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MaJin-WangXiaoLi (China) bt. VitaMarissa-MelatiNadya (Indonesia)

21-14, 21-13

 

JuliaWongPeiXian (MAS) lost to PiHongyan (FRA)

21-17, 15-21, 14-21

Okay. Felt like blogging it detaily. Me and my mom were watching 8tv about 20seconds before 8.30pm sharp. People at KL were counting down to Earth Hour. Everyone was holding a candle. Then, at 8.30pm, our Petronas Twin Tower switched off its lights. About 10-30secs later, 8tv closed its broadcast for an hour. They claimed they’re the first tv station to do that in the entire world.

About 5secs after that, i officially switched off my last light in the house. I felt REALLY PROUD OF MY ACTION THAT MOMENT! After a while, I switched off my tv. I finished off eating my food. Then, Joey started singing and dancing here and there. Okay, I got some “Lalaaaallaaa…” music as I was eating my “char pui”. Then, my mom suggested we go around and see got people doing the same thing or not. We didn’t really go anywhere, just to the third floor and my floor. I cannot really assume anything because usually my neighbours closed their door and not at home. So, I can’t say anything.

We went back home after walking for like 5minutes. I wanted to go down and have a walk at the pool but….the weather was helping in that sense, by raining…. So, forget it. Then, at home, we got our torchlight and started doing “wayang tangan”. I was figuring out how to do the very basic one, which is the rabbit-finger-shadow-thing. But, came out all sort of weird stuffs and in the end, Joey went back because her father came. So, totally nothing to do liau. My mom said switch back on the tv. I saw the time and it was like 9.15pm. I felt real disappointed because why the time passed so fast. I wanted to do more stuffs. I really felt like my EARTH HOUR stopped the clock and I wanted to do a lot of things.

Then, Bahirah started sending sms to everyone bragging”

“Helo! Just to brag....my family is having a candle light dinner. We are having spaghetti, mashed potato, and fish and fillet."

So, I started smsing her back and so on. Well, my tv is switched on after that. Then, my mom flipped to her favourite show that started at 8pm-10pm and surprisingly, her old favourite series came back at channel 316. We all thought that series won’t revive back. Well, if I not happen to open the  tv at that moment, we wouldn’t know all these things, right? Finally, at approximately 9.36pm, I SWITCHED MY FIRST LIGHT! It felt really good. I was hoping for a blackout. NO, that didn’t happen…

 

AFTER THIS, I WILL BE USING LESS ELECTRICITY. I PROMISE THIS TO MY POLLUTED EARTH!

Date: Saturday, 25 April 2009

Time: 8.30am – 3.00pm

Venue: SMK(P) ST.GEORGE

 

I desperately need people’s help to buy the coupons. Every student is required to buy one booklet of coupon worth RM50. It’s sell or die. If anyone were to buy RM1/2/3/4…50, I would really appreciate that. But, if someone is willing / wants to buy the whole RM50 booklet, I am READY ANYTIME to do that.

 

Some activities “confirmed” to be organised:

• Ghosthouse
• Stores selling food and drinks. Eg: Floats, carbonated drinks, sushi, junk food, japanese food….etc.
• Games
• Performances by most of our schools’ clubs, music bands, cheerleading…
• Marching competition from Uniform Bodies
• Melepaking
• Enjoying yourself

 

So, let me know if you wanna buy the coupons. The coupons come in the form of RM2, RM3 and RM 5.

Brief Review

I just gonna write a bit about the movie. The first thing I wanna say is I only partly like that movie. The movie is too short for me (70 minutes). Plus, everything happen so fast. For example, the fight between Chi-chi and Mai in the so-called tournament. Worse of all, Mai just walked out of the ring because the main purpose of that fight is just to get Chi-chi’s blood/DNA/I don’t know. At least the fight between Chi-chi and cloned Chi-chi lasted a bit longer. Well, there’s not much to see either in that fight. Okay as for the last climax fight between Goku and Piccolo has more CG(computer graphics) shown. Man.., the Oozaru looks like a crappy monster that came out of nowhere! Just look at the size! So “unreal”.

Basically, the CG thing are pretty cool. I really like it when they used their “Ki”. Goku used it as a training by Master Roshi to light the flames. Besides that, you can see more of that “Ki” stuffs in the last fight. Justin Chatwin must improve his shouting skill on that Kamehameha. Actually, I was hoping Sean Schemmel dubbed his voice over Chatwin’s voice when he did the Kamehameha wave. That would totally change everything in that last fight! Well maybe not for you, but for me yes. It’s just a total waste that I didn’t really get to enjoy in watching the movie in cinema as I just watched it over the internet. Low quality and I hardly can hear the voices.

 

Summing Up

To sum it up, these are my personal main opinions:

• CG (thumbs up)
• Plot of the story (thumbs down)- - - simply too messy
• Acting (partly thumbs up)
• Humor (thumbs down)- - - too little, I want more
• Oozaru (all fingers down)- - - too gruesome
• Piccolo (thumbs down)- - - not gruesome enough
• Soundtracks (thumbs up)- - - awesome!

Finally, although the movie is not so great, I appreciate James Wong’s hard work in directing this movie. Respect it no matter what. Don’t give this movie too high expectations or you will never get enough.

 

A Live Kamehameha in Comic Con 2008 by Sean Schemmel

 

Interesting Facts

Some interesting facts from IMDB:

• It was suggested to give the entire cast special wigs of different colours, to keep the essence of the "Dragon Ball" animé, but James Wong vetoed this idea to make the film more realistic.

 

• James Kyson Lee auditioned for the role for Yamcha.

 

• Producer Stephen Chow is a big fan of Dragon Ball, and signed on to the film immediately. He was deeply interested in being the director, but decided to just serve as producer because he believes in directing only his own original stories.
• Stephen Chow, James Marsters and Jamie Chung are big fans of "Dragon Ball: Doragon bôru" (1986).

 

• According to the film's make-up expert Ed French, it took four hours to apply the prosthetics to James Marsters to change him into Piccolo. At first it took 17 hours, but Marsters had difficulty breathing and Piccolo's look also seemed overdone, so some prosthetics were removed, thus shortening the time to 4 hours.

 

• Tom Welling was considered for the role of Goku.

 

• Joon Park admitted he didn't think he was going to get the role of Yamcha "because I'm god in Korea, but a shit in the US." He auditioned for the role in nothing but a hat and shorts, but as soon as director James Wong took a look at him Park landed the role.

 

• "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama is a big fan of Jackie Chan and very much tried to cast him in the film as Master Roshi who at one point in the saga had taken the alias of Jackie Chun), but Chan was unavailable due to conflicts with other films.
• When Bulma's capsule converts into a cycle, the famous sound from "Transformers" (1984) (another fan favourite alongside "Dragon Ball: Doragon bôru" (1986) in Japan) is heard.

 

• Stephen Chow wanted Yuqi Zhang to play Chi-Chi.

 

Source: RangerBoard

• Emmy Rossum has acted before in Power Ranger?!?!

Emmy Rossum as Traci Reynes

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My Second Post

I would like to insert these cools news.

• Researcher Cracks Mac in 10 Seconds - PC World (Mac sucks…for gaming maybe)
• Flying Car Takes to the Skies ... and Roads - PC World (the car is called Terrafugia Transition)

 

The website is : Terrafugia

Flying….

 

Landing……..

1. My PC is a Zombie!

Define Botnet:

Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.

While the term "botnet" can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots, this word is generally used to refer to a collection of compromised computers (called Zombie computers) running software, usually installed via worms, Trojan horses, or backdoors, under a common command-and-control infrastructure.

[Continue reading from Wikipedia]

 

Recently, I have been complaining my computer slow like an undead snail. And I’m pretty sure you guys notice that as well. I blaim Streamyx all this time. But, why I’m the only one experiencing this while my friends are able to have a Damn-good Streamyx internet connection. Today, I read about this article from ReadWriteWeb. The article’s title is:

 

Is Your PC Part of a Botnet?

 

Some extractions from the article;

So how can you tell if you're machine is part of a botnet and what can you do about it?

Statistically, Macs are safe from botnets, although not completely immune to all threats as we noted here. But if you have a Windows based machine, Prevx suggests you stay on the lookout for an Internet connection that seems inexplicably slow when you are online as it may be that a botnet infection is using your connection to send or receive data.

"If this happens, stop surfing, close your email software (e.g. Outlook) and try and open Task Manager by pressing the CTRL, ALT and Delete keys at the same time then selecting Task Manager," the company wrote on its blog recently. "When Task manager opens click on the Network tab and see if your PC is using the internet network connection, if it shows more than a few percent usage then this could be further evidence of something using your internet connection without your knowledge."

[Read more from “Is Your PC Part of a Botnet?”]

 

(don’t sue me from extracting from your site, I’m helping people to educate themselves. I will write if I already got that knowledge but if I just put a link there, people are lazy to click it---99% sure---because I’m of them.)

 

After I read the article, I felt there’s not the problem. And this partly-conclude Streamyx is still the main foe.

 

WATCH THIS INTERACTIVE VIDEO ABOUT BOTNET FROM SYMANTEC

 

2. 'Star Wars' scientists create laser gun to kill mosquitoes

Scientists in the U.S. are developing a laser gun that could kill millions of mosquitoes in minutes in London, England.

The laser, which has been dubbed a "weapon of mosquito destruction" fires at mosquitoes once it detects the audio frequency created by the beating of its wings.

[Continue reading from CNN]

3. Readability

Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.

[Readability]

HURRRRRAAAYYY!!! LeeChongWei FINALLY WON! He has been losing to LinDan for almost 5 consecutive matches between them. And now, ChongWei has finally done it! He sure makes us, supporters of Malaysia waiting for this moment to arrive……for soooooo long…..

Most importantly, he won in this Swiss Open. My mom noticed this kind of “winning-spirit” when he started walking into the stadium. He didn’t have the usual losing spirit. I’m so glad he at last won over LinDan.

LinDan has been “cursing” all the time during the match with ChongWei. He can be seen being unsatisfied with the line judges several times in the second game, throwing his racket off at the bench and got caught doing net fault(though he denied it).

 

FINAL RESULT IN SINGLE’S MATCH (latest at 10.15pm +8GMT)

LeeChongWei (Malaysia) bt. LinDan (China)

21-16, 21-16

 

Waiting for KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong vs MathiasBoe-CarstenMogensen……

FINAL RESULT IN MEN’S DOUBLES (latest at 11.55pm +8GMT)

KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong bt. MathiasBoe-CarstenMogensen

21-14, 21-18

 

The Denmark players are surprisingly not bad at playing this match. They tried hard but in the end, we won. Congratz to ChongWei and KKK-TBH!

 

Final Result:

LinDan(China) bt ChongWei (Malaysia)

21-19, 21-12

 

It’s just frustrating to see ChongWei lost to LinDan again. Although LinDan has only entered 8 championships last year compared to ChongWei who entered more championships, he still maintains his fitness and skills or should I say talent?

According to TheStar newspaper one time, a badminton coach mentions that ChongWei needs to join more competitions as there are no other single’s players in our country that up to par for him to spar with them. LinDan has a choice to join less competitions since there are like triples the talented players in their country than ours. So, LinDan can do the sparring with his juniors or “seniors” instead.

Somehow, I think the old ChongWei is still not back yet. FYI: ChongWei won the Malaysia Open in Kota Kinabalu in 2006 where he won over LinDan. What’s the shocking stuff here is the comeback ChongWei did from pt13 – pt20. Explaination: When LinDan was at his pt20, ChongWei was only at his pt13 but ChongWei came all the way back and won the championship.

 

Malaysia Open 2006 (part 7/7)

 

I am curious why ChongWei has lost to LinDan for countless of times. From my point of view, it’s either ChongWei has degraded or LinDan has improved.

Been busy with oncoming exam next week from Wednesday to Friday. But, still I need some entertainment, right? Okay, this is the result for the semi-final of All England Open Badminton Championships, for Malaysia only. I lazy to post all the results.

 

Latest at 10.03pm (GMT+8):

MALAYSIA bt INDONESIA

LeeChongWei bt Taufik Hidayat

21-8, 21-13

Directions: Once you've been tagged, you have to write a post with sixteen random things, habits or goals about you. At the end, choose ten people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chose them. Don't forget to leave a comment ("You're tagged!") and to read your blog, you can't tag the person who tagged you.

1. I like green
2. I like potato
3. I want to play SuddenAttack like RIGHT NOW!! (Come ppl, let’s play, wismen pek tai ur maple and come play shooting games)
4. I’m hoping to sms faster than my dad. (he’s very slow but I’m slower)
5. Erhm? I sleep a lot but sometimes I don’t sleep at all.
6. I’m planning to get a fitter kind of fat body this year.
7. Always forgetting to wish “Good morning, Sir” in the class but I wish “Good morning, Teacher” instead even to a guy teacher.
8. I like to be alone.
9. I like Nickelback. IMO: The songs which are nice to me are songs that keep repeating some phrase especially the chorus.
10. I like believing in paranormal stuffs because they will haunt you if you don’t. Actually, they do exist. I have dreamt about alien ship once. They didn’t manage to kidnap me.
11. Hating the school more than ever this year.
12. Like to advise people to “RECYCLE”!
13. I sleep when stressed.
14. I’ve thought before of dropping school and learn programming or be a pro gamer.
15. Able to fall asleep within 10 secs.
16. My first electronic game console: Gameboy(tv-connected and not the portable one). My first game was something to do with shooting the birds.

I have chosen 10 people to be tagged in my mind. I have listed their names on a paper. I know why I have chosen them because i know la. But, I have forgotten to leave “You’re Tagged!” because I don’t know la.

 

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