Movie Run

Prior to the Academy Awards (aka Oscars), I made an mild attempt to watch all the films that is nominated for the awards. They call it Oscarian mania. Whatever.

As of 24th February 2007, 12.45pm, I almost made it. Almost.

I made it through only for the Best Motion Picture.










































And the Oscars goes to....
Letters of Iwo Jima..or thats what I think. Basically, the tempo's just nice, plot's nice although they are babbling in Kunichiwa-language and admirable scenes.

As for others, Babel's too slow, The Queen's too monotonous, The Departed has too many fucks (I preferred the Cantonese version actually, esp. the casting), Little Miss Sunshine's pretty but I doubt they give awards to dark comedies.

As of other films that worth mentioning that is part of the nominees in other categories. I recommended these:

Its in Spanish, big possibility for Best Foreign Film.
Originality is its selling point.











One of Leo's greatest characters, tho I really like Djimon Hounsou's performance. I always like bring-to-awareness and almost factual movies. Action-packed is its bonus.











Another with a fresh plot. Clive Owen's good here.

(spoiler)
Julian Moore died too fast tho.
























Both are about magicians. Both are about jealousy. Both are about the drive of love. Both have a lot of competitions in the film. Both plots twist like roller-coasters. Both are good. Obviously.

Nominated films that I looked forward to:
















Oh great...another one jz finishes its download. I jz love the kind and Sharing people out there.
Popcorn's out.

Over.

Foot Attack!!

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Out of boredom of course.....XP

Genting - Brief Version

In this el-nino type of weather, it's hard to resist a trip to a cool foggy place some hundred-metres more-above-sea-level-place. Further encouraged by the fact that exams are just over, a sip of cool breeze is most essentially needed. Having said that, Genting is almost inevitable to stop by.
















The trip up. Up and away.

This time around, I try to minimize my spendings and as a result, no theme park and whatsoever alike. And almost suffering from booze phobia, I promised not to make my arteries and ventricles overworked and overloaded. So whats the fun you asked? Just need a cool refreshing atmosphere and fresher air here.

Courtesy of Adam and his parents, we already got our rooms when we touched down. No swiping of cards and queues needed here. Save a helluva energy.

After the meet the parents session, we had a dose of PS2 with Ad's bro before going for the film The Guardian. Worth mentioning that is a great movie. Simple plot but good acting from Costner and Ash "Punk'd" Kutcher especially.

As I have said, saving was part of my plan, and I granted it. Just so you dunno, you can spend below 10 bucks for a meal in Genting, stomach fully loaded. Yeap. All you have to do is a lil' exploring down a gloomy car park. They install a freaking mamak restaurant there. Possibly for staffs, but its always a bonus to have adventurous, tight-budgeted customers around. My dinner only cost RM5.70 consisting of nasi kandar and a teh o panas. Ain't normal for a place own by Goh Tong.

Moving on, we entertain ourselves with the idiot box before having the usual custom-booze session(did i jz say "usual"?). And you know the story, the always-got-people-get-drunk-story.















The culprit - Bombay Sapphire

Its nice with 7-up and even nicer with orange juice. 47% of alcohol is way too much to drink it straight, well, at least it applies to only some.

The effect?




















Yeah...Thommy...thx for the portrait. XD















The insanity and the fantasy
















The aftermath

It's always a type of relief to go all out partying after a dull monotonous life as an undergrad. Especially if an entertainment centre is jz 45 minutes away from where you are studying.
Happy hols and Gong Xi Fat Chai!

Gong Xi Gong Xi

Kiong Hee! Kiong Hee!

Time seems to fly and by now is the Babi year, and that means yet another circle of zodiac is complete.

Anyway, Chinese New Year is a time when people who haven't sign the happily-ever-after papers receive their ang pows. Not forgetting too, the garbage collectors. They come in cranky smelly garbage trucks to beg for ang pows and as if you don't give them, ur gate will definitely be crashed down by their tanks...er..trucks.

The build-up to the first day of CNY is definitely a busy week. Besides the spring cleanings, it's time for now-or-never buddy gatherings and hectic movie catch up-ings. In fact, with the upgrade from dial-up to Streamyx at home, cinemas aren't always the destination to rush to for movies anymore. Imagine having an average-70-kbps(for my standard, that is freaking fast!) downloader deployed at home and an average of 2 movies per day. All you have to do is clicking off the mouse and by tomorrow, sit back and enjoy.

Enough said there. As for Chinese New Year, it is always the expectation of having family members gathering around and trips to each and every relatives' house to expand your ang pau collections. Forget gambling in my family. We don't. No kidding here. No chua tai ti. No mahjongs. Uh-huh. Boring? Far from it.

















I thanked everyone that wishes me Happy Chinese New Year through SMS, cards and every media available. I kinda lazy to wish back each and everyone of you. XD. Anyways, I am wishing you guys here Happy Chinese New Year and may everything be fine in the year of the Pig! Take care guys.

Lalalalala....

Its been soo long since the last post. I got blogger's block.
Or rather, that's merely an excuse for "lazy to write anything".

And so it seems, that after a long absence, there will be tons of posts to be posted up here. So it seems. In reality, there isn't. Coz I kinda bogged down to remember what happened everyday and recorded it here. So for now, I'll just write whatever comes to mind..

Exams are over....yay.

Notice that it isn't "Exams ARE OVER!!....YAAAAYYY!!"

Well, probably, I wasn't going through some major make-or-break type of examination. Just some college stuff. And partly, I wasn't doing well in the exams.

In fact, I rate my performance for this sem's exam as sucky. Sucked real bad. I can always blame the exams question for being hard-core difficult and tricky and not-for-our-standards and bullshit questions came out. But that's only part of it. One major factor that I think it sucks, is that I, as always the usual case for everybody in every situation, did not prepare well. Admittedly. And yeap, that's of it. The results will tell. Till then, I should probably enjoy my hols.

CNY is a stone's throw away. It doesn't feel right when you can't feel the atmosphere. Well, one of my floormates tried hard by blasting CNY musics through Altec Lensing 2.1 Speakers, but that doesn't help much. I hypothesize maybe its the amount of time spent with family. The lesser time spent with family, the lesser the feeling is. Afterall, CNY is about quality time spent with family members. So, maybe I should get that feeling right before the eve of CNY. Hopefully.

All these blah-blahs is to try to reignite the writing feeling. So, this blog sounds very pointless.
But at least, I wrote something.