Sien le...

Sometimes you just couldn't help feeling like "you're left with nothing". Yes, this is especially true when you are left all alone, and you know that you couldn't help being alone, you don't like to be alone and craps like that. With all of my friends being "unavailable" when I'm "available", this feeling got stronger and stronger. Well with some who are starting to get real serious in their studies and couldn't bother to hang out anymore, some who are busy with their jobs, some who wouldn't find or contact you anymore when they know that you're useless in their pursuit of higher-standard-of-well-being, and some others who are busy with like-I-know whatever business, and yes this is what I call "true friends"; up to a point that they are nothing more than your "friends". And mind you, friends are different from brothers.

Am I pissed? No, frankly and honestly, no. Because I was like that too. Nah forget about it, let's talk about what I did yesterday when I was alone, truly alone this time.

I went to Mid Valley Megamall, alone; and watched two movies, alone; and took a walk, alone; took a meal, alone. I wanted to watch something that is lighthearted and funny. I couldn't find any other better movies than The Game Plan and Alvin & The Chipmunks which, I hoped, might bring me some laughters.







And if you believe me and take my advice, I'd say you wouldn't regret missing The Game Plan (now you hear me, you do want to "miss" it don't you?), obviously this movie was taken as a comedy but seriously it failed to implant any sort of laughter in me at all; okay maybe a "comedy" with certain message and moral value craps. Overall, it's boring. I mean, at least it bored me.

Having disappointed by the first movie, I proceeded to the next movie, Alvin and The Chipmunks. I wanted to watch this movie for long but just couldn't find the right time and companion, so I got the ticket without second thought. And guess what, they rock!

I love it especially when Alvin and his gang (Simon and Theodore) started to sing, I love those parts. And I'm considering getting its OST as well. I don't have much to say about this movie, just watch it and you will understand. Thumbs up overall.


I feel like going back to my real home and sleep till I'm dead (=_=) Pathetically sien~

I just love Japanese songs

NOTE: Adult contents warning, proceed at your own risk.




A big thanks to Supa-V for sharing this great music video, and thanks Yang Guo for your Streamyx connection.

Astro :: Making YOUR Life Richer (has nothing to do with me please)

Warning: Long post ahead.

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Okay... Not that I'm not aware of the changes Astro has made to its channel numbers but... Not until yesterday night that I felt how chaotic it is, for me at the very least.

Skip this: -

RTM 1

- Formerly 1
- Now 101

RTM 2
- Formerly 2
- Now 102

TV3
- Formerly 3
- Now 103

Astro Ria
- Formerly 4
- Now 104

Arab Radio & TV Variety (ART)
- Formerly 5
- Now 111

Astro Vaanavil
- Formerly 6
- Now 201

NTV 7
- Formerly 7
- Now 107

Astro Prima
- Formerly 8
- Now 105

Astro ARUNA
- Formerly 9
- Now 121

Hallmark Channel
- Formerly 10
- Now 702

Discovery Travel & Living
- Formerly 11
- Now 707

Bloomberg Television
- Formerly 12
- Now 519

NHK World
- Formerly 13
- Now 963

TVIQ
- Formerly 14
- Now 552

Astro@15
- Formerly 15
- Now 109

Astro HITZ.TV
- Formerly 16
- Now 705

AXN
- Formerly 17
- Now 701

8 TV
- Formerly 18
- Now 708

Astro AEC
- Formerly 19
- Now 301

Al Jazeera English
- Formerly 20
- Now 513

Zee
- Formerly 21
- Now 108

TV 9
- Formerly 22
- Now 119

Astro KIRANA
- Formerly 23
- Now 122

Astro Ceria
- Formerly 24
- Now 611

Animax
- Formerly 25
- Now 715

BBC Entertainment
- Formerly 26
- Now 731

ETTV Asia
- Formerly 27
- Now 316

CCTV 4
- Formerly 28
- Now 334

WaTV
- Formerly 29
- Now 315

Astro Wah Lai Toi
- Formerly 30
- Now 311

TVBS Asia
- Formerly 31
- Now 317

Phoenix Chinese Channel
- Formerly 32
- Now 312

TVB 8
- Formerly 33
- Now 313

TVB Xing He
- Formerly 34
- Now 314

Jia Yu Channel
- Formerly 35
- Now 304

Astro On Demand Drama Barker
- Formerly 36
- Now 302

Phoenix InfoNews Channel
- Formerly 37
- Now 323

Shuang Xing
- Formerly 38
- Now 324

Celestial Movies
- Formerly 39
- Now 322

HBO
- Formerly 40
- Now 411

Cinemax
- Formerly 41
- Now 412

STAR Movies
- Formerly 42
- Now 413

Astro BoxOffice Movies
- Formerly 48
- Now 951

Astro BoxOffice Movies
- Formerly 49
- Now 952

Discovery Channel
- Formerly 50
- Now 551

Animal Planet
- Formerly 51
- Now 556

National Geographic Channel
- Formerly 52
- Now 553

Discovery Science
- Formerly 53
- Now 554

The History Channel
- Formerly 54
- Now 555

Nickelodeon
- Formerly 60
- Now 612

Disney Channel
- Formerly 61
- Now 615

Cartoon Network
- Formerly 62
- Now 616

Playhouse Disney Channel
- Formerly 63
- Now 613

STAR World
- Formerly 70
- Now 711

MTV
- Formerly 71
- Now 713

Channel [V]
- Formerly 72
- Now 714

Sun TV
- Formerly 73
- Now 211

Astro Vellithirai
- Formerly 74
- Now 202

Sun Music
- Formerly 75
- Now 212

E!
- Formerly 76
- Now 712

Discovery Home & Health
- Formerly 77
- Now 733

Discovery Real Time
- Formerly 78
- Now 734

Crime & Investigation Network
- Formerly 79
- Now 732

Astro Supersport
- Formerly 80
- Now 811

ESPN
- Formerly 81
- Now 812

STAR Sports
- Formerly 82
- Now 813

Golf Channel
- Formerly 83
- Now 815

Eurosport
- Formerly 84
- Now 814

Astro BoxOffice Sports
- Formerly 88
- Now 954

Astro BoxOffice Events
- Formerly 89
- Now 953

CNN
- Formerly 90
- Now 511

CNBC Asia
- Formerly 91
- Now 518

The News Channel
- Formerly 92
- Now 514

BBC World
- Formerly 93
- Now 512

CCTV9
- Formerly 94
- Now 501

17 Digital Radio Channels
- Formerly 101-117
- Now 852-868

astro@play
- Formerly 200
- Now 882

ITV
- Formerly 800
- Now 881

Astro Stocklink
- Formerly 888
- Now 888

Astro OASIS
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 106

Astro On Demand Movie Barker
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 110

Astro AWANI
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 123

Chutti TV
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 213

Makkal TV
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 203

KBS World
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 303

Astro Xiao Tai Yang
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 325

Astro HUA HEE DAI
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 333

Asian Food Channel
- Formerly *NONE*
- Now 703

Christ... 109 of them... 99 changes... and Astro expect us to "get use to" these flashy new 99 numbers...

Why? Okay let's put it this way. I seldom watch TV, but not that I'm blur about every happenings regarding TVs and channels, in this case, Astro. At first glance I thought this changes is made up by some freaking geniuses at the Astro HQ and "it is suppose to make our life easier".

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Heck, not only we "press more" now (three digits instead of the usual two), not only our buttons and remote controller wears out faster (...), not only has it increases the "risk"/probability that we'd input wrong channel numbers because of the increased digits, not only our precious AA batteries wear out faster because of the increased digits we have to input and the increased mistakes we'd make that we have to press again and again (bla bla bla), IN FACT I don't mind all these! IF, the changes made would have benefit the users "in some way".

In the olden days when we first got our brand new Astro I could get use to the controlling schemes pretty quickly, in fact I've "mastered" Astro even faster than my dad. I knew thoroughly every features in Astro and I was managed to tweak in-and-out of Astro, from Channel Guide to Info to Menu... (hey it was pretty fascinating for a kid with the age of 9 to do just that yea), sometimes even my dad had to ask me for help.

But guess what I get now? The moment I got my hands on the remote controller I started to feel like I was a total idiot or some outdated "oyaji", for I didn't know what to press on the controller for the very first time of my life =_=. First I wanted to watch Wah Lai Toi, and of course I didn't get what I wanted for the first try. Then I tried Animax, and it was no where to be found (despite the fact that I didn't want to resort to the "ok" button and the Channel Guide database, I wanted a pure input of numbers with the controller)!

Gross... At last I gave up and decided to have a look at the brochure (the photos I enclosed above). And to my farting surprise I found no reason for the authority to have actually reorganized the channel numbers cause although it makes sense, but it confuses me more than it convinces me that they have made the right decision (don't know about you guys, but for me, certainly).

Using my "Extraordinary-Inaccurate-Induction-Ability" a.k.a. "EIIA~!", I have broken down the channel categories into X groups based on their "profound reinvention": -

1

- For unspecified and unknown and I-don't-want-to-know reasons Astro has assigned the value "1" for all Malaysian-based channels, such as RTMs and ntv7 all those. Was it that they accepted bribe from Mr. Patriot or they were trying to "flatter" Malaysian or whether they were showing their patriotism, you wouldn't want to know.

2

- The only changes Astro made onto its channel displacement that I LOVE is this. Astro has WISELY collected all Tamil channels under one number, "2". This is good for me as I would just have to avoid pressing it in any cases for I won't bump into any of these ever again. BUT THEN, why would they choose "2", please la get a worse number la, "2" is too good for this =.= (no offense to Indians).

3

- The evilish number, the number that once conquered Malaysian Chinese for years. This number has been assigned to all of the Chinese channels.

4

- The first number that is assigned not based on languages, the number "4" has been assigned to all movie channels. Why "4"? Beats me.

5

- Things starting to get messy here. At first glance this number is obviously chosen for all of the news channels but why the fart I get Discovery Channel, TVIQ, National Geographic, Discovery Science, The History Channel, and Animal Planet here!!?? Shall I call this a collection of news channels or documentary channels? I'll never know.

6

- All kids channels are here, simple and clean.

7

- Another bizarre mix-match of channels. I have given up on thinking for a "category" for this collection of channels after cycling through "Entertainment" and "Documentary" because I just couldn't find a clear similarity among those channels. What do you get when you cross AXN with Discovery Travel and Living and MTV with Crime & Investigation channel??? "Nasi Campur" channels I'd say.

8

- Sports lovers' lucky number. But beware not to bump into Radio channels, Game channel, and the Astro Stocklink channel as they are all preceded with this number too. Which explains why this is another poorly organized rubbish collection...

9

- The last on the list... And the number that puzzles me most. I couldn't get a farting idea what is this number for as I could only see "ABO" everywhere (which stands for Astro Box Office, with various content categories, including Movies, Events, and Sports). But just the moment before I wanted to assign a group name "ABO" for this number... I saw NHK World (a Japanese channel) on the list... Almost immediately I bit my thumb off, sucked my own toe, scratched my head into a bloody pool of question marks, screamed myself to heaven, and declared this groupd a "ABC" instead of the "ABO", they are Air Batu Campur for Christ's sake!!!

When I had a go-through on what has actually gone wrong approaching to the end of the list (when things are getting "disasterrific" as the number increases), I suddenly realized the answer. Why is this happening? Why are the channels which are not supposingly in the same group/category with others are grouped together? This is simply because we human has only created 10 Roman numbers, from 0 to 9. And it doesn't make sense if any of the channel starts with a "0" so Astro has been chopped down to 9 numbers as their choices. In this case they have only managed to group channels into 9 and any further in-depth grouping would require the users to input 4-digits channel numbers. What does that sound to you? It sure sounds like "fart" to me =_=. And this explains why the channels grouping was getting bizzare approaching the last number on the list, hope you get what I mean.

So after all the crapping, the conclusion? They should have stick to their 2-digits system, that's what I think. At the very least, I don't like it, the "evolutionary system". How about you?

On second thought, if I were to group channel numbers, I'd put like, "8" for the so-called "Entertainment News Channels" (ahem, I call them the Gossipers Channels), "3" for Malaysian channels ("m"), and perhaps "69" for adult channels, if there are any.

Note: The above entry is written wholly based on individual's views/perception/feeling/opinion/crap'sion, and is not meant to flame any particular broadcasting company/race/person as it seems. Any likeliness is simply a mere coincidence and the author would not take any responsibility for what I've said/written/crapped about, please proceed with caution and consider a thousand times before you pick up your phone and call Karpal Singh.

Washed out crap...

Okay, I know I've made an irreversible turn in my life, but I didn't know! Horror and thriller have never been my taste, not that I hate to watch them, I even had a sort of desire for them during my childhood (you know, kids, endless search for "excitement", whatever...). But now? I'd rather avoid them as possible. I'm not too keen in watching the disgusting and chilling scenes in those movies anymore, save me from goosebumps. I began to question where did I find that sort of "joy" when watching them before I grew up (=_=).

Anyway, I've watched it. At first I thought this is a pure post-apocalyptic movie, like Armageddon, Deep Impact, The Day After Tomorrow, The Sinking of Japan (I skipped this one), Sunshine (skipped it too), or, as far as it goes, even The Greenhouse Effect (?), Volcano and War of the World (they are not too "apocalyptic", just the destruction of something! Give me something to shoot at...)? Well I love those! Not that I'm a psycho who enjoys watching the end of humanity and the loss of life or the like, but I've always been long seeking the true origin of mankind, and curious on how everything will end. Every time I get something from the movie itself, it clearly delivers the message that everyone should starts doing something in order to save ourselves (can we?) from extinction.

But in the end? The god damn title fooled me, it should have clarified more clearly that it's a science fiction/horror! I felt a bit of uneasiness when the movie started about 3 minutes, and the whole thing begins after that. This thriller never fails to deliver the non-stop action (which I think it get its compliment for) and spine-chilling scenes, seriously it never stops! Just when you think this is going to be a peaceful and "happily ever after" or the sort, there comes a zombie popping out from nowhere onto the darn screen and scaring you out. Oh did I mention that this movie is sooo resemble to Resident Evil (story line and techniques used)? But I prefer this XD.

As the movie poster says, "WEEK ONE: No Trace, WEEK TWO: No Warning, WEEK EIGHT: No Control, WEEK SIXTEEN: No Cure, WEEK TWENTY EIGHT: No Escape." Me too felt the same way when the movie starts screening...

FIRST MINUTE: No Trace
SECOND MINUTE: No Warning
EIGHTH MINUTE: No Control
SIXTEENTH MINUTE: No Cure
TWENTY-EIGHTH MINUTE: No Excape

The film opens with husband and wife Don and Alice hiding in a boarded-up cottage in the countryside with four others as the Rage infection spreads across the mainland of Great Britain. Although they initially seem to be safe, the cottage is soon attacked by the Infected and the inhabitants become separated. Don finds his wife cornered by an Infected individual in a bedroom, pleading for his help. However, rather than put himself at risk by intervening, Don shuts the door on her and flees the cottage, escaping on a motorboat on a nearby river.

Twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak and six months after the last of the Infected starved to death, a U.S.-led NATO operation commanded by U.S. Army Brigadier General Stone begins to repopulate the country, starting with the Isle of Dogs in London, known as District 1. Among the survivors flown in from European refugee camps are Don's children, teenage Tammy and twelve-year-old Andy, who are reunited with their father. Escaping from District 1 to visit their old family home, Tammy and Andy discover that their mother is still alive. Medical checks conducted by army doctor Scarlett confirm that Alice is infected but does not show any symptoms. Scarlett believes that Tammy and Andy may have inherited their mother's genetic immunity to the Rage virus.

During an unauthorised visit, Don kisses Alice and becomes infected from her saliva. After violently killing her, he attacks several soldiers, spreading the infection. Stone orders the execution of Code Red, a prepared plan to deal with another outbreak, and snipers attempt to shoot the Infected without harming any uninfected civilians. However, the situation soon spirals out of control and Stone orders the army to kill everyone. One sniper, Sergeant Doyle, is uncomfortable with these orders and abandons his post, joining a group of survivors including Scarlett, Tammy and Andy. Attempting to lead the group to safety, Doyle is contacted by helicopter pilot Flynn, who arranges to meet him at Regent's Park. Doyle's group make it out of District 1 just before the U.S. Air Force firebombs the entire area, incinerating the Infected and civilians alike. However, some other survivors and Infected, including Don, also manage to escape into wider London.

At Regent's Park, Flynn, who was expecting to meet only Doyle, refuses to evacuate the other survivors and tells Doyle to meet him alone at Wembley Stadium in north London. Running from the Infected through the streets of central London, Doyle, Scarlett, Tammy and Andy take refuge in an abandoned Volvo V70 when they are confronted a cloud of poison gas released by the army. When Scarlett cannot start the car, Doyle sacrifices himself to push-start the vehicle and is killed by flamethrower-wielding NBC soldiers. Following a helicopter attack on the car as it travels through Westminster, Scarlett, Tammy and Andy take refuge in Charing Cross tube station. In the darkness, Scarlett is killed by the infected Don, who then attacks and bites Andy. Tammy shoots and kills her father and discovers that while Andy is now infected, he is immune like his mother.

Reaching Wembley Stadium, Tammy and Andy are rescued by Flynn, who uses his helicopter to fly them over London, past the White Cliffs of Dover and across the English Channel towards France.

In an epilogue captioned "28 Days Later", Flynn's helicopter is shown abandoned. The film ends depicting a swarm of infected running across the terrace of the Palais de Chaillot towards the Eiffel Tower, indicating that the infection has spread to Continental Europe.

-Wikipedia (Sorry but I'm lazy to summarize a movie that I dislike...)

It's a sequel to its predecessor "28 Days Later"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later

It's watchable. but still, crap for me.

Okay okay I know I was just being paranoid! In fact these two movies seem to be just fine to the audience worldwide, it has good reception because of its well taken action scenes and its good portray of the deserted mainland of Great Britain when the god damn virus spreads, so grab the ticket if you are into pissing your pants off (nah it's not that scary anyway :p, just disgusting) and wants to get a rough idea of how you can actually exterminate millions of people in the future if you ever wanted to do so. The conclusion? I don't like this movie, my personal taste. (actually I was kinda annoyed by its occasional frenzy movement of the camera in the early scenes when the zombies attacked, but maybe this is the technique of directors used to capture action scenes, or is it a method to actually "censor" the unwanted gores, but it sure makes me feel dizzy and uneasy, don't know about you guys.). After all this is an interesting thriller that promised to be as intriguing as ever, feel free to go for it. But if you haven't watch Spider-man 3 just yet (SHAME ON YOU :p), make it a top-most priority before getting a bite from this zombie. (Actually I'd rather watch it a second time... Well... No turning back now.). By the way, they are planning for a third installment, I doubt I will go back for another bite (=_=).

So long...

Go get 'em, tiger.

Kept repeating this song when I was back from the theater... Though it has nothing to do with the movie =.=. Yeah I like this song.

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves just like flies.
Look out! Here comes the Spiderman.

Is he strong? Listen bud—
He's got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread?
Take a look overhead.
Hey there! There goes the Spiderman.

In the chill of the night,
At the scene of the crime,
Like a streak of light,
He arrives just in time!

Spiderman, Spiderman,
Friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
Wealth and fame, he's ignored—
Action is his reward.
To him,
Life is a great big bang-up—
Wherever there's a hang-up,
You'll find the Spiderman!

Yes I've watched it, the third installment of the greatest trilogy ever, bite me. Blekk...


zLz's Formula of SM (ahem... "Spidey Mania")


Ingredients of Spidey:-




A four-legs Spider's kiss of death (No doubt it's a spider, are you questioning my drawing!?
=.=)





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An undersized spidey suit: A full set consisting of an SK-II mask, a tight boxer, and a pair of Slippers of Agility.






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You get your friendly neighborhood, Spider-man.









Ingredients of Sandman:-



One Saudi Arabia's desert worth of extra-fine high quality sand.





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Could as well use a good brand of juicer.








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Hey buddy, are those sands in your ear?








Ingredients of Venom:-






Steal some slimes from Ghost Busters.







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Get 944 boxes of Extra-Sticky chewing gums.





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Not to leave out a bunch of UHU glue, with the PLUS.







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Finally, get some black color paints.






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Mix the ingredients, compress them with the ratio of 1000 : 1 mol/dm3








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And here you go, the extra-sticky venom, even Superman will have a hard time on this one.