Exam-in-a-nation

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A phenomenon.....
The time for exam. When this is the monsoon raining month, students around the nation are busy studying for their final exam(suddenly become like a story narrator). Actually, it feels kinda better to study in a cold weather condition. Rather than on a hot, shiny day. Makes you feel sleepier. So, why am I not doing that right? Not because I have studied, just couldn't stand the temptation to use the computer.

Honey-mooning....
HAHAHA!! That day, my brother just said that let me to "honeymoon" for this year. Then, next year I must "PIA" liau. I cannot imagine next year where I will be having one of the worst major exam in Malaysia, SPM( Sijil Penilaian Menengah).

*Update, 1.05pm: MY BROTHER JUST CALLED IN AND TOLD US THAT HIS WIFE'S HOUSE KENA DIROMPAK. NOT LONG AGO, HIS WIFE JUST KENA DIROMPAK IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE. BUT, SHE DIDN'T REALLY GOT HURT. Now, even worse case. Morning, morning also her house already kena dirompak. Luckily, my brother only worked for half day today. My brother said this time kena dirompak teruk, teruk. A LOT of things gone, including the wedding ring. WHAT A SAD CASE!!

2 Days ago, there's a house below my floor, 8th floor(I live at 9th floor) just kena dirompak masuk also. That house owner lost a few cameras and a laptop. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE SOCIETY RIGHT NOW?!?!? MORE TO SAY THAT "WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW"?!?

Cheh, at first dont' want to blog for so long one. In the end, blog until here. I will post some updates later on. Somemore, this title of this post also not related to this robbery case. "Kau lat"!!



Discovery Channel: I Love the Whole World

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1. I Love The Whole World
Haha...just remembered that I wanna download this amazing song. But, always forgotten to do so. (Thx for Ivy's post as a reminder; forgotten who first posted about it?!?) For those who haven't download the song yet, the all the links related are below \/

LINKS (Source:Wikipedia):


Discovery Channel: I Love the Whole World


First Version (Source: Wikipedia)

Astronaut 1: It never gets old, huh?
Astronaut 2: Nope.
Astronaut 1: It kinda makes you want to...
Astronaut 2: Break into song?
Astronaut 1: Yep.
I love the mountains,
I love the clear blue skies
I love big bridges
I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world
And all its sights and sounds
Boom-de-yadda, boom-de-yadda (twice)
I love the oceans
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world
And all its craziness
Boom-de-yadda, boom-de-yadda (twice)
I love tornadoes
I love arachnids
I love hot magma
I love the giant squids
I love the whole world
It's such a brilliant place
Boom-de-yadda, boom-de-yadda (repeating until fade)


2. Crank That by Soulja Boy (Winnie the Pooh ver.)
This is the reason why I love this song. See how the "Winnie the Pooh gang" lip-syncing the song. Hilarious!

Soulja Boy Pooh


Embedding courtesy of Dintillion







"The Big Question"?

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1. Teacher's case (ask me personally if you wanna know who...)
Yesterday, when we were discussing about one of the articles (Smut Surfers) in Cakna English Workbook, she asked us how to prevent small children (about 9-11 years old) from going into pornography sites?

Class answered:

  • Educate them
  • Give them enough exposures, so that they won't go into that kind of sites.
  • Teach them not to go. Tell them they are baddd!
-Actually, all the answers are the same. I just break them into part by part of a sentence. I couldn't really remember the answers given except this particular one. She agreed with us as well....But WAIT! Read further on....-

Another question she asked, "If you all stumbled upon a porno website, would you all be more curious and go deeper into that kind of sites?"

Class answered : "Erhm, obviously NO! They are so disgusting. They somemore got virus in that websites, destroying your computer only."

Teacher answered : "Oh, you guys are not curious enough. Maybe, you already know what's in there. If for me, I would be MORE CURIOUS and WILL GO into that site to find out what is inside there. Hahaha...."

-Okay, what an answer.-

Then, she asked us another question. Is it okay for the children to go to or to stumble upon a pornography site?

Class answered :
  • NO..
  • NO...
  • NO....
Guess what our teacher said:
  • "Erhm, I don't know about what you all (referring to the class) think, personally for me I think IT'S OKAY FOR TO GO TO/ STUMBLED UPON A PORNO SITE...."
-Let's stop the time at this moment for a while. When she said that, I was like a stump. Me and Dianne were like.... Why she said it's okay? If she said that, so she also meant that they can visit them whenever they want to? Nevermind, read further on...-

The teacher continued her answer:
  • "For me, I think if they want to go or accidentally spotted one, it's fine for me. I think they (small children) won't know what's "that" about. The more you stop them from going into that sites, the more they want to go. So, let them see what's inside there and TEACH them about what's it about. The most important thing is that they(small children) won't do what the pros are doing in porno sites. I know the small children won't understand them, thus they won't do them."
-Well, I think the part where she said "The more you stop them, the more they want to go" is kinda true. But, I don't really agree with the next one. I think that since they already so curious wanted to go and see what's in there, so they might as well try "them" out. Then, if they stumbled upon a site like that once, I'm sure they wanna go there again and again in the future.

Then, they will create a bad habit. Forcing them to think about sex all the time and it might destroy their future. Sometimes, I think the best even not to educate them. If they won't know, they won't be curious. If they are not curious, they won't go there and do them. But, if they already know about porno sites, only then we educate them. Anyway, all these are my personal opinions. Those opinions given by the teacher are also her own personal opinions. So, I'm not saying she's wrong or what. And, I gave my own opinions are only meant for small children. Those do not include for the adults or teenagers like us.

"Teenagers like us should be mature enough to know what's right and what's wrong."
That's what me and the teacher think so.....-

2. Student's case
LOL! While in biology's lab in the last period, I spotted an acronym somewhere on one of the tables. It spelled "PMK". So, I think if that someone would have written such thing, surely it means something that is not good. HAHA!! So, I thought it meant "Puki Mak Hang" (But it's PMK, so I don't think it's correct initial). Then, I asked the others. They said it could be "P*** Mak Kau". Better meaning isn't it. Continue asking the others but they were quite blur. 2 of them are Dianne and Denise.

Dianne answered : "Ar....Pendidikan Moral, (stopped)..."

-I forgot what Denise said. Maybe she answered the Moral thing also. So, I told them could it be "P*** Mak Kau"? Then, the conversation continued...-

Denise said : "What is P-U-K-I?"

-I started banging my head onto the table and laughed histerically. Why you don't know, Denise? Can't believe your language is so virgin (haven't been contaminated yet). I thought that word can be seen at most of the public bus-stops or public phone. HAIZ.....Anyway, we have taught you something new, which is NOT goooood. But, I forgotten. Everyone has their own starting point of learning new things and being a noob. So, I shouldn't laugh people like that.

When I first learnt that word from my cousin, I also reacted just the same. I shouldn't be that mean to Denise. My point here is that not to laugh at people if she/he doesn't know that new thing. Teach them first. THEN, LAUGH AT THEM!! No.....just joking, just joking, juuuuuuust joooooooking...

So, just wanna say sorry to Denise for being so mean. Right now, you know what it means already right, after being explained by Su Jen somemore. She explained even more detail than me.-







Our Downfall(s) in Japan Open

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1. LeeChongWei vs SonyDwiKuncoro
First Game
At first, I don't really that intense watching this match. Anyway, I was eating my chicken rice while watching them playing. So, I thought this should be easy for ChongWei to win this match as he had won over that Indonesian player for many times. Talking about the match, actually LCW could have won the first game. From 1-11 points, both players were not really that far apart. It's like every time LCW wins 2 points, Sony wins a point. But then, things changed in the second half. LCW was leading 16-12 at a point. After that, I don't know what happened. Sony kept winning points and amazingly ALL THE WAY, HE JUST REACHED HIS 21st POINTS AND IN THAT 16-21 POINTS PROCESS, LCW ONLY WON 1 POINT. Only the first game had lasted for 21 minutes. That is already equivalent/more to the total time of LCW needed win over the Danish player in semifinal!!! It is obvious LCW having some bad control here...

The first game : 16-21 (Sony won the game)

Second Game
Hoping that LCW will fight back in the second game. Usually the pro players will fight back in second game if they lost the first game. But, things just got worse. From the very first half, LCW already let Sony won 5 points ahead of him. After he won 5 points, only LCW won his FIRST point. What's wrong with him? If I'm not mistaken, when Sony won his 11th point, LCW was at his 3rd point. I couldn't really remember....I only know that in the whole second game, LCW was trailing very far behind from Sony. The deficit points between them were always 10 points. So, practically, there was no way for LCW to win that second game and "apatah lagi" the match.

The second game : 11 - 21 (Sony won the game)

FINAL RESULT : LeeChongWei lost to SonyDwiKuncoro (16-21, 11-21)




2. ChinEeiHui-WongPeiTyt vs ChengShu-ZhaoYunLei
First Game
Practically, I didn't really watch them playing. There was always no excitement to watch women's doubles. Because, the Chinese players dominate it at every final of most of the tournaments. In fact, I already forgotten that our Malaysian pair is fighting in that final. One thing I really admired our Malaysian pair is that they can win over that Indonesian pair, VitaMarissa-LilyanaNatsir in the semifinal. That's how PeiTyt-EeiHui got into the final. THEY BEAT THEM!! It's pretty extraordinary as Indonesia is famous for their women players. For example, the legendary Susi Susanti ( my mother always call her "Susah-Hati"). I never get to watch her play before because I was small at that time. So, I got to know her from my mom. My mom said that she always lose in the first match to her opponent and fight back in the second game. No matter what, she will win her matches.

The first game : 19-21 (China pair won)
Second Game
Okay, back to original topic. So, where am I?!? Oh ya, talking about EeiHui-PeiTyt first game. I just know that they lost the first game to that amateur pair from China. I couldn't really believe that they can win over our Malaysian-really-experienced-players. EeiHui-PeiTyt are a really "lau-chiau" pro players. Anyway, I also didn't watch the second game. So, I can't write a review about that. But they won the second game. jelir But, look at the score below. Isn't that something really "KENG"? The Chinese pair only managed to get a total of 5 points. Were they over-confident or what? I think they thought that our Malaysian pair sure cannot win one. So, that's why they fight like s***. It was too late to know that they were wrong!

The second game : 5-21 (Malaysian pair won)

Third Game
In that third game, I didn't watch the very beginning. I did watch the whole second half. Sad ending. Now, the Chinese pair said "It's Pay Back Time" because our Malaysian pair played really bad in the first half of this third game. At a point, our Malaysian pair was trailing from 5-11 (I couldn't really remember too). Then, in the second half our Malaysian pair did a lot of silly mistakes, (eg. served too low, smashed out, wrong backline judgement). In the end, they Chinese pair got to their 17th point and our Malaysian pair got their 9th point. As I was watching until this moment, my heartbeat got faster with every point our Malaysian pair won and every point we lost.

Until a point where the scoreboard was 17-19. It was so "Kin-Chiung" at this time. I thought they could stand a chance to win the match. But wait, after this our Malaysian did a mistake and the Chinese pair won their 20th point. Three matchpoints for the Chinese. I still have the hope on our Malaysian pair. I know if they are not nervous, they might have won it. Then, the Malaysian pair did win their 18th points. I was hoping they get to force deuce at 20-20. But, my hope was crashed when Chinese got to their 21st point when EeiHui/PeiTyt thought one of the Chinese's hit was "Out". And that concludes the whole match and we LOST, AGAIN! But, I know they tried their best. Try harder next time!

There were 2 hopes that our Malaysian players might win one of the finals. But, luck was not with us. We lost both of the finals. Too bad, too bad......Anyway, I enjoyed watching my favourite sport EVER after having a hard time doing my Add. Math...

The third game : 18- 21 (Chinese pair won)

THE FINAL RESULT : ChinEeiHui-WongPeiTyt lost to ChengShu-ZhaoYunLei (21-19, 21-5, 18-21)




3 New Games

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1. RUNESCAPE - Official Website-
For the past Tuesday(didn't go to school) and Wednesday(holiday), I played some new games. Me and Adeline got bored talking to each other. Actually, she didn't mind having conversations with people, but after talking for quite some time, I was the one who got bored. So, I recommended to her this game called Runescape. An online multiplayer role-playing game. It is not a bad game. If yes, I wouldn't have played the first time until 5am from 11pm until my mom nagged the next day (saying my eyes spoilt because of playing too much). These are some of the features I have found:

  • Does not require any game client download, just create a new account
  • The tutorial is so long and boring
  • The graphics are not nice if viewed with low detail. You can only play with high detail if your computer meets the requirement. (Too bad, I can only play with low def)
  • The maximum level is 138( 126 in new version) - According to this site: Wikia Gaming
  • They got a huge map compared to maple comprising of many, many continents
  • Right now, I don't even know potions exists or not, but I have to find my own food to replace my health points. Eg: shrimps, meat, raw chicken (All must be cooked with fire first)
  • Characters have quite nice clothes and equipments
  • Players can kill each other(Weird..)
  • One thing I don't like about it is that you need to click any destinations in order to move your character to that exact spot. Although I'm not sure whether you can use the keyboards to move.
SCREENSHOTS OF RUNESCAPE
Source: MMORPG.com








-edit: (3.35pm, 19/9/08) I deleted the last download link as it was a stupid link with slow download speed and worst, it was an old game client. Now, I included this new, fast download link to the latest game client...

[DOWNLOAD HERE]

2. Crazy Shooter Online -Official Website (when I was writing this post, there's something wrong with this CSO game server, so unable to link the website & I cannot play (Ket Sam!!)... -
Actually, I already knew this game for quite some time after being told by my cousins. They have friends that always go to Cyber Cafes. So, I got to know the latest online game in Malaysia (quite). For me, I think the game is almost alike as Counter Strike. It is an FPS (First Person Shooter) game. Even the commands and keyboard configurations are almost the same. There are a lot of Chinese and Malay boys playing, meaning a lot of f*** & c**** words can be seen in the chatbox. I include these photos as they give more informations about the game :

Go to this > website > if you wanna know more about cso....

Crazy Shooter Online Trailer (not really Malaysia version)



SCREENSHOTS OF CRAZY SHOOTER ONLINE

Source : Gogobase.com

Above: There is a type of grenade where you can turn other players into a cat for a period of time. Muahaha, at this time, you can shoot them to hell!!!




3. Habbo Hotel -Official Website-

Now, only I remember the third thing I did is create a new account in Habbo Hotel. It is actually not even a game for me as it is more to social networking. Just that you can chat with other peoples by using your avatar and walking around in a room. So, the word "Hotel" means all the chatting stuffs happens in a hotel. It is actually very boring for me:
  • The avatars are stupid looking. You can only own great, nice stuffs/ furnitures/ clothes/ faces if you join a paid-club (If I'm not mistaken)
  • When, you move your characters, it moves block-by-block as the floors that can be seen are in pixels shape.
-That's all that I can think of. I didn't really explore a lot about the game-

SCREENSHOTS OF HABBO HOTEL
Source:
MMORPG.com







Anwar Taking Over the Government?!

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Monday, 15 September 2008
Lazy to go to school...
I felt like not going to school tomorrow, scared situation in Penang got chaotic. LOL!! What a "good" reason. Surprisingly, many of my friends didn't know that tomorrow is the day where Anwar/PKR might take over the BN Government. Aren't they reading the news in the newspaper of TV? Although, I don't really know the real story behind it, but bottomline, the status of our government is at risk if they do not start to act. Well, that's why I scared that everything will be in chaos and curfew will happen. I hope that do not happen because people will be having difficulty to go out and things like that.

Nuzul al-Quran Day...
By the way, this wednesday is the "Hari Nuzul al-Quran" or also known as Nuzul al-Quran Day. I think in English, it is a day to remember the date where Prophet Muhammad got the first phrase of al-Quran in Hira Cave. Anyway, for us students, IT'S HOLIDAY. That's all we want to know, I guess. Since it's a holiday this wednesday, I feel more to truant from school tomorrow as I will get 2 straight holidays!!
*Got it from Wikipedia*:

"Hari Nuzul Quran adalah merupakan hari memperingati Nuzul Quran (turunnya al-Quran) kepada Nabi Muhamad S.A.W. pertama kalinya ketika baginda sedang berkhalwat di Gua Hira pada malam Jumaat pertepatan pada tanggal 17 Ramadhan iaitu tehun ke 41 hari kelahiran baginda atau pada tanggal 6 Ogos 610M."

-11.00pm-......

Haiz, last minute post. Actually, I already think of not going to school tomorrow. I already "berpakat" not to go with Dianne and Bahirah. Left Denise and Ezza going tomorrow for our class gang. Then, when my mom told my dad that I'm not going tomorrow, my dad for the VERY FIRST TIME advised me not to "ponteng" so many times. Haiz, so "tau tia". Usually, my parents dont' really care about that, but not this time. I feel so guilty to them if I don't go tomorrow. But, SERIOUSLY, I had set my mood to "sleep" mode. There's little chance for me to change my mind right now. So, I will just wake up tomorrow morning and see what happens. 99.9999999% of probability that I'm not going. Watching this video right now to release so-called tension...


Evolution of Dance
(THE MOST VIEWED YOUTUBE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!)





September 11

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Friday, 12 September 2008
POST 1 : TALKING ABOUT MY LIFE
Motivated....
Actually, I'm so sien to blog nowadays. When Wismen suddenly so "bersemangat" to blog nowadays, I suddenly became so lazy to blog. I felt so sleepy EVERY SINGLE day. That doesn't even include if I do any physical activities. If I do go out or just walk to somewhere, I totally become a zombie, with no stamina AT ALL. Maybe, that's the side effect of looking too much in front of the computer. I spent almost my whole afternoon playing maple until when I wanted to do my homework, I have no mood at all. I got attracted to the TV instead.

Never get to be changed....
So, I was determined to change myself. I mean my lifestyle. Playing computer at the afternoon and stopped playing at 6pm. Then, do homework and sleep after that. But, when I said my new quote in the class that day, ("I MIGHT CHANGE"), Dianne started laughing histerically gelakguling..... What a friend....Not supportive at all....Destroying my mood onlymarah......


-LOOK !!! My new emoticons Blogger script, but a little bit cacat one.....Source: CamelJourney Blog-


Sacrifising.....
Actually, I don't really want to do my homework. I want to level in my maple and at the same time excel( not too say too excel - okok la - but better than right now) in my studies. But, I know we can't really reach two things at the same time. Somehow, someway we need to sacrifise one of them. Well, I still looking for some shortcuts in my life....


Saturday, 13 September 2008
POST 2: TALKING ABOUT SEPTEMBER-ELEVEN
Ket sam...
Haiya, yesterday I want to continue post yesterday one. But, my brother called me stop using the computer and go to bathe. In the end, I went to sleep from 8.30pm till this morning 9.00am.
What a sad case...nangih

The day of sorrow...
The day before yesterday was the day of the September Eleven. We got 7 Eleven, 8 Eleven(a store near my house) and 9 Eleven. Luckily, there's no 10 Eleven YET~! For those who doens't what is September Eleven Attacks a.k.a 9/11 (don't be surprise...I do know someone who didn't know about it until I told HER), read this:

"The September 11 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, nineteen Islamic terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.[1][2] The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours, destroying at least two nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There are no known survivors from any of the flights."

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How I knew about it....

I'm sure after reading the excerpt up there, everyone should know what it's about. And 9/11/08 is the day after 7 years of the incident. Actually, I knew about the event on the TV. It was nightime on that day. My whole family was watching badminton match. Then, my brother happened to change the channel and saw this building on fire. At first, we all thought that it was some kind of HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE! Bommm!! Banggg!!! You know, that kind of blowing up stuffs movies. But then, after hearing the newscaster saying, only we knew it was read stuff and it happened in United States. I was kinda small at that time, 9 years old, I don't really know what's going on at that moment. I am still stupid and blur-blur when I was that children period time. (Not forgetting, I am still having blur-blur situation right now) . So, my family was shocked to know that. And all the newspaper put that as their headlines the next morning.

Feelings at that moment.....
It scares me when I think about it later then. I wonder how the flight passengers that were going to Bang into the World Trade Center felt at that exact moment. If I was one of them, I would quickly ask someone's gameboy/nintendo/psp to play some games before I die!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!! Nooo, just joking~~. I would probably do the same thing, phoning our family to tell them our feelings to them, to hear their last voices before we "gone up". If can, I want to take a picture of myself and send it through email to them. Hm...that can sadden our family worse, right? Better not, just talk to them and enough.

Moments of silence and tribute to them...
Every year, at 8.46am and 9.03am will be held a moments of silence at the Ground Zero. Bush will give his speech as usual and Tribute in Light will shine from Dusk till Dawn as a tribute to those who lost their lives in that incident. Quote from United States President Bush for this year is "On a day when buildings fell, heroes rose." It means heroes came to help the survivors of the September 11 Attacks when the buildings fell. For this, I include pictures, videos and facts of that terrible incident done by "The Person Claimed By Everyone", Osama bin Laden: (it's amazing until now, nobody has ever catch him yet)

FACTS
Chronology

8:46 AM Plane crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
9:03 AM Plane crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center.
9:17 AM The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shuts down all New York City area airports.
9:21 AM The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halts all flights at U.S. airports. It is the first
time in history that air traffic has been halted nationwide.
9:38 AM Plane crashes into the Pentagon. Evacuation begins immediately.
9:45 AM The White House evacuates.
10:05 AM The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
10:10 AM A portion of the Pentagon collapses.
10:10 AM Plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
10:22 AM The State and Justice Departments, as well as the World Bank are evacuated.
10:28 AM The World Trade Center's north tower collapses.
10:45 AM All federal office buildings in Washington, D.C. are evacuated.
1:44 PM Five warships and two aircraft carriers are ordered to leave the U.S. Naval Station
in Norfolk, Virginia to protect the East Coast.
4:10 PM Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapses.

-Notice that at 9.45am, The White House evacuates....I didn't know that-

Creepy Facts of 9/11
(Half of them are fake...blame the author!)



Pictures of September 11 Attacks

BEFORE

DURING

A plane hitting the second tower...


"I see water. I see buildings. We’re flying low, we’re flying way too low," Sweeney replied, according to the notes taken by Mr. Woodward. Sweeney then took a deep breath and gasped, "Oh, my God." Flight Attendant Amy Sweeney's last words on American Airlines flight 11 on 9/11/01 .


Amazing Picture

The tourist guy, is an Internet phenomenon consisting of a photograph of a touristPhotoshopped pictures after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The tourist was identified as Péter Guzli.
Soon after 9/11 an image showing a tourist while an airliner was about to hit the building beneath him circulated on the Internet. It was claimed that the picture came from a camera found in the debris at Ground Zero. The picture won a best 9/11 Photoshopped picture contest.


- The picture above is a HOAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
but I felt into it at first...-
hah







The Movie "Backdraft"

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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Sounds weird....
Yesterday, I just happened to see a movie on Astro, I think it was on channel 411. The name of the movie is "Backdraft", starring Kurt Russell and William Baldwin. In fact, Kurt Rusell is one of my favourite actor. Usually, he got this kinda "manly" voice in his movies. However, in this "Backdraft" movie, he sounded like a 16 years old kid...?!?!? At first, I didn't even recognise that it was him that was acting. But, slowly I think that's him as I knew that he got acted in one of fire-related movie. I calculated that when he acted in that "Backdraft" movie, he was 34 YEARS OLD!!!!! You should have listened to his voice back then...Furthermore, he looked very young in that movie too.

The movie itself....
I kinda love this 1991 movie as it shows us a little bit about the real life-death situations faced by our firemen. It makes us more appreciate of their work. The fire shown in this movie looked really real and it really amaze me. But after you read this Wikipedia website, you will notice that this movie got critised a lot for it's lack of realism! Well, as a normal, non-observant watcher, it's looks real enough for me.

"Backdraft is a 1991 American film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn. Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Gedrick and J.T. Walsh co-star in the film. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist. A fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate, is used by the arsonist to set the fires."


SCENES FROM THE MOVIE "BACKDRAFT"
Source: ScreenRush.Co.Uk



The Movie "Backdraft" Trailer




Learnt something new....

Now, I know there exists such a word, "Backdraft". This is the following excerpts from Wikipedia:

"A backdraft is a situation which can occur when a fire is starved of oxygen; consequently combustion ceases but the fuel gases and smoke remain at high temperature. If oxygen is re-introduced to the fire, eg. by opening a door to a closed room, combustion can restart often resulting in an explosive effect as the gases heat and expand (see also Flashover)"


An Example of a Real "Backdraft" Situation










Cyber Olympic

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Sunday, 7 September 2008
Syok.....
Yesterday, I went to Tabitha's church for a "cyber olympic" event. Actually, you and everyone else just have to compete each other in a cyber game, either from PS2, Xbox or a Wii platform. So, they got all three platforms over there. Tabitha fetched me there together with Natalie and Tabitha's cousin, her name was something like Tze Tsian (sory, don't know how to spell). A lot of people didn't come because it was raining heavily yesterday, including Ashley(hm....), Wismen (no transport), Adeline(cannot come), Stephanie(don't know why) and Fion(lazy).

First-time playing Wii....
Anyway, there were not many people at the Gospel Hall too. First, we find for our own partner and register our name. Me and Tab was the first team playing Wii. We started playing Boxing first. THE GAME WAS SO KENG!!! You just need to move your hands and the avatars in the game will fight according to your movement. HAHAHA!!! IT WAS HILARIOUS looking at us playing. Anyway, I won over Tabitha. But, I lost the second round to May Lyn. I was too enjoyed playing the game. I guess if Ashley("Judo Master") did come, she might punched the screen until "pecah" or terus kill my avatar.


Eg. of a Nintendo Wii

Wii Trailer(very nice)




The people in this video are not us. But, this is almost the same as we play time....



The Wii Boxing Game itself



Playing the dance mat game....
So, after that I went to play to Dance game(don't know what's the name). There is a dance mat connecting to the PS2, if I'm not mistaken. So, practically you just need to move your legs following the arrow on the screen. Haiya, I'm sure you all know this game. I totally suck at this game. Always getting "Boo!!" scores. Tabitha was better. She can dance on it. If Janice comes, I think she will scores better than us as I always think her Chinese" fan dance" is good.


Eg. of a Dance Mat

Next to Xbox.....
Then, Tabitha invited me to play football on Xbox. I noticed that the Xbox controller is almost the same as PS2 controller, just that it really looks cooler and much bigger because I think you can put a card game in that Xbox controller. I don't even know how to play the football game, just kicking there and here. Fortunately, the game has no referree. So, you can play "how-ever" you like, with no rules at all!

Eg. of a Xbox
Now, it's tennis time....
After playing boxing on Wii, we then play tennis. I didn't know that you can have 4 players in that game and there are 4 controllers for Wii?!? Hehe...I was better playing that game. I somemore went into the finals. Though, I lost the finals to some pros. But, I think the game was much easier compared to boxing as it reacts much faster than boxing. This means that in boxing, you need to move your hand slower or not it won't detect your movement. In tennis, you can swing as fast as you want and still, it can detect the directions of your movement.

Wii Tennis




The flood's coming....
Wah, immediately after that tennis game, I called my parents to fetch me. I heard there was a flood at the entrance of the Mobile petrol station there. Scared cannot go home....Actually, I called my parents a lot of times before that because Tabitha's parents were stucked in a flood in Sungai Ara area. So, in the end her auntie had to fetch them home. By the way, my family was gonna go to Queensbay. I decided to call them to fetch me when they wanna go out time. Luckily, my brother's car managed to get to the Gospel Hall and get me.

In Queensbay....
Actually, my parents wanted to go there to buy mooncakes. So, I decided to follow them or not I won't even think I wanna go there(Sien). I still saw a lot of peoples in Queensbay althought it was still raining at that time, around 7.45pm. So, the first thing we did was to get some FOOD!! My brother "belanja" us eat at the Dave's Deli, the second "koh kap" restaurant I have visited after going to Kim Gary Restaurant in Gurney. For me, it is very "koh kap" already, but not sure for you all. My brother called for us a dish of chicken+smash potato+salad. Very Hor Liau!!! The meat is so smooth and the salad was delicious.... Then, when we wanna go buy mooncakes in Queenbay time, we couldn't find it. So, in the end we went to Sunshine to buy the Kam Lun Tai mooncakes. Luckily, it didn't closed yet. We reached home at around 10pm. I felt so "chuan" after that. What to do....I have a stamina-less body.

This is the dish that we ate

Credits...
Anyway, wanna thanks Tabit for inviting me there and although I didn't really play much, it was enjoyable and get to meet new peoples. Another good practise for socializing.







Internet Back to Normal!!! (for now)

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Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Relieved.....
Today, when I got back home my parents told me that there was a technician came to my house this morning and changed something at our flat's internet line. Not sure what he did, but he fixed it!!! That's what my brother claimed because I think after my brother knew the technician came and changed it, he quickly downloaded A LOT of stuffs to see whether the disconnection still continues. But, this time it did not disconnect at all. So, I think for now my internet line is fixed. Glad we do not have to change the ISP to other internet service provider company. Now, I'm still experiencing lagged while surfing the web, most probably my brother is downloading like crazy after 3 weeks of this TMNut thing...