"All your base are belong to us!"

Is this even proper English??

This entry is not so "reader-friendly" since it's about a particular video game. But no worries, even if you don't play games at all or know little about the history of video gaming it'd still be no problem for you to understand my post here. Even I myself did not play this piece of antique (NO THANKS), but what I am trying to convey here is the idea of how is the standard of English that is in Japan (and in the previous post, in China)... Have a good laugh.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/AllYourBaseAnimated.gif


Apart from doing some research on the good ol' Star Wars film, I also spent some time to do a study on one of the Top 10 worst games ever created on His Earth, Zero Wing. (In fact I spent my whole day laughing my asses off on these two masterpieces). Not only is infamous for its poor gameplay, this game actually is renown for its poorly translated English version (it's originated in Japan and developed by Toaplan back in the year 1989. And the company? Went bankrupted shortly after the game's launch Zzz)

The link enclosed above is a famous copy of image that summarize the intro of this game, do you understand a word it says?




Wikipedia: "All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", AYBABTU or simply AYB) is an incorrect English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in the 1990s, with the spread of flash animation that ubiquitously depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing by Toaplan. Its brief but intense popularity derived in part from its poor translation into English and partly from its near-accidental adoption by a group of Internet humorists. "All Your Base" is still a well-known reference among gamers, and has been used as a cheat-phrase in the popular Blizzard game Starcraft.

Due to its immense popularity, the phrase or some variation of the lines from the game has been seen in innumerable articles, books, comics, clothing, movies, radio shows, songs, television shows, video games, webcomics, and websites. However, few have actually drawn any mainstream media attention. A selection of those that have garnered such coverage follows:

* In late 2000, Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, then age 23, from the Gabber band The Laziest Men on Mars, made a techno dance track, Invasion of the Gabber Robots, that remixed some of the Zero Wing video game music by Tatsuya Uemura, with a voiceover phrase All your base are belong to us.

* On February 23, 2001, Wired provided an early report on the phenomenon in an article titled "When Gamer Humor Attacks" that covered everything from the Flash animation to its spread through e-mail and Internet forums to T-shirts bearing the phrase.

* On April 1, 2003, in Sturgis, Michigan, seven people age 17 to 20 placed signs all over town that read, "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time." They said they were playing an April Fool's joke by mimicking the famous Flash animation that ubiquitously depicted the slogan. Not many people who saw the signs were familiar with the joke, however. Many residents were upset that the signs appeared while the U.S. was at war with Iraq, and police chief Eugene Alli said the signs could be “a borderline terrorist threat depending on what someone interprets it to mean.”

* In February 2004, university students in Raleigh, North Carolina exploited a web-based service provided for local schools and businesses to report a weather-related closing to display the phrase within a news ticker on a live news broadcast on News 14 Carolina.

* On June 1, 2006, the video hosting website YouTube was taken down temporarily for maintenance. The phrase "ALL YOUR VIDEO ARE BELONG TO US" appeared below the YouTube logo as a placeholder while the site was down. Some users believed the site had been hacked, leading the host to add the message "No, we haven't been hacked. Get a sense of humor."

My personal favourite:
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video3_view.shtml

Check this out too:
http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1_view.shtml


Okay maybe you didn't get the fun... But I sure is enjoying XD.
I just can't stop repeating myself that hilarious chorus... "All your base... are belong to us~"

"This is just too STICK!~"

WARNING: The following entry is based on a movie which was supposed to be a "U" rated movie. But after much consideration from the Presbyterian Church we have decided to lift the rating to a much suiting "18 PL" as it contains excessive amount of profanity, improper adult contents, misleading "Engrish" usage, and most importantly, it underwent the most brutal... translation mankind ever made on Earth. Please proceed with caution, and do hold your jaws with both hands, or maybe you could use only one to hold and the other to hold your buttocks, to avoid both of them from falling apart. YOU ARE WARNED.

Here it goes...

Yeah after so many episodes, you finally realize that there were only ONE War been going on all the time... Felt cheated? Talk to Lucas.

Wait... The "West is swimming"?? Nope it can't be... But let's see...
Revenge=报复, Sith=西(Somehow they thought so, YES) and...
报复="打回", Back=回, Stroke=打, West=西(easy ain't it?)
Aha... Now does it make sense? BRILLIANT!

"This is where the fun begins."

"Let them pass between us."
[Oxford]Dichotomy=A separation or contrast between two things

"They're all over me!"
Yea right... I get how you are scared... Who wouldn't with something in your ass? Oh, with That amount...

Hey that sounds like some plan! You're the best, Obi Wan!

Yea R2, are you... " "?

Chancellor Palpatine warns Anakin and Obi Wan that Count Dooku is... BIG

As I said Obi Wan, you're the man! You won't fear no BIG...

Count Dooku said... something.

Chancellor Palpatine complimenting on Obi Wan to Anakin... that he is... BIG too. Aha, bigger than a good elephant I guess.

General Grevious sure is mad that some truant people did actually... fled from some sort of fair?

Yeah you worthless bunch of scumbags should sooo be eating dogs!

Anakin taunts General Grevious... Yeah I think it's "severe" enough that... I don't know what are you talking about.

Smelly boy=臭小子
Hey you smelt that too!? I was about to say...

Erm... Yea I think your hair needed some "first aid"... mind some gel?
[Oxford]Disheveled=Untidy; disordered

We're gonna land on... erm... lemon garden?

Yoda, "Premonitions? Premonitions!"
(This is a god damn good one WAHAHAHA...)

Erm...? Yea yea right...

Anakin is haunted by... ehhh... "dreamses"

Listen up dude, we're gonna beat you to the deep ground coz we're gonna throw A LOT of troopsESES on you! THAT much! Ain't you scare!?

Mmmm...

Jedi Council=长老会
[Oxford]Presbyterian=Relating to a Protestant Church governed by ELDERS who are all of equal ranks.
Jedi=长老=ELDERS=Presbyterian
Council=会=Church
FABULOUS!~

"May the force be with you"
I grant you the power to wish!

Anakin wants his wife to be safe... He wants to guarantee his loves one... "cuckoldry"!?

[Oxford]Cuckoldry=Act of cuckold, a cuckold is a man whose wife has committed adultery(unfaithful).
Mum I learnt a new word today!~

C3PO is complaining...

Obi Wan refuses to fight Anakin... which is... ehh... his elephant brother.

Whatever you say...

"The Anakin you once knew is no longer is..."

Anakin tells his cuckold about his virtues... being STRONG and BIG.

It's obvious that Padme hates STRONG and BIG, rare!

You are one of those kinds, that only lies! You LIER, now lie down!

Yea solve with proper English I guess...

Obi Wan stands a higher ground and in a more strategic position than Anakin... now what?

Darth Vader, "NOOOOOO~~~"

Pirated DVDs from China simply rock! "This is just too stick!"
Nope my English is not good either, but to have expected this? DO NOT WANT!!~~

p/s: 这真是太棒了!=This is just too stick!

(The reason I didn't want to plug directly the entry from the original blogger is that I have my own comments on the captions, they are not the same. And for some reason I want to keep this kinda hilarious entry in my blog, isn't it just too stick?)

Origin: http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

Yang Guo: I think I found the links to download this piece of crap! Woohoo~ Will find you in holiday to grab it.

"Wassup Doc?"

"Son, I have brought back something nice for you today, here."


Okay, now what? A carrot juice! Surprise~

Hell no, I've never been fond to carrots, I only eat the carrots that are used to cook soup (you know, the ABC soup, no not Air Batu Campur...). Those which are not cooked are too hard and somewhat tasted "green'ish" (do you know what I mean?). And of course she knew that -.-

"No son, carrot is foooo'l~ of Vitamin!" (This is virtually what every parent would say if they in fact DO NOT KNOW what kinda 'Vitamins' actually a particular food contains. "Drink soya la, soya has lotta Vitamins!" "Eat chicken la, chicks have lots of Vitamins!" "Eat fish la, fish has lots of Vitamins!" "Eat chicken butt la, my-butt has lotta Vitamins!" just to name a few...)

AND in case you hadn't notice what's written on that bottle, it's RM 10.00++... Holy Madagascar what the hell is this!? Some kinda "Einstein's-specially-formulated-car'rot-juice-that-doesn't-make-your-car-'rot'-but-makes-my-butt-hornier" juice!!???

Holy cow I'm gonna finish them without leaving a single drop in the bottle, how I wanted to swallow even the bottle itself sooo badly. "What have you done mom, oh my... god"
"It's imported my son, good for health la, and is foooo'l~ of Vitamin too!"
I don't give no damn about the Vitamin man, that's RM 11.50 for god sake! "Mom, for this price I can buy a good whole lot of carrot you want and juice them up in a pail! You want imported ones? Okay from which country do you want? Most of the carrots sold in market nowadays are from China (if imported), or do you prefer Africa? -.-"

No la I wasn't scolding my mum, I was only advising and just trying to convince her that it's not worth it. I knew it was for my own good and so I finished them all, and YUCK, hate it. It really tasted "green'ish" like I mentioned justnow, it was like grabbing a bunch of raw vegetables or let it be weeds and put them altogether into your mouth. Or maybe not, maybe you should juice them first, and then drink it and you will understand what I mean. Eww...

In the end, I noticed something on that bottle. It "amazed" me, it sure did. Guess what? It was written there...

SHANGRI-LA HOTEL

What-on-God's-Green-Earth(learnt this from Kenny) have you done again this time MUM!?~~

Damn I should be studying...

There are two types of man in China in the olden days, they are the "nerd" and the "war-rior". One which do nothing else but kept writing and reading their poems and the latter which just kept fighting and fighting and fighting, and fighting. While these two kinds of human beings don't usually intersect each other in lives (which means you can't ask a bookworm to hold a sword and force a war-rior to spell a proper "f'ck you") but there are rare cases where this so-called "genius" appeared occasionally throughout the eras, ones which can both spell properly and fight with style (and with victories).

"烂鬼"书生 Ahem... alright, with a PDA.

Oops I think I got the war-rior from the wrong country, sorry...

I guess this is the correct one but still... It doesn't look just right to me =.="

This one is the most leng chai I could find out there but still...

YEAH!!~ This is the one I've been talking about! Pure COOL! I guess this is one of those rare ones, who could pronounce "DO NOT WANT~~~!!!" crisp and clear and also can fight properly like a man! Hail to Darth Vader~


And so, which type of "man" am I then?

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I'm just a blogger, that sleeps, eats, play, and eats again...

Alright it's obvious that this post is just another filler, sorry man give me a break I'll be having exam soon XD. Sorry for disappointing you.

Pieces

It's been so so long since I last repeated a single song for such a long time. Today I found another two, one is Pieces and the other is 4ever. I've been more into English songs lately but oh well...

This song is by Sum 41, hell yeah this song rocks! Meaningful lyrics that I love and I like their electric guitar play too, cool cool cool! The vocalists have got nice sounds too, overall this song is not too punk rock and has got a nice feeling, TRUST ME. I will make sure to check both Sum 41 and The Veronicas out very soon...

I tried to be perfect
but nothing was worth it.
I don't believe it makes me real.
I thought it'd be easy
but no one believes me.
I meant all the things I said.
If you believe it's in my soul,
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own.

This place is so empty.
My thoughts are so tempting.
I don't know how it got so bad.
Sometimes it's so crazy
but nothing can save me
but it's the only thing that I have.

If you believe it's in my soul,
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own.

I tried to be perfect,
it just wasn't worth it.
Nothing could ever be so wrong.
It's hard to believe me.
It never gets easy.
I guess I knew that all along.
If you believe it's in my soul,
I'd say all the words that I know
just to see if it would show
that I'm trying to let you know
that I'm better off on my own.

-Sum 41

4ever

This one aint got lyrics that I like but it is a very very very good listening song, trust me you won't regret hearing it.

Here we are so what you gonna do
Do I gotta spell it out for you
I can see that you got other plans for tonight
But I don't really care

Size me up you know I beat the best
Tick tock no time to rest
Let 'em say what they gonna say
But tonight I just don't really care

Come on baby we aint gonna live forever
Let me show you all the things that we could do
You know you wanna be together
And I wanna spend the night with you
Yeah Yeah, With you, Yeah Yeah
Come with me tonight
We could make the night last forever

I've seen it all I've got nothing to prove
Come on baby just make your move
Follow me let's leave it all behind tonight
Like we just don't care

Let me take you on the ride of your life
That's what I said alright
They can say what they wanna say
'cause tonight I just don't really care

Come on baby we aint gonna live forever
Let me show you all the things that we could do
You know you wanna be together
And I wanna spend the night with you
Yeah Yeah, With you, yeah yeah
Come with me tonight
We could make the night last forever

Lets pretend you're mine
We could just pretend, we could just pretend, yeah yeah
You got what I like
You got what I like, I got what you like
Oh come on
Just one taste and you'll want more

So tell me what you're waiting for

Come on baby we aint gonna live forever
Let me show you all the things that we could do
You know you wanna be together
And I wanna spend the night with you
Yeah yeah, With you, yeah yeah

Come with me tonight
We could make the night last forever
Come on baby we aint gonna live forever
Let me show you all the things that we could do
You know you wanna be together
And I wanna spend the night with you
With you
Come with me tonight
We could make the night last forever

-The Veronicas

The Can-I-Finish-One-Box Game~

Hikaru: Kaoru~, it's been days since Honey-senpai finished our dessert, there's nothing left now! I'm so thirst of sweet food!~
Kaoru: Don't worry Hikaru~, I won't let you suffer. See this? This is our remained very last ice-cream ^.^
Hikaru: Kaoru~
Kaoru: Hikaru~

...*CENSORED*

The Can-I-Finish-One-Box Game~


24 minutes later...

Duh... That's zLz for you. (=_=)

I shall try the Can-I-Finish-Two-Boxes Game~ next time... (Seriously I still couldn't get anough, but expensive le, RM 10!!! T_T)