Mention Online Up'n Runnin'

Hey hey... my class' online newspaper is already up and running! *nods*Check it out at www.ukm.my/monline =P
Went for a hair cut today. Here's the before and after. =)
(the hairstylist thought i had gone koo-koo, taking my own pic before the cut)

before//after
like not much difference right? yea lah..
i think i just blew off Rm20 on my hair!
but as long as i look good..
it doesn't really matter =)
H.U.L.A.!

Sleepy like H.E.double ice hockey sticks

I nearly snoozed off in church this morning! *sigh*

Honestly, it was crazy. Really crazy. One hand trying to listen to the message, while on the other, was struggling to keep my eye lids open! Whooo... Then i did the unexpected! I made a box out of paper i tore from my little notepad! *nods*
The more i was into it, the more alert i became! *nods nods*
Some might say it is a bad, BAD thing to do in church, but i say, "Desperate times call for desperate measures!" And with that, i managed to get the gist of today's message, which focused on these verses:

Job 27:20 - Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Job 27:21 - The east wind carriesth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Luke 8:24 - And the came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm

REVELATION:

Winds blow us away from God and Godly things like prayer, holiness, and righteousness, while water is the terror that shocks us, almost everyday of our lives; things like problems and obstacles shock us. We get into trouble. Terrors are everywhere, so best be prepared.

In Luke, the Bible says the Master will rebuke the winds and stop the waters. Therefore, surrender, and the Lord will bless you.

ps/ H.E. double hockey sticks actually spells out H-E-L-L =)

H.U.L.A.!

Oh, the Vanity...

Oh my gawwwd!!

Do I look freakishly like a budding Zac Efron or what??!! woohoo!

Oh, the vanity. *faints*

XD

H.U.L.A.!

Lucky Indeed!

Today, I spent nearly the whole day after 12 with Pn. Shaz in her room to help her with her tesis, as well as complete my project paper in the process.

But then i had to remove myself from her room at about 4-ish since she had to attend a meeting.

I went and sat myself down at the computer lab instead. There, i realized something.

Some students were already there, and they were doing their assignments and even designing posters and other presentation stuff they had to do.

Then i thought, "How lucky I am. I have my own computer to do research, design things, and even play games with."

These students have to struggle with alot of things just to do what i can easily do in the comfort of my own room.

My heart goes out to them.

Not to pity, but to sympathize with their plight and realize that in today's world where almost everyone seems well to do, there are still some who are less than fortunate.

H.U.L.A.!

My Acronym

M	Mushy
A	Astonishing
R	Relaxing
C	Cool
U	Useful
S	Silky

Name / Username:

H.U.L.A.!

How to Learn English?

Many people has approached me before and asked me this question,

"HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH?"

Well, my (almost) always safe (and very uniform) answer would be,

"Read English papers; listen to English news and music; watch English channels and movies, and the likes..."

I recently realized, it DOESN'T WORK. How do i know?

A friend of mine has never improved his command of the language ever since i told him the above. Its either he was simply too stubborn to change, or he misunderstood me.

It was neither.

You see, the approach has been wrong all this time. Let me ask you this, History is a tough and taxing subject, right? But how come we have great historians who can to master history, as such?

It was LOVE for the subject matter. In that case, it was History. In this, its ENGLISH.

So i say this, the best way to learn ...no, no, let's not use that cliche. Perhaps i should rephrase: to learn a language, is to LOVE the language. or...

To learn English, is to love the THINGS which are associated or revolve around English.

Allow me to elaborate. Notice how people are glues to their TV sets, watching Korean love dramas? They developed a thing for Korean language. The same with English.

LOVE an English song...
LOVE an English movie and/or sitcom and/or TV show...
LOVE an English news reader...
LOVE an English speaking actor and/or actress...
LOVE an English blog...
LOVE an English singer...
LOVE an English ... ... ... ... the skies your limit!

You see, when you learn to develop a love for things you like, you automatically get attached to it in some way, as if an invisible bond is formed to link you two. This 'attachment' will be more and more rampant, and will result in more and more exposure to the 'thing you like' and the language.

Thus, you will pick up English subconsciously because you tend to surround yourself with things you like which use English.

In other words, you are learning without actually learning. Get my drift?

Tell me if you agree with me k? =)

H.U.L.A.!

It rained Jambus

Ayo.

It rained (water) jambus!


Really.

If you thought it looks... WHOA!

Wait till you smell the stench! Esp. after it rains...

WHOA!

H.U.L.A.!

A Short, Short Film...

Heyya guys, guess what? i felt so stuped yesterday. I know at this age, i shouldn't... but i DID. *sighs*

But before i go to the "stuped-ness of me part", let me tell you abit about the title first... (but if you can't stand this rather long post, skip to the bottom of this post)

The whole day was indoors for me. Raining since 12. It was cold; it was wet; and it was close enough for me to fall flat (on the bed). *grins* And there i was, busy as a bee, typing my project paper due Friday, when my phone reminder alerted me for the Short, Short film workshop.

You see, for the past three days, some company named 'apostrophe' set up a mini maze-like structure in the middle of my faculty as a promotion gimmick for the workshop. It looked like this:

It had text on the walls to explain about some short, short films by budding filmmakers that were screened on monitors staring out a die-cut hole on the walls:

apostrophe, as they are so named, is a creative based company who are currently out on a mission: to create and outlet for youths to express themselves, in means not conventional and vibrantly creative. They have delved into creative areas like text and vision; and apparently now, it's film! go here for more details.

So i went-lah, having told that i may just become a filmmaker or even a screen writer! *nods* At the venue, i met Brian and Jade, two motivators from a creative company based in Sri Hartamas, which name happens to evade me at the moment; Azharr Rudin, our screenwriting mentor for the day (his video, Eaten by Time was also featured in the yellow-white promo box, smack right in the middle of the faculty); Jia Wei, a really hawwt *drools* rep from apostrophe, and another girl, Jen.

Slightly 15 after five, Brian started off by thanking us and all the formalities. It is always interesting to listen to a Brit speak. There's something about their accent that i can't get enough of!! *nods* Then we were treated to a short, short film by the mentor himself - Majidee. (What does that mean, u ask? Well, apparently, its an army camp in Johor. Heard of? hm.. ) and it won the Best Short Film Award (2005) and the Hawaii International Film Festival in 2006.

"So this guy must be terra terra wan lah...", i thought. *rolls eyes*

Anyway, the film was short, but not that short, get me? It opened with a scene of a teenager, in his twenties, wearing a red cap and carrying a rather heavy looking FILA sling bag on his right shoulder. (do excuse the details, i couldn't help myself *nods nods*) He has just arrival at Puduraya from Johor. For the next three minutes or so, the scene was just trailing the teen from behind.He is heading towards PUTRA Pasar Seni.

Then a man, in his late thirties walked up along side him and started a conversation, as they walked, shoulder to shoulder. To me, he kinda looked like your average Indonesian, who may be out to extort money from you.

As the movie progressed, it seems as if the man if an acquaintance of the teen because they appear to be from the same hometown, judging form their conversation. He then started to ask the teen where he was going, and later told his side of the story - he came from Johor with his pregnant wife, heading to his in-laws in Taiping.

Apparently his wife delivered in the train, was checked in to GHKL, and hopped onto a car to go back to Taiping with her neighbour while in the hospital (coincidence, isn't it?). And while he was in Puduraya queuing up for a bus ticket, he suddenly realizes that his wallet is missing, and thus has no money for the bus ride home. (typical story... haven't we heard that one before?) Well, read on.

As the approached PUTRA, the man suddenly just turns solemn and had a sorry face. He then sheepishly asks the teen for some money for bus fare. The teen hesitates a moment, then he decided to write down his contact number and address for the man before eventually reaching for his wallet and pulling 'what ever he had at that time' and handed it to the man. Just you know, 'What ever he had at that time' was RM50! Lucky that man =_="

A little "this-isi too-much-for-for-me-to-take,but-in my heart-i-want-to-take-it" tussle followed, and the man eventually accepts. The teen leaves him and proceeds up the escalator to PUTRA. This is the only time the camera changed angle. This time, audience saw the teen head on, his expression (did-i-just-do-the-right-thing?), and the man on the left side of the frame. The short, short film ends when the teen steps off the escalator and walks into a crowd of people in PUTRA.

So, what did you think of the surrealist impression of the short, short film? Or my story telling skills, for that matter? lolx

The workshop began with a simple sharing session about what we felt about the film, and Azharr was so nice to answer all of our questions about the film. We ended p discussing, and to some extent, debated about the film, its values and meaning that way perceived by each participant in the workshop.

To my surprise, Azharr said that the film's core revolved around the value of TRUST. He elaborate that trust appears in three dimensions in the film;

FIRST: trust between the director and the production crew. He was merely a budding screenwriter when he filmed Majidee. If you can't gain other people trust in the creative field, it never gona work out.

SECOND: trust between the audience and the filmmaker. The first 3 mins of the film was monotonous and only showed the backview of the teen. Those who do not trust that the filmmaker will deliver would simply just walk out of the cinema.

THIRD: trust between the two characters in the entire film. The situation between the two help make the audience connected as they could relate to the familiar and almost personal experience of their own with the film.

So, you see folks, every cloud has its silver lining =p

Sometimes the things you seek are just there, right in front of your noses.

Which brings me to the later part of the workshop. But before that, we went through a few sessions which helped us invoke our creative self inside us. we had a brain storming session about MAKAN, the theme of the whole promotion, workshop, and short film competition (which i will get to later =P ); and a series of interesting activities over the same period of 160 seconds, just for us to see how long 160 sec really is.

We all had fun, and the revelation after series of activity was simply thought provoking! After a a 10 mins break, which saw the exit of nearly 80% of the participants due to other commitments, we (the remaining 6) gorger ourself in a grand "buffet" meant for the mind.

We were each to choose a picture, an object, and a sentence in three different piles and we then had a session to test our creativeness and our ability to "not think."

I chose a photo of a silhouette man holding what appears to be a guitar case (initially, i thought it was a skateboard) with a nice blueish sunset sky, and the sentence "Finish a work? Finish a picture? What nonsense!."

Our Task: Being timed by Brian, we had to first write a description of our pictures, which was like free writing; second, draw about our object; and third, compose a story from the line of sentence that we chose.

It was like.. wow! Wasn't prepared for THAT!
(but managed to pull through lar) *giggles*

Rational: That activity was meant to train our ability to perceive and be creative. we didn't have to think much. Most inspirations from film sound like a crazy idea at first!

By writing, we tested our ability to let our ideas flow; to brainstorm;

By drawing, we were forced to take time to notice something about anything;

By composing, we put on our thinking cap to and see what we're made of.

"Of course, everything under the pressure of time wouldn't be able to perform to its optimum capacity."

Boy, i can't but stress the importance of that sentence! Because what we were asked to do next simply blew me away!

Brian told us, that each of us were required to flip out our cam-phones (they had some extra for those who didn't have one), and head out to film our very own 160 secs short, short film in the next 20 minutes!! How cool was that!! woohoo. I knew i was screwed. If only i had paid more attention during the workshop. *nods*

Within minutes, everyone had an idea of they were going to film, while some lingered around to get a cam-phone from Jia Wen.Surprisingly, i was one of them.

Ok, ok.. Here's where i get stupid.

*sighs*

I had a perfectly functioning cam-phone, yet i stood in line to get one from Jia Wen. Mind you, not because i wanted to use a better phone to film, nor was it because i wanted some one-to-one time with hawwt Jia Wen...

It was because i thought my video function only takes 60secs, thus rendering me unable to record for even the minimum 90 secs!

But my cam-phone COULD record more than 60 secs..
in fact, it records to nearly 1 HOUR!!!!!
Oh my gawwwd.... So Stuped lah me! *slaps forehead* Thus, I concluded:

I was OVER CONFIDENT!! I WASN'T THINKING STRAIGHT!!
and I PANICKED!!

So i ended up wasting 10 precious mins fiddling with a Samsung , and only managed to record a short film equivalent to mediocre work. HAIH.

(okay, i now officially swear to hate Samsung phones forever!!!! hahaha)

Only if i took two steps back before stepping once forward, the outcome would probably better. I'm a little disappointed because this similar fate has befell me in the past...

And i ALWAYS never seem to learn!!! oooooooOOOoooooh *grrrrr*

Geram.

H.U.L.A.!

Clamp free day!

Okay... here the day-after-tomorrow after my car was clamped. It was Tuesday. And the weather has been rather cloudy and it was going to rain.

After class at 12pm, i went back to kolej office, called Wisma Aman and enquired about how to go along settling my clamped car issue. It was my first time violating UKM's traffic rule since i stepped into the university, three years ago. *nods*

Later, i went around to for a helmet, assuming i could hitch a ride with the officer from Wisma to my car instead.

Then, wearing a friend's helmet, I trudged through the field, the crossed the two lane trunk road in front of UKM into Wisma Aman. It was already drizzling went i started out at 2.30pm, after UKM's lunch break.

Upon arrival, it began to rain heavier. Approached the counter - with the clause "Anda BOLEH, and not AKAN dikenakan kompaun sebanyak RM50" in mind, of course - and told the officer i wanted to settle my summon.

A she - Pn. Semah so named - attended to me. She asks for my Matric card and the summon. As i explained to her the fate of my unfortunate car, she had the face on. The "servers you right for causing a nuisance to UKM, not to mention overly busy officers who has better things to do like me" face.

Then she told me to pay RM30, apparently to show that she's kind, blah, blah, blah. (FYI, i called my roommie before that, and he informed me that it was a culture for when students get fine, it is negotiable.)

I was undeterred.

So, instead of blowing up a fuss, i simply reached for my wallet, and took out what ever i had in it at that time - right in front of her. I said, "Puan, minta maaf puan, saya hanya ade RM20 saje puan."

*puts on a sorry face aka muke sepuluh sen*

and continues, "Puan, minta maaf banyak banyak puan, ini saje yang saya ade. Macam mana puan?"

At that very moment, like magic, the rain just poured down heavily, along with loud thundering in the back. The skies turn darker.

I continued, "Maaf sangat sangat puan, saya pun datang seorang ni puan. Dah hujan jugak. Saya dah takde duit dah. Ini saje yang saya ade. Boleh tak puan?"

*ten cents face again*

Her face turned red. She wasn't embarrassed; it was a mix of annoyance, and don't-know-what-to-do-ness. She referred to the officer next door, En. Zulkapli. He simply gestured her to refer to the 'boss' in the back room. So she went.

I was thanking God for the rain and thunder. It helped. =)

Then i thought of it. A final attempt to make things surreal.

I whipped out my handphone, and pretended to be talking with a friend, apparently trying to get help. And Pn Semah came back to her seat.

"Oh, you're in class ah? ... Hm. ... Nevermind-lah... No, not what, thought you could help me settle my saman. Im at Wisma Aman now. ... Okay lah, thanks!..." I ended the call.

anticipating her response, she says, "Ha, lain kali janagn buat lagi. Boss kate RM20. Tapi lain kali jangan buat lagi tau..." She processed my summon, and gave me the receipt.

Phew~~~!! My plan worked! lolx

.........................................................................................................

It was still raining very, very heavily. I then asked, when the officer would unclamp my car, she said it would most probably be after the rain. I was disappointed when she said that the clamping division isn;t here in Wisma Aman, in fact, it was in UKM's Canselori building. HAIH!

Walk all this while with HELMET on my head... FOR NOTHING! *pouts*

Then, miraculously again, the rain became less heavy and eventually came to a slow drizzle. I was able to walk (and i did) to UKM's KTM station, where my car was parked. It was a good 7 mins walk from Wisma Aman.

I took silly snapshots while walking. Boring man.

CW: angkasawan; Scary Movie angkasawan;
wandering angkasawan; angkasawan Hitler.

When i reached my car, it had already been unclampped. Gosh, these guys are fast workers! Im impressed. =)

You see, actually, my 'tiny' car with no backside couldn't have blocked a bus from turning. I made sure of it before i left. Then along came a Wira and became my car's 'backside' and that resulted in the clamping. *%^&$$(!!!

I drove back through Canselori, thanked the officer who did the unclampping, and then when i got back to kolej office, i called Pn. Semah and thanked her for everything.

She sounded grateful and kinda of "i-should-have-treated-this-boy-better-just-now". har. har.

Note: Although i may appear to sound harsh to describe the officers earlier in my post, it only did so to show the current situation at that time. This happens to alot of people, i find. They get booked once, and because of the similar scenario, vow to anti these officers for the rest of their life in UKM.

Well, i think different. I think this was an opportunity from God. Only with this incident, i had the opportunity to interact with the officers, and in the process, realize that they're just doing their job and are in fact, good people, once you get to know them.

You see, i (almost) always like to know people. By knowing people in Wisma Aman, i will b able to have a way with things in the future - you will never know. =)

Almost most of the counter officers in the library already know me.. hehe.

And calling them back to thank them, well, thats just my way of making the world a better place - by making those in the world happier than they were before meeting me. =))))

ps. I actually had RM100 in my wallet that day. The whole acting was only not to get cheated by the "system."

har. har. har.

H.U.L.A.!

Jump! Jump! Jump! JUMPER!

Finally, i watched Jumper!

I know, i know, you must be wondering, like Li Hooi said, "Why now only watch? @@"

Har. Har.

I have been busy. You know, with something called LIFE. =)

Nways, here's my take on the movie which was released on 14 Feb 08 in Malaysian cinemas.

Missed the first 5 mins due to lunch. Nevertheless, i think it was about how the main character realized his ability to 'jump', so to speak.

Jumper stars Hayden Christensen dan Samuel L Jackson of Star Wars fame, Rachel Bilson from the OC, and this other guy, Jamie Bell. Well, sorry for the lack of introduction, but i felt he was the second best actor in the film!! He gets my vote. =)

They play David Rice, Roland, Millie Harris, and Griffin in the movie respectively. Jumper is a story of a life long war between people who has the ability to teleport anywhere, anytime - "Jumpers" with the Paladin - people who have sworn their lives to search and eliminate these Jumpers, who in their eyes, are a nuisance to mankind.

David Rice, learned (or is it learnt?) of his powers while ha was a boy, trapped drowning under a ice in a frozen lake. Eversince then, he experimented with his 'gift' as many would call it, and became good enough to control it.

He lived a comfortable life (trust me, when you can teleport, comfortable is SO an understatement!) away from home in the city. By adulthood, he has been to almost everywhere in the world - atop the Sphinx of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, you name it! Has has also stole from numerous casinos and banks to fund his 'comfortable' apartment suit in the city.

One day, Roland, the so-called head of Paladins, gets news about David and tracks him down to this apartment. After painting the town (the world, for this matter) red, David returned home only to find Roland already inside his house, waiting for him.

They both talk, with David having no clue that Roland is going to kill him, and when David finally realized what is going on, he tried to flee by teleporting. Guess what? Roland was much faster.

Paladins use a device (unnamed) about the length from your palm to the elbow, resembling a light saber at its hilt, that shoots out nail-though wires when fired. And oh, the device also creates an electric pulse strong enough to shock you, but not kill you. How cool is THAT!!


Apparently, electricity pulses which shock the Jumpers prevents from teleporting because it haywires the brain, and they can't deceide where to teleport to. In also appears to afflict pain to the Jumper. Hey, its an electric shock, who wouldn't feel pain right? silly me. har. har.

Nways, a tussle between David and Roland occurs then the former manages to escape with a large amount of money, too. Roland then alerts the who clan of Paladins to hunt down David.

David teleported back to his kampung. Which was a little stupid because you don't go to place where people can find you when you're being hunted!! *doinkz*

There, he is reunited with Millie, his long time crush. He gets into a fight with a fellow schoolmate, teleported their selves into a bank vault, and David leaves his friend there, apparently to rot and die. Another stupid thing to do, i thought. Like what, rot until the morning, then bank staff will open the vault and arrest him for theft? He's just gona lead the authorities back to you, dumbass!! Haih.

And David conveniently teleports back to Millie and brings here to Rome, Italy. This time they flew on British Airways, of course. David kept his secret to himself till later parts of the movie.

There, the couple did what couples do in Rome: love and make love. Hey, when in Rome, do what the Romans do, right? lolx.

They visit the Colosseum. But it was past opening hours. David teleports and opens the gates from inside, and lets Millie in. Another stupid scene for Millie not to suspect anything. They frolic in age consumed stadium, and Millie woders what it would be like to actually stand in the middle of the Colosseum. As expected, David teleports again.

But this time, he meets Griffin - who actually felt his presence when he 'jumped' back to his kampung in the bar where Millie was working - who followed him here. It is revealed that Griffin is a Paladin hunter. Ironic, isn't it? But it sounded so cool when he said it. lolx.

Griffin sensed that Paladins will track down David, so he would kill them when they appeared.

Two Paladins, apparently novices, appeared, but were both killed by Griffin. A guard inspects the commotion and sees David. With Millie there, he couldn't teleport away, which resulted in his arrest. After being questioned for hours, and his mother suddenly shows up and tell hims to escape, moments before the police enter the interrogation room. He took Millie and fled.

NOW Millie begins to ask questions. And about time too. Sheeezzz.

David reassures her that everything will be fine and he will explain once back in the hotel. Instead, upon arrival, they quickly pack and went to the airport to catch the next flight to the stares. This time David sends Millie off. She is still feeling lost and dumbfounded, and confuse too. She cried as she check into her flight because she thinks David is breaking up with her.

Meanwhile, David teleports to Griffin's lair, a bunker right smack in the middle of the dessert. He demand some answers and Griffin tells him everything. The latter then 'jump' out for some snack. David followed suit.

Apparently, Jumpers leave some 'jump dust' in the previous location f the 'jump'. This dust enables other Jumpers - or even the Paladins (with a device) - to 'jump' through to the new location. Its kinda like a portal door still left open.

This time, both teleport to Tokyo. A series of scenes portraying a jumpers ability which followed will make you stare at the screen in awe. They even teleported a Porsce and drove in the busy and people packed roads of Tokyo, teleporting to change lanes!! Like wow....

In all that excitement, David learns that Paladins will go after family and loved ones of the jumper they hunt too. Realizing that Millies life would be in danger, he suggests a pack with Girffin to kill Paladins, but in actual fact, he just wants help to help save Griffin.

He teleports back to his home only to find his father murdered by Roland, who had got to him the night before. David then 'jumps' to his friend which he left in the vault earlier (now under arrest in a cell, of course), and finds out that Rolands knows everything about Millie and is hunting her, too.

In panic, he teleports to Millies house. With Roland and gang only minutes from Millie's home, David is forced to reveal his secret to Millie in order to save her life. Upon finding out the truth (that her boyfriend can teleport), she is in disbelieve. Roland and the a back-up of Paladins arrives at the scene which causes David to panic and flees with Millie to Griffins lair.

Not realizing about 'jumper dust', he left a portal open for Roland to follow.

Griffin was furious at first, but upon learning about Roland attempting to 'come' to him, Griffin becomes excited and wastes no time to arm himself with a torch-flame (the gun that shoots fire la, forgot the name pulak!), and set a trap for the Paladins.

In the events the unfold, Roland comes through the portal, alone. Attempting to attack him, David makes a move. Roland was quicker and had David hooked up in a corner. Griffin flames Roland and he flees the lair. a fight between the two ensure, with Griffin even teleporting a classical England red double-decker bus to the dessert to ram Roland. And Roland, miraculously, manages to evade it. har har.

Failing to kill him outside, the fight continues inside and Roland is accidentally pushed back into the portal with Griffin. After a few minutes on the other side, Griffin returns to are a bomb and send it over because Roland grouped up almost every Paladin that has been known to exist.

It was the jackpot for Griffin, who has been waiting for this day to kill every Paladin alive.

But just then, Roland shot his electric pulse device across the portal, which caught Millie by the waist and pulled her into it.

Griffin is now in a dilemma to send the bomb across as Millie has been captured. He decided to press on, but David strongly objects. They both argue and David teleports the bomb away. Griffin follows him through the 'jumper dust' and finds himself back at the Colosseum.

They continue to fight and David teleported them both to Serbia and the ended up in the middle of a civil war!! This time chasing David for the bomb detonator, Griffin is tricked and teleported to a falling electric pole nearby. That didn't kill him, but it prevented Griffin from teleporting.

David then returns to Millies apartment to save here. Paladins were waiting for him. As soon as he stepped inside, Paladins shot at him from four corners and trapped him. However, just as Roland was about to stab him, he attempts to 'jump' a whole chunk of Millies apartment into a river nearby.

Only one Jumper has been known to successfully 'jump' a building, but he himself didn't survive the jump.

But David, he tried anyway. And he succeed! Probably because its is only a CHUNK of a building. It did appear in the river and all of the Paladins were drowned, save one - Roland. David then transported whats left of the chunk into a library, somewhere.

Library? Weird huh? Tell me about it. Perhaps David wanted to read? lolx.

Roland still tries to kill David, but loses this time because it is 2 on 1. Millie grabs the unnamed device and aims it at Roland while David teleports him to a little cave, unreachable by road, and leaves Roland there, apparently to rot and die.

NOw baru betul, compared to leaving his friend in bank vault earlier!!

"It could have been the sharks", David said to Roland. "But i told you, I'm the good one." And he 'jumped' away. Its a wonder how Roland will every get our of that!! har. har.

The movie came to end with David finally having tracked down his mother to someplace in San Fransisco (the famed San Fransisco Rad Bridge was in the background). It is revealed that is mother is also a Paladin, and left him when he was 5 after his first 'jump'. She was forced to kill him, or leave. She chose the latter.

"So are you going to kill me?", David asked.

"I'm giving you a head start," she replied. Then David left the house and teleported with Millie (yea, apparently, she's accepted him as he is and they're a couple) to God-know-where.

The End.
.................

An open ending, leaving the audience in awe, wondering if that was really the end if the movie... Then the fate of our dear Roland flashes in the mind. I felt there alot more possiblities of the movie to be explored, but it wasn't explored. Probably in the future, perhaps?

The cast, aside from Jackson and Bell, was okay-okay nia. Jackson is a crowd favorite in every movie he stars in and i absolutely love Bells acting and his British accent!! Again, he gets my vote!!

A mildly mind boggling movie, really.

ps. i think its possible for a sequel! Can't wait for that!
http://www.jumperthemovie.com/

H.U.L.A.!

Of KTMs and Clamps...

Hi. This post is about my day today. =)

Today i went to KL to seek a friend. I decided to take the KTM, so i parked near the station on UKM's parking ground. It was my first in months, but my, it was a not-so-good decision lar... And here's why:

• KTM's are (almost) always late. The automated timer/display board/what ever you call it doesn't work. It was 11.30 am and it showed MASA:#%^@^!%! DESTINASI:&@*@*#&^.
• KTM's are (almost) always uncomfortable to commute in. For some odd reason, the train i was on was so hottt and humid, i was sweating like a dog all the way to KL.
• The fact that it was packed to the door and i was, literally, squeezed in my seat by a big guy didn't help make my KTM experience anymore pleasant. *pouts*
• Stepping out of the train made me feel as if i was in Genting! (okay.. im exaggerating. lol)

Friend picked me up and we drove to Damansara Uptown to redeem a holiday voucher my friend won through a Gatsby competition. To our surprise, it turned out to be a voucher which only covered accommodation for 8D7N. Weird, really. =S

Dropped by TESCO, Damansara to buy a 2G flash disc by PenDrive for a whooping Rm36.80. That's almost THREE times cheaper than my 512 of the same brand purchased at the 2005 PC Fair. *rolls eyes*

Parking in all TESCOs are supposed to be free. But this one charged a RM2 for every consecutive hour, after the free first 30 mins. Apparently this one is situated within close proximity of three other biggie shopping malls (which have paid parkings), which makes it an easy target for those rather smart people to abuse the free parkings TESCO instead of Ikea, Ikano, and The Curve.

But as we were leaving the cashier, he asked for or parking ticket and simply swiped it - clearing it of parking charges. "Wah, free ka? Kalau park kat sini 5 jam, tapi shopping, free jugak lah?", i inquisitively asked. "Yelah. Pree parking.", the cashier replied. Apparently, the new paid parking system is to deter non-patrons of TESCO from abusing its free parkings. "Owh, like that ka? Okay-lah.. Trima kasih bang", i said as i left.

And then it occurred to me, what if, people park for hours in TESCO, then walk in to purchase a mere bottle of water, and their parking charges will be cleared with a single swipe. What then, is the purpose of implementing a parking system? Odd isn't it? hm. -_^

Anyway, we caught a afternoon movie - Jumper! Look out for my review in coming posts =)

Oh, and one more thing. I returned to UKM to a dreadful surprise. Remember i parked on UKM ground? Yea.

As i was walking down toward my car, i saw from a far, a yellow-ish mechanism attached to front right car tyre. My heart beat faster and faster and anxiety began to encompass me.

"&%@#", i said in disbelieve, as i approached my car. My worst fears were realized.

My car was clampped. "&%@#!" Yup, i said it again. But i kinda expected it, but i didn't know it would actually happen to me. Today. *sigh*

Guess things happen when you least expect it. And this were one of the days. &%#@!

Looks like i have a big fat summon to settle tomorrow at Wisma Aman. Pray i can sweet talk my way to paying a little less, because it says, "Anda boleh dikenakan kompaun tidak melebihi RM50." Notice its BOLEH, not akan (will) or mesti (subjected to/compulsory).

har. har. =)

Well, thats for today. Gheez, two posts in one night... Let's see if i can keep this up, shall we? lolx.

H.U.L.A.!

A 'New' Me

Well, not kinda NEW new, but just metamorphically speaking. =)

You see, many a times i have sworn (well, kinda) to put up a post in my blog, yet every time some magical reason (or excuse) would conveniently pop up; thus disrupting my noble efforts to update my blog for all you loyal readers, so to speak. =)

But one fateful day, about a week ago, something made me realize this is going no where and im cheating no one but myself. Hence, the auto countdown in my blog. *rolls eyes*

Here's a recap. My blog has seen better days. My routine of blogging is like a bicycle wheel; at one point its up, and its down the other. And of late, it seems to not come up. Ever since Mummys passing, when my passion of blogging was flared up, i have kept a tab - everyday, mind you - of posts, just to fill them up along the way. This is what makes my blog 'back-dated'.

In other words, posts keep popping up, but its not recent. I know, that strategy DOESN'T work. Okay.. i get it already. Gheez. =)

So, from now on, its a promise to you (and myself too, of course), that i will be posting up something in every THREE days (give discount max five days during peak season =D ), God willing. lolx.

But hey, you shouldn't kill the optimism right? Got to start some where.

=)

And thanks to recent comments from Daddy's long lost friends who have just learnt of Mummy's passing, the passion for blogging has been flared up from the little spark it was of late.

Thank you. I will not disappoint you *bows*

Look out for more stuff recent and up-to-date stuff, as well as backdated stuff that ill be posting up!

Here's a recent me at a conference in Putrajaya:

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H.U.L.A.!

Sajak comim

This was the SAJAK which Rafizah and I recorded for our programme's presentation during Malam Perdana MENTION 08 at Pan Pacific, KLIA , on 14th March 2008.

Hope it is to your liking. Got quite some positive feedback from guests, esp. UKM's Vice Chancellor and media seniors. =)

For the full clip, its entitled Tentang Kita at Youtube.

H.U.L.A.!