Interesting that Milo produced a retro design (it claims to be of 1970's design)

But of course la, the Milo ain't from 1970.

So today I spent the whole day resting in Auckland. Cos I thought I had enough of travelling - having witness the snow, farm etc

Here we united with an Indonesian bear, and I got to know a new human friend.

As for dinner, we had Hell Pizza. (or pizza from Hell)

 Bearorama view of Wellington

I feel tired finally, travelling from Auckland to Wellington, and now I finally have time to blog, after I've just arrived to Auckland once again.

So Wellington is really a nice place - just look at the panorama view (in bears world we call it bearorama) - it's really amazing.

 Then we went to this some kind of museum (or whatever) where my head looked bigger than Colleen & her friend.

First of all, I've never been to New Zealand, and currently I am in Malaysia.

So my sis is now currently having her holiday in New Zealand - she wanted to find a honey shop that she forgot the name. Her only tips for me:

1) It's opposite Wellington city library
2) It sells manuka honey fudge
3) It's at the corner

She wants me to find out the shop name + street name for her.

With every 10 minutes asking me whether I'm able to find.

That 3 tips only manage to find me the street name, not the shop name.

So, for the first time, I tried out Street View.

I 'strolled' along the street, found the corner - and I found the shop name.

So, it's certified, I'm the living Siri, and my sister liked it.

Before departure, we last checked the avalanche risk

So as you know, we've been busy travelling, we just reached Wellington (from Auckland!)

Busy it may seem, but when we looked at the newly grown lavender farm, everything is worth the tiredness.

LOL, just to share the troll moment.

Verdict: Take-away from the movie: "When people are afraid, they will do terrible things"
So this film, from the poster itself you can tell it is not those of Pixar quality.

Even though it is the same studio that produced Coraline: the story line, the pace is nowhere near to Coraline's.

This stop-motion film talks about a kid who can see the spirit - it uses the logic that commonly known - those spirits are still around because they have unfinished stuff/affair/mission that they can't let go - who had to use his talent to save the village.

As mentioned earlier, this film has slower pace than Coraline - in fact, this movie can be reduced from 91 minutes to 60 minutes long.

What saves this film from being a bad film, is some genuinely good laughter scenes (I could see it pays tributes to film like Evil Dead) plus some demonstration of human behavior (out of fear, people do things that they don't normally do)

Rating: 6.8/10

Can't watch youtube in the office?

just add http with s in the Youtube link.

Example:

http://youtu.be/o1ahppNg9Ys
you change to

https://youtu.be/o1ahppNg9Ys

But I can't guarantee your consequences, if you get caught watching it during office hour.

Thanks Ron for the discovery.

Sitting on the snow with my brother, Sebastian, talking about life.

So it was snowing here - as always, it's a privilege to experience such an occasion - many bears, in fact, many human, have not experienced that.

So in other countries which would give caution about the bears - in Kiwi country, of course, they give warning about Kiwis.

My grandpa trolled on my parents last Sunday, when they discussed about politics.

My grandpa said "BN will lose in the next general election la... Year 55 of Merdeka means retirement ma.."

55 years = retirement.

What a nice number and beautiful coincidence.

The best is, it was a trollolol from a man who has witnessed Malaya's independence to the formation of Malaysia, and to the downhill presence.

He can't be wrong :)

In the past 2 weeks, I didn't really commit to video editing - reason is simple, it crashes way too often.

First I thought it was due to the version - so I updated to the latest version.

Still, it crashes like joy.

Then I thought it's the laptop's video card driver - updated to the latest version as well.

Crashing is still in its blood.

So I asked my friend Google. It seems the problem lies with my Sony Text Generator and also Media Generator.

Which is true - it was prone to crash whenever I generated a text or blank black media.

So the solution

1) Right click on the vegas110.exe (You can find it under: Program files -> Sony -> Vegas Pro 11.0)
2) Select Properties
3) Make sure the settings are set to those highlighted as follow:

So running in compatibility mode for Windows 7 did the trick.

I don't know why but at least it works and I was able to finish some work last night.

One thing I noticed though, is that Vegas is now running slower than usual.

But I believe Sony team won't be releasing any more update, as they are focusing on Vegas Pro 12 instead.

When I read it here, I couldn't believe it.

If they leave mobile world - are they gonna cope with the shrinking PC market?

Tablet is so handy nowadays. Even my dad, myself and my sister can feel it.

Adobe Flash is one of the reason why I chose Android - and being proud of it.

Though buggy, but I can still get some basic function from those website with flash.

With Adobe Flash exiting Android, it's like Adobe succumb to the fact that HTML5 is gonna take over Flash.

Disappointing but that's life.

So like locals do, we drank a lot, I was really drunk that I couldn't stand up.. this Scrumpy cider is really getting me tipsy.

Anyway, I know I'm gonna have hangover tomorrow, so I'd better catch a sleep now.

I don't need mention how many products they have invented on fried chicken - every time they intro the 'new spicy flavour' (such as spicy curry chicken), the spicy fried chicken would become the victim - retire for a while, then when the new product doesn't sell, the spicy fried chicken would come to the market again.

OK, this time, their tagline is ‘So Authentic. Even the Thais Want It’.

So I tried it like two weeks ago - it was the sweetest green curry I've ever tried in my life.

Thai green curry, in my opinion, is supposed to be spicy + slightly salty.

This KFC's case, the sweetness is like dominating 30% of the total taste, with 65% spiciness + 5% saltiness.

So my recommendation? If free, DIY to cook green curry chicken, on your own.

Your cooking will easily taste better than KFC - no joke.

Being random, the video was randomly filmed, and randomly cut.

And being really random, I was one of the 姐妹 on that day.

This video should give TC a good view of what happened downstairs, when she was awaiting in her room, last year.

Oh yes, the video is almost 1 year old.

For such an essential Malaysian drinks, it received much better salary increment than ordinary people.

RM31.30, for 2KG refill pack, at Carrefour. (it was like RM25 something two years ago? that's like 24% increment in two years)

Anyway, it comes with 200g bonus. (i.e. RM31.30 for 2KG + 200g)

So I guess I should rest my case, for having the "Janji Ditepati", to stay in the high income spending country.

On a totally different note: Milo tin is in its 70s retro design now. It looks nice. Go check it out in any supermarket.

So I thought I could catch a movie, but I forgot I agreed to another siao on session.

Seems like I need to take Pharmaton everyday. (._.)

Many thanks to tc & gjj to search for my victim.

I heard this song from the London Olympics 2012 closing ceremony.

This is especially posted for Colleen.

I'm sure she's damn interested to know.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19192660

I always think that a bear wearing a shirt is stupid.

I mean, by nature, 'civilization' is not applicable to bear - and what civilization? Use spoon to eat honey?
 To me, bear wearing shirt is the same as this dog wearing this whatever dress.

They tried to look cute but they failed in or by nature.

After all, it is not environmental friendly - when Winnie the Pooh made his (or her? It's a female name if not mistaken???!) shirt dirty, as a result of his take-all-he-can-honey-eating style, he needs water and detergent to wash it.

Clean water is a serious issue in the world now.

That's why, Sebastian and I, by nature, do not wear anything.

Let's imagine the day you enter the zoo, with all the animals wearing shirts.

I am not gonna give you the ticket refund, anyway.

P/S: I blogged using Colleen's iPad.

To celebrate my comeback, Sebastian and I have decided to fly to New Zealand for a trip.

My ancestor was said to be from polar bear origin.

So I'm sure they are beary proud of me - to be able to travel to Southern Hemisphere - since they were like stuck in the North till the very today.

So I'll see you guys 2 weeks later.

So this has been my favorite radio station since like 2 years ago?
That's when I was sick of mainstream music on other radio stations, or with only music only station (which I could use Youtube playlist, or something like that)

The morning session, Breakfast Grill, which they will invite some top guns from many companies, be it private, public-listed or even government-sectors.

After the 'grilling' session, 3 DJs will share their opinions on the session.

Though it's very much business related - but it is a good opportunity to expose to ideas/opinions by those top guns.

It is a much neutral radio station, it even report the news covered by The Malaysia Insider, one of the good example is the progress of the Scorpine court case in France.

Thursday Evening Edition is an interesting session - audience are given a chance to call in to give their opinions on specific topics - I called in twice so far :)

Apart from that, BFM has interesting guests, such as Dr. George Lee, a Malaysian who migrated to UK, but chose to come back to serve Malaysia :) (who is also TC's favorite Malaysian Doctor)

One of Evening Editions' DJ, Uma, is an avid reader. So occasionally he will share the opinions on the books he read.

Now, just when you think BFM is all about Business, Mon - Fri 7.30PM will feature interesting sessions such as football talk, and my favorite 33 RPM (Tuesdays & Thursday) which the DJ will intro and play alternative music, ranging from 60's to recent years, that I seldom heard the names before.

There are other things that you might just need to switch to 89.9 channel to get what I mean.

But so far, listening to those talks and the alternative music do make my day :)

I hope this indie radio station will stay, it really is a hidden gem.

I'm 12 years old this year.

Verdict: I just watched another action movie.

After the crazy but fun 8.8 "event" at 1Utama, finally, we managed to catch the movie.

To be frank - I kinda like some of the idea/technology (the 'phone', the Fall) about the future.

But apart from that, in this movie, you will follow the actor, trying to complete the puzzle of his torn memory, + do all the chasing, killing, and most importantly, memory recalling.

The story line is surreal - in fact, the original author of this story is the same as The Adjustment Bureau.

Most importantly, both of the movie are loosely based on the original books.

The problem is this - Adjustment Bureau would want you to think what could be the ending, and the ending didn't disappoint.

But this one is somewhat predictable - it didn't have a lot of explosion scene that can blow your mind away.. and even there were explosions, the hot chick was still able to survive (while the robots 'died')

If you have time, yes, it is still ok to spend RM9-ish on Wednesday, with 2 hours worth of airconditioning (no guarantee that there will be babies crying or phone ringing, but that is another story/blog post for another day)

Also, the consolation prize for Douglas, is that he had two hot ladies at the same time, somewhat, somehow.

Rating: 5.5/10

Cross junction, traffic light, U-turn, trees, belly, old house, old things, future, happiness, Olympics, film, blog, sleep, green curry chicken, Cherating, Yuna, Canon, mp3. iPad, iphone 5, other country, permit, Tibet, book, photo, music, composition.

Good night.

I heard this song on BFM.

(BFM is worth another post to blog about though)

I was impressed by the song quality as the music sounds relaxing and somewhat random.

My SoundHound couldn't find the song - so I memorised partial of the lyrics.

Googled it - et voila, it's Yuna!

Nice and I hope you'll enjoy :)

This was a song I heard few weeks ago during my lunch time @ McDonald (TMI, i know)

(Btw, I have yet to try their McCafe, looks interesting though)

The song was catchy... my sister likes it too.


But after a few days - I realised one thing, during the chorus, if you sing along with the "da da da da da da da da da da da... Hey Jude" lyrics from Hey Jude...

It MATCHES
So after I've done some Googling, it was right - the writer of the song says that he got inspired by the song "Hey Jude" actually.

Doesn't matter, still a good song.

I think this is an interesting project - from how it landed (you can read details from wiki)
To the technical details of the rovers

While my feeling tells me that the reason why Mars lost its magnetosphere 4 billion years ago was the reason  why the form of life on earth (i.e. migration from Mars to Earth) 4 billion years ago.. I definitely see good purpose of doing this exploration.

He played well in the match, and definitely better than Beijing Olympic 2008

Verdict: Thai comedy is a combination of Japanese comical style with Korean superstar style - and hence, surpassing HK comedy's laugh-ability.

(My verdict is really the summary of the movie - this review is more like my opinion on HK movie :P)

I noticed that, the HK comedy movies in the past few years - those that are genuinely funny, are really numbered.

I would say the last memorable one was Shaolin Soccer... but other than that.. none that I could really recall.

The HK comedy nowadays was either not funny, or failed trying to be funny.

That's pathetic - cos I randomly chose to watch HK comedies that were made more than 20 years ago - they were genuinely silly and funny.

Yes, the 無厘頭 element in the movie nowadays is overused that it is no longer funny.

So if you have time, I would recommend to watch these few Thai comedies
1) Suckseed
2) Hello Stranger
3) BTS

If you had, you would know what I mean - Thai movie nowadays is no longer horror movie - those movies that I had mentioned - are a blend of South East Asia's daily life, with the blend of Japanese (exaggerated) comical story telling & some Korean superstar element.

This combo has surpassed HK's Mo Lei Tau element.

One thing that I have to agree - Thai movie's pace is still rather slow, and they tend to be draggy in describing the love conflict situation..

But nevertheless, with not much choices from Singapore (their movie production seemed to have slowed down?) Thai movie (along with French movie) have become our alternatives to English movies.

Back to this movie ATM (争钱斗爱 /  เออรัก..เออเร่อ) It's a story of a couple, fighting their way to solve an ATM issue, which paid the money withdrawers in double the amount.

They had to investigate who took the double amount, and attempted to take back the extra.

So another thing about this movie - since Thailand is just next to Malaysia - the things they mentioned in the film is very close to our daily life - that would possibly explain why my preference.

Rating: 8/10

Verdict: Watching two men with opposite life value (and physical ability) that somehow generate perfect chemistry - this is my French movie of the year, so far.

Based on a true story:

The first man: a person who is very rich, living in high society but who is suffering tetraplegic.
The other man: a person who was jobless, living in poor housing area (that has gangster/drugs and probably prostitution issue) but is physically perfect.

Then they met - jobless one was hired to take care of the rich one.
The jobless one showed thoughts/value that the rich, that he had never experienced/thought before.

Such a conflict, or chemistry was the element that keep the story moving... till the end.

The opening of the movie gave me a blast - it was something nasty, creative and unexpected for.

This movie gave me genuine laughs, one of the example was the sarcasm threw at opera/classical music. (well I still love classical music/opera anyway)

I would call this movie a drama, a comedy, a lesson in life, a true story on how people with different abilities, can compliment each other.

My only complaint is that Driss seemed to be able to settle the gangster issue, way too easily.

But other than that, the movie was near flawless with smooth editing, great acting and ever interesting storyline.

This movie is both motivational and inspirational.

Rating: 9.5/10

Verdict: While the funny scene has gone stale, you can still watch it if you have nothing to do.

As the fourth instalment of Ice Age series, you can feel that the story has become tiresome.

With the story about continental drift (indicating global warming?), I hope this should mark the end of ice age (yes, I mean both the actual Ice Age and this movie series)

The problem is this: I don't really find the squirrel - Scrat, that funny anymore.

It is still cute as last time, but I somehow felt tired of watching it doing all the stuns/disasters.

Compared to Madagascar 3, it lacks some kind of elements that keeps you interested about the storyline.

Both talked about team work value, but in Ice Age 4, somehow I feel that they were doing their tasks separately (or maybe independently)

Both have villains - but in Ice Age 4, I thought to have a monkey as the captain of the pirate (ice) ship was not convincing at all.

Both have wishy-washy character (Madagascar 3 being the Vitaly the Russian tiger and for Ice Age 4 being the Shira, the sabre-tooth cat) that turnaround the outcome of the story - but I felt that Shira was wishy washy unconvincingly.

So end up, a movie that doesn't give you the 'wow' factor, but however, give you some occasion laugh - which is the main purpose of Ice Age series.

Rating: 5.5/10

If you wish to know if government has done enough for this country, compare these list of things with your experience five years ago

1) You need water filter to get cleaner water
2) You paid for road tax, but yet you still need to pay for road toll
3) In order to watch F1 or some football matches - you need to subscribe to a satellite TV station
4) With option 3, you can't watch the TV when it rains (Malaysia is a tropical country, just FYI)
5) You start to buy clothes from Thailand or Taiwan, cos you find that they are much more cheaper
6) You use public transport, less than 10 times in the past 5 years, and don't plan to use it in near future
7) You started cooking cos you find it will save hell a lot than dining outside
8) You regretted for not buying a house 5 years ago
9) You own a car, and you spent at least 1/3 of your net income on car loan, maintenance, road tax, fuel & car insurance - and you don't plan to stop using the car in near future
10) You trust online media more than traditional paper or even the police.

If you agree more than 5 points I had mentioned,

Perhaps you might wanna consider again, whether the government has done enough, and will do that enough in the next five years.

The fact that they treat such a big game like Olympics, worse than a warm up session..

 They deserved the disqualification.

You can watch the clip from 9th minutes onwards, to judge by yourself.

To me, election gives you the chance to choose what you need in life.

For example, my family has been eating Gardenia bread, but as the time pass by, we found that the bread's size has shrunk, and not as tasty as before.

Then we tried High 5 bread - not bad.
And lastly we found Massimo - even tastier at even competitive price.

We've been sticking with it since last year.

Every loaf of bread has its expiry date.
Finishing a loaf of bread is like giving you a chance to choose the brand again.

That's the same purpose of election.

Old doesn't mean gold - discover yourself with the news on internet, read them.

Anybody who can vote, should be mature enough to think independently, on which party makes more sense, and whether the party's pledge meets your needs.

Then, you should be able to choose who you want to vote.

Government is just a product you choose to run this country - you have the rights to choose/switch to a better product that suits your needs.

Well, this can be a long topic - but I'll cut it short.

Malaysia Proton/National Car policy (i.e. high tax on imported car) is a legacy, started almost 30 years ago.
USA's law that allows possession of guns, is a legacy started as far as 1792.
Apartheid was a legacy in South Africa, started in 1948, ended in 1994.
Malaysia's Social Contract were agreements made by the country's founding fathers in the Constitution - it is definitely a legacy to Malaysia.
Dynasties in China were legacy, until the formation of Republic of China in 1912.

One thing for sure - these legacies help to define how the country works, how it looks, and how people will live.

But as the world progresses - things change.
Legacy maybe important, but is not necessarily relevant to the present time.

Some, or even many, may have affection on the legacies - but let's look at the real needs of the people, you will know why some of the legacies that I mentioned above, has become history.

Two challenges before giving up a legacy:
1) How to convince people (or maybe the minors) that it is no longer relevant
2) What are the alternatives available?

Let's forget about PEMANDU/Police's report that crime rate has reduced.
Let's ignore what media has been reporting on paper/news, about robbery, murder cases etc.

Let's just face it - after so many years:
Getting security guards in housing area has become a necessity,
Hanging out after 9PM will get questions from friends or family that "are you sure you wanna go out this late?"
Public's perception that police will only work harder before festive season. (and on top of that, you know what I actually mean)
Tendency of public chose not to report criminal cases
Robbery or murderer cases has become near uncontrollable situation...
Government chose to apply high definition CCTV for those road offender (i.e. speeding/skip red light), instead of installing on streets to do surveillance on street crime (i.e. robbery,murder cases)

You can tell that the security level of this country has gone towards the wrong direction.

The thing about HK drama is that - it's a pretty stale factory productions - the story elements are easily predictable:


1) The fight between the ladies in the palace
2) Police/Firefighter/Doctors/Anti corruption stories
3) The fight in the family business


Today I observed some comments on FB about 护花危情's ending.


OK, it's not the first time that TVB disappoints audience.


So my humble suggestions, are pretty simple:


1) Watch the first and last episode (OK la, maybe the first 5 and last 5)
2) Watch Japaneses drama series which would normally end within 10 episodes


You will suddenly find that you have a lot of times to do other (or better) things.

If you look at the lyrics of Malaysia's 55th Independence Day theme song,


You will realise that the government treat their pure subsidy-based programmes as their 'fulfillment to requests by citizens of Malaysia"


If that's the case, it's very pathetic - subsidized services won't solve Malaysia's root cause of poverty, corruption or even the safety issue.


If rakyat is earning enough, living decent life - they won't need those subsidized services at all.


Is this what the current government can achieve, after 55 years of independence?
Is this what Malaysia has become (a subsidy-dependent country), after 49 years?


JANJI DITEPATI

Macam malam ikut siang,
Macam bulan ikut matahari,
Satu Malaysia terus berjuang,
Janji kita ditepati,
Kata kita dikota,
Janji kita ditepati,
Hidup rakyat dibela,
Masa depan diberkati,
Janji sudah ditepati,
Kini masa balas budi,
*Chorus*
Janji siapa ? Janji Kita,
Janji apa ? Janji Satu Malaysia,
Janji siapa ? Janji Kita,
Janji apa ? Janji Satu Malaysia,
( ulang dari awal )

RAPPING :
Ini janji kita, BRIM Satu Malaysia
Ini janji Satu Malaysia, Terima Satu Satu Malaysia,
Kata kita dikota, Klinik Satu Malaysia,
Janji kita ditepati, Kedai Satu Malaysia

Stage 1: Marinate the chicken cube.
Recipe:
400g of chicken cube
2 tablespoons of fish sauce
4 teaspoons of cornstarch (optional)
1 teaspoon of sesame oil (optional)
1 teaspoon of light soy sauce

After mixing all the ingredients, "spin" the meat like a washing machine. (until you feel the meat are very sticky)

You may then leave the meat a while.

Stage 2: cooking time (you may refer to the recipe at the back of Maepranom Green Curry paste packaging)

Pour one cup of coconut milk on the heated pan
As it boils, put the Maepranom Green Curry paste into it, and stir fry it.
As you see oil appearing, put the meat & another 2cup of coconut milk
Turn to medium heat.

Put 20g of kaffir lime leaves (daun limau purut/麻风柑叶）
Leaving it cooking for a while.

Done, you can eat with bread, rice or even spaghetti.

Verdict: A great trilogy, finished in Chris Nolan style.

So Chris managed to make the Batman movies, in his style

Though the movie is based on the comic, but movie would make you think - what if those crisis happens? It's freaking possible!

To start with, everybody should manage the expectation - the movie is flawed.

I can name two flawed scenes, that I could remember:
1) How Commissioner was easily found, after wounded
2) How could Bane unnoticed of Bruce Wayne's capture by his own army?

But comic-based movies are meant to be flaw - it's the same thing you'll be asking 'how come Tony Stark didn't die even if he's in the ironman suit? It can't withstand those hit by rocket etc'

OK, throw away those logic, let's move on with the script:

Dark Knight Rises is emotional - removing the superhero portion, it can be an independent story on its own, about what to choose in life, how to move on from pain etc.

Dark Knight Rises is deep - it is deeper than Dark Knight, as it forced even larger group of people to make choices during the crisis.

I thought the ending was good - but I strongly hope that the film company won't wanna extend the franchise of it (well, Chris has already said this will be the last of his Batman series)

It's lengthy - but worth the time.

Rating: 8.5/10

Verdict: Thought provoking with nice Swiss snowy scenery

It's always good to put low expectation on a movie - I did just that for this Spanish movie, and probably that's why I was amazed at its quality.

The story line was rather interesting - set in the future, it is about a man trying to invent a machine that can emulate the the human emotion, and react like a human.

In short, he tried to put emotion into a robot.

This film is emotional, especially the ending. But it is exactly the whole point - emotion is something that, perhaps, robot can't understand, respond, or even emulate.

Because, when one is being emotion, the person can't think straight, when the person can't think straight, the fella will do something 'out of the mind'

I love the futuristic computer interface design (it is somewhat superior than Tony Stark's robot design system in Ironman), I love the twist, I love the meaning behind and it leaves me thinking whether a robot should be a robot, while human should be a human.

(a totally random & separate note: Samsung Galaxy III phone is designed for human, inspired by nature. So the robot can't use the phone)

I believe emotion is something that is hard for robot to express or comprehend effectively, as robot is meant to be a very logical thinking machine.

Simply, emotion in most of the cases doesn't have absolute logic.

Rating: 9/10

Verdict: A French version of Taken. But a better one.

This is how an action movie can be - without the exaggerating action scenes which are common in American movies.

From the start till the end, the movie didn't bore me.

It is about how a nurse strive to save his pregnant wife, kidnapped by the bad guys.

He had to fight with both police and bad guys (or, "police or bad guys") and even to the extend of pairing with the "convicted" guy to achieve his objectives.

It's a French movie, but it is a movie that American can learn a lot - about the pace, about the movie edit, about the story line, about twist - etc.

I don't mind to give this movie an 8.5 - the only complain that I have is the ending seems to be overdoing.

Rating: 8.5/10

Music: 1999, 2008
Lyrics: 2008, 2012

Short notes: Plan to rewrite this song, so will complete the lyrics first.

Lyrics:
Nothing surprising,
Nothing colliding,
Nothing to save when it's all the same.

Nothing worth crying,
Nothing worth fighting,
Nothing to say when it's all the same.

(Yeah you're gonna say it again)

"Nothing's gonna change my name."
"Nothing's gonna change my faith."
Nothing's gonna fake my way
Nothing's gonna take my sane.

Nothing to think about,
Nothing to sigh about.
"Nothing to save" that's what you said.

Nothing to whine about.
Nothing to cry about.
Nothing to pray, when you've lost the faith

(Would you say it again)
"Nothing's gonna change my name."
"Nothing's gonna change my faith."
Nothing's gonna fake my way
Nothing's gonna take my sane.

Lalalalala...

1. Experts are clueless.
2. Customers can't tell you what they need.
3. Biggest challenges beget the best work.
4. Design Counts.
5. Big graphics, big fonts.
6. Jump curves, not better sameness.
7. If it works or doesn't work, that's all that matters.
8. Value is different from price.
9. A Players hire A Players.
10. Real CEOs can demo.
11. Real entrepreneurs ship.
12. Some things need to be believed to be seen.

Verdict: Great performance from all the actors + actress (with many of them, being first time acting), great presentation of Thailand's local music group. Great script writing to make this movie worth watching.

Many of us would have seen Thai advertisement - the funniness is no worse than HK or Japanese's humour.

Many of us would have seen Thai horror movie - many of us have perception of Thai movie = horror movie.

Try this movie - you will know that Thai movie industry is way beyond just horror movies.

In the past one year I have closer encounter with Thai people. So in a way, I would want to learn their language - the quickest way is to watch movie or listen to Thai music.

OK, back to the movie.

This movie tells how a group of young people, striving to succeed (hence 'suckseed') in the music competition.

I watched it with Jen and my dad.

All of us like it.

This comedy delivers what it should deliver.

I shared some same thoughts as my father:
i) The movie is all-rounded. It shows that Thai kids can act (the scene in the classroom - all the children acted naturally)
ii) The movie managed to introduced some Thai rock music groups - which, I believe, many of the non-Thai people won't know them before this movie.
iii) It is a movie with proper ending (many of the movies nowadays have 'strange ending', which you won't know what is it trying to say)

My personal view: I like how the movie shows the atmosphere when you listen to music - it really feels like someone is beside you, talking to you about how you feel.

The beginning part of the movie, which talked about their childhood - reminds me of Fan Chan, another well delivered movie.

As the walkman generation evolved into discman generation - then into iPod generation (yep, the evolution is 'subconsciously' shown in the movie): people grew up and have chosen different path to move forward.

I'll repeat what I had just mentioned earlier: By watching this movie, you will understand that why Thai people can produce funny advertisement, and their movie industries are definitely more than just horror movies.

I would definitely invite all of my friends to watch this movies.

Rating: 9.5/10

P/S: This post is dedicated to all my Thai colleagues whom I have worked with. Thanks and it is great to know all of you! One day we will definitely suckseed na krub!

昨晚忽然有靈感，寫出了這篇短篇故事：

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過了五十年，他終於製造出了時光機，能讓她回到過去。

她步上時光機之前，很興奮地對他說：

等我完成了心願，我馬上回來找你。你就等那麼一下而已。

他說：你完成了心願，你的人生也會改變了。

我們也 不可能見面了。

她說：不會的，我心裡有你，這種感覺，是沒那麼容易毀滅的。

他說：好吧，能讓你開心，當然是值得一試的，不過，你能回去完成心願後，再把這個字條交給二十五年前的我嗎？

她說：好啊，那麼，你就得晚點才能見到我了，你以為我是超人阿，要休息也。

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果然，完成了心願後，男女的記憶，都變了，他們也變得，不曾相見了。

唯一沒變的，是她手上的字條。

字條上寫著要送去的地址與年份，也寫著 - "一定要送去!"

女生按着資料，用時光機去到一個男生的家。

那男生，也正在製造着時光機。

兩個人，在本來以後的世界，是相愛的。

可是，現在，他們卻像陌生人一樣的打招呼。

女：你好，你在做著什麼啊？我也有這架東西也，只是我不知道它是什麼。我只是按照說明書，忽然間可以來到這裡。

男：嗨，你好，呃，這是時光機，我已造了25年都還沒造好。

女：啊？真的哦，我是過來傳這個字條給你的。

男：哦好。

女：你，就一直在做這個東西嗎？

男：是啊，我都有個心願，就是想回到未來，看這個時光機能為我做些什麼，看我活得怎樣。

男的看了字條，對女生說：

不過，我覺得，這樣子，對很多人都不公平，我們，去吃個午餐，如何？

女：好啊。

他們從此就這樣認識，拍拖，到結婚。

字條上寫的是

"傳這個字條給你的，是你的真愛，你別再浪費時間，研究時光機了"

"你已經浪費了25年，沒得愛她"

I think Malaysians are nowadays quite mature, if not much more mature than they are - 10 years ago.

So if you wanna say that the country's security will be affected by some opinion on air - hello,

I think those who think that national security has been compromised - I think they deserve to watch more Hollywood movie to see the real meaning of 'national security compromisation'

Whatever :)

More like, a lesson of the day - I'm reading an article about people management, and found this interesting, especially for my work:

“If you should try to understand me
Through the eyes of your experiences,
Your only understanding will be
Misunderstanding.
For we have walked different paths
And have known different fears.
And that which brings you laughter just
Might bring me tears.

So if you can learn to accept me
And the strange things I say and do,
Maybe through your acceptance
You will gain understanding.”

Scientist founds some unusual sea creatures around the Australian water.
via BBC

I pressed a reset button.

And pffffffffffffffffffffft

All the things are gone forever.

Emoody & Sebastian on the way to airport.

For your information, Sebastian is now in New Zealand.

As his brother, of course I wish him all the best - cos he's gonna celebrate his birthday alone in New Zealand.

Oh I mean he's gonna have fun - cos I haven't been to New Zealand before. :-3

So my sister must be feeling very cold now.

But no matter what, all the best to her to make herself used to the new environment.

And most importantly, keep warm and don't make herself starving.

Take care!

Whatever it is, this monster looks comical to me.

With teeth that is longer than your head - no wonder it ate other whales back in the ancient time.

via BBC

It ended with good news.

So I hope, I want, I wish to end the second half year, even better!