Green Day

Yup, its Green Day alright, the time of year is here, after a month of fasting its time to celebrate Hari Raya. Yay! Well the festivities started on Thursday, Nov 03, and will go on as long as Syawal in is the calendar for this year. Should be ending sometime in late Nov or early Dec.

Anyway, got some green packets as usual. I should be rejoicing but lets put it this way, the money tap dries up when you get older. Sure, you shouldn't be mercenary but every cent counts these days, especially if you're a young adult trying to make your mark in the world.

Of course I had the usual pep talk by my relatives to get a job soon and get married to my gf. But hey, its my life so I'll live it the way I want. I'll definitely be out looking for a job soon, because I've been bumming around for too long. Who doesn't want to get a job and earn some money? I do, because I want to settle down soon and we're not getting any younger. I guess anything will do at this point. Shucks, like they say "beggars can't be choosers". I'm not begging or anything but I need a job.

So back on the happy track, next up is Christmas and time to celebrate with my Catholic relatives. Then its Happy New Year and a brand new year appears, 2006. Then come February its CNY again and I'll be one happy bugger.. the money tap doesn't dry up there. Haha!

Anyway, Selamat Hari Raya to my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters out there, and happy holidays to everyone else. Visiting relatives is next up on the schedule and to the racist despots out there, damn you and damn your ideas. I'm content with being part Chinese and Malay and happy with the fact that I'm Muslim. :)

Superheroes and Sidekicks

Yup, its another teen comedy from Disney and this time, its about a bunch of superhero kids and their quest to save the world from the evil supervillains... and of course, from themselves too. :p

Michael Angarano plays the main hero aka Will Stronghold, son to two superhero parents, aka The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston). Will's dad is a little over nutty but his mom.. wow, she's a MILF!

But back to the teen stuff, Will attends Sky High, which is a high school in the sky built for superhero students. The usual high school problems appear in the daily activities (bullying, girl problems.. etc.) but nonetheless, there's the standard nefarious scheme hatched by some uber-nasty villain. In this case, the chick with a pacifier and her jester sidekick called Stitches.

I won't give away any spoilers but one of the characters called Warren Peace, just happens to be a cool dude with a penchant for being a firestarter. He sure burns like mad alright. Its an entertaining movie but best watched on a weekday. Save your $$ for upcoming movies like Narnia. :p

Treasure Island - Korean Style

You could see it coming, a take on the usual treasure island.. Korean style. Cool stuff in this movie. Bundle in a gangster with a corrupt cop, in search of a chick who ran off with a big boss's Lotto jackpot, plus some crabby ol' ladies, you get a pretty serious dramedy.

Not very realistic at times, but the idyllic life on the island where the two bumheads head for is pretty believable. So they get bullied into doing work for the native islanders, who just happen to be single old women. No offence but it looks like a oldies version of an Amazon village.

(Amazon here refers to those legendary spear-wielding female warriors of Greek mythology)

A series of slapstick moments come along in the movie and slowly it cobbles along until the fellas happen to find a BIG field of ganja.. sorry I meant cannabis, nope, hemp in this case. Bah, all the same. Its still marijuana. :p (Note : Please don't do drugs)

I bet any drug dealer who sees a freaking gigantic field of nothing but hemp plants would go crazy.. and so the corrupt cop did. The big boss who finally turned up on the island to search for them, finds the field too and in exchange for the girl's life, he would take possession of the island and the hemp fields from the women. Too bad for him the police turned up soon after and poof!.. his dream is gone. So much for stoning yah!

Presenting.. the Masked Bandito!

And yes the big black Z himself, Zorro (who else?) returns again to the big screen. This time with a little kid in tow called Joaquin de la Vega. Joaquin is just like his dad, a naughty little prick with too much play-time. He treats teachers like crap and he oughta be spanked for being such a nasty kid.

Then again, his momma's a hot lady.. Catherine Zeta-Jones.. ooohhhlaaalaaa.. as Madam Elena de la Vega, Zorro's wife and "sidekick". She must be every man's wet dream. Hahah!! Too bad she's taken.

Anyway, the plot's a little leaky at parts but I must say the last few fight scenes were very very "stylo", so to speak. Zorro's horse was a feisty quadruped too! Catch it if you must, but on a weekday please. Save some $$ for slightly better movies.

Transport Me

Okay so this is about Transporter 2, probably a little late but its a cool movie. Excellent action scenes, plot's a little weak though. Kate Nauta is damn cool as a Euro-trash anti-social chick with her two submachine toys. :p

Jason Statham again plays the cool transporter dude with an attitude and a nasty car. This time round, it doesn't blow up. Haha!

No Shu Qi this time but I suppose Kate will do just fine. Go catch it if you haven't.

Crap Service

Yes, crap service is the topic of the day. Here I was, with my gf at a big mall in the far west of Singapore, looking for a place to eat. We ended up having a meal at one of the local fish'n'chip specialist restaurant. I won't say the name of the place but the entire thing was a disaster from the start.

My gf and I, plus a number of people were already forming a queue at the entry point. Guess what? The staff didn't even bother to make eye contact or ask us if we wanted a seat. They were too busy running up and down to the counter to send food and drinks to the customers. Oddly enough there were a good number of staff and they didn't even have one person to attend to the people waiting at the queue. And to think they were given an Excellent Service Award in 2004.

Ptui (colloquial for spitting..)! They don't deserve it at all.

So after 10 or so minutes of waiting like fools, we finally got a seat. Orders were made for the usual fish'n'chips, soup of the day and drinks as usual. I asked for some chilli sauce from the manager and he said okay. Guess what? The moron forgot and he didn't even come back to say sorry. Bloody bastard. At least one of his staff was kind enough to bring me the chilli sauce I asked for... and that was only after I had asked her for it.

The food was less than delectable. The fish was more or less coated with some flour that looked like some goreng pisang flour mix. I think I would have gotten a better deal at LJS at a fraction of the cost. Damn.

A few minutes later after finishing the meal, I wanted my refill for the drink, which I had specifically ordered earlier. So I requested for it nicely with one of the staff. Guess what? The fella forgot it too! After 20 minutes, my drink finally came, and for that I had to go and tell the counter staff personally.

I asked for the bill and they took another 20 minutes before the damn thing came. Total time wasted : 1 hour +++. I was one angry man when I left the place with my gf. I tell you, I swear I'll never eat at that shitty place again.

Call me a picky customer but that was one of the shittiest forms of customer service ever, and waiters say customers are a lousy group. Hey who's paying their salaries anyway? Given this kind of crap attitude from most of the staff members, including the manager, they should be given the boot for displaying such lousy customer service. The outlet really doesn't deserve the award they were given in 2004.

I paid $52 for crap food, crap service and crap ambience. Should have spent that money at the table BBQ restaurant. *bleh*

Tom Yum Goong!

Okay so this post ain't about the Thai dish called Tom Yum. Now that's one spicy concoction involving lemon grass etc.. (okay so I don't know the full recipe.. so sue me. :P)

Back on track, its the title of Tony Jaa's new action flick. He's the kickboxing dude from Ong Bak : The Thai Warrior. Poster of Ong Bak on the left. Tony played a village dude in that movie, who went to Bangkok to retrieve the severed head of the village's Buddha statue. Some morons stole it and he kicked their asses nicely. Cool movie and he's even cooler now. I'll never forget the Muay Thai moves in Ong Bak.


Now on to Tom Yum Goong, Tony plays a young man named Kham, who grew up with elephants. His dream was to be an elephant guard. Now all goes well until his elephant Por Yai, and Por Yai's baby, Korn? was kidnapped by some poaching idiots who sold them off for some bush-meat restaurant based in Sydney, Australia. And so our hero goes on a mission to rescue his pet pachyderms. I won't spoil the movie so go watch it when you can. You won't regret it, trust me. :)

Visit the official website for more info and pics of the movie.

Revenge and Red Eyeshadow

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, an interesting film indeed. Lee Young-ae plays the character named Lee Geum-ja I think?? (can't remember anyways..) and her performance was excellent!

Geez.. she kinda made red eye-shadow a trendy fashion statement. But then again, that make-up gave me the creeps. She returns in this film to get her revenge on the man who caused her to be jailed for a crime she did not commit. I would call this erm.. "divine" retribution. Well at least in this case it wasn't via "divine" intervention but rather by her tenacity in hunting the poor bastard down. I don't pity him rather. The folks had a good reason to slice/smash/stab and bleed him to death.

The last instalment in a trilogy of films by director Park Chan Wook, this one is a superb piece of film-making.. at least in my view that is.

Anyway, its still showing locally in SG. Go catch it if you haven't. Check out http://www.geum-ja.co.kr for the official website.















Now you know why I said her make-up gave me the creeps? She looks damn nasty in this image.. but hey.. I'd love to shag her. Hahah!!