My rating:

I'm not sure if many people have heard of this movie. It came out recently. I was trying to catch it on GV Max but apparently it's only shown in small cinema hall. So I was guessing it's not that popular here. But it does receive a very high rating in IMDB (8.5 from 84K users). Inglorious Basterds was good. I think it's artistically cruel. hahaha I wonder if I can describe it that way but that was definitely how I felt. From all the scenes that I like, there was one scene that really awed me. It gave you a suspense and anticipation that something might happen, but nothing happened. So you wait, wait... then it did happened! Then you were like "yes I knew it! it's happening" but before, you could exclaim that in your head, you went "WTF!?"... it's over. Awesome, isn't it? It gives you what u expect in an unexpected manner. And it's true in those time. Things just happen out of the blue, end in a flash, leaving all the survivors startled at what happened.

Well I don't know how to go on without spoiling the movie. So yeah, check this out! You'd probably love it for the ending. Well if you have some German or world war history knowledge that is.

My rating:

Was it as good as rumored? No. Was is good? Quite. Worth watching? Yes. Then again, every 3D is worth watching to me. So well yes, doesn't really mean anything. :P The animation was really good. Duh! Well, that's the problem. The animation was really good but it's a not surprise because it's expected. If the CG was bad, people will boo. Otherwise, we'd just agree that Pixar is living up to it's standard. I have to admit that it's pretty hard to be amazed by great animation nowadays. Why? Because everybody just has it. Unlike in the past, good animation is much easier to achieve nowdays or at least, we think so. Hence, now, great animation is taken for granted that it's a given when going for a 3D movies. And trust me, normal movie goers wouldn't notice that minor difference that the studio put so much effort in, or neither would they give a damn about it. Therefore, it all comes down to great plot. And for, I didn't think the plot in UP was that great.

My rating:

If there is 2.5 stars, I'd give it 2.5. G.I. Joe is definitely a disappointment for me. It's not that it's that bad. It's just that I was hoping for so much more from it. This again just proves that you can never really expect too much out of something. Just like what happens with Chun Li and Dragonball Evolution. However, in this case, it's not that bad. Well let's cut the chase. My problem with G.I Joe is that first of all, the flashbacks take too much of the movie time. Definitely it's quite a good thing for people who has never follow the cartoon before. But for those who did, it would become a waste of time. Actually, I kinda wonder if those flashback really make any difference.

Another problem is that, to me, G.I. Joe differs itself from a superhero series by injecting the element of war. They're not just fight a villians they're fighting the their armies too. Quite obviously, I didn't get that war feeling from the movie, more or less at all. In fact if I recall, most of the time, they only highlight the main guys fighting and they weren't even really fighting together along side. It feel more individual. Everybody has something to deal with somebody. Thus, it's not massive enough.

I also had an issue with the casting (or acting or maybe the directing? not sure which is which). All the characters look damn cool! but not fierce at all. They acted fierce in the movie obviously but it all felt like they're acting tough and fierce while looking cool. Even Snake-eye wasn't that awesome as I was hoping it to be. Everything just looks to cool to be scary. Hence, there's no thrill. I think if they made this a more war-like theme would be better than going with the X-Men / Transformer theme. Well again, this is just personal preference.

After all that is said, G.I. Joe is still worth checking out for the cool elements, the hot suits, and probably,Channing Tatum (for the girls).

If you've been learning English for quite some time, you'd probably have heard of this saying that when a friend ask you for a fish, if you really want to help him, you will teach him how to fish instead of giving him a fish. Well, there something along this line is all languages I think, at least it does in mine. I used to really agree with the saying but now I no longer do.

The answer is very obvious in university. You can observe it everywhere. When asked for a fish, and you're trying to help him by teaching him how to fish. He'd tell you he doesn't have time to learn how to fish. By the time he knows how to fish, he probably won't need the fish anymore, which is quite true if you think about it. This does happen to me quite a number of times. Another problem that I observe is that most people think that "I probably won't need this fish in the future, why the hell should I learn how to fish? I would just forget it anyway if I don't practice it." Again this does make sense. Meanwhile, some would thing that "fishing" is too complicated and troublesome too learn, they'd rather not going through the trouble for something that's not really that useful to them. The bottom line is I want fish! you give  me or I ask somebody else.

So well gruadually, I learned to adapt and drop that saying out of my head. They don't want your selflessness, they want your fish. So yes, be selfish and sell the fish. You'd be surprised that people will pay for it, instead of learning it for free. Everybody is always too busy for something they don't give a sh*t about.

Well, I'm not sure if you have ever been annoyed by your friends on Facebook. If you have, I'm not sure what they did to annoy you. Well, but this so far the first time I had this happen on my Facebook. I wasn't annoyed though since I wasn't really pay attention to my feed and I don't really know the guy as well. However, when I did notice it, I thought that his real life friends would be quite annoyed if they see this lolx. Anyway what is that? see below:

Cartmen would say, "Seriously dude. what the f$#%!? Who gives a sh*t about Hancock." He basically update his status as the movie goes -__-. Is he really watching the movie or just find sth to status-updating about. Man, somebody should stop him getting near Twitter. Either he really wanna show off his Facebook-enable mobile or he simply has DFA syndrome (Depserate For Attention). Either way, I don't give a sh*t. I'm more interested in the fact that I just realize that you could actually use this to really annoy the hell out of ppl. Imagine you status updating everything u do the whole day. It would go down sth like this:

Kira Hikaru just woke up.
Kira Hikaru realized he's late for work.
Kira Hikaru is rushing.
Kira Hikaru damn I forgot my keys.
Kira Hikaru is pissed off again with the morning crowd.
Kira Hikaru finally got on the MRT but standing with one leg. Damn you morning crowd!
Kira Hikaru zzZZZ...
Kira Hikaru ......

lol and this goes on the whole damn day. Imagine if you're one of those peeps who look at Facebook every now and then, you would seriously drop a comment even if you won't want to.

These are the two thing that came into my mind today.

Truth

If all the truths in the world are revealed, nobody will be debating anymore. Everybody will be fighting.
If everybody tells the truth, the world will be boring. We want to know the truth but to hear lies.

Originality

After millions of years, do you still think that whatever you do or say nobody in the world has ever done it before?
You're original if you patent it before the first guy does.

hahah sth really good happened made me wanna take study break and come back here to rant about sth again. This time it's about the worst project I've had since entering university.

In this particular project of mine, we have it all. Failed leadership, poor communication, miscommunication, free rider, weak personnel, wishful thinking, conflicts among members, and needless to say, zero teamwork. You name and the project has it. However, it didn't really bother me because I knew this was gonna happen at the earlier stage of the project, though I have to admit that I didn't expect it to be this bad.

In a project, usually people prefer to work on their own and not to have to much collaboration with people (well, at least that's how it is in my course and all the electives classes I've taken). Then at the end of the day, they'll come together once and for all to integrate what they've done individually into the final piece for submission. Well, that only works if your project doesn't require regular integration and correlation across all sections. When you're working on a project that equates to a 4AUs subject, that completely doesn't apply. My current project is a perfect example of that. Well don't get me wrong here. "Doesn't apply" here doesn't mean you won't get good grade. If you say your sole goal of doing a project is to get good grades then you can stop reading this post.

Scoring should be only be the team's short term goal and one of the project's objectives. Learning is however the true aim of it. Again before I could go on, a bunch of people would rebut that we do learn sth. Learn what? Like how to write report? how to design cover page? how to program a software? to make a website? how to apply our lecture into our project? Well honestly, if that's what each of us would learn every time we do a project, then the idea of project has failed completely. Again, I began to sound like a real smart ass here. I mean who the hell don't know the potically correct answer that the whole idea of project work is to let us learn about teamwork, leadership, blah blah blah. But what exactly did you learn?

You see, usually when u try asking a person what he learned after completing a project. He'd go, "I learned how to work in team.", "I learn how to handle leadership.", "I learn that teamwork is important in life."  or sth along those lines. This is why I like to listen to real leader talk. If you pay attention to them, real good leader/ team worker they don't boast about how great a leader they are neither they would say anything about knowing leadership and teamwork. Come on, this is like a small school project that barely simulate anything in a working society. If you say u alrd can learn how to handle teamwork and leadership just by doing a few projects in school. I think that's pure rubbish.

With that said, there is where I have say that I'm glad to have such a screwed up project. It makes the learning points of the project more obvious and easier to pick up. Imagine if all your projects were to go smoothly and peacefully, you would never really know what could've gone wrong, would you? In fact, I spend more time reflecting on the project than doing the project itself. One of the things I asked myself most frequently during the course of this project is "out of all the many causes to the failure of this project, which one would I say is the key cause to everything?" Some people would think that it's a dumb question because it's so rethorical. "Isn't it obvious that it's failed leadership?" Well that's the thing. I feel that we are so blinded by the institution teaching and society's over emphasis on leadership that people automically assume leadership is the key to everything. I mean some people don't even know why leadership is crucial, and just know that it is. So many people told us so that we agreed to it without condition. Then when you're put in the a leader position, you'll start questioning yourself what exactly is important about leadership in a team or an organization? And only when you manage to make it work through your leadership then you have the right to agree that leadership is really the key and is crucial.

Omg! I think I watch too much nigahiga that I start to have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) also. I just realize I just rambled all over the place and haven't really made any point. Well my point is.... my project sucks big time!! Teehee!!