How To Prevent and Recognize Symptoms Of Swine Flu

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Moore's Law

Same holds true with PCs. The page for driver support for my laptop is no longer available, and it's not even her birthday (or purchase-day)!

Tips for the Malaysian Football Coach

I believe, if Malaysia wants to enter the World Cup, the coach should consider combining the National Squad with the National Gymnastics Squad. For a faster results, they should be replaced with the gymnasts altogether.

That is, if our gymnasts can be as cool as this chick:


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Why I Didn't Watch Remp-it and Bohsia

Translated from here.

I have a confession. Durign my secondary school days I have read pornography novels or literatures. I didn't bought those, and I don't remember whose it was, but I definitely have read them. In fact, I was caned once when somebody intruded my locker and took a friend's porn comic that I was holding.

But this post is not about that. Well, I haven't read such literature for ages. Those days are gone.

It's just, recently a friend asked me why I didn't go and watch Bohsia: Jangan Pilih Jalan Hitam.

I love to watch movies, but at times I'm a bit choosy. It doesn't matter if it's local or foreign. I try not to exit the cinema hall feeling stupified. That's why I try not to watch Prof Razak Mohaideen's films. I can't accept his storytelling. To me, it's cliched and cheap.

But Bohsia, and Remp-it is not Prof's. And I still cannot stomach those. Why? Because to me, they're similar to the porn novels that I told you about. Not because these films have sexual acts, but to me, these films are showing lewd and negative scenes but hiding behid a "message". The same goes to the porn novels i read before (I'm not sure about now, but I think they are still being sold).

To those never reading these kind of novels, let me explain. Either the novel is a compilation of stories or just one, mostly follows the same storyline. It starts with introducing the main character, for example a naive kampung girl who's in lust. Next, the story will explain how s/he met the second main character (a porn story must at least have 2 character, right? Never come across one with only 1 character). Then briefly the journey of these character is told up to the point they're having sex. 

This is the main point of the story. It can take up to 90% of the thickness of the book. Some goes on and explains the actions in detail, while some gives just enough hints for the reader to start imagining.

Then, the story goes on to say that the main character regrets, either by him/herself or after something happened. But sometimes, there's a sequel, but in similar format.

If you have watched Remp-it and Bohsia (I have more or less watched Remp-it, but not Bohsia yet), please tell me if the formula above is used? A noticed in Remp-it the porn novel formula is used. It is said to tell us a message, that anyone in the illegal racing world will pay. But think about this. Which part of the movie gives an impact? When the hero dies in the end (sorry, spoiler) or when he was racing?

Maybe someone out there is saying that I'm a bit biased. That I'm only targeting local films, but ignoring foreign ones. In my defense to me foreign movies are more truthful, in this case. They don't have the need to fulfill any ethics obligations as much as ours, so that even if a negative movie have a moral-of-the-story, it'll not be used as a reason to get a G (General) or PR (Parental Guidance) rating. In fact, some even strive to achieve the R (Restricted) rating to pull in the adult crowd.

If the bloodlessly boring Wolverine can get a PG13 rating, while Remp-it which is the hero of the mat rempits can get a U rating, maybe solely because of the 'message' that they want to convey? And now, Bohsia seems to use similar strategy (although it's rated 18PL). It's true this genre draws more crowd, maybe because (as told to me by my friends who watched it in the cinema) the crowd is mainly those who are close to the subject. If you don't believe me, ask the cinemas to prepare a place to put helmets outside the cinema halls, and see for yourself how many mat motors (maybe even bohsias and mat rempits) are there.

When It's Hot Outside, Who Do You Call?

In order to help end or shorten this dry spell we Klang Yalleyians are experiencing, Farrah and I contributed our effort to help bring in some rain with our special duo combo rain-calling ceremony. Location of ceremony is however, kept hidden to evade panic.\

This News Made My Day!!

I can't believe how this stereotypical news can really crack me up, while making me type this in an awkward seating position. Similar to the position when I watch nuts being cracked on railings when some skaters tumble.

Tuesday May 5, 2009
Secretary accidentally bites off boss’ penis

A SECRETARY accidentally bit off the penis of her employer while giving him oral sex in a car.

Sin Chew Daily and China Press reported yesterday that while the 30-year-old woman was performing oral sex on the man, the car was hit by a reversing van.

The impact of the crash, China Press reported, caused the woman to bite off her lover’s organ.

The daily reported that the incident occurred in a Singapore park where the couple met after work.

To make matters worse for the woman, her husband had sent a private investigator to spy on her after suspecting that she was being unfaithful.

The investigator said he had followed the woman and her boss to the park.

“On reaching the park, they did not alight from the car. Not long after, the car started to shake violently.

After the car was hit by the van, there was a loud scream from the woman whose mouth was covered with blood,” he said.

The woman later followed her lover to the hospital with part of the sexual organ.

The investigator, who called an ambulance to send the man to hospital, said that this was the first time he had encountered such an incident.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

If I could sum up this review into 1 sentence I would say this: My comic graphic novel loving friend was sleeping 3 quarter of the movie.

Yes, it was that boring.

And to make it worse many of the audience have gone and watched the production version of the leaked out of Fox studios before the movie's been treated for special effects. Not that it would matter anyways. The effects, by Hollywood's, or even X-Men's standard, is cheap.

Let me just go on and tell you what I think is wrong with the movie, and then, just to give hope, tell you what it did right.

First of all, the storytelling was straightforwardly boring, with predictability at an average of 10 minutes ahead. It means, while watching the movie, you can predict not just it's ending, but even the subsequent scenes. 

And to make it worse, Director Gavin Hood, and writer Skip Woods and David Benioff decides to add lines that describes what's going to happen in the next scenes. So much for twist and surprises.

The only character I believe is worth mentioning, is Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) and Ryan Reynolds (Wade/Deadpool). I know it's not that Ryan gave a standing ovation kind of acting or rather, but I just love the guy. He's on the same page as Brendan Fraser in my dictionary. 

Okay.. let's move on. X-Men's strength have always the effects off the powers the mutants have, not entirely dependant on the story (although X1 and X2 have a pretty decent storyline). However, in Wolverine, None of the effects work! Except for Wolverine's claw, but even so there are some scenes where it looks painted on.

While the actual stunts looks pretty much passable and sometimes real, most of the wireworks and special effects won't fool even the casual viewers. This is a shame since X-Men have brought forward one of the most beautiful and complex morphing scene (Mystique), one of the coolest teleportation scene (Nightcrawler), and managed to bring some excitement in X2 when there was a glimpse of Pheonix underwater. X3 did kill off some of the excitement, but then, the floating bridge scene alone managed to save the day.

Heck, some even looked like it's superimposed on a Windows XP wallpaper.

I give it a Wol-Boring 2/5

Worse Than Useless

What's worse than bein useless is being useless and late.