Emopipeguitarist by Simon Ho

Stuck that Ki and that Kame Hame Ha up your butt Goku

2009-03-12T06:04:00.000-07:00

Never in my life i feel so depressed in reviewing a movie but i have to do this.

So sorry Goku and Roshi.

But DragonBall Evolution deserves an "EFF YOU!" rating.

Lousy acting, story, dialogue, editing, special FX.

The moment Gohan started his first line, this movie sucked cock.

Sucked cock all the way till the end.

Not even fit for TV.

Like that suck my own even better.

End of story.

Impossible to give a rating.

The Times They Are A-Changing

2009-03-07T03:39:00.000-08:00

Watchmen The Movie is not a typical superhero movie. and heck no! it's not even a superhero movie because the main focus here is not even on Dr.Manhattan and his censored penis!

This movie is one of those movies that will open up lots of discussions among those who has watched it. It will either make you love it or hate it. So, there'll be lots of mixed reviews. A Warning for those who wants to pay ten bucks to watch this movie: This is nothing like The Dark Knight or Ironman. Action sequences are very minimum for a comic book movie. So if your attention span cannot take ten minutes of continuous dialogue, stay away from this movie because a total of 140 minutes at least are dedicated towards talking.

And the story line is unique because these superheroes are not perfect people. They are portrayed as dysfunctional everyday people like you and me.

For your information, Watchmen is another graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Alan Moore fyi is the dude who wrote brilliant stuff like V for Vendetta, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The third movie especially sucked so much that Alan Moore has lost faith towards Hollywood and has sworn that he will never watch any of his masterpieces on the silver screen ever again. So there's no surprises here when he said Watchmen is "unfilmable" and requested the movie studios to omit his name from the credits forever and ever.

Why unfilmable? because of the amount of back stories in this whole 12-issue graphic novel. The character development is so amazing and rich that Zack Snyder deserves to be commended for bringing this comic to life while still sticking faithfully to the source material.

I initially won premiere tickets for the Watchmen Premiere Screening on the 4th of March but i had to give it a miss since I was going to Jason Mraz's concert. So in the end, i decided to watch it as soon as i was free. Went to watch it with a friend who hasn't read the source material, Wilson.

Parents please take note. Don't try to sneak your kids in for this movie because it is the most violent comic book movie that i've ever seen so far and there are some visible tits in the whole movie. It's so violent that it makes The Dark Knight and The Joker look like Teletubbies and Hannah Montana. There are 3 scenes altogether where you get to see some nipple action. I wonder if our Censorship board is being lenient or they fell asleep halfway editing out the "unnecessary" stuff. So yeah, this is a definite above 18 movie. and there's an almost-got-raped scene too.

I won't try to tell you the synopsis because you can read it all over the net for that. But the movie starts off on a high note with the murder of The Comedian faithfully shot panel-to-panel from the graphic novel. And the opening credits accompanied by Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changing is one of the best i've ever seen so far. Those who have read the source material will be happy to see all the important events that have happened in the book being brought to life.

But I shall start off with my complaints about the movie. The movie is not emotionally engaging and very inconsistent. You basically don't feel much for the characters and it's like you don't care if one of them gets shot or dies halfway through the movie. Some of the dialogue were rather cheesy. And the casting choice for Silk Spectre II and Adrian Veidt was not spot on. Malin Akerman is a pretty face but her acting was amaturish. Matthew Goode doesn't really look like he was capable of handling such a vital character in the movie and he was just too small sized to play Adrian Veidt. And Zack Snyder's changing of the ending was okay but it was slightly rushed and all the build-up towards the climatic explosion scene was rather disappointing. The explosion which wiped out New York City wasn't as good as the one in Independence Day.

And due to making the movie as short as possible, some explanations of events were omitted like how Adrian Veidt became the man he was and the origins of his pet named Bulbatis. The soundtrack was good at most parts with contributions from Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix etc. but the music score could be better at times. At certain parts the music sounded so cheap that i thought i was watching Kisah Benar. and at parts, it sounded like The Dark Knight. and i wished we didn't need to view Dr.Manhattan's penis so many times. Even though they are blurred out here in Malaysia, it is still distracting.

But the good thing about Watchmen The Movie is that it manages to capture certain essential elements from the novel and being a person who has read the novel, you won't feel bored at all. In fact, i felt very excited at every scene transition. Roscharch is definitely the coolest character here. And Dr. Manhattan's narrative on his origins is really well executed but might confuse many. this is because of the parallel space/time continuum that he lives in. Very confusing indeed. Cinematography was great and the visual effects was good too.

The greatest part of the movie for me was the back story of Dr. Manhattan. It was so well done that it could be a short movie on its own. The accompanying store is very intriguing and what amazes me the most is how they managed to film this whole part because I have never thought they could make the narration of Dr.Manhattan work on film as it did on paper. All in all, this segment alone deserves a 5 out of 5.Billy Crudup the dude who plays Dr. Manhattan did a great job. He has this gentle voice that seems to contradict with his masculine body shape and "package" but for me it worked! because Dr. Manhattan is a very confused character and sensitive at times.

All in all, a decent adaptation and it certainly met my expectations but at times it could have been better. But Zack Snyder did a decent job and i think he deserves a pat on the back. But the term "visionary director" used in the trailer was just too much. Zack Snyder's not up to that level yet. Rating: 4 out of 5

Worth your ten bucks because: Opening sequence and credits rule, Dr. Manhattan's back story, music, Roscharch, special effects, violent fight scenes and it's Watchmen!

And The Oscar Goes To.....

2009-03-04T05:54:00.000-08:00

The Oscars came and go. No surprises Slumdog winning almost all the categories it is in. Hugh Jackman did a wonderful job in hosting the show this year. Anne Hathaway is a lovely singer but my only complaints were the way they presented the awards for the acting categories. You are not shown clips of the nominees doing the powerful scenes they are nominated for but rather the Academy has chosen to select a few previous winners and each of them will come up with a testimonial for the nominees. But watching Heath Ledger's parents on stage was really heart-wrenching and very emotional not only for me but even Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie looked very sad (but never trust a crying actor especially at the Oscars =P)

* The words below are typed before the Oscars last week.

As a movie buff, i've watched some of the nominated films and my personal best picture of the year will be.

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
Frost/Nixon (Favourite)
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader

Why So Serious Academy?

In this best picture category, i was a little disappointed that The Dark Knight was not included because finally there's a movie that's critically acclaimed and loved by fanboys and non fanboys alike. and The Wrestler deserve a nomination because the trailer swept me off my feet much more than the whole Benjamin Button movie. But if i were to make a choice between the 3 that i've watched, my favourite would be Frost/Nixon.

Best Picture imho

Frost/ Nixon is a very emotionally charged film and this film, like any other Oscar nominated films, contains no Action sequences at all. The dialogue and acting drives this whole movie forwards. But if politics and government cover-ups are not your cup of tea, give this a skip. I loved it because it kept me on the edge of my seats throughout the whole movie. it tells the story of a talk show host David Frost trying to interview Richard Nixon, the President of The US, a year after the Watergate Scandal.

Watergate what? well, dun worry, wikipedia has all the answers. but just remember it's a scandal like those you see in the news these days. The whole build up towards the interview was very exciting even though the synopsis sounds mundane. i was a little surprised at first why this mundane film can be nominated at all but thank god i watched this gem and was really impressed by it. the director, Ron Howard picked up the correct project after the disappointing Da Vinci Code and the average Cinderella Man. At the end of the movie, instead of feeling bored after 2 hours, i felt that i wanted a little more.

The cinematography is very nice for a political movie. The music used in this film is minimum at best bt the impact of the score by Hans Zimmer was really disturbing. The adaptation from the stage play which this movie is based on deserves some credit because not every stage play can be easily adapted into a movie. All in all, two thumbs up for me and a solid rating of 4.7/5.

The character who played Nixon, Frank Langella deserves a Best Actor award because the facial expressions were so genuine and sincere that you feel Nixon is one of those buddies that you can drink beer with and bitch about your life. The other great actors in this years Best Actor category would be Sean Penn the gay politician in the movie Milk and Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. one thing i have to say even though i haven't seen The Wrestler, i do support Mickey Rourke because the display of emotions in the trailer alone was deeply moving.

this is not WWE Smackdown

My second favourite would be Slumdog Millionaire because it's very well paced and engaging at the same time. Plus, the story really appeals to many audiences. It's hard to choose whether i want Frost/Nixon or Slumdog because sometimes, depending on my mood, i love Slumdog more.

Benjamin Button is a beautiful movie. Cool special effects. Great direction, music and cinematography, but i don't dig it. It's waaaay tooo long and some parts can be omitted. and i've watched this show twice, one on DVD the other time in the cinemas, to make sure i didn't give it a biased review. The bad thing was the story stayed flat all the time for me. it has some good moments especially the way Brad Pitt died (so sad T.T) and the part where Brad Pitt narates the series of unfortunate events leading to Cate Blanchett's accident, but all in all the thing that makes this a full price movie is just the unique storyline, special effects and the technical aspects.

the long runtime of the movie was a turnoff and unlike Slumdog, this movie will never satisfy the short attention span of a kid.

considering the fact the screenplay is by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), the way the story unfolds is exactly like Forrest Gump. this didn't please me a bit at all. and certain references to American history was hard for me to relate to unlike the Frost/Nixon movie. So, in the end, no matter how much people say this movie is good, it's not too spectacular to be nominated as a Best Picture movie. but i guess "One man's food is another man's poison" My rating would be a 3.6 out of 5.

Brad Pitt when he was a baby

Brad Pitt's acting was nothing to shout about and i was apalled that it received a Best Actor nomination. I felt he should be nominated for his role in Burn After Reading which made me laugh like shit. Brad Pitt's Oscar dream is going to the pits because i have a 100% feel it won't win the Best Actor award.

Brad Pitt when he turned gay

Hence, ends my oscar post and the start of me getting lazier to blog these days.

Malaysia The Most Transparent Country in The World.... NOT!

2009-02-21T05:52:00.000-08:00

it's hard to blog these days. i have written some reviews for movies in the running for the Oscars but decided not to publish it because i couldn't get the pictures i want to photoshop. But seriously i am blogging today not because i am tired of wanking for the past week but rather to give my two cents worth about the political scenario currently in Malaysia. and I am writing this because i think Dr. Khir Toyo has pushed my buttons a little too far.

First i would like to comment on the Perak coup by Barisan Nasional. I think it is ethical and to win the state through cross-overs without an election is purely unethical. As Subang Jaya MP Hannah Yeoh highlighted in her post, Anwar Ibrahim's planned take over last year was by all means constitutional because number one, Anwar wrote to PM to ask him to convene an emergency sitting in parliament, something absent in the current Perak crisis. Number two, Anwar Ibrahim stated that he will dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections if his takeover was a success.

But now, you see none of this happening in Perak and worse still Najib and Company all seemed so proud as though they won the state through the people's votes. The Sultan was criticized alot lately because of his choice to allow such a takeover to take place but i felt that maybe the Sultan has a reason which we will never know. But still, it is very confusing why he allowed such a thing to happen. and it's a pity to see some conniving political parties and mah jai's demonstrating just because Karpal Singh said he wanted to take Sultan Azlan Shah to court.

the thing is, it is Karpal Singh's prerogative or right to take the Sultan to court because in 1993, Tun Dr. Mahathir our former prime minister took away the immunity which the rulers enjoyed before this. This means that because of what Mahathir initiated in 1993, the Sultans are all subjected to normal laws like us. So who's the penderhaka now. Plus after March 8th, in Terengganu and Perlis, the so called setia UMNO members were the ones who protested the Sultan's choice of Menteri Besar to the point of calling them as "natang" as in binatang (animal).

Next, on Elizabeth Wong case. I hope the media really respects Elizabeth Wong's privacy and to the Barisan Nasional politicians please don't be such a hypocrite.

Number one, unlike Chua Soi Lek, Elizabeth Wong didn't commit adultery and she is a victim as all her pictures were taken without her actually knowing it. For a person like Khir Toyo to ask Elizabeth Wong to resign is stupid because he has done more unforgivable stuff when he was the Menteri Besar of Selangor.

Eli was the victim here without a doubt. And she has served her constituency so well and was very firm on her principles especially during meetings with property developers. If you have read some of the statements of those who have actually met her at the meetings, she is known as a no-nonsense person. Her contributions are so great that people living in Bandar Utama are signing a petition to keep her in the Exco. She was also one of the first few people who pressured the Work Ministry for a report on the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide incident last year.

Khir Toyo on the other hand, is trying to impress his fellow comrades in UMNO Youth because he is in the running for the president's post. So any, pro-Malay statements he makes in this few weeks will make him look heroic among the shallow mah jai's he has. But to ask Elizabeth Wong to step down is like a pot calling the kettle black. During his time as Menteri Besar, you have things like rampant corruption for example, the Zakaria Mat Deros incident alone. No action was taken against him at all. why didn't Khir Toyo ask the late Zakaria to resign from his post? well, simply because he was an UMNO member.

And the exorbitant spending by his Exco members were depriving the needy citizens of important funds for example, the Exco Village project. Why in the world would Exco members need to live in such huge houses when they say they want to help bridge the gap between the poor and the rich? Bloody hypocrites. so the only person who should step down is Khir Toyo himself.

this was taken from this blogpost.

"THE Selangor Government has spent more than RM20mil on the Exco Village to house all 10 state exco members “under one roof”.

The rationale behind this, said Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo, was to enable the exco members to communicate better and meet at short notice should there be an emergency.

However, after two years, only four of the exco members took up the offer and are living in the five-room bungalows.

To make matters worse, at least three of the other bungalows are occupied by relatives of the state exco members. "

but thank god for the current administration, they sold off the underutilized Exco Village.

And certain bloggers who tried to incite hate between Elizabeth Wong and PAS really disappoint me. This picture if seen like that would certainly anger some of our conservative Muslims in our country. But you have to understand that they didn't show you the whole picture.

In fact, this picture was actually part of a group photo during Eli's recent CNY open house this year. If you look at the whole picture you can see there's another Indian dude standing next to Eli. It's impossible to ask our current Menteri Besar to stand a few feet away from Elizabeth Wong for a group picture because if that actually happened, people will try to manipulate it and say it as a racial issue.

Plus Khalwat (close proximity) only applies if two non-related people are in an enclosed area if not mistaken.

moving on to another recent issue, for your information our Anti Corruption Agency is now known as the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commision (MACC). It is supposed to be an independent body which is able to carry out its work without any political parties trying to interfere in their investigations.

But the sad thing is, this isn't the case. The head of the MACC in a statement last week said that the MACC has enough evidence to charge the Selangor MB in court for certain allegations of corruption and misuse of funds. In the first place, one should not reveal anything because the person is not guilty until proven guilty in court. So by giving out this statement, what you see is a trial by the media which will lead to many misconceptions about the Menteri Besar.

And personally i don't think the allegations were serious. Allegation number one, they say Khalid Ibrahim used state funds for his Lexus (which was bought by his own cash) punya maintainence. But he already stated that he uses the car for official business so i think he is entitled to have his maintainence paid by the state. It's like if your boss ask you to go somewhere to run errands, of course you will want to claim the toll and petrol money from your company even if the car is not owned by your company. I bet the previous administration even did the same thing and even claimed money for their kids' vehicle maintainence.

For the second offence, it was said that he bought cows and donated them to mosques around his constituency alone. For me, even though it's for his constituency, at least it's something good. Much more better than building any kind of Exco Village or Sports Complex in a foreign land.

Therefore the recent statements by the MACC head certainly disappoints me and must be condemned. And i doubt even with a new name, MACC is still not an independent body. If it wants to be known to be just and fair, start digging up stuff on Khir Toyo and gang.

Perak Wars: To hop or not to hop?

2009-02-04T23:39:00.000-08:00

who's your daddy now?

it's tired blogging about politics these days cuz as a matter of fact i don't give a shit anymore but currently there's another issue in politics which requires some serious attention.

Party-hopping.

this word has never existed much in our country's political dictionary until March 2008 where the Opposition sapu-ed lots of seats and Anwar Ibrahim said he will take over government on September 16th. we know it didn't happen. but that was when the party hopping rumours became very much talked about.

Honestly, i was one of the fanboys who actually believed Anwar Ibrahim and was pretty excited when he came into parliament after the Permatang Pauh by-election. I was totally supportive of the idea mainly because of the events that took place last year. Datuk Ahmad Ismail for instance who uttered racist remarks and not only did he not apologize but his supporters even tore apart a portrait of Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu Koon, the former Chief Minister of Penang right in front of the media!!!

That event was one of those that made alot of people angry with UMNO. But in the end September 16 came and went and the only thing that i remembered was that i had a stomach upset on that day and had to shit in college.

Fast forward to 2009 we got some surprise on Chinese New Year's eve when Bota assemblyman from Perak crossed over from UMNO to Keadilan. And then i read the papers today, UMNO also claimed that a few Pakatan ppl are crossing over to BN in Perak. The next thing you know, Perak may be a Barisan state again. After giving much thought, i feel that maybe party hopping is indeed vry bad for the nation.

It leads to unnecessary instability in our nation at such a challenging time where thousands of people were retrenched due to the world economic breakdown. Crossing over would lead to even lead to more money politics and corruption. Politicians being bought over and promised of positions. Cronyism increases which leads to poor governance, rakyat suffers, investors lose confidence in our economy, Malaysia's economic growth slows down, recession, in the end yet again, the Rakyat suffers.

Politicians must know that they are voted in for a reason. they are voted in because they are someone who can help those who are in need of a voice in the government and they are also chosen by the majority because of the party they represent. I understand some people may say why can't a person serve the rakyat even when he goes to another party.

It's simple. Politicians are always politicians. How many of them can look at you straight in the eye and truthfully say to you that they are there ONLY to serve the rakyat and nothing else? No hidden agendas and personal interests whatsoever? well, all this can never be achieved.

and as at 7 p.m. today, that Bota dude who crossed over to PKR now crossed back over to UMNO again. and two PKR and one DAP assemblymen have resigned as independents but have stated their support for Barisan Nasional. So now, instead of Anwar's sky change we now have Najib's sky change. It's BN's turn to have their own 916 (16th September). Maybe this time they'll call it 214.

for your info, the two PKR members who are jumping ship are currently facing corruption charges against them. they were the ones in the sex scandal last year. but then, who cares about the court case anyway. I feel both sides, BN and PR are more interested with numbers currently.

and i believe Perak will have a new Menteri Besar by tomorrow. So who knows? maybe tomorrow we will have all the PR states becoming BN states again by 214. So i guess, Anwar Ibrahim must be feeling the pinch after not only introducing this "hopping" word but to see his Pakatan Rakyat states facing the risk of becoming a Barisan state once again.

and once again all these politicking will make the rakyat suffer more especially during such difficult situations faced by those who are being retrenched.

Anti-hopping laws anyone?

Oscar Watch: Slumdog Millionaire

2009-01-25T06:33:00.000-08:00

aiyah... even Ah Beng Obama says Gong Xi Fa Cai oh

i am very very disappointed with the Academy for snubbing The Dark Knight in most of its major awards categories including Best Films. From what i've heard the movie The Reader didn't even deserve to be up in the Best Picture list of nominees. Call me a fanboy if you want but i think The Dark Knight has certainly made lots of history. It has converted many non Batman fans into one and i feel a movie as groundbreaking as that should deserve a nomination.

But noooooo. they think The Dark Knight is not artistic enough. but how do you define artistic? movies that are more than 2 hours long? well, The Dark Knight is one. Very slow transitions from one scene to another? well, The Dark Knight definitely doesn't have that because it is fast paced and the action comes thick and fast and straight to the point. and a snub in the best music score category certainly makes anybody turn into The Hulk. for me at least.

But anyway, today i'm going to review a movie everybody has been talking about. Slumdog Millionaire.

The story is about this dude called Jamal Malik, who answers every single question right in the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. But because of the fact that he came from the slums, the people thought that he was cheating so he was sent to prison and got himself bashed up and tortured by the Indian police force. So this poor dude has to tell the police why he managed to know every single answer.

millionaire overnight

When you watch this movie, you would have some kind of feeling that you are watching the Indian version of Cidade De Deus (City Of God) because the main character Jamal and his brother grew up in the same conditions like those from City of God. City of God for your info is a top 20 movie on IMDB and has won Best Foreign Film in one of the Oscars around a few years back.

cool gang movie

I will give this movie a 4.1 out of 5 mainly because of the fact that it made me watch it twice in the period of 12 hours!! i wouldn't say that it's the best i've seen this year and i do think there is too much hype but certainly it does deserve some recognition because of it's inspiring fairy tale story. So to those cynics, please don't take this film seriously, it is a FAIRY TALE.

this is a racist picture

The director, Danny Boyle is a crazy dude. He can turn any show into disgusting and horrific art. in Trainspotting, we can see shit everywhere. In 28 Days Later, you have those dumb military asses and the zombies. In Sunshine, he turned a science fiction movie into a psycho-horror movie towards the end. In The Beach, he chose Leonardo Di Caprio as the lead (EEEEEUUUUU!!!) And in this Slumdog Millionaire, well, i dun want to spoil it for you but you see a 5 year old kid diving into a pool of holy liquid, Scheiße .

The cinematography is excellent if not perfect. It showcases the parts of India that you don't want to visit. Watching this movie certainly tugs at your heartstrings because of the fact that you will realize that the conditions that most of us are living in aren't that bad after all. if you take a good look at the place Jamal grew up in, you would rather sign up for our National Service for a lifetime even though you risk yourself dying from constipation, food poisoning etc.

The music by A.R. Rahman is very unique and the song Paper Planes by M.I.A made me tap my feet during the movie. At the end of the movie, you feel very satisfied. The pacing of the movie is not too slow and not too fast. Just nice.

The acting was brilliant for the child actors who portray the younger versions of the protagonists. the adult actors were just mediocre. Explains why Slumdog did not garner any nominations in the acting categories. The characters are well developed and you can't help but to root for Jamal everytime he gets his ass kicked and his heart broken.

you wouldnt want to know what this kid has swam in

Did it make me cry? hmm. nope it did not. But all in all it is worth watching at least twice. Not the best movie ever made. But worth giving some credit to. All in all, it has been a long time since i've watched a movie more than once this year.

Now i'm waiting to watch The Wrestler, Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon and The Reader.

and i would like to wish my readers a very Gong Xi Fa Cai.
May every ang pau you get is "fatter" than the previous one.

Euphoria at The Supper Club

2009-01-21T05:56:00.000-08:00

Lights, camera, action

on the 17th of January which was last Saturday, me, Ben and Teik teik went to Euphoria by Ministry of Sound. The reason why we went there was not to look for lonely girls to dry hump but to witness three talented dance crews battle it out in the Grand Finals of the Battleground Dance Competition organized by Astro's Wah Lai Toi.

the breakdancers, Ultimaxx

The reason why i gave a shit about this competition this year was because of only one team. ECX aka. Elecoldxhot. i can swear to you they are so damn tight and dope that it's hard to say they are not capable of battling it out on the international stage.

the lady host is too skinny for my liking

i got the tickets from my aunt. but too bad there were only 3 tickets cuz if i had more, i could have called up more of my friends. so yeah, we went there and we were already late by 15 minutes. so we missed the performance by the judges. but thank god for Youtube, i managed to catch it again and my favourite judge would have to be the sole Black dude from the U.S., Marcus Tucker. he looked so cool dancing to Daft Punk's famous track Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

for your info, lingua franca for this whole show is Cantonese and Mandarin. It saddens me to see Marcus Tucker being so lonely during the whole show as his other colleagues did not try to strike a conversation with him. and there are three Taiwanese judges in this finals. Two men and one woman. The woman i feel was eye candy because her dancing skills really suck for judge. One of the men with the weird long hair was a good dancer but i would have to say he looked as though he was high on crack because he kept on dancing even when it was judging time.

the contestants waiting for the judge's decision

No surprises, the winner for the night was ECX. they were so good and tight that Borat Sagdiyev would liken the tightness of the performance to the ~~vagine of a 4 year old~~.

After the show, we met up with some former schoolmates who were my juniors. Then one of them said he couldn't remember my name.

Junior: you look familiar. but i think i have forgotten your name.
Simon: What the hell, i thought i am famous!
Junior: Yeah! i think i remember. your name starts with an O right?
Simon: (swt!) =.="
Junior: Yeah! your name is Oscar!
Simon: ~~Fuck~~ you.

after that we headed to Desa Sri Hartamas and clubbed all night at The Supper Club. i was there having a few drinks while watching how Manchester United regain top spot after the late late goal by Berbatov. hahaha. suck on that Liverpool!

not suitable for kids to have supper here

I have to say alot of young kids these days are going to clubs and drinking. some even try to look cool by smoking. haha. kinda rings a bell within myself.

anyway, The Supper Club wasn't a great club. it is happening but i think there can be more improvements especially with the dancefloor, and the tracks the DJ spins (too repetitive can be a problem too). but it was still okay considering the fact that i was there to celebrate KY's birthday with friends.

went back to Teik Chi's crib around 3 and didn't sleep much cuz me and Ben were jamming silently singing all those emo love songs.

Sad case.

Two Nights In Langkawi: Part Two

2009-01-16T08:50:00.000-08:00

life changing process

so this is the continuation of the Langkawi trip post. So yeah i was really drunk. never got that drunk before in my whole life but i didn't start talking rubbish and molesting every single soul out there. I laugh in my heart as i think about the people who uses the excuse of being drunk to have sex with someone they don't know. but as i was getting sober in the early hours of morning, i continued to play games with my friends until we were all sleepy.

As i lay down there on the bed, i couldn't help but to feel a little sad as our fun trip is finally coming to an end. the memories and all. couldn't help but smile as i thought of our camwhoring sessions in Dataran Lang and the trip to the cable car.

but the sleepiness certainly helped in making me fall asleep that night.

i had a dream

The next day we checked out and we went to the Craft Centre. as we rented a manual van, the only safe and reliable drivers were Eyo and Ah Boy and maybe Monica too. so as a token of appreciation, the girls got them some custom made key-chains.

my mom will shed a tear if i can ever colour like them

there was the petrol issue on the final day too and we were worrying on where to find a petrol station. If possible, i would like to take a piss into the petrol tank but i realised that the yellow liquid that i excrete as pee was not diesel.

I did manage to drive the manual van but trust me, even Jackie Chan the stuntman may not want to sit the van that i drive. but not being able to drive a manual van does not make me a pussy!

the driver that even Jackie Chan can trust

so we went to the airport and reached KLIA around 9.40. there was turbulence due to the stormy weather and all but it didn't feel a thing as i was more focused on chatting with one of my newly made friend. =)

The trip was an eye opening experience. Firstly because i've never been on an aeroplane since god knows when and this is certainly my first time being on a trip with so many friends. after all those studying and stress that we all experienced throughout our journey as Pre U students has finally ended and this marks another new chapter in our lives. The University Chapter.

the beginning of another new chapter

with all the turmoils in life regardless of whether they are financial issues, relationship problems, or adversities that are unpredictable, life after the trip is certainly something to look forward to. The memories of fun and laughter of being in the company of friends is still fresh in my mind like the Ikan Masin i find at the wet market behind my house.

The trip was like a form of escapism for me from all the realities of my current life. All the stress and worries are almost non-existent at all for me throughout this two nights in Langkawi. To me Langkawi will always be a magical city not because Heineken was as cheap as Coca Cola but because of the amazing things that I have done with my comrades even though what we do looked mundane to those who do not experience the same things that we have experienced.

the boy wearing the black shirt in the lingerie shop wasn't me

As i stepped down from the plane in KLIA, I felt sad as i knew that reality would come crashing down on me like how the World Trade Centre collapsed on 9/11. Reality really does hit your head hard but as the saying goes life goes on.

This post is specially dedicated to all my friends regardless whether they are MUFY-ians or people that i know at some points in my life.

But firstly to those who are on this trip with me, it was a fantastic journey of self-discovery for me as i felt like a totally different person after this trip and i believe it was for the better. All i can say is that this sort of happiness is as addictive as falling in love or smoking weed. although i can say that i am blessed and happy of being able to enjoy being in love with someone special right now, the feelings that i have developed towards everybody who participated in this trip is certainly another unique kind of happiness and i really want more of it. . You guys have completed another chapter of my life in the best possible ways. and i hope there would be more of such moments in the near future.But i would like to thank you guys for making it so memorable for me. Thank you.

even patties come in heart shapes. can you feel the love

To all my other friends, you guys are not forgotten because i am thankful that you have all completed the vital chapters in my life in a very decent but spectacular way and i do not wish for it to be changed either. Thank you.

The reason why i kept the stories of my activities on the final day of the trip short was because of the fact that the things that i treasure the most were not the sights of mountains and trees and the Eagle in Eagle Square but rather the moments of excitement shared with my closest friends which truly took my breath away that deserves mentioning in this post.

Hence, i would like to say that i feel Rejuvenated and Reborn as another Better person after this Two Nights in Langkawi.

graduation

THE END

same american and malaysian shyte

2009-01-15T03:42:00.000-08:00

yea. both the same shit

it's a sad thing that the war in Gaza is still ongoing till this day. I mean, why do we need to use military warfare to show that you are a tai gor country? and why is Hamas smuggling rockets and aiming them towards Israel? Why can't we all live in peace in times like this?

this is not a fireworks display

The conflict between Palestine and Israel is nothing new just like the sodomy case of Anwar Ibrahim and Saiful Bukhary. For many years, both of these countries have engaged themselves in a very hostile relationship. I do not personally know what happened to both of these countries and what they are fighting for but what i do know is that when you include military warfare in solving problems, you'll end up with thousands of lives lost and destruction of public infrastructure.

tsk tsk tsk

And the problems are worsened when the United States of America, the country which most Americans proclaim as the greatest nation in the world, are obviously seen backing the Israeli regime. This may be due to the number of Jews currently living in the US. even Madonna is a jew. when the greatest country in the world supports Israel, automatically, Israel will feel that they are bigger than China as well. That's why despite all the pressure to end the war, Israel is not afraid.

Dr. Mahathir recently said that Malaysians should boycott US products and stop working in companies like McD and Starbucks Coffee. But seriously, it makes me doubt whether this dude is the guy who has saved our country from the financial crisis in '98. I do respect Dr.M because Malaysia has improved tremendously under his care by introducing all kinds of industrialisation stuff that even till this day i can never fully understand the dynamics of it. He is like the Sir Alex Ferguson of Malaysia. but these days, he makes certain comments which really doesn't strike a chord with me. Just like when Alex Ferguson plays Anderson and Nani in crucial games.

Then, there are those politicians and followers who blindly support all the calls to boycott these products. but one thing that they should know is that, no matter what, the US is indeed one of the countries with the largest number of consumers and is our country's biggest trade partner. So let's say if Malaysia plans to boycott all the US products, and the US government retaliates by doing the same thing too, our country's economy will certainly be in a very deep shithole. plus, if only Malaysia boycotts this, the US will never feel the effects because to be effective, the boycott must involve the other countries as well.

Plus, although the products may be from the US, but the workers and owners of the businesses here are Malaysians mostly. so if we boycott US products here, thousands will be out of job and it's like trying to put off a fire by throwing in more kerosene. that time, Malaysia will be one of the fastest nations to slip into a recession. A record which i'm sure is not something to be proud of.

And to boycott US products, means that all companies in Malaysia will have to shut down including the pirated dvd industry because computer operating systems are either produced by Microsoft, Apple or Linux.

and it's really sad that a war is being politicised so much. my fellow blogger Johnny Ong recently highlighted in his blog that there will be a mass movement to incite hatred towards Israeli attrocities among school students in Malaysia. In other terms this will mean that the adik-adiks will be thought how to say "fuck you" whenever the word Israeli's is mentioned. I mean, we should educate people about peace and love. Things about the attrocities should be taught in a more rational way instead of using hatred. we must not breed a generation who is destined to live a life as militants!

but honestly, it saddens me to see young kids being killed because of this conflict. i hope there are more effective ways to show to the US and Israel that they are not the one's who rule the world. and it's a pity that Obama would have to inherit alot of garbage that is left by the Bush administration but to those optimists who think that Obama can make a change, please don't place too much hopes on him because he is still an American.

P.S. to all Ex-Surians, please click here for more info on the SSS Alumni event. makan free and can bring wife, husband, kids, future wife, future mistress too!

Two Nights in Langkawi: Part One

2009-01-13T05:35:00.000-08:00

on the 6th of January 2009, my year kicked off with a BANG. and yeah, the upper cases of every letter in the word B-A-N-G basically described everything that i thought about on the trip when it finally ended 3 days later.

when i reached the LCCT via a shuttle bus from KLIA with my friend Kah Wai, i was feeling a little jet lagged even though i was riding a bus. so when i reached there, went over to McDonald's and meet up with Ah Boy and we sat down there playing poker when suddenly our attention were grabbed by a loud shriek.

When i turned over i did not see the earth stood still but rather a Perodua Kenari accelerating towards the metal barriers of the parking lot and BAM!, the kenari rebounded and hit the huge flagpole of AirAsia till it tumbled to the ground. I was like "Oh Shit! i hope my Airasia flight later won't suffer from the same fate as the AirAsia flagpole."

The funny part was i didn't feel surprised when i saw hundreds of people gathering around the scene. Apart from the few samaritans, most of them were there to look and to be kepochi instead of helping. you can hear people go "Waliao, did you see that!" "Perodua oso like that ah" and also some people going "Moral of the story, buy insurance".

How did i know all these quotes? That's cuz i was at the scene as a kepochi too. =)

So yeah, after that i went for dinner at McD's although Dr Mahathir asked me to boycott US products. I did not have the heart to boycott McD because the fries are awesome and the product may be frm the states but the people working there are Malaysians. Instead of boycotting i would rather channel my energy chewing on the fries.

So my flight was scheduled to depart around 9.15 but we reached langkawi around 10 o' clock. 20 minutes ahead of schedule. We checked into Langkasuka Beach Resort and the night was spent on playing a role playing (role playing is different from foreplaying ok?) game called "Silent Killer" (the lamest but most enjoyable game to play in the middle of the night when you are sleepy)

my room mates

slept around 3 in the morning. but having some trouble dozing off cuz my friends who were sleeping on both sides started snoring in a very synchronized way. i swear to you it was so synchronized that i can sing Dancing Queen hearing the snores. So by the time it was around 6 something i woke up and went to wash up and have my breakfast.

i sneaked up from behind because they didn't want me in the pic

Breakfast was nothing to shout about. but it was free so yeah. then headed down to the beach snapping some pictures with my close friends and we had fun playing beach volleyball and monkey. I hated that monkey game cuz i was the monkey for quite sometime.

volleyball is like playing slingshot for monica

then later we jumped into the sea and cooled ourselves down. Not satisfied, we jumped into the pool as well.

at least i didn't feel alone with the float

Out of my friends, i was the only one who couldn't swim so thank god there was a float for me to hang on to even though the water wasn't that deep. I understood why my elders said to me that warming up is a must when swimming. i chao-gan-ed (muscle contracted) twice. then it was bath time.

went up to my room, took my bath. and then waited for my friends to finish up their bath and when it's finally time to take off, we went to our first stop, which is the legendary, one and only, Langkawi Cable Car!

he thought he can escape the ride with his pole dancing

at that place, i realized that people like to rip off foreign tourists punya money cuz the ride was actually RM25 for adults but if you are Malaysian, you get ten bucks discount. same like my friend Teik Chi who said he bought a pirated Billabong pants at RM35 at Petaling Street after telling the stall owner who tried to sell him at RM70, that he was a Malaysian.

If only i can go to the real Billabong and tell them that i am Malaysian and get a discount.

the whole journey up to the Gunung via the cable car was quite breathtaking to say the least. the view of the ocean was giving me orgasms in my brain. the air was pretty cooling too. and you can't help but to wonder how the hell they construct this whole bloody thing because it's simply a wonder. the experience of standing on the suspension bridge built at 625 metres above sea level was quite scary too.

i can see fear in their eyes

then it's time to come down and then we headed to Kuah town and it was shopping time. my friends were like the zombies from 28 Weeks Later because we terrorized every duty free shop there is in search of the cheapest chocolates. after all the shopping, it was time to buy some alcohol. for your info, buying alcohol in Langkawi is like buying Coca Cola because seriously you can get a can of Heineken for two bucks.

We bought a bottle of the Swedish made Absolut Vodka and headed back home. after drinking four shots, and a bottle of Heineken and half a bottle of Kampai Ice, i felt sick. my alcohol tolerance level was not that good. in the end i knew i had to puke so i ran to the toilet but it was locked. so i ran out to the balcony and saw Mying there talking on the phone and i knew i had two choices: Puking onto Mying or puking into the balcony below my floor. so i chose the latter.

and from the experience that night, i knew that i needed to learn a moral story from this. no, buying insurance doesn't help. moral of the story was, drink Heineken only next time. cuz the concoction of the three different drinks made my puke smell like the semi liquid substance that comes out of my arse. but luckily i had friends that came to help me get my mojo back to normal. So a special thanks to Monica, Meng Yee and Eyo.

that night, we all slept soundly.

i got mojo baby

To be continued.......

New Year New Resolutions

2008-12-31T01:58:00.000-08:00

the end of college

aaahhh.. today is the final day of an eventful year for many people including me.

In 2008, it was the start of a college life for me and my many other friends. Along the way, i have met more new friends and lost touch with some old ones too. and there's no else that i can blame besides myself for that. However, now reminiscing of the things that have happened, i have to say that there's no regrets for the many things that i have done although i must say that i do want to change some of the things if it's possible.

this year has been a great one. found love in many places and found haters in many places too. but life goes on.

So what is a new year without any resolutions?

every year you see people making resolutions but only fail to ever live up to that resolution.

For example, my resolution this year was to meet up with Kenny Sia.

I failed.

My friend, leongmutu stole my friggin' resolution and he succeeded. ~~bitch~~. haha

mutu having fun with kenny's nipples

another resolution was to get better at DoTA. But instead of that, i gave up DoTA. but still proud of it cuz i don't see myself improve in that game.

But of course, i did achieve some great things. For example getting good grades.

But missing out 2 points for a 20% scholarship. Monash University are the stingiest people in the world. but maybe i was just too average this time round.

argh! two marks!!

Anyway, screw resolutions. Let's talk about the Graduation Night that i went to a few weeks ago at Sheraton Hotel, Subang Jaya.

they reuse this card design every semester

Actually, i find graduation nights are pointless for Pre-university students because there's still a longer journey in university before one can actually celebrate. but anyway, i did have a great time taking pictures with some of the lecturers and friends that i knew this year.

every girl was wearing nice dresses and the smell of hairspray penetrates into my olfactory bulbs whenever i walk past a lovely looking girl in a dress. alot of guys were macho in their suits as well. so macho that i felt that i was underdressed.

the food there was average. they served many average dishes and including the last dish Chinese Tea. It came in a big bowl like shark's fin soup and we were supposed to scoop our own chinese tea into our own bowl and drink it with a spoon.

kidding.

last dish for the evening

there was a note on the table saying that the hotel management will fulfill your every "special" desire and wants that you need. in dining terms of course.

i didn't allow them to fulfill my needs

then after the event, it was time for pictures. i love taking pictures especially when all the lovely ladies are around.

great success!

we can have the sexy time

but when the guys want to take a picture with me, i show them the middle finger..... NOT!

smile like you mean it

we are Budak Jalan Belakang

basically this is a memorable year, particularly because i've met new friends and also lost touch with a few.

so my new year's resolution?

It's to make new friends while maintaining a good relationship with the existing ones!

So, god bless all of you and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Crouching Tom Hanks, Hidden Batman

2008-12-28T04:47:00.000-08:00

after watching lots of movies, it is still indeed quite hard for me to draw up the list of my personal favourites for this year because there are many shows more which i have not watched yet. I've seen some spanish films, lots of American films, another Coen Brothers film, chinese films this year. but i have to admit there's still alot more for me to watch especially when Oscar season coming up early next year.

Movies I wanna watch but not (never will be) released in Malaysia yet:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Man Who Ages Backwards)
Doubt (Priest molest kids)
Slumdog Millionaire (Indian pauper turned millionaire)
Gran Torino ( Korean gangs get asses kicked)
Frost/Nixon
Revolutionary Road (Titanic duo teaming up again)
Che (4 hours of boring journey through the jungle)
The Wrestler (Wrestler living a sad life)
Changeling (Angelina Jolie damn tulan with the police)

My list of the best movies that I have watched this year (end of 2007- end of 2008):

The Dark Knight (I'm one of the fanboys)
Once (Short and simple story)
Lust Caution (Forget the sex, it's a beautifully shot film)
No Country For Old Men (Suspense without music but ending too poetic and complex)
Atonement (The ending was quite surprising but depressing)
Wall-E ( I find it brilliant after the second watch)
Ironman (You're gay if you hate this)
Burn After Reading (Dark humour at its best, very unique storyline)
Tropic Thunder ( Clever one-liners make me love this movie)
Pineapple Express ( Slapstick but Seth Rogen comedies are funny in a smart way)

Guilty Pleasures of the Year: Mamma Mia! The Movie

So in this post i would want to list my Top 5 favourite movies of all time as at 21st of December.

Number 5 on my list would be "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" The reason why i loved this film was because of the excellent kung-fu choreography and the magnificent cinematography. Although this story may bore alot of people especially those who do not fancy wu xia films and fighting on bamboo trees are just too illogical, the beautiful direction by Ang Lee (Lust Caution, Brokeback Mountain) of this mesmerizing tale certainly makes this one of the must see's if you want to start watching wu xia films instead of Kungfu Hustle. this is the only Chinese film to be nominated with 6 Oscars, winning only 4 of the 6 categories (Best Foreign Film, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Music Score). the only downside was the Mandarin diction which sounded like me speaking in Mandarin due to the fact that the leads, Chow Yun Fatt and Datuk Michelle Yeoh are unable to read their lines like a Chinaman and a Chinagirl.

Number four on my list would be the popular The Shawshank Redemption. This story tells the story of a man who was wrongly accused of killing his own cheating wife and his tale of survival in prison. This movie BOMBED in the box office but was a hit when it came out on DVD. it is ranked as the number 1 movie on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). the reason why this is number 4 on my list was because of the actors especially Morgan Freeman who i last saw in The Dark Knight. the journey of the accused played by Tim Robbins was truly inspiring and makes me feel good at the end of the movie even though he faced many sodomites in prison. So, do try catching it on youtube if you have the time.

Number 3 would be this year's action fans favourite, The Dark Knight. I actually thought this movie will never be able to live up to its hype but i was damn wrong. it did. some of us may hate the slow parts and even find it confusing but this is certainly a magnum opus of comic book movies and it has converted my mom into a batman fan. i certainly think the late Heath Ledger has what it takes to win a posthumous Oscar for his role as The Joker.

Number 2 on my list will be one of my favourite tales of all time. Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks was a big winner during the Oscars in 1994. it's because of this film that caused The Shawshank Redemption to be shut out of the Best Picture category alongside with Pulp Fiction. this uplifting story tells of a mentally challenged boy called Forrest Gump who lived his life to the fullest even though there were many set backs. he experienced many things in his life including sex. one thing i have to highlight was the fact that the special effects and screenplay was fucking AWESOME as you can see Elvis Presley, JFK, John Lennon making special appearances even though the movie was made after their deaths. One of the best pictures to date imho. the impact of the movie was so big that now you have Bubba Gump Restaurants in The Curve and in Sunway Pyramid.

The numero uno movie for me after watching hundreds of movies throughout my entire life would be The Godfather II. The Godfather was originally a book by Mario Puzo which later turned into a screenplay. The first movie i felt was quite cool but not in my Top 5 in my honest opinion. these days, they don't make movies like this no more. the sequel is 3 hours and 20 minutes long but it's the best mafia movie ever created. it makes me want to be a Don too. the reason why i felt this movie was the best was because of the screenplay and it shows the transformation of an innocent Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) into a cold hearted Mafia boss. plus it shows you how Michael's father, Vito Corleone (Robert DeNiro) became a Don after living a life as a poor man.

the first time i watched it, i didn't quite get the story, but after a second viewing without toilet breaks, i felt like i just had the best time of my life. but i have to warn you that this movie moves really really slowly. that's why it's so complete. the characters are so well developed that i have no complains at all.

Hence, ends my list but i would certainly love to hear what's your top 5 favourite movies of all time.

p.s. i think raising Hollywood movie tickets to RM20 won't make Malaysians go watch locally made movies instead, it will fuel piracy and people may actually boycott local films themselves.

Silent Night

2008-12-25T01:06:00.000-08:00

Silent Night

Merry Xmas to everybody who celebrates xmas.

To all my fellow friends and to those who still reads my blog.

To many Christians, Xmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

To the kids, Xmas means presents.

But alot of us overlooked those who are lonely.

The elderly whose kids dumped them in old folks' homes and not being visited for years.

so lonely that they play the Wii

The homeless, who doesn't seem to have anything to look forward to besides finding a good spot in parks and alleyways to seek shelter.

The orphans, who although may actually receive presents but are longing for the warmth and
affection of parents who have left them with no hope of being raised in a real family.

Orphans

The breadwinner, who has to reassure family members and put up a straight face even though deep down inside he is crying and afraid of not being able to put food on the table.

The Samy Vellu's, who holds onto high positions but yet he knows, no Indians actually look up to him.

even Samy is pening

The John McCain's, who although was once a candidate for presidency but is now no longer remembered because number two's are always forgettable.

Obama is busy, McCain is lonely

there are many people who are not having the time of their lives especially with the recent financial crisis, Mumbai massacre, the high rating for Max Payne on imdb.com etc.

but one thing's for sure, Xmas is a celebration no longer being celebrated by the Christians but by everyone.

It offers us hope. and hope is what these lonely people actually need.

Hope is something important especially when Man Utd is in fourth place on Xmas Day.

"Silent night,
Holy night All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and
Child Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in Heavenly peace
Sleep in Heavenly peace"

Nasi Lemak is Fatty Rice in English

2008-12-22T09:16:00.001-08:00

so there's alot of debate on whether Science on Mathematics should be taught in English or not. And it's quite sad to see that there's so many round table discussions that had to be carried out with the latest one last week. of course there will be no way of pleasing every person in the universe no matter what policies you implement.

in my honest opinion, being one of the guinea pigs of this English policy, i have to say that Tun Dr. Mahathir actually did a very noble thing even though he was faced with lots of criticism even in his own political party during his reign as Prime Minister.

The problem here now is that we have those from the Bahasa Malaysia side which claims that teaching Science and Mathematics will mean that we have to compromise the identity of our National Language. They claim that if we learn Science and Maths in English, in ten years time, we would have to call Nasi Lemak as Fatty Rice.

On the other hand, there's this Chinese Schools Association which claims that teaching the two subjects in English is ineffective because students are still answering exam questions in Mandarin and Maths can be understood better using the mother tongue. Some even claimed that Maths and Science should be reverted to BM while English should be used in Literature and Sejarah because the two subjects emphasize on language usage thus English would be the ideal choice.

English in Sejarah i feel is a really drastic and extreme way to introduce the language in the current school syllabus because having sat for the Malaysian Studies exams, it is not the ideal way to actually encourage English to be used among young kids. not in Malaysia at least. This will actually lead to more failures in the short run. so much of a failure that there is a possibility that the kid would actually give up speaking English and maybe take up Japanese instead. Plus, more failures would mean that the Ministry of Education would have to lower the passing band and you will see kids scoring 60 and get an A and the passing mark would be a mere 5 marks. So, it is suicide if we implement English for History.

i feel disappointed that this issue has been politicised as well by our hypocritical politicians. for your information, especially to those who has supported Pakatan Rakyat, one of their goals in their manifesto was to revert Science and Maths into Bahasa Malaysia again. this was the promise of these politicians to those living in the kampung area. Meanwhile, as for UMNO, there's nothing much to say because basically they protest about anything that has the word Bahasa Malaysia and Ketuanan Melayu in it and still manage to escape police arrest even with thousands of people demonstrating on the streets.

My question to the politicians especially to those big shots is "How many of you actually send your kids to our National Schools? How many of your kids are studying in International Schools and in other English-speaking countries? How many of you actually send your kids to our National Service programme?"

while those from the Dong Jiao or whatever name you call it, i feel that all of you are not seeing the big picture here. I know maybe doing Maths and Science in English may be hard but that's the only way to make the younglings want to pick up the language. i have seen many students who enter Secondary School and still can't construct a simple sentence correctly regardless of whether he's a Chinese, Malay or an Indian!!! i believe that parents should play a part to encourage kids to use English. Parents nowadays would always blame everything on the education system. Too many people get A's, parents would say no standard lah our education system.

Some parents would even say "Of course lah! For the Malays mar!". Students facing a little pressure from homework and studies, parents will say "Stupid education system. Too exam oriented lah!"

Although soft skills are not evaluated through exams, exams are still a good way for students to grasp and master certain theories as it will make them want to do more. But when you have a mentality of blaming the education system for everything, even God can never make you an Einstein even if he gives you an Einstein brain.

Back to the language problem over here. All of us know that in this globalisation era, English has played a major role in terms of economy, social and Jew (derived from Borat The Movie). Citations for research papers are all done in English. So what's the point of you being a PhD but your works are never referred to because of all the trouble of translating it into English? i'm not here to say that our current crop of Academicians who don't converse well in English are stupid. I am not as knowledgable as them of course but research in the fields of Science and Technology will certainly be easier if it is done in English because it's easier to exchange information with other scientists which in a way will improve our living standards as a human being.

now you have the Dong Jiao Zong who tried to make this into a big issue by suggesting a demonstration. it's a waste of time and resources should be put into studying on how to make English more accesible and easier to learn instead of demonstrating. in chinese schools, Science and Maths are taught in two separate languages and this is clearly a waste of resources.

i do agree that the identity of every single language of the different races must be taken care of but we already have the language subjects such as BM and Mandarin and etc. we also have our English subjects of course but clearly, something is wrong even though English is taught because the command of the language is much left to be desired. to say that the current system of teaching Science and Maths in English has compromised the identities of the mother tongues is another piece of bullshit because alot of students still prefer to converse in their mother tongues after their lessons. Learning Mandarin is indeed useful because China is a formidable force in terms of world economics. but learning English is not useless at all as it opens up even more opportunities instead of just opportunities in China.

The population in every single National school, vernacular school is usually dominated by one race. Hence i see no reason why learning English in Science and Maths will in the end make students abandon their mother tongues and start speaking like Queen Elizabeth or Sir Alex Ferguson because they would still feel comfortable speaking to each other in their mother tongues. generally, a student's family members would still converse in their mother tongue at home so it is not logic to say that a few hours of lessons in english will turn them into a traitor of their own race.

No policy in this world will be able to bring the desired effects for after just a few years. It's a long term process of course. and i hope all the stakeholders will not try to politicize and only think of being the hero of their own followers but to think for the future of our young Malaysians for they are the ones who will determine whether Malaysia will be a developed country or just a wannabe country. English is definitely the way to go if we want to take advantage of every single economic opportunities in the market in the future.

we are not living in the past thus it is impossible that we can make bahasa Melayu to be the lingua franca of the European and Asian region anytime soon. and parents please, do try to make an effort to encourage your kids to be a better student.

Ironman!!!

2008-12-20T08:16:00.000-08:00

i'm too lazy to blog these days. but definitely i'll be working on something. in the mean time i'll do a tag. tags are for fags but anyway, for xmas i'll do something different and i think this tag is cooler than many other weird tags

So i'm supposed to answer each of the following question based on the song that is playing on my mp3 player in shuffle mode.

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
-Super Duper Love- Joss Stone (people will surely take advantage of me)

2. WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?

-People=Shit- Slipknot (I am a part of people but not the shit.)

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

- Say It To Me Now- Glen Hansard (okay, I am imagining a steamy moment in the bedroom)

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

- See You Again- Miley Cyrus (Yeah, the problem is i am not seeing the people i want to see =( )

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

- Devil's Dance- Metallica (Jeez, i don't think i can dance)

6. WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?

- The End- Roadrunner United (okay, if this was my motto, my life would be so fucked up)

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

- Let Down- Radiohead (I do think i let alot of ppl down in my life and it sucks =( )

8. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?

- My Heart- Irwansyah& Acha Septriasa (this sounds gay but i do *heart* my parents )

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

- Bleeding Me- Metallica ( I'm too scared to see myself bleeding what more to think of it?)

10. WHAT IS 2+2?

- Across The Universe- Rufus Wainwright (I can't believe i even passed Math in Kindergarten)

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

- When Your Mind's Made Up- Glen Handsard & Marketa Irglova

12. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

- Famous Last Words- My Chemical Romance

13. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

- Teardrops on My Guitar- Taylor Swift (haha. whatever that means)

14. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

-You Found Me-The Fray (hmm. seems okay to me. would have preferred People=shit though)

15. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

- Pistachio- Lisa Hannigan (i'm a weird person indeed)

16. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

- Mandinga- Buena Vista Social Club (even though i don't dance doesn't mean i don't try =) )

17. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

-Videotape- Radiohead (i hope it isn't a sex tape. besides, i'll use DVD instead =P )

18. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

-Vermillion Part 2- Slipknot (i can only think of Low Zoey cuz she's the only one who told me that listening to this will make a person cry)

19. WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?

- All the Way Down- Ryan Cabrera (well described)

20. HOW WILL YOU DIE?

- Psycho- Puddle Of Mudd (ic. What a weird way to die! i hope i don't bring anybody with me)

21. DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?

- Bloody Tears- Cradle of Filth (no one likes me?? T_T )

22. IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

- Mama- My Chemical Romance ( haha, if that is true, my mama will kill me if she reads this!!)

23. WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?

- True- Ryan Cabrera (The truth always hurts sometimes)

24. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?

-Ironman- Black Sabbath (AWESOME!)

I am Uglier than Ugly Betty

2008-12-11T06:33:00.000-08:00

a short short post. after watching shows like Ugly Betty once in awhile and the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, i was lucky to have a chance to be invited to one of the shows during the Malaysia International Fashion Awards '08.

it looks like a chic fashion show with mak ciks

well you see, i am not a VIP and therefore there is no reason for them to actually invite me unless the organizers have seen one of my pictures in my favourite pajamas.

one of my sexiest pictures

but frankly, i was invited because they needed people to fill up the seats as it was a Friday and many people were working on that Friday. So when i went up to the fifth floor of The Gardens, Mid Valley, there was this registration counter and alot of photographers.

i want one of those!

i was behind this old couple old enough to be my parents, then a photographer asked the couple to have their photographs taken ala Hollywood red carpet style. So i thought i would have my chance to put my camwhoring skills to good use. i followed the old couple, but in the end the photographer didn't even give me a look because he assumed that i was that old couple's son. WTF@@!#!@$!@$@!!!

after that it was waiting time. there were many photographers who stood on this platform in front of the runway with their DSLR's. if i were to rob them and sell off their cameras and lenses, i would be around a hundred thousand ringgit richer. there were many gay men as well.

one of the supermodels from Hong Kong

after almost 30 minutes of waiting the show started and you see these really tall models walking down the runway with their 4 inch heels. opening the show was Lisa S, actor Daniel Wu's girlfriend.

Lisa S looks great from the side

the show was only 15 minutes long. and they play really loud music during the whole show.

the designer's daughter on stage to compare heights with the models.

although fashion shows are awesome and visually stimulating, but it makes me quite pissed cuz the models were so tall that if i were to stand next to them my head would only be up to their breasts. Sad

Stop The Hillslope Madness!!

2008-12-07T05:30:00.000-08:00

"Imagine you are having a good night sleep and suddenly you woke up because you needed to take a piss. but because you heard people screaming and shouting and cars honking in the middle of the night. before you could go "What the fuck?" you looked through the window and saw those pretty houses you wished you have always had suddenly being covered by soil and the only visible thing that you could see was a Naza Ria at a 45 degree angle and the Astro satellite dish."

okay, i'm not a fiction author of any kind but the above statement would be true if you are a resident of Bukit Antarabangsa. Bukit Antarabangsa is a place where many middle class people and the rich reside in. even Datuk K, husband of Siti Nurhaliza has a Disneyland-like mansion around the area.

I am not staying over there but i used to go there every once in awhile because my cousins used to stay over there. On that fateful night on the 6th of December around 3.30 a.m, a landslide occured causing 4 deaths and many banglo's to be buried under a hill of sand. It looked like as though soil was in the form of tsunami and swept all the houses away. thousands of residents around the area were forced to evacuate the area.

looks like a waterfall made out of soil

Boy oh boy, haven't our politicians learnt their lesson since the Highland Towers incident back in '93? back in 93, there was a landslide which occured around the same area as Bukit Antarabangsa and it caused 48 deaths and one WHOLE block of apartment to collapse and land horizontally onto the ground like a rumah panjang made of concrete. again, the similarity was that the Towers were built on the slope of a hill. since then, no one stays over there but the other 2 blocks are still standing like the World Trade Centre.

Rumah Panjang Blok 1 Highland Towers

of course banning every single hillslope project would not be the solution but i wonder how many of the current crop of projects carried out on hillslopes are thoroughly studied by the councils and the authorities before they are approved. today, i watched the TV3 news and i've seen 16 year old kids sending in letters asking why didn't the authorities learn their lesson and why didn't they apply the "sesal kemudian tidak berguna" rule? if a 16 year old kid can already figure that out, then something must be wrong with the IQ of the council officers who approved such projects.

money is really the root of evil i believe. money politics as UMNO calls it which is actually a nicer way to say it than using the word ~~Corruption~~. because of money, politicians who fought for reforms are not considered for elections because they did not participate in this game of money politics. in the end you have MPs making rude remarks calling another fellow parliamentarian a keling and a bastard.

and it is because of money in this case, developers would want to reap profits by selling properties with scenic views without Really thinking things out carefully. The reason why i emphasized the Really was because maybe they did think of it just a little but because of the tidak apa attitude, lives were lost.

this banglo is barely 5 years old

who should be responsible? actually the person who signed the approval for all these hillslope projects should be held responsible. property developers must be interrogated too. you have the big shots of our country saying things like "Stop all hillslope projects!" etc. but i wonder how long does it take for things to be back to usual again. Being a Malaysian, it's a normal thing to see issues being forgotten after a few months. for example, the Lingam Tape case, the Auditor General's Report and thousand others have shown the lack of follow up actions taken by those responsible. Malaysians have such a short memory span that puts dementia patients to shame.

wrath of nature

whenever disaster strikes, the blame game starts. it never ends. a few months after that, business is as usual again. in the end, human lives are again compromised in the name of profits. all the furniture, valuables bought with hard earned money are gone. it's hard to blame those who refuse to evacuate from Ground Zero because there are assholes who will take this opportunity to steal goods from the abandoned houses even when the are is heavily guarded by army personnel.

imagine waking up one day to see yourself financing a housing loan for the next 20 years but without actually having the house you financed in the first place. this is MADNESS!! and normal insurance policies won't cover accidents like this. this may be a really depressing point of time for some people who are already being affected by the financial crisis.

well, let's pray this time, the government would adopt a more no-nonsense approach to the approvals of such projects in the future. but again, there's a 95% chance that my prayers will never be answered.

my condolences to the families of those who have perished due to this tragic event.

by the way, the following picture makes me wonder if it is staged because you see politicians from BN and PR walking together with the same sincere facial expressions.

SPM done, now what?

2008-12-01T06:11:00.000-08:00

i promised one of my former schoolmate to blog about options a person will have after finishing the SPM examinations. i can't give a complete set of things that one could do because it differs from place to place so, it would only be fair to blog about the things that i know myself. i will only elaborate on programs offered by Sunway University College.

So studying in Sunway University College has certainly changed one's view about schooling life in secondary school. Some might love it while some might loathe it.

After SPM, there are a few options which a person can choose besides working as a pirated VCD seller or increasing the number of lepak cases in our country.

Depending on what goals you have in the future, what you expect of yourself will play the biggest role in making decisions. if you are planning to do your Pre-U studies overseas, it would be great to start preparing the necessary documents before SPM itself if you are interested in starting in next semester intake. this will give you more time to actually source for scholarships too. I regretted for not starting this early but no point crying over spilled milk.

anyway, the most common choice for those who plan to enrol in public universities in Malaysia would be doing Form 6. this is a 1 and a half year matriculation program. students will then sit for the STPM examinations. The good thing about Form 6 is that it is cheaper than any other pre-u programs, it is widely recognized (STPM is one of the hardest exams in the world), it gives you a chance to study in public universities. the cons would be the fact that even after you have passed STPM with flying colours, you will not necessarily get t0 enrol yourself in the fields that you are interested in. For example, you want to be a surgeon but when you apply for a place in public university, they might instead offer you with a traditional medicine course. So you end up becoming a sinseh or a bomoh. Besides this, i've heard that the General Paper kicks alot of ass.

In major colleges around the world, students can take up the Cambridge A Levels programme. it is one of the oldest examination system in the world and this program can actually take you to many many places provided you aced the exams. similar to Form 6, it takes 1 and a half years for students to complete this course. In Sunway, there is an accelerated programme which cuts it to a year but you have to be an Einstein to cope with the syllabus in such a short time. future lawyer wanna be's are advised to take this because Law is a subject by itself for the A Levels programme while the other major Pre-U programs do not offer Law as a subject.

The good thing about the A Levels is that it's very recognized no matter where you go to. the bad thing is that this is a very intense course and the syllabus itself is quite tough. and it's based 100% only on examination marks. and another bad thing is that in Sunway College, the official t-shirt is very forgettable. hence, i won't post the picture of the shirt into my blog.

Next would be the Australian Matriculation program aka. Ausmat. This course will make you marketable in the Australian tertiary education institutions. It's the Australia's version of the STPM. The one in Taylor's University College ( I repeat, Taylor's University College is NOT the same as Taylors College in Australia. notice that the former has an apostrophy). It's a good program for those who plan to abandon Malaysia and adopt the Australia As My Second Home program. i mean it's great for those who wants to study in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide etc. It's also recognized in certain parts of the world. But i'm not sure which parts.

Students in Ausmat will always have alot of co-curricular activities and it makes studying quite fun until the time has come for the externals. Marks are allocated for Coursework and Externals. Both have a weightage of 50% each.The bad apart of this is that the Ausmat syllabus is quite intense also because it's a 11-months course, and not to mention the official t-shirt in Sunway Uni is also quite forgettable but cooler than A-Levels shirts in my honest opinion.

The next pre-U programme in Sunway University College would be the Canadian International Matriculation Programme aka. CIMP. this is the only Pre-U course with the most angmoh and foreign lecturers. It's the STPM of Canada. Many students like this course because of the fact that 70% of the final marks are based on internal coursework and only 30% are allocated for the final examinations. in Taylor's this course is known as ICPU. The cool thing about this course is that the lecturers all smoke right outside the smoke-free campus and they form a gang way cooler than the kaki lepaks of Malaysia. And the official shirt looks awesome.

the back of the shirt makes it cool

It's like as though Paul Frank's Julius made love with Baby Milo and came up with CIMP. The bad thing about this course is that the 70:30 ratio used to assess students may not be as marketable as the rest but still lands you in university. Duration: 11 months

CIMP shirts guarantee you camwhore sessions with girls

and finally, for those who intend to pursue a degree in Monash University and are very certain of living the Monash dream should take MUFY aka. Monash University Foundation Year. it's a direct pathway for students who are going to Monash. I'm taking this course myself and it prepares you for your future in Monash (according to the salesperson in Sunway). Anyway, it's quite a basic program and i have to say the syllabus is much easier than the rest but it is important for students to work hard consistently.

The lecturers are all locals but they do a great job IMHO. The good thing is that it's simple but yet it's hard. the benefits eg. holidays, graduation night, application to Monash are some of the advantages that one can look forward to and the official t-shirt is MEMORABLE. The bad news is that MUFY has very little extra curricular activities, the English subject is tough and a pain in the ass. another very sad thing about MUFY is that although the t-shirt is memorable, it is UGLY to the majority. Chicks will dump you if you wear this.

aahh.. my eyes!!

nuffsaid, there are many other things that you can do after SPM but it all depends on personal preferences. as for me, i hope Sunway's people will give me a courtesy call after helping them to promote some of their programs on this lame ass blog.

One Night in Loke Yew

2008-11-14T05:45:00.000-08:00

Last Monday i picked up The Star and read it's page 3 news which highlighted the accident which occurred in Jalan Loke Yew at 3 a.m. the day before. In that article, the person who was involved in the accident was apparently a policeman. he ran away after he realized that he had killed someone on a bike while making an illegal u-turn. At the end of that article, there was a mention about a group of mob attacking a car around the same area not long after the first one.

The Sun newspaper highlighted the story of the mob instead of the accident in this article:

the ah bengs and ah lian kena kau kau

"KUALA LUMPUR : About 100 motorists and motorcyclists attacked an impatient driver and his three passengers for allegedly being a menace during a traffic jam near Jalan Loke Yew early yesterday. The four, including a woman, who are all in their 20s, suffered injuries in the attack by the mob at about 3am. Sources said the traffic jam was caused by an road accident earlier when a 21-year-old storekeeper who was riding a motorcycle was killed and three other motorcyclists were injured after being knocked down by a car which made an illegal U-turn after beating a traffic light. It is learnt that as hundreds of motorists edged bumper to bumper in the traffic crawl, a Proton Iswara with three men and a woman in it attempted to weave through the cars. Witnesses said initially, several motorists gave way to the driver while others chided him for his impatience. However, when he continued his antics and ended up hitting another car in front of him, several motorists lost their cool and stepped out of their vehicles before confronting him. They were joined by many others who began smashing the car windscreens and windows before assaulting the driver and his passengers. The occupants who were injured with cuts from the shattered glass were then dragged out before being given a second round of beatings. The attack ceased and the mob quickly dispersed when four police patrol cars turned up at the scene. The driver and his three passengers were sent to the Hospital Kuala Lumpur where they are said to have received outpatient treatment."

Well, the reason i find this article very interesting is because of the fact it deeply interests me and it's something i can relate to since i always meet up with fucked up drivers. In the other newspapers, The Malay Mail and The News Straits Times, they reported it with a certain inclination towards the ones who got bashed and blamed the mob.

So now here comes the million dollar question, what if you have witnessed a violent snatch theft (all snatch cases are violent) and let's say the people around you managed to catch the thief and started bashing that fella up. Would you say that it's a crime for the general public to do so. Do you actually feel sorry for the snatch thief or do you actually want the crowd to bash him harder?

if you relate it to this One Night in Loke Yew case, let's say you so happen to be at Loke Yew at 3 a.m. in the morning making your way to a papaya farm and then you are stuck in a traffic jam because some dumbass cop caused an accident 100 metres away from your car.

your appointment is at 3.15 a.m. but the massive traffic jam says you'll reach around 4 a.m. And then you see the other motorists around you with their tulan faces because they want to go papaya farm also. Then suddenly a black Proton Iswara with 3 Ah Bengs and 1 Ah Lian cut everybody's queue and flash the shit out of you and make the rempit gor-gor's all tulan.

when you show your angry face at the ah bengs, they throw you a middle finger. all of a sudden, the ah bengs knocked into a car in front of them. Then you see the rempit gor-gor's now come and whack the crap out of those in the Proton Iswara till their mothers cannot recognize the Ah Bengs and Ah Lian's faces.

Spartan warriors fight for glory with their swords. Malaysian rempits fight for the sake of fighthing with their helmets.

So from where you are, witnessing the incident, will you actually go

"Sepak saja budak-budak tu. Serves you right!" or will you go
"OMFG! How can i not join the fun!? i must belasah them kau kau. Makkal Sakthi! Pakatan Rakyat!" or will you go

"Terrible Mat Rempits. Kesian budak-budak tu"

you see. no matter how you see it, it is still wrong for us to go out in a mob and beat up people no matter how much they deserve the beating. but there is a dillema because like in the case of the snatch thief and the Ah Bengs, we may beat him up to prevent him form escaping or to teach them a lesson But we may end up beating him up more than we should. But in the case of the Ah Bengs, sometimes the law does not have the provision to teach arrogant people a lesson and that's why they will end up getting beaten up sooner or later.

But i do not agree with the way you punish people by beating them up.

I am a man of peace. So if i'm a witness of such incidents,

I'll just be a kepochi.

Change We Need in Quantum of Solace

2008-11-08T08:00:00.000-08:00

it seems that everyone is infected by this disease called Obamatitis.

It's a disease where many people get themselves indulged into this Obama-mania.

I have to admit i am one of them too. I was such a hardcore follower of Obama that i watched his debates with Hillary Clinton and of course all three of the presidential debates that he had with McCain. I even watched CNN's Situation room everyday at 6.30 in the morning to get a low down of things revolving around politics in the US although it was exam period. Yes, I can!

Obama I like

I think everyone has to pat Obama's campaign manager's back because what he did was phenomenal and basically puts many marketing executives out there to shame. He sold this Obama product so well that even those old aunties who did not know who was George W. Bush and Saiful Bukhary knew Barack Hussein Obama.

the best thing about this presidential campaign was that the political culture in the United States is simply different from the ones we have in our beloved nation, Malaysia. There wasn't much smear campaigns from both sides except during the final few weeks of campaigning. But the way they debated and presented their speeches did not show much of what we have in our country. they were true gentlemen. Even McCain's concession speech did not show any signs of a sore loser.

Imagine if it was a Malaysian election. Then McCain will go:

"Obama! You is a pendatang!"

Well, you get the picture. everyday in parliament you see MPs acting worse than kids calling each other names. all in the name of politics. recently, we even had an MP who uttered the word Bastard. Yes We Can.

But i was pretty disappointed with some McCain supporters who were so paranoid that they think Obama is dangerous just because he is Muslim and links him to an Arab. You see, some Americans are so damn dumb to the point that they think Arabs are all terrorists while Americans are always the heroes even when their commander in chief sends troops to Iraq and terrorize the people over there. and most of the southerners over there are downright racists. but anyway, it''s still unfair to judge Obama now because being politicians, they can always promise you everything but when it comes to implementation, it's a whole different story.

Change We Can Believe In

The most remarkable thing about Obama is that he has really good leadership skills as can be seen in his speeches and the reason why i followed his debates was due to the fact that i felt he was a great orator. But the best speech apart from the Yes We Can speech he gave was his victory speech in Chicago. It was so inspirational and powerful that it's the "I Have A Dream" speech of this new century.

a very powerful picture

But shame on you Obama. Yes We Can is a eff-ing rip-off of Malaysia Boleh.

Anyway, i'm sure most of us now are damn anxious to watch the new Bond movie. well, i've watched it and i was not really satisfied and quite disappointed with the director, Marc Foster.

this dude here has not done any action films. his recent movie The Kite Runner was based on one of my favourite books but that movie was just okay for me. and now the producers decided to take a step backwards after the great build-up in Casino Royale.

the scriptwriters failed to bring out the true anger in James Bond after that bitch he called "bitch" in the previous movie betrayed him. so now what you have is James Bond being an angry man only in certain parts of the movie. He may be cold, but on most parts, he was just talking like a man with no emotions, killing every thing he sees without really showing the angst in him. that's really disappointing considering the fact that James Bond mentioned this line in the previous movie, "The bitch is dead."

Of course i don't expect Daniel Craig to suddenly go so angry that he spits a "motherfucker" everytime he appears on screen, but clearly something was wrong with his Bond in the movie.

Not the Bond I'm looking for

another problem was with the whole concept of the movie. The movie suffers from a lack of direction. Drama and action was coming in all directions and you couldn't really get the whole plot cuz everything is happening so fast. this may be due to the short runtime of the movie. There were many action scenes, but most of them are not even half as good as the previous movie. It doesn't make your heart stop. Just like any other ordinary action movie you see these days.

Bond the player

But watching this Bond movie gives me a feel of watching The Bourne Trilogy. the action sequences are all so blurry with the camera shaking as much as the ones we see in Cloverfield and The Bourne Supremacy. plus, the director clearly has no imagination because one of the rooftop chase scene is a mash up of The Bourne Ultimatum and Casino Royale. hmm. and the appearances of the Bond girls did not add much to the story. and the climax made me laugh like shit. it's one of the lamest way of getting yourself out from a burning building. i don't want to spoil you here but in the first place, which architect and engineer would be so silly to put explosives in a building in the middle of nowhere. it's one of the lamest climax in Bond history.

overall, the movie is not all bad. It does give you some fun through the action scenes but that's about it. And Daniel Craig was great as James Bond and so was Dame Judi Dench who played as the charismatic M. At the end of the movie i couldn't tell whether i've been watching a Jason Bourne movie or a James Bond movie. 2.5 out of 5

Jason Bourne in Quantum of Solace

oh yea, watch Casino Royale before you watch this because if you forget certain parts from that movie, you will never dig this movie.

Be a Man, Do The Right Thing!

2008-11-01T03:40:00.000-07:00

it's SPM time and many students will be busy as usual doing what they do best.

Last minute studying.

I mean who doesn't. maybe there are still some really good as an angel students who have prepared themselves very well before hand and kicked procrastination in its ass but i dare say that those that fall in this group make up only about 10% of students in Malaysia.

well, most students know how to have fun. so much fun that even when before they actually sit for SPM, they are already planning on what to do AFTER SPM. it's definitely no wonder you see such students doing lots of weird stuff before exam time.

as for me, i took my SPM late last year and in the early part of last year, me and my friends were already talking about prom night and stuff like that. i did not do anything much in the first half of the year.. even when it's two week's more to the big day, i still find myself time to surf the net and do other pointless things.

anyway, i seldom blog about mundane things in my life hence, what i want to stress about today is on the effectiveness of going to crazy ass seminars offered by tuition centres right before SPM. i can't help but to notice a report in The Sun a few days back on parents buying so called "leaked" SPM papers on the net.

I was one of those kids back then who thought that maybe going to these seminars can actually give me an upperhand in the exams because i thought that my tuition teachers were godlike and has predictive instincts that can spot exam questions like an eagle. But to those kids in the future who think that they can buy their way to success, i have one advice for you.

WORK HARD. PMR/SPM seminars are all BULLSHIT!

the so called "spotted" questions don't guarantee you that they actually do come out in the real exams. and thinking of it makes me feel stupid because it's the worst way of spending my parents' money. plus, doing the hard work gives you the satisfaction just like burning your brain juice to pick up a hot chick from a club and have safe sex with her and getting the greatest sex of your life. Going to seminars and not doing the hard work is like picking up a girl from Thailand go-go bars, going back to the hotel room, discovered she had a penis, no sex at all in the end. Period

but thank god i didn't actually put all my energy into studying those spotted questions that Pusat Tuisyen Kasturi gave me. I worked hard the final week before the exams and was thankful that i did quite well, but not as well as expected in some papers.

therefore, my point is, just don't give a fuck about shit seminars or leaked papers cuz you're not enjoying the learning experience in school the right way. there are no shortcuts in school. everything boils down to hardwork. i had a friend who was an inspiration to me because procrastination was not in her dictionary in life. she was a really good role model no matter how people say she's a nerd or stuff like that. I don't mind being called a nerd bitch or what but at least i'm satisfied with what i get when the results are released.

many parents think that getting an A is like a trophy so that they can bitch about when they meet up with their friends. but how many of them are actually more concerned about the learning process as a whole and not just the A's? so you read in the news and see parents who are so desperate to the point of buying up leaked questions. to me this is like as though giving their own kids weed and let them smoke till they start talking to a bush. how is a child supposed to learn from his or her mistakes if the parents are doing something as pussy as that? i thank god my parents didn't do something like that.

whatever it is.

my final words.

Say Tak Nak to Shortcuts.

Say Tak Nak to Pussy Parents.

Say Nak to Revision

and that my friends, are keys to getting a deserving A1.

p.s. this is not to insult to your parents. but rather it's my honest opinion on what it takes to actually do good in exams. and buying leaked questions hurt your wallet and is unfair to those who actually did their work.

Movies that are cooler than 2 Girls 1 Cup

2008-10-26T21:30:00.000-07:00

oh well, finally i can find some sexy time to update my blog. and as promised, i am here to reveal some of the weirdest shit i've seen in a few movies in my whole entire life. weird in the sense that it makes you go WHAT THE HELL?!!!

so let's start off with a movie which is quite new considering the fact it was only released in Malaysian cinemas a few months ago. The movie is called The Love Guru. being a mike myers, fan i had to watch this movie because i simply can't resist not seeing this after watching the trailer. the plot is pretty simple and any kindergarten kid will be able to understand the movie just like Sesame Street.

Speechless

the weird thing about this movie is that this movie is very low on IQ. Mike Myers plays Guru Pitka who is a spiritual guru who advises his students how to fulfill their full potential. I have to say i did enjoy the opening montage with Pitka singing Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. but after, that it's just total bullshit. even Jessica Alba looked dumb for being in this movie. and i can't believe that Ben Kingsley who previously played Gandhi in another movie, played as Pitka's cock-eyed teacher, Guru Tugginmypuddha. it may be worth a watch but it's just too weird to see such talented people acting in a stupid movie. too much jokes on dicks just too darn weird.

okay, now a really weird moment in cinema history. i'm sure most of us have heard about the Saw movies. they are currently making the fifth installment to this popular franchise. and the problem with Hollywood is that they make too many horror movies with lotsa violence. so much that they have created this new genre called "torture porn" where we see bunch of lousy actors get killed one by one and apparently many people dig this kind of movie. so i have decided to pick one of the the weirdest scenes in cinema history from the movie Hostel. In case you haven't heard of this film, Hostel is about a group of students who goes on a holiday searching for sex in a Scandinavian country and ends up missing.

not for the pussycat dolls

the plot is forgettable but this scene certainly sticks in your mind for a few days at least. it shows how a japanese girl gets her eyeballs pulled out and while it's still attached to the socket, a guy comes and detaches the eyeball from the socket. WEIRD

Never piss a woman off

next on my list will be a Stephen King adaptation. if you have read the book Misery then you would know about this next scene. I haven't so i wouldn't know how would this scene take place. however, watch this next clip and i guarantee you, you will start holding on to your ankles. A very good performance from Kathy Bates. she makes me so scared that everytime i see her in Titanic, i would cringe in pain.

this next movie is a very controversial one. It was so controversial that it made half of the audience walked out when it was screened at one of the film festivals in 2002.

not that because it had people chopping each other's limbs off but it was very disturbing to watch this next scene because it depicts a woman being raped anally. and the actress who got raped is none other the magnificent Monica Belluci. She was more remembered for her role in The Matrix Reloaded. Not because of the acting, but because of the eye candy.

scene from The Matrix Revolution

anyway, this French movie is called Irreversible. the unique thing about this film is that the whole plot is told in reverse. For example, i run to the toilet and answer nature's call. but in this movie, i answer nature's call first then only i run to the toilet. Get it? the rape scene was very nicely shot in the sense that they did the whole 12 minute scene in just one take. it's hard to find the video for this scene because youtube has banned it. i managed to find the clip through google. but anyway, this scene is weird and very disturbing.

my list will never be a complete one if i didn't include The Exorcist. It's already almost 35 years since this movie was released but it is still quite scary to watch it.

this is what happens when you don't eat your green vegetables

This movie was so powerful that people actually fainted after watching this movie in the cinemas and the cinema operators had to call in the paramedics to be on standby outside the cinema halls. But the weirdest scene out of The Exorcist would be the crucifix scene where a young Linda Blair took the cross and started masturbating with it while uttering the words "Jesus, f**k me". I still find it pretty offensive even though i am not a Christian.

But of course, The Exorcist doesn't top my list. the movie which tops my list has to be Cannibal Holocaust.

Cloverfield plus 2 Girls 1 Cup

It was banned in Malaysia and in many other countries 28 years ago and the director of this movie was sent to jail because of making this film. I have not watched this film personally but based on what i read on Wikipedia about this film, it is certainly grosses the shit out of me. and it is a very interesting read. so, i've managed to find this next clip on youtube and i have to say, nothing disturbs me this much since 2 Girls 1 Cup. nope, it's not about two girls eating each other's crap again. all i can say that everything you see in this video is REAL!!!!!

p.s. Max Payne sucks. Worst movie of the year so far. I would rather watch The Love Guru again. 1 out of 5.

I need a Lifeline

2008-09-28T03:02:00.000-07:00

aaaaaaaaahhhhhh...

Simon Ho is back! Well sort of. my apologies for allowing my blog to accumulate so much dust throughout this whole month. anyways, if any of you was wondering where the hell i went, well, honestly i went to nowhere.

The only thing that kept me from blogging were school projects and assignments. First there was a moral exhibition week which we needed to do. My friends and i worked our asses off to write a research paper on refugees and then exhibit it the following week in the common area in college. After that, i was helping one of the groups to sell tickets for their fundraiser activity the following week. And sales was very very bad due to the lack of publicity but in the end we did managed to raise more than a thousand bucks to charity.

But the fun part for me was trying to explain my research paper to whoever who was interested enough to come to my exhibition booth. That basically, made me wanna do more. I managed to explain some of the adversities affecting Myanmar refugees in their camp to one of the African students in my college. Although she didn't know where was Myanmar located but in the end i managed to enlighten her that there is a country called Myanmar on this planet. Aaahh.. the smell of satisfaction!

Then there was this English oral stuff that i have to prepare after i submitted my research paper on Parole systems a few weeks ago. The preparation for the oral was quite taxing and my voice went from "Britney Spears" to "Linkin Park" even before the actual presentation day. But in the end i was satisfied with my performance and my teacher gave me the thumbs up and two toes up too.

And finally, it was the time for Lifeline, the fundraiser I was talking about. At first i was damn looking forward to the event because Dragon Red was coming and there were talks that another Malaysian band, Estranged will be coming too. But in the end, Estranged's manager declined. Well, the blame will be on the organizing committee as well because everything was done so last minute including the publicity on the event. But i have to admire the commitment and hardwork that everybody has put into the event.

But when the night came, everything started to fall apart even before the event actually started! first, there was a lack of crowd even though we managed to sell 300++ tickets. then, the PA system of Sunway Uni College sucked to the max. and then there were many filler band taking up the stage. That drove the crowd away from the event!!!

even before i get to see my Dragon Red play, it was time to go home. =( and the most embarassing part was that Dragon Red had to play to a crowd of around 30 people. WTF! rubbish totally. But Dragon Red were humble. They didn't get pissed or anything but in my honest opinion the band called Takdir sucked like shit.

With a name like Takdir, you thought you might be enjoying some nasyid songs at least or a rock band with a direction. but sadly no. what we got were a bunch of posers and wannabes trying to rock it out like Slipknot but ended up worse than New Kids onThe Block. so people, if you want to hire college bands for your events, don't hire Takdir. They even desecrated the song I'm Yours by Jason Mraz!!!!!!!

well anyway, kudos to the crew behind this event for their hardwork. anyway, my exams will be around end of this month so i'll try to update whenever i can.

But here's a clue for my upcoming post.

THE WEIRDEST THINGS YOU'LL EVER SEE IN CINEMA HISTORY

You can call me V

2008-09-16T06:53:00.000-07:00

The people should not be afraid of the government. The government should be afraid of the people.

HAPPY MALAYSIA DAY!

p.s. I hope to be back blogging soon. Busy with a couple of projects in college. So sorry. Stay tuned ok.

Oh yeah, Sunway students if you are reading this, there'll be a charity event called "LIFELINE" which will be held on next wednesday night. Tickets are at RM10 and all profits go to charity and there will be free flow of drinks with performances by Dragon Red, Dissident and more.. pls contact me for details or i'll do the other way around.

On a Hiatus

2008-09-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

Emopipeguitarist will be dead until further notice