You're fired

So anugerah cemerlang was a few days ago. SPM leavers with a score of 6A's and above are invited to receive the award, which no one knew what it was at the time. Probaby pewter trophy but no one's betting on it cause during PMR anugerah cemerlang instead of pewter we each got a glass block. In the end it is a pewter trophy. Hooray. I guess.

I'm not going to talk about the ceremony itself. Other than there's a 2-hour difference between Malaysia Standard Time and Malaysians time. It's getting worse. I'm pretty sure in 10 years you can arrive 2 hours later in the exam hall and the test is still yet to begin.

So the day before I bought two shirts at Jusco. Not T-shirts. Shirt shirt. Like guy-who-goes-to-office-9-to-5-job-meeting-proposal-everyday shirt. Full black and dark blue with silver stripes. Formal attire sucks. Except for the pants. I'll take slacks over jeans any day.

Oh then after that we met up with Pn Tan and Pn Tay. Pn Tay's treat to Nando's! Spilled all of the secrets amongst ourselves including who-likes-who, who-cheated-in-exam and other embarassing secrets including a very disturbing one. I kid you not when I say that it's highly disturbing. It should be rated. Like 18-OMG or 18-PUKE.

Which reminded me of after receiving our spm results we yumcha-ed with Pn Lim and Pn Soh. Pn Soh quoted 'Jake will be a good son-in-law'. Haha. Pn Lim's like 'Sarah lah!' Pn Soh went 'Nooooo lahhhhhh....' They really can chat. Anyways thanks for the treat Pn Lim!

We were all dressed up formally. A few of the girls had to change cause they dressed to sexy for the school I guess. Then we started to make fun of each other and commenting on who we look like.

Feminine side of Siang

Left left right

CJ - Company boss/chaffeur who drives a Mercedes-Benz/ Pilot/ Male model for G2000.
Vanessa - Company boss's rich wife.
Siang - Office boy who's always late for work.
Oi Yee - Office lady who's always photostating papers for meetings.
Me - Later someone said I look mysterious, maybe I'm the creepy CEO who kills his secretary.
Yong How - Chow Ming Jack Jr.
Dyi Perng - Boy scout.

It's almost stupid how much fun we had just by talking crap like this. Stupidity is not a factor when it comes to having fun. Oh later we walked in a single line for about 10 minutes in Sutera Mall. That is probably the lamest thing I've ever done in public.

After that we went to have lunch and then sang at Big Mouth. I'm not much of a singer and I barely listen to chinese music. Not exactly the right singing crowd for me but all is fun when done with friends.

He's not Kimberly's son

Wasted some time at Sutera Mall. Walked in a straight line. We kinda looked like jobless people. Especially me I think. With no tie and shirt untucked. Oh I met xiao-J. A magician in our region. Not really famous but quite active. I asked for a card magic demonstration. It was not bad. I shuffled the deck and cut to an ace. Haha hope I fooled him.

Ahh I will miss this.

* 10 years later we'll meet up wearing the same attire. *

Einstein's Titanic

I've been busy looking out and applying for scholarships since my spm results.

It's not as easy as I thought it would be. I have to read the scholarships' eligibility, the bonds, the courses offered, the deadline, and a bunch of miscellaneous.

Nah I won't bore you with this stuff. Even I think it's boring. What to do. It's my future. If I could get a scholarship, my parents could then save the money for my master degree.

Guess I'll be free again in a few days, when all the due date is over. And I still don't have a clear idea of where I'll be going to study.

* Patience is only valid when you have the time *

A thin piece of paper

What you see is what I get

23 March 2011.

You know what it is.

I scored straight As', 7A+ 2A 1A-. I'm one of the 14. And you're damn right I'm a happy and lucky guy.

The day wasn't what I expected. I was thinking in the lines of insane mental breakdowns, tears of joy or sorrow, 200 heartbeats per minute and whatnot. None of that happened. The suspense ended before it could even start.

Alright here's the laydown.

After having breakfast with my friends at Bagan, we headed to school. We could see all the different colours. Well um mainly myriad shades of brown and gold. Oh there's a goldish white too I think. Guess brown is the new black. Which makes me, black, the new red. Which is of course the dopest colour.

Most of my friends and I just wore casual T's, polo, jeans whatever. Didn't really bother to look great. Some of the girls probably spent few hours putting on make up. I didn't had the heart to tell one of them that she did a bad job with the eyeliner. Even I, someone who's most of the time oblivious to make up could notice that they're highly uneven.

It was close to 10am. We were in the hall. Chatting and pretending that none of what was going to happen was going to happen. Then out of nowhere, my friend told me that I scored straight As'. And that there were 14 of us. Says he that Mr Lai posted the news on facebook. Screw mobile facebook for ruining the moment. But of course, I was very very relieved. And awfully glad.

After some time I was told by Jerermy that I've scored 7A+. I was stunned, shocked, flabbergasted. My jaws literally dropped. In my mind I was like 'For-real-no-joke-serious-really-sure? Please let this be real. Oh damn. Oh god. I'M AWESOME. ' I superseded my own expectations, which is straights A's with 4 or 5A+ tops. Sure a few others scored better than me but hey, I did my best and I have no regrets. I'm not being proud but I'm honestly proud of myself. If that made any sense at all.

So when our names were called up on stage, there was no moment of truth. I received my result slip with a big sigh of relief. Then we took photos and had to write some stuff about our inspirations and secrets. I don't know why people believe that there's a secret for success, especially in my case. Anyway, the thing is I didn't bother to look at my results as at the time I was so contented knowing that I scored straights. Just walking around congratulating others and shaking hands.

Only after my friend asked me 'Hey which subjects did you get A+ for?' I noticed what my actual grades are for each subjects. A's for bm and moral. A- for chinese. Others A+. Scoring A- for chinese and 1119 1A were no doubt the biggest and pleasantest surprise. You have no idea how important is luck to me. I don't know how or why it happened. But I'm damn glad it did. PHEW.

So it's 14 of us. Amin, Qayum, Cheng Yin, Jia En, Yong How, Yi Yong, Cui Ling, Nishanti, Afiq, Hui Gi, Ci Jyue, Vanessa, Oi Yee and I. Shoutout to Amin for scoring straight A+!!!!! Sick to the max!!!!!! I salute you bro. You'll have a great future. Our school's first straight A+ student, our year's pride and legacy.

Ah other than the good news, there were unfortunately quite a few of my friends who missed straights for one subject. Most of their results got stained by a B or B+ for chinese or bio. 1 A+ for chinese, cy. 4A+ for bio, amin oiyee chengyin and I. Oh and we're the first four in smksp to score A+ in bio. Yeap, last year there was none. I'm just jotting this down so I remember 10 years from now.

Straight As' or not. I genuinely believe that we gave it our best shot and therefore we all deserve a pat on the shoulder. Going all out means no regrets. And that my friends is all that matters. At the end of the day, it's just a piece of paper. Life is so much more than that. Move on, walk hard and live strong.

* Ohhh yea we've broken another record cause that's how we roll baby!!! *

Chill out loud

I'm up. I'm up. I'm up.

Went to bed about 2.45am I think.

It's around 7.45am now.

Feeling fine. Not tired at all.

Good news. No sorethroat after the steamboat.

Hm what do I wear.

Jeans and T's should do fine.

Like I said. I only freak out 10 minutes before.

I feel nothing now.

Awkwardly calm.

*Gotta get some tunage before I start my day*

1000 hours

SO. THIS. IS. IT.

Tomorrow. Actually today. In just a few hours. I'll be in the school hall. Receiving my SPM results. Let's get it on.

Regarding my results I honestly haven't got much confidence in scoring straight As'. There is a chance of course but I would say I may need to push my luck a bit to get there. Before this, I've written a prediction of my results on a piece of post-it-note.

MM A+
MT A+
FZ A
KM A+
BIO A
BM A-
BI A
BC B+
SJ A
PM A-

Written on 17 Feb 2011. Hopefully they are not worse than this. But whatever it is, I'm ready for it. I've done my best so just bring it on.

Regarding on how I feel right now. Actually I don't feel nervous, nor freaked out, nor scared, nor happy, nor excited. Though my heart is pounding at an awkwardly moderate pace. Slightly faster and harder than normal. But definitely less than that when I was really nervous. I'm telling you I'm the kind who freaks out at the very last minute. 10 minutes before the results I say would be about right. Like this.

30 minutes before : Bored
25 minutes before : *Yawns*
20 minutes before : Meh.
15 minutes before : Hmm..
10 minutes before : HOLY SHIT

Anyways I had steamboat today with my buddies. Jeremy, Weiqing, Huiqi, Siang, Dyiperng, Woonann, Oiyee, Beh and Jake. Awesome awesome fun. Just chatting all the way. Not a second spent worrying about tomorrow. Thanks guy.

Ahh tomorrow the smoke will clear. For now. All I focus on is to WAKE UP on time. Though it doesn't make a slight difference. Not like my results' going to change or anything. I just want to be there. Feel the moment. The thrill is everything. I love adrenaline.

1.30 am. Better catch some sleep. Gotta get up early to have breakfast with the guys tomorrow.

*Taking a group photo before and after the results is just ingenious.*

Less pretty. Less odd.

WARNING: The following post may cause boredom, drowsiness, lost of interest in my blog and other side effects if you're not a fan of Panic's music. However if you are, lo and behold.

Vices & Virtues

So a few days ago someone uploaded on Youtube all 10 songs from Panic! At The Disco's latest album, Vices & Virtues. Needless to say I was extremely excited. Within minutes I got them downloaded and synced into my ipod. Later that night I listened to each of them carefully to enjoy the new material they came up with after the split.

Because I'm such a nice person I uploaded all of them for you. If you're a girl, you'll probably like Always. And if you're into mainstream music, you'll like The Ballad Of Mona Lisa, Hurricane, Memories and Ready To Go. Finally if you have the same taste as I do, you'll find Sarah Smiles and Nearly Witches very interesting and clever songs.

Here's what I think. (The tracks are in the order as they are in the actual album. Give them time to stream)



The Ballad of Mona Lisa

This track was released a few months ago followed by its music video. Hm I would say this is a very strong opening for the album and definitely established the sound of this album. The use of synthesiser resembles their first album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. (Pretty. Odd. does not use the synthesiser at all). Took a while for it to grow on me.



Let's Kill Tonight

Very heavy use of the synthesiser. Catchy verse. A tinge of halloweenish feel. Overall not bad. Still not loving it. I wonder if the title has anything to do with The Young Veins' Die Tonight.



Hurricane

The drum intro has the feel of But It's Better If You Do. Verse is slightly messy. I like the chorus. The 'You'll dance to anything' line is a brilliant idea. The kind where the audience will chant along like in Hey Jude the nanana part.



Memories

Title too cliche. Fine song. But the whole thing sounds a bit too mainstream, especially the oh-oh-oh part. For that fact I don't really like this.



Trade Mistakes

Violin intro is perfect. A break from the sound (or sometime noise) of the synthesiser. Verse instantly reminded me of Viva La Vida. The chorus. Oh god I think it's quite bad. A very awkward and out-of-idea song in my opinion. Worst song of the album.



Ready To Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind)

Very similar feel to Memories. The whole song is just too cliche and mainstream. Not my cup of tea. I got quite disappointed at this point.



Always

The odd one out. An accoustic song. I knew they'll have something like this. And it's exactly what this album needs. To break the momentum of the whole theme. To tell the audience 'We're more than a rock band! ' And I appreciate this song very much. Great showcase of Brendon's superb vocals. Short and sweet.



The Calendar

A very weird intro. The verse is okay. Builds up to the chorus. Which is umm.. is fine I guess. Not in love with it. This is the kind of song where you don't really like but you don't hate it of course. Just another song. And I kinda got tired of the loud chorus.



Sarah Smiles

A song dedicated to Brendon's girlfriend. I think her name is Sarah. Interesting accordion intro. A very different approach compared to the rest of the album. I love the verse and the build up towards the chorus. Slightly The Hush Sound and Pretty. Odd-ish. The chorus is good as well. Bridge is just okay. Overall my favourite song of the album. Love is powerful tool when it comes to composing beautiful music.



Nearly Witches (Demo)

This demo was released a few years ago. I loved it. Very burlesque-ish. It's only the verse but I think it's amazing. With the strings and stuff. Ryan wrote the lyrics. Very brilliant stuff. I had high expectations for this.



Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...)

Final song of the album. Full version of the demo. The french choir intro was wonderful. The verse I had to say I like the demo better. And the lyrics were changed. I personally think Ryan's sounded way better. The chorus slowed down and that didn't quite hit the spot. I was so looking foward to a fast paced chorus. The ending was a great way to wrap up the album. Choir singing 'Mona Lisa pleased to please ya'. Lyrics from the first song of course. Kinda reminds me of All You Need Is You by The Beatles where there were two lines of 'She loves you ya ya ya' towards he end. The perfect last song.


So that's all 10 songs. I did not include the bonus tracks though. Haven't got hold of all of them. Still, overall I wasn't too happy with the album. Mainly because most of the songs sound alike. Some were exceptionally well done while a few to me were disasters. That's what happens when Ryan's not in the game.

And they've definitely gone slightly towards the mainstream. Which can be a dangerous thing to do. Mainstream music has the widest fanbase. Some artists can't afford to lose that so they write songs in favour of their fans and audiences. That is being untrue to their music on some levels. Though I'm not worried about that. Panic still sound very different from all the bands that I know of.

The most disappointing part of the album is the song structures. Almost all of them went verse > chorus > 2nd verse > chorus > bridge > chorus. Come on, where's the unorthodox and somewhat free style like in Build God Then We'll Talk and The Piano Knows Something I Don't Know. And I'm kinda sick of the loud and mildly shouting chorus. Most of the chorus sounded alike. I miss the odd titles!

And it's not entirely true to say that they went back to their old style in Fever. Other than the slight overuse of the synthesiser, you can definitely hear some Pretty. Odd. in it too. So honestly it's actually a new style rather than old. Something closer to Fever, but again is vastly different in many ways. They pretty much adopted this direction of music since New Perspetive.

I give it an overall rating of 6.8 over 10.

I miss Ryan. Panic would be doing so much better with him in the band. But oh well, creative difference. Music is what they live for. And they did what's best for them. Though not necessarily the greatest thing for us, but still I appreciate their music.

* You totally deserve an award if you read the whole thing*

End of the line?

The hot topic for the past week is none other than the disaster that struck Japan. Earthquake, tsunami, now nuclear radiations. Lives are lost, thousands are missing, families are broken, all hopes are lost for many of them.

It started off with an earthquake east of Japan. A magnitude of 8.9 on the richter scale. It's like in the top 5 of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. Japan is prone to earthquake. I heard it's about 200 earthquakes on an average day. So naturally the buildings are made quakeproof. As scary as this megathrust may sound, it's the tsunami afterwards that bombed everyone off guard.

I saw the pictures and footages of it on youtube. It was literally what I saw in the movie 2012. Breathtaking in the utmost negative way. I felt chills in my bones when I saw this. Believe it.





Then a few days after nuclear plant exploded. Massive radiation outbreak. To what extent the radiations are harmful I'm not sure. But everyone in Japan pretty much freaked out. Tokyo instantly became a ghost town. Japan's economy took a dip. Everything, everything is messed up.

It's almost like God saying 'Alright Japan time's up for you. Go earthquake. What? Didn't work? Okay launch the tsunami. Hm still job undone? Radiations you're up! ' You get what I mean. And I'm telling you some weird disease is gonna pop up due to the radiation. Mutations this and that. Seriously the world is in crisis. This is scary.

And look at us now. We're all doing fine. Our country is located so bloody damn strategic that none of the earthquake or tsunami hit us. At least not for now. And for that shouldn't we all be thankful? Shouldn't we all be grateful for every second we live in this world? Now look at those who complaint that they don't have a good enough phone. Those who think their world is ending because they don't do well in school. And of course people who get fed up because of losing a game in dota. At some point aren't we all like that? (except the dota part)

Do realise that any moment at all, even now, now, now, or now, we could all die. The earth could explode. Your ceiling fan could fall and rip your head off. Your computer might electrocute you to death. It's a blessing to be alive. And if we really recognize that we shouldn't be taking life for granted.

This is a wake up call for you and I. I know it's impossible to worry about nothing and just be thankful for being healthy and alive. But let's try to always keep that thinking in mind. It's scary to say that we should live as if every moment is our last. I would go crazy like that. But the least we can do is to do good, love people, and basically just not take life for granted.

For now, all we can do is make donations and pray for the safety of the people in Japan. Hopefully we don't need more disasters like this to remind us of how lucky we are.

*And that is why I think Final Destination is one of the most meaningful movies of all time*

Forget about the pictures

I used to hate jogging.

It's repititive. Nothing exciting or exhilarating. No thinking. No teamwork. No adrenaline. Just moving your foot in front of the other in a moderately fast pace. What's the fun of it?

A while ago I jogged with my friends. I had them to jog with. So it was okay. The chat and laughter made it worth while. I'm still no big fan of the exercise. It is so boring that even the malay language didn't bother to invent a word for it.



I used to hate jogging alone.

The idea of it sickens me. The word 'alone' scares me. All you can hear is the sound of your panting and footsteps. No one to talk to other than yourself. Having to constantly be careful of running into bad people. Can't listen to my ipod cause I don't want sweat to go into my earplugs.



I jogged alone today.

Wasn't sure why. Could've rode the bicycle if I wanted to exercise. I had to get out of my system for a bit. My perception towards jogging alone did not change, my angle did.

Maybe the absence of a partner was what I needed. Some timeout for myself. Air, space and silence were my bestfriends.

Maybe the absence of thought was what I needed. To think. To ponder. To sort out some stuff.

Maybe the absence of adrenaline was what I needed. To slow down. To relax. To notice the little things.

Maybe the absence of fun was what I needed. To be more serious. To be more prudent. To be more mature.

* No one can change who I am. Except for me. *

Trough

Times when you feel that there's no point to utter a single word to the world or anyone in it as no one understands and no one tries to.

Times when you just sit alone being the invisible soul wondering when will people ever notice what's going through your mind.

Times when you would rather look at cards and computers than anyone's face at all because even though they don't speak they listen.

Times when you know this isn't being emo and it's perfectly adequate to feel this way on one of those days that come by once in a while.

Times when you indulge and hang around in the dark clouds to feel with your heart everything it is so when the sun comes out everything will seem better in contrast.

Times when you make no sense and it's better to just go.

* Space is always necessary *

I want the space pen

If they're idiots, what are we?

I watched this yesterday. A hidustan comedy film recommended by Filzah and Amin. Before this I had never heard of this movie before. At first I didn't really feel positive about this one. Cause it's 2 hour 44 minutes long. It has an absolutely inspiring movie title. And no offence but I'm more interested in watching a movie than a musical in a language that I'll probably never understand.

Guess what. I'm wrong. Dead wrong. This movie is totally brilliant. It's hillarious. It's sad. It's touching. It's pure awesome. The thing about close-to-three-hours-long movies is that people tend to fall asleep. I remembered how I nearly dozed off watching Avatar. And I heard King Kong's pretty much the same. But this. This movie pulled it off marvelously. The plot is just genius. Every second was equally exciting than the one before and gets you looking foward to the next. It didn't feel slow and draggy. Like Russell Peter said how the Indians would say it, this is mind blasting. MIND BLASTING.

The whole thing is more or less a flashback. Three friends met up in an engineering college. Farhan. Raju. and Rancho. Rancho was this badass genius student who questioned everything about everything in the school. He challenged the education system, the lecturers' teaching method, the students' attitude etc. Somewhat rude and disrespectful but undeniably makes a good and correct point. He's very passionate about machines and engineering. Excelled at it of course.

Farhan and Raju are the other two idiots. Very close and loyal friends. Not as smart as Rancho. Things happen and they get into trouble. Too many. Pissed off the dean multiple times. Raju couldn't take the pressure and tried to kill himself but failed. Farhan and Raju stuck with him. And there was Chatur, the only actual idiot in the movie. Studymaniac who's a exam machine. Knows nothing but to score by all means. Like distributing risqué magazine to other students during the exam season. No you don't get to see porn. And there's a girl. P... something whom Rancho liked. Loved. Who's also the dean's daughter. They helped delivering a baby. And the baby went from dead to life.

Then they graduated. Raju got a job. Farhan became a photographer. The dean's moustache got shaved during his 7.5 minutes nap. After many years they tried to locate Rancho who wasn't Rancho but Phunsukh Wangdu or something. And that girls' wedding got hijacked so they could bring her and Rancho, uhh Wangdu back together. Basically, it's a perfect ending. No one in the movie died.

The jokes in the movie are clever. Wasn't cliche. Very funny and humourous. Acting wise I wouldn't say it's too good but it was not bad at all. The scene that got my laughing the hardest was the part where Rancho faked a police officer and pranked Chatur on phone. I almost teared when Raju said sorry to Rancho for taking his dying father to the hospital on a scooter.

It's a very unique film. Not going to say it's the funniest or the best. But it definitely kept me interested throughout the 2 hours 44 minutes. I didn't fall asleep. I would have to say the plot is the most brilliant part. Kudos to the writer.

The problem I had with this film is that the ending is too perfect. Way too flawless. They were all well and alive. Rancho and the girl got back together. It ended in laughter and the image of the blue blue sky. That was rather predictable. I think it would've more impact if in the end Rancho died or something. But hey, it's nice to see happy endings once in a while.

And of course the dance scene. It wasn't like a musical where they dance to part of the song. No. In this film it was the whole song. From start to end. A good three four minutes. That I think was a bit unecessary. Though I would say the director is incredibly understanding if it was meant to be a toilet break. I mean if they had to make a soundtrack music video, they would just have cut out that part of the movie. Luckily there were only two or three.

Other than that, I really think this is a wonderful film. Worth it. A lot fun to watch. Try it. Definitely.

8/10

* My second hisdustan film, after Slumdog Millionaire *

Stop salivating on me will you

She's out of your league

My baby cousin Avril turned 1 yesterday! Well actually not exactly. She was born on chu yi of March last year so according to the chinese calendar it is her lunar birthday. Her actual birthday is on 16 March. Though her family didn't have time to come over so instead we celebrated yesterday.

My grandma did her thing and whipped up an awesome lunch for all of us. I baked her a cake. Didn't wanna take unnecessary risk so I baked another oreo cheesecake. My third. They all liked it quite a bit. Kept on comparing it with price of Secret Recipe's. Aunty-ness.

Grandma told me I picked the pen

So this. Um I'm not exactly sure what this is. But it's basically a chinese tradition where the baby chooses and picks up the items which supposingly represent her future. Slowly but surely. Baby Avril touched the abacus first, then she picked up the angpau, followed by the pen. Funny how she loves food so much but touched none of them.

Guess that means that uhh maybe she's good at financial planning, lots of wealth, and stuff like that. I don't even know what she gets to pick three. The tradition modernised perhaps. Top 3 choices policy? Haha. And no offence but it's all untrue. Just for the fun of it I guess. I mean my grandma told me last time I picked the pen but I'm obviously about cards now. That cannot be explained.

And I mean if you really wanna make it believable. Then the choices should include drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, knife, dice, poker chips and all that. To see maybe she'll become a drug addict, suicidal, gambler etc. Oh well, people see only what they want to see. At least this little tradition doesn't require cost nor burning paper and polluting the air.

Avril gets cuter everytime I see her. I don't know how is that possible. Happy Lunar Birthday Avril!

* Mess with her and she bites *

I am number two

Hung out with Vanessa, Weiqing, Weiming, Woonann and Siang. We met up and had lunch. Funny how most of the time we can't decide where to eat at Jusco Tebrau City and end up dining at the 欢... something something. This is my third or fourth time there. I had cheese baked rice with fish fillet. Scrumptuous. I'll order the same thing next time.

Then went on to watch I AM NUMBER FOUR. First time in my life while buying the movie tickets the computer malfunctioned. Long story short, our tickets didn't match our seats.

*Sighing while shaking my head in disappointment*

Honestly I didn't really want to watch it. I wanted to go for 127 hours but it wasn't until 3pm so we hadn't much of a choice. The minute I saw the trailer I had a bad feeling about this one. I was right. Damn right I was.

The first half of the movie depicts a guy who's an alien from whatever planet who happens to look just like a human hiding and staying in different places because some mogobardiaswhateverians are trying to kill him. He was obviously number four. 1 2 3 were killed. No idea why the aliens would want to kill them in order. He moved to this town where he fell in love with this girl knowing that those hunters are moving up on him. What an understanding alien right.

Then they battle those aliens with gills. Bla bla bla. Blue light was shooting out of his hands which by the way works fine as a torch light. It's totally hillarious how the bad guys have cool red laser guns while the good guys had a parang with blue light at the end. Which does nothing at all except making them highly visible in the dark. Easy for the baddies to aim and shoot I guess. And the girl just runs around looking pretty.

Then they bumped into number six. Who's this badass girl who's way more powerful than guy number four here. She's fireproof. So they killed some aliens. Left the girl he loved. Oh yea his dog morphed into a chimera by the way. Went on to find 5 7 8 9. The end.

It was totally lame. The narrator just told the story. ' I am from blablabla.. earth is my new home blablabla.. that's the way it's going to stay blablabla. ' This movie has no depth. No excitement value. No production value. Acting were mediocre. Sometimes when you know the story isn't great but still you expect to see some awesome fighting and action scenes right. The battle scenes in this one is just so-so. Overall. I think it was a fail. Too cliche. Nothing new.

The only consolation is that there's a sequel to it. Something to do with number seven I think. And a sequel totally makes sense. Cause this one has no start has no end. It's just like reading the middle 100 pages of the whole novel. Hope the sequel will be better.

1/10.

Ah anyway. Somehow we chose to take the bus home. Which meant going to sentosa > pelangi > cs > then home. Which also meant more than one hour of standing and feeling nauseas due do the driver's crap driving skill. He totally abused the brake pedal.

We were too free and at the same time stupid. Oh Weiqing almost got pickpocketed. She felt the guy touching her handphone. Oh god. I was shocked and amazed at the same time. Sad to say today I just found out Vanessa's purse got lost. Could be the same guy. Hm wish you luck van.

And for my midnight movie. I watched LET ME IN.

Best vampire movie

A romantic horror movie released last year. Starring Chloe Moretz from 500 Days of Summer and Kickass. And Kodi Smit-McPhee. An Aussie child star. This I have to say is by far the best vampire movie I've seen. Twilight? Move over.

It's about a vampire child and a human child falling in love. And the guardian of the vampire kid kills to get blood to feed her. One day he got busted and poured acid into his face so the police coudn't recognize him and track down the girl. And the girl continued to kill to survive and his boyfriend, the human kid didn't run away from her. They stayed together and the girl helped him to fight, or rather kill the bullies. Then he helped her to leave.

Well, the plot was rather simple but I really really liked it.

It's really romantic in my opinion. The horror and romance blends perfectly. Bloody amazing. Bloody. And amazing. Well this was actually a remake of the the Swedish movie Let The Right One In. Still, I think this definitely has no crappy-second-remake feel. It's in a class of its own. Compared to I AM NUMBER FOUR (not that I care what number you are, you're not gonna die anyway cause you are the lead and no lead dies in cliche movies), this is maybe about 100 times better.

Chloe's going to be big when she grows up. Take my word for that. Hm it's funny that this is great movie but I haven't got much to say about it. Speechless perhaps? Nah I'm never speechless. Well it's a movie worth watching. Do check it out.


8.5/10

* One of the best and one of the worst *

Khai Xiang bakes cookies

Only now I get what you mean

In the mood to blog. So here I am.

I baked cookies the other day. First try. So I wasn't expecting much. All I wished for was 'please don't let it turn out too crappy so at least I won't have to down all of it alone. ' That'd be sad.

Compared to baking a cake the steps are slightly simpler. Though I had a few problems understanding the recipe.

Two step. Two step. Two step.

Salted or unsalted butter?
How much butter?
Do I melt the butter?
Do other cereal work?
Is it cereal or cereals? (Sign of deviation of attention)
How much is 20g to 30g?
How many eggs?
Do I need to use baking paper?
Temperature?
Do I let it cool inside or take it out?

After a simple briefing by the cookie master's assistance herself, I finally half understood what the idea was. Ah who cares. Just do it. It took just a while. And I baked it at uhh... dang I forgot the temperature.

Reminder : Ask again.

I chose not to make it any shape in specific. Reason being that if I made it look nice. There'll be expectation. And with that comes disappointment. Great strategy right. Not.

You know who am I I am

So I honoured my cookies to my friends. They were in the middle of an exam I think. If they wanted to skip the test they could always feign diarrhoea and use this as an excuse. Seemed perfectly reasonable.

Verdict :

Taste okay.
Too thin.
Not that good I think.

Ah well. Can't be good at first tries. I'll bake somemore if I'm in the mood.

* Cake over cookies anytime of anyday of any week of any year *