As of late, so far.. these are the reviews that I've done for Critically Acclaimed.. Be sure to check it out!! :p Sorry, if I sound dry, or whatever....

Latest posts on the top..

05-04-2009Movie Review: Confessions of a Shopaholic
14-12-2008 Food Review: Hong Kee Dim Sum
02-11-2008 Anime Review: Itazura na Kiss
19-10-2008 Movie Review: The House Bunny
04-10-2008 Movie Review: Mama Mia
03-10-2008 Movie Review: Dragon War
25-09-2008 Movie Review: Accuracy of death
21-09-2008 Anime Review: Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
21-09-2008 Manga Review: The Embalmer
21-09-2008 Food Review: Yong Tau Fu
09-09-2008 Food Review: Lai Foong Restaurant
08-09-2008 Food Review: Theobroma Chocolate Lounge

04-09-2008 Event Coverage: Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2008

And that's all for the time being... Not all of these posts have been cross posted here, so you might want to check them out by clicking on the links...

-Oracl3-

Title: It's package A..

Got it on the 3rd day of Chinese New Year.. sigh, just my luck.. (Mahjong was bad enough??) I think with the weather being so darned hot in the day time and so darned cold in the night..

It was still okay, as it was on the beginning stages, on the 4th day I got a reading of 37.5, so upon coming home from work, after dinner, I just took those bitter stuff, and went to sleep...

It abated the next morning, so I thought okay.. I will go to work then.... I was sent out of the office by someone at work, which I think was a good thing, as I could go home a tad early to rest...

sigh.. desperately trying to finish my opinion.. still feels like it's lacking some stuff, but my brain is too muddled to think.. argghhhh... =.='

oh and that meng, gave me the link to one of my favourite parts in the movie Windstruck that he loaned me aoens ago.. when we were still in Taylor's and which I cried buckets over.. damn.. he made me feel like downloading and watching the whole movie again.. which... is what i'm doing... i downloaded the OST already haha.. only 2 more parts on the movie to go ahha...

-Oracl3-

31st October 2008 was halloween.. although this country of mine doesn't widely celebrate it as in like the west, Mel decided to organise one for our university mates.. so we did.. and on the 31st we ended up at TGIF at the curve for dinner and to well.. just be what we aren't haha..

Well.. there's nothing much to say here.. the pictures will say it all, when blogspot or maxis.. stops being such and ass and allows me to upload pictures.. so await an edit to this post...

Edit

Here we have Terence as the Joker from batman.. Me as a Japanese School girl... most likely from Tokyo haha.. Xian Ai & Wei Li the devil... Some waiter from TGIF posing as grim the ripper and Marlyn as some vampire...


after dinner we headed to Quatron near KLCC for some clubbing.. it's anew club with the concept of having 4 seasons.. hence the reason of my post now... If you are the kind like me, who goes clubbing for the dancing part and not the drinking part.. then please spare yourself the misery of going to Quatron..

That place is for people to drink!! There is no dance floor.. I reapeat... THERE IS NO DANCE FLOOR. The place is horrid if you hate ciggeratte smoke like me.. and well my allergies thank you to it.. My eyes sting like mad.. and well.. strangely enough.. I didn't cough that much as I thought I would.... Well in return I got a headache.. guess the people nearby must have been smoking... ermm.. Dunhills I think... Well, if I recall correctly that's the brand that gives me minimal cough but a huge headache... sigh..

Well, the smoke was horrible for my eyes.. and I suffer the effects still... one day after that.. And I've washed my hair twice and it STILL STINKS OF CIGGERATE SMOKE... Woe is me.....

Listening to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture..... fitting?? Watched 2 movies today.. The Holiday and 21.. Yesterday I watched Just Like Heaven.. all 3 are nice movies.. shall review them later when I get the chance... Since I start work this coming monday... =.='

And also speaking of which.. when the club asked for contact details I purposely changed one of the digits of my handphone number to avoid getting spammed by them.. and woah... they still managed to send spam to me... =.=' horrible.. totally horrible...

-Oracl3-

Edited.. sorry about me looping into the future.. and the spelling mistakes, and ermm.. I missed out about ranting about the cockroaches at Williams.. and ermm... yeah... I think that's it haha..

Somehow I've got 4 papers cuts on 3 different fingers on my right hand, how, what, when, why? I've no idea.. but one of them hurts real bad... realised it once I was done cooking dinner...

Absence from cyber world and blogging is due to Korean drama, and reality.. i.e. real life..

Been out quite a bit this week... that's why, as I've said.. it's never balanced.. it's either go out one shot, or stay home and rot...

So yeah..
Friday, 10th October 2008, drove.. yes I drove.. to SS2 and seapark to buy somethings.. helped with dinner and some house chores, and it was badminton.. Didn't play that much this round.. was too tired..

Saturday 11th October 2008....
In the afternoon it was to Itallinies at Midvalley to celebrate Chelle's birthday.. Had a nice time catching up, chatting randomly about dogs.. and stuffing myself silly with pasta :p Happy birthday Chelle (well, whether it's early or late now haha)

We had James, Mel, Me, Jin Fong, Vivian, Chelle and Xian Ai. We had Abby earlier on, but she left for class, it being a Saturday and all. And well, Maryln dropped by with Chelle's prezzie.

At night was the MPO: Beethoven's Overture Egmont, Mendelssohn's concerto for 2 pianos and Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Op. 68)

All popular pieces, and it was really nice..

People that went, were, me, Xian Ai, Xin Yin, Thomas, Wei Hao & Kevin..

Went to yum cha at Williams after that with Thomas And Kevin.. It was nice sitting down and chatting about our class last time haha

Oh I forgot to mention. Someone let go something like a firework and OMG, COCKROACHES STARTED CRAWLING OUT OF THE DRAINS.. EEEEWWWW horrible.. and disgusting... the girls in the table next to us left.. but the guys were okay with it.. =.=' so yeah.. we stayed...

Came home really tired.. but still.. didn't sleep early.. haha...

Sunday 12th October 2008, Watched my Korean drama? Don't think I went out till at night, to Mel's church for a theatre.. sketches more like it, called "This crazy thing called love" by the footstools, KLPAC. Was really nice, and meaningful.. and might I add TRUE!!.. Thanks for inviting mel.. it was nice... though I must admit.. due to my tiredness I almost fell asleep at some point.. but I was awake for everything... I mean well.. at least I heard the whole performance haha..

Had a not very good night's sleep.. no thanks to the annoying fleas that resulted from my neighbour.. as precious sleeps in my room, he must have brought some with him up to my room.. and though he hasn't been sleeping on the bed since he has had his fleas.. they crawled onto my bed, and bit me!! sad.. spent a paranoid night.. and I caught 4 of them.. on my bed.. nuisance.. this fleas... neighbour down the road.. has also complained about the fleas.. sigh....

Monday... 13th October 2008.. what did I do... hmmm... sprayed my room, to kill whatever fleas was abound.. ahh lazed around and attended my high school's alumni meeting at night.. was feeding mosquitoes at Ming Tien.. =.=' According to one of the alumni members, who experienced the same flea problem thing.. it took her a month to get rid of all the fleas.. woe is me.. her house is a single storey.. mine is double storey, does that mean I will have to take double the amount??

But after spraying my room.. the constant flea check that precious has been put under came out negative for once.. so the spraying worked? Had a good night's sleep...

14th October 2008, i.e. today.. Went down to KLCC to collect my offer letter.. met up with Mel, Chi ming, Terence, and Joshua for lunch and went to watch a movie called... house bunny?

not a bad show.. shall review it on Critically Acclaimed later when I'm free...

After the movie, we headed back.. and Mel and I headed to Taylor's to waste one hour of our life on this Q&A thingie.. waste of time and petrol.. geh...

and that's all for the updates the past few days...

Oh and the retarded thing has been completed, within 7 hours, though it was spaced out... but I know how many hours cause of the episodes of my korean drama that I watched as I made it.. and apparently it doesn't look that retarded.. but cute.. I guess.. but oh well we will see.. *stay tuned to find out more*

-Oracl3-

Edited 10th October 2008, 0053

"In the beginning after God had created Man, seeing him so feeble, He gave Man the dog" -Alphonse Toussenel, Zoologist-

(And thank God for that!!)

犬はあなたを愛してる．だって犬には、あなたしかいないのだから。
-The dog loves you. That's because it only has you-

Title: いぬとわたしのじゅうのやくそく: 10 Promises to my dog

I was watching this movie the other day [It's a March 2008 release..], and never have I cried so hard for a movie, since watching Wind struck.. (Maybe even harder).. But well, dog owners who love their dogs to bits would be able to connect to the show.. but steer clear, if dogs don't appeal to you, or if you don't fancy bawling your eyes out..

On another note.. the title of the movie was inspired by the book, 10 Commandments to dog ownership. And the 10 promises in the movie was really touching.. so here it is...

犬と私の10の約束

• 一．私の話「はなし」を我慢[がまん]強「つよ」く聞「き」いて下さいね。
• -Please listen to me patiently-

• 二．私を信「しん」じて、私はいつもあなたの味方「みかた」です。
• -Trust me, I'm always on your side-

• 三．私とたくさん遊「あそ」んで。
• -Play with me a lot-

• 四．私にも心「こころ」があることを、忘「わす」れないで。
• -Don't ever forget that I've feelings too-

• 五．ケンカはやめようね、本気「ほんき」になったら私が勝「か」っちゃうよ！
• -Let's never fight, you never know, I might win when I'm serious!-

• 六．言「い」う事「こと」を聞「き」かない時「とき」は、理由「りゆう」があります。
• -If I don't listen to you, I have my reasons-

• 七．あなたは学校「がっこう」もあるし、友達「ともだち」もいるよね、でも私にはあなたしかいません。
• -You have your school and friends, but as for me, I only have you-

• 八．私が年「とし」をとっても仲良「なかよ」くして下さい。
• -Please stay my best friend even when I'm old-

• 九。私は十年「じゅうねん」くらいしか生「い」きられません、だから，一緒「いっしょ」にいる時間「じかん」を大切「たいせつ」にしようね。
• -I can only live for about ten years, so let's treasure every moment together-

最後「さいご」の約束は．．．

• 十．あなたとすごした時間「じかん」を忘「わす」れません。私が死「し」ぬ時「とき」お願「ねが」いします、そばにいてね。
• -Never forget our time together. So when my time comes, please be by my side-

*****
I found this off the net, it's a bit different, I guess that maybe it's because it's from the novel.. maybe..

There's one with translations, but it's not very accurate... in fact the translation sucks.. but I'm too lazy now to do it.. since I need to sleep, me being really tired.. maybe later I'll edit this post, and correct some of the translations..

Edit: Okay, here are the translations for the ones that are different from the ones I got from the movie.. Unless stated otherwise.. I find the translations totally off.. Just compare it yourself...

1.私と気長「きなが」につきあって下さい
-Please have patience when you are with me-

2. 私を信じて下さい。それだけで私は幸せです。
-Please trust in me, that is my only happiness..-

3 & 4 is the same, and the translation for 4 is totally out, mine [above] is better.

5. 私にたくさん話しかけて下さい。人間の言葉「ことば」は話せないけど、わかったいます。
-Please talk a lot to me. I may not speak the Human language, but I do understand it-

6. 私をたたかないで。本気になったら私のほうが強いことを忘れない下さい。
-Don't fight with me. Please don't forget that when I'm serious I'm much stronger than you-
(Same as above, but the wording in Japanese is different)

7. Is the same, I think.. I don't know what's that kanji after 年..

8. Is worded differently in Japanese, [slightly compared to the movie version] but it means the same.. and no.. there is no "entertainment & work" it just says, school and friends... =.=' though yes.. entertainment and work.. may be used.. where it applies...

9. 私は十年くらいしか生きられません．だから，できるだけ私と一緒にいてください。
-I can only live for about 10 years. So if it's possible, please stay by my side, always.-

10. 私が死ぬ時、お願いです。そばにいて下さい。そして、どうか覚「おぼ」えていて下さい。私がずっとあなたを愛していたことを。
-When my time comes, please be by my side. And somehow, please remember that I'll always love you-

Anyway I'll try to keep this ten promises to my precious as well :) And lucky for me, toy breeds, live for about 15 to 17 years.. So, cheers to a long life of companionship with me to precious!!

-Oracl3-

二零零八年十月五日：月曜日

Woke up to Ccy's morning call for breakfast.. dragged my lazy ass out of bed, and prepared to get ready.. was really sleep deprived lately..
Ccy, gave me a grace period to get ready, before coming over... although he had the car.. I thought it better for us to be more economical, and environmental friendly to walk.. since I didn't know where else to go for breakfast except outside my area.. as the only thing going through my mind was "I need more sleep"

Walked out, and decided at pure randomness? To have dim sum.... so we sat there and ate, and drank tea for almost and hour.. Ccy, said it was expensive.. I found it ok, what with the rise in prises and all.. Reccommended the dim sum at DJ to him..

After breakfast, walked back to my house, then he left, to come back in the evening to hand me a piano score of one of joe Hisaishi's works.. Played it, corrected Ccy, then poh mun came, and she sent him home... Then it was lazing around..

Lately, seems like I'm on some movie spree.. or more like DVD spree.. watched martian child, made of honour and kung fu panda recently... Maybe it's because we got a new DVD player.. so it's like hangat-hangat tahi ayam (fawning over the new stuff, only to get tired of it later?)

Of the list I made for myself in the last post, some have been struck off.. so am slowly getting on with that list haha...

List copied here, to remind me to continue working to strike off more stuff from the list!!
頑張ってね！自分て。。=.='

Before I sign off, a list for myself.. to remind myself of the list of things I ought to do and to stop procrastinating!!

1. Sort pictures from 2006-2007 for developing
2. Finish photo album with current pictures
3. Translate the Ghost Hunt Manga Volume 10
   
4. Wash bathroom
   
5. tidy room... (Well only one corner is messy....)
   
6. Iron clothes....
7. Tidy up cupboard...
   
8. Practise musical instruments?
9. Blog? Well, when I find the mood.. and time...
10. Tidy up the "Work" room next door.. well after I'm done with it..
    
11. ... Anything else I deem fit to enter into this entry.....

I still have no idea what's wrong with my itunes, search function.. maybe I ought to bring 白ちゃん to the shop...

And I think my aduim (my messenger) or Maxis is a retard.. to get on MSN now I've to use meebo.. such is my life..sigh...

-Oracl3-

Okay, the title does have some relevance, which will be said later. As for now.. A little update..

二零零八年十月三日:金曜日

• あの人の誕生日、たっく、どうして彼はまで忘れないだ？！
• Woke up, and for once... in months? :p Did some house chores... Hand washed some of my new working clothes, did the laundry changed the bed sheets etc.. And being the genius I miraculiously am... Somehow, stretched my left thigh muscle... Slight pain.. =.='
  
• Went for my second badminton game today, again, it was from 9-11pm at Puay Chai. Cheese had gone for a holiday so he didn't join us, but grandson Thomas did. We had 9 people today, i.e me, Xian Ai, Xin Yin, Mel, Xian Qing, Kevin, Wei Hao, Thomas, & Wai Mun, so I think it was good that it's the holidays and the courts were quite free..
  We paid for one court but used two haha.. It was fun, but I got trashed being the noob that I was.. I and a few others were terribly bullied, as the game started to move to a higher level.. But fun nevertheless.. Got praised that my badminton improved from last week (^.^) and well hope to improve more from now on. Good news is... I only had some slight muscle pains.. Mostly due to aforementioned thigh..
  
• After badminton, went for yum cha at the so called, open air mamak at SS2. I managed to find a comrade who doesn't think that it's a mamak too.. haha.. Wei Hao was on the same wave length...
• Sat and chatted for a bit, and although I had followed Xian Ai to the badminton court, I followed Wei Hao home as I had to show him where the mamak was, and since my stuff was in his car, so he sent me home.
• The journey home was interesting, as he made a deviation.... The last time he sent me home as well.. We made a slight detour at the playground near my area.. but this round.. ahh.. It was amusing... haha.. we detoured at SS2... and us both being lost souls... joker.. makan angin really...
• Got home, showered and everything and went to bed by 2 something..

二零零八年十月四日：土曜日

• Woke up at 10 to the alarm, and snoozed it.. and got an sms from my cousin, Ling at 1015, asking me to chose which cinema did I want to watch our movie in.. Chose the new wing.. and woke up to get ready... Realised, that I didn't have any actual muscle pains from last night's game! (^.^)
  
• Parents came along to the movies.. what did we watch? Mama Mia.. really wonderful movie.. did a review for it on CA so, do check it out..
• Before the movie started as we had about 30 minutes to spare, Ling & I headed to the arcade, and played a game of Daytona and some shooting game.. It was really hot in the arcade.. In fact the whole of BU felt hot. . Either they were trying to be:-
  a) Economical; or
  b) Environmental Friendly; or
  c) There were too many humans, and they didn't want to turn up the aircon due to aforesaid reasons... or
  d) There were too many humans, and their aircon was retarded, and so they couldn't turn it up...
  I don't know you pick and chose.. It was fun, playing all the games though..
• After the movie, we walked a bit, before settling down in Mcdonalds, with a cup of coke, a Roti Boy Bun (not for me.. I'm afraid of that stuff) and a sour cream and onion pretzel from Aunt Anne's... I later dug into a Chicken burger, before being joined by my Aunt and other cousin Yen Ping [both being the mother and sister of Ling]. Since my aunt was there, I called up my parents to join us as well.. so chatted. Bought a box of sushi, and ate somemore.. Although, by all honesty I actually already felt full...
  
• I think there's something wrong with my body's system? After the pretzel and the burger.. I was definitely full, yet I couldn't stop myself from eating the sushi.. making my stomach bloat up, and I felt like I was 3 months pregnant.. =.='
• I think the badminton game has lost it's purpose.. since I seem to eat back double the amount that I've [hopefully] burnt... [I mean I eat at the mamak too!!]
  
• After that separated from aunt and cousins, and bought some table mats.. cute, delicious looking ones and headed home..
• Got home, walked precious, and checked mail etc.. before dinner..
• After dinner, discovered.. more fleas on precious!! Now I'm getting to the reason of the title..
  Caught like 4 fleas off him.. and decided that I should sweep my room, as he spends most of his time there.. Last week there was a multitude of ticks, and today as well.. So Miss Sherlock Sayaka here got on her knees and begin the elimination process...
• Swept room, to discover that Precious's bed, which was under my bed, had ticks on it.. 3 of them, and one on the floor, committed sinful murder... before having the whole house throughly swept, with the aid of my dad...
• Discovered 2 more fleas in the living room... The plot thickens... found one more on the curtain next to the door.... The mystery is thus solved, with the detective's suspicions confirmed...
• The detective and her trusty sidekick thus head outside to stare at the wall, adjoining with our neighbours.. to discover.. a wall full of fleas!!!
• Spent two hours, feeding mosquitos and committing more acts of horrendous murder.. death by burning... [read that as ridding the wall of the ticks as much as possible..] Dad and I got a real good work out.. And the poor wall, looks black in some places it got burnt.. and the wax.. on the floor & all.. Sigh...
  
• Caught my neighbour returning home, and informed her in a diplomatic manner that the fleas were a nuisance, to which acquired and apology.. but these flea business.. we can't really blame anyone... I mean honestly, they've been taking better care of their dogs... or so I hope...
• Well, mystery was solved.. Fleas cleaned up as much as possible.. had a nice good work out, and donated some blood to the pesky mosquitoes.. Retired into the house, and had a shower... and am now... doing this...

And that's how I spent my last two days.. I'll have to try and sleep early tonight as Ccy has arranged a breakfast date with me tomorrow morning..

Before I sign off, a list for myself.. to remind myself of the list of things I ought to do and to stop procrastinating!!

1. Sort pictures from 2006-2007 for developing
2. Finish photo album with current pictures
3. Translate the Ghost Hunt Manga Volume 10
   
4. Wash bathroom and tidy room... (Well only one corner is messy....)
   
5. Iron clothes....
6. Tidy up cupboard...
   
7. Practise musical instruments?
8. Blog? Well, when I find the mood.. and time...
9. Tidy up the "Work" room next door.. well after I'm done with it..
   
10. ... Anything else I deem fit to enter into this entry.....

-Oracl3-

Tonight Eugene will have to catch his 1am flight back to America... but before that, as his promise to go to the pasar malam (night market) with me, became unfulfilled due to multiple reasons, we decided to catch the movie Wall E instead.

Poor pitiful me, initially had no one to watch the movie with, as other friends had already watched it prior to me.. well I had then intended to go with my mother, but since Eugene hadn't watchted it yet, and wants to watch it too, so he got the tickets the night before, and the next day he came around 1220pm to pick me up for the movie..

We arrived around the time the movie started and headed in to a real meaningful and cute movie. It's really meaningful, teaching us that we have to look after our planet ourselves, no one is going to look after it for us, and that well, everyone shouldn't be so immersed in their own world and should take time to look around their surroundings.

In the show, well this was observed by Eugene and also somewhat by me, the show is also trying to convey the dangers of technology, and well, the obedience of just following orders blindly, and accepting everything in society as correct, and in the end fighting for what you believe in is the best choice for you and for other people.

The symbolism, a dead world, garbage piled higher than the tallest buildings in the city, the colourless world, etc.. oh well, shan't spoil it for those who haven't watched it yet. it's a wonderful, funny, yet touching and meaningful movie, I seriously recommend it.

I enjoyed myself at the movie :) after the movie, Eugene & I headed off to McDonalds for a late lunch before heading home, as he still had some last minute packing to do before his flight tonight. Although I don't know why I felt so tired the whole time.. oh well, we had our usual meaningless/meaningful debates/conversation haha...

-Oracl3-

EDITED: Thanks Chelle for reminding me :)

The title says it all..

okay on the 5th of august 2008 I think... I went out with Mel and Xin Yin to get our MPO tickets for our show which would be on the 15th of august..

Since we were already there, we decided to catch a movie too. we watched Mummy 3 the dragon king.. I think.. starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.. the usual... Though I prefer the old actress for Evie...

oh, I remembered when I wanted to blog about this, but forgot bout it, when I actually got down to blogging, cause well.. was distracted haha.. anyway.. Chelle reminded me, that I forgot to mention something :p

After the movie was over, in the movie theatre.. as Mel wanted to catch the name of one of the actresses, we sat down for a bit, and down at the bottom of the steps, I saw two figures waving at presumably us.. Now, most of you all know, that my eyesight isn't exactly superb.. Xin Yin hasn't a clue who they were, and Mel didn't seem to be paying them any attention.. A quick glance around.. seems to say they are waving at us..

So I stared a tad longer, and realised that the outline of the body, hair etc.. resembled people that I know.. namely Chelle and Vivian haha.. So I boldly waved back ahha.. after I told them this, Vivian laughed and said, they should have acted like some weirdo waved at them, haha.. jokers.. Well, we also met, Yogis, and Uma too..

Such a coincidence that we were all in the same theatre on that day :) We enjoyed a little chat, where Viv actually said they were going to Penang too!! on the same dates as us.. we were happy.. but it was short-lived.. cause they didn't make it, while we did end up in Penang on the said dates.. but there's next time :p after chatting for quite a bit.. as it was kinda rude to Xin Yin, so we decided to make a move.. since we had to meet Seoh too who was working in a nearby hotel......

Nicholas Seoh had insisted on meeting up for dinner.. but as Xin Yin & I wanted to go home for dinner, we merely accompanied him, and snacked in burger king :p

Mel & I pulling at a piece of fried cheese??

Well , after that it was home...

A few days later.. on the 8th of august 2008, the day the Beijing Olympics 2008 opened. I went with Nicholas Leong to Ming Tien for dinner, and was supposed to meet up with a primary school friend.. on the way, as we were walking to Ming Tien, we bumped into Nicholas Seoh, who was walking Keng Mei, my neighbour home.. Hmm~ suspicious.... but oh well.. if they were suspicious, I'm super suspicious then... haha... So Seoh joined us for a while, and left just before my friend showed up...


Which friend? Well, look below... haha

Li Qin & I, we were like best buddies in primary school, she sat in front of me in standard 6 haha.. those were the days.. so fun, and we used to go for librarian duty together and all.. felt a little old? but she didn't change much.. neither did I, I guess... Anyway, Leong helped to take this picture...

Since the 8th was the opening of the Olympics.. I managed to watch it somewhat at Ming Tien, unlike stupid RTM 1 who interrupted such an important live telecast with stupid commentaries and advertisement and not to mention they started 30 minutes late..

How stupid can they get.. It has been going on for days that this will be the BEST opening for the Olympics that the world would have seen, that it will start on the 8th of august 2008, at 8hour08minutes08seconds and yet instead of rescheduling the 8pm news or whatever.. they just showed it late.. idiots... Calls to show a repeat has been ignored.. real idiots...

Well, even though I managed to somewhat catch it at Ming Tien, I couldn't really hear it all that clearly... and I was busy chatting with friends.. but whatever I managed to catch.. it was superb..

The REALLY AMAZING thing about it, is that.. it made all Chinese people all over the globe, proud to be a Chinese.. Even if they are bananas [i.e. Chinese people who can't speak Chinese...] it didn't matter that we are like the 3rd or 4th generation since our great, grandparents or whatever, left China to seek greener pastures in foreign soil, we were all just proud to be Chinese.. that it was so superb... so cultural.. so easternly oriental.. ahaha..

Just magnificent.. and so far.. China is leading with the most gold medals now... I managed to watch some of the sports.. and woah.. are they good.. the China contestants.. that won gold.. Really deserved it.. like in synchronized diving.. the two divers were like mirror images.. so damn cool.... and perfect...

well others were cool too ahha.. and well, Malaysia got her first? medal? in the badminton singles!! not bad :) but anyway, that's all for now...

I know there has been a whole lot of lack of political posts lately.. but that's because there's nothing going on either than anwar's sodomy case... either than that.. actually I've a ton of questions, and remarks.. but as I fear ISA.. I can't exactly write it all down.. that would leave definite incriminating evidence against me.. so lately, I've been expressing my views verbally to whomever wishes to discuss whatever with me..

But I'm still a little behind in the political scene, due to my exams.. and I haven't really gotten round to reading Malaysia Kini or Malaysia Today.. but I get some snippets of information from my dear father who reads it religiously almost every day.. :p

Anyway, I doubt anyone would be able to answer me if I asked them things like.. What happened to Balkis.. and of the 30 000 supporters in permatang pauh, weren't the majority of them for Anwar? Malaysia Kini I think.. or Malaysia Today reported that BN only had about 8-10 thousand supporters..

How on earth do we trust the main stream media..? sigh.. no wonder everyone turns to online media... and well.. A particular political party thinks we are still stupid and sucking off our mother's nipples, with the stupid things they are doing.. they have to bear in mind.. one reason they lost is because most of us are young voters.. who fortunately.. own a good brain!!

I'm sorry it became political.. on to the next post, and we call it a night.. since MSN is being an ass.. and not letting messages get through.. or even connecting.. sigh.. People.. please start using google talk or Yahoo messenger please?

-Oracl3-

On 26th December 2007, my brother brought Junko to Sunway Pyramid to shop and look around, since the only place we had been bringing her too was Bandar Utama, as it was the nearest shopping complex to us...

Initially I was already in Sunyway Pyramid as I met up with Huey... to watch.. a movie I think... My memory fails me on this outing.. I recall going for a movie with Huey, but I can't remember what movie it is... sigh...

But anyway, since I was there, my brother thought that he would go along with Junko, and they arrived later after my movie. So Me & Huey met up with them at Starbucks [Again, Starbucks, Guess my brother loves that place? ]

So since I was actually looking for a pair of shoes, we walked around together the 4 of us, also since Junko wanted to shop and buy some stuff too :p so we all just shopped together.. It was my first time, in Pyramid in 2 years plus? maybe 3? I rarely go there...

Whilst there, as it was Boxing Day, all the decorations were up, and what do you do? but cam whore around the place haha..

Girls taking pictures with Santa and Mrs Santa.. [sorry, I can't tilt it... I don't know why, but the other posts, the countdown one, I managed to to tilt it? or maybe it was how the picture was taken??]

3 pretty girls in a row? :p with a lovely Christmas tree..

Outside Pyramid, before heading home, the so called lion head/Sphinx? is a picture one must take when visiting Pyramid.. Though it would be good if could have taken the Pyramid shaped dome too..

My poser of a brother and Junko :p

Girls at the entrance...

Happy couple at the entrance

Well, in the end I couldn't buy my shoe, because as my well known shoe shopping woe in Malaysia is.. I couldn't find the appropriate size.. sigh... But I did buy this make your own teddy bear kit... which.. I plan to use... some day? Well, once I'm done with what I have to do now..

i.e. load all this pictures and all.. sort through my Europe pictures for developing, do my scrapbook, translate the ghost hunt manga, learn the guitar, and piano... and violin..too many things... =='

And that's all for this post..

-Oracl3-

A shorter, less detailed version can be found on Generation Lim

Okay, this is a very delayed post.
My apologies that it took me 7 months to get these pictures up. At one point when I was free, I tried, I really did, but Maxis was being an ass..

And after that I got lazy.. etc.. exams.. etc.. and today the connection seems good.. so here it is..

Pulling memories out of my brain like Dumbledore did in Harry Potter; is no mean feat but I'll try my best to recount the events of the day...

I remember having to wake up in the morning.. about 10 that day, and headed to the curve.. because.... I was supposed to meet with Michelle [Lim Ai Ann aka Mike who was back for her holidays..] and Arvid, and we had breakfast at IKEA.

Then I'm attacked by a bout of amnesia, because I can't remember what we did, most probably walked around a bit, then Michelle had to leave, leaving only me and Arvid. So Arvid and I decided to watch a movie.. The Will Smith movie.. titled I Am Legend, I think that's the title.. It's bout Will Smith fighting zombies... [When we were in Croatia, I saw the trailer and Desmond said it was it would be a good show.. ]

As we had time, Arvid and I had lunch at a little shop right next to the cinema... you know, the one that sells those Star Wars action models.. They serve food too, and you can play with their board games there..

And I remember having Carbonara Pasta...

Since we were going to watch a movie, and the whole world knows that I can't stand the cold, I asked my brother to bring me a jacket since he was coming to the curve with his girlfriend to meet up with his friends as well, for a movie, karaoke and the countdown.. He had initially asked me a long, and I told him.. that I'd play by ear.. but from the looks of things, it looked like I would be joining him.. [And obviously I did...]

I had my movie, and Arvid had to leave to pick his niece up, since my brother's movie ended later than mine, I ended up spending some time in MPH, and almost fell asleep there, I felt dead tired... maybe it was because I slept late the night before.. and was out from morning till night. And well, My brother found me in MPH and brought me to meet his highschool friends, which I knew [Well some of them due to librarian and scouts...]

We thus headed to.. Starbucks, I remember, because I remember the logo haha. And we had some drinks while waiting for the rest of his gang before heading for the karaoke...

Now for the pictures to do the talking.. [I'll spare us the cliché of a picture says...]

This was taken before Michelle left, we were waiting for Arvid who went to the gentlemen's, And since the decorations were so pretty.. I asked her to take a shot for me.. I think I missed snow too..

Inside the Curve, the Decorations were really pretty, and here we are, Me and my brother's girlfriend, Junko. this was taken, while we were waiting for my brother's other friends.

Here we are again :) the decorations were so pretty..

Well, obviously we have to show the happy couple :p

Well after cam-whoring a bit around the place, we met up with the rest of his friends I think, or I think we headed to Starbucks first. Then we headed to Redbox for the karaoke. Seeing all my seniors, I honestly felt kind of out of place.. but I guess I was lucky Junko was there? :) And well, I did know some of them... so it was fine.. After settling the karaoke room and all, we headed of to our karaoke room, to sing and to eat..

The food was served buffet style, so we had to leave the room, to get the food, and go back in to eat.. and we sang, and sang.. And from previous posts, or if you know me personally, you would know that I love to sing, so yeah, I sang a lot too :p It was fun..

My brother and his mates, singing.. :p

Me encouraging Junko to participate by singing with her, We sang the song from NANA the movie, Endless Story. [Damn, my memory is sooo good haha selective memory that is.. haha]

Actually, A few of my friends, who were still in Malaysia, [it's not many, and honestly even when they were in Malaysia, I never went with them to do any countdown for the new year... Sad.. I know.. I've no life.. sigh] called me, and since I said I was in the curve, they were saying.. okay let's meet up there.. but the amount of people, plus the bad handphone reception meant that we didn't meet.. The only ones I met are ccy and wei hao, who came to join in the karaoke at it's later stage. If they had asked to meet in the crowd.. I definitely wouldn't have found them...

Oh, also, the karaoke group was so big, that we had to separate into 2 rooms..

But, here is all of us, I think together in the photo.. Even I don't know who is who.. so ermm, just open your eyes out for anyone you recognise.. And I don't know why, but I looked damned tan in this picture...

After the karaoke session, As I said we hit the streets outside the curve to meet the crowd who were all ready for the countdown to the new year..

By the way.. did I mention, I met Jo Weng in the curve... Well,that's just random.. I must say.. he lost some weight and built some muscles, I guess :p

Anyway, since we were out there, waiting for the countdown, we cam-whored..
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The ladies in a line.. No, it's not a line up for you to chose a girl :p it's just some pretty girls in a line up.. Why do I look so dark? Was it the beer??? Uh, yeah, I didn't mention did I, there was beer at the karaoke...

Now it's the guys in the line up :p take your pick of which slave you would like.. muahaha.. joking..

And well, the countdown started, and we had fireworks..!!

Isn't it pretty? This is a nice shot :)

Here we have ccy, me and wei hao :p I sure hope those two had as much fun as I did.. Both of them are kind of conservative.. What with a random bunch of people, which they may have never spoken to in school.. So I don't know if they enjoyed themselves...

Here we have Sheau Yih, Me, お兄ちゃん[my brother] & 純子[Junko]

When the fireworks ended, we headed to a nearby cafe for a little yum cha/tea as we expected it to be too jam to leave the area... So what else to do.. but play around..

In red box, they actually gave us this little party boxes with balloons etc.. those orange things you've seen in the earlier pictures are actually from the party box.. and what you will see below, is also from the party box..

The birth of two new superheroes to save the world? [I blame Dark Knight..] haha.. It's just Junko & I :p

And that's it for this super long post...

-Oracl3-

The title says it all, before I continue, I would like to thank all those who have commented on my poems, I'm encouraged to write again, if my muse comes unto me.. haha

Okay, back to the title..

The day started out normal, woke up had brunch, then I got ready to go to Bandar Utama with Melissa, to meet Kenny and 2 of his friends [Also from CLP] to watch the latest Batman movie titled Dark Knight.

Well, I wasn't very interested in the movie, and having just watched Red Cliff 3 days ago, wasn't too keen on watching another movie, but I thought what the heck.. Since Kenny is going back to KK [Kota Kinabalu?] And to sort of celebrate a belated birthday.. off I went

The movie isn't bad, it's a real thriller, and very exciting, all the fighting and all, and it stayed true to the comic. It's not bad I would say. There was a part, where the DA was talking to the mayor, and I was about to grab my drink, when suddenly, a corpse comes thunking at the window.. Luckily I wasn't drinking, I might have choked, and I was so surprised I even let out a small scream haha..

After the movie, we walked around a bit with Kenny and his friend, and then Mel & I headed off to visit Cheese, who was working there, chatted for a bit, checked out Popular for any books we might want to buy [Not to mention that when I wanted to call Eugene requesting whether he had a certain book in which I wanted to read, thus saving me from buying it, I ended up calling Satoshi kun instead =='], and accompanied Cheese for dinner, then our juniors arrived, and we went to meet up with them [more like him, since Terence was the only one that had arrived then]

So we had Itallianies [I don't know how to spell it, sorry] as it was my first time there, I left it to Terence and Mel to order the food. and later Ee va arrived, followed by Aiyee, then June. [We had a 20% discount thanks to Terence :) and the restaurant had an interesting concept which encourages sharing of the food, so we had more than enough to go around ]

6 of us, eating and chatting, I bet we were really loud, what with our laughter... Time flies when you are having fun, and we decided to continue our conversation in ss2 with a yum cha session. and to meet up with Qi Wen as well.

So we ended up in Char Char Teng, 7 of us, to continue with our laughter and chatting, it was really fun, and time really flies, at bout 1130pm we decided to head on home, as some of us were tired, and some of us had to work the next day.

And one thing in which I wish to slap myself, and possibly everyone else.. Why didn't we take any pictures??!! I only realised that crucial fact when I came home and wanted to blog about it...

Guess we were too busy enjoying ourselves chatting with each other, that we forgot to take pictures. Sigh.. But the memory will stay on, so unless I get amnesia.. We can all sit down and recall it all. :)

It's back to attempting to clean my room, toilet and well, translating the Ghost Hunt manga... catching up on my animes? maybe later.. ;p

-Oracl3-

Title: Red Cliff

二零零八年七月二十五日：金曜日

Today I went to Bandar Utama to watch the movie red cliff with my parents.

I've always been one who has been sort of fascinated with our Chinese Legends and History and all, though laziness, prevents me from doing further research and I usually except what falls into my lap.. haha.. but well as Dave said on his blog before.. it's the effort, have to put in the effort for whatever we do [I recall something about a fish to big for the pan, so the fisherman let it go... haven't that fisherman heard of knives.. and something called, cutting the fish up to fit the pan? =.=']...

So since it's the holidays for me now.. maybe I should.. the internet is vast... but I prefer to read books.. maybe I should go and look for those old picture books, and well, though my Chinese is crap.. they usually have those little English translations at the bottom :p

Okay... I went to watch that show, for those who don't know, it's based on Chinese History, and a novel which fictionalised that history called the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it's based on the time before China was united into what it was, and it covers our ever legendary God of war Guan Gong, the red faced warrior.

As a child, I do watch those TVB shows [relying on the Malay subtitles then, to understand what is going on, because they use the old formal way of speaking in such shows.. and I don't understand... sadly... even now...the old way of speaking, can be really confusing... plus the proverbs and all.. haha] and from there, I know of our Chinese Legends, plus some reading as well, and lucky for bananas like me... who can't really read Chinese, there are some books with some simple illustrations and English translation.

I like reading all those old stories, the Tales of Liao Zhao, of fox spirits, the monkey king, the goddess of mercy, the eight immortals.. I basically read what I could get my hands on... [no internet at that time yet.. and well. .the internet wasn't that popular at that time..] and watched whatever they showed on television, though I must say, sometimes TVB likes to exaggerate, but guess that's for the ratings...

But anyway, I deviated off the topic... as I was saying, since I'm into stuff like that [though my memory is fuzzy on the storyline and all, I didn't finish the story, as I couldn't find the rest of the books at my relatives place.. I was just left hanging there... maybe I should go out and buy them myself :p] and so is my dad... we went off to catch it..

The movie seems to centre around the epic battle at the red cliff, hence, obviously its title... And if you don't know the story at all. .you wouldn't know how all the generals and all met up etc.. Wouldn't know their relations and all with each other... I sort of remember cause of the television dramas... but I prefer to get my hands on the books.... it's been years.. and I was but a child when I read and watched the story.. so I've sort of forgotten most of it..

But the movie overall... it's ok, too much fighting scenes... there were some funny moments, and some brotherhood/loyalty to friends [sorry, don't know how to describe yi hei in English] scenes.. but overall it was ok.. the battles, especially the use of the ba gua [ermm, 8 formation?] tactic was good, but when I read on wikipedia, apparently in REAL history such a move wasn't used till after that period.... but oh well.. movies are movies... they need the ratings to rake in money.. still, it was impressive... A real good war tactic...

However, I will say that.. I want to catch the next one... because the cinematography is beautiful, and well, I want to see how they fight it out.. though I roughly recall how it will turn out, seeing it on screen is another matter... but that's about it... it was okay

And I don't know why, this past two days since after the exams.. I feel so tired always.. I haven't even watched an episode of anime yet.. but I am trying to catch up on my manga downloads haha.. so that's all.. I'm going to try and turn in early tonight.. hope the green tea from my Japanese dinner, don't keep me up the whole night.. :p

-Oracl3-

P/s: anyone interested in the new "The Mummy" movie? it opened today.... :p

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
well that was the official website that i gave.. but i didn't really check the website out..

it's 0049, 28th May 2008.. i just got back from the said movie with Raymond. thanks Raymond for accompanying me, and for dinner.. we had Carl's burger!! not bad, really big portions that they serve, twice the size of the Big Mac, and quite tasty... Thanks Ray :)

we had a lovely chat as usual over dinner :) i always enjoy our dinners together.. we can talk about so many things :)

the movie this round was on me, since Ray always buys dinner, and drives me.. so the least i could do was pay for the movie and the parking.. i know i'm not earning yet.. but i do what i can :) and i think i was sort of lucky.. i think today is Lady's Night or something.. the tickets only cost me RM15.. a surprise to the both of us... RM8 & RM7 respectively... guess RM7 is for the lady, and RM8 for her companion? according to Ray it usually costs around RM11.. woah.. that expensive already?? i thought it was between RM9-10.... anyway i digress...

on to the movie.. i watched the first movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe with Ray when it first came out, and i borrowed the book from Eugene and read it...

the second movie... personally? is better than the first... i find.. the CGI (computer effects) and the storyline was better than the first... though. Peter is still arrogant.. Susan is still Susan... And why on earth is Lucy still thinking like a kid, when she should have matured, at least mentally and spiritually, when they ruled Narnia for a decade or so (can't remember how long they ruled Narnia, before returning to our world..).. well, the best is Edmund.. his change is notable, since the first movie, and he was the one character i liked the most... though the actor for Peter, wasn't bad.... (he has courage.. though he is stubborn and arrogant...)

there were some cliché parts.. usually at the fighting part, when they are at war... we all know that Aslan is going to pop out and save the day...

MAJOR SPOILER: highlight between the ** to read..

**and the fact that Prince Caspian would come out of no where to rescue Susan.. and well Lucy as well.. was cliché too.. **

but overall i liked it better.. i know that in the first movie a bunch of teenagers were going around slaying people like nobody business.. and that kind of irked me.. but it still didn't make it easier for me, to see young people, teenagers.. aka Edward, Peter and Susan, easily killing people.. it's a war i know.. but it's kind of hard for me to stomach... although it's the second movie, and as Ray said.. they were already doing that in the first movie.. besides their mentality is supposed to be older.. etc. etc.

it's a good watch really, i can't wait for the 3rd instalment, and am seriously considering getting the book set for all 3 books.... maybe after my exams.... ;p

the movie was full of perks and humour.. i spent a good half of it laughing.. the jokes were incredible.. the sarcasm, witty.. you just have to love it.. and the Narnians.. adorable.. well the little ones at least.. (well, i am an animal lover.. though my love for animals have a limit...)

thoroughly enjoyable, and the company added on more to it.. really loved it.. i would recommend it to anyone who asks :) you guys should go and catch the movie... totally superb.. the humour and the new storyline.. the beautiful scenery.. (the river water was so clear, it really reminded me of Switzerland.. could they have filmed there?) plus the cool CGI especially at the ending part.. makes up for the few clichés that are bound to appear in movies such as this :)

-Oracl3-

二十四日四月二零零八年：木曜日

Today since i didn't have any class, and it so happened that Cheese was free... to be.. well our transport minister... (I really should get driving... damn phobia... =.=')

and since we had wanted to watch a movie for quite some time.. we took this opportunity to catch a movie..

so at about 1230.. ccy.. who was part of the party, came over to practise some piano, and that guy learns very fast.. i had only taught him fur elise, like what? 2 days ago, and well his teacher taught him again, and he can play quite well.. Kudos... such a smart student... :)

later at about 1 something.. then it was cheese's turn to arrive... sorry i must have bored him to death.. what with my file transfer, and playing the multiple musical instruments in my home.. i.e. the piano and the violin.. i didn't play the guitar today....

so at 2, we left my house to pick up the girls (mel and xian ai) and headed off to BU to catch.. any movie that was available at that time...

we were supposed to meet meng there..but he came like.. 10-15 minutes before our movie which was at..3pm..

what movie did we watch? well the jet li - jackie chan movie... --> The Forbidden Kingdom...

It's kind of a cliché story.. But if you know some of the old chinese stories/legends, you would have found it really amusing.. they put in characters like:

• The Monkey King,@Son Goku@Sun Wusun aka Jet Li
  
• One of the eight immortals, Lu the Taoist priest aka Jackie Chan
• The Bride With White Hair.. Honestly, i don't know what it is in English, but in mandarin it is Bai Fa Mo Ni.. 白髮魔女 (Direct translation, White hair.. Demoness? ). aka Li Bing Bing
• The Jade emperor, and empress.. though they played a very small role
• The Pangolin Jade hairpin of the empress... Which holds magical powers.. Here in the movie it was used to kill an immortal.. I'm not sure, if it was capable of doing that..
• Little sparrow from... I don't' know.. that name is very common haha
  

Ermm I can't remember what else.. But there was some reference to the old Chinese myths.. Which they changed a little here and there.. Like with the Monkey King... The original myth has it that the goddess of mercy, imprisoned him under a mountain, till the monk.. (don't know how to say his name in English) came a long and started the journey to the west..

I believe the jade hairpin mentioned in the movie, is the magical one that belonged to the jade empress.. in the myth, it was said that an immortal, having trouble fighting a beast with hard scales in the human world needed that hairpin to kill the creature, and end it's destruction of the human world.. so that immortal, i forgot which one, tricked a palace maiden, in the jade empress, palace, to fall in love with him and steal the hairpin for him.. after that, he killed the creature, and lived with the maid as husband and wife for a hundred days.. or was it years.. and later returned the hairpin to the empress.. after that i don't know what happened to him..

About the 8 immortals Lu, the Taoist priest,i don't remember him being a drunk..but i thought he was the one carrying the eight jade boards... but i digress, i can't really remember the story...

The bride with white hair.. is a novel... which was made into a movie featuring the late leslie cheung, and Bridgette Lin as the Demoness.. it was about a women so in love with a man, and when he betrayed her or something.. her grief became so great that her hair turned white.. i can't really remember it.. but i think she exacted vengeance on all men, using her hair to kill.. i can't remember what happened to her in the end...

but that's about how much I can associate with the Chinese stories...

You know it felt kind of weird to have the story being told in English.. I think I would have preferred it in Chinese.. but it was something sort of new...

**
The movie was hilarious.. and the fighting was good.. it's really a movie worth to watch, I was laughing here and there.. though I must say that the storyline was very, VERY cliché.. but the humour and the fighting make up for it...

Regarding my title "I laughed when she died" some of you may think I'm some cold hearted sadist or something.. but this is the second time that I've laughed in the cinema when someone was dying...

The first was in Star Wars.. i can't remember which one, but it was when Anakin was still a kid, and his mom was dying... The movie was boring me to hell.. and well iIhad a friend sleeping in another part of the cinema, another stuffing himself with popcorn, and me playing snake on my friend's Nokia handphone..

And when Anakin's mom was dying... my friend who was munching on popcorn i.e. Eugene.. made me laugh.. Anakin's mom was going "I love... i love...."

OK, we all know that she is going to say "I love you" to her son.. but Eugene goes and say.. "What?... I love popcorn?" the character was dragging it too long... with her" i love.. i love.." but not saying the "you".. Therefore the "popcorn" fit in so well, that i was laughing so hard... earning the glares of other movie goers..

I'm really sorry, i didn't do that on purpose.... =.=' it's Eugene's fault, really... but i digress..

For this movie.. The Forbidden Kingdom.. it's no one's fault.. i just burst into contained laughter (I think it was still loud, but i covered my mouth.. thus contained?).. It happened when the main character.. the western boy, Jason... aka the "hero" of the story..and the girl he liked.. Golden Sparrow.. was dying..

She was dying in his arms... He managed to exact revenge for her... and well was clutching her so close.. he looked like he was about to kiss her.. apparently the other girls were going "just kiss her already" and well, I was going "oh, he's going to kiss her" (but sceptical that he would be able to, hey as I said... it's cliché plus she is dying.. If i'm dying, the last thing on my mind would be to kiss some guy... =.=') when.....

She just dies.. and i burst into laughter.. much to meng's chagrin.. he was like.. "you sadist.. the girl just died, and you are laughing....."

Well, i found it so funny... imagine you are about to kiss this girl, and she just dies.. it's like.. how do i explain it decently... ermm... okay, i can't, so what the heck... it's like someone is having sex with you, and just before you reach your orgasm he stops... Just right, at that crucial second... you know...?

it's like so potong steam, no? just being cut off like that? haha.. but oh well... so yeah, i laughed when the character was dying.. but maybe because I knew it was cliché, i knew he was going to meet her again later.. so yeah.. there you have it... a feel good cliché movie, which is still worth watching for the humour and the fight scenes..

***

I enjoyed myself today :)

-Oracl3-

二十八日一月二零零八年

spent my morning till night at Bandar Utama....

woke up around 10 something, and got ready while my cousins ling and Ben came over to pick me up, watched... what did we watch? =.=' oh yes, we watched game plan which was at 250 pm, with so much time to spare since we were at the shopping complex since 11, we went shopping for some clothes that Ben would need when he went over to Australia...

he was such a fast shopper, (prosperous underwear anyone? haha) that we ended up visiting toy's r us, and fooling around there for an hour before having lunch at nando's...

after that as my parents were going out for dinner, i headed home for a shower and to feed my dog, before going to ling's house, had dinner there, then headed back to bandar utama with ben and his girl friend to watch sweney todd...

game plan, is a feel good movie i would say, the outcome can be clearly seen, and well, in some aspects touching, not a bad watch... but the storyline is cliche if you asked me... (remember big daddy?)

sweney todd.. let's make this clear, i watched it because jhonny depp was in it, after pirates of the carribean, i thought i would give this a try...the movie overall was so-so, very dark and gloomy with a lot of violent murders, ling claims it will give her nightmares... =.='

so, ermm, i would recommend game plan.. but not sweney todd.. it's intriguing but also kind of dark, and melodramatic, somewhat like a musical with all the singing about..... but ok... but it was basically like a vendetta gone sort of awry... (well since when were vendettas NOT awry...)

had a nice chat with ling, and laughed my head off.... talking about well my blurness in the past and all, and how i let oppurtunity slip past me...

on a final note before i end 3 glasses of ice lemon tea makes me super hyper... (courtesy of nando's bottomless drinks...)


-Oracl3-

十四日十二月二零零七年：金曜日

Today i went to watch the movie Enchanted with my cousins Ben and Ling, it was a really nice movie, humorous, romantic and with a happy ever after ending.. a nice change from those teary dramas that i have been watching lately...

i finally figured out why i like shows like タイヨウのうた、ヘレン子狐、一リットル涙、電池がきれるまで [taiyou no uta, heren ko kitsune, ichi rittoru namida, denchi ga kireru made] (song to the sun, helen the baby fox, one litre of tears, till the battery runs out)

why you may ask, all these shows, are about how precious life is, most of us take living for granted, we think that just because life doesn't go the way we want, it's not worth living, but this shows are different.. terminally ill people, children and animals, all strive to survive... i guess it's human not to appreciate what we have till we lose it, but shows like this, wakes us up, to tell us that, life is precious...

anyway, i totally side tracked.. sigh.. about enchanted.. i went to bandar utama with my cousins to watch, and wow, maybe it's because it's a friday and it's the school holiday, but there was a lot of people, and it was so hard to find parking, in the end we managed to find parking, and the line for the tickets was absurd, but we managed to get the tickets at 9.20pm.. our movie time? 9.20pm haha.. but knowing the advertisements and all, we still made it in time..

after that met, ccy, yoong xiong, leonard, simon and wei hao outside the cinema.. they were going to watch enchanted too... simon has already actually watched enchanted 3 times.. OMG.. well it is a good movie, i don't mind watching it a second time, but not so soon.. anyway, next on my list of movies is the golden compass (though i've been hearing that it isn't good) and i am legend.. watched the trailer in Croatia, and Desmond said that it's a good movie.. and it looked good, so i'm up for it.. and oh, yes also i want to watch Elizabeth, haha i love this costume like movies.. :p

an interesting thing.. usually people buy food BEFORE the movie, but my cousins and i, went against the norm, and bought food AFTER the movie.. haha ...well the three of us were after the corn anyway :p and they dropped by my house for water/milk, and to eat the corn and chat.. it was fun hanging out with them as usual :p

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二十九日十一月二零零七年 - 五日十二月二零零七年

on the above stated date, there was a goodwill camporee organised by the Persatuan pengakap Kuala Lumpur.. i think.. (Kuala Lumpur Scout association)

well i was told it's done by KL, so i will trust my source..

earlier, a few months back to be exact, xian ai was telling me about the camp, and was looking for people to help out with the camp, so since i liked helping out in camps, and well since not much, actually no scouting skill was required (yes, i admit, my scouting skills are crap..), i thought that i would help out, since i had nothing much to do, and it's effective for depression also haha, find something to do ;p

so on the 29th, the start date of the camporee, i went with xian ai, and met up with some juniors.. and we were assigned to contingents... the scouts that came were mainly from Malaysia, those out of state, scouts from Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia..

i volunteered to work as an international service team (IST) with the Singapore group, mainly because i wanted to avoid any communication barriers, and since i speak, English, Malay, mandarin, Cantonese and hakka with varying fluency, i thought that Singapore would be a piece of cake of me..

i mean i don't speak a word of thai actually, and my malay, well... let's say it's not that good anymore haha..

so i was assigned to help the Singapore contingent settle in, when they arrived, there was quite a lot of work, and some small matters arose but were settled.. (getting tents, camp beds, settling inquiries, boundaries...) and the Singapore contingent, had an activity right after arriving.. talk about tiring.. they had to do a gotong royong (community service to clean up an area) in a nearby kampung (village, though it isn't really a village.. we just call it that..)

after a 6 hour bus ride, and setting up camp, now they have to do community service.. must have been really tiring..

anyway the gotong royong, was hideous...well not ugly in that sense, but woah, there was like a heap of rubbish, and it really stank, and oh my god.. i saw a spider almost as big as my fist... ==' freaked me out...

one thing i must say is that, the girl scouts in the Singapore contingent. .(there were 61 scouts including the scout leaders... i think in their contingent.. 5 were girls) really had guts.. they bravely came forward to help with that heap of rubbish...

after that they came back and rested.. and we sent them off for dinner, and their free time.. unfortunately for the other days of the camp, i had class and wasn't around, but they were sent for their camp activities anyway, where i was not needed.. on the last day, i met up with them again, to ask them how were things, did they enjoy the camp.. (though truth be told i think they were just being polite, cause to me camp sucked. will bitch about it below..)

and they were so nice, they gave me some souvenirs from the Singapore scouts.. a badge and a pin.. so nice of them :)

also i had a very good workout, at the camp walking back and forth, there were some amusing moments.. as we helpers sat down and shared our experiences, and complaints, we laughed together and learned together, i met a scout leader and some rovers from titiwangsa, and one from Sabah(?) who was studying n KL though... and they were a nice bunch, i sure do hope that they keep in contact with me.... :) it was nice hanging out with them...

and now for some pictures which i have just received from the Singapore contingent leader. it was so nice of Mr Supra to send the pictures to me..

they were taken on the last day of the camp, when i came to bid them farewell

from left is xian ai, yong peng, yuen herng, mr supra, and me (sorry if i spelt anyone's name wrong.. ) yuen herng is actually my 2nd cousin from my dad's side.. you guys know pn loh? well, meet her son hehe.. small world..

close up of the picture above.. same people.. lazy to relabel haha

mr Supra and i.. darn should have rolled down my sleeve =='

overall, the camp.. was crap, poor planning, imagine the day before was only when they had asked for portable toilets for the camp.. there was no specific allocated place for the scouts to get drinking water,(worse was they had to pay for drinking water..) and there was not enough lighting in the campsite.. no place for them to charge their cameras..

even the administration was a mess.. imagine only on the second last day did i get my nametag, and well each helper was supposed to get a t-shirt, scarf and badge, and we didn't get it until the last day, and we didn't get a scarf, so it was replaced with a cap.. which i swapped with a singaporean scout..

erghh the planning drove me up the walls.. how could you do that, when scouts from other countries are coming? it was as if there were not enough funds as well, they made the scouts walk around the whole of KL and the only transportation for them is a DBKL truck lined with chairs??? what are they? illegal immigrants?? i mean walking is still fine, as a scout, (but not really for scout leaders... some of them aren't young anymore haha) but get a bus for christ sake...

it crossed my mind a lot of times during the camp, that if i were the one organising it, and if i had enough time and man power this wouldn't happen..

for this camp, i would say they had enough time.. they jsut didn't utilise it, and yes i would say they had enough staff as well.. and the best part? no one wanted to take responsiblity there, they kept pushing it left, right and left again.. when my contingent asked me a query.. for example... for lighting, in their campsite.. i was directed to guy A, who directs me to guy B, who directs me to guy C, who directs me back to guy A.. a nice round circle...

it was like a treasure hunt searching for these people.. call? they either don't answer, or their phone is crap/dead.. and talking on the phone gets you no where, you have to talk to the person.. that made my blood pressure boil... and well i got my real good excercise from my "treasure hunts" lucky i had win han ahha.. if not i don't think that i would be able to manage ;p

i mean if you are some people will look for you, then stay at the station.. if it's that boring and you want to walk.. then answer your bloody phone and go meet the person at the station to settle the problem.. erghh.. you know if i were a foreign scout, i don't think i would like to come again.. thought i might hoping it's better.. but such lousy planning, and time management.. though the singporean scouts told me that they would attend camporees again, cause it was nice to make foregin friends.. note they said camporee, haha whether it's held here again.. is another matter i guess..

and oh the worse part for the camp in overall was the in-fighting.. that was the worse.. as a scout you should finish what you started, how can you be so irresponsible and just leave? i'm not blaming the scouts, but the person that made that decision.. after you see teh job through, then only kick people's ass.. it was horrible.. too horrible to describe.. overall, i was thanking god that i was not a particapant, but a mere helper, who can come and go as i please...

-Oracl3-