Update...

It's been a while ha... This semester I was like....gosh!!!! Can I have my sleep now??? Super duper crazieeeeeeeeeeee!!! Tons of assignment have to be done and this week is only the 5th week of the semester....can't imagine our workload after Raya, tons of tons of tons of assignments!!! HELP ME.....!!!!

Anyway, even with that 'tons' of works I have to do, like I said to friend yesterday (during our chat meeting via FB...you know who u are right...) work, study and play is one word for me. I have to do that all at once...if not I go "미치겠어,정말 미치겠어(michigesso, chungmal michigesso)"(sing it like MC MONG...u don't get it ha....). Move on...well what I'm trying to say is, I still do play whenever I want even though I have a lot of work to do. Something like 'work hard play hard', except I play hard more than work, erhm....not good, not good....

Movies

I can't relate to Harry Potter T_T...Maybe I'm too old for this (sad to admit!!). Overall, don't like it because less action and too teeny for me! My sis gonna love this though...

It's better than I expected after reading an online reviewed that rated it as "the poor man's Transformers". I do love the action and because of that it still enjoyable. But the dialogue is so cliche, and most of the scene is like 'I seen it a thousand times before' kidda feeling. When I can predict who the bad guys is and what coming up next...means I watch it because there is nothing else to watch! Enjoyable though...

After feeling kidda disappointed watching high explosive action-CGI movies (erhm...Transformer...GI Joe...Harry Potter...what esle ya??), I turned to the girly flick...the romantic comedy that sure is so over CLICHE but gonna make my heart smileeee...arh...so sweet... This movie is not a disappoitment. It has all the right ingredients for romantic comedy, hot guy, super nice house, great scenery and of course got family feeling...ah....so sweet... WTH! I admit it, I like it! What to do, I'm old and single...of course I like this stuff! Moving on...

I also watched "Ghost of Girlfriend Past"...not good!

Music

Currently addicted to Doping Panda-Decadence. The whole album is on repeat in my mp3. Particularly I like 'Crazy One More Time', 'Lost & Found', 'Best Addiction' and 'Standin' In The Rain'. The album is super great!!

I'm also listening to 2NE1 new mini album. Hard to admit it, I like it very much. The entire album is non-stop playing in head! Not to be forgotten, MC MONG - Indian Boy!!!

Drama

Because US TV series still on 'vacation' till next month, I go for my usual fave, JDORAMA and KDRAMA. Currently watching Buzzer Beat, Orthros no Inu and Queen Seonduk. Just 3...for now, I do watch some online...so....hehehehehe

Why all the sudden I update about movies, music and dramas?? Because that's the only things I can do while writing my assignment!! Make sense ha... Of course I do play Mafia wars and farm town on FB, and still exploring the YT. Like I said, I play hard....really hard...should the other way around right..!!!

MY BOREDOM

I felt bad doing nothing while at work, but when the internet is slow and most of my work need me to access the WWW... I just don't know what to do... So, my friends and maybe "colleagues", these what I've been doing for a couple of weeks now....

Playing childish games everyday until I was bored and "stupid' playing it

These row of games were from some of my students and my colleagues. I just finished it all in over a week (working days!!!). Civilization 4 is my old games, that I kindda forgot about it and I'm trying to get my 'groove' back by playing the hard level, but unfortunately I've never won against the comp.

Watching Heroes (s1) again!!!

My movies folder.

Watching nodame sp again! Nodame Cantabile is the best dorama I've seen so far.

I'm wasting my time watching movies and series that I've seen before and playing childish games, just because I can't enter the Internet. It show how depended we are (or I am) to the WWW that we need it 24/7 just to do our work!

Happy fasting everyone and HAVE A NICE AND WONDERFUL DAY!!!

Escape fromHuang Shi

This is the kind of movie that I love to watch. It’s a true story from real people that inspired me to become a GOOD, kind and a useful person. I’m not afraid to cry watching this, nor am I ashamed of it. Last night, I was watching this Korean drama called “Women in the Sun” at KBS WORLD and my roomie was crying like there is no tomorrow. I was like…what THE HELL!!! That soap/melodramas kind of story is not gonna make me weep! I’m not a sensitive person; I rarely cared about anything other than my interests. You can call me selfish or anything but maybe that’s the truth, I don’t know… I don’t understand myself either.

The point is, I rarely (but still sometimes do, i.e. 1 litre of tears) cry watching a movie or drama coz I know it just part of the show; it’s not real. Maybe that’s why I love true stories (I also read and bought non-fiction books only, but I don’t read much), coz its REAL and had happen before. As long as they keep it REAL, I don’t mind a few ‘not-so-real’ scenes to spice up the story.

Okay, back to “Escape from Huang Shi”. This is a true story about a journalist named George Hogg, who’s during Japanese occupation, goes to Nanjing to get a story like any other war journalists during WW2. There, he witnessed the Japanese massacre of the Nanjing people and he snaps a few photos during that event. After he was captured by the Japanese army, and later saved by a nationalist Chinese soldier named Jack (Chow Yun Fat), he was ‘sent’ (by a nurse/doctor, Lee Pearson) to travel to a boy’s orphanage. That’s how his legacy began; he’s been taking care of these children, even though he hate it at first, for …I don’t know how long, but from unhealthy, malnutrition, uneducated, unwanted children, he literally changed them into healthy, educated young boys; even the Chinese nationalist wants them as young soldiers. In order to save them from becoming a child soldiers, he march them all to a new place, for 3 months in the winter to a new ‘heaven’ (Mongolian Desert actually) where they can start all over again but free from wars. As what usually happen to kind-hearted, heaven-like people, he died young, but he leaves a long lasting legacy that still remembered today.

However, the movie itself is not that great, it’s a good movie but not GREAT. The acting is ok, I’m not a fan of Jonathan Rhys Meyers (as George Hogg), coz he walks funny, but he’s improve a lot after ‘Bend it like Beckham’. The girl I-don’t-know her name is, played Lee Pearson (the name Lee is interesting to me as it’s like a Chinese's name), is so-so for me, not much of an impact to me. Her real life character is actually a man, which make this movie not really following the real ‘thing’- a minus there. Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh were okay, good like always even though they were the supporting character. The overall movie is actually good, as the story focus on George and the boys not the war itself. Again like I said earlier, this is a good movie but NOT the GREAT one. I've seen many GREAT, wonderful true stories movies before; trust me this still worth watching.

I’ve also watched D-War or Dragon War (back-2-back, after Escape from Huang Shi), a Korean blockbuster movie featuring Hollywood actors and sets in LA. I don’t get it why it sells big in Korea, but this movie SUCKED!!! I think if they cast Korean actors, speak Korean and shoots in Korea, this probably going to be BIG, I mean much bigger than The Host. But sadly, they use ‘the Hollywood’ thing here and it sucked big time!

So, watch Escape from Huang Shi and forget about D-War.

Cloverfield

I just watch Cloverfield... like an hour ago and I'M LOVING IT! This movie had not so good reviews in Malaysia, and it's not that "popular" either among my friends. So it took me a while to finally watch the DVD.

What I like about Cloverfield is the fact all the actors were unknown. It's make the movie more realistic and we feel like all the characters are "real"; even for the policeman. Because the movie was shot based on digicam record ala 'Blair Witch Project', it suppose to make us think that's what happen in reality if it's happen; and they do a very good job on that. The facts that the monster is unknown in the beginning, and we still don't know what is IT in the end make the movie more focus on point of view of regular people like us; that we rarely seen in the Hollywood big budget movies. The trends of Hollywood movies nowadays are more focus on big budget, actions pack and A-list stars and make it trilogy so they can bank in more money. Cloverfield is fresh and new for Hollywood trends and maybe that's why I like so much. (But I read somewhere that they want to make Cloverfield 2...)

However, while watching this movie, coz it look realistic, I wonder about one thing. What kindda camera they used? I mean the digicam the character used in the movie. You see, this movie is an hour and a half and it seems like the camera didn't have to worried about the battery life at all. Maybe it just me...But I've done that before, running round with my digicam in one day, but in the end the battery is low, and I can't record anymore. But again, maybe it just me...

Other than that, this is a GREAT movie. I don't really like monster movie, coz it gross, but this is worth to watch. However this is my no.2 favorite monster movie after The Host...

Jumper

I just watched Jumper last night and it’s really disappointed me. If you already watch it, I bet you brain full of question mark when you left the theater. I know maybe it’s a trend in Hollywood right now to make movies that have potential to do a sequel, but the first one is not even worth of watching, why the hell I wanna watch no. 2.

The opening narration of the movie for me is so lame. The Hero is one arrogant kid; even he said he’s not. I don’t think Hayden-I don’t know the last name (the guy from star wars) have a great voice that can charm me. I just hate the narration part, just go on with the story already, we all know what he can do, we can read the synopsis, da…. The flashback is unnecessary for me. I prefer if his live can be uncovered through out the movie, instead put the chessy childhood past in the beginning. His relationship with Millie (played by the ‘short’ girl from OC, sorry I don’t know her name) is so sudden; I mean he only find her when he is in trouble and they’ve been together for about a day (??? I also confused here).

I don’t understand the Paladin; Samuel L. Jackson with blonde hair??? Weird dude!!! Plus he’s the bad guy. If you wanna kill someone, at least tell us why. Why you kill them with that knife??? I know, only God can have this power, but some history will be great about the ‘EVIL JUMPER’ (if any??? and this should be in the beginning) that make them create an organization so they can kill the jumper. That’s make my point of sequel is crystal clear, don’t you think so? And the mommy stuff…when you wanna explained that, in JUMPER 2???

I still don’t get some of the term they used in the movie, like scars in Jamie Bell’s (yes, I’ve seen Billy Elliot, it's good!!!) neck and jump site (I got confused is it a permanent place like a point you can ‘jump’ or just the place you ‘jump’). Well, the ending is not settled (hint: no. 2???) and I’m not entertained watching this movie. Even if this is a bad movie, at least entertain us with your actions pack and special effect. The fight between Jamie and Hayden is so out of control, I can’t tell who’s who (maybe it just me).

I don’t know what else to say than just read the book (it apparently based on the sci-fi book back in 1990s). I read the synopsis in the wiki and it will be great if they just follow the book’s storyline (maybe, I just saying…). Please dear God, don’t you make another Jumper. Invest in something good, like Bourne 4??? Hahahaha…