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Monday, February 26, 2007
Muse concert, Malaysia, 25th February 2007
Can't express just how much I loved it. If I have any complaints, it's that by the time I decided to get tickets there were no more standing seats. Would have been a lot more fun compared to sitting down with people who didn't seem to want to stand up to scream and shit. Damn.
Oh, and Significant Other nearly got rammed into by a car. He jumped out of the way half a second before the car rammed into the car parked behind us. That was fucking scary.
Oh, and Significant Other nearly got rammed into by a car. He jumped out of the way half a second before the car rammed into the car parked behind us. That was fucking scary.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
The Philanderer's Daughter
Significant Other: ...so my cousin was watching Superman Returns, and she said "Brandon Routh is SO HOT!"
Me: Your cousin?
Significant Other: Yeah. You know, the one whose idiot father keeps a mistress.
Me: Oh. That one. Hmmm...
Significant Other: Hmm?
Me: The philanderer's daughter.
Significant Other: Err, yeah, I suppose you could say she's the daughter of a philanderer.
Me: Lol! It sounds like a title of a book. The Philanderer's Daughter.
Significant Other: Omg haha! Yeah, it does. In fact, it sounds like one of those books you can find from Penguin's classics.
Me: Yeah, it sounds like a classic! Kinda like Wild Swans.....or The Joyluck Club.
Significant Other: Someone needs to write a book with that title.
Me: I so need to blog about this.
Me: Your cousin?
Significant Other: Yeah. You know, the one whose idiot father keeps a mistress.
Me: Oh. That one. Hmmm...
Significant Other: Hmm?
Me: The philanderer's daughter.
Significant Other: Err, yeah, I suppose you could say she's the daughter of a philanderer.
Me: Lol! It sounds like a title of a book. The Philanderer's Daughter.
Significant Other: Omg haha! Yeah, it does. In fact, it sounds like one of those books you can find from Penguin's classics.
Me: Yeah, it sounds like a classic! Kinda like Wild Swans.....or The Joyluck Club.
Significant Other: Someone needs to write a book with that title.
Me: I so need to blog about this.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Beware the Lvl 99 Death Stare
***WARNING: POSSIBLE MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK***
When I first saw the trailer for Ghost Rider, I had prayed that the movie would be at least decent. Unfortunately, if you've checked Rotten Tomatoes lately, you'll see that it got panned by critics. Which is predictable considering the man directed Daredevil, for god's sake. Anyway, I went to watch the movie last night. It wasn't SO bad. After all, I didn't start laughing until I left the cinema.
I'm no big fan of Nicholas Cage, but I thought he made a pretty decent Ghost Rider. The movie plodded along at a pretty decent pace too, with the necessary background details, love interest, etc, unravelling as expected.
And then he turned into Ghost Rider and the movie literally went to hell.
Sure, the bike was pretty cool, and the flaming CGI? Pretty hot. Ghost Rider himself seemed ok (to me, anyway, I'm haven't really read much of the comics so it's not like I have the right to complain), right up to the point where he started moving. He moved like a ROBOT (hello, Robocop?). You'd think that skeletons would have more joints. It's as if the people in charge of CGI got lazy and decided to animate him with a grand total of FIVE joints, two for his arms, two for his legs, and his head.
Also worthy of mention is how Ghost Rider reminds me of an action figure. Imagine for instance, you had an action figure as a kid (the kind with a button or flip of sorts at the back which allows the action figure to do something):
*press button 1* GRRAWWRRR!!!!
*press button 2* Ha Ha Ha Ha (lame evil cackle)
*press button 3* Swings chain around body
*press button 4* Points finger at you, before saying "YOU!!!!....GUILTY"
*press button 5* Grabs you and says "STARE INTO MY EYES AND FEEL THE PAIN YOU HAVE UNLEASHED UNTO INNOCENTS" or something like that, before unleashing his Lvl. 99 Death Stare, dealing 9,999,999 damage unto evildoers.
Sigh.
Surprisingly though, for all that Ghost Rider could have been, I did learn something new at the end of the movie. Ghost Rider took out the main four villains (who incidentally looked like extras off the set of The Matrix) over a span of three days - one each on the first two days, then the last two on the third, which is pretty well planned out, if you ask me. I guess a villain a day keeps the doctor away, and even bounty hunters from hell have a quota to make. Gasp, who knew?
When I first saw the trailer for Ghost Rider, I had prayed that the movie would be at least decent. Unfortunately, if you've checked Rotten Tomatoes lately, you'll see that it got panned by critics. Which is predictable considering the man directed Daredevil, for god's sake. Anyway, I went to watch the movie last night. It wasn't SO bad. After all, I didn't start laughing until I left the cinema.
I'm no big fan of Nicholas Cage, but I thought he made a pretty decent Ghost Rider. The movie plodded along at a pretty decent pace too, with the necessary background details, love interest, etc, unravelling as expected.
And then he turned into Ghost Rider and the movie literally went to hell.
Sure, the bike was pretty cool, and the flaming CGI? Pretty hot. Ghost Rider himself seemed ok (to me, anyway, I'm haven't really read much of the comics so it's not like I have the right to complain), right up to the point where he started moving. He moved like a ROBOT (hello, Robocop?). You'd think that skeletons would have more joints. It's as if the people in charge of CGI got lazy and decided to animate him with a grand total of FIVE joints, two for his arms, two for his legs, and his head.
Also worthy of mention is how Ghost Rider reminds me of an action figure. Imagine for instance, you had an action figure as a kid (the kind with a button or flip of sorts at the back which allows the action figure to do something):
*press button 1* GRRAWWRRR!!!!
*press button 2* Ha Ha Ha Ha (lame evil cackle)
*press button 3* Swings chain around body
*press button 4* Points finger at you, before saying "YOU!!!!....GUILTY"
*press button 5* Grabs you and says "STARE INTO MY EYES AND FEEL THE PAIN YOU HAVE UNLEASHED UNTO INNOCENTS" or something like that, before unleashing his Lvl. 99 Death Stare, dealing 9,999,999 damage unto evildoers.
Sigh.
Surprisingly though, for all that Ghost Rider could have been, I did learn something new at the end of the movie. Ghost Rider took out the main four villains (who incidentally looked like extras off the set of The Matrix) over a span of three days - one each on the first two days, then the last two on the third, which is pretty well planned out, if you ask me. I guess a villain a day keeps the doctor away, and even bounty hunters from hell have a quota to make. Gasp, who knew?
Friday, February 09, 2007
Back to basics
Games have been a part of my life for about as long as I can remember. My siblings & I were lucky to be blessed with many consoles and computer upgrades during our childhood, ranging from the early EGA computers and NES to the newer Pentium machines and Playstation console. Since electronic devices have always been left up to my elder brother, who knew a lot more than I ever did about them, I was never picky about which console I preferred or whether I preferred console gaming or computer gaming, because to me I had all that I needed right there.
And then, of course, my brother left for studies overseas. Which left all the game-buying and computer upgrading up to me, the sheltered little girl who never made any decisions because she never had to. Well, ok, so I exaggerated. But I did learn a lot more about the machines that I was using to play my beloved games, and through that learning process I started developing hardware preferences. Intel over AMD. GeForce over Radeon. And of course, Sony (Playstation) over Microsoft (Xbox)/Nintendo/SEGA.
Although my early childhood was spent on the Nintendo and SEGA consoles, the arrival of Sony's Playstation had changed everything. Through the Playstation and Playstation 2, I have never owned another console by a rival. Xbox? Pfft. Gamecube? Pfft. SEGA? RIP. Even when the new handheld consoles, the Nintendo DS and PSP were announced, I did not need to question where my allegiance lay - with the PSP. I couldn't afford one, of course, but incidentally my dad bought one, and I bought the Katamari Damacy game for it, and I was happy.
And then something strange happened. A single lone voice called out to me from the darkness...
...and I fell in love. Well, how could I not fall in love? Look at the cavity inducing website. SO ADORABLE. And then I found out that they remade Final Fantasy 3 for the Nintendo DS. GASP. And they re-released Final Fantasy 6 Advance for the GBA (which you can play with the DS). DOUBLE GASP.
So yeah, I guess I'll be getting one of these:
$. Goddammit. Then again, I miss Mario Kart very much. And Bomberman. And a bunch of other classic Nintendo games. So I guess it'll be worth the plunge.
And then, of course, my brother left for studies overseas. Which left all the game-buying and computer upgrading up to me, the sheltered little girl who never made any decisions because she never had to. Well, ok, so I exaggerated. But I did learn a lot more about the machines that I was using to play my beloved games, and through that learning process I started developing hardware preferences. Intel over AMD. GeForce over Radeon. And of course, Sony (Playstation) over Microsoft (Xbox)/Nintendo/SEGA.
Although my early childhood was spent on the Nintendo and SEGA consoles, the arrival of Sony's Playstation had changed everything. Through the Playstation and Playstation 2, I have never owned another console by a rival. Xbox? Pfft. Gamecube? Pfft. SEGA? RIP. Even when the new handheld consoles, the Nintendo DS and PSP were announced, I did not need to question where my allegiance lay - with the PSP. I couldn't afford one, of course, but incidentally my dad bought one, and I bought the Katamari Damacy game for it, and I was happy.
And then something strange happened. A single lone voice called out to me from the darkness...
...and I fell in love. Well, how could I not fall in love? Look at the cavity inducing website. SO ADORABLE. And then I found out that they remade Final Fantasy 3 for the Nintendo DS. GASP. And they re-released Final Fantasy 6 Advance for the GBA (which you can play with the DS). DOUBLE GASP.
So yeah, I guess I'll be getting one of these:
$. Goddammit. Then again, I miss Mario Kart very much. And Bomberman. And a bunch of other classic Nintendo games. So I guess it'll be worth the plunge.