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New Channel 8 serial, didn't turn off since the focus seems to be on the love story rather then **** the Army's *****

hah hah.. I have to hand it to Mediacrap.. The opening scenes when commandos jumping off helicopter they can also shoot until so lame and boring..
Perhaps it's realistic and follow safety rules , but it's a TV show!.. at least action abit like those army /navy /air force ads. Worst offender is the shot where those comandos line up to to jump out , wearing their blue fat suits and waddling like penguins. All along we got lots of close-up of the sienz sienz and constipated face of Tay bing hui...

Then the scene where Chen Feng Ling as a Female officer teaching artillery.., I though they'd want to show a female officer also as capable as male? Fail!! ..Waliao pple dare dare sleep in her class, and her response/warning won't even scare little children. She got alot to learn putting on a stern face and projecting a piercing stare...

During the Field trainning, instead of showcasing her professional knowledge, they let her drone on and on about safety rules .....
Oui ! I know it's realistic for intsructors to go on and on about safety.. but this is a TV show , not training program for soldiers..

The show does has it merits.. ,
For one, I like the pairing of Rui En and Piere Png.., both talking funny Mandrain, so cute!
Fun to see Huang Wen Yong playing the stereotypical Career Soldier-father.. which has become a parody in itself..
Fart Jokes! okay not a joke ,but the sound effect! Can't believe I heard it in a Serious Drama, at first I though I heard wrongly...
Cheng Feng Ling's impression of a "土拨鼠" is very very good

Fan Service in Harry Potter 7

Finished the book, thought he middle camping part is abit plodding , all the lose-ends were tied up nicely without too much Deus Ex Machina , many of the mysteries matched popular theories and my own. And we get a big battle in the end , which I can't wait to see on Film.

The "19 years later" epilogue reads like a fanfic .. so cute and tidy, typical of those goose bump inducing happy endings in Chinese new year movies .
Guess it's fan service for those unable to grasp the concept of "leave it to the imagination of the readers" and need a definite happy ending written in black and white for them.

Rowling also didn't forget fans of the movie , espcially those of Daniel Radcliffe, who can look forward to seeing him stark naked in the 7th Movie.

55 word Fiction

He stood before the machine, looking upon the array of buttons and the screen.

Sweat roll down his neck.., he take a deep breath and punch in what he though was the correct code...
Shit! wrong again!

Behind him, someone hollered , " Oui Bloody Mangkok! wan me to teach you how to use the ATM"?

Deathly Hallows

So.. it's less than a week to the release.
I preordered the last book , Half-blood Prince and actually wake up early to buy book from Popular Book store at 7.00am.
As expected , there's already a queue, thankfully it's more like the one lining up to vote rather than one to buy4D .Finished the book that same weekend..
Poof! $50 gone just like that..
Though I enjoy the book , I felt I paid mostly for Hype .

Somehow , this year I forgot to preorder , also not too keen to rush out and buy on first day..

But after watching the OOTP movie , I just have to find out as soon as possible how it all ends..
And yesterday.. I kena spoilers for Reaper's Gale on the net ... Sienz ..when I still have only less than 300 pages to go...

So.. come Saturday you'll probably see me at Popular bookstore early in the mornng..

OOTP

Yep, Movie I 've watched in the previous post is Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (OOTP)..

The little drama before the movie aside, it stands quite well by itself as a movie. The plots moves alot quickly, the director cut out all the superflous stuff and manage to convey most of the plot points thru relatively brief scenes..

Having read the book naturally I felt things are abit skimped over.

Most of the cast memebers are alittle more than living background or have only single-line dialogue ..

Tonks, I think dun get to say a single line in the movie,though she did show her face in all the scenes she's suppose to be in.We also dun get to see alot of Snape, I was looking forward to some scenes of him with Sirius ,too bad there was none..

Finally, we get to see wizards duke it out with their wands , certainly more colorful and pretty than the one in LOTOR though it look abit goofy with some of the wand wielding stance..

The battle between 2 of the supposely most powerful wizards in the end is not as impressive as I imagine leh..., I think it's teh expression of the wizards more than the effects, not as intense like the wizard fight in LOTR...,

Of the new characters I like Luna, Cho is rather forgettable, but she did manage to make Harry seem not so short . Yah Poor Daniel... maybe he's too busy to drink his milk.. almost all the other young cast members have grown taller and broader than him. Hermonie especially, who seems like a little sister in the previous movie , now looks like big sister next to harry(though that is in fact, the case in the book).

Even Haggrit has grown bigger.. welll not actually.. but this movie employ camera angle/tricks to make him seem bigger.I still dun like the new guy who play Dumbledore, he seem shifty to me looked more like a jester than magician in his robe..Also, Voldemont's face could use some texture and color , so smooth and fair.....reminds me of a baby's backside..

Some may find the movie not as "Cute" as the previous one, but it's certainly is no less entertaining.., and I do like the pacing..

Eng Wah ah Eng Wah...

if not near my house...

yesterday go there see movie.. projectionist play the wrong movie...
Just before the movie, they played a trailer for the movie i was suppose to be watching...
oredi felt something wrong..
Then .. the 20th century Fox intro came up.. oh oh... it's suppose to be a Warner Brother film..

Bewildered faces allround when the first scene is a shot of some high-tech computers..
then the Die Hard 4.0 title came up...
Hah hah alot of patrons bolt up from their seats thinking they're in the wrong theatre ..

Played wrong movie is the first time I ecounter , of course it has to be at Eng wah, Luckily they load the correct movie quickly ....

Hmmm.. wat's with the place huh? Sink too much money into crazy horse that they cannot afford to train staff and maintained equipment?

It's not the first time this kind of thing happen, I remembered one time the picture and the sound don't sync.. and it's also there the first and only time I experience..

-air-con spoilt, no aircon for a while and somemore dripping water..
- sound system spoilt.. no sound
- someone kena beaten up for using handphone..
wait .. that last one is a good thing , too bad I was not there , read about it in the news..

新诗

昨晚睡大觉
起来头发翘
胡渣没刮掉
镜中人仍俏

Translation :

Last nite sleep soundly

wake up hair standing

stubble didn't shave

face in the mirror still charming

Live Earth

I'm already very annoyed with the screening of Shanghai Live earth instead of the usual "周日八点档".

The channel 5 one keep interupting for sponsor's ads and those 'SOS" shorts inbetween perfomance by artistes who dun seem very enthusiastic..
They sianz I watch even more sianz..

B'cos of all this rubbish on TV forgot all about "栋笃神探".. SOS.. my ka-chng.. !
How about we skip the concerts, and appeal to everyone to stay home and sleep..
no need to use less , eat less ,do less etc etc as suggested by the shorts, you're not doing any of those if you're asleep..

Oh well, atleast I got to make signifcant progress on Reaper's gale ....

They made me do it..

Thank you for the support, those who encouraged me to write again.

This doesn't mean I will correspond less with you(all) in future, infact i'm gonna doubled the efforts since you(all) obviously like my stuff so much.

Hooray !