Here I am. This is me.
Define blue.
you know, somehow people likes to par/match things up and create issues bout it, like somehow although from different dimension, time, and interest, spidey just suddenly hates wonderwomen's ass and decided to beat the crap out of her. (or something like that).
examples :
alien vs predator.
superman vs doomsday.
spiderman vs venom.
however thing could get really out of hands, like :
alien vs predator vs terminator (mass orgy)
superman vs he-man (matchup for manliness)
or (worst)
achies vs the punisher (WTF?!)
and finally
thundercats vs lionking (muahahahaha)
or maybe they're soon to come out with
jeniffer garner vs kate beckinsale
or
britney spears vs paris hilton
my bets goes to :
1st round : terminator
2nd round : superman
3rd round : punisher, unless they competing for gayband
4th round : lionking (*aggresive content* see clip of lion mawing indian here. tips to tourist : stay away from lions and stupid black people.)
5th round : draws and rematch. until im done watching the mud fight...
6th round : they can go mop the floor after the last two.
ps: first three really exist in DC comics (as accoridng to sow), i just made the last few ones up.
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also, here's one hell a funny ad. got the whole office laughing.
havent been writing or spending time thinking of what to write lately...
health level is at an all time low. these few days i woke up early in the morning feeling my head gonna burst anytime soon creating a beutiful but fatal fountain of blood... and with the pressure high enough to evaporate most water content upon contraction to lower pressure at a high speed, perharps we can even see rainbows underneth it. it is possible im to die anytime soon.
with all the appended task, office, personal, church to worry bout... guess i havent been sleeping too well. that or the bright lucinent curtain allows too much light into my vampiric den it disturb my slumber.
now bro and sis in law went to kuantan, leaving the house for my own till end of merdeka... maybe i should go out and lure some hot young college girl in here for some mass orgy. now, just how do i go about doing that...
(types hopefully in google)
let's see.
1. watched the "lodoss lost record of war", and "ghost in the shell : stand alone complex" anime series. (old but good)
2. p0wn friend's ass in doom 3. (in my own small world, i am god)
3. did some studies on java for ABAP (boring, but i guess the pay more less justified the cause)
4. watched 13 going 30. (despite the shallow girly thing, this movie delivers some simple hard message bout life)
5. went gym. and phin came over for swimming. went to sugimoto for dinner after that. (note to self : dun try and be clever speaking japanese to a jap)
6. spent the night shooting terrorist and enemy forces in "outpost" pretending to be in the army and fighting for a cause. (21 kills for the night. yes, i have no life)
7. insomnia. (0430 and im still awake)
this will be a pretty busy week im afraid. *sigh.
"in life, things change, you'll have to make decisions and live with it."
im on mc today. yeah that's right. so that's why u dun receive any forwarded mails or see me online today.
woke up at 6 feeling the veins in my head gonna explode anytime soon... pop in the wonder pills and i later woke up at noon feeling much better. went to see the doc after lunch, she told me im stressed (yup. im STRESSED). so, she issued me some stress relieving pills. i was more like hoping for something more hardcore... something like prosaic, xanax & friends. she asked if im depressed, i said, well not likely (damn). couldve gotten some chill out drugs/magik mushrooms/wonder roots under corporate sponsors.
also dropped by 1u there after. was hoping to get tickets for "the village" but 4th row from the screen was just too scary/blinding for me liking. went around the corner for the lomo embassy, chatted with this well english speaking malay dude on lomo stuffs. kinda cool guy too. but the tshirts are still rm100 a piece (damn.)
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i came across this version of "somewhere over the rainbow" yesterday, taken off the soundtrack of "50 first dates".
listenning to it reminds me alot of the time spent on the islands. guess we had too much time running around, shouldve just lie down on the beach chatting under an umbrella facing the sea while enjoying the ocean breeze.
now, it's so different being here. *sigh. suddenly the music makes me feels like crying.
coming movies worth watchin..
the village [now showing]
alien vs predator (what's better than alien? TWO aliens)
exorcist : the beginning [trailer]
oooh. scary stuffs.
and u know what? Resident Evil: Apocalypse is up next.
(and it has got milla in it. wooo hooo.)
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here's a clip i came across showing some fine examples of difference between real life, and the internet.
red vs blue. (file size : 3.39MB)
if you dun get any of the jokes in there, congratulations, you're either too old or not geek enough. i hate you. so stop viewing my page and obstructing traffics.
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the cranky fella pestering up and down our cubicle lane makes me feelin uneasy...
mental note to self : remember to bring some beaver traps.
//browsing at 1u +wondermilk (lomo embassy malaysia)
"how much that lomo t-shirt gonna cost?"
"rm100"
*gulp* "lei lo mo laaa..."
here's some nice lomo shots.
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and a run through of lomography.com kickass gear...
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from upper left (clockwise) : ActionSampler, holga, Lomo Kompakt Automat, Oktomat, Colorsplash Camera, Super Sampler, Smena Symbol, Pop 9.
let's see... i took leave on friday and went to huizhong's convocation in UM. bump into phin along the way, two confused person who's suppose to be at work having discovered each other at a strange place and time. she's heading for home attending friend's wedding.
saturday i went to the stupid movie (see previous post). discovered this small shop called "wondermilk", and came to another interesting discovery. something called "lomo".
lomo link 1 link 2
holga camera (china version of lomo) also means "hou2 gong1" (veli bright).
it was said two vienna tourist went vacationing in russia and bought a lomo camera with remaining film from the local flea market. after taking shots and developing the film, they found out the end results being bizzairely contrast and over exposed. this later grew into a culture and now an austrian company went and bought over the production rights to such unique camera. lomo started during the early communism in russia where the red army goverment mass produced these "lomo" camera distributing them to each family in order for them to capture their "great communisme life". but the camera with faulty cases which barely holds the film to the back, cheap plastic lenses causing disfocus and sometimes bodycase which leaks in light, the quality of the photos turns out terrible. however, it's the unpredictability of such faulty device which caught attention of many enthutiastic artist/photographer (who are also deeply obessed with films), their spirit is to take multiple shots at current happenings without proper aiming or making a point to consider image composition, it's more to the concept of documenting life, thus came the art of lomography. after some research i've realised many well known individuals are into lomography as well, actively involved in the lomo interest group, namely HK director "wong kar wai", and taiwan singer "groupies - chen chee zhen".
personally, i find this concept of art quite facinating. you can normally see lomo images in japanese culture ladened shops/magazines. maybe i should find a lomo cam and start practising them myself... anyone heading for russia lately?
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i had another conversation with phin late last night. she's as lost as i am. how we wished things could be told to us rather than having ourselves making the decisions.
but the irony part is we dun want to leave things as it be, we want to decide for our own happiness but the risks are fearful. i wish her well, pray all this turns out alright...
alright. this is one of ze "must watch" movies coming out at this quarter of the year (takenshi kenishiro, zhang ziyi and andy lau, need more reasons?). but heed my advice : do not go 1utama for movies next time... the seats are damn crampy and stupid problem with audio/projection system are almost a certain, this time the screen goes blank for a good 10-15 minutes and the fking conductor just skip the damn overruned frames and starts out bout 10 minutes later. fk.
the story
the plot i mean... coz this movie has hardly any depht in the storyline workings. two gov "police" (more like gov mercenery henchmen) came across a sexy hot blind kungfu fighting girl (hmmmmmm.) who does strange dances and sings like a crow, in a brothel... then they decided to throw this girl into prison (that's not a way to treat a lady?! *uproar*) but later on decided to have one cop going undercover exsorting the girl out of prison hoping if she would lead them to the rebel clan of ze "flying daggers" (woooo.) so the story goes, a darn handsome guy and the-hottest-girl on the road killing ppl and doing alot of horse riding... *erhemm
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the director
now his previous flick was "hero" (feat: jet li, zhang ziyi, tony leung and maggie chung), and i hate that movie. maybe im reviewing this in a biased manner, that i am, coz for both of his film he sortof like taking long shits load of scenic beutiful places in enhanced colors which doesnt really means anything or possibly existed in the said time and era. most of the time, you'll find urself looking at two ppl sitting on the big beutiful fields for probably half a minute, then you'll see forest in fall color, then snow, then bamboo... each screen taking its time making u feel "wah, got such place in china ah, must go see oh". so most of the time, you'll be rushing to see wat happens next while the two heroes runs and runs and runs across beutiful places, and rides and rides and rides. too much time spent on creating beutiful shots which doesnt gives a meaning to the plots. and in order to achieve his "poster" kinda camera shots, this guy tends to construct bizzaire/meaningless scene/plot which doesnt match with history and culture, e.g. in "hero", the stupid stacked bamboo roll archive room, then in "daggers", the first boring dancing scene. on top of that, i think the movie induced an overkill dossage of CG works making kungfu close to matrix magik (see bamboo scene, stupid henchmen hanging around sharpenning bamboo stick with their knifes. wtf?). i guess this director can produce a good tourism promotion film, but a movie? nah, im not seeing any of his future works without zhang ziyi in it (this director seems to have the dough in fetching all the big timers for his movies though). maybe that's his style of filming, of coz, that and im saying i dun like it.
a rundown on the casts and their performance :
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 zhang ziyi - xiao mei | hot. the movie is steered to show her hotness at full bloom (well, not exactly). from time to time you'll find her showing sexy shoulder, upper chest bla bla... and i bet there's much more in the movie if u watching it outside malaysia cinema. well, the girl might be able to dance and perform some basic swordplay by her ownself (she's trained in both at the academy of arts), but she cant sing. oh, and [spoilers] she has the tendancy of dropping dead and come back to life quite a few time. bad scripting if u ask me. |
| ho ho, this guy is god to most females out there... handsome and matured at his mid 30s, but as seen in takenshi's previous movies (fallen angel, chungking express, and numoreos funny taiwan comedy), he is more used to playing cool character who doesnt talks alot or shows much emotions/expression other than some stupid dialogs and his depressive empty laughs (and that charming dumb looking chuckle). but in this role he's playing a confused, self conflict, and seductive henchmen... well, it turned out quite ok (additional credit for being so handsome), normally good looking actors are expected to be screwed up to the worst anyway. oh, and the stupid costume design made him very much like the Hidemitsu Samanosuke Akechi character in Onimusha series. it's politically incorrect to dress up a china henchman in japanese costume. |  takenshi kaneshiro - jing bu kuai |
 andy lau - liu bu kuai | now after the "infernal affairs" series, this guy continues playing the role of bad guys (which i think is pretty good work from him). a veteran actor who basically casted every possible character in movies along his long career of acting, but in this film his acting/expression becomes damn stiff becoz the hongky still couldnt speak mandarin in a properly fluent manner (ps : the original movie language is in mandarin). so most of the time his face is expressionless, or with strange signs he's trying too hard showing the emotions his lines carrying, relaying crude dull mandarin dialogs. bad, real bad. i remember tony leung had the same problem starring in "hero". |
bottom line:
would still worth a weekend seating (man, anything for zhang ziyi). but dun expect some mind-blowing plot, or a earth shaking production anyway. it's just a film with pretty people running along pretty places with some nifty (overkill) matrix kinda CG kungfus. most probably sponsored by china tourisme ministry. much like "Hero", it's one of those flicks which makes kiddies think they are cool watching an "artistic" film trying to make sense out of every color and meaningless bullshit.
shin thinks :
"if u watched this film and think it's artistic and meaningful, u are gay. shin thinks if u watched this film and it never occured to u zhang ziyi is the hottest female on the planet, then u r definitely gay."
pros :
zhang ziyi (guys)
takenshi kaneshiro (girls)
andy lau (older women)
a nice final two line dialog.
cons :
zhang ziyi (girls)
takenshi kaneshiro (guys)
overkill in CG.
boring dragging scenes.
shallow storyline.
some unnecessary scene/event.
too obviously arranged/constructed set
unnatural color enhancement.
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“你不该回来。。。”
“回来。为一个人。”
"you shouldnt come back"
"come back. for a person"
omg, this line rocks. (in mandarin at least)
i installed doom3 on my pc yesterday. aeka bugged me more than enough for one particular day just to get his hands on the game even for a minute earlier. everyone who is into gaming had anticipated for this moment... hardcore gamers like sow and aeka had been telling me stories of Carmack and how much he p0wns, how much god-like his game engine turned out to be. doom3 marked an important milestone to gaming history, for it has forever define a new standard to the industry itself. much great things would come after the dawn.
i heard deep moan coming from behind me. i heard frantic knocks on metal walls and wails which comes after, ghostly whispers sweeping by now and then, and i heard drudging footsteps somewhere in the shadows... somewhere in the shadows... yes, and there's lotsa shadows, humming machinery and flickering lights everywhere in the full operating factory-like space installation. somehow having a torchlight and big gun just really doesnt helps feeling secure standing in the dark. and that stupid marine are only trained to put up the torch or the gun one at a time. being the top military/defence research organization they could have thought of something like a helmet with a torch or a gun with a holdster which plugs in one. sheesh.
anyway. damn. now im too scared to go back to my room.
"shin is feeling scared, in the dark room drawfing infront of a computer"
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When all hell breaks loose. (Corp. Shin's doom diary #01)
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Alright, here i am stranded in the dark trying to find my way to rejoin bravo team at the alpha labs. having most of the equipment and pressure door circuit fried during the shock wave, guess il have to find an alternate route to where me buddies are waiting. fk, this crampy service vent looks damn scary... something might be lurking inside waiting for me. damn, i hope those bravo boys saved me some beer...
Man, it's getting cold in here... look at the fogs coming out of the vents and the orange lights casting shadows on the walls. i've just sent two imps and a couple of zombie marines back to hell, that's why u see me admiring carmack's work instead of watching my back...
Here a plasma tv in the facility reception hall... man, once i get out of this mess im so gonna get myself one of these blue neon glowing laser device... watever they are.
Strange machines with pipes, valves, furnance and hidrolic pumps are everywhere. This one here looks like it's gonna explode any time soon. better stay clear from it...
Damn, i hate dark gloomy places... im absolutely sure carmack planted some nasty surprises here. note: you dont see me taking photos of the monsters becoz 1.they wont stay still 2.they have the habit of drudging/pouncing towards you and pound ur head with a monkey wrench/claws/fireballs 3.it's either they or i dun have the courtesy to stay around long enough for pictures. 4.im just shit scared/busy pressing the trigger button and reloading when it comes to big mindless things out to get my ass.
Awww. what a big mess. the janitor wont be so happy bout that the next time i see him. wait a minute, that zombie who greeted me back at the last coridoor looks like the janitor himself... until i emptied a full clip in his face. oh well...
more machinery and dark corners perfect for lurking. and if that wasnt good enough... carmack invented sliding mechanism storage cabinet on the wall, totally blended as part of the interior designs so the engineer wont feel uncomfortable in such working environment... good for storing cleaning products, maintanence tools, zombies, and pouncing imps.
despite some few good pictures taken previously, most of the time you'll find the now hell-unleashed facility to be more less as dark as these. best part is, during my marine trainings i wasnt taught to hold a lighttorch while aiming a gun, that and the top military research organization never bother to come out with torchlight-shotgun or torch/infrared view helmet. bummer.
I came across some weird satanic glowing pentagram on the floors with candles around.. and imps started getting poured in in a sudden. i think i fell 3 imps here and a couple of those drunk gun tottling zombie marines who rush in joining the fun from the coridoor outside. and there's this slimmy organic tentacle mass and tubes seen here merging itselfs with the facility structure. gross.
Finally, this-way-to-alpha-labs. thanks to my ever-ready glow stick which thank-lord never runs out of battery.
alright. here goes nothing. now to locate the elevator connecting to level two... hope the boys are still awake...
to be continue...
kid : grawwww... il eat u alive, pony~!!
pony : oh yeah? il show u some real teeth u little two-legs...
from baboon cousin,
Subject: SMOKING
A man sees another leaning against the wall of a large building. The second man is puffing away, one cigarette after another.
The nonsmoker says, "Sir, I couldn't help noticing how you chain-smoke. How many packs do you smoke a day?"
"Four."
"How long have you been smoking?"
"Thirty years."
"That's over forty thousand packs. Why, if you didn't smoke, you could have saved enough money to buy this building."
The smoker takes a deep puff and says, "Do you smoke?"
"Never."
"Do you own this building?"
"No."
"Well, I do."
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from shane,
Subject: I REPEAT, DO NOT TALK TO MY PARROT!!!
Wanda's dishwasher quit working so she called a repairman. Since she had to go to work the next day, she told the repairman, "I'll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I'll mail you a check. Oh, by the way don't worry about my bulldog, Spike. He won't bother you. But, whatever you do, do NOT, under ANY circumstances, talk to my parrot!"
"I REPEAT, DO NOT TALK TO MY PARROT!!!"
When the repairman arrived at Wanda's apartment the following day, he discovered the biggest, meanest looking bulldog he has ever seen. But, just as she had said, the dog just lay there on the carpet watching the repairman go about his work.
The parrot, however, drove him nuts the whole time with his incessant yelling, cursing and name calling.
Finally the repairman couldn't contain himself any longer and yelled,
"Shut up, you stupid ugly bird!" To which the parrot replied,
"Get him, Spike!"
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you gotto love these jokes they forward around.. ;)
here in century square, we use a common public toilet where everyone on the same floor accesses to. now a toilet sharing concept is good for management purpose il say, but kinda stupid when u have to go through 7 doors in order to get from ur working cubicle to the toilet cubicle. not really an effective way if one's on the brink of a holocust meltdown.
whats worst is the occasional stange inhabitant you'll be sharing the small space of ur private time with. yesterday i was doing the usual business in the toilet cubicle when there came this moaning sound from the next one, something which sounds like a cross between a moaning whore and a hyena. i cant tell if he's in a labouring pain or he's kinda enjoying himself... but what i do know is the sound came just nicely frequent enough to interupt ur focus but far less continues for u to tell the brain to pattern-filter and shut it up entirely.
damn irritating and distracting, i left the toilet feeling my privacy being much violated.
here's a great smile to greet a great new openning...
ive no idea who she is, but if it happens that you (the girl) came across and felt offended by this, lemme know and il have it removed.
shin plays "somewhere over the rainbow", sang by probably some old black lady in a jazz tempo.
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shin's lesson #1 to communism :
sometimes in order to get something, u have to give some away. dun complain, that's just what everyone does.
chaiman mao says: we have to round up and lock up those people who doesnt reply email, only in such a way will we be able to success.
