二月二十六日, 星期四, 雨

Somehow getting abit tired everyday, maybe signs of falling sick or simply over usage of too many neurons. The wet weather isn't really helping, didn't manage to swim this week, at least releasing some endorphin might help.

How much work can one do ? Is time really the only factor to determine if you are overworked ? Everyone's threshold, objective and mindset is different. You can't really control how other people react, so probably only to restrict or allow how yourself react. Or maybe by saying "I can do it" a few trillion times will work ? Trillions is the "in" word nowadays, we just need a few trillion to save the whole world now.

It is getting cynical and ironic when times are really damn bad, people start to re-think ways to do things, especially in extra large organization. Not that they don't think during good times, but it just sounds more funny during bad times.

The airasia offer of $0 tickets to certain destination is quite attractive but you still need to pay the other standard stuff but that only come out to about $50 to $70 per pax. Too bad ... not enough friends interested. Must book before March 1st !!

二月二十二日，星期日, 雨

Slept at 5 am due to work though at the comfort of my room ... still quite shag. Took a good nap just now though, it was warm even though it rained. I was also thinking of getting haircut but was abit lazy to go out.

Don't know when will I start catching up PB and Heroes, Lost season 5 was also at episode 6 already. New TVB series also out, seems like the 3rd installment of the 学警 series. Maybe soon ...

I like 王若琳's version of Vincent, 够忧伤, 加上她那独特的嗓音, 有厚度又有雌性.

He is just NOT into you

A light hearted comedy about BGR. Too many artistes in this outing, have to list them out if not it will get confusing.

B Affleck is Neil. A guy who doesn't believe in marriage but is outright nice guy.

J Aniston is Beth. Neil's gf of 7 years who wants to get married but her sister tied the knot before her.

D Barrymore is Mary. A advert design girl who having problem meeting guys in persons and keep getting rejection in the internet/technology space.

S Johsansson is Anna. Simply stunning yoga instructor who wanted to be a singer, she is Mary good friend.

B Cooper is Ben. Branded as the best husband but just simply couldn't resist when she met Mary. Who can resist ? Towards the end, started to know why he is so called best husband.

J Connelly is Janine. She is Beth's good friend who is happily married to Ben. But started to get abit psycho when she found out Ben hasn't really quit smoking.

G Goodwin is Gigi. Beth and Janine's colleague and friend who kept believe the guys who met her is interested in her and will call her again.

K Connolly is Connor. Into real estate and simply confuse about what Anna wants.

J Long is Alex. He runs a restaurant and bar. Connor is his buddy and he seems to be a ultimate relationship expert, getting the girls he wants and dumping them. Till he met Gigi, who initially thought he doesn't like her.

Though some of them knew each other but not everyone is linked together. At about 120 mins, the movie strings along everything quite interestingly as it goes through each person and their encounters.

Gigi kept thinking that the guys she met will call her. She analyze and deduce but got it all wrong till she met Alex who started telling her the ugly truth. Then the problem came, she thought Alex liked her.

Though she mess up initially, he did like her and ended up like her ... left her voicemail and kept thinking she would call him back.

Ben was the best husband because Janine so called force him into marrying her but more surprising they didn't have sex all along. He remains faithful and nice to her till he met Anna at a supermarket, letting her pay first at the cashier. And dramatically, she won some picnic box or ice box because she is the 1000th customer.
His resistance weakens, attends her yoga class and then went swimming. Nothing wrong with swimming but if she takes off all her clothes and jumps in ... then ask you to join her ... then hewww ... how to tahan !

Neil and Beth lives happily together but what Beth really wants is to get married. She even wants it when Gigi tells them her seemingly logical but yet illogical EQ with IQ theory. Beth wants to be the norm rather than the miraculously exception. She gave Neil an ultimatum but Neil just doesn't want to get married. But when Beth father fell ill, she moved back home ... seeing the so called husband of her sisters simply irks her. Neil came by and help out ... at the time when she really needed some. Eventually she told Neil, she is fine to continue this kind of relationship but abit surprising is that Neil did propose to her.

Connor who kept thinking how to convince Anna into a relationship eventually hit it off with Mary, the "internetically" dumped girl. Eventually Ben did not end up with Anna or back to Janine ... The "Ben and Anna in the office make out then hid her in the closet because Janine came by and wanted to make out with him" scene seems abit not match the theme but of course welcome. 7/10

Valkyrie

This movie which was based on a true story about the last known assassination attempts on Hitler. It has enough suspense to keep me awake and it was suppose to be a thriller. There was this group of people who were anti-Hitler, both militarists and politicians.

Apparently, they can just gather at some house and then talk about their plans openly, probably because technology is just isn't there at that time. TC was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a loyal soldier to Germany but not AH. He was seriously injured in Tunisia but returned to Berlin, left eye gone, some fingers gone, right hand below the elbow gone. They wanted to recruit him, though initially TC rejected as he seems this assassination was more of a political move.

Anyway, he convinced them of this plan, Operation Valkyrie, which was to activate the reserve army and making them believe SS was doing a coup and arrests SS people. But of course, there were some challenges.

To get hitler to sign the re-written Valkyrie, which TC somehow successfully did it. The re-written one includes the capturing of leaders of SS.

To get close enough to Hitler to kill him. But then the trick to using these explosives was for most common sense reason, at that time, AQ probably not the in thing, so the ground rule was do not be anywhere near the explosives when it goes off.

To activate Valkyrie, needs Fromm approval, who heads the reserve army. Problem was though he knows of such anti activities going out there, he was still neutral.

Then what went wrong. Previous attempts failed because Himmler wasn't there, the head of SS. But it did came to the "now or never" and "whatever cost" moment, TC went to the wolf's lair to meet Hitler and the rest of the kk.

The meeting was supposed to be held in an enclosed room but was later held in a room
with opened windows. This will reduce the power of the explosives. And TC last min decide to use just only one briefcase of explosive. Though he managed to put the briefcase as close to AD, but as he leaves the room to take a "important" call, the bag was moved to the other end of the table, even so somehow AD didn't die, as he gave orders to capture TC and his people, also talk over the radio to people of Germany.

Though the order to activate the reserve army was given late due to no confirmation that AD was dead. The indecisive General Olbricht did eventually activate the reserve and captured Fromm. But all these are shortlived as the major of the reserve troops got a call from AD to capture TC and his guys.

Eventually they got executed. 7/10

UnderWorld - Rise of the Lycans

A prequel to the successful sequels of Beckinsale Underworld where vampire fights werewolves aka lycans from past to now. Rhona Mitra, the tomb raider video game poster girl, is the vamp Sonja, daughter of Lord Victor. The action packed into this 92 mins movie where vampire rules and lycans captured as slaves.

And there seems to be 2 kind of lycans, those so called pure and full blooded ones seemingly can't turn themselves back into humans form. Lucia, the lycan that was kept alive by Victor so as to use them to protect the vamps and their nobles. In this scenario, then there seem nothing else as the fuse to anymore bloodshed, so Sonja need to love Lucia and Lucia need to love Sonja.

Lucia wanted freedom and wants Sonja to come with him. It became ever more eager to gain freedom when Victor imprisoned him, because he defied his order and remove some dog collar. Apparently this dog collar worked its magic, wearing it, he couldn't turn into the werewolf. Anyway, he took it off to save Sonja when she was out to escort the human "Nobles".

So Lucia got whipped and celled. He was pissed and wanted to escape. And he mention Sonja, dennis, his father's ka kia can help, Dennis seems to know about their relationship. Sonja seek the truth and gotten Dennis help to free Lucia in return for her position in the Tampines Town Council ... Okay ... not the TTC, it was some council where 11 useless and weak vampires sit arounds and decides who get punished.

And since vamp do not die that easy, Dennis waited for this chance. Lucia did escape and with some human-turned-lycans and some lycans. The scene where one of the esacaping whatever got speared through this cheek ... quite hiong. Anyway, Sonja didn't make it out as Victor found out his daughter and Lucia got one leg.

So Lucia came back for her, got captured again. Victor and the TTC sentenced Sonja to death, she was solared to death. Lucia turned into wolf and try to escape again, didn't really manage to do that ... But did manage to howl over the wall to call upon the 3,556,773,831 pure blood lycans out there for help.

The Vamps was overpowered but Victor escaped with Dennis and the coffined elders. So they do see more sequels to this prequels or more prequels to this prequel. 7/10

Friday Dinner@Tonkichi

I think they added more items to their menu, like curry and claypot stuff. Selling point is still their tonkatsu, either fillet or loin. The loin one has fat meat in it, that is the only difference, of course the way they are served, fillet comes in rounded pieces. Loin comes in large piece cut into stripes.

I decided to have the pork fillet with curry. It comes with rice, salad and fruits. The curry comes in a separate bowl which is always welcome, rather then drenched it at the side. Jap curry has never being spicy, it gives a thick texture with more savory than hot.




Another thing I like about their tonkatsu is that it is not that oily when served, probably they did the necessary oil filtering inside. Very crispy on the outside and chunks of meat in it. Every main meal also comes with unlimited cabbage where you can drenched the seaweed sauce on them. If you take the premium set like my friends, you get a bowl with sesame where you are supposed to grind it with the given thingie, then add the "jile" dark sauce.

No discounts for credit cards at the moment. But for the tonkatsu set, priced at about $25 to $35, considered still reasonable. Also found out they are under Pokka group, which also runs the Pasta cafe.

Dessert was tapas ice cream at bakerzinn. Problem with this not quite enjoyable to have it alone, as it comes in damn small glasses, at the rate of eating the ice cream but skillfully scooping with the small spoon. It was like a race to prevent the other 2 from melting. And somehow it melts too fast, still having the impression that premium ice cream shouldn't melt so easily.

Another KT thing, they name their ice cream with wonderful names but without telling WTF is the ice cream. Who in the world will know Arabella ice cream is chocolate banana ? As it melts too fast, most of the time I was tasting shake.

菊花台

妳的淚光　柔弱中帶傷　慘白的月彎彎　勾住過往
夜太漫長　凝結成了霜　是誰在閣樓上　冰冷的絕望
雨輕輕彈　朱紅色的窗　我一生在紙上　被風吹亂
夢在遠方　化成一縷香　隨風飄散　妳的模樣

菊花殘　滿地傷　妳的笑容已泛黃
花落人斷腸　我心事靜靜躺
北風亂　夜未央　妳的影子剪不斷
徒留我孤單在湖面　成雙

二月八日, 星期日, 晴

Was supposed to work over this weekend but it was postponed, so relishing this break. I got a new pair of arena goggles on friday, used it yesterday evening and with the anti fog, a useful feature. I don't have to keep wiping the inner part of the goggles. Just have to get used to the new fit of the goggles. I was also considering getting the crocs sporty adara, the blue base with white strips looked quite nice.

No progress with finishing any new songs for the competition, weekdays are simply brain dead. Seems like there are gaps in putting the right lyrics into the tunes. Anyway, maybe something will come along soon.

Will be meeting friends for dinner at manhill later, follow by mahjong over the "Spurs vs Arsenal" game !!