Trailers: The Godfather Trilogy

Official trailers for all three The Godfather films.
First two were made in the seventies, the trailer art haven't really developed yet.
Part 3 was made in the nineties.

The trilogy can be summarize as the rise and fall of Michael Corleone, with a just but bitter end.

Masterpieces of all time...

The Godfather (1972)


The Godfather: Part II (1974)


The Godfather: Part III (1990)

Video: Lenovo - ThinkPad - Grandma Proof

When people ask what business my company is doing?
Should I answer: Chopping board? Or Kitchen utility?

Home Oriented Weekends

Ah~my dear weekend, you are here alas~
I can sleep as long as I want, as much as I can... great~ just great~!
Despite just get the salary, but I'm already a poor man now, no joke.
This is not modesty, this is a fact.
So, to cut down cost,
I have to reduce going out alone, wandering around, 'cause this will burn my fuel.
I have to do less shopping, especially for comics or DVDs or CDs or toys...
I may have to cut down the monthly allocation for alcohol supply, but this will pend the approval from the evil side of, me, which usually will think of a workaround to get its supply.
Sigh...this is gonna being a very home-oriented month...
at the bright side of thing, it can really get me some rest.
Stay at home, read those books bought but not even touch yet...
watch those DVDs bought but haven't touch yet...
Maybe re watch some cool stuff like The Godfather Trilogy...
Watch Senfield Season 1 again...
Stay at home, get some drinks and plenty of rest...
Don't you think it's kind of boring?

HTC Touch Diamond VS Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

HTC Touch Diamond VS Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, which is cooler? Better?
Now I afford neither...lol

HTC Touch Diamond



Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

I just can't do things that I can't rationalize!

Recently office is hell. Too many work, I can handle. Too many issue, I can solve. Too many error, I'll feel bad, but still will correct it. But one thing I can't do it, things that I can't rationalize~!

Hey, why don't you do this report so that you will get more busy and spend 15 hours a day sticking your arse on the chair?

Erm..what is this report for?

Some big shot needed (which actually means, I don't know~!)

When you can't rationalize the reason to do something, you can't do it whole-heatedly. You will just sort of doing it, but not really doing it, and the main purpose is not doing it, but appear as if you are doing it, so that you can entertain the one that ask you to do it. Get it?

Maybe that's the reason I never learn to like mainstream hip-hop; where they sing love song in a very fake bad-ass way with music videos where the female model acts as if never get laid for pass 30 years seducing the male 'rapper' that sings allegedly romantic lyrics with a face of mugger. What's that? That's why I like rock better, cause they are insane and never hide it. And underground hip-hop with hint of gangsterism elements. Those are real hip-hop with style.

Perhaps that is why I don't quite enjoy club. I enjoy friends, I craze for alcohol, but just never understand why those boring music? And people dancing but not actually dancing. How often there is really cool dancer there? Body shakers maybe dozens, but dancer? Most of them just jumping around like zombies! And how do you actually communicate with your friends? You can't even be sure if your eardrums still intact! Can clubbing really a relaxing activity, when all is a elaborate masquerade? You clubber, tell me, when you are in club, do you unmasked or masked?

I also can't rationalize otaku. Hey, people are not born ugly, so why hide indoor you whole life and go you just for supply of comic, anime and games? You actually make the normal fan like us look bad. You have the uncanny ability to remember the technical detail of a Gundam robot and that is the only way you make use of your brain? You rather stay hope drooling over a model in bikini but never ever think of getting a real girl as friend? Why that fanatic? Comics are just like books, anime just motion picture. Why can they have the same level of interest like other media product, and you will have to degrade it but glorifying the culture of otaku? So, regardless how I like comics and anime, I will never be an otaku. I just don't understand why some choose to. It's disgusting!

So there above, some aspect or area of my life, where I am in there, but not exactly in there, I'm into it, but also not so into it. Aspect of life that surprisingly I'm in the middle, accept, but not too into.

But then, what kind of things that I am too into? With my current job, nothing!

My Kind of Weekend Version A

To get a lovely, relaxing day where everything works as I wanted it to be or at least in a way that I can accept, I have to work for freaking 15 hours on Friday. Well, 15 hours may not be anything for some, but for a lazy lad like me, it's huge, and I hate it.

Well, this is a Saturday that I like, slept at around 1 the day before, got up and pee at around 6 something, which will be the time I get up in normal working days. It is rather satisfying to get up at 6 something and know that you can get back to sleep in matter of minutes. I really like to get up and pee at 6 something in days I need not to work.

Then I proceed my sleep until it became easily interrupted by anything. The little bell on the baby's feet when she walks, the whining of the pig, or even the faint hiss of the TV. These are the indication that my sleep is enough, and it is just OK to get up. For the first few interruption, I can still get back to sleep, but when I find that the frequency of getting awake is increasing, I know my sleep is complete, and I am save to get up~! This, is a variation of my "natural awakening".

After the usually rush to get shower, oral hygiene stuff and an express coffee down to my vein, I read the paper with no hast. Then I did my usually weekly check on my car, usually just checking the engine oil, wipe some glasses, that's all. Now quite in the mood to wash the car though.

Well, then my mum is working today (she baby sits, and both babies were dumped here today as well) so I decided to go for some shopping. See if there is any DVD or CD that finally succeed in seducing me into buying as well as getting some beer supply; was looking forward for a drinking session with the old man. Hey, I may not able to bring back his glory days of his youth, but he still has a boy who he can drink with and boast to.

After a visiting two shopping centre and late brunch-tea, at 3 something at a well known roadside hawker's rojak and ABC, the idea flash through my mind: Well, I got beers for old man, how about his woman? Hmm...maybe try some pasar Ramadan and get some food for her. She always fond of lemang.

And off I went to search for these...but thing is, maybe it is me being bad in this kind of hunt, or Klang people is just being boring. I found some Ramadan market, but most of them selling things that cannot be eaten. Oh craps~! So I just wasted my time and fuel for an hour for nothing but some sweat. I've tired some nearby Malays residential area and even Klang's pasar malam, maybe I was early (4pm consider early for Ramadan market?), but I just couldn't find any. At last I went home empty handed saved for some beers, chips and some Iranian date for my family to try.

At the night, before my old man went out getting my brother back, I watch Seinfeld DVD. Nothing like a good dose of comedy after a week of pissedoffness and stroke opportunity. After the old man bring back my bro, I got in the room where they are watching some Japanese detective series VCDs that I bought years ago and they have watch for N so many times and have a drink with the old man.

So, the whole family is there, talking about the good old days, some nostalgic events, while the plot in the TV being reduce to nothing but background ambiance. Talk with the family, and drink. Compare to Sunday, where the fact that "tomorrow back to work" is haunting me the whole day, Saturday 11pm till approximately 1 am for me is the "family hours". Here is when where we do nothing but relax and enjoy some quality time together.

Now, I'm not that family oriented person, but after you for weeks, around 12 hours of more everyday, where in the whole week you home is nothing but a hotel room for you...you will find that having a time where you are really doing nothing, but just being with your family and talk, is the greatest moment, funnest thing, and most enjoyable way to spend the weekend.

Of course, if the office was not that hellish, one will always looking for a more happening weekend. But for now, for me, this does the trick...

Malaysia's 'worst in the world' taxis tarnish national image

How true...

AFP - Thursday, September 18

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - - The ads promoting "Malaysia: Truly Asia" aim to welcome visitors with a warm smile to a prosperous and modern nation, so the taxi fleet branded "the worst in the world" can come as a bit of a shock.

Even the locals are not spared the shabby service of unkempt and hostile drivers behind the wheels of decrepit vehicles who refuse to use the meter, overcharge and pick-and-choose which destinations they will travel to.

At the popular KLCC mall under Kuala Lumpur's iconic Petronas Twin Towers is a typical scene, as a gang of cabbies negotiate with a young Norwegian couple just metres from a signboard warning against "taxi touts".

"Flat rate, flat rate, no metre," one driver insists as the tourists try to find a cab to take them to their hotel, less than two kilometres (1.2 miles) away.

Anxious to escape the baking heat, they agree to pay 25 ringgit (7.22 dollars) for a trip that would have cost less than three ringgit on the meter.

"Is it expensive? We don't know, we thought it is normal here," said the woman as they piled in with their shopping bags.

More frequent visitors, however, are vocal in their criticism and say that aggressive and unprofessional drivers are tarnishing the nation's image as a squeaky clean and hospitable destination.

"I first visited Malaysia in 2006 and I was impressed by everything I saw except for the worst taxi service I have endured," said Kabir Dali, an Indian tourist waiting in vain for a metered taxi at another mall.

"I paid a whopping 260 ringgit (74 dollars) from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport to town and was later told that was twice the proper amount."

Complaints about taxis are common in many countries, but in Malaysia it has escalated to an outpouring of frustration, on blog sites and in letters to newspapers.

In a survey by the local magazine The Expat, some 200 foreigners from 30 countries rated Malaysia the worst among 23 countries in terms of taxi quality, courtesy, availability and expertise.

The respondents lashed the fleet as "a source of national shame" and "a serious threat to tourists -- rude bullies and extortionists".

Salvation is in sight though, as a number of smaller, up-scale operators enter the market to provide a more expensive but quality taxi service for frustrated visitors and locals.

The uniformed drivers, behind the wheels of smart new multi-purpose vehicles and sedans, switch on the meter as a matter of course and do not refuse destinations -- surprising and delighting commuters in the capital.

Abdul Razak, operations manager for Dubai-based Citicab which launched here in January, said that even in poorer nations such as Thailand and Indonesia, taxis are smarter and the drivers far more courteous.

"I would say it is the worst in this region, undoubtedly. I have travelled to all countries in this region and our company operates taxis in many parts of the world. The situation here is the worst I have seen," he told AFP.

"The vehicles are in shabby condition, the driver will take you if he likes your face -- that is, if he agrees with where you want to go for the price he insists on."

The government has called on taxi firms to lift their standards, but various campaigns have achieved little, and many blame the lack of enforcement on rampant corruption in the police and bureaucracy.

"It is difficult for the roads and traffic department to take stern action," said a security officer at one city mall as he watched the touts swoop.

"Taxi operators and the company which hold the licences are all linked to some politician or another," he said. "Drivers here are ruthless because they are unchecked by authorities who are almost non-existent."

John Koldowski, from the Pacific Asia Travel Association, said that "less than desirable" taxi drivers have an outsize impact on a nation's image.

"The first contact a tourist gets with locals is often during airport transits to hotels and it creates a very, very strong first impression, either be good or bad," he said.

"Authorities certainly need to do their jobs and act upon any complaints strongly, quickly and visibly."

copied from: http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080918/tts-malaysia-transport-taxi-506e7eb.html

Well, one of the solutions...:

Violent Rant of A Pyscho Gone Berserk

Tired...tired..tired...fed up, fuck off, go to hell!

Today I unleashed some of my sarcasm to my manager. Yeah why not? I'm pissed. I've been doing three person's job, working 12 hours a day, and don't even have the little luxury of sitting in a proper kopitiam eating a proper lunch. Yet, the demand of reports and various update that has nothing to do with my current mission (at least not directly related to me) never ends.

I protested, she replied the senior management need it. Great, just great. I have to sacrifice my productivity, my personal time, my freedom for the sake of other people's curiosity? So far my perception of the senior management is the fail miserably in introducing the new system. What a good job they have done, freeze our leaves, and people starting to get sick and emotionally unstable. And I dare say I am not the only one, just my tolerance is almost burnt out.

Don't get me wrong, I do understand the position of this manager that keep on chasing for updates, she is being bullied by the senior idiot management as well. Just, the sad thing is, why she tend to dump everything on me? This is a critical period, everything need to do more, I am doing more, can she ask the Korean to do a little bit more? That Korean can leave at 5, I have to leave 5 hours after 5, damn it!

If she (Korean) does great job, maybe I can still swallow it. But she's giving us rubbish! Not at all proactive, lazy, unhelpful, irresponsible and sometimes I just feel she is downright stupid! If we have a local people know Korean, we can really do away with her cause her contribution is almost non-existent! And I don't bloody if she reads this! I'm a public enemy, no harm adding another one.

I missed Baldy's girl. She's a Korean as well. When she was around I ever deal with her, but at least she is good looking! This? Damn!

I remember when is asked the-person-who-I-am-not-naming-here about our problem, the person explained that different people has different attitude and personality, we have to try accept it. Agreed. But only if it is personal. If the Korean is but a acquaintance or friend, it will be my wrong to pissed off, but now it is business, and her incompetency is killing the already fragile team, if there is a team to start with. If you stand in my professional way, I will not hide my annoyance. I'm sick being a nice guy, Kellyz is right, wearing mask is no good.

From the manager point of view, they can always dump to me. Irony is, I always help, but when I need help I don't even have to asked, I won't get any.

Actually, I don't mind working with lazy people, I also don't mind idiot or stupid, slow learner I can accept, irresponsible is also a part of me, not being helpful is just normal. What I hate is, the combination of all this. And I think you I am talking about!

Yes, I'm pathetic! But I'm not hypocrite!

Fuck the K person!

Hate me, dislike me, isolate me! It will only makes you the same kind of person I am~!

I'm pathetic!

I'm very very very unhappy!

Video: How to respond to a telemarketer - The Seinfeld way

Anyone care to try this?

Good sleep

Hmm...last night better than the night before. In fact it is the best I have in weekdays since Everest.

I manage to force myself to shut down the computer and bed after 11.30. And it only took me a couple of minutes to get asleep~!

Nothing funny happen in between. No external interruption, no nightmare, no weird noise, nothing. I slept like vegetative state person.

It was until around my usual wake up hour than my conscious was coming back. Maybe the sleep was too nice, my eyes were playing trick on me. I looked at the clock and thought it was just 6.15, still have at least 45 minutes to sleep...but a second after I closed my eyes the annoying music of the alarms faded in. Then I got a clearer view. The clock was showing 7.15 instead of 6.15. And lucky I'm psycho enough to set my clock to indicate 15 minutes earlier than the actual time. So at 7am, I got up and start the day that ends with numerous task pending.

Damn~

Video: George Costanza - How To Pretend That You Are Busy

For all working class,
some nice skill to learn...

I hate insomnia

I hate insomnia, I hate it when I have to sleep but couldn't sleep!Please take note, I said "when I have to sleep" not "when I am sleepy".

Don't know what happened last night. Is it something I ate or drank? The triple shot espresso vanilla latte? No no, caffeine won't have this effect on me anymore. Then what else? Did I ate something I don't in daily routine? The water melon after dinner? Ridiculous. Water melon, haha, can't sleep, haha.

After my usual blog entry, checking a few sites online, I decided to sleep rather on time last night. I got to the bed at 12, and since, trying, changing pose, changing pillows for more than 2 hours. Man, that is torturous.

Idiotic part is, my sister was washing some bowls or pots in the kitchen at around 1 am. Hey that midnight~! And she is not the polite type of girl, so it sounded like some triad was having a fight in the kitchen. Worse is, she didn't even close the door separating the kitchen with the other part of the house. So the sound can just simple travel to my room and torture me.

Then it was my brother. Boy, I bought a Seinfield Season 1 DVD, and I was stupid enough to release it out to share it with my family, actually my brother only. What he did was, we watch it when I trying to get sleep. Last night he have the sense to turn down the volume,but the sad thing about TV is, it has some annoying hiss whenever it is turned on. You may not notice it normally, but in the middle of the night, when everything is noiseless and quiet, you will hear it. There are two TVs in my house, one in the living room, another in my mothers, and I can tell which TV is on without ever need to step out of my room, even if they mute it.

So, that was last night. How this night will going to be? Hmm....see la.

Feel like sick

Hellish hot in the inside,
vision blurring, head dizzy.
Shoulder ache, arms and hands feel heavy.
Feet sore, legs weak.
Feel like vomiting, unquenchable thirst.
O~ shit, feel like getting sick.
I like a day off, but never like MC.
I have no back up, the idea of "no back up" will manage to make things worse,
if I ever get sick and MC.
I will get sicker, and MC may get longer.
And things will get even shittier then I am back.
Don't sick, don't sick.
The end is coming (hopefully).
Why weekend is so far away.
There better be some interesting news tomorrow.
Damn, better rest now...

Trailer: 清宮大刺殺 (1978)

This is the new trailer edited when the release the digitally restored version in DVD and VCD...
Showcased some uses of 血滴子.

血滴子重現江湖!

血滴子重現江湖! 人民無故失蹤!

約百多年前, 康熙爺歸天前幾年, 為了爭奪帝位, 曾出現九王奪嫡的局面. 其中以四阿哥胤禛與八阿哥胤禩的競爭最為激烈．

當唯一支持胤禛的十三阿哥被康熙下令軟禁後，為了自保，收集敵方資料，胤禛秘密聘請了幾位武林人士打造一枝特務組織命名為‘血滴子’．這個秘密特務組織，除了收集情報，潛入調查外，也負責秘密保護胤禛一家人．

在康熙爺歸天那一夜，當十三阿哥還沒奪回兵權的時候，保護胤禛進京的就是血滴子．他們以獨門武器血滴子，雖然人數不多，但一展示了血滴子武器的利害，把距離幾仗外的敵人極速化為血水，或把頭生生的撤斷，就足以讓身經百戰的八旗軍手心冒汗雙腿發抖．

雖然在胤禛繼位成功當了雍正皇後甚少用到血滴子，但這支特務組織依然一代傳一代．統統都屬當代皇帝的直接領導．

如今朝廷日漸衰落，革命黨日漸得勢，老佛爺不得不重用血滴子．首先除掉高新聞紙的編輯，還有一直專報導對朝廷不利的新聞的女記者．接下來就是亂黨裏的一位重要人物．先給他們一個下馬威．好讓他們知道，與當權者作對，是他們不對．

朝廷萬歲! 老佛爺萬歲! 政府萬歲!

不過大家都清楚，到最後那腐敗的朝廷得到了一個怎麼樣的下場吧?!

老掌門

長老會已經進行了整個時晨, 掌門的話依然沒完沒了.在座的長老們, 沒有一個是在用心的聽.他也一樣的不專心.事實上, 大堂裏的長老們, 幫派裏的兄弟們, 以及同盟裏的其他派別, 都對掌門失去了信心. 前陣子與魔教那一戰, 當權的名門正派輸的落花流水. 尤其是本派掌門, 竟然輸給一個初出茅廬的小夥子.

長老們一致的認同掌門已經老了. 實力大不如前; 是時候退位讓賢, 好讓門派裏的新勢力把門派好好的整頓整頓. 可惜掌門就是不肯. 不肯讓位, 也不接受他在那一戰的失敗, 無能, 失人心. 他依然的覺得他還是以前那德高望重的武林大人物. 其他同盟裏的幫會裏與掌門同期的都已經退位退休了. 他們知道時代已經不同了. 實時候換換新血, 自己好好的在家享想清福. 就是有這位掌門, 還執迷於權力得失裏.

他非但不檢討他失敗的原因, 還一直指責兄弟們的不是. 難道他就沒察覺, 幫派裏當今最他的威脅不是魔教, 而是他嗎?

與魔教大戰後, 盟主已經棄用掌門, 而重用七當家. 這讓掌門很不是味道, 因為從今他的鋒頭會被七當家蓋過. 明眼人都看得出, 幫派一天比一天衰落, 唯一的出路就是選的新掌門, 施行改革. 聽聞別的派別已經正在改選新掌門, 新幫主, 教主. 為的就是好好的重整幫派, 在重新建立同盟的實力.

而這掌門, 唉~ 就像他老是帶者那假的不能在假的假髮那樣, 永遠都不肯正面面對自己的弱點過失. 這幫派...唉~ 末日, 指日可待!

So, we are doomed?

So, the girl was accused of making a complain. She denied it, no one manage to prove she did it, but she was locked? Any no investigation is made?

So, the son humiliated other people's children and the mum just ground him but not letting the school to punish the boy?

So, the idiot above made a idiotic remark, the other student just report it word by word to the others, and this student get kidnapped by authority? And the idiot only get grounded at home?

So, the baldy just happen to write some story on line. Some may be non-fiction some may be fiction and some may be story heard from a friend's friend's friend. And he get locked up? For telling stories?

So, the boy's bog brother just fail to repeat the scheme design by his senior of framing a fellow student for certain freak crime, and now he tried to repeat the scheme of getting people locked away just to save his own arse?

So, they never want to play fair? Then it is rather obvious they are just weak. Being around for so long, most of them still do shit when doing public speaking. Their words are pointless and dog will band their head to the wall just to cut short their suffering from listening to these idiot talking. Can't blame them, dog can't operate the remote.

So, the rising stars that being their rival so extremely well when talking to the public and have the sense enough to admit it whenever mistake was made. Them? Trying desperately to push it to someone else but fail miserably.

So, they are the 20% that will lead the other 80%? Oh, we are doomed~!

School of X and It's Houses

Summary if some article I read randomly in the net (which I forgot what the site is)

Once there was a school in a rural area of an African village with house system. Pretty much like Howarts in Harry Potter's universe, where the students were to be divided into different house.

In this school of X, originally there was just very few student, and there was no such house system initially. But due to some reason, it has no choice but to welcome transfer from other schools. From then on, in order to facilitate the order, they created and implemented this house system.

The original students were grouped in House O, while the first batch of transfers which made up the majority number of student at the end of the day, House of P. The second and third batch, that arrived only a few days later, were respectively grouped in the House of C and House of D.

At this moment, some strange things happen, House of P claimed that they were the original student of School X and demanded to be respected and given priority in almost every thing. House of O, with their usual low profile attitude, does not made any protest, mainly because there were to few of them. House of C and D, however was mislead by the lie of P. Worse, House of P branded the other houses to be nothing but transfer and lodgers. They should have no right in the school.

Despite of their vast numbers, student of House P were mostly idiot with strong inferiority complex. Eventually, due to some dirty tricks, their parent got hold of the PTA, and gained control in the school administration. Thus, their demand of getting priority were made into school policy. And this is the beginning of the whole dirty business of satisfying the egomaniac attitude.

House of P do badly in education, so the school let them have a lower passing grade. The grade was low that even an ape can't get that low after purposely trying to answer 80% question wrong. They were also bad in sport, so in a ball game, they were always be given 10 points to start with, and in any racing even, they will get a head start 10% of the total distance.

Still, they still manage to do badly and lost to school of C. But the tragedy was, House or O and D were greatly suffered from this inequality.

As time goes by, some talented people starting to appear in House of P, but most of them detest the current system of priority of this so call "original house". They were embarrassed, ashamed and do not understand why can't they be let to competed equally, one on one, like man with balls, with other school.

But when these minority of talent people from House of P, or any people from other house questions the current status quo, there were shut up. Some even missing mysteriously. Rumors has it that they were force to transfer to other school or being tortured and brain washed.

Of course, educators from other schools did voiced their concerns about this system, but in return for their good will comment was harsh threat from School of X's administration accusing they trying to interfere other school's system.

And so, despite the critics from the outside, and the objection from the inside, the admin forces of School of X still keep on with this inequality, fascist and unfair system. Being human, nothing is more sadder than witnessing one particular group of human being this dirty just because they are impotent and afraid others know it. What worse is, they try to cover it with a poorly constructed idiotic plan.

So what will happen to this school? What is the future of it? How is it going to end? Don't know.

One can only hope...

Trailer: Project Ultraman (Thai/China)

Watch this...

How? Ekin Cheng in a Ultraman show? Hahaha~ Most likely we won't have any chance seeing this.

This is a co-production between between Chinese and Thai's Chaiyo production. The main Ultraman should be Thai's original Ultraman Millennium (looks decent enough, but lack some aesthetic value but classical), while Ekin will be Ultraman Elite (the one with retarded looking eyes that suggest "pirated design" standing next to red eyes) takes on the Dark Ultraman with red eyes (that looks gay with the one piece swimsuit wrinkling the crouch part of the costume).

While the trailer looks good, and overall production design is nice, the Chinese Ultraman Elite really looks bad. Really looks like a imitate product, like a Petaling Street version of Ultra.

Well, thanks to the legal dispute between Japan's Tsuburaya and Thai's Chaiyo (Japan won and outlaw all non-Tsuburaya authorized Ultra like the three above), we may never see this series with good production design and location (80% in China) but bad looking Ultraman...

Poety: 李白 - 將進酒

詩仙李白的將進酒...

將進酒 (李白)

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黃河之水天上來，奔流到海不復回？
君不見
高堂明鏡悲白髮，朝如青絲暮成雪？　
人生得意須盡歡，莫使金樽空對月。
天生我材必有用，千金散盡還復來。
烹羊宰牛且為樂，會須一飲三百杯。
岑夫子，丹丘生，
將進酒，君莫停。　　
與君歌一曲，請君為我側耳聽。
鐘鼓饌玉不足貴，但願長醉不願醒。
古來聖賢皆寂寞，惟有飲者留其名。
陳王昔時宴平樂，鬥酒十千恣歡謔。
主人何為言少錢，逕須沽取對君酌。
五花馬，千金裘，
呼兒將出換美酒，與爾同銷萬古愁！

for vernacular Chinese translation: http://www.minghui-school.org/school/article/2006/2/12/52332.html

for English translation : http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Poetry/Li_Po/chiang-chin-chiu.html

工作. 壓力. 醒?

工作, 工作, 工作...
七日裏有五日都想者工作. 一天二十四小時裏有十二個小時都是在工作. 最近工作時間越來越長, 脾氣也越來越糟.

都知道我們人手不足, 都知道我一個人當三個用. 怎麼上面的人還要我們處理些無理的報告? 為了他們得到他們要的數據而直接影響我們的工作效率, 值得嗎? 到最後我們本來的工作沒完成, 中招的也還不是我們?

其他部門的更不用說. 就只會張開嘴巴等人餵, 從來就不會自個兒想想辦法. 真後悔當初為甚麼要幫他們, 輔佐他們,還以為他們會從中學習到些甚麼. 結果就鑄造了一群的寄生蟲. 有時候想站在他們的立場想一想, 不過當一看到他們的無厘頭不負責任自以為是的郵件, 就無名火起三仗!

甚麼仁慈, 甚麼體諒, 甚麼友善統統都燒掉. 真他媽的渾蛋加三千~!

你們難道就真的以為我很喜歡那麼凶巴巴的, 臉臭臭的在辦公室度過老半天麼? 實在是真的有點頂不順了!

壓力大了, 都不懂該如何處理. 除了週末少許酒精, 就是花錢買些娛樂. 漫畫, DVD, 書, CD 哪樣不貴不需要錢? 該買的我都不理不去想, 整天就是買這些東西, 希望可以在週末裏罕有的幾個小時的解脫裏, 沉沒在漫畫, DVD, 書, CD的異度世界裏; 好讓我黑白暗淡的真實裏, 存有少許的精采多姿的虛幻...

錢, 來得慢, 取得快...
在這樣下去, 我曾下定的目標都只不過是個目標罷了.
該覺悟了吧!
該醒覺了吧!

Trailer: Quantum of Solace

Bale's Batman and Craig's Bond, two realistic reintroduction of long movie franchise.

Wonder who good this second Craig's Bond will be.

Song: Sudirman - Balik Kampung

One of my favourite Malay song, especially during Ramadan.

Yeah, the video is rather campy, but for that time, I think it is rather well choreographed.

Served its purpose.
You see, living on this land, we share a lot.
We are peaceful, to a certain extend.
But there will always be some racist idiot homosapien that tries to stir thing up.
I do hope he dies miserably, soon.

For my Muslim friends, colleague, acquaintance, Happy Ramadan~

Farewell to SM and I'm going to hell

September the 9th~!
SM's last day in Lenovo.

SM being one of the longest serving CSO here, a great colleague, reliable back up and an interesting attitude.

With her departure, now whole KASEAN Platinum order is in my hand~ and I can't laugh, not even force a smile. Diu~

Another 10 days will be a month after Everest launch. Till now, still now sigh that things is stable. Variables, too much.

I don't know if it is a good news, Platinum's order still can be fulfill using the old system. Damn, now, in certain time, I will need to use three different SAP program to work. And my 3 years old T42 is getting asthma.

My only hope now is the EDI thingy or whatever it is called, in which the customer will directly 'load' their own orders goes online without any shit, asap, so that I can be freed of this shit.

But then I may need to think of where must I go next?

Damn, I just want a mundane peaceful, uneventful job...it suppose to be simple...but why now so shitty?

Diu~

Some unorganized thought about selfish and selfless

We are our own life's protagonist.

Agree? No? Hey you must agree. You live this life with your perception, you view, physically and mentally.

You analyze thing using your own mind, based on your own knowledge, value and preference.

That is why, people concern more about what happen to themselves and not others. Well, if you are hungry like a stray dog, would you still care if Africa is having famine?

I think that is one of the reason people is selfish. Yeah, I know there is some that is not selfish. But look carefully...even to most selfless people will make sure they are OK first before being selfless. Reason is, if in this particular film about your life where you are the protagonist which happen to be a selfless person, how are you going to show how selfless you are when you're starve to death?

Well, use hunger as an example. The purpose of being selfless is to sacrifice and contribute so that people won't die of hunger. If you die, what will they get? They may get your share of food, but still won't solve the issue. Sad part is you being dead already make to whole operation to prevent people dying of hunger a failure.

But still, we can be self centered. Then your film will only have one character, which is you. Unless you are Tom Hanks and have a volley ball with you, no people will be interested with you. No one care, no one knows if you are dead, no one publish you obituary, attend your funeral or remember you. Reason being, the film is about one person doing things. Who would wanna watch this shit anyway?

Video: Agatha Christie's Poirot

This is wanted.
Strange, never seen any DVD of it here.
Not even in Amcorp.
Manage to dl Season 1 from the net.
But it is never my favourite way of getting DVD.
Considering asking ST and YK to look it for me when they get to UK...
if there is not too much trouble.

Cough~

Damn it...cough.
I hate cough...
there's a few types of cough, and the one I'm having now is my least favourite.
It is more like a throat condition rather than cough.
The throat is feeling itchy from time to time,
and I need to cough so to get rid of the itch.
It itches when I work, when I drive, when I'm watching TV,
and the worst part, when I sleep.
What I don't need now is interuption during sleep.
I need to get coma the moment I close my eyes and wake only when the alarms goes off..or on...or whatever.
Coughing in the middle of the night is just nightmare.
Especially when it is close to the time when I need to get up.
Cause that is the time when the sleep is the most enjoyable.
Mum bought a bottle of traditional cough syrup,
too bloody sweet, the taste it.
They say it is best if I take it without washing down with water...
with that level of sugar and no water?
No way, I rather take longer time to be cured~!

Work~ Rant~

So much to do with so little a time.
Been setting the alarm earlier and earlier.
Been getting home later and later.
Home reduce to a merely rest stop.
Office being a living nightmare.
Tired, body ache, eyes blur.
Need rest, need getaway, need entertainment.
But all being denied for a mountain.
At least until next month...
Some say before dawn there is total darkness.
Yeah, but usually just for a couple of hours.
This is going to take a couple of months.
Well at least better than those who's involve directly.
Some even get sick...
Sigh...who suggested that name anyway?
Don't they know most of the climber suffered?
Some even lose their fingers, toes, limbs and even life.
And I'm losing my head~!

Video: Sherlock Holmes Series (Granada)

The blog is full of text and has little picture lately.
Cheer it up a bit with a few videos.
This is the intro of the Sherlock Holmes series by Granada TV.
Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Holmes is the best~!

Video: House Season 4 Preview

House Season 4 preview...
well a year ago, it was a preview.
Think saw the complete DVD at Amcorp last week.
By the way, where's my season 1 ~3?

Public Enemy?

Finally, to overcome and prevent any emo problem related to this, I gathered all my courage and ask the-person-who-I-will-not-name-here. After a few exchange of mundane greetings, I asked directly if the-person-who-I-will-not-name-here is annoyed with me. I get a direct and frank reply - Yes. Sad and thrill attacked me together, at once. Sad for being disliked, happy for being right.

Why? Because of my personality, behaviour and temper. Nothing new, I have guessed it, but I respect this person and really wants to know more. The response is a clever one, nothing specific, just the elaboration of the above point. Clever, because if certain action of mine is being used as an example, maybe I will try to explain my motie behind which will lead to a neverending debate. But elaborating the points is, I think enough. Reason being, it is nothing new, most people that knows me know what I am. Weird temper, don't know when will explode, pathetic world view, a bit egomaniac, a bit self centered etc. It just reinforced this fact.

Further revelation confirm another little doubt, the person is not alone. Apparently a gang of people feel the same towards me...how pathetic I am. But why the change so sudden? At least last time was one speaking term. Reason is simple, the-person-who-I-will-not-name-here tolerance towards me has reach the peak. And perhaps there was some discussion with the gang, and since all of them felt the same, the discussion will go on and in turns reinforce their thinking. So, if some of them dislike me, but tolerate my presence last time, now may prefer not to have me around as well. The-person-who-I-will-not-name-here thinks wonder if the gang was influence by the-person-who-I-will-not-name-here talking, but hey, if they don't have any idea of it, no one will get influence. So, the conclusion is, they all do dislike me.

I do not blame the-person-who-I-will-not-name-here, I do not blame them. We are, only human. It will be fake to pretend, like wearing a mask, which I try to avoid doing, since some friend of mind loathed it. Why choose to have the person you dislike as companion when you can do better without him? Being what I am, being a person that has pin-pointed a few individuals among my relative as the center of hatred, I know exactly how they feel. Maybe not as intense as my explosive mind, but I understand the annoyance.

I felt relieve as the mystery is cleared, but my heart ache as if been hit by hammer. The temper part and certain characteristic of this person is almost my mirror image. But overall this person is far better than me, so I cherish and mind this person's opinion. I know it will be impossible to the thinking to change, now. It will need time and effort, and hopefully as time pass and we both getting more mature...we can be friends.

I certainly thankful for this person, and to K who openly tell me where my biggest flaw is. I thank you. Conversation with this two reminds me of Anita's class. It seems so long ago, when I vow before my parents to change, to control my temper. I seem to forgot the determination I once have to search for inner peace after reading the sutras. It is time to pull myself back~!

For the gang mentioned above, I hope there will be days when the invisible wall will be gone.

For the-person-who-I-will-not-name-here, I wish you well, and may we able to break the ice or wall or whatever standing between us.

For all my friends reading this, or frequented my blog, do tell me if I am wrong. I watch Japanese drama, and the only thing I learnt from it is, directness sometimes can solve a lot of problem. No worry, I am the kind that can take criticism towards my personality directly. My response may be a bit rage, but that is due to shame. I'm a rather 'closed' person, that why I can blog more than I can talk.

And I mean it.

Finished HP 7 alas...

Yeah, after almost a year since its publication, the paperback version hit the shelf And after more than a year of its publication, I finally conclude reading Harry Potter series. This is something I never have dreamt of when I see the kiddo cover of the first book for this first time during Form 6.

I caught a classmate reading it, and thought "Hey, if you were not careful, you may be someone's mother now, and still reading a kid stuff". Even in college, I friend of mine also reading it. That guy with the size of a poor man's Hagrid, reading Harry Potter, the kiddy book.

The only people in PBC Group other than me that actually does read English book regularly also read this kiddy book and commented that the film will never be as good. The films...ha~ Although was impressed by the effect and imaginative scene, but the ending in the first two films were rather anti-climax, and I did not care to catch the third only watching it when collecting the DVD after finishing the 5th films.

Somehow, my PBC's friend's word lingers in my mind. The film will never be as good as the book. And she said there is a lot of information or interesting plot in the book that did not make into the film. Tempted, and finally gave in, I borrowed the first book from her.

The book lied on my desk for months, until a think coat of dust rest on it. And it was when I have literally nothing to read, and feel extremely embarrassed to return the book to her untouched, I started to read...and the spell hit me.

Book two onwards, I no longer borrow, but I purchased them. Frankly speaking, the first one does written like a kiddy book, but the story telling is nice and can get me hooked on. The second books become more detailed, and you can see that the author's skill matured and developing over time. with her skill today, if she were to rewrite the first book, I bet it will be as thick as the 7th.

Lucky for me, I got the Harry Potter spell after the 6th book was out, so I never really need to wait and long. Finish one book, get the next one. It is only the 7th book that I need to wait. And I need to waiting longer, since I'm collecting the paperbacks with the adult cover. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I like my collected series be of the same version and style if possible. Thus, I have to wait for another year to get my hands on the last book.

Now, I finally finish reading it...and I am feeling a bit lost. The kind of feeling that you got when the chase is over, when you finally watch the finale, the episode 65-end, when Darth Vader finally dies and became Anakin once more, when Goku destroyed Majin Buu, when Light finally got his name written in the Death Note by Ryuk...

The Harry Pottery fever still got a bit inside me, has saved the "prequel" 800 odd words short written by the author, waiting for the release of the film version of the last two books, which will be the only two Potter films that I will watch after reading the book.

So now, Harry is gone, what to chase next? Isn't Dan Brown's new book going to publish soon? But after reading Eco Umberto's Foucault's Pendulum, Brown's book looks lame. Oh yeah, still have Eco's The Name of The Rose haven't read yet...