Phantom Reborn

Once I thought to myself that Alien Vs Predator 2 was a great movie then, since the first episode was not bad, in my own opinion. But many movies which could only be seen in cinema are going downhill soon after AVP2 started in haunting our mind and soul.

These days, things are worsen. You know what, I think that cartoons (pleasantly, marvel cartoons and other cartoons like Transformer are not bad, in fact they are all quite awesome and enjoyable to watch, movie remakes of animes are the roots of the problem), especially animes from Japan, should be left as it is, and never ever being made into a movie or that sort of thing. When a famous anime was modified into a real life people emulating the characters in it, the anime itself will be spoiled.

The circumstance is very similar with broadcasting a very famous song (which you love very much once upon a time) in a camp, but due to some lame mistakes or bad management by the camp organizers; as a consequence, people who were previously crave for that song are now hating the song, wished that they won't hear it again in the near future.

Perhaps many of you out there are looking forward to some of the upcoming movies, with the likes of Dragonball Evolution, and Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun Li... But I have my own stand on this. Well, (no hard feelings to the fans out there, I am a fan to Dragonball as well as Street Fighter too) both of these movies are as if doomed to be big let downs.



First of all, let's talk about Dragonball Evolution. When you look at the trailer, first thing goes into your mind, "why is Goku a white?" And, omg, is that Chow Yun Fatt?? Well, you know, there would be some strange vibes and sensation which makes you feel like as if you're sitting on a seat in the cinema, watching a somewhat lame movie, you feel like releasing the laughing gas, but you couldn't, for there were many spectators sitting around you, anticipating the best from the movie, just like you (if you're a big fan of Dragonball).



Next up, Street Fighter - The Legend of Chun Li. I couldn't agree more with some of the viewers who appeared no problem with Chun Li as the main character revolves around the story, but not Ryu & Ken. But hey, the whole piece of movie still goes wrong as it seems. Lana Lang, one of the Goddess of the pretties in many hearts in men, surprisingly is co-starred in this one. Seriously, I was flabbergasted.

I don't know whether I would give these a go in the near future, but at least for now, it's a "no" from me. "All's Well Ends Well 2009" was also a big failure as far as I'm concerned. The director seemed to be struggling to emulate the '94 & '97 version. I might as well wait for "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Burton"... I wish that this would at least strike a sense of balance in my movie taste for a while (but it seems to be a tear-stealing movie... gurp.).

You know, there are actually individuals out there who are lacking of a mercy heart, and laugh at those who are helpless, and pointing the helpless person and scornfully commented a word, "retard." So who's the real retard? Take a look at the following video:




I'm truly inspired by Nick Vujicic. I thought this was the most amazing and astonishing testimonial I've ever seen in my whole life.

I just hope that Nick could be filled with power and wisdom to continue inspiring people and unfortunates who fell into the snare of sadness.

Back to the 70's? Did we really nail it with the theme? I guess not... Everyone was so lethargic after a long day of work...

I seriously think that a staff dinner should not be held on such a day (weekday) where everyone was expected to enjoy the night after a long period stare at the PCs. It should be held during the weekends or, perhaps one of the nights of Friday (people would be relieved with the coming of weekends, at least...)

Three of us (including me) took off from the office a couple of hours earlier from the office, and I purposely drove a long way to my colleague's house, just to collect the staff gifts, and drove my old junk back to the office with my colleague. Straight after that, we proceeded to the destination (a restaurant in Bangsar).

Lady Luck was not on our side as we were getting our hands wet with the traffic... Cars honked around on the seemingly never ending queue of vehicles. And we were thinking, "oh gosh, being the event organizers, we probably could not make it earlier like expected."

After entering a wrong restaurant (yup yup, due to our poor senses of direction), and a few car-tailing actions in the house, we finally made it to our destination.

Before the sense of proud overpowered us, there were already cars which were too familiar for us to recognize, parked around at the car park area.

You know, it sucks when the organizers were the last ones to arrive before ALL the guests.

I was initially given the opportunity to be an emcee of the event, but I was grateful that the real emcee (who had encountered an unfortunate incident where her head was hit by a somewhat long steel from the above) returned, thus I could concentrate with my original task of the night, which was taking care of the broadcasting musics (but it sucks too... since our company's first lady was demanding a soft volume... she could not sustain high pitch music, aged people, you see...). Which in turn, caused me managed to take just a few pictures off the event.

What is "GTF"? Well, that's the name of my current company actually...

We had a long well-planned activity last Saturday, it was quite a successful event, but with a herd of over 130 people attendees, our tiny seminar room was simply flooded!



The above is a video made by our graphic designers (this video is exclusive... It should be used for pre-seminars viewing I reckon...). Though the video seemed to be quite easily done, but everyone who attended seemed to be happily pampered by us in our company, especially the kids. All attendees were showered with gifts, and some were gifted cash as their biggest angpows of the year!

I was with my fellow colleagues for a peace luncheon the other day. We went to a usual Chinese Restaurant which serves normal Chinese dishes (You know, for those of you who bumps into UPM often, you could relate the imaginary dishes with those served in Bao Long, the thoughts of those dishes disgust a few of you yeah?).

After we have ordered what could have been our set lunch of peacefulness, suddenly a seemingly angry voice came out from the kitchen. What appeared in front of our eyes was a young bloke shouting towards an uncle who was probably in his early fifties. That uncle is in responsible taking orders from the customers as far as I know.

It was the words that shocked us out of our seats. The youngster (he looks like an illegal immigrant to me) was scolding the old folk with harsh words, with the likes of "stupid", "old fella (in a relatively impolite manner, of course)", and others which I could not recall. It seemed like the old man was asking the staffs in the kitchen to buck up and finish off with all the cooking, since some of the customers were waiting (fortunately it was not us, we don't wanna get involve in such turmoil). Perhaps the uncle got on his nerve, I reckon? Expectantly, customers from all angles were experiencing the awkward scenario.

When we thought that the quarrel has ended a few minutes later, another shocking incident took place. The youngster wen upfront and slapped that old man straight onto his face!





The spectacles wore by the pitiful old man flew onto the ground. Fearful eyes which filled with unexplainable hostility were observed on the facial expression of the young bloke. Additionally, he dared the old man to call his mother when the old man was taking out his cellphone and started pressing buttons on it.

Well,we were stunned, and had no appetite to carry on with our self-thought a peaceful luncheon session.

I sincerely hope that nothing else serious than that would happen after we left that place.

My grandmother was unleashing a series of new and hottest jokes recently...

After living with us for so many years, she slowly developed a strange habit of asking us weird questions in our eyes.

When me and my parents are about to go out to work, she would now ask us the same question, with the likes of, "Can I go with you?", "does your company hires people?"

Well.. My grandmother is actually word-blinded. In addition, she is almost 90 year old, an old folk with Alzheimer. Well.. If a company wants to hire her, and promise her a contract of showering her with some coins every month, I would appreciate that company very much for awarding her such a chance to feel young at work again. But that would probably only happen in my dreams.

Of course, it needs mounted patience to deal with Alzheimer patients. One of the best way is to treat them as if they are 3 year old again. And so, my dad was playing around with my grandmother this morning, telling her that he's going to set up a stall somewhere, and my dad would be the person who hires my grandmother in the near future. And of course, my grandmother looked exhilarated and happy, she looks forward to her "future job" very much.

But my dad stated a somewhat tough question for her. He asked my grandmother, if someone ordered a glass of water which costs RM1.20, and the customer asking her for a change with a RM5 note, how much money would she give her back?

You know what, she was stunned, frozen like a snowman in the snowfield, speechless for a.. err.. terribly long period.

Despite there is still a week left for Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year celebration in real life is virtually over now, since everyone starts to get back to their usual routine; workers work, students study as usual.

But there is something dilly-dallying my mind, I got these provoking mind teaser from a conversation with one of my relatives in one of the days of Chinese New Year.

Somehow, we got to a topic where we were speaking things about the past, things about what we have encountered, be it happiness or sadness we experienced.

Well, about the content of the conversation.... It's better kept unrevealed. But I hate to say that I'm totally disagree with people who often flush statements such as "Time heals all wounds", "Time recovers"... You know what, time does not really heal.

In a way, it's not true at all. Years later, people could still be terribly sad over something which had occurred in the past. Scars remain.

What we could do to these scars within us is depends solely on what kind of solution we use to face the problem. Time, is just a natural tool where it unveils the obstacles deep within your soul, and it makes it as if the problem does not exist at all, but little do we know that, it still does exist in the bottom of our broken hearts.