A tribute to Spiderman

In view of Spidey's new movie, Spiderman 3, hitting our very shores, we have here a SNEAK PREVIEW of the latest movie starring...who else but Spiderman!!!!

*dances to the opening sequence*

Oh man...the execs at Marvel should have done a better job than their Spiderman 1 & 2 releases...they should use the opening sequence here!

It's not just cool. It's uber cool.

Imagine a Spiderman who's a biker stud who is damn handsomegeeky and wins over many girls...and TALKS to a spider on a wall to teach him how to use his spider powers. If you can't imagine...contrast the following:

vs
See the difference? You can't really tell other than the stupid MJ being there, right?

The funniest thing must be the grey 'box' which he wears. Super cool. Maybe some day there'll be a toy for this dude. Better than the old Spiderman (then again, which came first? Marvel or 1978 Toei? U decide :P )

Oh another picture of Spiderman...


Spiderman kenna searched

Eh...wrong pic...damnit the censors must have stopped working.

Ok this seriously shows that I NEED the sleep. Gonna sleep...after a 4v5 match. ROFL.

Current Music: Spiderman Theme Song - Spiderman! Za!

Movie Marathon (part 4!)

4th post for the Movie Marathon mania...woohoo! (I din even know that it would be a marathon till I realised I've been catching 4 movies in 4 days. lol)

This time round I'm introducing...*drum roll*...The Pursuit of Happyness!

"And it was at that time that I thought about Thomas Jefferson writing that Declaration of Independence. Him saying that we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I thought about how he knew to put the 'pursuit' in there, like no one can actually have happiness. We can only pursue it."

It was a heartwarming and emotionally engaging for me, not simply a rags-to-riches story, but more of a story where it tells us that life is full of possibility if you put your heart into it and don't give up. Like when you do not get As for your exams, does it mean you're doomed? I'm now thinking twice about this now, because, to quote Adidas, "Nothing is Impossible".

So what is possibly? Possibly is a high chance, and probably means there's almost no chance. Well, just something I've learnt from the movie itself. But the inspiring message about the implacable power of love and determination drives home, and I'm sure the audience in the cinema were astounded at how Christopher Gardner faced adversity and managed to overcome the odds to pull through, sell his remaining bone density scanners, and deal with a rocky financial situation, all the while trying to keep his son happy.

There's no "Y" in happiness, only "I".

How true.

I thank Liyang for this picture hehe.

This movie is meaningful and I'm sure it is applicable to all people...in fact I was asking Ruhui if it ever is possible that a person like Gardner in OUR society were able to rebound from all those setbacks (or equivalent) and rise to his current status...Seems impossible, and I must say that he sure has a good deal of luck!

One of the best quotes of the film, "You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period."

Maybe I should start believing in all these. Preserve on and you'll succeed (eventually). Fight on. Believe in yourself. Be good with people and do things with great determination. Lastly, protect my dream...

A night of ponderment again

Current Mood: Pensive

Current Music: Sun Yan Zi - Ni Guang

TMNT

Not TNT but TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Fourth feature film for these green creatures, but I guess their value has not gone down...yet!

Luckily for me, this was a movie which was decided in advance; TMNT was due to open on a Friday instead of a Thursday, possibly to catch the evening crowd after a long week of work and with a weekend round the corner! Was in a fully-packed cinema with Yanling, and then a guy who sits so straight up (or is he tall? I dun think so...) plonked in the seat right in front of me! Darned. I tried to sit straight to view the movie, but his round head just blocked out the entire picture in the bottom center, which is super irritating. So I had no choice but to keep shifting my head left and right to watch the movie.

Maybe the design of the cinema was not meant for people sitting so straight up, or for tall people, but I had hoped that there would be some sense of understanding if you're tall and in the center of the cinema and sitting up straight. After that I had a sore neck...awww..

Anyway back to the movie...it was great to see a fully animated movie! But the turtles were a tad too slim for me Just didn't work out for me 'cos in my opinion (and from comics and the TV series) they were supposed to be much fatter and stockier. Wassup with the change in image? Dieting?! (I wonder how one goes dieting on a diet of pizzas. bUrP~~~~)

Overall it was quite good! But maybe I expected more from these green creatures, to deliver and to give a cool show. Mikey's jokes still crack me up, and the individual turtles' personalities were still more or less intact.

Was discussing with Yanling whether to go to St James or Clarke Quay to destress...to relax. After all, exams are coming in a month's time. Sighs. And still a lotta assignments to go, lab reports to chiong, and TESTS! OMG. Mid-term tests next week.

Totally sian.

After a short walk down Orchard Road, with the traffic thinning out from Cine to PS, and after some inconclusive decisions, we decided to go home. Well, rest well girl! You need the rest! Think of it as postponing of event. Haa~

Managed to catch the last train on NEL, last train on NS line, last feeder bus from my interchange. Phew! And that meant that I reached home at...1am. HA~

3rd movie in 3 days...1 more tomorrow! Long time never watch movies liaos...lol.

Current Mood: Happy

Current Music: Byul - I Think I

Tonight we dine in HELL!!!

Was wayyyy late for the meet-up with Marcus. Darned. Was jammed in traffic. Maybe the rain had something to do with it. Or maybe, Singapore has too many cars roaming the streets at certain periods of the day.

This was the movie which I initially wanted to watch, but did not have time to do so...and finally I can! Well I managed to go home early to rest, since there were no tutorials in the afternoon. Hit the gym in school first before I headed home, with no lunch (but I ain't hungry anyway) and having little more than a piece of duck and 2 tau sah piah for 'dinner'...it DOES help that they were food which I liked!

The movie was rated M18, but I wondered whether the rating was correct, or should it be R21...then again other than showing nipples and breasts and bare-chested dudes with outrageous 6-packs, the artistic style of filming it does not seem to be R21-rated (which I think is for shows with explicit sex scenes...like Basic Instinct?!?) But then again...18 year olds can view girls in (almost) full nude mehs? Hmms. Well this is something I wondered aloud during the course of the show.

Anyway to move on, it's inspiring to guys 'cos you're definitely awed by the 300 men each having 6-packs. Well the production notes stated that the cast had to undergo vigorous gym training to train up those "packs" of theirs. It helps that post-production helped to stencil the abs to make them more clear and defined.

The cinematography was very "Sin City"-like - the colours, topography, forms and even the dramatic sequencing of certain events and fighting scenes helped to increase the 'visual dynamics' of the movie. It was astounding, and the soundtrack accompanying the movie was of equivalent class.

But well, the violence might be something which can be considered to be gory and times, while visually stunning in certain scenes. Dramatic it might seem, but I think the type of gore and bloodshed in this film might tend to put off some of the women from watching the movie.

Felt hungry after the movie, but didn't get anything till I reached home, ate a tau sah piah (remaining 1) and worked on my lab report. *yawn*

Personal goal from henceforth: Gym more, eat less and healthily, achieve those outrageous stenciled 6-packs.

Current Mood: Hungry

Stomp Ê Yard!

After trying to shove aside some time (and much-needed sleep) aside, I finally watched my first movie this month! Wow...the last one was Letters from Iwo Jima with Ruhui and PWC. Had a list of movies which I wanted to watch, such as TMNT, Pursuit of Happyness, etc, but I watched Stomp The Yard with Weili! Managed to catch our show in time too! Just that there was a person checking the tickets at the very same cinema...darned.

I must say that the dance scenes are pretty great to watch...something along the line of Happy Feet or Step Up, but the overall plot is simply bad to begin with. But well, at least we're entertained by the step-dancing and lovely movements they had to make.

The sub-plot of the guy chasing a girl who has a boyfriend...mans...maybe all of you out there should watch it...somehow. Teach you few tricks here and there *lol*

But overall...still passable based on the great dance movements! Plot sucks, so if you're going for a real good movie, maybe you should tune in to other movies instead :)

After the movie, we basically walked around - we had not shopped in Orchard for quite some time le, so we made our way to places like the Apple Shop @ Cine and NewUrbanMale at The Heeren. The giant screen for the iMac is uber cool! OMGosh. I think if you watch videos on it you can just chunk out your old TV if yours aint a Plasma or LCD type. It's super big and clear! Not to mention, WHITE :D

I wanna watch more movies! Pirates of the Carribean 3, TMNT, Pursuit of Happyness....the list goes on!!!!

X-Physique!

We Came, We Saw, We Conquered...

Din expect to leave with so much stuff at the end of the race, in which there was minimal training and we were so busy with our stuff that we decided to just go for the experience (and thrill?) of adventure racing. X-Physique is like the entry-level or stepping stone for adventure racers and wannabes.

And it turned out pretty well for us, in the end that is. But the route to victory was quite unforeseen.

Nianjia met me at my house to head down to National Youth Park near Somerset, where the race was to be held. We reached Orchard super early and took our time, while waiting for Bing Ying and Cindy.

There were not many people there at the NYP and it was quite dead, with the Mixed Open wave having gone at 8am and should be back around 11 plus, it would be some time before the place got noisy and brimming with people again.

While we waited, we saw the other teams, the JC teams as well as the varsity teams, which were early for the event. The JC teams numbered about 15 in total, and there were multiple teams from each JC's ODAC (usually). Notable ones present were CJC (of course...), NJC, Innova and Meridian. Looks like a tough fight for the Challenge Shield this year.

The race started in the hot afternoon sun of 12 noon, and we were the third of many teams which started the race, which consisted of the Inter-Varsity (31) and JC (15) teams. The lead team was apparently a JC team, most likely CJC, while the 2nd team in front of us was from NTU. We were third, and maintained a steady pace behind the 2 teams. The rest were behind us, keeping pace.

As we went down from NYP to Marina (first stop), we 3 teams split up - the JC team went left towards SMU before the Fort Canning tunnel, the NTU team moved right in a bid to circle around the tunnel and go in through the Tanjong Pagar side. For us, we just went into the tunnel and ran in a single file against traffic. The rest of the teams apparently followed us, but we managed to shake them off as we crossed 2 junctions in the nick of time.

Our goal was to reach the Sheares bridge, head up the steps and go into Marina via the Sheares bridge side. That's along the path where people usually go to watch fireworks (yes i do!) and we managed to get into Marina, past a checkpoint which we'll go later, and towards the cycling station. We were first, apparently, and our hopes lifted.

The 3 rounds were rather torturous for us as 1)Cindy got a bike which cannot change gear, and 2) I changed bikes for Cindy but got a bike which apparently has its brake pads permanently 'glued' to the front wheel, making it as though you are riding with resistance. It was pretty bad, and Bing Ying changed with me to help me out. I was really slow, and I was thinking how the heck could I be so slow, get so much resistance, when I was on the lightest gears?!?

Apart from that, we got caught up by other groups and they managed to finish first, which resulted in us being second for the dash towards the next station, in which we had to do a river-crossing with ropes, to and fro. It was a wet affair and I swear I've drunk some of the most polluted water possibly! The water was quite dark, and since you are pulling yourself using the overhead rope, it was difficult to prevent yourself from getting water onto your face, nose and mouth.

After clearing the obstacle, we were in second place, and went on towards the kayaking area at Marina Promenade. However, while running I started to feel a thigh cramp coming up, so I stopped to do a brisk walk to prevent it from settling in. It worked, and the kayaking started.

This was one of the most horrendous kayaking I've ever done! The kayak was really unbelievably prone to major changes in direction! After paddling 7-8 strokes, me and Nianjia had to readjust our direction again cos we were doing zig-zagging! Gosh. When we finally finished, we were really wondering how we managed to get it all done. But we were in the lead! Wow!

After the kayaking component, there was this brief Red Bull advertisement and we were given some Red Bull (the silver/blue ones) to drink and try! Not bad, I felt...but it was not to be so as I felt the urge to burp but I couldn't do so while running...and the mouth was already super dry! Shucks. Plus the slight thigh strain, we ended up walking a bit in front of the Concourse en route to the DHL balloon in Bugis, where we played Pharaoh's Shift at the open field. It was a game where we had to move a (heavy) load from point A to B using rollers, and it was up to the Engineer-wannabes to do it! We managed to do well after some trial and error initially, and the last part of changing the direction of the load was pure brute force! I was already heck-caring and since the load was on rollers and we couldn't touch the plank, I just pulled the load and did a 180 deg turn on the rollers. It worked. Whew.

Next we made our way to the nearby Shaw Towers where we did abseiling. Luckily we managed to find another way up to level 6, and we quickly cleared the cargo net. By then another JC team had caught up, but we were still in the lead. The abseiling was rather fun! With gloves, it was easy to let go the ropes and let yourself 'fly' for a longer distance!

The last stretch back was met with a lot of vehicles which apparently were going for the IT Fair at Suntec. We managed to keep a steady pace and reached NYP. Nianjia and I saw these 2 organisers walking nonchalantly across the pathway, and they were shocked to see us coming back! It was quite funny, and suddenly the music there stopped and we were welcomed back by the emcee for coming back first. It was such a sweet feeling.

So as we walked around to rest and recover, the other teams trickled in, with the Innova JC team coming in right after us, and followed by a couple more JC teams, then a Varsity team, and some more JC teams. I was wondering if the JC teams were actually more fit than the Varsity teams. lol.

And we waited for roughly 1.5 hours before deciding to answer our hungry stomachs, and headed for the food court at Cineleisure. Sure looks weird in all the muddy tees! After waiting for about an hour or so for the prize presentations, the final result was announced...and...we're the winners of the Varsity Category! Woohoo! Mans...IT was THAT lucky. And the prizes this time round was really great. Gosh. Maybe I should list some here:

Swatch Watch
Cobian sandals
Teva Sandals (who needs?)
New Zealand Natural Ice-cream voucher for a take home tub (!!!!)
Millet Bag (w/ a lotta more stuff inside!)
Nivea Men products (loads of it...who uses them?)
And the list goes on...

I'm now feeling the 'heat' from the entire event. Gosh. Need some air-con...DESPERATELY. Ice cream sounds good, but it adds to the fat instead. Sighs.

Anyway, one last parting word before I leave you with some pictures (as always)...Nianjia said that he's gonna shave his head, while I'm going to leave long hair, IF we win the race. So...I'm just gonna see a shaven NJ soon... *laughs wickedly*

I can't believe we actually betted on that. lol

Before we set off...Bing Ying, Me, Cindy, Nian Jia!


A green worm


Finishers!


My shoes AFTER the race.


Whose fingers?


Us relaxing after the race


The holding area.


Holding the person in it is what this sign tells us to do.


Singer singing Snow Patrol's - Chasing Cars


Our medals!


The 'roll' of watches


A close-up of the medal


Part of the loot.


Me!


Final departing shot! :)


Current Mood: Happy

麻坡的华语

Super hilarious rap.

Note: Not safe FOR WORK *lol*

Enjoy guys :)

NUS Open House!

Ookie...Open house day 1 came went by me. So fast sia...and I could not do a status report from inside the MPSH 5 'cos there was NO CONNECTION! Damnit. Super dulan la.

But other than spilling out expletives here, I must say that being the first time doing an Open House (yes the previous time I was down with Chicken Pox), it was an eye-opener. People who came for the OH were from different levels - JC 2 kids, NSFs, students applying for university (yea this is the group we're looking out for!) - but we also see Sec 4 kids (wtf?!) and students with their parents! Hmms...well dealing with the latter was so much easier...Haha.

Met all different types of people today, some were nice and listened to your talk despite the heavy metal music from the stage and blasting of radio by the RadioPulze people, while others asked questions and we were able to give them some thoughts and an occasional description of where we had actually traveled before. Experience on treks do count :)

Of course, there were those who were stuck up and ignored your flyers, or look at you incredulously as though you're an alien from outer space. Oh mans, spare me the agony of talking by saying that you're not interested, or be nicer. Yea. That's what happened to some of us.

But overall the turn out was pretty good despite the apparent 1-day Open House NTU is doing. Managed to get a decent number of people who placed their names down for our FOC mailing list, so it's good for us! Good start to the Open House!

Moreover, we also got queries regarding our diving trips and trekking trips, and I think that's good despite our focus for the OH - to gather more people interested in our FOC. One small step at a time...

After packing up with Geoks and Hwibee, we went for dinner at Clementi's Botak Jones! Din know where BJ was, and HB brought the 2 of us there. While the 2 girls tried out the Double Botak, I tried their Fish n Chips and it was great! Hmms...nice food, but it seemed too big a portion for a person...gotta share it! The fish was tasty and smooth, and the chips were slightly spicy, nice!

Saw Jiaxing and Elaine at BJ too! What a coincidence! The Tiny-Sandking combo which I always kenna. lol.

Gonna rest for tomorrow's X-Physique! Nites!

Current Mood: Awake

Current Music: Tank - Cheng Li De Yue Guang

Falling apart.

And gluing back the pieces together.
And falling apart again.
And gluing them back again.

Do the gluing work? Hmms...are bonds treasured even though you've laughed and smiled and did things silly? Are they of value even in the slightest of quarrels?

I guess not.

But anyway, we've to move on. Come back to earth.

While deep in thought, I'm busy uploading pictures to the new Rovers webbie! Ah Mu has done a great job in doing up the image mapping, and hopefully we can build from there and you guys can enjoy the new site with more pictures and info! Weiguang is also doing the same thing as me...so we can crap...while he...uhh...eats his udon *roll eyes*

And here I am, in the middle of the night, reading anime online (Naruto!) and awaiting the downloading of my precious Naruto anime...and the weekend is filled with Open House (gosh! Come and have a look!) and X-Physique with Bing Ying, Cindy and Nian Jia on Sunday!

This is gonna be a helluva of a weekend...lol!

Current Mood: Indescribable