Verdict: A fantasy movie that is O.K to watch
The movie tells about the storyteller(s) who could turn the story into reality.
The bad guys came into reality, the main character's wife went into the story, and they had to fight their way to turn everything back to normal.
A movie that is more for kids. :-)
Rating: 6/10
Verdict: A-class fight choreography, E-class storyline
One thing I must put the thumbs up is the fighting in the movie. Tony Jaa is swift, agile etc
But the story... is like a rojak and they are like fighting in a United Nation.
You get to see ninja, Chinese fighter, boxer/wrestler, samurai, a woman possessed by tiger, a woman possessed by crow... etc
That made the story not quite make sense but I truly enjoyed the fight choreography.
Rating: 5/10
The result: I'm satisfied
It's clearly that insufficient salt & soy sauce were the problem.
Comment from my family:
Mum: Too salty (as usual, cos she likes the food to be not so salty), and you are supposed to soak the peanuts for 6 hours (!)
Sister: You've finally passed to cook soup
Father: The peanuts was nice to chew
My mum said we'd need to soak the peanuts for 6 hours for it to release some sort of bad element (I dunno what is that btw)
With the ingredient shown above, there are some missing ones as well:
i) it's a full bowl of peanuts
ii) a garlic (peeled)
How I cook this time is also different, because I'm sort of in rush:
1) The half pot of water was first boiled (with medium fire)
2) Pour in the pork ribs
3) Cook for another 10-15 minutes (this is to let the water filled with the meat's essence, so to say)
4) Pour the rest of the ingredients (garlic, pitted red date and peanuts)
5) Cook with medium fire for the next 30 minutes
6) Cook with small fire for the next 2 hours 30 minutes
7) Put 1.5 tea spoons of salt, 2 table spoon of soy sauce & 2 table spoon of fish sauce
8) Cook until the soup boils
Et voila!
I'll tell the result later this evening. :-) Gotta go now.
With the ingredients above,
i) I cooked for 3.5 hours
ii) Put some soy sauce
iii) Put 1 tea spoon of salt (i'm supposed to put two, because I...)
iv) Put some fish sauce
v） Cook until the soup boils
Then, the comment from my mum was.... ok, the taste is a bit thin, but still ok
my sis: very thin, failed
There's no comment from my father
I guess I should put more soy sauce and salt :-)
We followed Trevor's family back to Penang - Trevor's daddy's hometown.
The reason I put a "we" is because Emoody, which is part of the car's item (yah, the car is his primary home) followed us back.
But in Penang, he stayed in the house for most of the time.
Colleen decided to make Emoody slightly sissy, hence the photo. Introducing Emoody the Sissy.
Then I was sitting on a "hill", only to find out that it's Trevor's tummy.
He needs to cut down the weight, especially the tummy. Period.
Uncle Ray, another teacher, aunty Siew Yong, my mum, my sis and me
Aunty Siew Yong is my parents old friend.
She married to an English (Welsh to be exact).
They are teachers in international school so they've been teaching in different international school in different countries.
Now they are back in Malaysia. And we visited them last Thursday.
After the dinner, we decided to take a walk around the area.
A view from the bridge
This photo is a surprise because there's firework in it
The sky from my granny's house's bedroom window
When I was in granny's house last week, I was quite bored.
Since I've got nothing to do, so I did nothing.
What I did was lying on the bed, watching the sky, looking at the clouds, see when changing, see them appearing, see them disappearing... etc
And thought nothing.
I watched until I fell asleep.
It was a good rest.
Will do the same thing next time, if there's a chance. :-)
Almost five months ago, one of the opposition leader Anwar wanted to "get the Barisan National member to join us by 16/9/2008, so that we could have the majority to dissolve the parliament and re-elect the new leader" (or something like that)
Now, Barisan National is able to get the "majority" in the Perak state, by using the similar trick to get the opposition party's member of parliament to leave the party, "in support of Barisan National".
Result?
This could mean few things:
1) Malaysia's politic will still be in the mess for the next few months (at least)
2) And this will definitely not help the recovery of economy
3) The Malaysian citizen's vote in the election is pointless, because the majority votes does not matter anymore - it depends on how good you can get the other parties' Member of Parliament on "party-hopping"
When it comes to wisdom tooth, people use the word "tooth" because it's singular.
For my case, it's plural - I have TWO wisdom teeth growing at the same time.
I can feel the shape from the gum already, but they just won't come out of the gum.
It causes some pain, weaken my immune system, made me feel heaty lately - and it's 2x the effect because I have two.
I hope visiting dentist is the last resort. But given the pain etc - should I give up these wisdom (teeth)?
Verdict: A great movie with great action, cinematography & choreography that will satisfy both Eastern & Western audience
I've decided to re-rate this movie after the second watch. I couldn't understand why I only gave 8 out of 10 in my first review.
In the second watch, I realised that this movie has good plots, good jokes, nice cinematography (the opening scene, featured on the poster above, is artistic and it looks nice), nice choreography + action scene - that's not over-violent and is able to make you feel awesome about Weng Chun.
The movie is meaningful in the sense that, it tells the difficult time that China people had faced during the Japanese occupation.
Donnie Yen has best portrayed Ip Man as well.
This movie is a must watch Chinese movie of the year. It's easy to understand (even though you don't understand Mandarin/Cantonese).
I'm looking forward to the next episode.
To me, it's in the league of classic Chinese movie.
Rating: 10/10
Verdict: A movie that gives the satisfying ending, albeit the modified story.
You'll get everything you expect from this A-movie - big scene, great CG, great fighting scene, big casts.
The storyline is modified from the original Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, but the movie itself was added with some funny scene that helps to relax the audience, which is the good thing.
But the unfortunate part is that, because of those things (modified story & funny scene) it's not enough to make itself a Chinese classic film.
Rating: 8.5/10
When I watched this film I couldn't stop laughing, especially when Terminator shot Judas.
LOL LMAO.
Clip of the week!
Thanks to Justin for the alert.
Verdict: A B-movie that sort of meet your expectation, but nothing more.
If there's no expectation being put on this movie, you'll watch the movie without much pain.
There's nothing much you can expect from the movie. The CG is OK, the story is OK, the actress is not as sexy as the previous episodes - that's it.
I kept recalled of the movie Van Helsing - it's much better than this, with better plot and better illustration of werewolf etc.
So, don't expect much :-)
Rating: 5/10
Verdict: A movie that tries to be funny but unfortunately, not my cup of tea and also due to the bad flow of the story
Majority of the people that I know and who had watched the movie told me that it's not bad. But me and my sister thought the other wise.
We thought some of the jokes were quite low (e.g. calling the pet bird as penis, i.e. gugujiao), the flow of story is sometimes not quite well connected, some of the movie shooting is like watching a tourism Malaysia/Singapore film.
Nevertheless, I'm sure that this film will be better than All's Well, End's Well 2009.
Rating: 5/10
Verdict: The actress might be over-optimistic about life but it's worth a watch to be not so pessimistic about life :)
The story is about a woman who called Poppy, on how she deal with the life optimistically.
It's a rather normal life that she lives, but you can see that her life is so realistic that it could happen to anyone of us - and to her, she still deals with it on the positive way.
Watch it patiently (as it's slow paced) and surprisingly - the story is a pretty normal one but there are some scene I'll still feel nice when I recall. (yeah, I seldom recall the scene in a movie)
Rating: 8.5/10
Russian policemen arrested a man dressed as dustbin as he protested against a refuse disposal plant in Moscow.
