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.

Friday Dinner@Ishi Mura

It is a food court that sells Japanese food and at reasonable price. You get okonomiyaki, ramen, pizza, curry items, sashimi and sushi, bento, bbq items. This one is much better than the one at Tampines One in terms of price and variety.

This is my house special ramen which is basically seafood ramen. At $6.90, this is good. You get prawn, scallops, char siew, sea weed and poached egg. Soup is savoury enough, not too saltish, noodles are decent but the chilli is good, compliments the ramen.

Salmon sashimi, you get about 20 pieces for $15. Fresh and quite good but it will be better if the slices are thicker ... maybe I too greedy. The pizzas here are also good and at decent prices. This unagi pizza is only $6.90 and you get about 6 to 7 decent pieces. There is a layer of egg after the thin crust which adds something different because the crust is crispy and other ingredients are savoury.

Saturday Dinner@Soon Heng Steamboat

I believe this is still quite new, located just opposite Jalan Besar Stadium. It offers buffet ala carte style steamboat.

The thing about steamboat is the soup base, Soon Heng has chicken, tom yum, 麻辣, 六味, herbal, laksa .. Got one more, couldn't remember but only first 3 is included in the buffet price.

The rest you have to add $5 which still is reasonable.

The choice is chicken and laksa !

But somehow you don't get the select what you want to eat on the first round, they serve a default set, which doesn't really matters. Vege, golden mushrooms, beef, pork, chicken, all kinds of balls, pork liver, mushrooms, fish glue, prawns came. And a must mention is they served some cooked food like fried chicken wing, beef/pork korean style, deep fried tofu. The stuff are fresh and served up really fast, you need to go to Mcdonalds if you want anything faster. Like the beef which is sliced and rolled into small pieces when served. The laksa soup is really good, initial thought was it is lacking enough coconut milk, but not really, just the right spicy and laksa taste.



The deep fried tofu is nice, soft and bland on the inside but crispy and savoury on the outside. And of course the fried chicken wings, these are must try ! Not the usual prawn paste chicken wings, this is coated with something else, just the right crisp on the outside, you can hear it when your teeth goes through them, meat was quite tender. The korean BBQ pork/beef was normal, nothing fantastic.




Then if you think you need more, you just order again from the order sheet. From the sheet, there are more stuff like prawn dumplings, vermicelli, tomatoes, egg, more balls, etc. There is also dessert, Muah Chee which is not bad, and buffet style if at the end you still can eat it. At $19.90 for dinner with air-con, definitely worth coming back.

Night at the Museum 2

Somehow not that good as the first one, numerous dry moments in the movie but there are really funny ones as well. After his adventure in the first instalment, Larry became the head of Daley Devices, inventing "devices" like glow-in-the-dark flash light, Unloseable Keyring, etc. But he found out that the American Museum of History was under renovation and most of the exhibits are going to be send to the Federal Archives.

So he met "them" for the last night though promised he would speak to the board and persuade to let "them" stay. But next day he got a call from Jedadiah, Owen Wilson, the small guy somehow die die can pick up a phone and dial to Larry. He told him that Dexter which is the monkey took the tablet with them, this spelt problem. This woken Pharaoh Kahmunrah, some guy who kept telling he rose from the dead and going to conquer the world.

Larry managed to get into the basement which holds the archives. Not after he have to tcss with some security guard guy, try to keep awake scene. He did find which container they are being locked into, but Kahmunrah saw it and started their "ben stiller" type of crap meaningless conversation, this one no good. Larry manage to escape with the help of General George Armstrong but himself got captured. Larry met Ameila Earhart and joined him as she is thrilled in hearing this adventure. As they try to escape from Kahmunrah's men, Kahmunrah managed to get help from Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible and Napolean.

While General George is coming up with his great plan "shout attack then really attack", Jedadiah and Octavius sneeked out to help Larry but Jeddadiah got caught and was put into a hourglass. Napolean's men caught up with Larry and Amelia, not after another try to be funny dialogue. Kahmunrah took the tablet but couldnt activate the gate, thus threathens Larry to find the right combination on the tablet if not he will kill Jeddadiah.

Larry got the answer from a group of Albert Einstein Bobblehead. Amelia flew Larry back to the American Museum of History to seek help, which only the Lincoln statue is there, after some tcss they went back. Kahmunrah found out the new code and managed to revive back an army of birdmen but then Lincoln statue charged into the window causing the birdmen to flee back into the gate.


As the rest start to battle it out, Octavius saved Jeddadiah and they started piercing all the shoes of Kahmunrah's men, this scene quite interesting. Then Larry duel Kahmunrah one on one and defeated him with his trusty nightguard flashlight and thrown him back into the gate. 6/10

最长的电影

我们的开始　是很长的电影
放映了三年　我票都还留着
冰上的芭蕾　脑海中还在旋转
望着你　慢慢忘记你
朦胧的时间　我们溜了多远
冰刀划的　圈起了谁改变
如果再重来　会不会稍嫌狼狈
爱是不是不开口才珍贵
再给我两分钟 让我把记忆结成冰
别融化了眼泪 你妆都花了要我怎么记得
记得你叫我忘了吧　记得你叫我忘了吧
你说你会哭　不是因为在乎

心动

有多久没见你 以为你在那里
原来就住在我的心底 陪伴着我的呼吸
有多远的距离 以为闻不到你的气息
谁知道你背影这么长 回头就看到你
过去让它过去 来不及 从头喜欢你 白云缠绕着蓝天
如果不能够永远都在一起
也至少给我们
怀念的勇气
拥抱的权利
好让你明白
我心动的痕迹

Land of the Lost

Slow start then the fun and slapstick comes. No need to think since it is a Will Farrell movie, nothing serious but just be there to laugh. Will is Dr Rick Marshall who believes in time warps but of course no one believed him, after his attempt to assault host Matt on his TV show, he was reduced to teaching in a museums where children ask him whether dinosaurs has boobs.

Then came Anna Friel as Holly, a grad who totally believed his theory and urged him to finish his tachyon amplifier which will help to open up a vortex like thingie. Anyway, he did finished it. And together they went to some out of no where desserted theme park to try it out in a cave. Danny Mcbribe as Will was their guide as they boat through the cave, then it happened, sucked through and into the land of the lost. Here it starts its crude humour, sexual innuendoes and slapsticks. Will throughout the movie, became his crap dialogue partner, to some good effect.

Appearing in a dessert, they saved Chakkar, a primate who was being attacked by other primates. As Holly tried to explain to it, in primate language, it sort of understand. The part where she put her hands on her chest and say "Holly" ... well Chakkar replicated the action, but of course his hand on her chest. As they wandered through land, they got chase by T Rex which they managed to escape to a cave.

They seem safe till Rick commented T Rex brain is smaller than a walnut. Rex was pissed and targetting him throughout the movie. Then a creature Enik, tried to tell Rick that some creature Zarn and his Sleestak are taking over the universe, and he need the tachyon amplifier to stop him. Rick believed him and continue to search for the device which he lost in the vortex. To protect himself and out of stupidity sake, he explain to Will and Holly, he had to pour dinosaur urine all over himself, this scene was quite disgusting but funny.

Chakkar offered his help to bring them to an area where little dino feesds on a ice cream truck, of course the ice cream man as well. Then T Rex appeared, worse an Allosaurus also. Somehow he outsmart it and blew it into pieces as she swallowed a nitrogen tank. Out it came, tachyon amplifier but a flying Pteranodon took it. Rick became down and out, Holly and the rest left him. Rick thought through and re-join them as he tried to sing a apologetic tune, unknowingly he was bitten by a giant mosquito which left him with a gigantic swollen bump on his back, the whole scene was really funny.

Then they went to the Pteranodon nest and Rick successfully got the amplifier. They went back to the feeding area where there is a motel. As Rick, Will and Chakkar were drunk, Holly wondered with the amplifer and was caught by Enik. They woke up and search for her, into the Sleestak cave, saw 2 of them trying to makeout, somehow have to have this scene. He did saved Holly but then Rex came, as he tried to beat it but to no avail, ending up pole vaulting into his mouth.

Holly and rest thought he was dead but he returned with him sitting on Rex back, terrorizing the Sleestak. They became good friends after it pooed him out which made its intestinal problem better. Then they stopped Enik but Will chose to stay which sseemingly a wise choice as he met the female primates which Chakkar describe as "ugly". Truth was because they are too human like. but simply beauty for Will. 7/10

Friday Dinner@Straits Cafe

It seems the thermal maasage at lifespa didn't really allow me to eat more at the dinner buffet at Rendezvous hotel. The most important contradicting thing for a buffet is how much variety it has but how much can you eat ? Maybe alot other people can eat lot. I managed to eat a portion of every item with some repeated servings.

The spread is typical with not much surprises. Oysters, salmon sashimi, smoked fishes, cold salads, sushi, poached tiger prawns, mussels, snow crabs about complete the starters/cold section. The smoked salmons are for kidney testing, simply too saltish. I like the romaine lettuce which are very crisp and of course the cherry tomatoes, juicy enough. And they got this mango mayo, something differnt from the 1000 island. A must mention is the poached tiger prawns, one word fresh. Still can remember when I had countless prawns at KL Sheraton, they are peeled and dumped in a bowl for diners to grab.


Oysters .... I like but never ate them alot. These are considered big enough and fresh as well. Had enough cold stuff, now is to the area where they kept the food covered in the "UFOs". They have a small area serving BBQ stuff, items like "am i a prawn ?", squids, scallops and chunks of fish. The quite huge "am i a prawn ?" thingie doesn't taste like prawns, the flesh is much softer, more like crab or lobster but tasteless on its own. The squid are good, huge chunks with the sambal chilli, just the right amount of jaw muscles will do.



The soups are passable. The boston clam chowder taste like from the Hans kitchen. The other soup, some watercress and chicken, didn't try, don't really like watercress.

The "award winning" saved a bit of grace from the soupy section but abit more coconut milk will be better. You can choose either "chu mifen" or "guotiao", then add your own ingredients, fish cake, prawns, eggs, crab roll and squids.


From the hot dishes section, selection is limited. Few good ones are the beef tenderloin with pepper cream sauce, salmon with lobster sauce and steam seabass. The beef is about medium well and succulent, needing you only to bite enough. Salmon is grilled to right doness and skin is crispy but the lobster sauce seems subdued. Others are not even nominated but can mention like prawn fritters with too much flour, pork belly ribs, some ayam thingie and .... nothing much. The cereal prawns, nothing fantastic.



The desserts are usually captivating but no room left for them. The ones that will attract your attention are probably the durian puff, durian fudge cake and durian pengat. The fudge cake is quite good but you should have it before the pengat which probably will immense you with too much durian taste. At 45++ per pax, merchant court ellenborough cafe seems a better choice but now DBS cards gets a 25% off the bill.

Blood : The Last Vampire

It gets lousier as it goes by. Thought the M18 rating could compensate but no, the blood are fake as Saya chopped, slashed and disembered the so called demons into pieces. Saya is the only half human and half vampire left, living to hunt and kill all the demons. Working with a team called council, going around faking as CIA, they aimed to find and kill Onigen, so called the most hiong demon.

She was arranged into a school in an airbase, there she met Alice, daugther the General. As the team started their hunt, Saya saved Alice from 2 students trying to attack her but actually demons. General came by but the team so called managed to cover it. Alice believed what she saw and went to some pub to look for answers, only to be surrounded by demons. Saya came to her rescue.

A smart dick in the team, Andrew wanted to take things in his own hands and killed the general and making it look like his assistant killed him, so they can do things easier their way. Alice saw ther murder, managed to escape and went to find Saya. Andrew give chase, wanted to kill Alice, Michael the so called more senior wanted to stop him but got killed, Saya saved her.

Saya was shot by Andrew but Alice saved her by letting her drink her blood. Onigen, knowing she is near, send some ka kia to capture her but evening fighting on top of a fell trunk suspending in the mid air of a valley, she won. But they fell into the bottom of the valley, as they woke up, Saya found Onigen. She told her she is he lao bu, like Luke found out who was his lao peh. Anyway, she also killed her. 5/10

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