Red Cliff ll...

I always thought that Red Cliff was a very artsy kind of movie, but tonight I finally knew I was wrong. Simon insisted in watching 'Red Cliff 2' after we went for dinner and I reluctantly agreed because I haven't watch part 1 yet and I wasn't interested in this kind of movies. But, after watching it, I must say it is undeniably a must-watch movie. It'll make you stick to your seat and pay full concentration in the movie because you won't want to miss any of the exciting moments. I especially like the way Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and Zhu Ge Liang/ Hung Ming (Takeshi Kaneshiro) plan to defeat Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) by just following the flow of the wind and other brilliant strategies such as thinking what Cao Cao will do and break his plans and give a twist to make his plans to their full advantage. Lin Zhi Ling's acting was surprisingly good for a model turned Emcee and now actress and she looked gorgeous and full with feminity in the movie. She played the role of Xiao Qiao, Zhou Yu's wife who is gentle, understanding, fragile, tolerant and patient. You can see all of their characteristics if you observe well on what they do and how they think. I also like some scenes from the movie where Xiao Qiao was making tea while Zhou Yu practising with his sword and some scenes during the battles. They were just gorgeous. Every scene was breathtaking. The armies were hit by arrows from the opponents but their strong will keep them alive to finish what they had to do in order to bring back peace and sacrifice for the generals. From my very own point of view, that shows that a good general will sacrifice himself for his armies and armies are willing to sacrifice for him. On the other hand, the bad one will want his armies to sacrifice for him while he stays alive and rule over. I actually learned a lot from this movie, where it was about the 3 kingdoms, although I don't really know much about it, but I believe it was somehow a true story on how China used to think and do all of this great stuffs during war. I was very impressed and I really hope John Woo will keep making more terrific movies like this. After watching this, I really think Malaysia's history is extremely dull and liveless and uninteresting. I think it would be a waste for not watching this movie and I really do suggest people to go and watch it. That's all I got to say. Thumbs up to Red Cliff 2.

[Picture courtesy of China Film Group and Lion Rock Entertainment]

Complaints...

Hmm... I was wondering why no one had commented on my new header. I purposely change it for this new year. Sigh... Anyway, I have a lot to complain in this post because I surely wasn't enjoying myself this Chinese New Year. It was like everyone have to rush back to work or school because we only have two or three days of holidays, and wasn't the same like last time where we can enjoy the whole week. I guess the government are encouraging us to skip classes or school or take leave from work because they only gave us TWO freaking days to enjoy which I didn't enjoy very much. Instead of rushing back to college, I decided to skip a few classes and some were cancelled because students are still in a holiday mood (if that's what the government wants and they should be happy with it).

Last Friday, I came back to Seremban by train and the station were full of people. When the train arrived, everyone ran to it and tried to get in by pushing through the way even when some people were trying to get out. I guess Malaysians will always be Malaysians, without any manners and ignoring all kinds of rules. I wonder if they ever feel ashamed of themselves? But from what I observed that day, the answer will always be NO. The train broke down in Bangi, so, I had to wait for another train there, but the same thing happened and I couldn't get in because there were no place for me even to stand. Therefore, I waited for another train where I successfully got on and reached Seremban safe and soundly although I had to stand in between people who have really bad odour. Once I reached Seremban, again, people were pushing their way through to get in so that they can grab a seat and I had difficulties to go out. Since they were pushing and not caring of others, I made up my mind to go thick skin and pushed my way through to get out and I really felt like screaming at that time.

That very night, my house and the area blacked out for no apparent reason for 3 hours, from 12am to 3am. I couldn't sleep because it was very hot and stuffy and mosquitoes buzzing around me. The next night, a Saturday night, my house blacked out TWICE. How 'romantic'. On Sunday, blacked out again once in the afternoon, and twice at night. I don't really know what is wrong with my area. It's either no water supply or blacked out without any notice and reason. And Sunday was a reunion dinner night for Chinese, my uncles, aunts and cousins were having their reunion dinner at a restaurant called Regent, and they said the restaurant blacked out while having their first dish. It was supposed to be a happy occasion but the mood were gone due to the black out incident. I guess they were still not happy about DAP winning in our area and they wanted to do something to show us BN is the one you should choose if you do not want any problems. I'm not into politics and not standing for either of them. DAP can't do anything since they are not finacially stable and all BN did last time when they were in their glorious days was all talk and no action. So, I don't trust any of those parties. Don't sue me, I have my rights and freedom to speak my mind out.

Alright, that were all I wanted to complain about. Hope someone can REALLY do something about the problems stated above and put an end to them. Thank you.

Happy Ox Year 2009...

A very Happy Ox Year to all Chinese from all over the world. It's the first day of Chinese New Year and may the year of Ox brings good health and fortune to all of you. I have so many things to say but some predicaments had fallen upon me. This year, I don't feel excited at all because I have only two days of holidays, but of course I permitted myself for two more days of break. Then, I can enjoy at least longer with my friends as well as family. For those who havent buy new clothes and living in Seremban, please take my advice and nver buy from a shop called Win Collection in Terminal 1. They are a bunch of copy cats who steal other designs such as Topman, Romp, Samuel & Kevin and so on, and sell them for a price that is not worthy at all. The lady boss will tell you how you should wear them and introduced a lot of styles that she thinks suits you but she is actually manipulating you and make you her live mannequin. Only those who lacks of style and cot confident of themselves would go there and listen to all her nonsense and so called fashion tips and that also makes you not have your own stand on fashion sense and style.

That's all I got to say. A lot of complaints coming up in my new post. Again, wishing all of you a wonderful and prosperous new year. (^.^)

A Smashing Saturday...

A few days without an internet connection were like stranded in an isolated island and there is no other means of communication with the world out there. I don't know why the connection is so bad in Cheras and the technicians from Streamyx were not helping either. They would just simply look through and ask you to wait with patience for the connection to work again. So, I don't see the point in hiring them. We as the consumers paid so much and all we deserve is such poor services and attitude from them. Since every company is under retrenchment, I would suggest Streamyx to retrench them first and hire some really useful and helpful technicians, and of course with better attitude. So, I went to Mc Donalds just to online without ordering anything, and I couldn't find a single plug to charge my battery if it was running out. Later I found the one and only plug in that huge Mc Donalds but someone was using it, so, I had to go home and rot for the rest of the night. Poor me. Sob sob. Why all the bad things are always coming at me? WHYYYY...??? Can someone please tell me? Argh.....

Alright. Enough of complaining and lets see what is the one and only happiest day for me in this week. Went to Sunway Pyramid with Simon and we took our brunch in a chinese restaurant called 3JC (san jian cai). I ordered Noodle Soup with their handmade spinach noodles while Simon ordered Curry Noodles with their ordinary handmade noodle. They are actually very famous for their handmade noodles, and trust me, they are very springy. You'll feel the satisfaction while chewing them and how the soup trickles all your taste buds. I don't usually like to eat my food with chilli, but their sambal is undeniably irresistable and they can just tempt you just by the aroma. We also ordered a plate of snack, that is their Fried Crispy Roll. They were so crispy outside and you could feel the juicy meat in the inside once you bite into them. We also like the environment very much. You could feel the calmness in there if you wanted to take a break for your lunch or dinner after a tedious shopping spree. We left the restaurant after paying with full satisfaction and that brunch only costs us RM 37 plus. I didn't take any photos because I was too hungry and couldn't wait to devour them. Haha.

After lunch, we wandered around in Sunway Pyramid. I missed that place so much because I used to hang out with my SEGi friends over there when we had our free time. The moment Simon drove into the Sunway area, I felt a very complicated feeling over me which I couldn't describe in words. OK. Back to the topic. We were walking around and we couldn't find anything that interest us, so, Simon asked whether I would like to go Mid Valley and I agreed. It took us 2 hours to reach there because the traffics were extremely congested once we reached the Mid Valley area. But we finally and successfully get a parking while many other cars were driving around to look for parking. When we were in there, we didn't really went shopping because the place was full with people and we were kinda out of mood to do anything, but we still decided to walk around. Then not long after, we felt hungry and Simon brought me to a very nice Taiwanese restaurant named 'Din Tai Fung' located in Ground Floor between Mid Valley and The Gardens. It was said to be very famous and also voted by The New York Times as 'Top 10 Restaurants in the World'. The services there were very good and they serve you politely and always with a smile on their face and with full efficiency. We also quite like the environment in there and the food there are really delicious and makes you salivate just by looking at them. Below are some photos I took. Oh... Before looking at them, remember to prepare a bowl or cup just in case if you drool. Haha.

[the Shrimps and pork with fried rice I ordered]

[Simon's crispy chicken chop with fried rice]

[fried green beans with minced pork]

[the hot and spicy dumplings after we ate 4 of them]

Don't they just look delicious? Not only look, but they really are incredibly delicious. It was another satisfying meal for us. The shrimps in my rice were so fresh, the dumpling was hot and spicy but taste great and you can feel the freshness of the shrimps and juicy meat in them, the green beans were crispy and we finished everything leaving the plates with nothing and we can even see our own reflection in them. Hehe. After the exquisite dinner which costs us Rm 75 plus, we went to stroll around and I saw this very large Loreal counter and they are having promotions. I went to look at the Loreal Men Expert counter and a young sales girl approached me and asked if I need any help. I told her I was looking for eye gel. She then asked me whether do I really wanted to buy it and I said yes. She went to a hamper where it was already nicely packed and tore the paper to take the eye gel for me. She said they were out of stock and only those in the hampers were available. I was surprised at first when she tore the hamper's wrapping paper, and I guessed she saw the surprised look on my face and she explained the latter explanation. I felt so guilty and said she will have to rewrap the hamper later again but she said with a sweet smile, 'It's ok. No worries. I'm doing this for customer's satisfaction'. She led me to the counter and said 10% off for the eye gel to the cashier guy and she also gave me some samples for Simon and me.

[Loreal Men Expert - Anti-Fatigue Instant Action Eye Care I bought]

[the samples I got from that sweet sales girl]

I finally got my eye gel after thinking so long on whether should I get them or not. I really think my eye bags are quite heavy. So, just try it out and see how it works. Then, we decided to go home. Simon send me back here in Seremban and he went back to his hometown in Malacca. Poor him for doing all the driving. It must be really exhausting. Well, after coming back home, I unpacked and watched television. It was Battleground's final today and for those who don't know, Battleground is a dance competiton organised by Astro, a satelite television station. I was so happy that ECX won because it was so obvious they were a lot better then the other 2 groups of finalists. I don't think they even need this final to decide who will win because from the very beginning, ECX had outstand all the other contestants. After watching that, here I am, writing this post and chanting all I want. Hehe. Well, that's all for today. Got to take my rest because I was froced to clean up my house tomorrow for welcoming Chinese New Year. See you guys soon. Muaks...

A New Semester...

Yay... The new semester had just begun. I was so excited and full with anticipation in welcoming this new semester. Glad to see my friends again and hanging out with them is always fun, filled with pleasure and entertaining. Without them, my first week and the entire college life will be super dull and lifeless. Thanks to my friends for being there for me. A big hug and kisses to you all.

I had a dance performance last Saturday, that was on the 3rd of January for Che Sim Khor's 48th Anniversary in Chung Hua High School. We, as in the Trendexist, performed 2 songs and they were I'm a Slave 4 U (Wanna Dance on Fire Remix) and Nobody. But the whole thing was kinda messy and embarassing, so, I decided not to upload the videos here and only post a photo which is the only perfect one where we can see our faces clearly because we were posing for a few seconds for the last pose to make sure we were being captured nicely.

[Last pose for the dance]

Alright, back to the college part. My two subjects which I added later were approved. So, I will have classes from Mondays to Fridays. I love the subjects for this new semester because everything were in the field of my interest.

On Tuesday, my class was cancelled, Pauline's class were supposed to be at 4pm, but she decided not to go, and Jeffrey have no classes on Tuesdays. So, we decided to go to Golden Bridge for brunch. It was quite a quality time for us to bond again after the 2 months break. Haha. Then we decided to hang out at my place and continue the bonding session after buying drinks and snacks. They left around 5.30pm, and I was all alone again at home with that sucky internet connection.

Alex is finally back from Australia and he came to look for me on Wednesday. We went to pasar malam and he bought a lot of food and snacks. We chilled a while at my place before going to Mc Donalds to have our supper and Jeffrey joined in later. We were there eating, chit chatting and gossiping for almost an hour before we decided to go home. When we were walking to the car and I could hear Alex screaming and he actually forgot to turn off his head light. He immediately jumped into the car and try to start it, but failed. So, we went to Shell and asked some passerby for a jumper, but none of them seem to have it. Alex called his friend who stayed nearby for help, and within 15 minutes, he was here and helped to jumpstart the car and succeeded. Then he sent me back home before going back to Kajang.

Thursday, our lecturer for Basic Photography did not turn up after waiting for more than half an hour and one of the students went to the office and looked for him and he wasn't in the campus. So, they tried to call him and he actually forgot about the class. Thus, the class was cancelled. We (Pauline, Jeffrey, Seline and me) went for lunch together. Seline left after lunch and the three of us had nothing and couldn't think of anything to do, so, we went to hang out in Giant. Haha. We were looking and walking around but none of us bought anything. After getting tired of walking, we decided to go home.

I missed my Friday's class, that is Introduction to Journalism because I overslept. I couldn't sleep well the night before for no apparent reason. Besides that, nothing much on that day. Went out to dinner with Kid at Oldtown, then, went to his place later at night for supper and went out for a drink before going back home. We came back to Seremban on Saturday morning because he had to settle some things while I just come back for the sake of coming home. Haha.

Well, that concludes everything and I am off to bed now. Toodles. *wink*

My Glamorous Singapore Trip...

First and foremost, I wish everyone who is reading this a Happy and Wonderful New Year. May the year of Ox brings all of you good health and wealth. I've been to Singapore for a whole week, and like the years before, I was still excited to be there. Singapore might look small on the map, but it was full with happening and fun places. I went there on a sunny and hot afternoon of Christmas Eve, and reached my cousins' place around 6pm. All I ever did there was SHOPPING, that's the very main purpose for me to go there. They have great discounts and I just couldn't stop myself. I spent more than SGD 100 plus only in Giordano and got a free lifetime membership. I know Malaysia have Giordano, their designs there were better and suits me more. Then, I bought 3 pairs of shoes, a pair of jeans and some souvenirs for some of my friends. Went to a lot of places to look for the things I wanted, but some were too expensive, doesn't look good on me or out of my size. I feel kinda lazy to snap any photos on what I bought, so, maybe in another post. Hehe. I also had lots of fun with my cousin brother's daughter who is only 15 months, Mei Yi. Although she is very young, but she listens to what we say and very obedient.

[Mei Yi posing for the camera... aww... isn't she cute?]

[laughing happily after drinking Pepsi]

We brought Mei Yi to the Singapore Zoo where they are very famous for their white tigers and got even more well known after a Malaysian worker was mauled to death while feeding them. The zoo was huge and have a lot of rare animals and those you don't get to see everyday. We couldn't even finish seeing everything after walking for 6 hours. Of course those include some performances by the animals there. They really trained them well. In Malaysia, I think we can finish seeing everything within 30 minutes. What a huge difference, huh? below are some photos I took, but I didn't upload everything, or else this will be a very long post.

[The Zoo was filled with people and the que was extremely long]

[Otters]

[some animals that look like warthogs but not warthogs]

[the almighty lion and lionness]

[Mei Yi looking happily at the zebras]

Besides shopping and visiting the zoo, I also quite like the food there. They were really into quality, not only food, but also services. The waiters and waitresses there always serve you with a smile, some might joke with you and play with your baby. Their cheery way of serving really make your day and have your meal happily even though they were only working for some food court, but they give you the 5 star service. Malaysians should really take them as example. The way waiters serve here will make you leave instantly with anger, or lose your appetite.

The only thing I was quite disappointed with is they are not as clean as they were before. I mean the streets. I remember the last time I went. everywhere were sparkling clean, but now, you can see thrashes along some streets. But, I also love their healthy lifestyle. You can see people in all ages jogging everyday in the morning and evening or night either alone or with friends or family. That somehow motivates me to go jogging too. Below is what a conversation will be like if you ask a Singaporean and Malaysian to go jogging.

Sinagaporean: Jogging? Sure. What time?

Malaysian: Huh? Jogging? You want to diet ah? Aiya, no need lah, you so thin liao.

See the difference?

On New Year Eve, we went to my cousin's cousin, Jessie's place to celebrate her daughter's 1st birthday. We had buffet for dinner, chit chat a while, then it was time to blow out the candle and cut the cake. We had to leave early, so, I didn't get the chance to eat that delicious looking ice cream cake. Haha. before leaving, I camwhored a while and saw this amazing staircase for me to do some shooting. So, I dragged Jian Cong, another cousin of my cousin, to snap some photos for me. Hehe.

[me with the party clown hat]

[oops... got caught while camwhoring]

[at the staircase]

[acting drunk and depressed]

[red HOT me... wakaka]

[do you like my shoe or my long leg?]

[me going wild]

[my little photographer who was too shy to show his face]

Then, we went home to pack our belongings, and rest. When the clock strikes at 12am, I could hear some booming sound, so, I went out to look at the fireworks. Although it was quite far from our place, but we could still see them clearly. They were so beautiful and lasted for more than 10 minutes. We could also hear people cheering and shouting Happy New Year to each other. How happening that scene was. After watching TV for a while, we went to sleep.

This morning, we woke up at 7am, and get ourself prepared before going for breakfast. After breakfast, we got our luggage and put them into the car, and took off. I reached home in Seremban around 1pm plus.

Well, that's all about this post. Wish me luck again for this Saturday's performance. Hope you guys enjoy and wish you all a Happy New Year.