Terminator Salvation

Another movie that is into his 4th instalment, a 5th one is in the pipe line. Machines continued their intention to take over the world and that means kill all humans. The resistance, a group of army personnel determined to stop the machines. They were led to believe that some signal if used will be able to stop the machines, their tests proved them right. But what John Connor by Christian Bale, didn't know was, it was just a ploy by the machines.

Then came along this Marcus guy by Sam Worthington, a machine but strongly believes he is human, till he saved Williams, a resistance pilot. She brought him back but he accidentally got injured by a mine. The injury revealed his inner machine build, thus got imprisoned. W believed M is good and release him, leading J out to destroy him. He didn't manage to but came to a deal. M promised to lead J to Kyle Reese, a young man now but is J's father.

M went back to the Machine HQ to seek some answers. And he got them, he is a human machine deployed to lure the resistance in, a machine with a pumping human heart. Something which previously no machine could do. M got J in and as he tried to find Kyle and save the rest out. He found a machine, none other than the cameo appearance of Arnold S. While the humans are out, J was still inside and met T 800, the newer, faster and even more hiong machine. He was no match for it, M came along but was knocked unconscious with his heart stopped. But J revived him and M manage to stop the T 800 by tearing off his head, though J was already pierced through by a metal rod.

They escaped with the HQ blown away and ended with M giving J his heart so to save J life. Straightforward machinery action, maybe one day all technology equipments will begin to kill all IT guys. 7/10

Angels and Demons

It thrills though the twist in the end was expected. Maybe shouldn't have anticipated too much, but such stories simply needs a twist in the end. Hanks continued as the man who read and understand religion symbols. Langdon was visited by Vatican police and brought immediately to Vatican to investigate a kidnap of the 4 cardinals who were suppose to stand for election for the Pope.

The perpetrator leaved behind some diagram wordings symbolizing "Illuminati". And vowed to killed each caridinal hourly from 20:00, then the final plan to blow up the whole Vatican, using some stolen "anti matter". A group supposedly made up of people believing and exceling in Science which eventually was so called being forced by the church into becoming a secret society. After some understanding, L requested access to the Vatican archives, so he went with Richter, the swiss guard commander to seek approval from the Carmerlengo, Patrick, the acting head of state since Pope is dead.

Vittoria, one of the scientist that experimented on the anti matter came along. As she and L go through the archives, they found where could the first kill will be. But it was too late, so they race against time to check where the other cardinals could be killed. L knew they will be killed in places symbolizing earth, air, fire and water. P kept urging the cardinals to vacate Vaticans but failed, they wanted to continue their voting for new Pope.

L and rest did save the 4th cardinal and found the perpetrator, just a contract killer who escaped but got blown up in the end. L though P could be in danger, ran from the hideout place which also leads back to Vatican Pope room. They charged in into the room seemingly R trying to kill P, so the swiss guard shot R.

P was lying on the ground with burns on his chest. As he recovered, they searched the place for the anti matter, which they found but V believe it was too late but P snatched it and charged out to the square.

Onto the helicopter and flew off, but parachuted out. The anti matter exploded and caused an huge force surging through out Vatican square. P survived. As the cardinals failed to elect a new Pope, they try to consider P but he was only a Camerlengo and was too young. Then twist came. 8/10

Star Trek

Never watched the series before, such space space thingie never intrigue me. Also, watching men in red spandex, beam here, beam there, beam beam, anywhere here there doesn't really excite. And I think most of the series dialogues are slow and very 琼瑶. But overall this movie entertains, it delivered just enough, with a new cast protraying the series characters when young.

Chris Pine as James T Kirk, while Zachary Quinto as Spock. Both wanted to serve the USS enterprise but with their opposite style, the fiery impetuos James vs the logical and seem calm Spock whom being half vulcan and human was able to control his emotion. And on board a crew of United Nations, even "Harold" got a role as Zulu, the pilot. My friend sweared he saw Kumar also in the movie. Then we have Bones, friend of James who is the medical doctor. Not to mention, the russian whiz kid, his accent adds some funny moments.

He tried to help him to get board one of the 7 ship that was scheduled to fly to Vulcan to save the planet. First giving him a shot to make him ill, thus allowing his own patient on board. Then running around to reverse the effect of this shot. When James found out that, an lightning storm was around when the vulcan incident happened, he charged to warn Captain Pike, this could be a trap set by the Nero, commander of the invading ship.

James did convince the captain but it was slightly too late. They arrived in warp speed then found themselves facing the invading spaceship, they simply couldn't stop them. And captain was have no choice by to go on board the enemy ship. While James and Zulu parachuted onto the spaceship where they need to destroy the thingie that disabled the USS transporter. They did eventually. Then Spock beamed into Vulcan and saved a few old people and his father and mother. But his mother died while was almost being beam back.

Back on ship, James wanted to save the captain while Spock logically rebuted doing that is not possible. Thus, as captain, Spock send James away, he landed in some planet with just snow and ice around. On the planet, he met Spock, not the one that send him here but is the same Spock but came from the future. He gave him some tips on how to handle the invasion.

James went to some USS outpost and found Scotty, beam back to the enterprise with him. Using the what future Spock told him, he became Captain after Spock stepped down as he found himself overtaken by emotion, still filled with anger by his mother death. Anyway in the end, they co-operated and won the battle. 7/10

X-men Origins : Wolverine

It takes you back in time where a boy whose hands can retract extra long and strong claws. No manicurist will do his business. Not really an outright action movie, more of telling wolverine's story. Seemingly borned a mutant, James, he even have a brother, Victor who hungers more. They ran away after James killed his own father, which had killed the man whom James though was his father.

They joined the army. Victor got carried away trying to kill the innocence and killed an officer, James protected him so both were caught. Major stryker took them into his special squad of men having special abilities. Their deeds got more and more out of hand, James walked out while stryker searching for some metal compound.
He did find it years later. And James was living in some canadian mountain with Emma, but stryker need James to be injected with adamantium. Only problem was, he need him to do it willingly.

So he told him someone was out killing people from the old team. Then emma was dead but not really dead, it did bluffed James. He knew it was Victor, he found him but couldnt defeat him.

That drove this anger to the maximum, thus allowing strkyer to inject the indestructible compound into him. It succeeded but before Stryker can erase him memory, wolverine broke free and escape. Stryker send agent zero, some one shot one kill guy, but of course couldnt killed wolverine.

He started to check where stryker and victor were. And found they were in cahoots in the beginning, Victor was capturing mutants for him to experiment, in return he wanted the compound in him too. Wolverine found them on the "island" with the help of Gambit, who never appeared in the other x-men movies. He can manipulate kinetic energy and have powerful card throwing/combat skills.

On the island, he found out Emma did not die and was a mutant too. She didnt meant to ... but her sister was in Stryker hands. Quite a skill she has, can turned hers skin into diamonds. Wolverine freed all the captured mutants. Soon, a battle ensue, strkyer unleashed a not yet finish mutant, which supposedly had a few powers.

Well, he won with some help from Victor but he did get his memory erased when stryker shot him in the head with the adamantium bullets. And Prof X appeared to take the mutants away. 7/10

四月二十日, 星期一, 阴霾

Rare day that I managed to see the sun after I left, to top that, I managed to go for a dip. I need to release some endorphin. My cough seems to be 99.99999 % okay and soon to come, it maybe 100%. Am watching Heroes S3 nowadays, at episode 16, as usual it gives you the "you think you know but maybe not" feel. If I will get to choose a power, not sure which one I will get.

Hmmmm ... flying is too obvious. Most power are upfront destructive, think the mind reading one is good. Need this kind of power to deal with "irrational taunaopai org".
Not to harm anyone physically but sometimes if you wonder how they think, you need to let themselves think themselves.

Also waiting 2 more TVB series, not blockbuster kinds though. Seems to re-like this みらい song by きろろ, old song, trying out the lyrics in jap on the keyboard.

Taken

"I don't know who you are. I don't know where you are. But if you do not let my daughter go, I will find you. I will kill you." Straightforward action, clean cut and no fuss till you wonder how can it be possible. Liam Neeson as Brian, a retired agent who relocated to be near her daughter, trying hard to rebuild the relationship. Maggie Grace, as Kim was the daughter, now I remember where I saw her before ! She was from the series LOST !

He was surprised when she asked her out for lunch. Truth was, she was below 18, needing him to sign some papers so that she can go to France with her cuz. She also bluffed him that this was actually an art tour, anyway he found out they were chasing U2 around Europe and agreed in the need.

Since it was straightforward no fuss, the girls got into trouble immediately out of the airport. Shared cab with some guy, he dropped them first so to know where they stayed. The girls went up the apartments, just after a while. The baddie came and got the cuz, Kim was in the toilet talking to Brian, as was supposed to call him back daily. She was very scared from that moment, but since Brian was the "almost replaced Tom Cruise in MI series but because of his look" and "almost replaced Matt Damon in Bourne series but because of his age", he taught her step by step what to do.

Bo bian she will be caught but wanted her to provide as much information. So hiding under the bed, the baddie managed to talk loud enough for Brian to get it recorded and also she shouted all possible signs of clues on the baddie physical appearance. Baddie had to get tattoo and must be in visible place, if not you are not a baddie. He repeated the first 2 lines on top when the baddie picked up the mobile phone. Trick was making him to speak into the phone, any words will do. Anyway, he said "Good Luck".

Then came all the hiong hiong MI and Bourne stuff. Brian send across the recorded voice to his friend Sam and from his home, he was able to tell Brian who were the baddie, what they do, how much time he have. Then he flew down and went to crime scene, found nothing much but the memory card on Kim smashed mobile. Left, went to some card reader machine, browse through the card, saw a picture they took, by that airport guy ... His blurred and pixelated image was reflected in something as he took the picture. But this was as clear as HD to a MI/Bourne guy.

Airport couldn't help much as he was lorried as Brian chased him down. So he went to his french police friend for help, he told him not to make trouble.

Gave him some information like where are the places to find the Albanians, the ones who behind the kidnapping.

These Al"same"nians are just the tool used to catch the girls, as he checked, there are more than meet the eyes. His friend was involved too, taking bribes.

He found the Al HQ, went in, impersonating a local police. Plan was to find the actual guy who said "Good Luck". After a short and quite convincing TCSS, they believed him, gave him the $$$. And also made the guy say"Good Luck". His DSP processing told him it was him, so he wiped them out.

In the end, LOST girl didn't get lost this time. Brian saved her after killing a dozens of baddie with no weapon. He might be KungFu Panda as well. 7/10

四月十二日, 星期日, 雨

Waking up early is no easy feat, especially on a non-working day. But then it feels good after a early morning dip, recently it was difficult to swim 3 times a week but at least once still doable. The daming cough is somehow refuse to be leave, it is like 99.8% ... somehow but at least I can finish a song on the keyboard.

Selling Tees at 24.90 and Jeans at 69.90 can make you the richest man in Japan, the numbers doesn't add up, the quantity or profit margin it is getting must be generous. Or probably the richest man in Japan isn't that "rich" but he is worth 6 billion. That is nothing consider how many trillions is needed to save the world. Evisu sells its jeans average $300 to $500, one wonders.

Tampines One is a cross-over between sub-urban malls and ones in orchard. Nobody wants to see the same shops here if they can get it at TM and CS. It is very new and attracting the crowds. Even Playboxx, the game shop just opposite the central area, near the library, upgraded to T1, so not sure if its game is still selling at neighbourhood prices. I got my SF at $85 !

And also you can consider buying the $5,000 ++ recliner from Simmons gallery. The one stop Jap dining area Manpuku, where different restaurants gathered and you dine in "marche" style. Yamazaki at B1 is something new, by Sun Moulin, the popular bakery at Orchard Isetan. It doesn't have an anchor department store though but cold storage takes space in the basement.

Amore Living on the 5th flr has a swimming pool facility, interesting, wonder how one can be allow to use it or maybe need to sign up 10 year, few K package.

Fast and Furious

Couldn't get the $6 tickets at FilmGarde Iluma, should have bought last night and "ps" my friend. Not many movie can goes into sequel, prequel and in-between quel. The F&F series is one of them and has a box office performance of about $700++ millions. Action movie always a favourite and seeing "beef cake and great looking guys, switching gear as fast as superman changed into his underwear and brake, clutch, accelerate like they have 3 feets" seems quite a draw.

This instalment is somewhere between 2 and 3. Toretto is wanted after several hijack of fuel tanks in dominican republic, so he decided to quit. His crew, Han went off to Japan to "film Tokyo Drift". And he left his gf Letty, not wanting to be caught. Then after some time, his sister called him and told him, she is dead. He flew back to LA, of course to avenge her. He went back to the scene where her car met an accident and he seems to "Ki Tung' .. everything that happened, flashed past him.

Brian, now a FBI agent, aiming to bring in some drug lord, Braga which they have no clues about. But his latest info brought Toretto and him together, they enter a race, the winner will be able to be the "drivers" for braga. Toretto won but brian also got to be the "driver" as he made one of the existing driver unavailable. So they got their first job, 5 cars lightning speed across the border to Mexico, avoiding authorities detection, into a mountain with a underground hidden tunnel route.

They reached but Toretto got other plans, he blew up the cars and one of the braga guys, Fenix admit he was the one that killed Letty. Brian and him were overpowered but manage to escape with the goods. With the goods, Brian wanted to get Braga, asking to deal in person. But his FBI colleagues screwed up, got the wrong guy. But anyway, they did get the right man in the end and Toretto killed Fenix, with his car of course. 7/10

四月四日, 星期六, 晴

Last minute booking for my humble house at esplanade failed, somehow kept forgetting to make reservation, too many crap things at work. I think the UOB 1-for-1 lunch buffet promo is quite popular. Anyway, went to Victor's kitchen with parents and bro. Not the first time there, dim sum there quite good, for their prices. Then went to 记得吃 to get my 姜汁撞鲜奶, still good and expensive.

My 1 week old PS3 is under utilized. Added value of it able to stream my Heroes, Lost and PB from my PC to my LCD TV. Too bad, somehow it doesn't support real media. PES 09 still as good but now with great graphics, though the online play still edgy. Civilization Revolution quite fun, a world conquering game less the complication. Thinking whether to get Street Fighter ....

Finishing my 学警狙击, at episode 23. Some twist in twist in epi 18, 19 but the plot seem died down, now waiting for some more twist, doesn't seem to be coming.

Fanboys

Fanboys is quite entertaining B-grade Kumar goes to white castle kinda of movie but with a more specific theme. Set in the 90s where a group of Star Wars fanatic friends embark on their journey to the Skywalker Ranch to catch Episode 1 months before the premiere. Nobody cares about the plot when your movie name is Fanboys but the cause was because Linus was cancer stricken.

So off they go ... Eric, Linus, Hutch and Windows. For apparent reason, this nerd character was named windows. But he was the one who gets the girl, Zoe, the electric girl from Heroes. It is a 90 mins show, so along the way ... quite enough stuff to keep the mood going. And also windows soughted help from some online friend who seemingly knows how to get into the skywalker ranch.

And hutch did a detour to square off with a bunch of star treks fans. Fight broke out as insults hurls in both directions, but saying "Hans solo is a bitch" ignited it all. They escaped but the hutch van broke down and gotten some help a chief from a gay bar. Van was fixed so off they go but windows online friend who was suppose to be a cross between sarah michelle gellar and janeane garofalo ... was actually a 10 year old kid. Her uncle came to bash them up ... but believed them after they answered his "10 years series" star war fans questions.

So they were told to go to Vegas to meet this guy who will gave them the stuff they need to get into the ranch. They did ... but not before going to the police station. Zoe bailed them out and followed them to Vegas. They got their stuff, met some escorts and got blackmailed by a star war fanatic gangster .... and the star treks fan were also there ... Even the gangster cannot stand "No one calls Hans Solo a bitch"

They go to the ranch ... went in ... went awe with the star wars items ... got caught. But were let off after answering some "10 years series" questions again ... but these time all kinds of sex questions went in ... it is NC16. So only linus got to watch the movie ... and he passed away along the journey back. 7/10

WatchMen

It was a struggle to watch this. At almost 3 hours and with an on and off low tone coarse voice narration, it didn't help. Based on the 12 parts DC comics, don't think the movie will be a hit with the mass. Story revolved around a doomsday clock, which was permanently set 5 minutes before midnight. But actually, the doomsday is about the impending war between US and Soviets.

Then it added another layer of mystery when one of the costumed superheroes was killed, the comedian. This sparked off the whole movie and followed by the world longest starting credit, really getting on my nerves. Since he was killed at the beginning, he appeared through the movie in flashbacks.

But even those alive ones, also flashbacks, I though I was watching LOST. Rorschach, the mask hero started to investigate, he wore a mask somehow have ink blots shifting around. He tried to warn Nite Owl, Dr Manhattan and Silk Spectre. Dr Manhattan seems to be the only one having super powers due to a freak accident. He donned a blue skin and can disintegrate anything, even himself. Silk Spectre was his love but left him when found out he seems to be losing his human touch.

She went to Nite Owl and stayed with him. As Rorschach digged deeper, he found himself being setup and thrown into prisons. NO and SS got him out and they found out, all these seems to be the doing of Ozymandias, another hero. He did all these, even causing Dr M to leave for Mars.

His plan was to develop a infinite source of energy which he succeeded. The rest found out but was too late as he already activated the detonation throughout the world but his main objective was to avoid the war between US and Soviet which he succeeded as the world now is united against Dr M. The world thought these energy explosions was his doing.

Dr M agreed to keep quiet but Rorschach didn't, so he disintegrated him. 6/10

三月七日, 星期六, 晴

又是一个工作的周末, 希望这次比较顺利. 刚看完 WatchMen, 有一点失望, 还该说是期望太高. It was just too dark, too much talking, too boring narration, too much flashback, too much too. Life 给了两颗星, 是乎给多了, 差不多三小时的戏, just too heavy on a friday night, after losing so much neurons at work.

The thai horror is opening next week, looks quite promising. The damn chronic cough is back, it always stays for quite a while. 嗨, 这咳嗽几时才走, I can't eat my ice creams, can't sing and play my keyboard, 总的来说， please go away.

Started on last season of Prison Break, quite intriguing but getting more impossible as it goes along, Michael just too smart. And Sarah is back to make Michael happy or motivate him or even worse, to become a liability ?

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 !!