Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

This movie need some oil from my face, so dry and was trying so hard to keep awake. How could it have break the dark night 3 day record ? Probably only hard core potter fans will like, or the director couldn't instill more excitement. I think I didn't watch the first 2 and could never remember the characters and terms the movie use ... except potter, not because I like him but it is the name of the book and movie, quite difficult to forget.

Can't remember there is any scene which will up your adrenaline. They are older now so elements of BGR takes up a portion of the movie. Harry was persuaded back to Hogwarts by Dumbledore and got Horace back to teach Potions. Also getting Harry to be under him. As death eaters tear through muggles and london, Snape took a unbreakable "SoomPa" with Draco's mother. Not sure who this draco guy is, supposedly working with Voldermort, he was asked to do something. So snape vowed to protect him.

During potion lesson, harry found a book which helped during the potion making task, the book was written by "half blood" prince which nobody knows who. Ron became the goalie of the team, where the game they play flying around and trying to score goals by hitting a ball like object through a ring. This attracted a girl, lavender brown who is head over heels about Ron, that of course incurred the wrath of Hermione. Harry on the other hand was jealous of Ginny close interactions with Dean.

Back to the dark part, Dumbledore wanted Harry to get close to Horace and get him to reveal long time back when he taught Tom Riddle aka Voldermort, he did mention to him about learning one dark art. Dumbledore believed that could be the key in defeating him. Meanwhile Draco is doing things, attempted twice to kill Dumbledore but failed. One with a cursed necklace and the other poisoned wine. Harry aware from the beginning as he saw Draco before doing some ritual with the death eaters.

After the 2nd attempt, harry confronted draco killing him in the process with "Sectumsempra" curse from the "half blood" prince book. Snape came in time and heal draco. Dumbledore revealed to harry in Tom's dream, there is mention of Horcruxes, some device that will make his soul immortal. And 2 of the rings harry's mother have were part of the 7 Horcruxes. He discovered another Horcruxes and teleport with harry to some cave and inside there, they drank something so that they can see the Horcruxes, which is a pendant. Then they were attacked by numerous zombie like creatures, inferi.

Dumbledore recovered and burnt them to nothing. As they return back to the tower, he ask harry to go get snape, before that happens. Snape appeared with other death eater, he cast Avada Kedavra, a killing curse at Dumbledore which is still weak. He fell out of the window and died. As the school still trying to recover from dumbledore death, harry found that the pendant is fake, only leaving a note, signaturing R.A.B. 6/10

Friday Dinner@Taman Sri Tebrau

Now it seems possible that to drive across to JB on friday evening. After you passed Woodlands custom, it is faster at the JB end, surprisingly. As usual, the woodland guy will read out your name then you acknowledge but this round ... that guy paused for a while after going through all our passport, then say in a slow, monotonous voice ... "Welcome to the 1976 club". We know what he meant but not sure whether to laugh or just ignore, probably he is just too sian after reading out 5,251,757 names.

It took a while before we got to the tebrau area as we horlan, seems the map didn't work out to be like the road names, we took the wrong road heading towards KL but we manage to find the way there. Of course the beauty of KTsia roads are, some or most road signs are either at the road entrance or just before that ... so is either you must know which road or you are tokyo drift or hamilton. And the romantically litted roads don't help at all.

Think we reached about 830++, about time for a late dinner. The tze char stall just right in front but at these places, don't expect any things will look "clean". Of course the food are much cheaper because of the exchange rate. We ordered 牛油虾婆, 麦片虾, 清炒凯兰, 干烧伊面. The crayfish is quite good, dry type, deep fried. It comes with alot of cripsy cripsy stuff, like they will crystalize, savoury and sweet. The crayfish meat don't have much taste but fresh and soft enough. The noodles are worthy mention also, like 炒香港面. Dry but wet enough so it is smooth and with enough ingredients. The prawns are not that fantastic.

Malls are closed so found this cafe and the white coffee really good. Very creamy and with a chocolatey taste. The boston cheese cake which is quite good but if cheesy enough could be better. It even has live music singing chinese pop but somehow the crowd doesn't seems to be here for the singing.

Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ellie, Manny, Sid and Diego are back. E and M are expecting their first child and M is really excited, built a playground for the impending bb. D felt he is losing his predatory instinct thus wants to leave the herd. Sid even better, seeing E and M's happiness, also wants to be a parent. He wondered into some cave, he found 3 eggs and brought them back.

M sensing something not right, told S to return them. Of course, he won't, so called still enjoying this new found parenthood. It gets better, after he woke up ... the way this sloth zzzz ... really like "SaMe", maybe can seek some $$$ from Fox, that they copied him.

Back to the movie, the eggs hatched into 3 dino ... quite cute, start calling S as Mummy. He is thrilled but it didn't go well. Their born rambunctious behaviour doesn't fit into their herd.

They reck the playground and M was really pissed. S still refuse to return them but no need for that since Momma, a Tyrannosarus came for them, she took S with her too.

Knowing S got taken away, E and M and the 2 stooges crash and eddie follow as well. They provided numerous crap dialogues and comical moments. To their surprise, they found a land of dinosaurs, living below them. D followed them and saved them from a Ankylosaurus but to no avail as more dino are around. Then they met Buck, a possum, living below for a long time.

As they told him they are going to save S, B eventually agreed to guide them to save S. They have to go to the Lava Falls but have to thread through Chasm of Death and the Plates of Woe. It was fun and with close call moments. Not to forget the funny ones, the scene where they got stucked in the middle some "cable car" ride indiana jones style ... as they breath in some helium with laughing effect.

S is doing well with Momma and her dino but there is another dino, Rudy, a Suchomimus who everyone is afraid of. He attacked them, leaving S floating towards Lava fall. The gang came through but E went into labour, B and 2 stooges went ahead to save S, while M and D stay behind to protect E. It ended well and seems a 4th instalment Ice Age Th4w is on the cards. 7/10

Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen

Life gave the movie 1/2 a star, out of 5 stars. Not among the best but definitely worth watching in the cinema. Probably the guy only likes smurfs, my little pony or care bear. The movie continue 2 years after the prequel ended, Optimus leading his autobots in stopping the decepticons as usual but now working with the humans, in a team called NEST. There are some new autobots, Arcee, she transformed into 3 motorcycles, SideSwipe, a chervolet corvette which skids around as wheels are his feets, and Jolt, another chervolet. Of course, there is also the twins, the 2 stooges who hang around to provide comedic moments.

In a mission in Shanghai, NEST found out that Fallen is coming. This leads back in time where it was told that the transformers came to earth before, the primes as they called themselves created a sun harvester, something that convert energon then to power Cybertron's AllSpark. But the agreement was to only take energon sources from planets without life, but one bastard prime disagreed, as he bastard the rest of the prime, he was known as the fallen. To protect it from the fallen, the other primes hide some key known as matrix of leadership using their own bodies.

Sam preparing for his college had to leave bumblebee and gf Mikaela behind. She is even hotter than before, somehow. Anyway, as he packed, he contacted a piece of the AllSpark splinter into the kitchen, this caused all the applicances to transform and rollout. It caused some mayhem before bumblebee came out of the garage and stopped them. S gave the splinter to M before leaving. This also filled this mind with some cybertronian symbols, like telling him something.

S reached college and met his roommate Leo who runs a alien conspiracy website. And also Alice who kept advancing on S, she is hot too but M still better. Meanwhile, decepticon sends a remote control wheelie to try to steal the spark from M, this one abit crap and got captured by M. S called M, telling her that his mind like going crazy with symbols filling it. M with wheelie flew over to meet S.

Decepticon Soundwave, now not only playback casette tape. It is in space tapping into US satelite and listening into NEST conversations. That allowed him to know where they hid Megatron and location of the other AllSpark. He sends some doggie transformer to retrieve the spark and used it to resurrect Megatron. With Fallen back, Megatron is only a ka kia. He kena arrowed to capture Sam, so that can remove his brains and know the symbols.

M reached and as she came into S room. Alice was in bed with S, she saw and left but came back when she heard commotion. Alice was a decepticon pretender. S, M and L escaped, Alice gave chase but eventually was crashed to death by M's car. Grindor the decepticon heli gave chase and caught S M L. They were brought to some warehouse, as decepticons prepare to remove S brain, Optimus and bumblebee arrived. Thus, S M L managed to escape again, but Optimus was killed by Megatron.

With O's death, Mega ordered a full scale assault on earth, as Fallen speaks to the world, demanding them to handover S. L told S that some online guy Robo Warrior maybe able to help to decipher the symbols. They found him and was the guy from the prequel, agent Simmon. He advice they should go to Simthsonian Museum and find JetFire, an old time transformer who was here way back in time. They found him and resurrect him with the AllSpark, only to find he is a decepticon, after he transformed, trying to recollect what happened, sort of agree to help them. Somehow he teleported everyone to Egypt, telling them you can find the matrix here.

S did find the matrix but it turned into dust but he believed it will still be able to save O. He told Simmons to phone Major William to fly O and autobots to Egypt. They arrived so did the decepticons. As S M L tried to reach Major William, the decepticons need to destroy O's body first. It was quite a battle mayhem before S M L reached the military area but Mega killed Sam in a chaotic carpet bombing sequence. Lying still, in a flash, he saw the Primes, telling him matrix needs to be earned and he did it. M crying and telling him she loved him, along the movie, they playing the game of who should tell who love who first.

Decepticon already have know where the sun harvester, ordered Constructicons to form. This one very different from the one what we seen in cartoons. As devastator try to climb the pyramid and tear down the top, Simmons followed and radio some USSS captain, asked to use some classified weapon to shoot down devastator, after some TCSS, he believed him and shot down D.

S woke and matrix formed into shape. He resurrect O with that but Mega snatched it and as he flew over to the pyramid with Fallen. They powered the sun harvester. O without the spark seems weak but JetFire who flew by a while back, gave up his power and parts to O. In a split second, Ironhide and some autobot enhanced O. He flew to the pyramid and destroyed the sun harvester. Then he took on Fallen and Mega, they fell back to the ground. Fallen is no fight with the enhanced O, O killed him as he teared through Fallen. Mega and Starscream sat back and watched ... retreated for Transformer 3. 7/10

Friday Dinner@Ebisboshi Shotengai

4th floor@Iluma is a floor full of restaurants and most of them you don't see it anywhere in Singapore. I like this area coz it has high ceiling so gives you a feeling of spaciousness.

You get empire state, marble slab creamery, cheeky chocolates, manhattan fish market, Ebisboshi Shotengai, Hua Li Xuan, asian kitchen, empire noodles, thai express etc. Jap was the choice, even the Ebisboshi Shotengai has 3 separate eating area.

One is Tsubohachi, second is the maid cafe tora shabu, third is a combination of menya manpei, teppan no honshi, katsuya and sweet brothers. We went to the 3rd one because I felt like having ramen, menya manpei served them.

The setting was abit dark and of course, the interesting thing about Ebisboshi Shotengai is you take your own orders with a talking pen.

The menu has some tag on each item, so tapping the pen on the item, means selecting it ... then you follow by selecting quantity. So you repeat this, till you finish and "send" the order by tapping on "Send" on the menu with the pen. The teppanyaki items are good, the squid though quantity not alot, but is savoury and just the right chew is enough. The teppan bamboo clam just as good, very tender and with the right amount of garlic. At $8.90 each, still consider reasonable but can be cheaper.



The charsiew ramen is also not bad. Soup base doesn't seem got anything speical but still tasty, the ramen are abit thick and chewy. And the charsiew are the thickest i ever had in a ramen, 4 pieces, just enough.



The desserts are from Cheeky Chocolates, at the same 4th flr area. The cheeky chocolate crepes, at $7.90 considered good. It is like a cheaper version of the ones at Canele, you don't get the fancy condiments. Just crepes, a strawberry, chocolate ice cream, whip cream, the 2 huge crepes are chocolate flavoured, must mention is the ice cream, gives you not only choclate taste, something else in it. The warm choclate cake, also at $7.90, at this price, very good. Outside is soft and crisp with the oozing chocolate flowing out, the sour blueberry can take away some of the chocolatey taste if you want. The vanilla bean ice cream is as good.

Wednesday Dinner@Say Cheeze

Not sure if this outlet is related to the Say Cheezecake located at Great World. They famous for their cheese cakes ? if not why name it. I think they are the same.

They are like Swensen but with more innovative items, more cakes, less ice creams.

Couldn't resist ordering laksa chowder but got a normal main course, some chicken cordon bleu.

And the waitress did try to get us order their cheese cakes which she failed.

The chowder is not bad but somehow just don't have the flavour that will captivate you. Is just like any chowder but with laksa taste, you get some seafood in it. Good for first try.

The chicken cordon bleu simply CMI. It suppose to have some ham wrapped in it and oozing cheese. The ham is tiny and don't really can see or taste the cheese. The breaded skin and chicken easily comes off, some portion abit tough. To make it worse, the side dishes didn't help. The coleslaw not saucy enough and not cold enough. The macroni cheese ... like someone dropped some rubber band into a bowl of cheese. Hope their cheesecake is good, if got chance to come back.