Not really a fan of Ford, but this one is interesting.

Would you love to own this dark angel?

Call us pessimistic, while I thought the short film is really futuristic and it might be how the future is..

But I thought the film would look better if the person looks very fat (a la Wall-E) because they don't need to move anywhere to get all the info he/she needs.

I also thought the film would look realistic if the person is living in a smaller space - because the they don't need space for toys and books.

My sis said she doesn't want this kind of future, because human will stop speaking and meeting each other physically.

(But next morning, when I walked past her bedroom - the first thing she did when she woke up was watching movie on iPad)

Another good laugh!

LOL


This girl is good :)

Kodak is a classic example of having 'technology that is ahead of its time' and 'failed to transform its business at the right time'

- Kodak invented digital camera in year 1975, but mainly because they were still in film business, they thought digital camera would harm their traditional business.

I would say back then the technology might not have matured - that it would have been a very expensive device.

- But come to the digital age, they only introduced their own digital camera in year 2001.

During that time, most of the traditional camera companies had already started or transformed into digital camera business.

- In year 2006, they changed their logo
- Fast forward to earlier this year, they filed for bankruptcy.

Then, today, they announced that they will sell film, commercial scanner and kiosk division.

So, what is Kodak without its core business?

What struck my mind was somewhat superstitious:

For big companies that had changed logo for slightly worse looking, such as HP (looks like a detergent brand), KFC (why is Col. doing 45 degree tilting?), Kodak (for discarding the symbolic 'K' logo)

They are not doing really good.

Since the current Kodak CEO is, coincidentally, from HP, I hope they would sack him like how HP sacked the ex-CEO (for proposing to sell the PC business)

Now, come to the nearest event - Microsoft just changed its logo. I would say it looks much simpler, doesn't  have the 'bold' feel - I do hope it will do good, cos personally, I am still struggling with Windows 8 - Microsoft's most ambitious OS to date.

So Microsoft replaced its 25 year-old logo, in my belief, the purpose is to match with the Metro Modern UI of Windows 8.

Watch the video to have some understanding the logic behind the logo.

And one thing for sure - Microsoft is really ambitious on Windows 8, after witnessing the real impact of tablets by Apple & Android.
 

lol, doesn't matter if you get it. Let's hope it will really arrive in 3 weeks time.

The thing about the local film, Tanda Putera, is that - I find it unnecessary.

1) It features the director's view on 513 incident, which, the topic itself is not even allowed to be taught in details in primary or secondary school. Hence, the public never had a fair view on the incident - what gives the director to have the fair view on the incident?

Moreover, in the trailer, it clearly showed that the production team did not do enough research - some of the banners were written in simplified Chinese, whereby it was only introduced into Malaysia in the 70s.



2) Then comes about the timing - the movie will screen some time in November, which is just months away from General Election.

The title itself had already suggested that it is a movie dedicated to Tun Razak, who is the late father of current Prime Minister - Najib Razak.

So there's no doubt that this movie intends to remind people about Tun Razak's contribution to Malaysia.

This point is also strongly related to point#1, which, the movie is somewhat intended to demonize the Chinese descendant in Malaysia - as the cause of the riot.

To give yourself a much holistic view on 513 incident, I strongly recommend you to read the article on Wikipedia, and also an interview with Tunku Abdul Rahman - the ex-Prime Minister who was forced to resign after the 513 incident.

After reading both articles, you can somehow tell that there was indeed some conspiracies, and most importantly, both Malay and Chinese were both held responsible for causing the riot.

So, this movie at this timing, one may say that, somewhat it has intention to be in conjunction with General Election - to tell the citizens that the current government knows best.

3) There are better story to tell for a movie.

For example, how about a film about Tunku Abdul Rahman? There are so many stories to tell, from him being the Chief Minister of Malaya, to become the Prime Minister of Malaya, and his effort in getting Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore to join Malaysia, while witnessing Singapore departed from Malaysia.

That would be a much better topic to remind Malaysians how our leaders fought for independence, to appreciate and to respect.

I realized that the postbox was too high, so I asked Colleen's help to carry me up.

This song was written more than 20 years ago, still rocking-ly catchy. As usual - heard it from my favorite BFM :)

I had tried out Windows 8 - from speed and interface perspective, I can see Microsoft has done a good job.

But usability wise, it is still very much a pros-and-cons situation, which will give existing Windows users a cultural shock.

I shall blog in details about it in coming days.

Meanwhile, you can also download the 90 days trial from Microsoft (will expire and NOT upgradable to full version when it expires)

So we went to the beach - I was at the place where Narnia happened.

When I saw the footprint on the sand, I thought it was Aslan.

But when I took a nearer look, one of the footprint has Nike logo.

So I don't think that lion would wear Nike shoes running around.

In the end there was no lion, no prince but bears (Sebastian + I)

It's ok, I just wanna say hi and bye.

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