Monday, December 28, 2009

Movie moments...

Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?

Rose: I can't feel my body.

Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.

Rose: I promise.

Jack: Never let go.

Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, Jack.


Movie Quote : Titanic (1997)




I am a BIG SUCKER for tear jerkers movie moments. Call it my feminine side or whatever.

In reality men do have a softer side in them. It's like ying and yang. Both sides actually complemented one another instead of being opposing. It's perfectly alright for a feminine side to coexist peacefully within a male mind. Instead of running away, you should embrace it.

Remember, my male friends...I said a feminine side exist in the mind and soul.

I'm not advocating cross dressing..

Hollywood has a knack of making it felt at the movies. The trinity of unison between movie plots, images and kick ass soundtrack...you have a recipe for a perfect tear jerker moment.




Remember the movie Titanic..?? The part when Jack was dying in the freezing waters and when he made Rose promise to live fully...that was a killer moment. I remembered watching it with my fiancee back in 97. She was sobbing throughout. I remembered holding her hands...trying to console her.

I have to admit that it does score points with the chicks or in my case the fiancee. Girls JUST LOVE guys that UNDERSTANDS emotional moments in movies. So even if you are trying hard to contain your laughter...keep it to yourself. Laughing or making stupid comments would only enhance your reputation as a cold hearted sonofabitch. That's a sure way of not scoring points with the girls.

You know what happens if you're short of points right..?

Yes, I am advocating FAKING as a substitute ;-)

If you cannot have the ying and yang balance...with all do respect, IMPROVISE.

I can't remember feeling that way in a malay movie though. I just hate the typical boy meets girl, boy gets rejected because he is poor. Then the girl married a fu**ed up rich playboy man that the parents like and manages to screw up her life. Hollywood at least gives a HAPPY ending...that fact is absent in most malay dramas.

I saw one malay drama during Hari Raya that TOTALLY spoilt the hari raya mood. See, the malay movie goes like this. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fell in love. Unfortunately, for the boy every hari raya, someone in his family dies. His mother is kindda loony so she gets tied up literally at home while boy finds a job. Boy becomes disillusioned and left his girlfriend because of ONE stupid misunderstanding. Girl got engaged with his best friend and boy later becomes a near beggar in the city. Girl saw boy one day, chases after him and GET THIS...accidently reverses her car into boy and boy dies. What kind of crap are they feeding the malays nowadays..??

Don't even get me started at the Nurkasih series on tv.

One movie ending that nearly...nearly made me cry was the scene in the movie, Click (2006).


Damn...Adam Sandler can really make a scene work.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Cute kid..



Have you all seen this cute youtube video..??
The kid barely 4 years old plays Jason Mraz song 'I'm Yours'.
The kiddo practically scat through the lyrics but still maintains the unmistakeable resemblence of the original song. It just shines through his routine. And he can play the 4 string ukelele too. This is talent.





Compare it with the original..

Thursday, December 24, 2009

ABC

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a b c d e f g h i j k lem men nen oh pe q r s t u v dable u x y z



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Documentary/Movie review - Collapse




I saw the above documentary/movie a week ago. I normally don't get shaken by documentaries but Collapse moved me on the basis of its seriousness and *no-bullshit* presentation. I really felt chills running up my spine while watching this documentary.

It is in your face facts.

No CGIs, just a few cameras panning, shooting and interviewing the subject, Mr. Michael C. Ruppert and superimposing graphs/visuals for illustration purposes. THAT'S ALL.

Nay sayers might say that facts derived may be interpreted various ways. True, but nobody can deny Mr. Ruppert has a knack of simplifying facts better than others.

Ok, the documentary is basically about PEAK OIL, that is the decline of oil production and its impact to us humans as a species. Mr. Ruppert is giving us his apocalypic views of the economic crises (which he correctly predicted way back in 2005-06), the environment and the oxymoron of the so-called *clean energy*.

Read about the documentary review on imdb, it's here.

Below is the theatrical trailer of the movie...









Michael Ruppert website From the Wilderness, it's here.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Soliquy di pagi Ahad

1) On Tiger jokes

What is the difference between Santa Claus and Tiger Woods ?
Santa stops at 3 Ho’s...

2) Favourite quote

Glenda Jackson said

‘The important thing in acting is to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life’

Funny quote. I thought George Burns said it.

Seriously, I hope you don’t cry when you think about your sex life..

3) On songs

The Vatican recently included one of Tupac Shakur's songs called ‘Changes ’ into their official MySpace music playlist.
I wonder does the Vatican listened to some *other* of his songs..? Not exactly church music.



Tupac Shakur's song basically remixes one of my favourite songs ever by Bruce Hornsby and the Range called 'The Way it is'. Listen for yourselves.



Best ‘One hit wonder’ song of the decade was awarded to ‘Bad Day’ by Daniel Powter.



Nice song...I prefer ‘A big big world’ by Emelia though.



4) Does anyone notices that Nicholas Cage hair looks funny..?

5) How many honest, caring and intelligent men does it take to do the dishes at home ? All 3 of them.

6) The last major Hollywood movie to be released on VHS was "A History of Violence" in 2006.

I didn’t see it on VHS though...I downloaded it from the internet....haha

Lastly

A short but true story.

A long time ago lived a woman and her husband in a remote village. She didn’t swear, nag , bitch or whine...nothing but a wonderful wife for one whole day. But it was for just one day.
The end.

Hey....The last one was a joke ok ;-)

Friday, December 11, 2009

Cluttered mind..




Some of my books in my office.

Easily 15 unread books

No wise ass comment....OR the cute teddy gets it..

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Why I am not into internet chatting in the 90s (Part 1)

He's not the Messiah - he's a very naughty boy - Monty Phython quote


On an internet chat room circa 1995...

Reza aka Boy wonder : Hey cutie

Hotgirl : Hi :-)

Boy wonder : Its always hot when youre around

Hotgirl : hehe

Boy wonder : Have a boyfriend?

Hotgirl : No...you?

Boy wonder : I hv lots of boyfriends..lol

Hotgirl : Yr a naughty boy...

Boy wonder : Naughty boys get spanking..

Hotgirl : :-)

Boy wonder : :-)

Hotgirl : asl?

Boy wonder : 27/m....you?

Hotgirl : 14/f

Monday, December 7, 2009

My visitors..

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place...like a visitor - Hattie McDaniel




I put a page counter on my blog page to register page hits...like most bloggers do. I don't understand why the hits got higher AND/BUT almost nobody commented anything.
So I tried running another counter for 3 days to see where my visitors are coming from...

Above is the 3 days result.

Damn..I better mind my language ;-)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

A Conversation..





Reza : I was at yr mom’s house and I saw your old school desk at the store room.

Wife : I thought my father threw it away a long time ago.

Reza : I saw the graffiti you wrote on the desk. Some were interesting..

Wife : Really..?? Like what..?

Reza : Well...I really liked the one you wrote that goes something like...’die before you die’

Wife : Haha..I was in form 5 when I wrote that...

Reza : Didn’t know that you knew ‘Rumi’ . I was ignorant at form 5...just parties for me then..

Wife (bewildered): Rumi who..??

Reza : The Great Persian philosopher, mystic and Sufi. He beautifully explains the saying by our Prophet Mohammad, “To die before you die’. It is actually the destruction of Man’s ego in the quest to go back to God. Most people wait for his body to die the physical death before going back home to God. But Sufis, driven by a constant longing to go back to his beloved or God, wants to experience this consciously while living.


To go towards the journey it is necessary to annihilate the so-called ‘self’ or ego...to surrender oneself totally for the love of The Beloved...' To die before One truly dies '...


Wife : Ohh...I didn’t take it from Rumi..

Reza : Then from where...??

Wife : From a Malaysian rock band, Lefthanded...






AFTERWORD : My wife was correct...Lefthanded really did have tag in their 90s album 'Qabul' but it goes something like 'To live without fighting is to die before you die'. I'm not sure if you can equal the saying to Rumi's BECAUSE I humbly think that what the group was suggesting is that if you do not have a philosophy in life that you would actually be just an empty coccon...without a soul so to speak.

Guy Side of the story...

No, I did not sleep with that woman... but I wanted to! - Robin Williams as Tom Dobbs

(Movie quote - Man of the Year (2006))