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Monday, July 23, 2007
  Just Another Manic Monday for Me...
Happy International MCR Day!
(no, I’m not gonna celebrate it or anything)

And

A happy birthday to…

NAZIM MASNAWI (who celebrates his birthday today, together with Daniel Radcliffe, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Monica Lewinsky). Way to go, bro!! No cakes for you, but here's a donut!!!...


Image from my Empire newsletter

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Sunday, July 22, 2007
  I Need Some Floo Powder. Pronto!
Wah hey!
Assalamualaikum & how’s everybody doin?

I’ve just recovered from a flu (Caturday, and I was in bed all day, bah!). I hate taking my flu meds sebab ngantuk *yawns* and I just can’t keep my eyes open. My next monthly check-up will be on the 25th and after that, I have a two-days course on Financial Instruments *yawn! from boredom*.

On the whole Parry Hotter, no, Hey! Reporter, no, uhm, Harry Potter hypez…


Find out your Harry Potter personality at LiquidGeneration!


Okay, so we know, MPH, Popular/ Harris and Times have decided not to sell the book because Carrefour and Tesco has offered the book for a mere RM69.90 (instead of the original price of RM109.90), so what’s a girl to do? I think I can still wait for the paperback version to come out. Lagipun, aku masih lagi belum habis baca HBP, so peeps, pls keep the spoilers to yourselves okay! (I feel really shitty sebab takleh nak baca dalam tren, kalau dapat tempat duduk, I feel really sick)

Updates!

Nothing much, really. I’m in the mood to send postcards and have already received some beautiful cards in the mail. I’ve joined Postcrossing dot com, postcardx and various post/ snailmail related comms on LJ, so peeps, you won’t be seeing much updates here. Unless something happens. Or I’m in the mood for some random rant :) Later!

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Sunday, July 15, 2007
  30 Is Not Old. FOR DINOSAURS !!!
Happy 30th Birthday, Raymond Manuel Toro-Ortiz!

I’ve totally forgotten where I got this pic, but if it’s yours, do tell me so I can credit you for it! Macroed by moi.

Have a fro-tastic year ahead! And here's something for the Man with the Plan aka The Quiet Genius...

Skeleton cupcakes! Image from littleelephant dot typepad dot com.

PS: Husband aku beria2 kata yang MCR akan drop by KL somewhere in December and he sneered and LOL’ed at me, saying that too bad, I’m pregnant :( , otherwise I’m freakin ecstatic. Can somebody clarify this for me? Sebab aku dah check semua source2 yang boleh dipercayai, and found nothing, except that I know they’re coming back to Australia and NZ in December and will probably drop by Thailand for a gig somewhere in February 2008, so maaaayyyybe, and I mean, maybe diorang akan singgah KL? I’m keeping my eyes + fingers crossed…

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  Films Update!
*** MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR ALL FILMS ***

The Fountain (2006)

Image from centripetalnotion.com

Seriously, aku tak dapat bayangkan kalau Brad Pitt yang berlakon dalam filem ni, instead of Hugh Jackman. Cate Blanchett is okay (mungkin sebab beliau berwajah klasik), sebab, selepas Galadriel (LOTR) dan Queen Elizabeth aku boleh bayangkan wataknya sebagai Queen Isabella atau Izzi Creo.

Filem ini mengisahkan kisah cinta tiga zaman di antara Tomas/ Dr Tom Creo dengan Queen Isabella/ Izzi Creo (lakonan tunang tuan pengarah (Darren Aronofsky) iaitu Rachel Weisz, yang merupakan salah sorang pelakon kegemaran aku sejak filem The Mummy).

In a nutshell, ini kefahaman aku tentang filem ni (may contain spoilers for those who haven’t seen this film).

Tahun 1500 – Kisah antara Tomas (the Conquistador)/ Queen Isabella.
Ini merupakan kisah yang sedang ditulis oleh Izzi Creo dalam buku The Fountain, tentang bagaimana bermulanya pencarian terhadap The Tree of Life, sebatang pokok yang dikatakan boleh memberikan kehidupan abadi kepada seseorang. Sebelum mati, Izzi meminta Tom menghabiskan buku tersebut.

Tahun 2000 – Dr Tom Creo/ Izzi Creo
Pada pendapat aku, mereka berdua merupakan kelahiran semula Tomas dan Queen Isabella. Dr Creo bertungkus lumus mencari penawar kanser bagi menyelamatkan isterinya, Izzi dan secara tak sengaja, seseorang telah terjumpa secebis sampel daripada pokok tersebut. Walaubagaimana pun, isterinya mati tetapi berpandukan buku The Fountain tulisan isterinya, Tom telah menanam sebatang pokok di atas kubur isterinya, dengan harapan dapat menghidupkan semula Izzi pada suatu masa yang akan datang.

Tahun 2500 – Tom/ Izzi
Dengan teknologi yang canggih, Tom telah membina sebuah sfera yang boleh menempatkannya bersama2 “pohon Izzi” dan terbang ke angkasa, menuju ke sebuah nebula yang dipanggil Xibalba, dimana dipercayai oleh masyarakat Maya bahawa jasad yang telah mati akan hidup semula apabila sampai ke bintang tersebut. Dalam perjalanan inilah beliau sering diganggu oleh kisah2 lampau, selain drp bayangan Izzi yang memintanya untuk “Finish it”. Di sini, ia bukan hanya bermaksud menghabiskan buku karya akhir beliau tu, tetapi Izzi meminta agar Tom menamatkan riwayatnya agar mereka dapat sama2 bersemadi dengan aman. (oh, btw, Tom telah hidup lebih drp 500 tahun dengan memakan cebisan2 drp “pohon Izzi”, kerana beliau masih berharapan yang suatu hari Izzi akan hidup semula).

Hmmm.. pening? Watch it and you’ll know what I mean.

Visually stunning and full of emotion.
Aku bagi *****/*****.

Driving Lessons (2006)


Image from cinematical.com

Hah! They made a big fuss about the Harry/ Cho kiss, tapi dalam filem ni, Rupert Grint bukan saja kiss, tapi juga, ahem, cherry-nya telah di’pop’ oleh seorang awek yang aku rasa lebih tua daripadanya. And, and he swears! ZOMG!!! Take that, Daniel Radcliffe! (Okay, so aku masih belum tengok December Boys, filem Dan yang bakal keluar penghujung tahun ni).

Filem arahan Jeremy Brock ni mengisahkan tentang persahabatan di antara Ben Marshall (Rupert), seorang remaja yang pendiam, pemalu dan mempunyai seorang ibu yang sangat mengongkong dengan Evie Walton, seorang bekas pelakon opera yang mempunyai watak yang sangat berlainan daripadanya (lakonan Mrs Weasley aka Julie Walters). Think of it as a newer version of Harold and Maude.

Ben dan Evie saling melengkapi dan sama2 mengubah persepsi kehidupan daripada perspektif masing2. Ben, ingin lari dari kongkongan ibunya (lakonan Laura Linney), sementara Evie perlukan seorang sahabat yang dapat mengembalikan keyakinan beliau untuk berlakon semula.

Honestly, aku tak berapa gemar dengan soundtracknya (mainly consists of folk-infused tunes and some songs by Sufjan Stevens), dan aku kurang selesa dengan alegori2 agama Kristian yang sangat2 banyak dalam filem ni (I just skipped most of the parts, anyway).

A refreshing change from the usual Ron Weasley, even though he can’t get rid of that Ron-smug in most of the scenes.
Aku bagi ***1/2 / *****


Hot Fuzz (2007)

Image from popmatters.com

Seriously, the last time I laughed this hard was when watching Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I really mean LOL, bukan setakat grin atau giggle, man. *wipes tears* Sekali lagi, team yang membawakan kita filem RomZom (Rom-Com with zombies), Shaun of the Dead iaitu Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg dan Nick Frost, kembali lagi dan berjaya menggeletek penonton dengan lawak British/ spoof yang selamba. Kali ni ditambah dengan aksi2 hebat dan tembak-menembak ala2 Point Break dan Bad Boys ii!

Kisahnya, Nick (Pegg) merupakan seorang anggota polis yang sangat cemerlang tak hengat di London. Namun begitu, ramai lak yang kurang senang dengan kebolehannya itu (termasuk bos2nya) dan telah menukarkannya untuk berkhidmat di sebuah kawasan luar bandar terpencil di Sandford, di mana kadar jenayahnya teramatlah rendah sekali. Nick terpaksa berpasangan dengan Danny Butterman (Frost), anak cif polis di situ, yang sangat2 menggemari filem2 polis yang penuh dengan aksi tembak menembak dan kejar mengejar. Namun ada sesuatu yang berlaku di perkampungan tersebut, dimana ia tidaklah seaman yang di sangka.

Wow. This is just how I liked it! Honestly I personally think that a comedy is funnier if it’s inter-woven with spoofs, homages and references. And in this film, man, banyaknya! Funny bits ~ underaged drinker #3, P.I Staker, Danny trying to imitate Nick by jumping over the fences, spoof Point Break (Danny tak tergamak nak tembak ayahnya sendiri), “You Mothers!”, the Cornetto and the brain-freeze bit dan haha! Banyak lagi la. Worth watching twice, just for the LOL’s.

Oh ya, watch out for uncredited cameos by Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett. Hilarious! And yes, the song during the closing credits pun best!

By the power of Greyskull! Yarp, I give thee *****/ *****.

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Friday, July 13, 2007
  Bebelan Zack Kay Rowling Post-OotP
Idea2 spell untuk disubmit kepada Ministry of Magic (patent pending by MamaIkmal). Not to be used outside of mamaikmal dot blogspot without permission. Sorry dudes, I’m still in my Harry Potter mood right now.

Image from cartoonstock.com

Spell asal : Expecto Patronum!
Digunakan untuk mewujudkan makhluk Patronus (yang mana merupakan interpretasi jiwa seseorang wizard) yang bertindak sebagai pelindung. Sering digunakan oleh Harry Potter untuk menghalau Dementors.
Spell baru MamaIkmal :
Expecto Petronas! ~ dibuat ketika ingin mengisi minyak di stesen Petronas dengan harapan harga minyak tak naik naik lagi sampai bebila (dream on, you filthy muggle!)

Spell asal : Stupefy!
Spell yang boleh bagi orang pengsan atau tak sedarkan diri.
Spell baru MamaIkmal :
Stupido! ~ Hanya boleh digunakan dalam monorel yang sesak, jika manusia tak berhati perut di depan anda sibuk mengunyah chewing gum dengan mulut yang terbukak (so you’re actually listening to that horrid sound made by the chewing gum plus saliva “kerchuck, kerchuck”) dan bila kau tenung muka dia, dia cuma tengok kau dengan that look that sez “What?”.

Spell asal : Alohomora!
Digunakan untuk membuka pintu yang terkunci.
Spell baru MamaIkmal :
Alahaimahalnya! ~ Ditujukan kepada salesgirl yang menjaga bahagian mainan di Parkson atau Metrojaya dengan harapan dia akan memberi kau extra diskaun untuk action figure Bumblebee yang fulamakatak mahal gila menyesal aku tak beli masa kecik2 dulu.

Spell asal : Lumos!
Let there be light!
Spell baru MamaIkmal :
Lemas! ~ Digunakan dalam pengangkutan awam, dan hanya ditujukan kepada orang2 yang duduk/ berdiri sebelah anda, yang mengeluarkan bau hanget tak hengat.

Spell asal : Accio!
Membolehkan sesuatu objek terbang kepada si pemanggil.
Spell baru MamaIkmal:
Aksyen! ~ Digunakan dengan nada jeles kepada rakan2 anda yang bekerja di jabatan kerajaan sebab dapat kenaikan gaji sedangkan anda punya bonus tahun 2006 pun tak dapat lagi :(

Spell asal : Avada Kedavra
Salah satu daripada tiga Unforgivable Curses (selain Imperius dan Cruciatus Curses) yang boleh menyebabkan kematian serta merta. Mangsa2 termasuk Cedric Diggory dan ibu bapa Harry Potter.
Spell baru MamaIkmal :
Apa Kedarahnya ?! ~ wtf?! versi Melayu. Untuk situasi2 wtf kronik tahap cipan yang kau rasa orang yang terlibat tu patut di bom dengan C4 atau bahan2 letupan yang sewaktu dengannya.

Spell asal : Oculus Reparo !
Spell Reparo digunakan untuk membetulkan sesuatu. Oculus Reparo digunakan oleh Hermione Granger dalam buku ke-2 untuk membetulkan semula spek Harry Potter yang terpecah ketika tercampak ke Knockturn Alley (kes salah sebut Diagon Alley masa guna floo powder untuk kali pertama)
Spell baru MamaIkmal :
Apakelas Repair wo !? ~ Cuma digunakan oleh spesis2 yang tak mesra alam dan tak percaya dengan konsep 3R iaitu Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. Juga patut diletupkan dengan C4.

Credits to JKR for the original spells as used in Harry Potter books.

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  Pemeriuk Berbulu Kembali Lagi!!!

Being a Harry Potter fangirl in real life sucks. BIG TIME! Why? Sebab kau takde member yang boleh dibawak bercerita tentang dunia Harry, Hogwarts dan the whole wizarding world. Bah! Muggles!

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007)

Image from canmag.com., macroed by moi.

Date: 13 July 2007 (woo hoo lagi 10 hari ke birthday Dan Radcliffe yang ke 18!!!)
Time : 12.30 pm (I bought my tickets yesterday sebab tak larat nak rush2)
Venue : GSC, Berjaya Times Square
Kudapan : Mineral water + small caramel popcorn + mentos to combat the biggest evil of all- all day sickness
Watched it with : An invisible Frank Iero, hehe…

Note: Hari ni kali pertama budak usherer tu check beg plastic aku.

Dia: Kak, ni apa kat dalam plastik ni?
Aku: Err, air, kenapa?
Dia: Kak, air dari luar takleh bawak masuk ke dalam ni.
Aku: Huh? Air mineral pun takleh ke? Saya beli kat luar tadi.
Dia: Hah, ye ke, okay, okay.
Aku: (rasa nak bagi dia satu Stupefy spell. Apa dia ingat aku bawak Polyjuice Potion ke? Verita Serum?) *geleng kepala*

Well, aku malas nak tulis pepanjang sebab, well, as a huge Harry Potter fan, kau pasti dah a) baca buku dia yang tebal bagak macam batu bata tu, buat kali ke-18, b) dah tau serba sedikit tentang jalan cerita dan watak2nya sebab dah lupa berapa banyak trailer yang kau tengok sebelum nonton filem ni dan c) hehe… kau cuma nak tengok Harry kiss Cho, right? Admit it, muggle! Anyway, here’s some of my two sen for the film…

Harry: Well, hello horse-boy! Phew, this film is so full of sweaty and heavy-breathing, post-puberty Harry (and not to mention the close-ups of his neck, screaming ‘bite me!!!!’) I think I’m gonna have wet dreams nightmares! Emo Harry is angrier than in the previous movies. Blame it on hormones, blame it on the scar which was given by Voldy, but the boy who lived is back!

Bling-bling Dudders aka Dudley Dursley ~ Wassup, white boy? And I was a bit shocked with Aunt Petunia’s mini dress, like whoa! MILF!

Dolores Umbridge:

I forgot where I got this pic, but decided to make a macro anyway.

She’s oh-so-evil, also into cats (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Also into cats…

(For those of you who have no ideas what I’m talking about here, watch this Youtard video)

Seriously la, sekali pandang hiasan dinding bilik Prof Umbridge tu, aku terfikir “ZOMG!! Banyaknya blanks untuk buat cat macros!!! LOLCATS!!! I can has cheezburger pls ?

Hmmm… I wonder what the Centaurs did to her *think dirty happy thoughts*

The Weasleys
Ron : Kurang menonjol macam filem2 sebelumnya. Aku suka dia semakin protective towards Hermione. Sweet!
Fred & George : Seperti juga Dumbledore’s exit in style, aku suka babak terakhir kembar cute ni di Hogwarts.
Ginny: I can’t think of anything but “Kelly Clarkson!!”. Man, the resemblance is so uncanny.
Percy: Aku rasa by this time Percy semacam dah putus hubungan dengan keluarganya, sebab dah join Ministry of Magic. Kisahnya juga tak di elaborate dalam filem.

Snape + Lupin + Sirius in one room?!?! Bloody hell! This is what slashes are made of! *squee!*

Occlumency session between Snape and Harry – just like what I’ve imagined. And I can totally understand his feelings when Harry spoke highly of his father, only to discover that James Potter is actually an arrogant bully. Babak ni menaikkan lagi saham Snape dalam buku aku (I mean, apart from being this emo teacher with cool trenchcoat).

Luna Lovegood & Nymphadora (“Don’t call me Nymphadora!”) Tonks ~ Argh!! I love these two babes!!! Heh, kalau la Tonks yang jadi kakak ipar Ron, instead of Fleur, alangkah bestnya.

Cute, thy name is Luna. Image from harrypottersociety.com

Neville Longbottom is no longer Nerdville yang dorky, weak dan selalu menjadi bahan ejekan. In fact, sejak aku tau yang mak bapaknya (yang dulu merupakan antara anggota asal the Order of the Phoenix) masuk St Mungo dek kena Crucius spell oleh Bellatrix Lestrange, aku rasa dia dah setaraf Harry, ooops, this is as per Half Blood Prince okay, next round boleh discuss. And (physically) speaking about Bellatrix Lestrange, aku rasa ada similarity dengan watak Marla Singer dari filem Fight Club, maybe sebab dedua scary looking.

Voldy in Armani!!! Fitch in uhm, inquisitor uniform!! Dunno about you, tapi aku rasa sejak filem GoF, Fitch boleh jadi resident pak lawak Hogwarts, instead of this feared caretaker of Hogwarts. Funny bits ~ shaking the picture frame and tertidur sambil makan masa tunggu depan pintu bilik Room of Requirement di mana Dumbledore’s Army sedang berlatih.

Draco & The Malfoys
Lucius is the bad-a$$ here, dan aku rasa that makes up for the appearance of Draco yang cuma sekejap tu. And I personally think my fave pureblood wizard boy dah tak sejahat macam dulu dan kemunculannya hanya mengundang gelak drp penonton (esp masa babak bunga api Fred & George tu). Oh ya, sapa perasan kemunculan Lucius Malfoy dalam topeng Death Eater tu ada iras2 Darth Vader? Serius, man, aku dah nak terjerit “Vader!” dalam panggung.

Is it just me or did Sirius said "Good work James!" kepada Harry, masa battle ngan Lucius (?) kat MoM tu?

The Ministry of Magic – all that I can say is FUCKIN AWESOME!!! Masa baca buku tu, seriously, aku tak sangka diorang akan buat MoM semajestik ni, I mean, aku bayangkan bangunan yang usang macam Hogwarts, kusam and whatnot, tapi serius, aku memang impressed! Aku rasa Quidditch World Cup dalam GoF pun tak membuat rahang aku jatuh camni. Oh, and Azkaban too! And speaking of Quidditch, haha, nasib baik takde! Tapi aku a bit pissed sebab takde scene kat St Mungo’s Hospital. Tak cukup budget kot?

Damn. I could go on and on when it comes to Harry Potter. Apa pun aku bagi filem ni ****/*****.
Kudos to David Yates yang berjaya menterjemahkan buku bagak 766 muka surat ni kepada 168 minit yang sangat menyeronokkan!

PS: Pemeriuk Berbulu adalah nama manja HP bagi kami kat rumah, hehe...

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
  Updates!
Assalamualaikum & Good Day everybody!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Mak busy gila. And don’t even mention the weekends. Every weekend ada wedding, dan dalam cuaca yang panas terik ni, biasanya kitaorang tiga beranak tidur je lepas makan nasi minyak, sampai la solat asar.

Tahniah!

Congratulations to my uni-mate, Yus, yang baru selamat melangsungkan perkahwinan Sabtu lepas (07.07.07) dan juga untuk adik aku Azli, yang baru je memulakan sesi pengajiannya di USM Kubang Kerian. Be gentle on those bodies, okay, dan jangan lupa solat! (Mak aku cerita pasal mayat2 yang datang dari India dan ada tu, takde kepala, phew! Nasib baik la aku ambik akaun dulu. Lagipun, my people skills is almost zero, hehe…)

For Sha-nyster Gates!

The cover of their upcoming DVD.

Also, from vh1.

In October, the hard-partying, grill-sporting dudes in Avenged Sevenfold will release the self-titled follow-up to 2005's City of Evil, the band's breakout LP that's sold close to 810,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The album is the California metalcore act's first attempt at self-producing, but according to frontman M. Shadows, that wasn't always the plan.


"We were going to do it with Rob Cavallo," said Shadows, referring to the producer behind Green Day's 2004 LP American Idiot and My Chemical Romance's 2006 effort The Black Parade. "It was such a great match — he loved the songs we'd been working on. But he was too busy working on Kid Rock's next record, and he wasn't going to be able to work on ours until later on in the year.

Ada dengar berita tak, yang diorang bakal datang Jakarta & Singapore bulan Ogos nih? (Aug 7, 2007 - Tennis Indoor Arena, Jakarta and Aug 9, 2007 - Fort Canning, Singapore). Phew! (PS: And Coy, they’ll be playing at Maeshima, Osaka City and Marine Stadium, Tokyo on the 11th and 12th respectively). :)

On AFI ~ I just love Davey’s new hair. Dan album baru Blaqk Audio (side project Davey dan Jade) berjudul CexCells, bakal dirilis pada 14 Ogos 2007. Blaqk Audio features Havok as lyricist and vocalist, with Puget writing all music and programming the synthesizers. Hell yeah! I just hoped that it’ll sound somewhat like DecemberUnderground. My two favourite vegetables, oops, vegetarians at Live Earth…

Two boys in love with synthesizers and software. Picture courtesy of Lj user citiesofnight

On EmSeeAre (updates for my sister yang tak berapa pandai menggugel)

Gerard dah putus tunang dgn Eliza Siep aka Eliza Cuts (dia yang sebelah kiri tu). No more ring-flashing, yay! (Sebelum ni dia dok tayang cincin dalam video klip IDLY dan Teenagers).

Mikey, seen here sans make-up bersama isteri terchenta, Alicia, dikatakan akan keluar dr MCR untuk menyambung pengajiannya di kolej (wtf??). Aku rasa these two slobs akan sesama menggemukkan diri kat rumah sambil membela kucing2 kesayangan. Seriously, aku tak kisah kalau Matt Cortez gantikan tempatnya dalam Projekt Revolution dan seterusnya menjadi anggota tetap MCR.

Ray will turn 30 on the 15th. Have an early birthday wish, Torosaurus!

Bob Bryar tengah sibuk kumpul material untuk mengajar aku tentang cara2 menguruskan badan (selepas bersalin) sebab dia dah hilang 30lbs sejak join MyChem.

Frank? Ooohh. Frank. Aku dan Frank akan berkongsi popcorn di tayangan perdana Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix nanti, sambil sama2 berkhemah di luar Kino pada malam pelancaran Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, hehe…


I think it’s gonna be a girl.

babies

I’ve just passed my first trimester with flying colours! By that, I meant that I’ve survived the most crucial and delicate part, although I’m still having those pesky morning all-day sickness. Tapi memang serius la, maybe because it’s my second one kot. Aku tak se’prudent’ masa Ikmal dulu :( For the last two nights, aku bantai durian (tapi tak la sampai 10 ulas sekali makan) dan seriously man, I kinda lost my appetite la semenjak dua menjak ni.

Oh yep. Aku try guna Chinese Lunar Calendar ni, and whaddaya know? I think most probably this one is a girl (it’s said to be 99% accurate). Bak kata adik aku – Helena! (Well, aku tatau whether aku patut guna nama nenek Gerard Way untuk anak aku, or Frank’s fiancé (Jamia). No way man. Apa pun, aku harap semua berjalan as planned, Insya Allah.

PS: Seriously, aku blur sikit on how to raise a girl. I mean, will she be a mirror image of me, or the complete opposite? Will she grow up wanting to be a boy, (just like me while I was going thru puberty), and hating all pink, frilly girly things? Will she be Zack Jr or is she gonna be a totally different person than I am. I dread to think about it. Srsly.

So, what’s on your idiot box?

A bit spoiler-ish sebab aku sendiri pun masih belum sampai ke season 4!

I’m currently on my nip/tuck marathon (am trying to finish Season 3 and 4 on DVD before Season 5 starts sometime this year), and to tell you the truth, lagi banyak aku tengok, lagi banyak babak2 wtf? yang aku jumpa. Gila. Semua sekali gila, daripada Matt (aku rasa one of these days, Michael Jackson akan muncul sebagai cameo dan try to claim paternity daripada Christian), Julia (krim rahsia kat spa tu – sumpah sampai mati pun aku takkan try, walaupun boleh buat kau jadi muda ke hapa. And the way she treated her mother? OMG.) and well, don’t get me started on Quentin, Kimber and most important of all ~ the patients. I’m still at the episode Joy Kringle (Santa’s wife who just couldn’t get rid of the last 15 lbs of her weight- only to find something so shocking, aku rasa macam menyesal lak tengok). Oh yeah, Julia baru dapat tau dia pregnant (anak sapa?) dan Christian & Sean (well, for me, McNamara/ Troy will always be McNamara/ Troy (plus Liz). I hated Quentin so much (so, okay, aku dah terbaca beberapa spoilers) and I can’t wait to watch the rest of the episodes.

I got a new hobby! No. Actually, I’ve resurrected my old hobby!

Mah noo stamp album, let me show you it.

Sending and receiving letters/ postcards, as well as updating my stamps collection. Last two weeks, ada la sorang kakak ni (kerja nearby my office), takde angin, takde ribut, dia bagi aku satu stack setem2 dari NZ. I was like, so happy, I bought her and her colleague something from my hometown. I’ve been collecting stamps since I was 10, and I still have them with me. Cuma, aku tertinggal koleksi poskad kat rumah dan aku harap2 mak aku tak ‘terbuang’. Oh ya, thru LJ too, aku dah join beberapa community yang berkaitan, dan dah dapat beberapa pen-pals (mostly from US of A).

Srsly, I was feeling like this. Image macro made by me from Ikmal's Spongebob CD.

So, kalau ada sesiapa yang terasa nak swap postcards or stamps (tak kira la, kalau kau nak swap dengan stamps ke, gambar2 artis ke, poster ke), just email me, okay!

Just a pic spam…

Bila Batman bertemu Grizzly Man…

Christian Bale dan Werner Herzog. Gambar drp LJ Community- bale_daily

Khabarnya Cillian Murphy akan rejoin the cast untuk The Dark Knight ni. Yay! Kehadiran Scarecrow sudah cukup membuat aku menonton filem ni di panggung. (Well, dan Enche Bale sekali le).

Mah noo black shirts ~ lemme show yu dem.

An emo Decepticon? I don’t think so.

Aku tension betul kalau orang yang menjual tu dok tanya – “Anak dah besar mana?” (which implied that I’m buying that shirt for my kids, and not for moi). Well hello, pakcik, tak nampak ke maknya pakai t-shirt The Rock nih? *points at my WWE shirt*

This just in. For the umpteenth time now. *rolls eyes*

"CONGRATULATIONS!!! After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref Number: PW 9590 ES 9414,Batch Number: 573881545-NL/2006 and Ticket Number: PP 3502 /8707-01 You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout CONGRATULATIONS!!!."

Seriously, man, kalau le benda ni betul2 legit, tentu aku dah jadi jutawan dah sekarang ni…

Later, people!

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Tuesday, July 03, 2007
  More Than Meets The Eye, and teh Freakin Bladder

Imdb’s daily poll question for today…

Aside from the cost of the ticket, what is the top way that a theater (not an audience) can ruin your movie-going experience?

The poll maker has given a few options like too many non-movie related commercials prior to the movie, too few/ many trailers prior to the movie, problems with the sound/screen but for me, the ultimate spoil-sport thingy that annoys the hell outta me when watching a film on the big screen is a full bladder. You know, sometimes you’ve made a point to go to the loo just before the movie started but half (or three-quarter way) thru it, you suddenly feel the urge to go. You cannot tahan, you already feel like wetting your pants (well, no thanks to the incessant munching of popcorn and mineral water), but you sat still, not wanting to miss any freakin’ scene because you’ve forked out like, RM11 of your hard-earned dosh to watch this film and you know that you won’t have this opportunity to watch it again because you’re too freakin busy and shit. You know that feeling? Hell yeah!!!

Transformers (2007)

My new, shiny Transformer poster, courtesy of Empire magazine (UK edition ~ hence the release date – 27-07-07). Aku ada lagi satu free double sided giant Grindhouse poster (sebelah Planet Terror dan sebelah lagi Death Proof), tapi takut kontroversi lak kalau letak kat kubikel orang mengandung. :P (Yes, it featured a hawt Rose McGowan with that machine gun for a leg). Pretty hard to use, imho, if compared to Sex- Machine’s dick of a gun dalam From Dusk Till Dawn.

Date: 29 June 2007
Time: 12.00pm
Venue: GSC, Berjaya Times Square
Kudapan: Large caramel popcorn + mineral water.
Watched it with : Smiley

* CONTAINS SPOILERS, YOU INSECTS! *

10 Things about this films:

1. My first reaction upon seeing this film ~ Sucre!. Haha, aku tatau yang Amaury Nolasco ada berlakon sekali. Nampak stereotypical though, sebab wataknya tak banyak berbeza dengan Fernando Sucre dalam Prison Break.

2.The unnecessary long, funny scenes ? Especially when the robots are hiding at Sam’s house, masa Josh Duhamel nak buat call thru that annoying international operator and that black hacker dude. Mungkin sebab ada budak2 kot? Anyway, aku suka part Sam’s Happy Time. Hiya Shia!

Well, hello thurr LADIESMAN217! Pic from shialabeouf.us

3. And speaking of Shia LaBeouf, dia merupakan salah seorang child star yang aku suka walaupun dah grow up to be, uhm, grown up dashing anak ikan yang cute terbabom child star (lain2 ialah Lucas Black dan Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Macaulay Culkin? Well, aku suka dia dalam Party Monster, hehe…

4. Megan Fox nampak macam terlalu tua untuk hero kita. Atau Sam yang terlalu baby-faced?

5. Fight antara Autobots dan Decepticons kat tengah2 bandar tu, macam selalu dah aku tengok, cuma tukar robot dengan Godzilla atau King Kong atau mutan. CGI-nya agak kelam kabut sebab aku tak nampak robot mana lawan mana.

6. Satu lagi perkara yang membuat aku tak puas hati, ialah macam mana Sam/ Mikaela tak patah tengkuk atau tulang2 atau calar balar walaupun duduk dalam tangan Optimus Prime. The same thing that bugs me from seeing Naomi Watts in Peter Jackson’s King Kong.

7. Aku tau StarScream merupakan robot yang bad-a$$ tapi aku rasa wataknya dalam filem ni kurang menonjol. In fact, except for Barricade dan Frenzy yang muncul pada awal2 filem, Decepticons lain2 tak muncul sehinggalah pada tiga suku terakhir filem ni. Dan masa ni le jugak aku dah tak tahan nak terkucil, tapi tahan jugak sebab bak kata Aerosmith la “I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing”.

8. Is it just me or e-bay dan Michael Bay tu adik beradik ? :P

9. Kata Smiley ~"Banyaknya propaganda!" Heh, whaddaya expect from an American film? Heh, lepas ni aku nak suggest dia nonton Team America: World Police. At least ada puppet sex! :D

10. Wah lau eh, walaupun hari Jumaat tengah hari, panggung dekat nak penuh dan aku sangat2 takjub tengok begitu ramai lelaki2 Melayu (Islam) terakhir yang ponteng solat Jumaat sebab nak tengok Transformers. Lebih takjub daripada CGI yang digunakan dalam filem ni.

Aku bagi : ****/*****.

Am gonna watch it again with Ikmal, Insya Allah, but I have to censor certain parts la. And the soundtrack is freakin awesome!!! (SP + LP FTW!)

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