Balance

The 2006’s Summer Blockbusters are here!
Movies watched in the past few weeks (in between busy work) are … Mission Impossible 3 (too  much Lost + Alias), Over The Hedge (the funniest animal-animation in the past two years) and X-Men 3:The Last Stand (definitely worth watching if you are a superhero fan).

Movies to look out for in the coming weeks
-Superman Returns
-Pirates of Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
-Cars

Movies missed but will try to watch
-Poseidon
-Da Vinci Code

Most popular B rated movie of the year
-Snakes on a Plane (Official Website)
This movie is actually a B-Rated movie but gained A++ recognition in Internet Advertising. This movie is set to reach the cinemas in August/September.
REASON: The absolute strategy for popularizing a movie is of course, having a silly name as its title and having the team behind the movie promoting the title. It even has it’s own Wikipedia entry.
Snakes on a Plane quickly became an internet phenomenon soon after the movie’s screenwriter, Josh Friedman’s blog started   and mentions on several Internet portals. The title inspired bloggers to create songs, apparel, poster art, pages of fan fiction, parody films, mock movie trailers, and even a poker game.

Jus thought of putting this up. Everyone is looking for something, somehow. What are your dreams?

What a way to start the blog for the week. I thought i was going to blog about work, but what the hell … Strange events has a higher priority and fun to read.

This is my encounter with a Gothic Queen in person. You would have thought that she would be something like this (pic on the left). But it is not what you would have imagined…

Went through the normal end of the day routine … Walked from office to Ampang Park LRT station. Flash travel card and proceed down to the platform. Then came a crazy view. A big sized lady (I assume she is) standing at my usual entry.
- All dressed in black cotton dress. (standard Gothic dress code)
- And towering at about 2m tall. (taller and bigger than me)
- Has a big face (bigger than mine and big for her own self too)
- Had dark coloured makeup (or was she plain scary-looking- not sure, didn’t look at her face long enough to remember. I think I had only about 5 secs glance of her.
-Has long wavy hair. Black with some brown-yellow dye.
- Holding a bible-like book with some Jawi-ish name like Al-Fatiha (or something like that, definitely not Al-Quran coz I would remember the words AL QURAN!)
-Sat right next to me. Tried to take a quick peek at the book but could read any words. (it is in alphabets, not Jawi as I thought it might be) Can’t read any words our of it. Dunno if it’s in English, Bahasa, or other language.
-So freakishly weird that I act as if I’m alone in the train, playing Jawbreaker on my hand phone. (Although I know that everyone in the train is staring at her.)
Acted calm and dashed straight out of the train when it reached Masjid Jamek.

Just another typical day on the LRT …

Salam Sejahtera,
Tuan/Puan,

It was like a trip back to the old days … It doesn’t seemed like it
has been a year ago when we left MMU. This morning me and and a few of
my buddies went back to MMU to check out the Film and Animation final
year presentation. It was fun to see how our juniors has progressed.
It’s good to see improvements from my batch. There were a few parodies
and remakes which made think that "Haven’t I seen this animation
before?" or even "This rendering style looks familiar". And of course … there are a few of exceptional quality and fresh.
Too bad I reached half an hour late and missed about 5 of them. Among them is Julius’s work which everyone claims to be the best. Well, for someone who took the risk to spend more time to finish his fyp, I really salute him. I’ll be looking forward to the compilation DVD when they are done with it.

Another thing that I realised that the juniors have been slacking in organizing the annual FA Nite and FA Showcase. But I sincerely hope that everything will work out fine and successful. It would be a very bad sign if this minor tradition cannot go on… (p/s if any juniors reading this, I hope they are not pissed off, but you guys need to work harder.)

Now that the juniors are graduating, wishing them all "Welcome to The Real World"

Over the weekend, I made it through a last minute leave and went back home to Ipoh. What’s the occasions?
-To celebrate Mother’s Day and my mother’s birthday.
-To escape a chaotic planning for my boss.
-To check out and plan renovations for new house.
-Visit younger brother in National Service Camp.

Mother’s Day/Birthday
Nope. Didn’t do much. Didn’t plan anything either. It was such a last minute call from my brother for a ride back home. I was sleeping the night before and woke up at 3.00am to have my brother told me that he will be going back to Ipoh tomorrow morning and wonder if I would tag along. The next morning, packed my bags, leave for work, took half day off and went back home.

Escape from Chaos
A week of planning a chaotic trip for my boss to India for an Awards Festival. I pray that he faced no problem in his flights, his hotel booking, his other miscellaneous stuff, and etc. So took the leave hoping that no emergency calls and lat minute setbacks which will send me banging on the wall.

New House Renovation
I also got the chance to check out our yet-to-be-numbered house. It is supposed to be a three-room terrace corner house. But we have plans to convert it into a five-room house at the expense of the garden. Hope the plan is approved by the municipal council. Finally I was able to make use of my ‘Lukisan Kejuruteraan’ skills which has gotten me an A2 in SPM, which has been the starting point of ever-moving career path. (FYI - I started with ‘Lukisan Kejuruteraan’, then took up Film and Animation in MMU, then started work as Junior Editor in MFX before I switching to be Asst. Producer/Operations Manager/Multi-tasker at MFX)

National Service Camp visit
On Sunday, my parents and I went on a road trip to Kem Bina Negara at a place called Segari, which I had never heard of until that day. It is situated about 10-20 minutes off Lumut and is about an hour and a half drive from Ipoh. Checked the car’s meter and it is exactly 107.6km from where I leave our car park.
Felt like it was a great plan to instill mental training and other character buiding factors into these kids. It’s good for them to have a feel of what to expect when they get out from the camp. Good thing that it has also changed my brother to a much more understanding/less aggresive person. However, I do felt bad for them as they have to endure 3 months of shitty food. Once in two weeks, they get to have visits from their parents. And the day before these kids will call back to their parents and requests for cakes, KFCs, Pizzas, and of course for the Chinese … some pork. The parents will never object their requests as they knew their kids were having uncook chicken, unwashed vegies, burnt rice, and etc. I’ve never seen adults (well, they can almost be considered as adults …) rush for food like hungry wolves with my own eyes until now. And after every visit, the kids will organize a get together party to share and enjoy each others’ food. The spirit of togetherness …
Hope the kids in the camp will learn much from the camp. Wish them good luck in finishing the term or so-called service.