My Hand Is... Broken...

Just like that.

In just 6 tiny hours, I've completed half of my exams for this semester! It was hell though. Had 2 papers today and both of them were essay-type papers. Wrote till my hand went numb. Imagine 4 hours of non-stop writing trying to get as many details out as possible. Think I wrote a grand total of 23 pages.

Well consolation is I got a one week break before my next paper. I'm gonna rest up these two days before continuing with the mugging. Heading for the National Achievers Congress tmr. Missed it today because of the exams. Damn.. Still end up going alone.

And oh yeah, I'm prep-ing up for Shimin's wedding dinner next week. Just bought a pair of pants from G2000 outlet. Lookin forward to it!

Just Hold On For One More Day!

I think all the mugging is starting to get to me. I suddenly have this urge to post a music video on my blog. Ugh.. Talk about randomness..

Anyway the inspiration for this music video came from the other day. I was watching Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and there was this one scene in the SUV where the duo started singing this song. It's freakin hilarious when they did it and somehow the song got stuck and started playing non-stop in my head while I was studying today. Haha.. It's Hold On by Wilson Philips. I had to do some searching on the net before I managed to find the title and artiste. Fantastic song. Enjoy! =)

Inzie the Shih Tzu!

Taking a little time off from all the endless mugging, let me just blog about the little puppy I see everyday. She's none other than Inzie!

Yup that's her. Waiting patiently for food actually. Inzie's a really young puppy, about 6 months old and she's fat. Compared to when she first came to your house about 2 plus months ago, she's grown a whole lot. She's a joy to be with, always wanting people to scratch her tummy. She has the nasty habit of biting people, which hurts sometimes since she's still teething.

Funny thing about her is her protruding lower teeth. You can see it in the picture below. I don't know why but she can't seem to keep her lower teeth in her mouth. Haha.. Cute, ain't it.

Being a puppy and all, she sleeps a lot. Afternoon naps and everything. In fact, I think she spends about half the time sleeping away.

Okay, better get back to studying for the exams!

The Forbidden Kingdom

Right, so I caught the 3rd major Chinese epic last Friday. It was actually a meetup for Junior's birthday but me and Pock decided to let him have some lovey-dovey time with Pei and meetup for a show with the two of them later at night instead.

Five of us (Ju, Pei, Pock, Kelly and me) celebrated and cut a (really) small cake for Ju at Carl's Jr. We forgot Ju didn't eat fruits and bought him a strawberry cake! Ah well 11+ years of friendship says he has to forgive our momentary lapse of judgement. After that, 5 of us (Pock got ps-ed by Emily/Ein/whoever so we had one seat to put our bags!) went to catch the show..

The Forbidden Kingdom

Don't you just absolutely hate it when movies have to be catered to the American audience? This movie is supposed to be a historical tie-up with two kung-fu legends with the setting based in Ancient China and guess what, some lame ang mo has to show up and everybody has to end up speaking English. Talk about ridiculous atrocities. Hey, if we can cater to your American shows featuring endless hordes of ang mos speaking English, you guys should at least have the decency to cater to us as well and speak freakin' Chinese when in China!

Anyway, on to the movie itself, it starts Jet Li and Jackie Chan and the movie is basically about an ang mo kid finding himself as the chosen one to bring Sun Wukong's little stick back to him in order for him to beat up a (bad) heavenly warlord. Ang mo kid starts off not knowing kungfu and gets his ass whipped by other ang mo bullies, zips off to Ancient China, returns stick, beats the crap out of warlord and finally goes back to his own time and proceeds to beat crap out of other ang mo bullies.

Well despite my grievances about the ang mo being in the movie, it's actually a pretty decent show with lots of humour thrown in for good measure. Plot's pretty cliched and the beginning and ending does not do justice to the strong middle part of the story.

Overall, I give this movie 7/10 stars only for being able to watch the two kungfu masters in the same show.

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vPOST Sponsorship Challenge!

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Finally Get to Spend Some Time With...

Kelly!

Today was supposed to spend the whole day with her. It's been quite awhile since I got to spend some quality time with her and I'm glad today panned out fine.

As usual, our plans for the entire day was disrupted last Friday due to the SingPost Sponsorship Briefing (more on that in the next post!) when I learnt that I had to give a briefing today to drum up support for DE Club. But luckily, things managed to turn out fine. Went to school, gave the briefing, attended Econs tutorial then spent the entire day with her.

Well, tmr marks the 8th month we've been together! Time really flies when you're having fun huh. Seems like just yesterday we got together and 8 months have gone by so fast. Will be spending the day with her again. It'll turn out good! =)

Cos Living Final Presentation!

Cos Living did its final presentation yesterday! After weeks of hard work and days of endless nights, Cos Living finally received the highest praise possible from our prof! Prof Andrew asked whether we were serious about starting a business and that he would help us out if we were! Can't believe we managed to pull it off!

Looking back it seemed like only yesterday this group was formed to do this project. We were brainstorming for ideas on what to do for the project but finally settled on the home revamp service company that would eventually be Cos Living. Sebastian joined our group later cause of some disagreements with his previous group. We didn't look back since then. We powered on through the renovation works (you can see them from my previous posts) and rushed to create and print the sales material (special special thanks to Kelly and Ezann for their hard work!) and finally pumped out the powerpoint slides and website (kudos to Yin Mun!). The rest of the gang focused on the report to get everything to gel together.

And we even dressed up according to theme for the presentation! Here's some pictures of us after the presentation. I really liked the outfits! Haha.. Oh yeah, the guy in the first picture is Prof Andrew.

The Cos Living team (clockwise from left): myself, Zun Zin, Zijian, Sebastian, Kelly, Ezann, Yin Mun, Joanne.

As I mentioned earlier, we made many materials for the presentation which costed us a bomb by the way. Materials such as the catalogue, newsletter, namecards, member cards and brochures. The calender made by Kelly was even showcased to other lecture groups!

Here's the video that we prepared for the presentation. A million thanks to ZZ for his hard work one this one!

And of course as usual, ZJ and myself has to take another gay picture. So presenting Gays of Our Lives 2!

It has been really fun working with these guys over the last semester. But it isn't over yet! Report submission is still to come and not forgetting the exams! But of course we'll take a well-deserved break for now. =)

Movie Marathon!

Despite all the rush for the looming project submission deadlines and the dreaded examinations at the end of the month, I still managed to squeeze in time this week to catch 3 movies! Yes, I'm a movie buff and I'm proud of it so sue me.

So let's review them in chronological order shall we?

1. An Empress and The Warriors


Kelly Chen, Donnie Yen and Leon Lai stars in this ancient Chinese epic about a kingdom's battle for supremacy against 9 other kingdoms.

Kelly Chen stars as the Princess who is forced into taking the throne when her father is murdered by his own general in his own camp. Under the supervision of her loyal warrior and childhood friend (Donnie Yen), she undergoes military training in order to lead her kingdom into battle. While training in the forest, she encounters assassins who tries to kill her as part of a coup being staged by the general who killed her father. Fortunately, she is saved by a hermit (Leon Lai) who lives in the forest. Love ensues between the hermit and the princess while trouble within the kingdom erupts to an uncontrollable level.

Personally I think this movie is only so-so. Both Kelly Chen and Donnie Yen's acting chops fail to bring out the best of the movie. The movie's saving grace is Leon Lai but unfortunately, he's being reduced to playing the role of the hermit, who does not really appear till near the middle of the movie. The plot is interesting but pretty predictable.

Overall, I give this movie 6/10 stars.

2. Be Kind Rewind

Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover and Mia Farrow stars in this film which has its' title as a reference to a phrase commonly displayed on VHS tapes during the medium's heyday.

Mike (Mos Def) works in a video rental store called Be Kind Rewind in Passiac, New Jersey. His best friend is Jerry (Jack Black) who lives in a trailer near the video store. Due to the authorities wanting to demolish the store in order to make way for a new building complex, Mr Fletcher, the owner of the rental store, leaves Mike in charge of the store while he goes on a trip to learn how to raise the funds needed to prevent that from happening. While Mr Fletcher is gone, Jerry gets himself magnetised while trying to sabotage a power plant and ends up erasing all the tapes in the store. Realising this, Mike comes up with the idea of making his own versions of movies starring Jerry and himself in order to maintain the trust of Mr Fletcher. During the course of making these movies, many funny events take place which is the crux of the movie itself.

The thing that drew me to watch this movie was the plot. While watching a trailer, I thought the plot was pretty interesting and something that's completely original and not so commerical. I would say the movie starts out slow but draws you in as it progresses along.

I give this movie 7/10 stars.

3. Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon

Starring Andy Lau, Sammo Hung and Maggie Q, this movie is based on the Three Kingdoms era of China's history. It is one of the two Three Kingdom epics coming out this year. The second one being John Woo's Red Cliff, due out middle of the year. On a personal note, I'm a MAJOR fan of the Three Kingdoms. It's such a rush watching my favourite heroes being personified on the big screen!

This movie tells the story of legendary Shu general Zhao Zilong (Andy Lau). For those who reads the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novels, Zhao Zilong is also known as Zhao Yun. The movie starts off with Zhao Zilong signing up with the Shu army at Phoenix Heights. There, he meets Luo Ping An (Sammo Hung) and the duo quickly strikes up a close and personal friendship. Following several undefeated battles and various acts of selfless courage, Zhao Zilong is being promoted to one of the Five Tiger Generals of Shu. Zhao Zilong would eventually meet his end at Phoenix Heights after being surrounded by Wei commander Cao Ying (Maggie Q). Zhao Zilong coming back to Phoenix Heights with Luo Ping An was symolic as the duo had made a promise to travel round the "big circle" together. However, after 35 years in the army, they were still left wondering how far away peace was.

Although this movie is based on the Three Kingdoms, there are certain elements that are fictional, that is it neither happened in history nor did it happen in the novel. For example;

(1) Zhao Zilong never signed up with the Shu army as a foot soldier. He started out as a general under warlord Gongsun Zan but changed sides to Liu Bei after he realised his judgement of Gongsun Zan was misplaced.

(2) Zhao Zilong didn't die on the battlefield. He died of old age.

(3) Zhao Zilong had a family. He had two sons and an adopted son.

(4) Cao Ying's character is completely fictional. Cao Cao's kingdom was succeeded by his son, Cao Pi.

Overall, I give this movie 7/10 stars.

I made a promise to myself at the start of the year that I'm going to catch all 4 major ancient Chinese epics coming out this year. They are An Empress and the Warriors, Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, The Forbidden Kingdom and Red Cliff. I've already caught 2 of them. Now then, 2 more to go!

National Achievers Congress 2008!

Mark 29th April 2008 - 1st May 2008 on your calenders! That's right! The National Achievers Congress (NAC) is back again!

NAC is a two-day event organised by Success Resources and it has been running since 1992 and have seen more than 100,000 people from 6 different countries attend its' seminars. NAC started with a need to assemble world-class experts and professionals in one location to learn, discuss and advance breakthroughs in business competencies to vast audiences at a very affordable price.

This year world-renowned speakers such as Joe Girard, Blair Singer, T. Harv Eker, Roger Hamilton, Adam Ginsberg, Steve Linder and many more have been invited to share their strategies and skill that will make money, grow your incomes and profits in your business and personal life.

Such an oppotunity is worth hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. Don't believe me? Click here and you'll see that the regular tickets are currently going for $230. The price will be increased to $450 as this massive event draws nearer. I'm not even talking about the VIP tickets, which are worth $995! Click here for proof!

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