The Art of Movie Watching

The art of watching a movie by my standard

Alone
1. Chances of getting a good seats is much easier
2. fexliabilty of time
3. perfect concentration on the show
4. no after movie entertaintment(usually head home)

Groups
1. Damm difficult to get good seats
2. hard to coordinate what movies to catch(some might have seen it...etc)
3. always some form of after movies activities

Date
1. Must see a show that fits both peoples' taste
2. after a while movies seem to be part of a standard date package.(boring)
3. may lack concentration on the show
3. after movie activities

WarLord

WarLord

A Story of War, Brotherhood and Frame! Setting, somewhere in the Qing Dynasty.

Jet Li a fallen general who escape death by faking his death. Andy Lau a Bandit King who rob from the army to feed his village. Takeshi a simple man who follow the code of Brotherhood closely.

The movie is not a slow pace movie I promised you that. A lot of emotion is estranged from the begining to the end. From a simple unknow falling in love to becoming sworn brothers and to commit adultry and massive killing of innocent.

If anyone read 108 margin heroes will understand some of it plot are very similair to this movie.

This is way better than any other chinese movies of this genre.

Takashi really put the chinese phase in action, 兄弟如手足，老婆如衣服。

Guys will understand this. For gals it maybe too bloody but think like a guy and you will understand it.

I give it a 4.7 stars out of 5.

07 review

Jan
Job Hunting like everyone else. Send massive resume, met various Recruitment Agency told I was never good enough to go to any International Bank.....

Feb
Got interview by my current company! Went all out to impressed them by being honest and willingness to take up any shi*t they can throw at me.
Got it after 4 rounds of interview

March
Officially, got trained up in my job and was impressed with the office I'm working in. Working in Ldn Hours. Money is good!

April
My team went "Live" as Ldn team officially went offline. Everyday come in at 1plus pm till 2am plus. A tough time but enjoy every moment of it as they was a sense of pride in my job

May
Nothing fanciful happen in my life beside having the start of a silly crush

June/July
BAU back at work. Planned for my long oversea trip with my friends

Aug/Sept
Stock market begins to see signs of turning South. The beginning of Sub primes woes kicks in. Friends fly my kite and I'm back alone in my travelling plans. Crush continues but see no light at the end. Cut off this one sided r/s and moved on with life. Got internal transfer to a new function. Back to Apac Hrs. There goes the money but improvement in social life (only when there is no OT!)

Oct
Went Shanghai with my parent and paid for all the air fares with my hard earned money. Took a 14 days off from work. Enjoy Shanghai a lot. Market continues to dives.

Nov
Back to work and heard another movement is due. Had my Year end Review. I think it a good one for my first year at work. Did not have high expectation anyway. Had a new crush on someone and decided to work hard on it.

Dec
I performed a leap of faith and never regretted this decision. Do not know if it will work out or not but I'm willing to work on it. So wish me luck pple
Dec is also a month of little work.I took almost 12 working days off. Yipee!

Year end

Danager no more

In this Merry Week, it has come to my attention that certain Secret in my life has been compromised.

To avoid any more of such leakages I have decided to seperate my day to day life and my dark life to two different blog.

This will be my day to day blog where jokes, movies review and other non-secret related stuff will be posted.

My the other blog will of course contain the dark evil/good of my life.

Cheers!

Merry Xmas

HOHOHO.....

It's Xmas time!!!!

I hope that all of you are enjoying whatever you are doing!

Have a Blessed Xmas everyone!

National Treasure 2

National Treasure 2

Another Walt Disney show for the Xmas! Yippee

If you ever watch Part 1 you should know how good it was. I remember when they were showing part 1 it was with the Da Vinci Code. Same kind of movie but National Treasure pawns Da Vinci Code it all it mystery and code.

Now back to the current one, Nicolas Cage is back as Prof Gates.(Shld be this spelling) along with all the orginal cast. The overall effect is still good but it less thrilling compare to part one. But it better to place your money on this one rather than Golden Compass!

Spoiler ahead

What this installment lacks is the amount of clues leading to the next clue and then to the Treasure. In part one we see the begining with finding of Charlet(the ship), then to the Scroll of Indenpenence(which they stole), then to the Liberty Bell(Led by a clue from a 5 dollar bill if i'm not wrong) to get the specs(which allows them to read the message behind the scroll) and then to Wall Street where the treasure lies. And throughout the great chases by FBI and other Treasure Hunters.

In the Book of Secrets, it started with the code word Death, then to the twin desk, the President Book and to Mount Rushmore(where the treasure is hidden). It lacks the clues depth compare to one! The chase scence was not that impactful but not bad. However, I still don't understand why the City of Gold can be hidden inside Mount Rushmore? Should it not be like somewhere at South America? Where I'm not that great in US history. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

If there should be a Part 3, I have a strong feeling that it got to do with page 47 in the President Book!

Addiction

I have always been a closet guy when it comes to affairs of the heart. But recently after admitting my feeling I have came to notice that I have changed. I have started to use words that I once think is mushy.

Guess when the heart starts to think rather than the brains logic and shame just get thrown out of the window.

I have been thinking about her a lot day in day out. It just show how addictive love can be even if has yet to be confirm. Currently, I'm still unfamiliar with the rules of courting. I tend to believe that courting is comes from within(it built into us). It could be that I activate it at a later stage that it is rusty hahaha. But nonetheless, I'm enjoying the process regardless if it will bear fruit or not. Well it will be better if it does bear fruits!

Result

The leap of Faith ended up with....

No conclusive answer....so I have make the jump but it seem to a black hole...
falling and falling never yet to know if I will survive.

One thing for sure I outdid myself!

Leap of Faith

Today I enjoy myself greatly again. It has been like 3-4 years I have not really step into East Coast Park and look at the changes there. The arcade is no longer there and Mac has expanded it operations with a new look!

The morning weather was great had one of the best breakfast meal and a great stroll down the park. Then off we go to parkway. Parkway is one place I have never been for almost close to a decade. Yes this is not a joke! Think the last I went there was when I was still schooling in St Pats.

Being with her the whole day as made me realized how fun it can be just doing nothing but being with her. Every now and then when I think of her I will either bump into her or get her text. Is that a sign? Recently, when I have a close encounter with a old crash I had, I thought I have yet to cut the emotion away. However, this causes a guilt when I started thinking of her. A guilt of betrayed thinking of my old crash. So does 1+1 gives me 2. I have no idea.

As a leap of faith I'm going to text her with my thoughts. This is one big jump for me! Let's hope I land on my legs and not on my face!

Company Xmas Party

On a friday night we have a company xmas bash. A first for me! It was at Double O a club somewhere at the Mohammad Sultan road. However, not all from the team was able to make it due to the business unit we support back in London. There was lucky draw, free food and of course free flow of Alcohol for a limited time. I'm not a big fan of alcohol so I really limit myself on the amount of drinks i can take. Most of the guys have some self control. Maybe it was the loud music and the spirit of partying that the ladies really let go and enjoy themselves. In the end, most of them had a little visit to the ladies to do some "Stomach Cleaning". The night ended by sending individual ladies home. The latter part was not something one called pleasant. But the process before the great puke was enjoyable.

I have some more leave and will be enjoying it this week. Only one day of work hahaha that is so cool.

Enchanted

Just saw this movie today. It a great movie from Disney once again! If you ever wonder what happen to the 2-D but great story like Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Little Mermaid. Well fret no more. This show has that in it. This show will once invoke memories of those classic.

You will see little cute animals surrounding the heroine just like Sleeping Beauty. The classic of leaving a shoe behind from Cinderella. A real life dwarf(a very short moment) just like Snow White.
Also the classic usage of poison apple!

Beside all these, you will also see a re-make of King Kong climbing the empire state building move.

The cast are not extremely handsome or beautiful but they do bring out the magic of Disney. The real hero of this show for me is our little chipmunk, Pete. Pete， always save the day with his quick lighting move and as well as his "weight". Now who said a little weight is bad!

To sum it all up this is not a fairy tale but a Walt Disney Movie!