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I woke up really late today, when I opened my eyes, I was like "WTF! IT'S ALREADY 3PM!" Damn...I missed my breakfast and lunch. I had to jump into my tea time straightway before I faint of hunger. I slept at 4am yesternight (or should I call it today morning?)  as I was watching a korean series. Honestly, till now I'm not even sure of the real name of the show. It's either called "The Legend" or "The Story of the First King's Four Gods" and the starring was non-other than the famous Bae Yong Joon of Winter Sonata.

I have to confess 3 things before I go on:

1) I'm not a fan I'm not a korean drama fan myself

2) Bae Yong Joon is not my idol and will never ever be! (I heard most asian housewives idolize him)

3) I have only two reasons for watching this show, the first is that I heard they spent millions on the computer graphics with the assistance of Lord of the Rings' producer. The second reason is because of the cute chic ion the show.  

 

Synopsis:

The story started in the early days of mankind. The God that created earth fell in love with a human girl (blessed with the power of the phoenix) and together they gave birth to the first true king of earth. However, the girl's sister felt jealous and decided to kill the baby by throwing it down the cliff. When the girl saw her son threw down the cliff, she lost control of herself, she went berserk unleashing the power of the phoenix. Even though the baby was rescued by the God, she still could not calm herself. After God summoned the other 3 holy beast (flying dragon, white tiger and giant tortoise) which failed in stopping the phoenix in causing mankind's destruction, he decided to kill his wife with his arrow.

After a few milleniums (more than 2000 years I think), God and his wife were reincarnated into human forms. God became the king of a country while his wife became an orphan that wields the power of the phoenix. Both fell in love with each other again. The story tells how the king manage his country and his role in determining the fate of humanity...

Personal Views:  

I really thought that the show is going to be really different as in not you "regular korean drama" since most famous korean dramas are in modern time setting and this show is in ancient time setting. However, I was disappointed by the show because all the elements of a "regular korean drama" were present in this show. Let me share with you guys the 4 most popular elements of a "regular korean drama" :

1) The actresses must know how to activate teary eye mode (meaning she can make her eyes filled with tears anytime she wants because she will be doing that for at least for half of story)

2) The talking scenes between the lovers are unusually long  (there's always the "I look at you, you look at me" moments that stayed for several minutes, probably to buy time for the audience to get the tissues from the toilet)

3) The true lovers of the story can never be together in the end even though they long for each other (it's so called the "so close yet so far" effect, sometimes they prefer to let one of the lovers die to heighten the drama though)

4) It's always the "WTF!" ending (the ending is always difficult to put into words or unexplainable which makes the audience wondering what really happened in the end)

I felt that the story was actually very simple as well as common. For instance in many stories, they tell of how mankind wanted to break loose from the chains of God. Struggling and wanting to live a life fully governed by themselves and not fate. In the end, they discovered that the choice was always in their hands... 

All and all, the show was really breath-taking in the beginning with all the gay heavenly beasts flying all over the place. It's a must watch if you are a korean drama fan or a Bae Yong Joon fan, don't miss it! =P 

For the past few days, my internet connection kinda sucked. I always get disconnected after 30 minutes accessing the internet. Well...That's Malaysia for you. Anyway, while waiting for my connection to fall into my arms again I decided to do some origami - Roses. I have to say it's not easy to do at all if you are a newbie. I got the intructions from youtube, but it's not as easy as what the guy in the video did. Spent the whole night failing, for today I managed to get the gist of it. Practice makes perfect, I'm on my 6th success now while waiting. 

After years of hibernation, X-files is finally returning to make us believe again(believe in Santa Clause or Sandy Claws?)! Believe in what? Aliens? Mutants? Voodoo? I don't really know. The only think I know and want to believe in is the...

Bloggers + Movie + Yumcha = Blovicha

This friend of mine, miu (a.k.a Tammy/+size/winkwinknudgenudge) decided to be generous out of a sudden (maybe she's trying to repent for taking something she shouldn't =P) to give out free movie tickets to bloggers. All you need to do is RSVP on her blog or you can do it here as well (and I'll do it for you). In case some of you guys (like Jamie) don't know what "yumcha" means, it means socializing with a cup of over sweetened tea. After the movie, we would be sharing our views on the movie, personal blogging experience as well as love & relationship experience (since we have a father with us=p).

 

Movie Details:

Date: 24th of July (Thursday)

Venue: Cathay Cineleisure

Time: 9.30pm

 

Criteria to Join Us:

1) Owns a living blog

2) Lives within the Klang Valley (KL/Selangor)

3) Perfectly sane (No saikobloggers allowed!) 

 

The Blovicha List: (3/10)

1)  tmithomas.blogspot.com

2) tiffanycsmok.blogspot.com

3) cheeze.vox.com

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7 more places to go, book fast! 

This story is about a guy named Wes. He hates his job (boring accounting job), he hates his boss (a fierce tigress) and he hates his bestfriend (cause he is having an affair with his girlfriend). One day, while he was getting his medication (stress relief tablets) from the pharmacist, Fox(Angelina Jolie). She told him that his long missing father which was the best assassin in the organization was killed yesterday by the 2nd best assassin (Cross) and he is next on the assasination list. Fox saved Wes from the Cross and brought him to the assassin's organization, The Fraternity. After some consideration, Wes decided to join them and trained up to be the best assassin to avenge his father. As the story develops, Wes unfolds a conspiracy within the organization...

 

 

 

Spoilers start here:

Likes:

There are 3 things that I liked about the show:

1) The Banana Shot: Okay, in the show it wasn't called "The Banana Shot", it was nameless. Those assassins were able to shoot a curve shot with their guns, it's basically like the bullet version of banana kick. Watch this video and compare it with the trailer, you will get what I mean.

2) The Healing Spa: In the movie, whenever somebody gets shot, gets cut or gets whatever kind of injury, all they need to do is throw them into a bath tub filled with some healing water (looks like wax on the surface). After a few hours of spa, the injured will be as good as new. Instead of healing for days, you can heal within ours in the healing spa.

3) Killing Styles: There were quite a few interesintg killing styles I like, but I only want to elaborate on one. In the beginning, there was this Indian lady who was about to get assassinated and you know Indian ladies usually have red dots on their forehead. What the assassin did was actually aiming the infrared on that red dot which would ideally conceal it due to the similarity in colors. Interesting!

Dislikes:

I have 2 dislikes for this movie:

1) The story is very similar to matrix which makes it like a copycat. Like bullets kissing bullets, slow motion and etc. There's also the jumping from one building to another building scene (remember Trinity jumped off the building to escape from the agents?), if you have forgotten, here it is!

2) The 2nd thing I don't like about the movie was it's conspiracy. The whole thing reminds me of StarWars, when Cross reveald himself as Wes' true father. Wes was used by the Fraternity to eliminate his own father because they knew that a father would never kill his own son. Watch this video anyway just for the fun of it!

Anyway, I'll still consider this show as worth watching. With all the actions, the slow motions and Angelina's backside! =P

Recently I got to know a new online friend, I find her totally different from those online friends I've met so far. The thing that fascinates me the most is her behavior. She can give into her emotions so fast so easily that it looks unreal. What I'm trying to say is that she can suddenly turn from good mood to monstrous mood within split seconds even in front of a stranger (WOW! I was like "WTH!" in the beginning when I first notice this). Usually for a person to unleash his/her temper onto a victim, it depends on the degree of intimacy with the victim. Most people just can't go wild in front of a stranger, it takes time. That's why you realise some people who are very fierce at home are harmlessly kind in the public (like my mom). That explains why couples can argue so much because of the degree of intimacy in existence (built up over a long period of time). This friend of mine totally bypass this criteria.

So far I have yet to see anyone that is capable of doing that. However, even though I could be fascinated, I never wanted myself to become like that. Throughout my years, I've learnt something. I've learnt that giving into emotions isn't beneficial at all. Instead of letting emotions control me, I want to control my own emotions. Why? Because emotions will only lead us to desires and desires will open up the weaknesses in us. For example, a warrior could be so perfect in all ways, swordsmanship, archery and so on making him invincible, but if his enemy were to threaten him with his family's life, what do you think will happen?

I don't know why I am saying all this. Maybe I'm just afraid of giving into my emotions, maybe I'm just afraid of being out of control and maybe I'm just afraid of becoming someone I don't even know. That's why I chose to throw away some unnecessary emotions and become a laidback person.

Last Saturday morning I was invited as a blogger to a baking workshop organised by All Malaysian Bloggers Project and Malaysia Institute of Baking(MIB). The workshop started at around 9 am with a short briefing from the CEO of MIB, Don Yong. In the beginning he was actually quite surprised to see guys in the workshop (I guess he was expecting a group of attractive housewives since most people were from cloveTWO's contest =P). From the 45 minutes long briefing, I only remembered 3 things due to my short-term memory (paiseh) and those 3 things are the "things" that we were going bake - a personal size Moist Chocolate Cake, a tray of funny looking Buns and a few giant bags of Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies.

After the briefing, we were directed to the kitchen for some live action. This whole thing actually reminded me of my science lab while I was doing my BsC. Instead of wearing lab coat, I was wearing apron =P. I was assigned into group 10 where I met up with another blogger, Thomas and his wife. At first I felt kinda awkward, but later I found out that they were even more awkward than me. Anyway, I was really glad to be in group 10 as Thomas' wife actually know what we needed to do (Thomas & I were basically clueless throughout the workshop =P). Another thing I would like to say about group 10 is that we really deserve a trophy for being the most "generous" group, we had traded our perfect chocolate batter with other groups for something less perfect (accidentally) without complaints, we had borrowed our beloved tools to other groups for countless times and we even willlingly gave one of our chiffons away! Thumbs up for Group 10!

Let's start with the buns, we actually three different types of fillings to choose from (red bean paste, sausage and tuna). Honestly, I don't really care what's the fillings inside since I'm not going to eat them. However, I was quite particular about the designs. All the designs look almost the same (dull), out of boredom Thomas and I experimented on a design that's way out of the world! Too bad I was too occupied to take any pictures of it. The only thing I can say is that it looks like a basket of sausage with tuna inside. =)

After the buns, we started walking the path of Famous Amos. Yes, that's right, time for cookies! I don't like saying this, but cookies are easy. Even those organising dudes (Michael & friends) were having a great time in pushing walnuts onto the cookies =P. Those dudes were actually quite smart as they were utilizing everything they can lay their hands on....like the walnuts! Damn, how come group 10 didn't think of that! =( 

The last part of the workshop was the icing of the Moist Chocolate Cake. Everyone was having fun making their own pattern, it's like kids in art class and the imagination was wild!

From left (above):

1)Thomas wanted to make a chocolate rose (but it looks like "something else") right at the middle

2)Simple & Tidy pattern done by Thomas' wife

3)Star fish pattern by "idunnowhoisit" (Michael perhaps?)

4)The sunshine pattern by yours sincerely

 

Before packing and dividing our loots, we took a picture of all the 5 bloggers with Michael from AMBP to prove that we were once certified baking-bloggers!

 From left: Debbie, Tammy, Michael (front), Yours Sincerely (behind), EffectiveParent and Thomas 

 

A picture of all the participants, as you can see it looks like a Pandu Puteri Club, there's only one row of real men in front (and the one sitting in the middle of course).

 

CloveTWO also gave some goodies to the participants in the end. I can use some of the food coupons, but I don't think I need the manicure and padicure coupons yet to infiltrate the female community. =P

I was kinda disappointed yesterday after finding out I actually lost in nuffnang's Hancock movie screening. Honestly, I thought I was gonna win for sure since I was like the number 11th person so send in the entry (okay, maybe I'm not the 11th, but I did send it in on the 2nd day the of the contest). Nuffnang did say they will be giving 50 tickets to normal members, but they are reserving 150 more tickets for premium members, the Glitterati (hey I wanted to become a Glitterati alright, just that I can't position my adds with this blog).

After one sleepless night, I realised my luck changed. Another life's philosophy learnt, "Sometimes you get some, sometimes you lose some." I realised I actually won something after logging in into AMBP, I realised I'm less useless than I thought =P. Here are the things I got myself:

1) Complimentary Prize (Loser's Prize) - Hancock Car Sticker

Okay, I don't really fancy the car sticker cause there's too many things sticking in my car already. Any more stickers I would be driving like blind man. However, my friends are like begging me to give them the sticker. I guess one man's car sticker is really another man's eyesore.

2) Tickets for Evangelion (anime movie)

Sorry to say that my friend already dragged me to the movie on Tuesday, since he got free screenings too. I have to say I'm not really in love with the movie, it was kinda boring till the extent that I have to keep looking at my watch hoping the boring parts will run faster. I don't wanna experience the suffering the 2nd time, oh please! I'm willing to give my tickets away =P

3) Baking Workshop

Seems like my crap post did inspire someone to have gimme a free baking workshop. Ah yes! I'm gonna go bake this Saturday! WooHoo! Just thinking on who to bring along now. I'll make and update for the event, stay tune!

Today I went for the movie "Wanted", it was like hell! I'm not talking about the movie, I'm talking about the people sitting around me. I finally came up with another philosophy of life, "There's limit to intelligence, but there's no limit to stupidity". Seriously, there's no boundaries to a person's stupidity.

So when I was watching this movie halfway through (like 1st 20 minutes), I suddenly felt an earthquake. My seat was apparently shaking and when I turned to my right, I saw this jackass sitting beside shaking his leg like it was the "coolest" thing to do in a cinema. It was certainly "uncool" for me because my whole seat was basically on vibration mode, I can't even focus on the damn movie! This whole thing actually lasted for 30 minutes straight, WTF!

I tried using my eyes, my gaze to transmit a signal to ask that jackass to stop doing it. Somehow he misunderstood my message. My original message was "Stop it or Fuck Off!", then he deciphered and translate it into "Please do it even more!" The shaking went on to another scale, it was 3.0 ritcher! THANK GOD he was only human, if he is Superman I would probably be dead buried under the rubble like the victims of earthquake.

I realised two things, those legs shakers in the cinemas are 99% males and most of them have their girl friends sitting right beside them. My deduction is that these people are feeling damn horny as in they need a shag-fest after the movie. Since they are getting so excited already even before starting it, they need to waste their sexual energy away by doing something moronic, something that can be done in repetition like leg shaking.

Don't people ever learn things from movies? Take "there's something about Mary" for example, a 1998 movie staring Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz. Stiller was gonna date his childhood crush, Diaz. Thinking about the 1st date which he is going to have in a few hours time made him so excited till he couldnt even control himself. Then his best friend told him a technique that is to unload his gun before going for the date, so that he won't misfire. If you guys still don't get it, it means waste your sexual energy away by yourself before going for a date, so you won't look like some sexual predator!

I've been wanting to make a post on this video since the fist time I watched it. I find it kinda funny since so many people are into facebook these days. The lyrics which can be found on their website is good and it make heck lot of sense and not to mention hilarious. It's quite true that some people when they reached home after work, it's facebook all the way. Another thing I do agree is the crap load of invitation part, damn many requests and applications. =P

I finally got a breakthrough on how to get to the next level as a speaker. It came to my mind that delivering a good speech have very little to do with the content of the speech. In other words, the delivery comes first. For example, if a speaker is provided with the best script in the world if he couldn't deliver it well enough it would be meaningless. The same goes for stand-up comics, the performer's expression (delivery) comes first while the content second.

Everything is starting to make sense now. I realise this sort of lesson is abundant in the movie world. It's like the villain who got a hold of the most powerful weapon in the world, but the hero still wins with a weaker weapon because of skills and strategies. I have to start working with my stage persona if I want to go to the next level, if I don't I would stop growing for life. There's only one way for me now...