G Force *3D

Watched on 6th Sep @ GV Marina

This is a much anticipated movie, at least for myself it is. I wasnt really expecting much of a fantastic plot of super cool effects. I was just looking for cute guinea pigs to entertain myself with. And I see in that respect, the movie did not disappoint.

The 3D effect in the movie was actually quite cool, cos the 3D was not only on the animated CGI, but also on the real life surrounding and humans. So there was depth in everything. But I have to say, they could have done more cos, that fantastic effect was not throughout the movie, certain parts were 3D pointless, while some parts are just COOL!

These guinea pigs are cooler than the CHIPMUNKS!!

1 thing I really dislike personally, is disney's recent fetish with using cockroaches!! OMG!! why are they depicted like cute and useful!!?? that part totally grossed me out!! TOTALLY!!!
Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 7 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10
Overall: 7.5 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Darwin: Juarez admitted that she likes you, she said she only acted like she likes me to get you to be interested in her.
Blaster: So what makes you think she didnt say that just to make you like her?

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A stressedful week turns out not bad..

This week started off as super stressedful as I was totally stuck on one of my assignments. I was stucked at one step and really couldnt figure my way out of it, I just got so pissed, so frustrated, I stared at it for hours and hours and I'm still stuck!!! I stared at it so much and so long that my other assignments snowballed! That simply compounded my stress further.

Good thing I decided to do this assignment early, I set an assumed deadline for myself on monday, which I COULDNT meet. But I managed to remind myself I would still have time for submission so I let it go first and decided to find some groupmates to discuss the assignment later. It turned out to be a good decision.

I worked on my other assignments and more or less got them done pretty fast. So I was quite happy with myself on that.

When I got to discussed my 1st assignment with my groupmates, I realised I was not the one who's most lost. Others are worst off, that made me feel slightly better but that still doesnt solve my problem. But during my lesson just now, somehow a edison's light bulb lighted up for me!! Eureka!! I realise what I could do to resolve the problem, that totally made my day.

Although I've not start rectifying the assignment yet, but I'm now confident it can be done much easier now. I'll leave that for tml.

Heads up, Chins up, Look ahead....

This week is by far the week which i've spent the most time in school. Even my mum knew i've been home late everyday, but I usually do come home late anyway, so.. watever. I've been in school ALOT!! So much more can be accomplished in school den at home. And I do feel i've done quite abit of work, which is WONDERFUL!

Had IFG training on friday, not the fierce kind of training, which is good for me. I enjoyed the matches, felt abit more in touch as compared to last week. I just wanna enjoy playing, not the trainings. Though as a coach I do know the importance of training up for a sport. I KNOW!! I'm trying to keep the weight off, so please dun bother me abt that, I'll bother myself!

But I do feel that I'm not spending enough time with dear. She's busy, i'm busy.. Either one of us is dead tired when we meet. So kelian, the both of us... Maybe I should start buying TOTO... :P

Oh yah, G Force, have not watched it yet, cos all the cinemas are only showing 1 3D session today, and they are full. Tml as well!! WTH!!

Dance Flick

Watched on 5 Sep 09 @ Funshion

This is a spoof movie by the Wayans. sometime back, I thought there was only shawn and marlon wayans, this movie made me realised they are huge!! thay have a whole family in the business. Oh they were the people behind scary movie too!!

Anyway, it's a lame, funny, pure senseless movie. Wanna have a good laugh?? go see it. I would not pay $10 on a weekend for it though.

Here's a list of spoofs they did, see if you can spot them if you ever watch this movie. That's always the fun part abt watch spoofs, identifying the links.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Free Willy (1993)
Bring It On (2000)
Honey (2003)
1 Night in Paris (2004) (V)
Catwoman (2004)
"The Biggest Loser" (2004)
"So You Think You Can Dance" (2005)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Step Up (2006)
Employee of the Month (2006)
Stomp the Yard (2007)
Flashdance (1983)
Mean Girls (2004)
High School Musical (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Dreamgirls (2006)
Hairspray (2007)
Superbad (2007)
Juno (2007)
Enchanted (2007)
Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Twilight (2008)


Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: kindda lame, but makes some sense
Audio & Visual: not bad... good for laughs
Overall: 7 out of 10

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No more short weeks for me.. SobzZ

I started off the semester with only 3 days in my timetable. Happy days did not continue for too long. My 3 days school week is not effectively extended to 7 days. Thanks to the following commitments.

Tedious counting exercises for traffic flow...
Researching and reading up on transportation planning
Readings and writing essays for geography
Being the "tech" guy in my new venture creation group

FYP video-ing to start asap..
Training for IFG, though not very tough, it's quite shack for me in this condition.

so basically there goes my free days... time to camp in school more and time to learn to like that... !! :P :( :)

I wanna watch G FORCE!! :)

Year One

Watched on 27 Aug @ The Cathay

This movie is so forgetable I totally forgot abt it, until now.

Story wise, it's really not abt the story, the flow of the story is ridiculous. It plainly just for laughs. Jack black is on the verge of become the comedian with the least number of tricks in his bag. His first few comedies, yeah great & interesting. Well It seems he he no other tricks to show. I was disappointed with that, utterly!

It tries to fill the movie with a few spoofs of biblical characters which I'm not really familiar with, perhaps due to the fact i'm not christian. But I doubt christians would be happy abt it too.

Micheal Cera on the other hand gave a pretty ok performance, I think it's cos of the role. It's just so much like his previous few roles. Just the nerdy guy. Not too bad.

Watch it, only if you have nothing better to go for.. But beware of the excessive amounts of sexual jokes, not too advisable unless you want your partner to know how u know abt horny jokes... :P

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: Lame but funny
Audio & Visual: nothing exceptional
Overall: 6 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Oh: I'm a virgin by choice.
Zed: Ha. Not your choice!

Official Website

Another week has gone

another week of school has past, and progress is going quite well so far. I like it. Keep it up!!!

The tempo for this week is simply to kick start all my projects and get the ball rolling. That's the part which I thought I did pretty well.

I gave advise for a first assignment for my traffic flow module.
I gave a whole list of ideas for Singapore tourism slogan generation.
I came up with a pretty cool idea for new venture creation module.
I kick started some discussions on transportation planning.

All sounds good to me now. JIayou jiayou jiayou!!

Management

Watched on 23 Aug 09 @ GV Vivocity

A romantic comedy was the description by GV. BUT!! It's really only romantic in small parts comedic in even smaller parts. But again, that's not to say that this is a bad movie. It's just somewhere between average & more average. I bet i'll forget abt it after a while.

The lead, Mike is the main romantic component of the movie, yet he does do it the classic romantic way. It's his give it all for love, regardless anything actions that make him romantic.

Comedically, Al who played Mike's good friend and only showed up past halfway thru the show, is the spark of comedy.

A huge thing i dun really like abt this movie is that, the story likes to jump. It's like the director has the "click" remote control, and he keeps pressing skip!!

What I like abt this show, it's a positive movie. The underlying meaning I find is that, many people are stuck at some point in their life. But being stuck is not the end, we just have to learn to move on.

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 6 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 6 out of 10
Overall: 6 out of 10

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Post Interim Presentation

For the past week or so, i've been freaking out abt this presentation. Cos i really have no background abt this sort of thing, then i'm really unsure abt the things I need to achieve for this presentation. But I think everything turned out quite ok for this event.

I think I did quite an ok job and left the examiners without much questions to ask except for those which I have an idea abt. That in itself is quite an achievement I think. And more importantly, I might actually have a good idea of what else to do next. Perhaps this could be my one significant achievement in NUS, to be able to publish an academic paper for use in Singapore.

It does sound quite "woah", yah??

Well that's still far fetch, I still have plenty of work to do.

With this interim out of the way for the moment, I have other things to worry abt, I have 4 modules this semester and all 4 does involve projects intensively. So not much rest time left for me. I think it's just tonight and tml i'll have to work on the other stuff already. Good thing, I've already sent some "arrows" out, waiting for reply to get some sense of my next step. Now i'll just WAIT!!

Week 2 of School

Week 2 has begun, although i'm kindda like a part time student now cos none of my lessons start before 12noon, and I only have 3 day week so far.

But there's LOTs of things to do already. Readings & projects!!

District 9

Watched on 16th Aug 2009 @ The Cathay

I watched this film without much knowledge abt it except for the fact that it should involve aliens. This film managed to leave me kindda lost at the end of the movie. Quite a lot of ???s left the cinema with me. Why did the aliens come? Why are these aliens so uncivilised?

I sensed that the producers are using aliens to mimic the actions of whites in south africa,during the apartheid, hence the location in Johanesburg and the military encampments.

For most of the show it's actually quite grossed, the way people and aliens were injured and killed, DISINTEGRATED!! In the end, it's a simple plot of a bunch of aliens trying to go home.

Kindda let down by the ending actually, I was hoping more was explained clearly.

It's not a bad movie, but not fantastic either.

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 6 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10
Overall: 7 out of 10

Official Website

The Proposal

Watched on 16th Aug 2009 @ The Cathay

This is a GREAT movie to watch to cheer yourself up!! It's really funny, but not lame. It's actually believable. Great acting, especially by Ryan Reynolds who plays Andrew Paxton. Sandra Bullock does look a tad old, but perhaps that's needed for her character. Successful & "old"?

Beyond the acting, I think we should really credit the scriptwriters for this one. The lines are fantastically witty. It's so well written you can enjoy the show by purely listening.

So my recommendation is simple, WATCH IT!!

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 8.5 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10
Overall: 8 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Andrew Paxton: [referring to the story about how he proposed to Margaret] You know what? Actually, Margaret loves telling this story, so I'm just gonna let her go ahead and do that. We should just sit and rapture.
Margaret Tate: Wow, okay... wow, where to begin... the story... Well, um, wow... Okay, well, um, Andrew and I... Andrew and I were about to celebrate our first anniversary together and I knew that he'd been itching to ask me to marry him and he was scared, like a little tiny bird. So, I started leaving him little hints here and there because I knew he wouldn't have the guts to ask...
Andrew Paxton: That's not exactly how it happened.
Margaret Tate: No?
Andrew Paxton: No, no, I mean I picked up on all of her little hints... this woman is about as subtle as a gun. Yeah, no what I was worried about was that she might find this little box...
Margaret Tate: Oh, the decoupage box that he made, where he'd taken the time to cut out twenty little pictures of himself, just pasted all over the box. So beautiful! I opened that beautiful little decoupage and out fluttered these tiny little hand cut heart confettis and once they cleared, I looked down and I saw the most beautiful, big...
Andrew Paxton: ...fat nothing! No ring.
Grandma Annie: No ring?
Grace Paxton: What?
Andrew Paxton: No, but inside that box, underneath all that crap, a handwritten note with the address to a hotel, date and time. Real Humphrey Bogart type stuff. Masculine. Naturally, Margaret, she thought...
Margaret Tate: I thought he was seeing someone else... so it was a terrible time for me, but I went to that hotel anyway, I went there and I pounded on the door. But the door was already unlocked. As I swung open that door, there he was...
Andrew Paxton: Standing.
Margaret Tate: Kneeling.
Andrew Paxton: Like a man.
Margaret Tate: On a bed of rosebuds, in a tuxedo. Your son. Your son... and he was choking back soft, soft sobs. And when he held back the tears and finally caught his breath, he said to me...
Andrew Paxton: 'Margaret, will you marry me?' and she said 'yep', the end!
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Margaret Tate: I am not getting in that boat!
Andrew Paxton: Fine, see you in three days.
Margaret Tate: You know I can't swim!
Andrew Paxton: Hence... the *boat*.

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Orphan

Watched on 14th Aug @ The Cathay

I seriously have no idea why we would actually have the urge to watch this movie. The trailers have been showing for a while, and it's really obvious it's going to be a movie that would try to scare you from start to the end.

Well, it's scary, cos the irritating director uses the scary music and tactics to make u feel threatened. You will always feel there's something that's gonna pop and scare you, BUT sometimes its just a bluff. Which really builds up the atmosphere for the next scare! BOO!!

The plot of this movie should be considered quite unique, but due to me having just watched "Murderer". I kindda guessed this plot and twist halfway thru the movie. So I concluded Aaron Kwok's "Murderer" is the spoiler for this movie.

Actors wise, the kid, Esther, really creeps you out!!!! She is beyond SICK!!!!!!

My recommendation, if you plan to watch this movie, catch murderer too..

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 8 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10
Overall: 7.5 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Kate Coleman: Esther? We have to talk about last night.
Esther: Do we?
Kate Coleman: Yes, we do... See, there are certain things that grownups do that children aren't supposed to see, and, uh... that was one of 'em.
[a pause; Esther keeps painting]
Kate Coleman: Esther, listen to me.
[Esther turns to Kate]
Kate Coleman: When grownups love each other very, very much... they want to show each other that love; they want to express it...
Esther: I know. They fuck.

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Official Trailer

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Back in School!!

First day back in school. There's this scary feeling surrounding me, cos it seems like this bunch of newbies in NUS are SCARY!! 4 years in NUS, I dun think i've seen a first day like this.

The library was FULL!!
The carpark was FULL!!
The Canteens are PACKED at 3pm!!

Handed in my interim report finally, many many thanks to dear for helping me collate the data. It's really tedious. Perhaps 1 or 2 days rest is all i'm going to get cos, the interim presentation is coming up next week.

Also took a look at the Lenovo Laptops on sale this year. It's quite bad cos they are selling the huge and tiny models only. I wanna get a new one this year.. but I wonder which one to get...

August Rush

Deadlines!! BLOODY DEADLINES!!

G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra

Watched on 8 Aug 2009 @ Cineleisure lvl 6

This is a cool movie to watch. Nothing much in the effects that's new or exciting, but it does remind me of a modern version of the mummy. Notice the way the nanomites eat away everything, just like the scarabs in the mummy series.

This movie has a hugely popular cast, that alone would be quite an attraction. Marlon Wayans plays Ripcord, a joker character in the movie, bright spark actually. Like his performance and interaction with Scarlet a lot.

There will be sequels, and i'm looking forward to them.

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 6 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 8 out of 10
Overall: 7 out of 10

Favourite Lines:
Duke: Ok, that was crazy... What happened to you?
Ripcord: I went through the train. What happened to you?
Duke: I jumped over it.
Ripcord: [pause] You can do that?
Duke: Yeah, you should have read the instruction manual.
Ripcord: This thing has an instruction manual!?


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Road Trip: Beer Pong

Watched on 7th Aug 2009 @ Funshion

This is a another movie by the Road Trip franchise, previous editions include Roadtrip, Eurotrip. It usually involves 3 friends who decide to go on a trip during their school holidays. Usually college students, and wacky stuff always happen along the way.

It's basically American Pie style humor and entertainment. Lot's of sex jokes, crude jokes, lame jokes. It's basically simply brainless entertainment.

Watch it if you are in need of a laugh or a moment of bimbo-ism. :P

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 5 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10
Overall: 6 out of 10

Human Counting

I have severely underestimated the difficulty of counting human traffic. People never walk in straight lines and they overtake like nobody's business. HEADACHE!!!

Murderer

Watched on 27 Jul 2009 @ Cineleisure Lvl 9

I dun usually watch chinese movies in the cinemas anymore, simply cos they churn out in DVDs too fast. And there is seldom any need to watch it for any visual effects. But this time, I'm watching it at the cinema cos I wanna see Aaron Kwok in action. And the results... well, let's put in it in 2 ways..

Acting wise it's really superb, regardless of the lead, Aaron Kwok or the rest of the supporting crew. I think they did a fantastic job. They are really really into the character, even though the version I watch is in mandarin whereas the original shld be in cantonese. If you look beyond the weird lip-synching cos of language. It's a fantastic job, he might be up for best actor once again. And the actor who played his son in the movie, great acting, cause even I wanted to kill him!!

Next when we look at the script, the flow, the story, the plot... It has a pretty good 100mins before turning ridiculous in the last 20mins... Sometimes I think they think too hard to provide twists that people would not expect. They went totally out of this world this time!! crazy I tell you!!

My advice, wait for the dvd, and you will not get as fed up as I did...
Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 5 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 6 out of 10
Overall: 5.5 out of 10

Public Enemies

Watched on 26 July 2009 @ GV Marina

This movie is based on a true story. And perhaps cos this story is so true, it gets kindda boring. I had expected this show to be a great battle of wits and epic confrontations between Agent Melvin Purvis, the beginnings of FBI and John Dillinger, public enemy #1.

John Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp in this show, well Johnny Depp is still hell of an actor. The way he plays this character. You remember him for this character, not Jack Sparrow, not the choco factory guy, but just John Dillinger, a wanted criminal. The #1 public enemy, which in this show seems like public favourite for than enemy.

The time was during the Great Depression, the americans liked the outlaws more than the government, who kindda sucked at that point in time.

Aside from great acting from all of the actors, there really aint much twists or turns in this story, so in the end it felt like I've just watched a documentary rather than a movie. The bad guy aint that smart after all. Cos they all die.

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 6 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 6 out of 10
Overall: 6 out of 10

Favourite Lines:

John Dillinger: I was raised on a farm in Morrisville, Indiana. My mama ran out on us when I was three, my daddy beat the hell out of me cause he didn't know no better way to raise me. I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey, and you... what else you need to know?

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John Dillinger: We don't work with people we don't know. And you don't work when your desperate. Walter Dietrich. Remember that?
John 'Red' Hamilton: Walter forgot. When your desperate, that's when you got no choice.

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I tried to upload pictures, this time the icon is thre but I just click upload.. it just wun react!! wth is wrong!!

FYP

Been stuck with this for a while. Filming has begun thankfully, however that doesnt solve anything as yet. I still need to find o ut how to use the data which I gathered, which may or may not be useful at all in the first place. How does everyone do their FYP?

It seems like the way to do it is to constantly pester your Prof. And I have not been doing that, hence giving him a super easy time in the past but times have changed! Muahahaa.. after being pushed by my Prof of Civil Eng Undergrad studies, I'm suppose to see my Prof every week and pester him till i'm done!

Great! That will mean I must double up my progress otherwise I'll have nothing to show. Nothing to ask.. Nothing to say... :P

Land of the Lost

Watched on 23 July 2009 @ PPStream

This movie can be described simply with a few words "I AM GLAD I DID NOT GO TO THE CINEMAS FOR THIS ONE!!". This movie is a huge disappointment. It seems like things are getting from bad to worst for Will Ferrell, from Brothers to this.. it's nothing but downhill...

Jokes are lame, actions are lame, actors got TOO lame... nuff said

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 1 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10
Overall: 4 out of 10

Favourite Lines:

NONE!! can you believe this??

Official Website

Pictures

You really want pictures for this?? :P

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince

Watched on 18 Jul 2009 @ GvMax

The 6th year of Harry Potter in Hogwarts, it's really amazing how this book still remains in the kids section in the national library! I think it's a much more mature book now than it start off to be, likewise for the movie. Although they are technically underage wizards and witches in the show, the things they handle and deal with are way beyond their age group!!

I find myself in the biggest screen in Singapore watching this installment. I thought it would be a good choice, unfortunately, having a big screen doesnt mean having good quality. I think the visual effects are quite blurry, damn disappointed abt that.

Story and plot wise, cos i did not read the book, I rely on the movie for the flow and content. I think the flow was kindda slow in the second half of the movie. It took pretty long for Dumbledore to die, and the movie doesnt really show much of the impact that the half-blood prince has on Harry Potter, perhaps the book doesnt either.

Ron is still the joke of the series, if you ask me. That's his main purpose in this movie, while Hermione & Ron are having their own relationship side story. Funny and infuriating sometimes.

Overall, the movie only serves as a prelude to the final chapter, watching it only makes me wanna watch the finale 2 installments even more. YES, they are splitting the finale into 2 movies!! :P MONEY GRUBBERS!!

Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 7 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10
Overall: 7 out of 10

Favourite Lines:

(Ron being Love Potion'd)
Ron Weasley: It's beautiful, isn't it? The moon.
Harry Potter: Divine. Had ourselves a little late night snack, did we?
Ron Weasley: It was on your bed, the box, I just thought I'd try one.
Harry Potter: Or twenty.
Ron Weasley: I can't stop thinking about her, Harry.
Ron Weasley: Honestly, you know, I reckon she was starting to annoy you.
Ron Weasley: She could never annoy me. I think I love her.
Harry Potter: Oh... brilliant.
Ron Weasley: Do you think she knows I exist?
Harry Potter: Well, I'd bloody well hope so, she's been snogging you for three months.
Ron Weasley: Snogging? Who are you talking about?
Harry Potter: Who are you talking about?
Ron Weasley: Romilda, of course. Romilda Vane.
Harry Potter: Okay, very funny.
Ron Weasley: [throws the chocolates box at Harry]
Harry Potter: What was that for?
Ron Weasley: It's no joke! I'm in love with her!
Harry Potter: Alright, fine, you're in love with her! Have you ever actually met her?
Ron Weasley: No... Can you introduce me?

Official Website

Youtube Trailer

*no pictures this time cos somehow my blogger page is not loading properly, cant see the pic upload icon at all!!

The Day Kia Picanto Stood Still

Everything was going on as normal yesterday, until the last action for the day. We went to Cold Storage at Katong mall for some stuff, then when we were abt to leave, IT HAPPENED!!

Picanto just wouldn't start!! Freaked out. Almost wanted to cry, feeling emo.. haha..

But AA came really fast, the operator told me 1 hr.. but the mechanic came in 15mins. COOL!! He jumpstart the car for me. And off i go..

Cause of yesterday's hoohaa.. I went to the Kia workshop 1st thing in the morning. I was the first car there!! woohoo!! got my car all fixed and serviced by 10am!! How cool is that!??

Song of the Day....

最近比较烦

(冠)最近比较烦 比较烦 比较烦
总觉得日子过得有一些极端
我想我还是不习惯
从没没无闻到有人喜欢

(华)最近比较烦 比较烦 比较烦
总觉得钞票一天比一天难赚
朋友常常有意无意调侃
我也许有天改名叫周转

(李)最近比较烦 比较烦 比较烦
我看那前方怎么也看不到岸
那个後面还有一班天才追赶
哎呦 写一首皆大欢喜的歌 是越来越难

(冠)最近比较烦 比较烦 比较烦
陌生的城市何处有我的期盼
挥别了家乡的伙伴
现在的我更觉得孤单

(华)最近比较烦 比较烦 比较烦
女儿说六加六结果等於十三
我问老段说怎么办
他说基本上这个很难

(李)最近比较烦 比你烦 也比你烦
我梦见和饭岛爱一起晚餐
梦中的餐厅灯光太昏暗
我遍寻不著那蓝色的小药丸

(music)

(华)人生总有远的近的麻烦
太太每天嫌我回家太晚

(冠)女友妈妈嫌我长得寒酸
虽然我已每天苦干实干

(李华冠)管它什么 天大麻烦
久而久之 我会习惯
天下没有不要钱的午餐

(李)太太发现秘书裙子很短
她就买了八千块的耳环

(华)女儿太胖 儿子不肯吃饭

(冠)车子太烂 银行没有存款

(李华冠)麻烦 麻烦 麻烦 麻烦
麻烦 我很麻烦 麻烦 麻烦 麻烦

(华)最近比较烦 (冠)比较烦 (李)我比较烦
(李)我的头发只剩下从前的一半
(华)每天的工作排得太满
(冠)台北的女生有些高不可攀
(冠)最近比较烦 (李)比较烦 (华)比较烦
(华)我只是心烦却还没有混乱
(冠)你们的关心让我温暖
(李)家是我最甘心的负担

(李华冠)不烦 我不烦
只有一点烦 你比我烦 我情愿心甘
我不烦 不烦 我不烦 我不烦 我不烦
我只有一点烦 你和我一样
我不烦 不烦 我不烦 我真的不烦
我不烦 不烦 人生很灿烂 灿烂
我不烦 不烦 你比我烦 你比较烦
你比较烦 我不烦 我一点都不烦 我不烦

Obsessed

Watched on 17th July 2009
@ Cineleisure lvl 9

What do you do when you suddenly get a pretty lady working in your office, and she seems to be hitting on you?

STAY AWAY!!!

Sometimes even when you try to stay away, some things you just can't control. No, it's not urges i'm talking abt. It's crazy bitches!!

This movie amplifies mine few lines above to the utmost realism. Beyonce plays the happy wife, Sharon while Ali Larter is, Lisa, well the crazy bitch. It's really amazing how crazy she can get, you can almost change the genre of this movie from dramatic thriller to horror. ALMOST...

However, I have to say Ali Larter did an amazing job making me shudder. Oh MAN she is scary!!!

Well done actors, go catch it. I think it will help couples prevent anything similar from ever happening.

Oh, sidenote, I love the way black women take care of the white women. Watch it and you'll know. :P


Spikefire ratings:
Story & Plot: 9 out of 10
Audio & Visual: 7 out of 10
Overall: 8 out of 10

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Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Watched on 12th Jul 2009
@ The Cathay (3D)

The 1 fact I get from this movie is... Sid is a PAIN!!! HUGE PAIN!! ROCK HARD PAIN IN THE ASS!! I personally find that chaaracter very disturbing, I would very much like to kill him. Sloths are lazy creatures, but not dumb!! Sid is an utter IDIOT!!

Ellie, is my favourite character, she is just damn stylo. She knows simply what's right and what's wrong, and no one can stop her from do what she thinks is right. Simply STYLO!

Although I watched the 3D version, I do feel it is rather disappointing. The 3D effects were not very 3Dish, it just gives you the illusion of layered space, but not the rushing out of screen sort of feeling. Perhaps the cinemas in singapore are just not made for 3D movies. There's always the effect stuff keep falling out of the screen, which is bad for a 3D effect, it loses the realism..

I seriously wonder how bad the effect could be if i did not watch it in 3d.

Story wise it's kindda interesting, the plot is not exactly new, but good enough. Entertaining, several very laughable parts in the show which are redeeming for the not-so-good 3D effects.

Spikefire ratings: 6 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:
Ellie: Talk to the trunk.
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Buck: [from trailer] Are you ready for adventure?
Crash, Eddie: Yes, sir!
Buck: For danger?
Crash, Eddie: Yes, sir!
Buck: For death?
Eddie: Uhh, can you repeat the question?
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Manny: [Sid guards the three baby Tyrannosaurs from an adult] Sid! Give them to her! She's their mother!
Sid: How do I know she's their mother?
Manny: What do you want, a birth certificate? She's a *dinosaur*!
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Sid: [from trailer] [about the baby mammoth]
Sid: It's a boy!
Diego: That's a tail
Sid: It's a girl!

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20th Century Boys 2 - The Last Hope

Watched on 10th Jul 2009
@ GV Vivocity

Part of of a very popular Japanese Manga, I watched this movie with the feeling of watching a serial, cos I know there's no distinct ending yet. It's just the interim events that would lead to to grand finale. It's not too bad, there's a few small revelations, not much twists to the storyline, still flowing in the the rather obvious flow.

But somehow I'm really looking forward to the next episode, I really just wanna find out who "friend" is. And what would happen to the world.

It's a must watch if you watched the first episode, cos too much ??? are left hanging since the last movie. Now for the finale show... it's coming out in late august.. that's good.. no need for a long wait.. :)

Spikefire ratings: 7 out of 10>

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It's July already.. woah..

Okay, now i can start panicking.. FYP FYP FYP!!

STARTO STARTO...

Threads of Destiny - edit

Akai Ito - that's the name of the series version of THREADS OF DESTINY. And you know what? Dun waste your time on this MOVIE!! Just watch the series. BECAUSE it's exactly the same. You will realise how little filming they need to actually do for the movie. Almost 80% was copied from the series.

Nevertheless, this is still a very nice story. So nice that the movie does not do justice even to the series. I wonder how does the original novel even look like. The great thing is that this story does end well, unlike the sad ending which have become a staple in the japanese series diet.

Go watch it. I'll give you the URL!! hehe...

Episode 1


11 episodes in total...

Threads of Destiny

Watched on 1st July 2009
@ Cineleisure Lvl 9

This is a nice Japanese romance flick. It pretty much the opposite of a fairy tale. So far opposite that it is as good as a fairy tale. It's abt a couple who are seemingly destined to be together, yet trials and tribulations somehow kept them apart. It's sad and at the same time still very romantic.

I have no idea why i like it. I just do.

Side story, this movie has a parallel series that is available as well. It's call Akai Ito, same plot same cast, I think i'll like it just as much. Have yet to watch it. But I believe it's available somewhere online.

Spikefire ratings: 7 out of 10>

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Simple Deadlines..

This weekend
FYP survey methods & plan

Following 2 weeks
At least 20-40hrs of survey videos at 2-3 locations

Quote of the week -

Hibernation is a good way to lose weight. :P

Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen

Watched on 24th June 2009
@ The Cathay

This sequel follows closely after the events of part 1. Megatron is defeated but not destroyed, but dun be mistaken that this is the revenge of Megatron. I thought so at first, but it appears that Megatron is just a pawn in this installation.

San Witwicky, tries to live a normal like after the events of part 1, do you honestly think it's possible. I like the immediate irony he faces the moment he steps into his new school. See the look on his face. hahah!!

Storyline of this movie follows on a certain parallel to the cartoons I used to watch. "The matrix", this phrase is introduced to me by Transformers so long ago, I almost forgot abt it. Thank god it's not Mr Keanu Reeves.. hahaa.

Action sequences are non-stop. but it seems the producers realised the last one was too much, too fast, too confusing. This time it's actually better and clearer. There are quite a few cool fight scenes among the robots. Which set me wondering, in the cartoon series all i remember are gun fights (laser guns) not so much fist fighting actions. Fists are still more reliable yeah?

Comical parts are still abundant in many parts of the movie. Characters to note for that, Sam's mum, Government Liaison Officer, Bumblebee, Wheeler(a weak tiny robot).

Overal, I like the movie, it's kindda long though, abt 2.5hrs. Perhaps I was tired and watching it at 1am, but in the end, I was just hoping for more. I was expecting there to be another peek for the next episode. NOPE did not get it.. :P

Spikefire ratings: 8 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Sam Witwicky: Can you read this?
Skids: Read? Unh uh.
Mudflap: We don't - we don't really do much reading.
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Wheelie: Is that the best you got, huh? Is that best you can do?
Mikaela Banes: What are you doing here, you little freak?
[Mikeala burns his left eye off with a soldering iron]
Wheelie: That's my eye, you crazy bitch! Easy warrior goddess, I'm just a little salvage scrap drone.
Mikaela Banes: Then I'm your worst nightmare.

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Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Watched on 21st June 2009
@ Downtown East

Story unfolds as a subway train in New York City, is very skillfully hijacked. The Hijacker is a "brilliant" yet hooligan looking John Travolta, while Denzel Washington plays the train network operator who happened to get embroiled in this whole fiasco.

This movie all in all is a narration of an incident. There are tiny clues here and there which sets me thinking of the reason for their actions. But there no conclusion, it's too open ended. The only way to enjoy this show is just watch it without any questions OR simply answer all the questions yourself.

I did the latter, Denzel is a righteous yet guilty person thus his actions. Travolta is just out to get a huge scoop under the blanket of chaos. He almost did, if not for a dumb New York Mayor who suddenly became SMART in the middle of the movie. That's amazing.. hahaa..

Spikefire ratings: 7 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Ryder: Life is simple now. You just have to do what I say.

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Love You Man

Watched on 20th Jun 2009
@ Cineleisure Lvl 6

I have to confess, once again I did not think much of this movie. It just did not have a good enough poster or trailer or whatever. I was just not attracted at first sight. And once again i'm glad I had actually watched it. It's a choice made out of no choices. Nothing else left to watch. Kinda..

Do not be mistaken that this movie is another romantic "man loves woman, something come in between, they strive and conquer" kind of movie. IT IS NOT!! It's about MAN, yeah, it's all about brotherly love. haha. This movie talks about the relationships of men with other men, hugely explored. And I'm proud to say I can appreciate every one of them.

I find an interesting idea from this movie "men can love women all they want, but men still need men." It's a social thing, some things men just cant do without another men.

Conclusion, great movie. be it for the laughs or the "logics" behind everything. I like it!!

Spikefire ratings: 9 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Sydney Fife: Society tells us we're civilized but the truth is we are animals. Sometimes we just have to let it out. Try it.
Peter Klaven: Blaaah!
Sydney Fife: Good. Now gently remove your tampon and try again.

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Children of Men (2006)

Watched on 19th June 2009
@ PPStream

I've been watching quite a few movies online thru this program called PPStream. It's quite good actually. They have "new" movies or series updated every now and then. Since this blog is about movies I will not talk about the serials I've watched on it and only focus on movies.

This movie is set in the future 2027, where mankind is on the verge of extinction cos we have lost the ability to reproduce. It's an interesting plot, considering it's a 3 year old movie. But similar plots can be found in Æon Flux. I find watching this movie reminding me alot abt Æon Flux, cloning will be the only future man has if we do not reproduce.

Anyway, back to Children of Men, in a world were there had been no babies for almost 2 decades, a miracle has happened. Kee, a young African somehow got pregnant. And the story flows along the line of bringing her to a group of humanitarians only known as the Human Project.

The whole plot does have a few loopholes here and there, but it is plausible. So I just watched on to see the ending. Well... it's a typical disaster movie ending, people die so people can survive...

Oh I have to mention this, the whole world is IN CHAOS, and UK is the only government left in the world!! HAHAHAA!!! Even Singapore was destroyed, yes we appeared in a newsflash for less than a second..

Spikefire ratings: 6 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Theodore Faron: Who's the father?
Kee: Whiffet! I'm a virgin. Nah! Be great, though, wouldn't it? Fuck knows. I don't know half the wankers' names.

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Kee: Froley.
Theodore Faron: Froley.
Kee: Name my baby Froley.
Theodore Faron: It's the first baby in 18 years. You can't call it Froley.
Kee: Says who?

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Kee: I want to call her Bazouka.
Theodore Faron: Bazouka?
Kee: You don't like it?
Theodore Faron: I was getting used to Froley.


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Drag me to Hell

Watched on 17th June 2009
@ The Cathay

This is a great horror flick from the director of the modern spiderman, Sam Raimi. Thanks to a pretty interesting review in 8 days, I've watched this film, cos I initially had no intention of watching this horror show. Simply not my type of show. Simply cos 80% of them have lousy plots and even lousier endings. this is an exception. It's actually quite well done.

The horror is intense, and the storyline flows quite smoothly. There are quite a few comical parts. The audience in the cinema were actually very responsive, the laughter and screams of shock were ever present. This is a sign that the show has reached the viewers.

I enjoyed the show very much. And most of all there is a great moral to the story. And left you to find out for yourselves.

Spikefire ratings: 9 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Christine: You know it's weird how Shaun waited so many years for her revenge. And on the day before she dies, she finally gets it.

Rham Jas: I think you misunderstood, she didnt do it.

Christine: What do you mean? We saw her banish the spirit with our own eyes.

Rham Jas: She only banished the Lamia from the seanace, the goat was not killed.

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Midway thru June

I'm now somewhere in the middle of June and I'm start to worry slightly abt my FYP. BUT BUT BUT.. I'm still confident it will be fine. I'll start soon. haha.

Plans to go Melbourne has been cancelled cos mum's specialist has advised otherwise. I do feel a little shame of having to miss the opportunity to visit Australia for the first time and also try out skiing. BLARDY H1N1!! But cant be helped, i'll be there one day.

I've had my ankle looked at on monday by the chinese physician. The conclusion is that my ankle has a very tight nerve/tendon. And from what she tells me. I believe I need to do my warm up and cool downs more aggressively. high-cut shoes are going to be the IN thing in my shoe cabinets from now on.

I've been making some changes to my room. A Ikea bunk bed which came on tuesday, it's really cool. big enough for 2, thanks to my high ceiling, there's still space to sit up on the top. I shifted my cupboards around and somehow created alot of space. Looks as if I have a mini office in my room. It's quite cool actually. I spent the whole of yesterday doing manual labour, cleaning, shifting, carrying stuff around. it's not done yet.. But when I'm done I believe it's going to look great.

Oh yah, I manage to overtake almost all my friends except silie on RC.. But i'm almost there!! muahaha!!

Ghost of Girlfriends Past

Watched on 12th Jun 2009
@ Cineleisure Lvl 4

Remember Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol"? I'll admit I did not remember!! hahaa. I never read the book, only watch movies adapted from it. All I remember was the scrooge who hates christmas and 3 ghosts appear on chrismas eve to try to convince him otherwise.

Well, this movie plays along the same line, except the scrouge is an ultra playboy who hates love. And the ghosts here are trying to convince him otherwise. I knew this was going to be the main flow of the movie even watching it and I guess I was somehow expecting something new or some twists to bring the movie to the next level.

Disappointingly, I think this movie doesnt offer much except for the same laughs and comedy that you would see from the old "a christmas carol" novels or movie remakes. A tinch of romance was added to try to spark things up, but nope.. not there.

It's pretty much like a disney kids movie. It's still enjoyable an entertaining, IF YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE BETTER TO DO!!!

Oh my fave part of the movie? The secretary! She's the SPARK!!

Spikefire ratings: 6 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Connor Mead: Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn't happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less...

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State of Play

Watched on 10th June 2009
@ Cineleisure Orchard

What exactly is the relationship of journalists and politicians? Who's using who? Are the reporters getting to politicians just to get a scoop, the next big news? Or are the politicians just using the reporters to spread the desired proganda to aid watever their agenda?

Well, this movie tries to make us even more confused, cause it's a thriller and a mystery. Trust me, you will have tons of questions at the start of the show. And everytime you thin ku have the answer, the show suceeds in giving you a new question.

Despite convincing acting performances by the main actors, I still feel the plot rather shallow, perhaps it's cause this movie is actually an adaptation of a 6 part mini-series into just 2 hrs. Thus the plot does feel thin at times.

Ben affleck's character is ULTRA-flawed in this movie. How does such a person even become a politician in the first place?? And also the link to private contractors for military operations. It seems like this is a big topic in US nowadays, cos this same issue has also been used to poke on in the series 24, season 7.

Spikefire ratings: 6 out of 10>

Favourite Lines:

Cal to his crew: Setup the cameras, we are going to record him talk
Frye: What makes you think he is going to talk?
Cal: He will be scared, he'll talk.
Frye: How? Why?
Crew: Cal is going to scare him.

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Blood

Watched on 7th June 2009
@ The Cathay

This movie is based on a popular japanese manga. It basically revolves around a girl named Saya, she is a hybrid human-vampire. Her father was human and mother was a vampire. Her father is a vampire slayer and and was killed by the most evil and vile vampire ever. This movie blurs the difference between vampire & demon, it's basically the same thing in this show. Anyway, this show is kind of abt the path of Saya to seek revenge for this father, while somehow getting entangle with an american girl, who so happens to be the daughter of the Airforce Base General, stationed in Japan.

The whole storyline doesnt really makes much sense to me, especially the ending parts. Really confusing.

The special effects are not fantastic either, reminds me of "hidden dragon, crouching tiger" aka very long time ago!! Perhaps cos it's the SAME PRODUCER!!!

Saya is played by "My Sassy Girl" star, Jun Ji Hyun, or Gianna Jun for the english fans. She's still as cool as ever.

Spikefire ratings: 6 out of 10>

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A week after 27...

It's been a week since I turned 27, do i feel anything special happening to me?

Nope.

Do I feel like the future is clearer and brighter yet?

Nope.

BUT!!! I'm not too worried, cos "when the boat nears the dock, the boat will naturally align to the berth"

I'm not been rotting the whole days since my last post. Just part of the day for each day. hahaa.

I finally went back to TJ for a coaching session. And I quite liked it, Now the challenge is to maintain that enthusiaism..

My last post, I said there aint much celebration for my birthday this yr. But I had a wonderful weekend arranged by my WONDERFUL dear. it's simply nice and cosy and SHIOK!!!!

I've finally arrange for a new debit card replacement a few days ago, my currently looks like tattered newspaper. And I just received today. Quite efficient.

I've fixed my Adobe Premiere Activation problem on my desktop. It now works!!

I been following and watching Aviva open at the Indoor Stadium. There are certain matches that were really exciting. I even cycled to the Stadium, and yes, my bike is back in working condition, abt a 100bucks of parts replacement and enhancements, it's now working fine.

Today's Aviva matches are the 2 round of competitions and I witnessed 2 HUGE upsets. The top 2 seeds for mens singles were ousted from the competition by relative unknown players. Both games stretched into 3 sets and scores were ultra close. And the results of both games were identical, the underdaugs rule the courts today. Out goes crowd favourite Lee Chong Wei, majority of the supporters are rooting for him. Singaporeans will support malaysia and singapore is out of the picture, which actually mean most of the time. HAHAA!

27 years... random thoughts

I've felt that my best years have past me. And I still do everyone now and then. Aching here and there and everywhere after each exercise or sports session doesnt help either. But i've realised i've been focusing too much on being unhappy with myself. It's time to enjoy and be happy and grateful abt all the SMALL little happy things that happen, which I've taken for granted. For example,

to be able to eat, sleep, drink
to be able to go on holidays
to be able to play sports (even though not fantastically well)

So basically, i shld be happy.. just stop comparing, it's human to compare, thus it's also human that someone else always seems to be leading a better life. The fact = it's not better, just different.

I've not had much of a celebration for my bday this year, but it's fine, I dun have much intention of a celebration myself. But i was quite surprise that my facebook greetings are actually pretty active, so thanks guys. I do appreciate it. :)

I've finally uploaded photos for the Tioman trip. Not all just selected majority.