City of Ember

The movie is quite entertaining. More of a kid's fantasy movie. No much of violence and action. Story is that the earth surface was not sustainable any more for human to live due to Nuclear Contamination, hence the Builders have created an Underground City named Ember to hold the humans until the time they can emerge back to earth.

This is also based on a Theory of ancient time where we humans also lived in underground for quite some time due to some catastrophe.

Over all the movie is quite okay, but not great.

Tipping Point, Uprising and Eat Your Heart Out

Finished 3 books in 3 months.

Tipping Point describe how little things with enough followers or momentum, can lead to something significant enough to be noticed and even become dominant. Every thing starts from tiny, and with enough effort to promote it from different side with specific function (trend setters, promoters, advertisers, and the mass public), when it reach the Tipping Point, it just explode. But trends might stay and go, all depends on how to maintain it.


The Uprising is about how USA citizen start to organize to push for their social rights and keep the big corporations and government in check. They put pressure on the Government and Corporation to be responsible towards society.
Quite interesting as we can see, with the power of Internet and modern technology, organizing have been much much easier. This books introduce us to the ongoing Populist (supporter of the rights and power of the people) action in USA.


This book is very related to my line of work. The author is well known and influential food journalist in UK. The book expose on how big food company evolves, and how they operate in order to maximize their profit. And by doing so at the expense of the society, humanity and environment. Especially I am in the food trade, this book really showed me some points from another perspective.

What happened to the Shoppers?

Over the weekend, I was in Pavilion, The Gardens/Midvalley and KLCC. The crowd was lower than expected. It was totally different from a month or 2 ago. Especially lesser Chinese Shoppers.

Is the Global Recession started to affect Malaysia? Are the Malaysians started to tie their belts?

Speaking of Belt, I just broke mine due to overtighening it. Must have gain in waistline.

BIG STAN

This is one hilarious movie. Just for laughs and entertainment. Story about a real estate con-man being sentenced to jail for 3 years. He got a 6 months preparation period before going into prison. Due to his small stature, he is afraid that he will be target of gay rape in the prison. He learned martial art from a mysterious master, and prepare for the worst in prison.

Very "无哩头". But sometimes vulgar crude sex humor. I wonder Malaysia is showing this movie?

Wall-E (2008/8/23)

This movie is really fantastic!! It was released 2 months ago in the USA, and finally in Malaysia. Singapore opens next week though. I brought my girl friend and sister to watch it in Pavilion KL on 23rd August.

The sequence of the story is flawless, visual is totally out of this world. And the message & lessons brought by this movies is really important. Save our planet!! The Robots are really cute and they are more alive than the humans.

Well... I beg you guys not to miss this movie on the big screen!!

5 Movies I watched 7/14-7/20

Too Long in India, hence treat myself to some movie therapy. Below are the 5 movies I watched in ranking.
No.1 Spot: Dark Knight
One of the best movie of 2008. Heath Ledger stole the lime lite for this movie. He deserves an Oscar. Harvey Dent, the District Attorney who eventually became 2-Face also very good. Over all, all the actors did well. The movie is very well edited, 2 and half hours passed by unnoticed.
I am waiting for the Complete DVD Version, then I will sit back, relax and enjoy the movie comfortably in the house.






No 2. Hellboy 2 : The Golden Army
The special effects and characters designs is already worth the ticket. And as an avid Hellboy Fan, I enjoyed the movie, but not the Hellboy Character. The movie version of Hellboy Character is a bit sissy IMO. And the movie suggested an impossible matter: Demon impregnate a human woman. I wish they would have not think of such sick thing.









No 3. Hancock

A hero movie with a different approach. I enjoyed this movie. Charlize Theron and Will Smith delivered good acting, and a lesson in love.

No. 4 Red Cliff

A bit too long and lavishly done. Nice dialogs. But some parts are historically incorrect though. Intimate scene was cut in Singapore, but all the other gruesome violent scenes are intact. Hope part 2 will be better.

No.5 Wanted
Wanted: My ticket money back. This movie really insulted my intelligence: normal bullets that can travel curve lines (even circular line). Avoid this at all cause.

Biz Trip to India 6/24-7/13

A very long Biz Trip this time to India. Managed to go to a forest sanctuary park for wild life. The chances of seeing live tiger here is almost certain, but due to the monsoon starting and the road condition in the park was affected by the rain, we could not go into deeper forest, and missed our chance to watch live tiger.

Well, that was the best part of the trip, other days are work work work. Starting to get tired... miss my Subway Sandwiches, Movies and usual city life. At least I will get in total USD1,000 as pockect money.

Well, one more week to go. Hope to get the best out of it!!