Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Movie Surfing (March)

I apologised that I've missed February, it was Chinese New Year, I was in the mood for that rather than.. blogging XD
Well, there will be a few movies up soon by 4th of March, so this is considered quite late for me to post about the movies.

Let's see for some highlights..
Well, I'll start with the movie that mostly everyone has been waiting for, especially the ladies..

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

 

  

 



Nice posters huh? *smile*

Starring :
Johnny Depp
Mia Wasikowska
Anne Hathaway
Helena Bonham Carter
Crispin Glover
Michael Sheen
Stephen Fry

17-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. She runs off, following the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) into a hole and ends up in Wonderland, a place she visited in a similar manner 10 years before, yet doesn't remember. Wonderland was a peaceful kingdom until the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) overthrew her sister, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway). The creatures of Wonderland, such as the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas) and the March Hare (Noah Taylor), ready to revolt, wait for Alice to help them. With the help of the White Queen, the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), Alice starts seeing flashbacks of her original visit, back when she was seven.

(source : gsc.com.my)
 
I've been doing a little comparison and it seems that certain plot says that Alice is 19 instead of 17, what a controversy. I couldn't conclude this but to place my trust on the handy Wiki, hehe.. So, Wiki says that Alice is 19, so she's 19 to me, settled.. *silence*


Just can't wait for the premiere, it's in 3D!!
Well, this is shorter than Avatar quite a lot, haha.. It's just 1h 42 min, so you don't have to hold your pants for so long before you get to finish the movie to go to the loo.
This movie should be good since this movie is directed by Tim Burton, ring any bells?
He directs many well known movies. His recent ones are 9, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride and Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.
 Man, only the Red Queen gets a size increase by three times, I wanted to see the White Queen(Anne Hathaway) the same way too, it would be hilarious! *laughs*


By the way, the main theme song of this movie will be Alice by .... AVRIL LAVIGNE!!


And here's her song :

Here are some of the pictures I found..





Enough of Alice and her Wonderland, moving on to a more action packed movie..
People, you are hearing about this movie quite often on the radio..

SOLOMON KANE




Starring :
James Purefoy
Max Von Sydow
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Peter Postlethwaite
Kane (James Purefoy) is a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting in Africa, but after an encounter with a demon, The Reaper (Ian Whyte), he realises he must seek redemption or have his soul damned to Hell. He returns to England and lives a life of peace, converting to puritanism, but soon the doings of an evil sorcerer upset his plans and he must take up arms again

(source: Cinema Online)

This movie came from a comic. And it's part of Marvel!! Who doesn't love Spiderman and Ironman!?
I'm crazy about them! *high*
It was released on the 23rd of Dec 2009 in France, imagine how slow we are to view this on the 4th of March.. *sighs*


Somehow, this movie reminds me of V for Vendetta. Not only that, the outfit looks so much like Van Helsing's style, copy? *shuts mouth*
Based on imdb.com, it has a 6.7 rating out of 10. Commentators wrote that this movie is bloody, as in raining with blood XD
However, take note that this movie is a bit of a fantasy, it has swords and magic.
The setting of his movie dates back to 17th Century in England, looks interesting.
By the way, the movie lengths to 1h 44min, normal *smile*
Some say that this movie will have a sequel too, I want to watch this!!

Screenies :





The next movie has many beautiful known actresses.. And they are mostly award winners, wow~

NINE
 
Starring :
Daniel Day-Lewis
Marion Cotillard
Stacy Ann Ferguson
Penélope Cruz
Judi Dench
Kate Hudson
Nicole Kidman
Sophia Loren

Nine tells the story of Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a world famous film director as he confronts an epic mid-life crisis with both creative and personal problems. He must balance the many women of his life, including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie) and his mother (Sophia Loren)

(source : imdb)

This movie is a musical-romantic film. I downloaded the movie last month, and I got the clear version (you can't blame me because the movie was released on the 25th Dec 2009 in USA). However, I still haven't watch it yet, waiting for my parents requests *smile*
Trust me, it isn't like Phantom of the Opera, I know that many are not fans of musical movies like that. I can asure one thing, their outfits are sexy! Storyline is interesting as well, we're talking about a man handling nine women, amazing huh?
This is a must watch, very interesting! It's only 1h 58min, not long, haha~

Screenshots :





Well, that's all for now, I'm in a rush to go out, once again *smile*
I'll update more again when I'm free, blogging a post takes me hours, not really sure why *laughs*
Hope you guys enjoy this review, do visit again for other upcoming posts.
See ya readers! *winks*

Monday, March 1, 2010

Sunday With Friends & Family

Well, it was very last minute actually, I woke up at around 8 in the morning.
Did my routines; check for mobile updates, reply posts in my FB wall and check for new movies in cinemas. Then, I asked Koo, Lum, Andrew, Goh, Patrick, and Chua for a movie outing. Was feeling so lazy at that time, didn't manage to call others.

I planned to watch with them..


THE BOOK OF ELI!!!

Koo and Lum said ok, yipee!
But Lum had no transport, so I had to fetch him to-and-fro, sigh..

LUM CHAN KHIEN, YOU OWE ME COUNTLESS RIDES, YOU'RE GONNA FETCH ME NEXT TIME, BE IT WHETHER WE'RE AT KL OR KUANTAN, MUAHAHAHA! XD

Chua said ok too since he said he didn't join us for quite some time already. Andrew, Goh and Patrick were still in their slumber, my goodness, these sleeping 'beauties' must be waiting for a kiss to wake them up *zips mouth*

Me and Lum arrived early at 2pm and bought tickets, luckily we have nice seats *smile*
Movie begins at 2.35pm, so we went to find Jin Jin to accompany her, it's her break time.
We decided to eat at Noodle Station since we couldn't think of anywhere else to eat. Seriously, we who work at ECM have no idea at all of where to eat, we tried everything there already! *frust*
When we looked at the menu, Lum ordered Honey Lemon Juice while Jin Jin ordered fried rice (unsure). I ordered 'I Love You Lemonade', haha!!
Man, I used to remember the times when me, Koo and Chua had our meals there, the waiter said out the order's name when he served them to us. It was so so funny *laughs*

However, they didn't do that anymore, wasted my RM3.50 and I wasn't entertained. *sob*
Jin Jin asked us whether we're goin for tonight's event at TC for Chap Goh Mei as she had asked Ah Boy, Chua and the rest to join. I sadly turned down the offer, it's family day, had to spend time with family at night.
We talked about laptops as well, she intends to buy one soon. *feeling geeky*

Koo called when he arrived at GSC entrance, so me and Lum rushed there after paying the bills.
When we reached, I called Chua since he's nowhere to be seen. Who knows, he was standing behind a pillar near the snacks section, LOL~

I can conclude that the movie involves a lot of dialogue, Lum told me that he almost felt asleep and he kept teasing me that I said this movie was an action movie. Sorry sorry, I seriously didn't know! *feeling bad*
At least, there were a lot of violent scenes that made him go 'woo!' =x

Movie ended and Chua had to go back, he wants to save money, he must have went out a lot, haha.
So, it was just us three guys, we decided to go to KFC before we go back.
All of us ordered snack plates and we our chicken meal was so small!
Wings and drumstick only, unfair!
Lum wanted breast! =x
Not bothering that, we ate and talked a lot about the past, it was nice to talk about it, I loved it *smile*

After that, we went to Carrefour since mum sms-ed me to buy shredded mozzarella cheese. In conjunction to that, Koo also thought of buying Tropicana Twister. He has this MOST of the TIME after dinner, that's what he told us. On the other hand, I felt so 'ulu' because I don't know what that drink was *laughs*
As we were looking for that drink, we saw Yinn Jeng!!
JENG JENG JENG!!
She was working there as a promoter of Nespray, haha!!
I envy her, she gets RM75 a day, I only get RM45 for 9 hours of working *sob*

As soon as we got what we wanted, we paid and left the mall. I fetched Lum home and went back home. Mom was sleeping and didn't prepare pizza as she said that she would *laughs*
Feeling free, I logged in to facebook to reply posts and update my status. At the same time, I was doing maintenance to my mum's lappy since it was becoming slower. My girl was still at KL that time, she haven't reply my messages and she was suffering from fever *worried*

By 8pm, we went to Cherating Steak House and I ordered my fav' Rahmschnitzel Champignon!
Enjoyed the meal but I didn't like the idea that my dad told me to off my phone during dinner *zips mouth*
After dinner, went home ASAP for a movie!
We watched Ninja Assassin!



Wow, I was surprised to see so much gore and violence in this movie. Furthermore, Rain was in this movie, didn't know that he could get so violent *shocked*
Anyway, the movie was quite nice, enjoyed it *smile*
I loved the Kyoketsu Shoge, the weapon is so so cool!!


As the movie ended around 11pm, my girl reached Kuantan already and asked me to sleep too. I obeyed and went to sleep. Missed her so much while she was in KL, I still couldn't help whining like a kid in the sms, silly me *laughs*

The next time will be a karaoke session I suppose, careful friends, I'm going to call you guys out for our first karaoke session! *evil grin*
I can't wait to see Patrick sing, don't know why! And Goh too, Lum wanted him to sing so much, haha! *laugh*

Monday, February 22, 2010

Nokia's BIG surprise?

WARNING, THIS IS ANOTHER LONG POST!

As most of us phone maniacs know, Nokia has not been releasing flagship phones for quite some time that could really amaze us. Well, this is the year, mates *smile*
Nokia is planning something big to compete against iPhone and the rising OS, Google Android. You guys should have a look at Android 2.0 and 2.1 interface, it looks so breath-taking *zips mouth*

Anyway, what I have known so far, Nokia announced a new cool feature called Mobile Radar.
That basically means that you can measure an object's distance and speed, offering the chance to tell how fast a car is travelling.

 


Nokia also offered free navigation with Nokia Ovi Maps, how cool is that?
We can use it anytime without paying a single cent, so no worries!
No more getting lost! Love it!
Here's a funny video regarding the free service.

Based on official announcements, Qualcomm joined Nokia not long ago. And that is a very very great co-op to produce a very fast mobile, I can't imagine what Nokia would be able to do with a powerful processor by Qualcomm known as Snapdragon, wow!!
Snapdragon processor is a very popular platform and is used in phones like Toshiba TG01 smartphone, HTC HD2, Nexus One, SE Xperia X10 and HTC Desire. This processor boasts a speed of 1GHz for now. That is so so fast for a mobile phone, imagine a mobile phone being lagg-free, that would solve our miseries *laughs*
Recently, Qualcomm created a chip that uses 2 CPU cores that run up to 1.5GHz and would be expected to be in use by mobile devices by 2nd half of 2010 *excited*

Anyway, Nokia has set new series for the releases of their products.
Say goodbye to XpressMusic and Classic Series because we won't be seeing them anymore, as claimed by them.

Series :
C - lower end voiced-based
X - focus on entertainment, music for a young target
E - dedicated to business, solutions for e-mails
N - high-end
S - very upscale and limited editions

Some known and rumoured releases are C3, C5, C6, X10, N920, N87/VASCO and N98

Here are some of the C5 pictures that I found.




 

The C5 is just a basic business phone with GPS. Packs a 3.2 mp camera, very simple phone actually. This phone is expected to be released by June, not in Malaysia of course.

And this is the rumoured N98 




Looks so much like N97, except that it's in green now. Not my type *faces away*

There's another rumoured phone called N87 or with the code name VASCO that might be released.

Lets see whats the VASCO has:

World’s First HD Mobile Computer with 12MP Carl Zeiss optics

Social Internet all in one view
Be always up-to date what’s going on in your web communities: Social Phonebook combines OVI & 3rd Party Social networks all in one view
•Dolby Digital Plus surround sound with compatible home theather systems. With up to 5.1 channels of premium-quality surround sound

Capture HD quality video with 720p resolution at 30 frames per second.
•12 megapixel AF camera with Carl Zeiss optics with xenon flash and mechanical shutter ensure sharp images even in low light conditions or fast moving objects

•Stereo FM radio (87.5-108MHz/76-90MHz),
•FM transmitter

GAMES
•Dedicated graphics processor with accelerated OpenGL 2.0 to enable impressive 3D Games
•Java games

•Dolby Digital Plus surround sound with compatible home theather systems. With up to 5.1 channels of premium-quality surround sound

•Flash lite 4.0 support enabling usage of major web video services available in the internet

Dimensions
Volume: 86 cc
Weight: 135 g
Length: 113.5 mm
Width (max): 59 mm
Thickness (max) 12.9 mm

•Form factor: Touch screen monoblock
•Protocols: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
•Display: 3.5” OLED, capacitive touch screen, widescreen 16:9 nHD with (640*360 pixels) 16M colors
•Processor speed: 680MHz
•Connectors: HDMI, 3.5 mm AV connector, micro USB interface to PC, uSD slot, 2mm DC jack
•USB 2.0 High Speed,
•Memory: 256MB RAM, 512 ROM
•User Memory: 140 MB internal

Looks superb, right? Very powerful camera and video recorder but I'm just worried about the phone's performance, 680MHz wouldn't be enough to support these features, the phone might be slow, gosh. They better implement the Snapdragon, on the double!

This is another rumour, and many claimed that it's fake, it's Nokia X10. Don't get confused with SE's Xperia X10, they are different.

Here are the specs :

  • Slider with QWERTY keyboard
  • Multiple homescreens with auto rotation
  • 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU
  • 3.2” AMOLED capacitive touchscreen
  • 32/16GB internal storage
  • 256 MB of RAM
  • HSDPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS
  • 5 mpx camera with LED flash


Lastly, Nokia released a new operating system named Symbian ^3.
It is really impressive, as in the controls and all. However, the interface doesn't seem as attractive as Google Android's operating system. Personal opinion and preferences.

Here's some of Symbian^3 snapshots





  
 


I watched this video and it's when I thought that Symbian ^3 improved a lot from their previous interface. Thumbs up!!


I guess that's all I'm excited about Nokia *laughs*
They have released a booklet too, but I'm more into Alienware.
I pray that Nokia releases many great and quality phones so that Nokia will never fail to surprise and impress us users, I'm looking forward to what Nokia will do this year. *getting hype*
Hope you enjoy the post, especially Nokia fans!

Friday, February 12, 2010

Busy for CNY!!

People, it will be a very busy week for me, so I'm going to stop blogging momentarily until CNY is over. Since Valentine and CNY is on the same day, that doubles my work, thus I'll be busier. And now that I'm having a part time job which is a 9 hour daily job, make it triple.

Sorry guys, I will update ASAP once all these are over.. I wish you all Chinese New Year in advance and also a great Valentine's Day for you lovely couples out there, have fun!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I Was Late...Again..

Man, morning was such a rush.. as usual.. But..
I woke up at 9.30am today, OMG!!
By 9.36am, I received a sms from my supervisor asking me why I have not reached Quiksilver yet *nervous*

At first, I thought my work begins at 10am since my shift was 10am-9pm, I seriously didn't know that I had to reach there by 9.30am to do cleaning as well. So I just calmly replied : 'I 10am today la.'

Her next reply was quite fierce, I think. Maybe I'm just sensitive. She said that it's considered as morning shift and that I had to come by 9.30am. She then said that this isn't my 1st day of work and that I should know this.
I felt so embarassed and sorry, so I rushed my way to work with a quick bath and not being able to have my breakfast *sad*

As I arrived, quickly put my stuffs at the store, then do the cleaning. Wiped the glass panels to remove the fingerprints and etc, swept Quiksilver while Kak Lin swept the other half at Roxy's. *grateful*
I spent most of the time using the steamer to iron the new apparels which arrived not long ago. At least, that kept me occupied till it's break time!

Today's break was something that I was looking forward to, going to market to eat!
Since my girl couldn't join me since she was in noon shift, I went to 'tapao' instead. I became the delivery boy too, I 'tapao-ed' for the crew members too as they were craving for 'tau-fu-fah'. Worse of all, I had to do it alone *sob*
Well, I hurriedly left ECM, find a nice parking spot at the market, and do my 'shopping'.
Bought 5 packets of 'tau-fu-fah', keropok lekor, pisang goreng, 'chee-chong-fun', and leong cha. I tell you, my hands were full!
Time was envy, only left with 25 minutes, RUSH!!
When I reached back to ECM, only 15 minutes left, I had to eat my 'chee-cheong-fun' and 'tau-fu-fah' very fast. I bought my babe the same thing too and left her some of my leong cha so she won't get heaty *smile*

After break time, I was back to ironing the clothes and serving the customers. Foong Xin also talked to me about Annual Dinner, man I missed that! It must have been so so fun to meet everyone who works in Quiksilver and Roxy Malaysia!
The best part was that the event was held at Grand Millenium! (correct me if I'm wrong)

My babe had her break with her friends, I hoped she enjoyed her meal that I tapao for her from the market. She works at Levi's by the way, you can check her out there *smile*

Night time, it was near to 9pm, met this customer who really made me laugh, LOL!

Me : Hi welcome!

Customer walks towards jeans section and observe the jeans..


Me : Setiap jeans Quiksilver ader RM88 rebate
Customer : Ya kah? Baik-baik..

Customer eye-ing on the straight cut jeans called Matador..
Customer's friend just standing there doing nothing but carrying his shopping bag.

Customer : Ader saiz 33 ker?


Me checking for sizes..

Me : Sorry ya, tak der saiz 33, biasanya saiz seluar sini ader 30,32,34 dan 36 jer.

Customer : Adui, saya saiz 32 jer sebenarnya. I nak saiz 33 kerana saya perasan saiz Quiksilver, dia kecil sikit.

Me : Oh I see.. Apa kata awak cuba saiz 34 dulu? Ambil saiz 32 sekali, tengok yang mana lebih sesuai bagi awak.

Customer : Ah, tapi saya saiz 32 jer, mana boleh 34?

Me : Kan awak kata saiz Quiksilver kecil sikit bagi u? Mungkin saiz 34 boleh la.

Customer's friend laughs, made me laugh too.

Me showing customer the way to the fitting room. Customer's friend holds customer's shopping bag for him.
Customer tries on the jeans and comes out.

Customer : Ketat la..

Me : Maner 1 ketat? 32?

Customer : Bukan, 34..

Customer's friend and I burst out laughing!

Me : Dah, tadi awak kata awak sebenarnya saiz 32, naper pulak saiz 34 tak leh?

Customer : Bukanlah, bahagian kaki ketat..

Customer pulls the shirt and showed tummy..
Customer's friend and I still laughing.

Customer : Mereka kata lepas lama pakai, selepas cuci, semakin ketat.
Me : Semakin lama u pakai, semakin longgar, ok la tu. Ni masih baru lagi, kira stok baru ni.


Me feeling awkward because customer and me have different sources.

Customer : Ya kah? Saya pernah beli ni, sama jer. Cutting dan model sama jer. Jadi, ini bukan baru sangat.

Me : Kalau macam tu, apa kata awak ambil yang lain? Takkan nak beli yang sama?


Customer : Saya nak yang ni jugak. Jeans yang saya beli tu, tailor saya buat sampai tak ngam, rosak dah.

Customer's friend and me burst out laughing again!
Customer's friend teased customer.


Customer : Macam ni, saya kena cari jalan la, tengok perut ni.

Three of us laughing!

Customer : Ok la, boleh la ni.


Goes back to fitting room to change to his outfit.

Man, it was seriously funny. First, he said that he is just of size 32, but when he tried on size 34, he still think it's tight, LOL!!
I really enjoyed the last minutes of work before we end business hours. I worked till 10pm instead, love it there with customers around *smile*
At the same time, I wanted to see my girl after her work too, so I just work to past time.
Before closing time, Nik and I recalled the past as she said that I like working at Quiksilver. Well, it's true that I like working there, we helped with the renovation and I had wonderful memories there. They are all good to me and I like the crew a lot *smile* 


She didn't see me when she left Levi's *sob*
She headed to the entrance immediately without even looking anywhere else.
I blame that on myself for not telling her that I'll be there. I didn't even call her name out, I just see her going to the entrance. Oh well, at least she's safe, that was one of the few reasons I was there for.


That ends my day, it's normal but at least I enjoyed doing 'shopping' at the market and I had nice customers that made me laugh today, LOL!!


Night people!
Sorry for the long post~ *zips mouth*

Sunday, February 7, 2010

New Album Release By SNSD!

Well, it was released on the 28th January 2010, still is new okay?
(blames ownself for being outdated)
It's their 2nd album called 'Oh!'.

Details about the group :

Girl's Generation is a South-Korean group consisting of nine girl members. This group was formed by SM Entertainment in 2007. Commonly, there are referred as SNSD, the acronym of the group's Korean name So Nyeo Shi Dae or So Nyuh Shi Dae.
The group members are Yoona, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Taeyeon, Jessica and Sunny. These girl's are in the age range of 19-21 years old only, cool *smile*

So, here's the tracklist and downloads! Just click on the name of the song in the tracklist to download, it's free!
Happy downloading!



  1. Oh!
  2. Show! Show! Show!
  3. 뻔 & Fun (Sweet Talking Baby)
  4. 영원히 너와 꿈꾸고 싶다 (Forever)
  5. 웃자 (Be Happy)
  6. 화성인 바이러스 (Boys & Girls) (feat. Key of SHINee)
  7. 카라멜 커피 (Talk To Me) (Jessica and Tiffany)
  8. 별별별 (☆★☆)
  9. 무조건 해피엔딩 (Stick Wit U)
10. 좋은 일만 생각하기 (Day By Day)
11. Gee
12. 소원을 말해봐 (Genie)

Total size of whole album : 100MB

And here are some of their pictures, I know many guys like Andrew Ang who likes SNSD, haha! Not surprising, they are pretty after all XD
So, here are the 'appetizers'!










Their MV, 'Oh!'

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Laziness

Apologies for not blogging recently, I've been tired from work, thus making me lazy to blog *zips mouth*
I know that it isn't excusable, I'll make it up to you readers, sorry..

I shall blog soon!
I will fix my previous posts as well since there were many drafts in my blog that I failed to post, haha..
Not forgetting the updates too, I'm feeling so left out and need to catch up with the latest stuffs!

See ya people, I'm off to work again!
I hope there's a lot of customer today, it'd be fun *smile*


Yam cha going on tonight after work, wee!!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

QS Undergoing Facelift!

On the 25th, there were some workers coming in to Quiksilver to install the new wallpapers. And so, before they started their work, I managed to snap a few shots
of the shop for memories sake. I missed out a few parts though *regret*
There were no changes done for almost 2 years already. At last, they decided to do it this year! *delightful*

Before












The work was completed a day after that which is on the 26th.
I'm happy that Quiksilver now has a new 'look'. With these changes, I won't feel so monotonous about the surroundings, at least it feels new now *smile*

After








Voila! 
Love the new wallpapers? Or still prefer the old ones? *smile*