I just remember I hadn’t posted about this as I was at the building management office paying for my car-parking and the fella asked if I was on NTV7 Venus a while ago..
So yes I was! On May 30th I was on an edition about Public Transport and Taxis.
The regular host is Aishah Sinclair but she wasn’t around so it was hosted by Sariah who is also the Producer of the show.
You can watch it below:
Part 1
So last month Sean Kingston was in town to perform a few songs in KL, his first stop was Zouk KL – it was in conjuction with Hotlink and Hitz.fm.
You might know him from his overplayed song “Beautiful Girls” – I do prefer this version though “Sean Krapston – Suicidal Song“.
Zouk is blessed with being in a rather iconic location with the KLCC towers looming behind it, this always makes for good pics outside.
There were lots of people outside taking pics and having fun with the Hotlink boys and girls.
Inside was pretty packed with everyone waiting for the arrival of the star for the night.
Billionaire industrialist Tony Stark builds a high-tech suit of armor and leads a double-life as the superhero, Iron Man.
Well everyone has been buzzing about this movie, I have to admit I’m a little late in watching it – been WAYYY too busy lately. Managed to catch up with a couple of movies this week! I tried not to set my expectations too high for Iron Man as that tends to lead to disappointment. After a sneak peak at IMDB and the stunning 8.2/10 I was rather looking forwards to it (Not to mention it went straight into the top 250 movies!).
It is of course also the first Superhero/Comic movie that Marvel has actually made themselves, the others are made by big studios…and well now I think everyone hopes Marvel will continue making their own movies. Hulk is coming out soon, after that a list of others (Spiderman 4, The Avengers, Thor, Nick Fury etc).
Anyway back to Iron Man, this movie ROCKS! Plain and simple, Robert Downey Jr. absolutely owns the character of both Tony Stark and Iron Man.
The CGI is flawless, the way he interacts with the holographic renderings is fantastic. The way the whole movie is put together is believable, it’s not too fantastic or unrealistic and it shows the development of Iron Man. Iron Man itself is also a nice concept, a man made hero rather than something spawned from a genetic mutation or a spider bite or a nuclear reaction.
Of course there will be comparisons between this and Transformers – I’d say this has the edge very slightly due to the fact the jokes and character interplay are slightly more adult oriented. Transformers is excellent, bit a little kiddy in parts.
Iron Man is funny, I laughed out loud quite a few times, the lines are great and Stark is of course obnoxious but witty. I have to say I think this is the best movie of the year so far and something is gonna have to do bloody well to beat it.
If you haven’t watched it yet…do stay until after the credits. The credits are damn bloody long, but it’s worth it!
You have to watch this before it goes off the cinema – if you haven’t already of course. This is a movie that has gone onto my “Buy Original DVD” list..
Ironman rocks, nothing else to say – 9/10.
Another favourite of mine in SS2, way back I posted this picture…see how long it took me to actually create this post! That was just before I started We Ate This.
Anyway if you are looking for good Xiao Long Bao at a decent price, do check it out.
More at:
Chef Loong – Siu Loong Pau (Xiao Long Bao) & Dim Sum – SS2
BTW please leave your comments over at We Ate This and not here – Thanks!
So the petrol price has gone up by 78cents, approximately 40%…that’s a pretty hefty hike. I’m sure everyone knows about it by now.
Most people feel like this.
Judging by the horrific jams last night near every petrol station (3-4km tailbacks according to radio traffic reports) it seems like most of the country had heard about it.
I checked a few petrol stations and by 10pm they had actually run out of fuel, I didn’t bother queuing to pump fuel. The price is inevitable and I’m not going to waste an hour or two idling to save RM30.
So what do I think? I think as a net exporter of petroleum products Malaysia should be able to afford to give subsidy to their citizens.
But then, if they remove the subsidy (believing the economy can support it) they will free up a LOT of money for development of health care, education and public transport.
Now if public transport was adequate I don’t think anyone would be complaining about the fuel prices as you would have a viable option.
Also if car prices weren’t ridiculously inflated less people would complain.
Honestly I think removing the subsidy is fine….IF and it’s a BIG IF – the public transport system is effecient, effective and has enough spread to be available to everyone in the urban area (including suburbs) AND cars are sold at the true market price (around 60% of what they are currently being sold at).
I’ve seen the government propoganda showing fuel prices compared to other countries nearby – but when are they going to show the prices we pay for cars compared to other countries (and please factor in the pricing parity or economic strength).
Rumours have it that the price may go up again in August as the current 78 cent hike still has a 30 cent per litre subsidy.
The plan is to give those with cars under 2000cc RM600 per year back, that’s fine if you pump petrol once a month, but for everyone else it doesn’t cut it.
Even for those with 35 litre tanks a full tank will now cost around RM95 where previously it cost RM67.
Say on average they pump a full tank twice a month, they are losing out RM672 a year, so with the subsidy they aren’t too badly off. I think on average tho mostly people will pump a full tank once a week, so they will be losing out about RM600 a year.
It’s still an additional headache however and we have yet to see how effecient the system will be.
Interesting times, I want to see what they are proposing to do with all the saved funds.
So after we visited Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary, we headed to this really cool place nearby called Deerland. We thought it was just a deer park but it actually had all kinds of animals inside and was really interesting..
It was more interesting than the Elephant Sanctuary, which was the main purpose of our trip!
So the first thing we did when we went in, was feed the deer of course!
Up close and personal with a deer 😀
So last weekend I was shooting a couple of Korean girls in TTDI, Taman Rimba Kiara park to be precise. You might recognise one of the girls 😉
It was unfortunate that the whole week was glorious weather with beautiful sunsets…but that Saturday the haze came down and flattened the light. I had to play around a bit with a reflector and some off camera lighting (tried to make it subtle). A lot were shot with a SB-800 in a silver reflective umbrella gelled with a CTO gel to warm up the flash light. Rear/rim light provided by SB-600 naked on a stand (about time I got a decent snoot or some grid-spots…waiting for Honl!). Anyway enough photogeeking stuff.
I actually often get asked this, “Dude what’s the difference between Britain and UK, are they the same?”
Actually they aren’t there is a slight difference. There’s a reason why it’s called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Great Britain = England, Wales, Scotland + outlying islands (Wiki)
United Kingdom = Great Britain + Northern Ireland. (Wiki)
British Islands = United Kingdom + Crown Dependences (e.g Channel Islands). (Wiki)
British Isles = Great Britain, Ireland and a number of smaller islands (Wiki)
England is just that, England without Scotland, Wales or Northern Island.
For those that don’t know the history of Ireland it’s somewhat segregated into Northern Ireland (part of UK – capital Belfast) and Republic of Ireland (independent country – capital Dublin).
Read more on Wiki about Ireland.
Everyone also assumes I’m from London (no that’s NOT the only place in England..) and every football fan asks “Dude is Manchester near London?”..
No it’s not, see map above..there’s 3 main areas South (London etc), Midlands (Birmingham) and North (Manchester/Liverpool). There are other divisions too (East Midlands, West Midlands etc.) but those don’t really matter so much.
Anyway it’s all rather complicated but there you go.
So after a morning at Chamang Falls we headed off to our main destination, Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary!
It’s about 20km or so from Chamang and we were to get there by 1pm to make sure we got the activity passes so we could play with the elephants..unfortunately as it was a public holiday the passes were finished – so we didn’t get to play!
There was a huge ass elephant skull though.
There were nice murals and paintings around the place.
The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Viggo Mortensen) is a driver for one of London’s most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood.
This is a pretty gritty film, I hadn’t actually heard of it – but Suanie recommended it so it must be good! It’s got a strong rating of 7.9/10 on IMDB (One of the highest scores I’ve seen for a while).
The movie revolves around an average British girl (Naomi Watts) getting entangled with the ‘Vor V Zakone‘ AKA the Russian Mafia – a scary bunch at the best of times. There is really quite a number of then in the UK, especially around London and they control a fair amount of territory.
It’s pretty gory, violent, sexual and nasty – there’s betrayal and all kinds of things going on.
Viggo Mortensen absolutely rocks it as the bad-ass Nikolai. He took method acting to the max, he really becomes Russian, the way he tilts his head when he speaks, his mannerism, everything is fantastic!
Vincent Cassel is also excellent as the narcissistic, confused, violent and down-trodden big-shot mafioso.
After stabbing someone in the eye during a naked fight in a sauna, I have to say Viggo is a real man now!
This is a great movie, an unexpected gem in the rough…definitely a must watch in my books. If you haven’t seen it go and find it now and watch it and watch Viggo ROCK IT.
This is a memorable movie, the noirish setting, the vivid characters, great scripting, character development…it has a the lot!
I give it an eye-poking 8.5/10.
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