep u out from sleep.. lolz

WOW! After 2 years waiting, including the delay if you guys remember, it was originally release on 14th November 2008, then it was delay until today, 16th July 2009.. I shall say, it was worth waiting, the movie was brilliant!! David Yates, salute! Most of the time the director stick to the original story from the book! Just another scene which was burning down the burrow added to give you guys some action scene and keep you out from sleep! Haha..

In this review, I'm not going to tell you the synopsis already, as I've already did 4 years ago, you guys can read it here. I think it is much more important to fill you guys up with some details in the previous story so that you can understand more in this movie. So in this half, read before you watch the movie.

Lord Voldemort aka The Dark Lord aka You-Know-Who aka He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

First, you must remember the second movie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret. Remember that Tom Riddle's (Voldemort aka The Dark Lord aka you-know-who aka he-who-must-not-be-named) diary? The one that control Ginny (Ron's sister, Harry new girlfriend in this movie) to open the chamber of secret? Yes keep that in your mind now.

Secondly, let's refresh the prophecy from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Here is the original version and the complete version. The movie kind of cut it short =.="

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches. Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies. And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not. And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies."

Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Professor Trelawney

Yes, this prophecy was made by Professor Trelawney. You guys may wonder, why on earth Dumbledore (Headmaster of Hogwarts) keep her to teach divination in Hogwarts while she was just keep on making nonsense prophecy, while Dumbledore interviewed her, before Dumbledore rejected her to teach Divination, she made this prophecy, which forced Dumbledore to keep her in the school cause she made such important prophecy. She made a real prophecy on movie 3 too if you can remember, about the Dark Lord loyal follower will break free and help the Dark Lord to be powerful once more.

Professor Severus Snape

This prophecy was mentioning Harry. Means Harry is the key to vanquish Voldemort. Originally, Voldemort don't know this prophecy was made, but then it was overheard by a Death Eater (Voldemort's followers) which is Snape! Professor Snape, the long hair guy that teach potion in Hogwarts. But then he didn't heard it completely, he just heard half of it, another important part which is "he will have power the Dark Lord knows not" he didn't know, so THAT is why Voldemort went to kill Harry while he was a baby without knowing he's going to be half dead! He afraid that he is going to be a threat to him cause the prophecy said "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches". So this fulfilled what the prophecy said.

Lily Potter (Harry's mother) tried to stop Voldemort and cast a powerful magic to save Harry, this magic needs her to sacrifice herself, by her sacrificed, produced a powerful magic shield that cause Voldemort's spell backfired and he was half dead. In order to keep this spell working, Harry have to stay close with someone who have blood-connected with her mother, which is his aunt Petunia. THAT is why Dumbledore put Harry to stay with his uncle and aunt although he doesn't have a happy life there. THAT is why he have to go back to stay with his uncle and aunt during each holidays.

THEN, after he was alive again, in movie 5, he tried to get the prophecy which stored in a Cristal ball at the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic, to hear the other half of the prophecy, but he failed as you remembered in movie 5 the Cristal ball was destroyed. THAT is what Sirius Black meant in movie 5 that "something he didn't have last time". Please re-watch the movie if u totally forgotten.

Sirius Black

Okay, basically those are the important points you need to know before you watch the movie. The following containing spoilers including spoilers of movie 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

**Cautions! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Tom Riddle (11 years old Voldemort)

Tom Riddle (teenage Voldemort)

In this movie, will be showing some of the memories Dumbledore collected. They were all about Voldemort. In the movie they show twice, but actually from the book Dumbledore show many memories. Beside 2 memories you can watch it in the movie, the others memories are about Voldemort's parents. Voldemort is the descendant of Salazar Slytherin, his grandfather, Marvolo was a bad person. He hates his daughter (Voldemort's mother) cause his mother was a witch that can't perform magic. It was like a freak to them and they felt that was a shame. One day his grandfather was captured by the Ministry of Magic and so his mother broke free from her father. His mother then fell in love with a muggle, Tom Riddle, and she used love potion on him to get him. So when Tom was awake from the love potion, he left her. Leaving her pregnant with a baby and she name her baby after Tom and her father, Tom Marvolo Riddle. So Voldemort hate his grandfather and his muggle father, he killed both of them.

The main point of this movie is about horcrux. In order to trace Voldemort's horcruxes.. What is horcruxes? Okay I'll just copy paste from my previous post here:

"horcruxes is a very dark magic, very dark indeed, that make by a wizard who wish become immortal. the concept is, split out part of your soul and hide it in some object. when that person's body is kill, that person soul can't die yet because there's still part of his/her soul remain out there undamage"

So that is why Voldemort couldn't be killed. The killing curse was backfired while he was tried to kill Harry when he was a baby. But still, he is not dead. Half dead, leaving his soul wondering around the world, searching for chances to come back. Until in movie 4, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, where wormtail (one of the Death Eaters, good friend of Harry's parents but betrayed them and cause their death, there were more details on how he betrayed them but.. well it got nothing to do with the future story so.. find out yourself :P) help Voldemort reveal his body and is powerful once more.

Wormtail aka Peter Pettigrew

Voldemort made 7 horcruxes, one was remain in his body now and now still got 6 remaining.
Now recall back to the diary in movie 2, that was one of the horcrux, so harry destroyed it, which leaves to 5.
Dumbledore found one which is a ring, Voldemort's mother's ring and Dumbledore destroyed it which leaves down to 4.
Nagini, Voldemort's pet which is a snake, a very clever snake and obey Voldemort's order which is not normal for an animal to be so loyal, and Voldemort keep it around him, so Dumbledore suspect it's one of the horcrux, now still got 3 remaining.

In this movie, Dumbledore bring Harry to a cave to retrieve another horcrux which is a locket. But it was a fake one cause taken by R.A.B, Regulus Arcturus Black, Sirius Black's brother. Sirius Black is Harry Potter's god father, the man that got killed in movie 5, Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix. Regulus Black was a Death Eater. He was killed by Voldemort long time ago cause he betrayed him. He was mentioned in the movie, very small part of the movie and it was a CLUE!! And for those who watched the movie, at the beginning of the movie, the Death Eaters went to capture a man remember? That man is one of the clue too! He is Mr. Olivander, the wand maker, an important key of how Harry is going to finish off Voldemort.
So, now still have 2 horcruxes remain unknown. Another 2 I wouldn't tell anymore, just leave it as a surprise for you in the final movie ;-)

Draco Malfoy

Then Dumbledore was killed in this movie. When he said "Severus, please" he was not begging for live, he was begging for death. He asked him to kill him before this, and continue to be a spy to spy Voldemort. Why he asked him to do so? Because while attempting to destroyed one of Voldemort's horcrux, he was cursed, his hand was blacken and looks like dead. Actually the curse will spread and Dumbledore will die someday. So he decided to sacrifice himself, beg Severus Snape to kill him to protect Draco Malfoy. Because Voldemort give Draco a mission, which is to kill Dumbledore, he didn't expect him to be succeed, just to punish his father for losing the prophecy in movie 5, so if Draco fails, Voldemort will kill him. So Dumbledore asked Snape to help him and killed Dumbledore instead cause he have to die anyway. And so, Draco Malfoy was saved and he don't want Draco to become a murderer cause he knows that he is not. Dumbledore was right, while Draco tried to kill Dumbledore in the end, he doubted so long and it was hard for him to do that.

So that is what I wanted to review on this movie :-P
I understand that most of Malaysians only love visual effects and many fighting scenes movies so probably most people will hate this movie. I have one friend who said this to me before while she watched movie 5, Order of the Phoenix.
But who cares, the reviews from all around the world are very good and I think so too! The BEST out of Harry Potter series! Haha..
But I can see the director tried to make this interesting by adding a fight scene at the burrow (Ron's house), although it was pointless but at least to make the movie more interesting.

I love the scene where they went to the cave, it was amazing! Amazing visual effects here! Forcing Dumbledore to drink the potion looks awful! And the scene where Harry drunk the luck potion, it was funny. Never see Harry act like that before.

Also, I must give compliment to all the actors and actresses in this movie. All the young actors and actresses were good! However, I love Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange, she was the BEST! And Jim Broadbent was really good in acting as Professor Horace Slughorn, he was really as the book described!!

Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange

Jim Broadbent as Professor Horace Slughorn

Oh ya, this movie emphasized on our main characters love story either. Ron and Lavender Brown, Ron and Hermione Granger, Harry and Ginny Weasley. It was kind of interesting watching their love story. Haha..

Actually, this movie is a preparation for movie 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. All the important points showed in this movie are the key points on how Harry is going to finish off Voldemort in movie 7.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will split into two parts!! The first release date is 19th November 2010, and the second release date is 15th July 2011. CAN'T WAIT!! There will be an epic FIGHT on movie 7!! BIG WAR IN HOGWARTS IS COMING!

IMDB rated this movie 8.3/10, as for me, I rated this movie 9/10, 1 mark taken cause originally there was a fantastic fight scene at the end of the story but the movie taken it out, kind of wasted.

August Rush

2009-07-08T23:41:00.008+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Well this is special, it's the first time I write review for a 2 years ago movie, and I don't think (not sure) that Malaysia have this movie on the cinema that time. It was released at 21 November 2007. This movie, is really a fantastic and a special one. Thanks to Ice who recommended this movie for me!

The movie is about music. Everybody loves music, if you love music, then you'll love this movie. I watched this movie through you-know-what. It was the most inspiring movie I've ever watched. Let's just watch the trailer first ;)

Everybody know Mozart right? If you don't, for god sake, Google it =.="
Mozart start composing when he was four years old, that's right, four years old. His first major opera, "Mitridate", was performed in Milan in 1770 (when he was still only fourteen!).

Well in this movie, it was about a boy, 10 years old boy named Evan Taylor. The first scene of the movie was Evan standing alone at a field, enjoying sunlight, and the wind, and listening, to the natural music by the movement of the grass. Evan, is an orphan. He grew up in an orphanage. He has never learnt music, but he love music very much, more than food. He always thought, that he can heard his parents, through the natural music, he have fate in music and it was like his parents calling him. So one day, he decided to stop waiting at the orphanage, and took off, following the music to find his way home.

Eleven years earlier..
A women named Lyla Novacek who is a Cellist, and a man named Louis Connelly who is the lead singer and guitarist of a band. They met each other at the roof top of a pub in New York, while Louis was listening to the nice Harmonica music from an old man at the park. They fell in love at the first sight and have sex that night. The next day, Lyla have to leave to other country for other performances and so was Louis. So they were separated, Lyla was then pregnant.
Before the baby was borned, she insisted to go back and find Louis and stop performing. But her father disagree and they end up with some disagreement, Lyla was hit by a car and sent to the hospital. She was told that her baby was gone. Lyla continue her life for 10 years as a music teacher. But 10 years after that, while her father was dying, he told her the truth that the baby was alive and he imitate her signature to give him out for adoption.
In the meantime, Louis miss Lyla very much as well and leave the band. Stop playing guitar for 10 years.

Present..
Evan came to New York, and he met another boy named Arthur who was a street performer. Evan admire him playing guitar, he thinks it was beautiful. So he followed him. Then he realized he was taught by a man, they called him 'Wizards' (Robin Williams). He was the one who keeping all the orphan kids, taught them instrument, trained them to become a street performers to help him earn money. That night while everyone else were sleeping, Evan was examining the guitar. By morning, he can play a nice rhythm with his special way (slapping the strings). Robin Williams saw money from him, took him and tried to let him perform to earn money. He give him another cooler name, call August Rush.

One day, the place where all the kids was hidden was found out by the police and they wanted to catch them. Evan get away and came to a church because he heard people singing carol. And so, he lived at the church. A black girl who is a singer of the carol roughly taught him about notes of piano and how to read the notes. By the time she came back from school, Evan wrote all the notes on a paper and playing the organ in the church! The priest saw his talent and send him to Juilliard to learn music. Afraid that he'll be sent back to the orphanage, he told them his fake name which is August Rush.

Six months after that, Lyla decided to do performance again, for her son. Louis at the same time, went back to New York and tried to find Lyla. But he can't found her, so he went back singing with a band again.
Meanwhile, little Evan was learning really fast, he started to compose his first orchestra piece called August Rhapsody. For the first time ever, Julliard decided to play his piece at the concert in Central Park, and little Evan will be conducting the concert! 10 years old! Compose his first piece and conduct his concert!
His mother Lyla, was going to perform before him. Lyla recognized Evan at once, after she saw him performing on the stage.
His father Louis, who saw Lyla's name on the banner of the concert, went to the concert too. He found Lyla and both of them were holding hand watching Evan's performance.
At the end of Evan's performance, he turn around and saw his parents, standing there watching his performance.
The movie ended with Evan saying "music is all around us, all you have to do is listen".

I definitely rate this movie 9/10. It was so beautiful, touching and inspiring. 1 mark was taken because there was no thousand people applause for Evan's performance before the movie end! And there was no three of them hugging together scene! Too bad!
Well this is what I called a nice movie, not some blowing up things and showing visual effects Transformers, no offense, I've forgotten half of the scenes just after I walked out from the cinema. This movie is a movie that I'm going remember for a very long time ^^
And the soundtrack was fantastic too! I've uploaded some of the tracks on my flash player in my blog! Enjoy!!
Finally I must say, it is definitely a must watch movie, introducing - August Rush!!!

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2009-07-01T00:24:00.025+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Yo, it's time to movie review! Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen! Watch this movie last Saturday, my birthday, with my girlfriend after our dinner. One thing I must mention, this movie had been blowing up GSC website last week since Tuesday! I can't purchase the tickets online because GSC website was crowded and they have to switch to a temporary site which have very simple interface in order to speed up user's loading time. But still the E-payment ticketing was not functioning. Sweat~ I was forced to go Gurney Plaza to purchase the tickets. Another ridiculous thing was, Premier Class was sold out! But those normal class still have seats available, so I got the couple seat in Cinema 8 at 11.55pm.

That night (perhaps since the first day the movie screening), GSC was packed with bunches of people! GSC even open all 12 halls for Transformers only! You can't see other movie screening that night! Unbelievable. There were many "lala" or we call them "seafood" there @.@
Phew~ Okay, let's watch the trailer first..

Very nice trailer, visual effects, fighting scenes, CGI all were awesome! But the storyline was kind of lame. As we can recall, the first episodes talks about all sparks and the awaken of Megatron, this movie was almost the same. Just there was another new source of energy called Matrix, something like that. And another bad guy named the Fallen.

The Fallen was one of the Primes and was turn into bad so the other Primes banish him, he was badly injured and guess what, he was hiding in planet Pluto =.=" reminds me about Power Rangers where the bad guys live on the moon. They sacrifice themselves and hide the Key with their bodies. Leaving Optimus Prime as the last descendant of Prime. But then he was killed in the middle of movie while fighting with the Decepticons trying to save Sam. I knew that in the end Optimus must somehow reveal to life with that new energy and I was correct.

As for the all sparks, there was still little pieces which left on Sam's cloak, he picked it up and the all sparks planted something into his eyes, make him see weird symbols. And then they use this pieces of all sparks to reactivate an old Transformer from Decepticon but turns into good guy named JetFire. Teleport Sam's and few main characters to Egypt =.=" and gave them a hint where the Key of Matrix were hidden. Then Sam suddenly figure out the key was at the Great Pyramids in Giza. When they were there, the twin Autobots (Skids & Mudflap) suddenly have a fight and Sam accidentally found this key because while they were fighting they broken the wall somehow (lame) =.=" Then the key turns into dust somehow =.=" The Decepticons wanted that key too in order to reactivate the super weapon hide inside the pyramid, which is a weapon used to destroy the Sun =.=" because the Fallen hates human and he wanted to destroy human race.

The Fallen

Skids & Mudflap

Then there was this final great war fighting in the middle of desert. In the trailer where you saw those big big Decepticons who named Devastator (the vacuum cleaner :P) was finished off by human navy's gun, easily settled =.=" Oh ya, this vacuum cleaner, sorry it's Devastator, was formed by many many Decepticons (Scavenger + Scrapper + Hightower + Longhaul + Rampage + Overload + Mixmaster), reminds me about Power Rangers again =.=" And the Demolishor where in the beginning of movie destroying Shanghai, was easily settled by Optimus Prime too =.=" Clearly, BIG is not equal to KENG!! The fight in Shanghai was pointless, just wanted to please Chinese =.="

Devastator

Demolishor

Finally, Sam was nearly killed by Megatron, then while his spirit was 'away' of his body (I guess..), he saw those dead and good Primes (ancestors of Optimus Prime) who thank him and told him that only courage or something like that, can get the key. So he somehow woke up and the dust turns back into the key and he inserted it into Optimus's chest so Optimus was alive again! Yay!! =.=" Then the old FireJet sacrifice himself to offer Optimus his parts because Optimus was badly injured and can't stop the Fallen because he get the key and was activating the super weapon. So we have FireJet Optimus!!

JetFire

Optimus Prime

Obviously, Optimus become very keng after the combination, and he settled the Fallen, Megatron, and blast the super weapon with one bullet and it was destroyed. The Fallen was dead, and Megatron was only injured, so Starscream ask him to flee and so he did, here goes the start of Transformers 3 =.="

Overall, the movie was great. The CGI effects, fighting scenes was very yeng! Especially when there was a scene where Ravage put all the little small metal balls through the air tunnel into the place where the army guarding the pieces of all spark. Those metal balls were transform into tiny robot and was then combined became a small robot to steal the all spark! Impressive CGI effects!!

Ravage

However, I prefer the first episode. Because in my opinion, this time there were some overused hot girls, explosions, and visual effects. And it doesn't make sense when the Decepticons can transform into human!! Ridiculous, there were no such thing in the anime. But there was no doubt that Megan Fox was damn hot!

Besides, it was very commercial as you can see LG handphone all the time!! They must be pay a lot for that =.=" This movie contain all the factors of a commercial movie have: commercial products(LG), hot girls, visual effects, CGI effects, explosions, and comedy. These are all the factors that most of the Malaysians love~~ I heard my friend said before that what she expecting in a nice movie were just fighting and visual effects. If the movie have too much of talking and less fighting scenes then it is a bad movie! Shallow.. Forgive me if I offended you. Actually it is okay to have all these factors in a movie because you know, they need to earn money either, but overused of these things makes me sick. The jokes were too much and pointless (especially when Sam's mother ki siao at his college).

I rate this movie 7/10. The 7 marks were all JUST for the visual effects and CGI effects because it was really done extremely well. 3 marks taken because of all the criticize I've mentioned in the previous paragraphs. I just hope that Transformers 3 can have both visual effects and creative or nice storyline. LESS COMMERCIAL PLEASE!
-The End-

Birthday Celebration part II

2009-06-28T12:19:00.012+08:00

It was a night before my birthday. Some of my friends had asked me out for a chit chat and so I suggested Coffee Island at Gurney Drive at 8.30pm.
Sadly, most of them put aeroplane and some came late, so at the end there were only three of us chit chatting there. Talking bad stuff about our office! Haha..
However I'm still really appreciated for those who didn't come but with all the wishes! Especially Teresa, Cherlyn and Xin Ru. So warm and happy receiving your calls and wishes. And for those wish me on sms, msn and Facebook I appreciate it very much too. Each wish means a lot to me. ^^ Thank you!!

Back to Coffee Island, I've ordered a Chicken Maryland. It was okay~ but the tartar sauce was delicious ^^ (I asked for it as tartar sauce only comes together with fish and chips, haha)

At about 10.30pm, another three friends of mine join in and now there were 6 of us, all guys.. @.@ And there was a cake, my second cake this year bought by Hins.

After the celebration, few people left as they have things to do on the next day and now there were three of us again. One of my friend just came back from UK for holiday. So we chat a lot about his experiences at UK, the people he met (a lot of powerful and rich people, some of his friend's father have dinner with the Queen of England @.@), we chat about businesses, about cars, about dreams and expectation of our future (I know it sounds uncle, can't help it, we're 22 years old T.T)

The next day, 27th June 2009, it was my day and today I'm going to celebrate with my beloved girlfriend as she came back from KL to celebrate with me plus meeting her sister who came back from Australia. She purposely learned and made a cake for me. It was a mango cheese cake.

She cut her hand by a can while she was doing the cake.. Touching.. It was the most delicious cake I've ever eat.

After that, we went to have a dinner at a nice restaurant. Thanks to Jasmine again, we went to this elegant restaurant call Annabelle's Place.

It was somewhere nearby Penang TAR College, after the mountain road just turn left into the housing area, go straight until you see a row of pretty shop lots building. It was facing a garden or padang. View the map below:

View Larger Map

For beverages, I've ordered the Honey Lemon Cocktail as the waitress recommended me and said that their honey lemon was different with other restaurants. Turns out to be so normal and I was regret. But my girlfriend's Berry Burst was special!

Honey Lemon Cocktail..

Berry Burst..

We've ordered mushroom soup as a starter. Their mushroom soup was different with those normal mushroom soup we ate outside. It was brown color and made by 3 types of mushrooms. You can tasted the small small pieces of mushrooms. It was probably the tastiest mushroom soup I've ever ate!!

For the main course, my girlfriend has ordered beef and bacon pasta served with a cup of cheese powder while I've ordered crab baked with cheese Ocean Delight. The pasta was not bad, it was quite normal, but my Ocean Delight was delicious! Not too cheesy and together with the taste of crab meat. Bravo!

As for the dessert, we've ordered the Italian's dessert, Crème Brûlée! The waiter burned the dessert with fire in front of us before it was served.

It was so so so delicious as there was a crispy layer on top tasted sweety! We both love it so much and I was thinking of buying it once in awhile since the restaurant near to my house :P

Overall it was really really satisfying except that the menu doesn't have much choices. But it was not expensive (RM15-RM20 for main course), it cost us about RM69 for 2 person, and they have nice ambiences. We have a great dinner and we went to watch Transformers 2 after that. Will review on that movie soon ;)

Finally I would like to thank those who celebrate my birthday with me, Zing, Hins, Qian, Haow, Chin Lun, C2H, Winson, Aik Seng. And of course, my beloved girlfriend, Desing, who gave me an acoustic guitar as a present and made a cake for me. Really appreciated it very much. For those who wish me through sms, msn, facebook too, Thank you very much and I really appreciated each wishes. Means a lot to me. Thank you Guys!!!

Convocation & Birthday Celebration

2009-06-24T23:12:00.006+08:00

I guess this would be the last post about my college life.. Going to miss that! :(

20th June 2009. This is the big day for all students in TAR College who took external Campbell University paper. We have 2 papers for each subject, one is the Advanced Diploma from TAR College, and another one is Degree from Campbell University. It was a tough time. Imagine taking 2 papers for each subject on 9am and 2pm. It was tired and stressful. But finally we made it. Today is our Degree Convocation. ^^ Thanks to the college who offer this program since, I don't know how many years ago, so that we don't have to go overseas for 3 months in order to get a Degree.

Me and my family headed down to Kuala Lumpur a day before my big day. We departed at about 8pm, and arrived at 12.30am at my aunt's house which is located at Taman Melati. Very near to TAR College.

On 20th June 2009, I woke up at 7.30am, dressed up everything, and tidy up my hair >.< We have to reach there on 8.30am to register.
My dad fetch me and drop me at college hall first, then only he went back and get ready. After I reach there I have to wait my friend to pass him his robe but he was late, so I went to register myself first as I was also late a little bit already. Talk about late, I must give credit to my classmate, Jackson. We were talking about him and wonder if he will attend the convocation, then suddenly he appeared at the back of us, it was nearly 9am and he was still wearing his casual house wear and his formal wear & robe on his hand's plastic bag! KENG!! Have to call him 'dai lou' for that =.="

Then after tidying up ourselves while queuing (we helped each other to adjust here and there.. everyone looks so nervous and excited..), we entered the hall at about 9am. 30 minutes later only lecturers came in. Saw some of our lecturer and some looks funny. Especially Ms Pheah!! She looks like a dementor :P

Dementors - Magical creatures comprise a colourful and integral aspect of the wizarding world in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.

After the lecturers take their seats then only those 'big people' aka 'tua liap lang' arrived and to be seated. Then the ceremony started.

As usual in these formal ceremony, giving speech is a must and most boring session. But in our case, while those 'tua liap lang' giving speech on stage, it was our photo session time.. LOL

Dr. Dwaine Greene, Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost, Campbell University

Y B Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting, College Council Chairman

Surprisingly, this time only 2 'tua liap lang' giving speech. I thought our principle of TAR College will be giving speech but I was wrong. Honestly, I don't even know which one of them is TARC Principle :P
After the speech, it's time for the graduands receiving scroll. We were so nervous and adjusting our attire. Queuing and waiting to be called. ^^

Due to not many courses offer this program, so in this convocation there were not much students receiving scroll.
After all students received their scroll, it's time for the presentation of excellence awards. In our course, my classmate, Mr. Khor, received the Wallace Ewart Prize for Computer Science!! **applause**

The ceremony ends at about 11am. IT'S OVER!! WE WERE GRADUATED!! HURRAY!! The best part of a convocation was not receiving scroll, but the after ceremony photo session!! haha..

For more photos, you can view it on my Facebook here even if you don't have Facebook account

After the ceremony, me, my girlfriend, and my family, housemates, and one of my classmate with his family decided to go to Sunway Pyramid for a walk and lunch. However, due to our hungriness, we turn into Mid Valley instead while we were heading to Sunway Pyramid. LOL. We took our lunch at Fong Lye Taiwan Restaurant at the Gardens.

My sis barbecue chicken

Qian's beef

Haow's tomato fish

My dad's miso fish

me & des's steam fish

Each set comes with rice, 3 side dishes, and a bowl of soup

Our peanut ice, tasted so so

It was tasty! Cost us about RM250 for 10 person.

After lunch, we went for shopping for about 2 hours, then went back to my aunt's house.
As for me and my girlfriend, we went back to my ex-house, and there was my birthday present from my beloved girlfriend, an acoustic guitar!! I always wanted to learn guitar but I don't have a guitar. So this year I have a guitar!! Yay! ^^ My girlfriend even learn how to play birthday song from her friend and she play for me ^^ happy and touching.. Best present I've ever get in my life..

And then during that night, we went to dinner with my aunts who stay at Kuala Lumpur. There was another surprise! My uncle bought a cake from secret recipe for me to celebrate me graduated!! THANK YOU TIOH TIOH!!! Touching.. **sob sob**

After the dinner, my day was not finish yet!! We went back to my ex-house PV3 after fetching Zing from his hotel for some gathering, turns out to be a surprise party for me and Zing's birthday!!
All my housemates were hiding with cream ready on their hand, when we entered there was this cream war!! hahaha!! here is the outcome:

After some washing and change cloths only I realized they even prepared foods for the party! It was their dinner and it was nearly 12am already! Poor thing.. Thank you very much! Clubbing Gang Rocks!!!

Red wine from Hins ^^

And guess what, another cake! haha

Desing playing birthday song.. ^^

My birthday present from Clubbing Gang! a water bottle! ^^

We play until 3am that night, and that was the end of my big day.

Finally, I here by declare 20th June 2009 as one of my happiest day in my life!!! I have my beloved girlfriend, I have my beloved family, I have my beloved friends, and I have my degree and job as well, couldn't ask for more already ^^ And I'm really appreciate for what I have, and I hope this happiness last forever. Suddenly feel that I'm very 'hang fuk'.. haha..

Wish everyone happy and appreciate what you have! Less complains, more appreciation might light up your day or even your life! Cheers!!!

Drag Me to Hell

2009-06-14T01:59:00.005+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

12th June 09, today we have a small gathering of ACO 2 TAR College. We have 7 people there, gathering and eating at Steamboat King opposite UMNO building. After the gathering, I have dated a good friend of mine, who just upgraded his status to a father lately, for a movie, and so my other friends from the gathering join us too.

This movie, Drag me to Hell, I saw it when I was checking on Golden Screen Cinema website for any updated movies. Watched the trailer and it was quite attractive! Scary and interesting story, curse! Here is the trailer..

As you can see from the trailer, I saw it was directed by Spiderman's director Sam Raimi, so I think it should wouldn't be disappointed. Well it end up okay.. The storyline was good, visual effects good, but the main actress, Alison Lohman, wasn't good enough, she wasn't natural enough. That's what I think, maybe you guys have different thought.

The story of this movie was about a curse. I think it's something about Satan, evil demons and etc, not really sure which religious the movie was about. The movie started when a boy was cursed and his parents bring him to see this bomoh, or shaman, then it was too late and the boy was dragged to the hell and burned to death.
Years later, there was this women named Christine Brown who grew up in farm and now working in the bank as a loan officer. She was so desperate on the promotion to become an assistant manager because his boyfriend's mother look down on her.

One day, this scary and disgusting old lady, Mrs. Ganush, came to the bank to ask for third extension on her mortgage. In order to prove to her manager that she can handle tough decision, Christine decided to deny Mrs. Ganush's extension. Mrs. Ganush beg her and knee on the floor. Christine who was freaked out and accidentally make Ganush fell on the floor. Ganush then was furious because she said she humiliated her in the public. That night, Ganush wait Christine in the car park and attacked her. Then cursed her by taking a button from her cloak.

Mrs. Ganush

After the incident, she feels weird and scared, so she went to this fortune teller and she was told that she was cursed and the evil demons called Lamia will come disturb her for 3 days and finally drag her soul to the hell. Truly, she was disturbed by the demons. The demons attacked her, hit her and make her nose bleed. Christine went to find Ganush and found out that she was dead. Running out of ideas, she went back to the fortune teller and he take her to the shaman I mention previously and ask her to pay him $10k. In the end, the shaman died and she failed to vanquish the Lamia. So the fortune teller asked Christine to give away the button as a gift in order to give away the curse. The button was kept inside an envelope.

In the end, she decided to gave the button back to Ganush as she has died. She went to her graveyard, dug out her body, and give the button formally and officially to Ganush. In the next day, when Christine was relieved and looking forward to her trip with her boyfriend at the train station, her boyfriend took out the envelope where the button was inside it. Apparently, the envelope she gave away a night before that was mistaken. That was a coin inside the envelope not the button. It was swapped accidentally while she was in her boyfriend's car. And so, in the end, the floor cracked open and there were fire underneath it and Christine was dragged into the hell.. The end..

Overall, the movie was good. Just that sometimes the story wasn't went smoothly. Feels like something was not right during the movie. Something that doesn't make sense. I don't know what was it. Can't describe it in words. But the movie was quite scary sometimes and interesting storyline.
So, I rate this movie 6/10

Siang Seng Seafood Restaurant

2009-06-07T23:07:00.004+08:00

7th June 09, it was Sunday, and a day before this was public holiday because it's our Yang Di-Pertuan Agong's birthday. So today my relatives from Sg. Petani came to Penang as usual and we decided to go to this restaurant located at the mid-level of Long Bui Hill.
This place was introduced by a close friend of my father. He brought us there last Friday but that was already 9pm. So we decided to come here again to see the sunset. We barely couldn't make it as we went to Prangin Mall for a quick shopping before that. Luckily we manage to depart on 6.30pm and reach there on time to see the beautiful, incredible egg-alike sunset. ^^

In order to get to this restaurant, you have to drive on a short but very slanting road. So you must use gear no. 1 to drive up there. My uncle use gear no. 2 to drive up there and end up stuck and slide back down.. In the end they walk up from the slanting road because his wife and daughters was freak out and don't dare to give it another try. lolz. He drive CRV, but we saw kancil drove up too.. LOL
Actually that was what happened to us when we went there the first time.. But my dad give it another try with gear no. 1

When we arrived, first thing we do was photo session.. lolz..

the view..

the Sun..

close up look..

going down..

down...

down....

down.....

It was really incredible, I've never seen sunrise or sunset before. Because it's not everyday we can go to a great spot to see sunrise or sunset. I prefer sunset actually, because I don't need to wake up early in the morning to watch it. I can't wake up so early in the morning to see sunrise :-P

After the sky goes dark, it's time for Penang night view!!! This is Balik Pulau's night view..

Don't expect too much from that as Penang is not a big city so there was not much lights too see.. **sigh**

Now let's get back to the restaurant, Siang Seng Seafood Restaurant. First I have to apologize because I didn't take any of the food photos because the food wasn't fully decorated. It was just like normal dishes we ate at normal restaurant.
However, it tasted Great!! I love the Nestum Hie Koh (Shrimp paste, not sure correct or not, found this term from Google :-P), and steam "Ang Sai" fish which tasted sour and spicy.

Some photos of the restaurant's interior..

And there was free sauna there!! Free traditional herbal sauna.. There was a donation box for those people to donate after using the sauna, but it wasn't a must. If your face is thick enough to use it without paying anything then go ahead. They have people managing and cleaning up the place, at least you pay something for the cleaning is reasonable isn't it?
If you don't want to sauna, or eat dinner there, you can go there to drink beers and chit chat with your friends too.. They sell beers..
Besides, there were durians too. Haha.. Because it was located on the hill, and there were many durian fields there.

Overall this restaurant was really satisfying. All my relatives and my family members were happy and have a great time there. And it was cheap too!! There were 12 of us, and we ordered 7 dishes, only cost us about RM150.. Strongly recommended.. Worth eating even if it took us about 1 hour plus from Georgetown to there ;-)

Dinner at Madam Kwan's - KLCC

2009-06-01T20:53:00.009+08:00

30th May 2009, my girlfriend's new term is going to start soon, so she have to go back to KL to continue her new semester. Today, I accompany her went back to KL. We went back by bus at 9am in the morning. Our plan was arrived KL in 1pm-2pm, then we wanted to go shopping at Sunway Pyramid.

Unfortunately, the bus we took, Transnational, DRIVE VERY SLOWLY!! Took us 6 hours to reach KL which was on 3pm!! He stopped 3 times along the journey! Each stop about 20-30 minutes! Wasted a lot of time!! Pissed off, we went back home sadly at PV3, Melati Utama Condo. According to my girlfriend, there were broke in cases happened few weeks ago, so now they tighten up the security and each people who do not have resident pass, which cost about RM25, must fill in your details before you went in! So annoying!!

When we backed to our house, my ex-house in my case, it was already 4pm.. Too late to go to Sunway. Because it will took about 2 hours to get there by LRT and bus :-(
So we decided to go have a great dinner at KLCC. Then we went to this restaurant, Madam Kwan's ^^
It was a truely Malaysian's Cuisine which served all Malaysia's famous foods and Western food, of course with little bit of altered, they sold in expensive prices @.@ They served Char Koay Teow too, but I don't dare to see the price @.@

the menu..

The drinks we ordered was this Fresh Honeydw Fruit Juice. It was really fresh and fruity. Tasted nice and original ;-)

Fresh Honeydew Fruit Juice..

We have ordered Nasi Bojari, which looks alike with Nasi Lemak, there were these huge chicken drumstick, beef slice, egg, and spicy onions prawn.

Nasi Bojari..

And then we also ordered this Fish and Chips. The tartar sauce was very nice! Not very sour. Of course, the fish was nice too ^^

Fish and Chips..

The dessert we ordered this Banana Fruit Ice Cream.. It was served with fried banana and 2 scopes of ice cream. It was really very nice! Especially when you ate the hot fried banana together with the cold ice cream.. YUMMY!! Tasted nice as it was hot and cold together in your mouth ^^

Banana Fruit Ice Cream..

While we were enjoying our meal, suddenly we saw this elegant old lady, who dressed like the cartoon we saw outside for their mascots, so we think that this is Madam Kwan! Haha.. Saw her sitting and standing there. Sometimes walked into the kitchen. Then in the end we saw her leaving, all the waiters and waitresses were so respecting her. Really impressed, she can be so success with age like her. Saw her using Chanel's handbag. Wow... My girlfriend said she wish to be like her when she is old. Hahaha..

Overall the food were very satisfying. Although it was quite expensive, cost me RM69, but still acceptable for me :-P Strongly recommended for those who loves Malaysian's food.

Amazing Voice - Charice Pempengco

2009-05-30T00:23:00.005+08:00

Charice Pempengco singing Note to God.
Saw this video from one of my friend's facebook. She's so amazing. I've never heard of her before this. After watch her performance I was like goosebumps and touched my heart! Amazing voice, amazing singing skills, amazing high pitch, amazing performance. Must watch!!

Charice Pempengco Biography

Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco (born May 10, 1992), best known mononymously as Charice (a portmanteau of her first two names), is an international Filipina singer who rose to popularity through YouTube.

She is reportedly recording her U.S. debut album in the fall of 2009. It will be released under Warner Bros. Records and will be produced by her mentor, David Foster

Pempengco was born in San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines. She and her younger brother, Carl, were raised single-handedly by their mother, Raquel, after they left their father due to domestic violence when Pempengco was only three years old.

To help support the family, she began competing in amateur singing contests at age seven, from town fiestas in their province of Laguna to several vocal competitions on TV. She is said to have joined over 80 singing contests.

In 2005, Pempengco joined ABS-CBN's Little Big Star, a talent show in the Philippines loosely patterned after American Idol. Eliminated after her first performance, she was later called back as a wildcard contender and eventually became a finalist. Although she was a consistent top scorer in the final rounds, she only finished in third place.

Pempengco made minor appearances in local television shows and commercials, but had essentially fallen off the radar after her stint at Little Big Star. It was not until 2007 that Pempengco gained worldwide recognition after an avid supporter called 'FalseVoice' started posting videos of her onto YouTube. The videos garnered millions of hits making Pempengco an internet phenomenon.

Source: wikipedia

Working in Resonet

2009-05-27T23:30:00.010+08:00

Well, it has been a month since I started my working life. Before this I was struggling whether should I or shouldn't I blog about my working life as there is a possibility my boss could have read this! lolz. Then now here I am, thinking that it would be ok as long as I didn't offend my boss or the company and company's confidential information.

I'm now currently working at Resonet, a small webpage development company located at Jalan Lumba Kuda beside St Xaviers School. I work as a PHP Programmer.
Life here was not bad, work from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. At least I get to sleep late and rest on Saturday and Sunday :D

For the first month, there was not much jobs. The first three weeks I was told to do some practices only before started to work on a real project. I've done some practices on image uploading, merging and etc. Started to work on object oriented in PHP, never do that before in PHP. Last time studied about object oriented in college was developed in Java. And then I was told to make a blog for user to post, login and etc as practices. Oh ya, this company practice drawing data flow diagrams =.=" almost forgotten how to draw a DFD, so I was like just simply and roughly draw :P

After all these practices currently I am working on a real project. It was not a huge one, but takes time too, I'll just skip the details of this project. Let's talk about the good and the bad working here >.< (should be ok right? :P)

The Good

Let's start with the good first :P

1. Learn new stuff
As I was saying, I never implement object oriented in PHP before, so now I have to chance to learn that and it was not difficult. It's good to learn how to use object oriented because it is really useful as we can reuse the functions again and again without have to repeat writing the same function.

2. Friendly Colleagues
Colleague of mine here is very friendly too. We get along well and always jokes during working hour without affecting our working progress. We went to lunch everyday together at the hawker stalls opposite Shang Wu Primary School which have nothing much to eat!! Or the other kopitiam which we called it as "nasi lemak" which is much more better than the hawker stall opposite Shang Wu because they have economic rice there. But they closed early, :( so if we were too late we have to go to the nothing-to-eat Shang Wu hawker stall. **Sigh**
Let me introduce my colleagues here :P

- Wesley aka the fair guy - PHP Programmer
Senior of mine in Resonet and TARC. He was in ACN, a very helpful guy who guided me when I first worked here. But have some issue in trusting, nobody trust whatever things he said :P same as Mr. Ewejin aka Con Man in Gizwiz Studio!! haha

- Li Ching aka the senior - PHP Programmer
Senior of mine in Resonet and TARC too. She was in BIS, a very helpful girl too who guided me sometimes. She is very modest and always refuse to admit that she is senior to everybody here as she worked here longest.

- Li Sia aka the happy fruit - Template Programmer
As long as she is in the office, her laughter barely stop. She is popular in the office because of her loud laughter which influence everybody. Sometimes when it's boring it's good to hear her laugh! haha!! And she likes to bully me!! T.T

- Ice aka ice-ice-baby - Template Designer
The only one who married in the office and always call her husband as her boyfriend. Likes to edit her photos and she taught me some techniques too! :P

- Stella aka Penny Tai's fan - Admin
She likes Penny 戴佩妮 very much. She's in the fans club and took photo with Penny before. Roommate of Patricia!! :P

- Ling Wei aka small rat - Clerk
She is the key keeper, a quiet and shy girl who barely join in our conversation during lunch but she's a friendly person too ^^

The Bad

1. Slow internet connection and Lagging Computer
The computer I use is Vista Home with 1GB RAM, so you guys can imagine how lag it is la.. T.T

2. Environment
The place I work is not a office building but a housing apartment instead. Heard will move soon but don't know when and where. Pray hard it's not Bayan Lepas area or I will die!!

That is I think all that I can say. Hope my boss don't read this, and even if he do, please don cut my salary T.T
Should be ok I guess :P
Will update my blog if there's anything new!

- the end -

Night At the Museum 2

2009-05-24T14:23:00.009+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

Well, here's another movie's review. lolz. Really watched a lot of movies lately. Next week will be Terminator Salvation!! Haha.
Guess what, I watched this movie with my girlfriend again in Gurney Plaza.
Trailer..

Since I'm lazy to tell the story on my own, I decided to copy the synopsis from IMDB movies database :-P

When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers, Fonzie's jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from All in the Family. With a forwarded resume, Larry (Ben Stiller) becomes another caretaker at the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order.

If you watched the first movie, the same characters in the first movie were brought forward to this one too. The skeleton T-Rex, small tiny cowboy and Rome's soldiers, the dum dum statue, the naughty monkey, the Robin Williams aka Teddy Roosevelt statue and etc. This time, there were much more characters joined in.
Those who caught my attentions were Lord Vadar from Star Wars, Emo from Sesame Street, three cute singing perfect harmony cupids, and cute cute little shaky head Einstein. lolz.

The three little cupids was so cute and funny. There was a scene where Larry kiss Amelia and three of them appeared out of no where start singing Titanic theme song, My Heart Will Go On. lolz.
Then there were this small little cowboy and Rome's soldiers who joined the fight. Their enemies they fighting with were all normal human size. So when they started fighting, there was this dramatic background music, slow motion effects that makes their fight looks really epic! But then when the camera zoom out, their gigantic enemies were just streaming "Ouch!" cause their feet were attacked! lolz
This thinker was very funny too. Difficult to describe his funny act. Guess you guys have to find out in cinema :-P

And as you can see from the trailer, the argument between Larry and the security guard "Brundon" was hilarious too!
One more thing that I nearly missed out! After you watched this movie, you will know when and why cellphone was invented! The history of Motorola!! haha!

Well overall this movie was okay. It was hilarious but the storyline was normal. It was funnier than the first movie, but the storyline of the first movie was better though. You know, what do you expect from a comedy? lolz. You should thank god that the movie wasn't something like those stupid Scary Movie, Superhero Movie series. haha.
I rate this movie 7/10. A very relaxing and stress release movie, worth a laugh ^^

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

2009-05-24T14:16:00.009+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

FINALLY!! I get chance to watch this movie. Couldn't find anyone to watch with me, and my girlfriend watched before at KL with her coursemates already. However, she willing to accompany me to watch again this movie ^^ So we went to watch at Queensbay Mall on Wednesday night, RM6. haha..

Before I start, there's something that I want to clear out first. There was a friend of mine, who read my blog before and asked me why is it all about movies in my blog. Well, this is because there's not much interesting "adventures" in my life now that worth blogging about, so to prevent my blog growing mushrooms and spiderweb at least I wrote something about movies I watched :-P Is that reasonable? hmm.. Well if you feel my blog is bored and nothing interesting then I apologize about that :-P
Anyway, this is the trailer..

Well I guess most people watched X Men I, II, III before. This is not X Men IV, it's the story before any X Men I, II, III previously have ever happened. In this case, it's Wolverine's story. How he ended have metals all over his skeleton, how he lost his memories and all of that. Actually I don't like Wolverine when I was a kid watching X Men cartoon. I feels that his power was useless and so not cool, just a macho man with claws, plus his costume was gay!! Luckily they didn't use that costume in the movie series! My favorite X Men character is Storm, but she's not in this movie. I love her power, I feels that she's very cool especially when her eyes turns to white! Well talks about X Men cartoon do bring up some childhood memories. But I wasn't really a fan of X Men, just watched it sometimes when I was a kid. Didn't really understand the story and follow the story, just simply watch the action and powers and fighting. Kids.. lolz.. So I found this cartoon opening theme song on youtube! haha..

After I watched this clip, now only I realize Gambit was on it too :-P I've totally forgotten about him. He, however, is in this movie. In the movie he was so cool! Controlling the poker cards to attack people and creating forces, but I'm not really sure what his power really do. Hmm..

The story in this movie, begun when wolverine was a kid. He always fell sick and he have a brother name victor. That night, he saw this man killed his father, he was furious and that was the first time his skeleton claws (not metal knife-like claws) growing out from his hands. Then he killed that man and realize that the man he killed was actually his biological father. Then his brother victor brought him running out from the house and they started to live by their own. After they grew up, they joined the military. Victor was changing into a bad person, try to kill innocent people and rape innocent women. When his officer tried to stop him, he killed him accidentally. Then they were captured and was punished to shoot to death. But it was failed as both of them have healing powers. Then they were asked to join a special group that formed by the government with all mutants. They were tried to find something, without caring innocent's people life. They killed if they have to. So, Wolverine doesn't like this and leave this group.

Years later, Wolverine met his love ones and live as normal person, cutting down trees as a job. But then the government want him back. They wanted him to volunteer himself for their experiment. So, sending Victor to kill his girlfriend, and then told him that this experiment can make him even stronger so that he can have his revenge. This experiment was inserting this strongest metal from outer space call adamantium into his skeleton. After the experiment success, he heard that they wanted to wipe out his memory. So he was so angry and run away from the lab to find Victor to have his revenge. While he was trying to track down Victor, he realized that Victor was still working with the government and killing his girlfriend was a plot to trick him to volunteer himself in the experiment. He also finds out that the government was capturing all the teenage mutants in an island, including the teenage Cyclops. Gambit was one of them, but he manage to escape. So he went to find him and want him bring him to the island.

When he was on the island, he found out that his girlfriend was alive. She's a mutant too. Her power is can tell people to do whatever she told them to by touching them. Wolverine was so sad and feels he was cheated. But then she told him that her love towards him was true and she was forced to work with the government because her sister was captured by them. Her sister's power is cool! She can changed her skin into diamonds and blocked bullets! WOW!

In the end, Wolverine rescued all the captured mutants from their cage, and Professor Xavier came to help rescued them away with a helicopter. Then, Wolverine realized that the purpose they captured all mutants is to take a sample from them and combined all their powers into one mutant and controlled him. This mutant was strong and has lost his conscious. Wolverine alone can't defeat him, so Victor came and help. Finally they defeated him. But the bad guy use a adamantium bullet gun to shoot him in his head. This doesn't killed him cause he can heal, but cause him to lost all his memories. I don't know why is this but this is what they explained in the movie @.@

Well overall this movie is good. Probably the best movie yet in 2009. I'm sure there will be better movie coming on soon, if u know which movie I meant :-P
But there's something that doesn't make sense. If you guys still remember, in X Men II, it mentioned about Wolverine's history but there's something different. In X Men II, when he met the guy that created him, he said that he gave him the claws. Which means before the experiment he has no claws at all. From what I remembered, I know that Wolverine doesn't have claws before the experiment too.
Weird.. Maybe thet changed the story a bit. Most likely is.
Still, I rate this movie 8/10, one of the must watch movie ;)

Angels and Demons

2009-05-17T00:02:00.008+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler Ahead!!**

16th May 2009, me and my girlfriend went to watch this movie, Angels and Demons. I've watched the DaVinci Code years ago in cinema and I don't really like it that time. However, after I watched it again at home, I've understand the story more and I feel that it is quite nice actually. With all the mysteries history and the truth at the back and the trace to the truth. I love this kind of mysteries movies. It reminds me about National Treasure, I like that movie too. Here's the trailer of Angels and Demons..

I've never watched the trailer before I walked into the cinema. So I've totally no idea what is this movie is going to be about. Turns out that it was so so. I think the reasons that makes this movie not so attractive is because of all the Latin's names and Rome's histories that confused me.. @.@

Well I'll just talk about the synopsis roughly cause sometimes I'm not really that understand the story. Guess those who read the book could understand well. Please correct me if I say anything wrong.. :-P
The story is about the leader of the catholic church died and the world cries for the death of their leader. So now after his funeral, they'll going to have an internal election to choose and vote the next leader of the catholic in the world. I'm not sure whether this is the real thing or it's only make up story in the book, well I guess it's the real thing.. guess only :-P

Then there's this group called Illuminati who were the scientists long long time ago that discover the earth and the universe existence. This cannot be allow by the catholic religious as it could have turn their theories upside down. So they hunt and kill these scientists to hide the truth from the world, forcing those scientists to go underground and form this secret group, Illuminati. Don't know how many years ago, the catholic church people kill some of these scientists and now they're back for revenge. They threaten the church that they're going to kill 4 priest. Tom Hanks as Professor Robert Langdon were assigned this mission to track down the Illuminator. Then he found out that he's going to kill them in according to the 5 elements which are the earth, the wind, the fire, and the water and finally the bomb that will destroy Vatican City. A proton bomb that discovered by the scientist which proved the formation of the world that might have crashed with the catholic's theory about how God make the world. Something like that.

Then finally he found out that all these murders was just a plot. A plot from the other priest in St. Peter church that he wish to become the next leader of catholic church but he is not qualified because he is still young and haven't reach that level yet. This man is the actor who act as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, Ewan McGregor. He pretend that he saves the city by taking the bomb on a helicopter and flew up high in the sky so that the bomb exploded in the sky and prevent injuries. His heroic act almost made him success to what he wanted. However his plot was discovered by Tom Hanks and so finally he killed himself.

Overall the movie is above average. Not as impressed as the DaVinci Code. It's more on action film than solving clues and puzzles. So I rate this movie 7/10

Back to Ms. Saigon

2009-05-14T01:31:00.008+08:00

Today, my girlfriend just came back from Kuala Lumpur after her final exam. I went to pick her up at the airport at about 9pm. After that, we decided to go for dinner as I haven't taken my dinner but she already ate something at McDonald in LCCT airport at 6 something.

I planned to eat the famous porridge that near the airport. My father told me the place but when we got there, we saw nobody eating porridge and eating noodles instead. So we gave up and went to E-Gate. I took my Nasi Ayam Rendang at Oldtown then went to the Vietnamese restaurant next to it to eat some dessert - Ms. Saigon.

This is the second time we went there. Thanks to Jasmine who recommended this restaurant to me. The first time we went to eat dinner there and it was so expensive @.@ So this time we just went to eat dessert only as I love the Vietnamese Apple Pie so much :-P
There's something special about this restaurant. There is this waitress (waiter or waitress we were not really sure :-P), which we guess is the boss there. She always tied a very traditions braids, but her face looks more like a male than a female, and her voice was rough too. So we guess that maybe she's a she-male :-P The first time we went there, she was so funny. While she were serving customers, she singalong with the songs they played and danced sometimes. The other waiter saw we looking at her and told us that she was very happy.. LOL.. The first time we went there we ordered the mint tea. The taste was weird as it tasted like toothpaste. I don't really like it but my girlfriend love it. I don't really remember the main course we ordered, just roughly remember that mine was lemon grass chicken if I'm not mistaken, it was really delicious. I remember the spring rolls were nice too, but not cheap.. :-P
These are the photos we took last time..

This time we went back there just ordered the "Tong Fen" noodles and the Vietnamese Apple Pie. Only cost us about RM13+ ^^
I strongly recommend the Vietnamese Apple Pie.. You guys can go try it next time.. ^^
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Trip to Kuala Gula

2009-05-04T23:14:00.021+08:00

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1st May 2009, it was labour day and my mother decided to "jio" us go for a one day trip at Kuala Gula. Before that I have never heard of this place before and this trip was actually organize by my mother's customer and her customer introduced her to follow their tour guide to this trip.

I woke up at 7.18am that morning (damn sleepy, because the previous night I slept late cause cannot get use to sleep early yet). We gather together at Goh Tiao Loh with my uncle, aunt, cousins, granma, and my cousin's boyfriend. We went there by bus, school bus =.=" It was quite uncomfortable and I couldn't fall asleep during the journey.

After.. I think.. 2 hours later, we reach Kuala Gula. First thing first, the tour take us to take our lunch in a small kopitiam. We ate fried rice with many many prawns but the prawns not very nice only, and crab fried mihun. The mihun was full of the crab's small little shells so it was not really nice to eat.. Haiz..
The next destination was really sweat. They bring us to buy local foods. What so sweat about that? They were selling at a terrance house, with all the foods packed and put on the floor in boxes. There were also free Rojak.

Next, they brought us to a salted egg "factory" to see how they process salted eggs. =.=" The tour guide said that they first put the duck eggs in a red mud, then throw it in a machine (the tour guide pronounced it as "misin") so that the eggs were covered in a black dust (I dunno what was that). Something like that.. I wasn't really interested in that so.. =.="
Here are some boring photos... This is the Artificial Intelligence "misin" that they used to separate the different size of the duck eggs in to 3 categories.. =.="

After that, they brought us to the next destination, which was the fire woods factory. Well this place was at least slightly better than the previous "factory". It was quite interesting. I read about Weasley's novel before called 木炭 and the semi-sphere thing where they put all the dry woods inside and burned it for months (I forgot how many months already, if not mistaken it's almost a year) was exactly like the one described in the novel. There was one which was emptied and they allowed us to go inside to see. It was hot, really hot inside, when you came out from it you will feels like the normal temperature in a room was as cold as an air-con room.

Destination after that was the stupiest. They brought us go drink coconut water. =.=" the most stupiest was the location was very deep inside and we have to walk a quite far under the hot whether just to drink Penang also have coconut water. =.=" Because they were also selling coconut water with alcohol which is illegal so they have to do it far inside so that they wouldn't be discovered by police. =.=" It was so hot and some of us decided to go back to the bus first because my uncle and my granma was on the bus. When we back there the bus's door was locked!! My uncle tried to open the door from the inside but he can't find the right switch! Oh my god it was really god damn hot and the place where the bus parked was no tree at all!! Killing!! So we walk back there and find some tree to stay out from the sunlight! After that I was not feeling well and I feel very tired. Feeling like going to fall sick soon and the next Monday was my first day to work!! STUPID!!
The following photo is the long long way of the way to get inside and drink alcohol coconut.. =.="

Next destination was 华圣宫. When we reached there, the tour guide told us that we better went to the toilet, which she pronounced as "tuilet". Then we were told that there was a big Guan Yin statue which imported from China. At first I thought that would be something nice to see. However when we saw that... well I shall say that Kek Lok Si's Guan Yin statue was more impressive.. =.=" There's another thing that worth visiting, or I shall say I THOUGHT worth visiting, here which was the Chinese's legend about eighteen level hell exhibition. It was small and only took you about 5 minutes. However it was quite informative and it can warn people to stop doing evil during their life in human's world so that you don't have to be tortured in the hell after you died.
Besides, there was also a "heaven" there, where you can visit by climbing the stairs to about 3 to 4 stories high. You can see the view of Kuala Gula there where it was all oil palm jungle and you can't see the ending.
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The high-tech temple drum =.="

The Hell..

The Heaven..

The oil palm view..

After the temple, I feel so sick and tired! Oh gosh, I was scared that I will fell sick. It's all because of that stupid alcohol coconut to blame!! But I still have to continue to the next destination which was the belacan "factory"!! There was nothing to tell in that place.. =.=" only see people drying "hie bi" and the "misin" they used to do belacan.. After that we proceeded to the fisherman village. We get to go on the boat and go out to the sea. Well it was really no purpose.. Only see people catch "ham", sea gooses, eagles and monkeys.. =.=" The monkeys was fed by crab, they catch crabs to eat. They brought us along the sea for an hour and went back to somewhere near the dock, to see the place where people feed sea fishes and my dad bought some big fishes and crabs there..
Photos..

Feeling relief, the next destination was our dinner. We went to a seafood restaurant near by. It was ok.. nothing special, so I didn't take any photos of the food. And then we were told that we will drop by Taiping on the way back to Penang. Feeling curious, I thought we will be going to the Night Zoo in Taiping since there was the only place we could go in the night. When we reach there, they brought us to buy "miku" =.=" and then, going to touch boars!! =.=" Touch a living boars which, the tour guide said, were the "god" of Indian's religious or something like that. And told us that after you touched the boar will win lottery =.=" Oh my gosh, I can't believe this.. Touching boars during this H1N1 period?? What the xxxx.. And purposely stop by Taiping just to touch boars!!?? Unbelievable! When we were there, there were so many buses and travel agencies that brought tourist here to touch the boars!! We were told that at least thousands of people were there and the boars could have run into the woods!! Oh my gosh, why on earth was there so many... "believers" believes that touching the boars will win lottery? If so, why those Indian guys who were guarding the boars still guarding the boars there?! While they can just touch the boars and win lottery and shake their legs at home?! WTF!! LUCKILY, when we were told that there were thousands of people in there, everybody agreed giving up touching the boars and FINALLY took off and came back to PENANG!! THANK GOD!!

As a conclusion, it was really a boring tour that make me almost fell sick!! I seriously urge those people who planning to go spend your holiday there to think twice! Malaysia really is lack of vacation spot!! really... =.=" Oh Ya! At least we learn new vocabularies there!! "Tuilet" and "Misin"!!

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Coming Soon

2009-04-23T22:29:00.007+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler ahead!!**

22nd April, Wednesday, Me, my mom and my dad went to watch "Coming Soon" at GSC Gurney Plaza! Yay, sounds exciting because I've always wanted to watch this movie after I watched the trailer cause it looks scary!!

However, it turns me down.. Because it wasn't as scary as I imagine. Trailer always cheated people to walk in to the cinema doesn't it? Here's the trailer and you guys can judge it..

Well it's cool isn't it? Especially where the ghost chase the girl with the lights turn off one by one.. Phew that is really scary! HOWEVER!! In the movie, that scene wasn't a real ghost, it was that girl's friend play a trick on her because it's her birthday, sweat huh? =.=" that was the scene that I loved the most when I watched the trailer, it really spoiled a lot!! =.="

Besides that, there was another scary scene, which was the ghost was bending at the guy's back and the guy was carrying the ghost back home without realizing that she was there. After back home he heard some noise while he watched TV, he heard someone combing hair in his toilet.. So apparently he went to check it out and when he opened the toilet curtain he saw a comb fell down on the floor and there are long hair on the comb!! ARGH!! It wasn't really that scary though..

OK, now let's talk about the story.. The story was okay, quite unexpectable, quite creative.. BUT THERE WAS NO ENDING!! Sometimes I don't like ghost movies is because ghost movies usually don't have ending, because it is impossible to "kill" a ghost isn't it? Except for chinese's ghost movies because chinese have "powerful" Tao sifu to destroy the ghost.. but chinese's ghost movies lately also choose to end without an ending, is it a trend? =.="

Well let's back to this movie, in this movie's movie, is talking about an insane women name Chaba in a village that like to kidnap kids and take out their eyeballs and claim to be their own kids.. Then when the villages found out they hang her til death and the spirit came back for revenge. Base on the movie, it was a truth story that happened 30 years ago, so the main characters went to the village and wish to burn Chaba's body to destroy the ghost, however the real Chaba is not dead actually.. She was saved by the police when the villages hang her and end up stuck in mental hospital.. So now who's the ghost? Then they figured out that the ghost is the movie's actress that act as the ghost!! So they went to the production company. It was emptied and nobody's there. Then he watched a behind the scene footage and found out when they were shooting the hanging scene, there was an accident and the actress was really hung til death!!

In the end the guy was chased by the ghost and the ghost start talking.. she said "Do you really likes to see me die? huh?!?!" something like that and want revenge on anyone that trying to watch her die!! Well in my opinion the ghost looks more scary while she was not talking and just stand behind there silently at the back, the talk really spoiled it.. In the end the guy was brought into the movie by the ghost and she killed him by digging out his eyes.. Before he died, he saw his friend who watched the movie before he does and all the movie's crew dead with their eyes digged out too..

Well I have a question here, why on earth is the actress died and nobody knows? Why all the crews missing and nobody knows? (actually they died but their bodies were in the movie so..) Sweat huh.. =.=" not logic..

Overall the movie was okay and it is not as nice as I expected.. The movie was only tried to scare the audience by the sudden appear with sound effect "TENG!! TOM!! TONG!!" and the scary face only =.=" It was just like when we tried to scare our friend by hiding and surprise someone.. nothing special.. Except that carry the ghost at the back and the lights turn off one by one although it was not the ghost who did that =.="

I rate this movie 4/10.. worth a watch if the ticket is RM6.. lolz
oh ya.. before the movie end, the ghost suddenly appeared and asked you "Do you really wanna watch me die?!?!!?", it was spoiled and it was quite funny actually =.="

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Latest Trailer!

2009-04-20T03:59:00.011+08:00

Everybody, this is the latest Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer!!
Man, this is so cool!! I can't wait until 16th July 2009!!
In this trailer we can see Dumbledore fighting the inferies(zombies), a girl cursed, Death Eaters attacking Muggles(non-magic folks), Death Eaters attacking Hogwarts and many more! This is the most amazing trailer ever! Must watch!!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will hit the cinema on 16th July 2009!!

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愛到瘋癲 MV (Love Crazy)

2009-04-17T21:19:00.009+08:00

Sing: 動力火車 Power Station
Compose: Ella
Lyrics: Hebe & 施人城

空荡荡的房间坟墓一样安静的夜
不肯死去的昨天陪着我还在等谁
你一定没有变一定还爱我对不对
眼角不能有泪水下一秒你就会出现

爱到疯癫苦的酸的无所谓
看背叛爬上你不遮掩的脸
我竟然还觉得很美
爱到疯癫伤了痛了都没感觉
你要我等你到哪个期限我都奉陪

你下楼去买烟然后迷路迷了几天
这样牵强的谎言对我都是种慰藉
你一定没有变一定还爱我像从前
嘴角不能再流血等一下吻你不方便

爱到疯癫苦的酸的无所谓
看背叛爬上你不遮掩的脸
我竟然还觉得很美
爱到疯癫伤了痛了都没感觉
你要我等你到哪个期限
你要我再赔上多少尊严我都奉陪

爱到疯癫苦的酸的无所谓
看背叛爬上你不遮掩的脸
我竟然还觉得很美
爱到疯癫伤了痛了都没感觉
你要我等你到哪个期限我都奉陪
我都奉陪

Ella is incredible in this mv.. She's so good.. especially at the end of the MV where she wearing the wedding gown and dance crazily.. It's so touch.. must watch..
And the song is nice too.. Bravo..
Sometimes love does make people crazy huh.. and it makes people blind too..
Incredible thing love is.. Let's just wish that all of us have a great love life shall we? ^^

Knowing

2009-04-16T15:50:00.016+08:00

**Caution! Spoiler ahead**

15th April 2009, me, Yong Xuan and Kok How were going to eat sushi at Sushi King, Queensbay, as they have RM2 promotion! As usual we need to queue during the promotions periods and we have to snatch for sushies.. haha.. We manage to get Unagi, Tempura, Salmon and etc.. very worth eating ;)

After that we going to watch "Knowing" at 2.25pm.. I read some of the review at cari forum and some people said it's nice, some say not.. but mostly is positive review.. then I heard from my girlfriend said that the movie is ridiculous but still I would like to watch this movie.. lolz.. Here is the trailer

Truely, the ending is quite ridiculous, the storyline is like new version of Noah's Ark, but the ending is like new version of Adam and Eve.. lolz
According to my girlfriend, she said that the beginning part of the movie is like haunted movie (she scare haunted movies.. lolz), the middle part is like technology movie, and the ending become alien's movie.. lolz.. well.. she was right, except that the haunted part was not really haunted.. haha..

The story was about a girl name Lucinda can heard whispering all the time. Then her teacher asked the class to draw the future and the drawing will be put into a time capsule and burried under their school until 50 years later their students will get their drawing.. She didn't draw on the drawing paper but she wrote many weird numbers.. After 50 years later, apparently, the main character will get that paper.. lolz.. Nicholas Cage's son name Caleb, get Lucinda's envelope and he saw all those numbers.. And then Nicholas Cage realized that those numbers represent a horrible incidents' date, a number of people that will die, and the location for 50 years (1959-2009).. 911 incidents was in that list too.. Then from that prophecy he witness 2 more incidents himself and the last incident that wrote on that paper is the end of the world.. something like that..

And then there were Aliens who try to get pairs of every living creature on earth so that they can start all over again.. Well, apparently Nicholas Cage's son was chosen together with a little girl and the left earth.. I think the way of the end of the world in this movie is quite creative.. the sun's black spot explosion cause earth to burn every living things into ashes..

Overall the movie was okie, just the ending was ridiculous, visual effects was good.. Worth watching ;)
I rate this movie 6/10

Dinner at Sushi Zanmai - 1 Utama

2009-04-16T01:48:00.005+08:00

The last night of me staying at KL, me and my girlfriend decided to do something different. So we went to 1U and have dinner at Sushi Zanmai.
We've came across this restaurant for many times and each time we passed by, there were always have many people queue up at the entrance. As I know we can only see Sushi King have queue when there were RM2 promotions but this Sushi Zanmai have so many customers everyday, so we decided to check it out that day..

While we were queuing outside, we saw a guy who looks like LeeHom!! haha.. my girlfriend was so excited and she keep on staring at him.. =.="

As usual, each time we went to a special restaurant camera will be there for sure.. lolz

First, we ordered a steam egg.. compare with Sushi King, their steam egg was softer and the ingredients was more and nicer!! haha..

Our sushies.. Can't really remember the name, there were Unagi, Tempura, Tuna Inari, Egg Mayo and a Nadou.. Everything were perfect except Nadou and Egg Mayo cause i don't eat Nadou and for the Egg Mayo.. I prefer Sushi King :P

The Steam Mayonnaise Salmon (cannot remember the exact name :P) was fantastic!! Once it goes into your mouth it melted at once and it was so soft and Yummy!!! MUST TRY!!

Desing ready to eat the sushies!!

Unadon!! My favorite..

Desing's Tempura Rice..

Me ready to eat!!

Overall it was really satisfying.. We have a great dinner and this cost us RM80++ @.@
but still the sushi is cheaper than Sushi King's..