Sunday, April 27, 2008

Harold and Kumar : Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Quite similar to the one that goes to White Castle. Still full of sexual jokes, drugs theme, slacker and as usual along their way to the destination, meets numerous kookoo people. Actually Guantanamo Bay was only feature for a while, story follows straight after their meal at White Castle.

Knowing Harold's ger was flying to Amsterdam, they decided to go there as well. The heavenly place on earth for drugs and sex. They met K's ex gf Vanessa with his finance Colton. K just couldn't forget her and she seemingly too. Anyway it didn't goes well on the plane, really like the part where the old lady hallucinate Kumar as a heavily bearded "terriorist" and his hand action of crashing the plane .... hahahahaha :)

It became worse when the passengers found out Kumar was smoking weed in the toilet with his self-made thingie which looked like a bomb. Chaos ensued and they were transported back to the US. Then came along Ron, an idiotic, over-zealous, brainless National Security guy who was sure they were terriorist ... "North Korea in cahoots with Iran".

Then they were send to Guan Bay and celled opposite 2 real terriorists who thinks Americans eats too much Donuts. H and K were down on their kneels and about to give Big Bob a revolting and unimaginable BJ ... then a commotion started. The real terriorists bit off the guard's dick and escaped. H and K, took the chance and did so. They managed to climb over the fence when the KT terriorist got electrocuted while climbing over and short circuiting the fence.

After escaping, they sought help from Raza who was throwing a "Bottomless" party, as the name implies. You are not allow to wear anything waist down, anything above you have to cover. Talking to Raza in the jacuzzi pool, K asking why is he not bottomless. To our shock as he stoood up ... indeed he is ... with the pubic hair that could cover Amazon. Quite a scene !

H and K got a car from Raza and drove to Texas where Vanessa and Colton were getting married.

They hope Colton which was their friend also can helped them out of this shit.

Along the way, they met more wierd people, an incest couple who have a one-eyed child and a cult.

Eventually, they did get to Texas where K and Vanessa set some sparks off. This made Colton ever determined to betrayed them by handing them over to Ron.

But on the plane back, they miraculously parachuted off the plane and landed into Bush's Ranch. TCSS with the President, smoke top grade weed and get high. With the President's backing, they crash land the wedding, knocked Colton out cold. K expressed his love for Vanessa again, belting out his "Square Root 3" poem. 7/10

I’m sure that I will always be a lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321 Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When dark ! What is this I see, Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by, Together now we multiply to form a number we prefer
Rejoicing as an integer, we break free from our mortal bonds, with the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued. Your love for me has been renewed

Friday, April 25, 2008

Top 10 ways to check whether if you are still in tact with reality and society !!!

Not everyone will think, behave and react like you but then there is a limit to you would convince yourself to believe that why would someone do such things ? It happens everywhere, at work, with your friends, your gf/bf, spouses, families, etc. But most people are normal, except ......

10 You don't annouce to whole world you are already age 31 but in reality just the opposite, your mind is just about right to enter Primary 1

9 You don't stand and doze off and hit someone on the MRT. And still believe you don't have a sleeping disorder

8 You don't doze off anytime and anywhere, any level of dB. And still believe you don't have a sleeping disorder

7 You think that helping someone and being made use of are really different matters and able to realise and lower your level of KTness

6 You jolly well know that VIVO city is NOT IN Suntec City !!!!

5 You don't attempt to go an ATM to activate your Credit Card 6 months after your got it in your mail

4 You don't believe if your handphone goes low batt is because that you don't have a f*cking charger in the office

3 Turf City, 200 Turf Club Road. No way in any G*d damn mind, you would go to Singapore Turf Club at Woodlands if you see this address

2 You don't pronouce A.Cole in 3 syllabus. *Becomes "A Co Le"*

The best way to check whether if you are still intact with reality and society is .......
YOU F*CKING KNOW WHAT IS A HARMONICA !!!!!

Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Forbidden Kingdom

When you have little expectation, you won't be too much disppointed. The first Jet and Jackie collaboration with a damn crappy script and storyline. It could be that it was just too difficult to film these 2 in a totally new storyline. As they are on the same good side, they only fought once, at the broke down temple. The fight was so so, not bad not good, nothing impressive.

Snake move, Crane Fist, Tiger fist and drunken fist among the kungfu they use throughout but as they taught Jason, it became master the form to become formless.

Jason, some kid in US whom should be crazy about IPhone and XBox 360, got himself transported into ancient and mythical world where the Jade Warlord ruled. He tricked Moneky King in throwing his Golden Staff away and turned him into stone.

Jason with the staff, embarked on a journey with J&J and Golden Sparrow by 刘亦菲.
Along the way, 白发魔女 by 李冰冰 pursued them and Jackie was injured by her "Toma Hawk heat seeking arrow", lucky Bush or Osama wasn't aware of such technology.

Jason to save Jackie, went to Jade Warlord and demand the elixr of immortality. The white hair bride beat him with ease to get the staff and the elixr but but just ...

The other J and Sparrow came along and the final battle ensue. Jackie was carried there by other monks and drank the elixr, some green potion, and got into the fight instantly. He finished off white hair bride while Jason smashed the stoned Monkey King statue as the Jade Warlord killed Jet.

Then Jade killed Sparrow. Monkey King which is Jet also attempts to battle Jade but it was Jason who pierced him with the Sparrow's Jade Dart. Jade warlord fell into his own inferno.

Another totally amusing thing was they could speak English :) 6/10

Friday Night@Lunar Bar

First time at 6 month old Lunar Bar by LifeBrandz. It is a standalone "DragonFly" though it has a second floor where several red sofa seating area dominates. A newly added podium with poles beside the row of sofa gives allows the new "Coyote Girls" to strut their stuff at about past midnight.

One by one, popular chinese pop songs belted out by the Lunar singing crew and band.
She was introduced as 芬岚 from taiwan and really got a very powerful voice. She belted out 不只是朋友 which they claimed to be very popular in pubs in taiwan.


The "Coyote Girls" did come out in half cheongsam and shake their bodies about 15/20 mins but as in lawful Singapore, nothing much they really can do to entice the crowd.

Not a bad place to get your dose of loud chinese pop but crowd wise so so. Anyway, will be back to finish my bottle.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Friday Dinner@Muse

There has been food at the National Museum for a while. Nuvo restaurant and wine bar, Muse and Chef Chan. Not sure if there are more though. Not those mass appeal kind of eating place you get here, we decided to get ours at Muse. Not very big, probably seats 30 odd people.



I started with Muse Martini, nice concoction, right mix of what was in it. Smoked salmon ceaser salad and Escargot were the appetizers. The Escargots was on top of a row of apple pie like crust, starter dessert ? Anyway, taste quite good.




Selection for the main course was limited but still a variety. I got the duck leg. It was good ! Meat was tender, skin cripsy, the peas and sauce was just right. Though at $30 abit pricey.





Couldn't resist any desserts. Profiteiros and warm chocolate cake came along. The profiteiros came into bite size and with 3 different ice creams in them. The warm chocolate cake was infused with oozing chocolate sauce as you forked into it, the pistachio ice cream wasn't that good, compares to swensen pisatchio ice cream.



All came to about $67 per pax. Can say normal for such a setup, food was good but for this price, may not be the first choice next time.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

写一写

看一看周围发生的事
听一听人们说的话
猜一猜为何他们要这样做
闭一闭疲惫的眼睛
想一想到底怎么可能
放一放沉重的心情
停一停着急的脚步
歇一歇是为了走更长远的路

Sunday, April 06, 2008

四月五日

Saturday should be a day where one get a good night sleep from friday. Nowadays, this is not the case. Drilling, pounding, unbearable noise from the LUP was simply annoying. Not sure if they need to do all these on Saturday mornings, think they stopped around 11 am. How much faster will these noise pollutions on Saturday mornings aid in us getting our new "speed of light" lifts that stopped at every floor ?

Or probably they rather focus on ensuring the contractor don't go bust which we had seen in the papers where construction work stopped due the contractors encountering financial problem.

Haiz ... anyway was supposed to work so woke up at about 10 after failing to transform myself into "SaMe" mode meaning can sleep at above 200 dB environments and in any position.

Work went smooth. Met my brother at SLS to get his PC as his retired. simply refuse to boot. MSI indicators telling that it was a memory issue. Changing a working RAM didn't work. Getting a decent gaming PC will cost around $900 to $1100. Ours worked out to be $1073 and paid in cash at VideoPro, so called free installation.

Abit P5K SE
Intel E6750
Hitachi 320 GB
2 GB Kingston 800
CM Centurion 534
CM Power Extreme Plus 460 W
XpertVision nvdia 9600 GT
Altec Lansing BR 1321

Saturday, April 05, 2008

三國之見龍卸甲

The first of several movies adapted from "Romance of the 3 Kingdoms". Review for this was not really well received. About 120 years of history in a 2 hour movie, of course not, this one focus on 赵子龙, protrayed by Andy Lau. He was a commoner from 常山 who joined 刘备's army. The movie didn't explain why was he so good in his fighting and battle skills.

He was a nobody till he battled 曹操's army while saving 刘备's son. Not that he returned alive being surrounded by 千军万马, he almost killed 曹操.

Nonetheless, he still managed to take his personal weapon. All these was seen by his granddaughter, 曹樱, played by Maggie Q.

I watched consecutive movies by Samo Hung !!! Don't think this happened before ! He was 罗平安, an useless soldier who was in the army before 子龙.

He wanted personal glory and to be remembered. And also he was there to provide the narration. Other than these 3 main commercially advertised cast, a long list protrayed key characters in the movie.

Some more known ones are 狄龙, 刘松仁, Vanessa Wu, etc.

Some of the battle scenes are really quite NC16, which I liked them. Weapons piecrcing through bodies, limbs, shoulders, you name it. But some are so fast and confusing, can't really see what actually happened. Anyway, 子龙 rose through the ranks and becomes legendary as "常胜将军". He and the rest of the 五虎 embarked to destroy 曹操 but to no avail as one by one failed and got killed.

Movie ended 子龙's army trapped at 风鸣山 because his brother was in cahoots with 曹樱. He was promised a general post in return. In the enf, an old and injured 子龙 charged towards 曹樱 and her army. 7/10

Friday Dinner@Modesto

Had a good dinner before the movie. Actually first time at Modestos, the one at Vivo. Numerous pasta and pizza to choose from. So are starters/Appetizers and salads which was in the menu. Calamari, Mini pizza and their famous linguine seafood pasta.

The seafood pasta comes in single portion or portion for 2, cheaper if you get the portion for 2. The calamari came shortly, huge pieces which are slightly battered, deeep fried but not that oily. It was really good and the tartar sauce base sauce goes very well with it.



Then came the pizza, thin crust. Tomatos, cheese and spicy pork salami. I like salami but not his pork salami, somehow taste like expired bak kwa. Anyway, the additional shreded cheese powder compensate for it.

After a while, the pasta came in a big plate with a huge aluminium foil on it. The pasta was inside ! Portion for 2 ! Served on the side where the waiter split it into 2 portions. The portion was really huge and ingredients was very generous and fresh. Mussels, clams, prawns, squids and half a crab each. The tomato base sauce was thick and yet not overwhelming. Though the crab a bit difficult to eat without getting your hands dirty. The meat could have been taken out and cooked with the rest. Towards the end, became slightly challenging to finish, but still made it. If not really hungry, a single portion should suffice for 2. A portion for 2 probably would be for someone like MXX Selamat whom still was finding berries in the jungles :)



Dessert was Profitero. We had it at French Stall and love it. This version was different. It came in 3 small ones drenched with chocolate cream sauce, equally good ! I am still so full as I am writing this entry !