Rinjani!

Anyone interested to scale Mt Rinjani? NUS Rovers is organising a trip up there, so it would be good if you guys could let me know by 20th Mar? Thanks!

For more details, u know who to look for :P

Current Music: Tank - Cheng Li De Yue Guang

Fate/Stay Night

Latest Anime which I'm catching (albeit on YouTube), on top of Naruto and Deathnote. Well, it's a pity that you dun get much seeds for this anime, and it was released quite some time back.

Fate/Stay Night is an anime television series which follows (very closely) to the TYPE-MOON visual novel Fate/Stay Night. There are three branching storylines: Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel. It's also made into a PC game, and I've heard (and read) that it has explicit hentai scenes (gosh!). But anyway, this anime is just purely suggestive, so it's similar to those of Evangelion and the-what-nots.

The story revolves around the main character, Shirou, and his servant Saber, who are participating in the 5th Holy Grail War. Well, all of us should have heard some stuff about the Holy Grail, and this anime series does draw some mythological and legendary figures into the picture. To materialise the Holy Grail, a ritual is held, with the Holy Grail selecting 7 wizards (masters) and 7 familiar spirits (servants). The Servants are: Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, and Berserker.

Why should you catch this? Well, in my opinion this is quite an interesting (though short) series if you are interested in legends and mythical beings. Of course, being a combat-type anime, it's better if you like fighting and magic, rather than comedic or thought-provoking type of anime (because there are few funny scenes).

Try to catch it on YouTube. It's all uploaded there! ;)

Current Mood: Happy

Of Lettuce and Long Queues...

I hate people who misuse the AXS Machine!!! The AXS Machine is meant for people to collect the tickets they've booked online, if the booking collection queue is long, and if you really want to know which movies still have seats, can you just make a couple of strides over to the walk-in counters to do so?!?!? It's really a pain in the ass when there is a long queue in front of the AXS machine in GV Vivocity, with 4 people (I suppose they looked like 20+++???) trying to buy (or view?) tickets for the movies, while the rest of the people were waiting patiently behind them!

And gosh..maybe they did that 'cos the walk-in queue was really too long. It was madness. And it was just 4pm in the afternoon, on a Wednesday.

I seriously wondered why people never told them to hurry up, or the GV staff never offered to help them, who were clearly wasting time and having their faces stuck right in front of the that small pathetic screen. Perhaps it's in our nature not to stir trouble?

I stood there for barely a minute, and seeing that they are still fiddling with the touchscreen with little success, I decided to move on to the online ticket collection queue instead. At least, I was able to get my tickets EVEN BEFORE those 4 left the AXS machine. Pathetic.

That aside, finally met up with my jie to watch Protégé...

I must say it's a nice movie! Though I was wondering why is Daniel Wu at the side of the poster when he's seemingly the main lead in the movie? Andy Lau's cool as a drug dealer, and I must applaud his speech on anti-smoking. (Maybe we can use that in future anti-smoking campaigns?) Anita "MIA" Yuen was a bit disappointing as her role did not seem of much importance, and Louis Koo was really a bit-part player in this stellar (?) cast. Well...balancing 5 stars in a single movie isn't easy, but I think they managed to pull it off.

I particularly liked Zhang Jingchu's character, her role as a single parent mum (till Louis Koo came back in her life) struggling with providing her daughter with a decent life, and her life being messed by drugs...At least there was some dignity left in her when she died. It was quite sad that her character had to die in the hands of her husband, who was caught trafficking drugs to Singapore (lol). The sight of Louis Koo sweating like crazy was quite funny.

Loneliness is more powerful and scarier than drugs? That seems like the theme for the movie, and that's why people turn to drug to escape loneliness. Simple yet straight-to-your face message.

A gory part of the movie was how the cop's hand was whacked off while attempting to open a lock (wah lao...where got people do that one?) and how another cop was trying to shoot to open the door, and the bullets ricocheted off the door instead and hit his colleague. And another, on how Andy Lau's character died by cutting his own throat with a piece of tile from the toilet.

All in all, a wonderful movie. 4 out of 5 stars!



Post-movie dinner was great! Tried out Kim Gary's and after a short wait, we managed to get a seat. Seemed quite similar to the one I ate in KL previously, with all the cheese baked rice and such. After that, we popped by Giant Hypermart to get some stuff for Eup's mom, and waited for 30 minutes for lettuce which never arrived! Apparently the person thought we wanted parsley, then celery. Sheesh...Next time if there aint any more vegetables left on the racks, it just means it's sold out. lol.

Current Mood: Awake

CNY!

Whee! It's Chinese New Year again! It started off rather quietly at my grandmother's place, and I was left to be entertained by cards with my father and uncle, took a quick snooze for roughly an hour, and viola! The house was brimming with people!

All were late, and it could be attributed to it being a (lazy) Sunday. Well, glad to meet my cousins again and also their kids! 5 lovely babies running around the house (well, only 2 are essentially running, wielding 'swords', while a baby boy was attempting to take a walk all around the area and refusing to sleep.)

Being a rather split generation - 6 cousins married with 4 already having kids (1 overseas now) and 7 younger ones still about the 20 something age group - it was interesting to see a 'disparity' between us all. Those married busied themselves with their babies, while we 'younger ones' had to find things to do...well what else but to watch movies on the first day? (This can be attributed by the fact that we lack a mahjong table at grandma's place and the card table is quickly taken up by the adults.)

And with the younger ones having 3 overseas currently (macham outstation), 1 pak-tor-ing with bf, it's left with 3 of us. 3 less 1, so we decided against playing cards and headed for the cinemas to catch Jack Neo's newest production, "Just Follow Law", with cousin Peihuat and his wife and baby! (Well the first time for the baby to go to the movies wor~!)

Poster says it all!

This is a creative movie which takes a jibe at the ministries and their 'efficiencies'...so much so that I've realised they are really all true, aren't they? These are the very issues which we deal with in our daily lives - follow BLACK and WHITE, follow the LAW, shooting ARROWS, COMPLAIN to higher-ups, etc.

I was surprised to see Fann Wong acting so un-womanly in this film. But it definitely lends much-needed humour and with Gurmit Singh lending his acting talent in this film, it is not a lightweight cast either. Furthermore, the support cast is equally interesting and each had their funny moments.

I loved the part where the auntie learnt how to use computers and said that she has a blog called laozhabor.blogspot.com, and some of the more famous acronyms like CC (cover ca-chng), BCC (better cover ca-chng), "goodest" (better than gooder, which is better than good a.k.a. sibei hou ah!)

I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND this movie! Sibei hou ah! Huat ah!

More pictures:


'Trashy' Fann Wong


The 4 goofers


After that, back at grandma's house, I dabbled in 6 rounds of poker, and had dinner. Went out with Jiahui to watch movie (hopefully) despite the increasing crowds downtown, but we did not manage to catch any.

However, I stayed on with her to catch Norbit with her 2 other friends - Ben and Stephanie. This was after we did not manage to get any seats at PS, and had to move over to The Cathay to get 4 front row seats! But knowing the quality of the front row seats of Cathay cinemas versus that of GV's, we're rather assured that we won't leave with aching necks or strained backs.



The movie was super hilarious! Eddie Murphy starred in 3 roles, and I really wondered how he managed to do it all out, especially in scenes when Norbit and Rasputia appeared side by side! Of the 3 characters - Norbit, Rasputia and The Golden Wanton Orphanage owner Mr Wong - I loved the Mr Wong character with his superb (and funny) accent, great lines and being politically incorrect! Talk about being racist and spewing goofy lines during the wedding ceremony!

I personally thought it was funny, but it was not funny all the way...in fact only certain points in the movie created much needed laughter and amusement within the cinema-goers. Considering it's a late movie at 12.10am, I could be forgiven that some scenes seemed short of being a total nightmare to guys (refer to Car Wash scene...OMG *bangs head*).

Finished the movie at 2 plus, and we all got a lift from Ben home. It was a great day...and tomorrow's gonna be much much better!!!

Current Mood: Happy

Current Music: Zhang Shao Han - Meng Li Hua

Nokia Bus

Have you all taken the Nokia Bus before? There's one (SBS 2779A) which is plying along the 153 bus route...Although the interior looked amazingly different from a normal SBS bus, it leaves much to be desired with the air-conditioning system, the number of seats and the bus speed. There was little or no air-con in the bus, and it was really bad 'cos it was rather hot, and it's as though one was in an oven. Haha.

But the nice parts were the non-stop MVs, nice white cushioned seats, and it's design. It's as though you're in a moving pub! (Well new idea...maybe a mobile pub/club. HAHA)

Managed to take a couple of pictures of the bus...hehe.

The seats!!!


The bus

Crazy Nite..

...in school. Haha. Well I guess doing too much lab reports with really no idea of how to do the calculations someone else has done before really makes people mad. But it was sure fun (in a way) and we managed to get about 40% done that night...which is pretty cool ;) I'm glad that I'm doing labbing with Shanbing and Wenyong, it's gonna take 7 more weeks too! Jiayou to us!

Now for some pictures from the K-Box session with the S09-ers...after getting them from Grace ;)

Me & Guanyu...ala Cheers Beer commercial


Food's good!


This picture IS most disturbing...


Us at K-Box!


Busy busy week ahead! 2 homework submissions, 1 lab report, bike2bite event on Saturday, and most importantly, a TEST! /runs

Current Mood: Busy

Current Music: Harlem Yu - Jie Bu Diao