need to get these off my chest
- Do the people who sing REALLY badly on American Idol REALLY think they are GOOD?!? Or was it just for the cameras? “You don’t understand, you don’t know how hard I’ve worked for this bla bla yadda yadda whine whine…” WE DO. But they are still fun to watch
- Ian Bernado (”I exuberate fantasticism”) was on A.I. last week. I don’t know what to say. HE said it was an act though.
- When the fuck is StarWorld going to air Boston Legal S2?!?!?
- Desire: Table For Three is one of the worst TV mistakes. Please don’t do that again, ever.
- Why aren’t there any new Oprah shows? Tired of re-runs
- I had never been able to find out which date CSI:NY is on. For some reason I could only watch it during the CSI Supreme Sundays. Then I realised that it was a re-run, and the new season airs tonight, replacing House S2. Yay! Maybe we could murder Horatio and let Gary Sinise investigate. That would be fun because he won’t be able to recognise Horatio’s face.
- Astro needs to replace/add its advertisements. I’ve seen the same ol’ stuff a few million times now, yawn.
- TARA finale this Thursday!
- Heroes and TAR All Stars coming soon! Goodbye life as I know it.
- Well… there isn’t really a life…
- For more awesome reality tv recaps, check out Culturally Preconditioned.
death note 2: so awesome, i nearly wet myself!
I have never been that that interested in cartoons, anime, manga and the likes — the only two Japanese cartoons I read regularly were Doraemon and Slam Dunk. So when KY ajak-ed me to watch Death Note 2 (thanks lovely Reta for the tix), I said yes because it was free. Again let me remind everyone that I am a slut for freebies. Got freebie, remember Suanie.
Kelvin said it would best that I watch Death Note 1 before watching #2, and he kindly lent me his DVD. Unfortunately I did not have the time to watch it over the weekend, so 20 minutes before #2 Kerol filled me in with details of what who how why of #1.
A plot summary blatantly c&p-ed from IMDB.com:
Light Yagami finds the “Death Note,” a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world’s criminals, and soon the world’s greatest detective, “L,” is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world.
The tag line for Death Note is “The person whose name is written here shall die”. Not only the grammar is incorrect (cewah, as if I am the grammar queen), it is also one of the worst tag lines ever, because it makes you think of cheesy sucky awful Japanese horror movies. And Death Note is so NOT a horror movie, but a brilliant psychological twist-ful drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat (especially if you are like me, who didn’t really know the story beforehand).
The main actors were very good, and because I am biased, I am going to say that Ken’ichi Matsuyama was the best of the lot 
Ken’ichi Matsuyama is so hot and young that I feel like a paedo just looking at him
Well I won’t spoil the rest for ya. Death Note: The Last Name opens in cinemas today, you all should go watch it!! Take note that it’s a 2 hour 20 mins long movie, remember to pee before you enter the cinema hall and try not to drink too much Coke ya.
p/s: check out who else is in the movie!!!!!
AWESOME BALLZ!!!!!!!!!
Others blogged about it too: KY, Kelvin, Kim
pork chop @ wendy’s bistro
I’ve been waiting for KY to blog about Wendy’s Bistro since forever (at least since we went there), but it doesn’t look as if it’s happening anytime soon. So I blog lor…
Btw good English and grammar tonight tak main.
I was flipping through some magazines when I saw an advertisement of succulent pork chops. Mmmm…. sounds irresistible, so I made a mental note of the restaurant.
Wendy’s Bistro was not difficult to find, it’s in Sunway Mentari, just opposide the famous steamboat or the other. (Will get a link from KY’s blog when I am not so lazy to search)
The first time I was there, it was a wonderful experience. I ordered a starter of portobello with bacon and melted cheese. Honestly I prefer William’s version — Wendy’s was all too mashed up together.
Then there was the pork chop, which I ate 1/3 of before remembering to take photos…
House specialty — pork chop rubbed with salt ‘n pepper, served with black pepper sauce and apple sauce. The sides were mashed potato and side salad.
A few days later 5 of us went back to the restaurant. It was really disappointing, mostly due to the service or lack thereof, KY was mighty pissed about it, FA had gastritis, no one was really happy lah.
Speaking of pork, William said that Anthony Bourdain introduced bak kut teh as a Malay specialty. Noob.
linux fucks up productivity
It’s official. Open source operating systems fuck up your productivity at work. Particularly SuSE, especially SuSE seeing that I use it in the office.
Don’t get me wrong. I like SuSE, I do. It’s fast, it’s stable and with just those two factors, a refreshing break from Window$ (though I use Window$ at home). It took me less than a month to adapt to something other than Window$, it’s pretty okay so far, no major scalps.
Until one day…
SuSE comes with a whole lot of built-in games. I uninstalled most of it because I know I wouldn’t be touching them any time soon. I’m sure they are good games, but I have never been one to play desktop golf.
Then I spotted a cute penguin icon, and proceeded to click on it…
Then I was hooked and as far as my friends are concerned, the rest is history as illustrated in the example below:
Weekend. Phone rings. I pick up.
FA: Yo bitch what’s you up to?
Me: Playing Supertux.
FA: ….. wtf AGAIN?!?!?!??!?
Yes, and it’s so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
Supertux is a 2D game built on the inspiration of Super Mario, one of FAVOURITEST GAMES EVAR! I can’t even begin to describe its awesomeness, so here are a couple of screen shots.
I have the old version at work and I’ve since stopped playing it in the office because…
I HAVE SUPERTUX ON MY PERSONAL LAPTOP
There’s a Window$ version and I installed the latest Supertux (0.3.0), you too can download it here, that is if you haven’t already. It’s awesome!
The past couple of days I’ve had some free time at work, so…
SHISEN-SO is bloody awesome as well!!!!! The Window$ version is sucky as heck, so I uninstalled it from my laptop. But not gonna have much time to play it lah… work is important, you know… 
SuSE is evil and I heart it so much!!!!!
p/s: hi boss I love my job.
how to turn an awful japanese horror movie into a brilliant comedy (2)
Continuing from my previous guide on how to turn an awful japanese horror movie into a brilliant comedy…
Let’s face it — horror movies don’t make much sense. Personally I adore watching horror movies especially with my eyes closed, but as time goes by it seems that the producers/writers/directors don’t make much of an effort anymore. The perception, and rightly so is that Japanese/Korean ghost movies = instant hit. The last two good horror movies I watched were Ju-On (the original Japanese version) and Shutter, the awesome Thai movie. Coming in at third was The Eye. As for the rest, even though I enjoy scaring the crap out of myself, I wish that the people behind the movie would make the extra effort to make me wet my pants. Like Ju-On The Ring, where the girl climbed out of the tv screen and the well. That freaked me out for weeks.
Enough with the thesis. Where was I?
Oh yeah, The Plot. It’s shit. So let’s move on with three things often found in J-horror (or any kinds of pop horror movies) because recycling ideas is the new Britney Spears’ crotch.
1. Cause of Horror
2. Pointless Bits
3. Is This Stupidity?
1. Cause of Horror
Cliché of all cliché — there is a cause for everything, and this is painfully true in every awful Japanese horror movies. Even if the cause is not explained (maybe because they expect you to play the popular video game prior to watching the movie), there is a reason why this and why that. Why do parents dress their daughter’s corpse in red? Why the residents of an apartment block should not go out after 12? Why kok-staring villagers turn to killing machines when the siren is heard?
Sometimes the fallible reason could be as easy as this:
It doesn’t really explain why that turns them into zombies, but there you go.
2. Pointless Bits
Actually this is not limited to J-horror; in fact too many movies have pointless bits in them. Try as you might to seek answers (logical or otherwise) you just can’t solve the mystery of why the director choose to have those scenes in the movie. They are not explained, they don’t give the plot any credit, they just exist to draw your attention from whatever is happening, and sometimes they are in the form of semordnilap!
I don’t understand either.
3. Is This Stupidity?
‘Nuff said.
Forbidden Siren opens in Malaysia cinemas tomorrow. Go watch, if you are so inclined
p/s: exercising my right to mock J-horror does not mean I will stop watching them
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