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Random Post #6 – World Cup Fever, Tiles & FOOD
So what’s been happening lately? Well most of Earth has ground to a halt during World Cup season, I’ve been sleeping when it’s time to wake up and feeling dead most days often taking naps between midnight and 2.30am.
Drat those late games!
There’s been some really tedious matches and some fantastic ones, the last 8 is a bit surprising but totally dominated by South American teams. Spain for once played superbly last night against Portugal, so I can see they were just holding back for when they needed. They have a good chance to go all the way, #BRA vs #ESP anyone?
Anyway a while back Myhorng said he was going to eat at Water Lily a fairly new Balinese restaurant nearby my office which I pass every day when I go home, I’d wanted to try it since it opened..and finally got my chance.
I have to say it was superb! This is their signature Waterlily Nasi Campur. The prices aren’t low, but for the portion size and quality of the food it’s very good value for money. It is cheaper than other equivalent places. Kim wrote about it here – Balinese food at Water Lily, Mutiara Tropicana.
4-1
Depressed, that’s all I need to say.
RIP England, just another 4 years of shame before we get embarrassed again in Brazil 2014.
BTW for those debating the facts, the 2nd England goal DEFINITELY WAS NOT IN. See proof:
I would have liked to have seen an Argentina vs Germany final, but it’s coming up next game – that’s gonna be one hell of a match. #BRA vs #ARG final anyone?
I think semi-finals will be Uruguay vs Brazil (too easy for Brazil?) and Argentina vs Portugal.
The World Cup 2010 – Does England Stand A Chance?
Well judging by the face of the fans after the drawing 0-0 in Algeria game what do you think?
And drawing 1-1 with USA…honestly it’s not looking very good is it? Rooney was pissed off with the fans, and the fans were pissed off with Rooney..which The Sun labelled the Roo-Boo-Zela LOL. He wasn’t really best pleased was he?
Movie Review – The A-Team – I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!
A colorful team of former Special Forces soldiers were set up for a crime they did not commit. Going “rogue,” they utilize their unique talents to try and clear their names and find the true culprit.
2010 is actually turning out to be a pretty decent year for movies, the summer blockbuster season is just starting to come into effect and we’ll be treated with some more big titles around Christmas time I would imagine.
So far my best movies of the year would be pretty close between Kick Ass and Ip Man 2, but honestly they just both got beaten!
I’ve always loved A-Team even since I was a kid watching the original series and wondering what monster they were gonna build in the abandoned hangar (which happened every episode!). It was the only series where 10 guys could shoot at you with fully-automatic machine guns, make your car flip over 5 times and you could get up unscathed!
Those were the days, the days of Knight Rider, A-Team, Street Hawk and Airwolf!
And well The A-Team movie really brings back the feel of the original series, superb casting and awesome action sequences. The dialogue was great too, plenty of funny moments and classic lines. Liam Neeson has really grown as an actor for me since Taken – probably my favourite movie from 2008.
He really nails it as the cigar smoking Hannibal.
Bradley Cooper is pretty good as Face, but not as good as the original. Quinton Jackson is well cast as B.A. Baracus and if you didn’t know he’s actually a champion MMA fighter in real life. Bring on the gold chains in the sequel!
I ain’t getting on no plane SUCKA FOO!
The movie is doing very well on IMDB with a solid 7.6, which i suspect may go downhill after a while as the movie is getting panned by the critics with mostly C- scores. But then people like Ebert and Morris don’t particularly like movies like this.
I personally thought it was great, it’s a fairly long film at 3 minutes under 2 hours, but it doesn’t drag at all and certainly doesn’t feel long. It’s a fun film to watch and I can see myself watching it many more times.
I give it a tanker sinking 8.5/10.
Project Alpha Season 2 – Lost World of Tambun – Part 2
So what else happened at Tambun during the Project Alpha Season 2 filming? After my first post – Project Alpha Season 2 — Lost World of Tambun — Ipoh we continued on and watched an AWESOME snake show by some super skilled handlers who whipped out some crazy snakes, including some which had fatal venom!
We actually learned a lot during this segment with a lot of information about snakes, the different types, their behaviour, why they attack, different kinds of venoms and lots of other stuff…including some rather gory pictures of snake-bite victims.
Honestly I think this guy looks far too happy handling this dangerous snake.
They did some crazy stuff, including kissing a cobra on the head 0_0
Random Blog Post #5 – Busyyyyyyy & Broke
Been quite busy max lately so my blog has taken somewhat of a back row position in my life at the moment. 1 major project should be wrapping up this weekend and apart from teething problems it should be settled by next week.
Have damn a lot of things to blog about, but no time to sit down and do it (All Asia Kyukoshin, N900, Sri Lanka and much more!)
Anyway lately…I has been broke, and got almost completely broke yesterday by handing over the 3rd (rather large) payment for the renovation over to the contractor. It’s coming along well though, pre-finishing stages are starting! Wall skimming is being done now, all the windows are in, grill designs are being chosen and next up is to start the tiling and flooring work (laminated wooden flooring through-out the upstairs), tiles for bathrooms and possible front porch/yard area).
Sometimes I still need to eat nice food though! One night we headed over to Betty’s Midwest Kitchen in Aman Suria because I just really needed a big wedge of meat and some mash. I went for the meatloaf which was actually really good and reasonably priced.
Movie Review – Kick-Ass – Truly KICKS ASS
Dave Lizewski, a comic-book fanboy, decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There’s only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.
This was a movie that pretty much came out of no-where, only comic book geeks knew about it and it started to get a lot of hype online and pretty much became an instant cult classic as soon as it was released. It’s also doing extremely well on IMDB with 8.3/10 and straight into the Top 250 at #146. Thankfully I managed to see it while it was still showing at the cinema, I was also happy to see the new censorship standards in place and the amount of cutting was extremely minimal even if a little odd at times (they let Hit Girl say the ‘c’ word…but censored her saying the ‘f’ word – huh?).
It’s good to see Nicolas Cage back in a good role too doing a good job, he’s had a string of horrific movies lately..after falling from the throne as one of my favourite action stars in the 90’s he went right into the middle of the b-grade list.
The star of the show is of course Kick-Ass/Dave Lizewski played by a fairly unknown actor who goes by the name of Aaron Johnson and well let’s just say he was great!
The premise of the story is a fairly simple one, a super-hero with no actual powers and well the plot is fairly standard (bad guys vs good guys, revenge etc). But the way in which the characters are developed is just superb, and well the characters themselves are super cool.
And well saying the star of the show is Kick-Ass is kinda wrong too as almost every scene was stolen by Hit-Girl played by Chloe Moretz.
She was just fantastic! I hope there’s some spin-off movies starring her, you may have seen her if you watched (500) Days of Summer or Dirty, Sexy, Money (she was Kiki George) – but neither can compare to her role in this movie.
The cinematography was fairly simple, which honestly I like…I’m not a great fan of the new age ‘MTV’ style shooting where they shove the camera so close up it gets all shaky and you can’t really see anything aka Bourne style.
This is definitely one of the best films of 2010 so far along with Ip Man 2, the rest so far have been somewhat disappointing (hello Iron Man 2).
Anyway if you haven’t seen this movie yet, go and see it now before it finishes its run on the silver screen, it’s well worth paying to see at the cinema.
I give Kick-Ass a bone shattering 9/10.
Project Alpha Season 2 – Lost World of Tambun – Ipoh
I did mention briefly before about my trip to Lost World of Tambun in Ipoh back in January when the Project Alpha Press Conference took place, here’s a little more about behind the scenes of the Project Alpha shoot.
We headed down in my Airtrek seen as though it’s the biggest, there was 4 (Myself, Kimberly, Cheesie and KY) of us and we had our own handycam! Not sure if they are going to show any of that footage tho..Plus they were filming us (for a short while…when they could keep up).
The journey was pretty un-eventful, but we were STARVING when we reaching, and seen as though Foh San is pretty over-rated we headed to Ming Court – both camps have some pretty hardcore supporters tho. The portions are pretty small so we had ourselves quite a variety.
Project Airtrek – The First Service AKA The Wallet Destroyer
So I’d got my car and as the tyres were almost bald and seriously hardened, I got those changed first thing as a priority. After that came time for the first major service, this is an important thing to do when you buy a second hand car – even if it has a ‘full service history’ you are better off changing all the fluids.
For any car that generally means:
- Engine Oil
- Transmission Fluid (ATF or Gearbox Oil for manual cars)
- Brake Fluid
- Power Steering Fluid
- Axel Grease (for 4wd cars)
At a very minimum if you can’t afford everything, get the oil and oil filter changed first thing. The other items you need to look at after you buy the car (and is safer to change) is the rubber items like belts. Check the following:
- Timing Belt (most important, if your timing belt breaks when you are driving it’ll destroy your engine)
- Alternator Belt
- Aircon Belt
- Fan Belt
