Friday, May 25, 2007

At World's End

Going to the end of the world? Seems like its a very common place in many fantasy genre stories. And they always appear to be reachable by the sea only, and till the end of the world, where it will be goddamn cold. Well, I ain't the one saying that. The books say it. The movies say it.



Caught the finale to the sea bandit Pirates trilogy last night. I believe its going to be making tons of moolah again. You can catch the 1st one without the other 2. You can catch the 2nd one without the 1st. You cannot catch the 3rd without the 2nd. Went with a group of colleagues. 1 only caught the 2nd without the 1st. 1 only vaguely remembered the 1st without much remembrance to the 2nd. 1 watched both. Me? Definitely both.



What to do? Thought I got a good deal with the NTUC U Movies, having a discounted rate to catch the movie opening, but ended up with not very good seats. Just 3 rows from the scene! So up close! Damn, I haven't catch movies in such upclose and personal in a long time! As if watching pirated version, ie watching it from steep angle. Damn. Some more the guy next to me kept dozing off (hey, its not that boring, and there's Keira knightley!) and sounded like some old petrol powered generator. Double Damn.



Amazing action scene in the end, but sort of started out quite.. messy, I think. Its like the story is jumping through the story pretty fast in the first third of the movie, then it slowed down in the second third and breathtaking action in the final third. The humor were still there. Still pretty much laughable. Captain Jack Sparrow was still your love-to-hate and hate-to-love guy, though he's turning schizophrenic (ops, did I gave something away?).



Keira Knightley
still looked amazingly good and hot and babelicious and definitely yummy! No naked Elizabeth Swann. Damn. No sexy kissing scene. Double Damn. No bed scene. Triple Damn. No hot steamy scene. Damn Wait, there was at the start (ops, another give away?).



On the side note, does flies (hor sin) hump each other? I was eating my lunch when something bumped into my arm, and then landed on the table where I'm eating my food. Then a second later, one flew off from the top of the other one. Or do you think they were fighting? 1st time in my life seeing something like this. I almost never had flies bumping into me. Flying around me? Plenty. Bumping into me? Never This one time and not just one!



Oh, just heard that one of my all time favourite childhood till now game franchise is going to have remake on my last year christmas pressie! I'm so going to be waiting for it.



Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The-god-damn-truth

TO ALL THOSE WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's and 60's / early 70's............

First, we survived with mothers who had no maids. They cooked /cleaned while taking care of us at the same time.

We took aspirin, candy floss, fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrups and diabetes was rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was a remedy for fever.   

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention

As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.

We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.

We would spend hours in the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seems to affect us.

We went in to jungles to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.

With a mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game. With a ball (tennis ball's best) we boys would run like crazy for hours.

We catch guppies in drains / canals and when it rains we swim there.

We shared one soft drink with four friends; from one bottle and NO ONE actually worried about being unhygienic.

We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies, bread and real butter and drank very sweet coffee/ tea, ice kacang, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day – because we had no cell phone. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.

We never celebrate birthday parties till we are 21,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

PS: -The big type is because Long-sightedness or hypermetropia at your age.


See, I think its so very true. The current stupid society issues are caused by the current generation. Oh god, I'm one of the current generation. Damn.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Technology

With the advancement of technology and science, almost things that one real in the past as fiction can become a reality now. Check this out! Amazing stuff! Combining the technology of GSM, GPS and Google Map, they can actually pinpoint your current location! Have fun finding where your friends are!



Monday, May 07, 2007

Rice and Spidy

Wow! I think this is so damn kool! I believe SAF should look into this! An option for the replacement of the current combat ration that had been forced down our throat. Wait, I think I haven't seem those greenie around for a while. Or had it become a myth already?



Caught Spidy 3 yesterday with some friends. Venom was so damn kool. The whole movie was kinda draggy. I'm not been captivated by the movie. I kept fidgeting in my seat. A little too much talk. A little too little action. Spidy was supposed to be an action movie, not a do-you-love-me-oh-I-love-you-so movie. If there was going to be a Spidy 4, I believe Carnage is so going to appear in it. They had already pulled out Venom, I won't be surprised that Carnage is next on the list.