Sunday, April 26, 2009

It's over a girl

Music: None Mood: Deadlines T.T

Harley fought over a girl...

and lost.


But he look so man now ^.^

Friday, April 24, 2009

Daiso @ IOI Mall, Puchong

Music: 谢安琪- 祝英台 Mood: On leave...


I wonder what was the craze over this famous 'One Coin' shop from Japan. So I decided to pop over to check out the new outlet at IOI Mall new wing last Sunday.


It's like 100 Yen shop, only with a much wider variety.


Everything cost a very affordable RM5 here, including plasticware,


containers,


gardening appliances,


all sorts of vacuum bags,


baskets of all sizes,


lunch boxes,



Japanese merchandises,


party deco,


personal care,


and also DIY items, cosmetics, electrical appliances, car accessories, pet stuff and apparels.

Guess what? I think I left my arms at home... I didn't spend a cent here!! Seee, I'm so proud of meself XD

Probably too proud until we need to get home in a tow truck.


Dad: Adik, biasanya tow kereta apa?
Tow guy: Biasanya kereta Proton macam Kancil, Kelisa...
Dad: Pernahkah angkat Honda?
Tow guy: Jarang oo uncle, ini kali pertama...
Dad: malunya, macam tak ade wang bayar installment.
me: XD

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Review: Shinjuku Incident

Music: Mika Nakashima- Venus In The Dark Mood: Relaxed, for the mo


Caution: DO NOT watch this movie if you are not in a good mood, it will make you feel bleak from begining till end.

Inspired by real life incidents, the story took place in the early 90's when Chinese struggled to make ends meet by immigrating illegally to Japan and were measley paid to do manual labouring jobs. Jackie Chan plays Steelhead who immigrated illegally to Japan in search of his girlfriend Xiu Xiu (Xu Jing Lei). He met up with Gao Jie (Daniel Wu) and stayed with a host of illegal Hongkies in Shinjuku. Steelhead then found out that Xiu Xiu is in fact married to a powerful Japanese Yakuza leader Eguchi (Kato Masaya) but saved his life by coincidence when he was targeted to be murdered. To consolidate power, Eguchi build an alliance with Steelhead to take revenge. Soon after, Steelhead was so deeply involved in the Yakuza ways that he did not realized it is impposible for him and his gang to return to the right track.


This is a breakthrough role for Jackie Chan as you are not going to see perfectly designed kungfu moves from him. Instead, he poured in much more acting skills and portrayed a character who don't joke around his life. Finally, he's a dirty bad ass.


Ignore the ABC slang, Daniel Wu can really act here. Without fancy clothes, he can still pull off this timid character rather well. In fact, he scares me when he became a hopeless drug addict who donned a gothic punk look later on.


This is my favourite man of the movie. Naoto Takenaka (竹中直人) plays Inspector Kitano who owe his life to Steelhead who saved him from drowning in the sewage. He is one of the most versatile Japanese actor I've ever seen. He is darn hilarious when he played Franz Stresemann, a pervert German conductor who speaks Japanese (yes, with a weird foreigner's accent!) in Nodame Cantabile (交响情人梦).


See what I mean?


Highest credits goes to Director Derek Yee (尔东升) who prepared the movie 10 years ago (!!) and console information since 1995. He has gathered the best actors around the region and even got his brother Paul Cheng (秦沛) to act a rather kalefe character here.


Oh for some of you who didn't know, Paul Cheng, Jiang Da Wei (姜大卫) and Derek Yee are real-life brothers.

TVB drama followers will definitely recognize these famous brothers.






I find that people get killed too easily here. Some big shots can be murdered as easily as swatting a fly, or flying stones can kill a person immediately. Well actually, this is initially a three-hour R-rated movie. It's being reduced to a little less than two hours after much gory scenes has been taken out. So Daniel Wu actually died a very horrible death and so did other perished characters.

This is a turning point for Jackie Chan even though he's ten years late on the road. Quoted by him: "Help me to change! I'd rather be late than never. If you can't accept me here, then I think I better go back to shoot Rush Hour 4 lo..."

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

小人

Music: Morcheeba- Living Hell Mood: Can't breath properly

Go ahead and read this. I don't care whether you are going to come across this or not (which I doubt so) but I dare you to.

I HATE you. I DESPISE you like I've never been before or towards anyone else. I LOATHE how you can be a hypocrite and act normal at the same time.

Nobody has a problem with you if you want to be the boss's favourite pet. Nobody is going to give a hoot on how good your shoe shining skills are. You take your wax and go play far far, fine by us. We can all feel the wind of your invisible wagging tail. BUT, if you step on someone's head, no wait, I need to rephrase. If you step on EVERYONE's head to get yourself to the top? When you successfully took credit of someone else's hard work until that person couldn't stand it anymore and resigned?? When all of us (except for you of course) need to stand in a war with a damaged bulletproof vest for so many times?? Woman, you have crossed your line.

You know Puss in Boots from Shrek 2?


I really thought this is just a fiction character, never knew it will come to life. Picture this: your face + your gigantic torso+ your routine self-pitying tactics leads you to something like this:

Like a T-Rex asking for mercy. *covers mouth and run to toilet*

I have only one thought in mind now. (Sorry Ah Wai need to borrow your picture):





Nah, KNNBCCB!!!!!!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Waste

Music: Maliq & D' Essentials- Untitled Mood: bloated

Shoes

Bags

Clothes

Makeups

Restaurants

Concerts

Put me around shopping malls I'll spend as if Francis Yeoh is my father.

Restrict me near my house, I'll spend at the neighbourhood boutiques.

Lock me at home is even worst. I'll click away and shop uncontrollably online.

Somebody needs to dig my eyes out or tie me up in chains!! >.<

Monday, April 06, 2009

Jamiroquai Live @ Sepang F1 Concert Malaysia 2009

Music: Jamiroquai- Stillness in Time Mood: Aching All Over

My purpose of going to the F1 circuit is never to watch the race. So I shouldn't cringe over being late, right? The race is supposed to start at 5pm, how come the dreadful jam at this time??



It's the must-have parking sticker on every car.


Of course Agong no need to stick lah.


Finally I'm here! Initially wanted to take a few photos before proceeding to the concert zone, but I was at the wrong entrance (need to take a sky bus to the correct one(!!)), so I decided to wait at the concert zone entrance. It was 6pm and it started to rain like whales and dinasours~


The only tent outside. I saw girls with heavy makeup and high heels -__- early birds stand inside, late comers play far far with your umbrellas.


The entrance opened at 7.30pm, I was surprised to know that we were the only people running. So when we reached the stage, we were among the FIRST few in front; in other words, less than 10 meters from the stage!
Opening acts Maliq & D'Essentials from Indonesia and American acappela band Naturally 7 belted out 4-5 songs each.



I apologize for the bad quality photos as my cam settings weren't perfected YET.

Jamiroquai came out at 9.30pm, everyone went absolutely crazzzy. I'll let the photos do the talking:

JayKay himself






















The Band
Bass- Paul Turner


Keyboards- Matt Johnson

Guitar- Rob Harris


Drums- Derrick McKenzie


Percussions- Sola Akingbola


Backup vocals- Lorraine and hazel





Jay Kay threw two towels- first one landed on top of a bald bodyguard XD, second one at the Singaporeans.

Songs performed:
1) The Kids
2) Alright
3) Seven Days In Sunny June
4) Black Capricon Day
5) Use The Force
6) High Times
7) Travelling Without Moving
8) Space Cowboy
9) Little L
10) Canned Heat
11) Cosmic Girl
12) Love Foolosophy
13) Deeper Underground

Here's where we are standing- you can start a mud fight down here.

They thanked the fans and went in after Love Foolosophy. We cheered on and they came out again with an encore song- Deeper Underground. Here's my favourite photo of all:

A drinking and smoking JayKay!

And he thanked us one last time:

"Thank you SINGAPORE!!!!"
what tha....???

It ended at 11.30pm. As a result of standing in the rain for 5 hours with lousy shoes-

But then again, I paid RM100 for a RM1,000 view and a world-class performance. Now I can die happily.