Uncle Toby's. Even though the muesli part looked a bit like mashed-up puke (it had chocolate chips as well), it tasted lovely.
Just gotta NOT look at the bar while you eat =]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Had my first ever muesli bar today...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Number 23 (2007)
I saw this movie a few weeks back; thought I'd share :)
It's about this guy who discovers that his life is mirrored in the book (aptly titled The Number 23) that his wife buys him for his birthday. His life begins to unravel as he, like the main character in the book, begins to see numerical variations of the number 23 everywhere.
Four words: Great concept, draggy execution.
Despite not liking Numb3rs, I'm a Math geek, and I've been looking forward to the movie (on TV anyways) for a while now. Although it's very interesting to see Jim Carrey's life go to pieces and him not getting any worthwhile answers, it was a bit slow at first, and things only picked up from the middle onwards.
For one thing, the dog was kinda pointless. I get that whole 'Guardian of the Undead' thing, but I felt it wasn't necessary. Walter could've gotten to know about Laura Tollins without said dog getting in the way that often. Hence, the end quote ""Be sure that your sins will find you out."
Also, why would Virginia Madsen (who plays Carrey's wife) be having a knife in her purse?? I was wondering whether it'd come from the old guy who committed suicide (he slit his own throat), but it doesn't make sense that way because she'd have to wipe the BLOOD off the knife first before putting it in her bag, and that's withholding evidence. If she'd wanted to protect herself, she could've gotten a GUN (which, in movies like these, are always conveniently at hand off-screen) from Danny Huston or something. That would be more effective than a knife.
As I mentioned before, I loved the concept, but the movie itself was TOO complicating (yeah, I can't believe I typed that either) to the point that some bits didn't make sense. Plus, the ending was a bit of a let-down, since the movie was really intense once it got into the swing of things.
EDIT: I just realised something. My flight was on April 19th. 19 + 4 = 23.
*cue music from Psycho*
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Melbourne postings in a bit!
I'll be posting on my Melbourne trip (with piccies and such) in a few days, since my CPA exam is on Thursday. Busy, busy, busy...
[I be Bigfoot. I no likey takey photos of myself-ey.]
Guess who's back?
[Back again. Piggy's back. Tell a friend.]
Rap aside, I just found out that Aussie TV > Malaysian TV.
Majorly.
Even though I was in Melbourne for close to a year, I didn't have the chance to check out the shows on TV, mainly because:
- The TV is downstairs (I've an upstairs room);
- I don't know how to work the remote to work the TV;
- Some time around the middle of the year, it only had ONE channel;
- It snows in the TV;
- My housemates who LIVE DOWNSTAIRS hog said TV; and
- The TV is downstairs (as you can see, an important factor)
As we all know, Malaysia has very strict standards for censorship, whereas other countries (like Australia, f'rinstance) have little to none.
[These countries go up in the 'cool' scale a bit more.]
I'm not sure how regular TV in Australia's like, but I think we got a few of the 'paid subscription' ones in the hotel (hence, TV awesomeness), and below are my observations (between paid TV and paid TV):
[Note: Observations are based on American and UK TV, and not local content.]
- On weekdays, there are two-three episodes of Everbody Loves Raymond, two of which are back-to-back (on channel 7, I think), and one at 9pm on Fox 8. Seinfeld also has two timeslots during the week, if I remember correctly.
- There is Frasier at 9.30pm, also on Fox 8, every single weekday of the week (except Friday)
- They have Family Guy
- Their Lost is so much more updated than ours. I feel even more LOST than ever (geddit?geddit?)
- Their Cartoon Network have loads more awesome cartoons than ours. I love Tom and Jerry as much as the next person, but too many old cartoons (like Road Runner, Pink Panther etc.) had made me go boom. AusCN has animé at night (KamehameHAAAA!!) plus they aired Jurassic Park (as in, non-animation!1!) during their CN Movie line-up.
- They have Letterman
- TV actually made me NOT want to gamble (we stayed near the casino)
- They air tournaments from the World Poker Tour.And I understood how the game was played!!1!one
- Family Guy
[I'm looking at you TV2. Thanks for airing 3rd Rock From The Sun at 12.30am, and shifting Dexter up to 11.30am. And you wonder why nobody watches your channel.]
Which reminds me, why is Guinevere so, well, hideous? I only realised this when I saw the promos for Merlin while abroad. I know she's supposed to be a maid in this one, but she ACTUALLY looks like one. She doesn't look queenly AT FRIGGIN' ALL! I get that they're shaking up and revamping Merlin's story, but Guinevere is supposed to be BEAUTIFUL, that's why Arthur and Lancelot wanted her. I mean, I get the casting if Arthur and Lancelot aren't attractive, but they are. Don't tell me that there aren't any other PRETTIER English black actresses. Whatever happened to Marsha Thomason?
Also, despite loving Math, Numb3rs bored the shit out of me. Read More......
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Hello, Singapore!!
That is all.
[This is a bit late, since it'd be cooler if I'd done this when I first touched down last Sunday. Oh well.]
["Hello, Melbourne!!" is WAAAAYYY overdue. Couldn't find free wifi access, and when found, totally forgot about doing said post.]
Saturday, April 18, 2009
In the papers today...
...I saw my former Physics tuition teacher get name-dropped.
It was in a grand procession to celebrate the 1049th birthday of Mazu, Goddess of the Sea.
Based on his comment in the papers, does this mean that he doesn't curse the students in his tuition class to fail their SPM that often any more?
[lol]
I jest in good fun. Without him, I wouldn't have gotten A1's for my Physics and Chemistry papers.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Ever heard of Yu-Gi-Oh!?
I think I've mentioned a few times that I was catching up on the animé last year, plus some occasional throw-ins that I'm a huge fan of the Abridged series.
Yu-Gi-Oh! is a bit like Pokémon. Just replace the little cute pocket monsters with little cute monster summoning cards, and you have yourself a show where teenagers (plus adults) play a children's card game to solve major crises (like saving the world, f'rinstance. Or battling supernatural elements).
YGO! Abridged was pretty much the first to gain an ass-ton of fans, and the series, I feel, is unparalleled (except for Avatar and Yu Yu Hakusho. I've tried, I still don't like Naruto). Its creator, Little Kuriboh, just made this song parody of Eminem's Without Me.
All the names in the first part of the third verse are Animé Abridged creators. Lanipator (from earlier) does YYH Abridged.
[Yay, he didn't mention Gan Xingba :D]
I'm not a fan of rap, but this song is currently stuck in my head. And I'm loving it.
EDIT: I believe this clip would explain the end of the video above ^^
I love reruns.
Without them, I wouldn't have caught this Jimmy Kimmel gem of a repeat.
Close to ending his interview with Calista Flockhart, where either Jimmy or the guest would introduce a short related clip, Jimmy said, "Do you want to set the clit up– clip up?"
RO-Fucking-L!
[Luckily my mom wasn't in the room at the time. AWK-WAARD...]
Fellow dirty-minders, check out the video below to see him slip up. Those with pure thoughts untainted, clickie over here to find out what "clit" means, then watch the video below.
[Yay, YouTube!]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
On the radio today...
...Jensen Ackles' was mentioned.
The girl was telling her co-host (who doesn't know about him, by the way) how hot he was ('chyeah, duh!), and how she had to Google the guy up, and goes on to say that he was on Days of our Lives as Eric Something.
Really... Days of our Lives? We don't even GET that here.
I think if she said straight out that Jensen was on Supernatural, her co-host would have a pretty good idea who that was, since he is a guy, and Supernatural has monsters and the occasional hot demon chick in it.
Seriously, just because they're both radio people doesn't mean they don't have time for pop culture. I mean, who hasn't heard of Supernatural??
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Dexter = <3
So I'm currently hooked onto Dexter, which is about a serial killer who has a day job in the Miami PD as a forensic blood spatter tech. He's emotionless, and he only kills bad guys who got away.
It's quite fun, really.
The show is currently in its third season over in the States, but knowing how S-L-O-W local TV is, we're just beginning Season 2.
Just to recap, Season 1 revolved around the Ice Truck Killer, who leaves chopped-up, bloodless (literally!), dead hookers for the PD to solve. Dexter gets in on it because the Ice Truck dude basically challenged the guy (as in Dex) when he left him a naked Barbie doll (with thin red ribbons to signify blood/cut marks) in Dex's fridge.
[Plus, I find Christian Camargo kinda cute. It's a bit weird.]
I don't want to spoil TOO much, but the excrement really strikes the propeller in the season finalé. That's how good I think the first season was.
I'm currently getting into the second season, where they're investigating Dexter (even though they don't know it yet), when people find the ass-ton of bad guys that Dex had dumped into the ocean.
So far, it's been interesting, but not as intriguing and gripping as the first season. I was hoping for another killer of Mr Ice Truck's calibre (or better) to go around whacking people in Miami. That would've been cool.
A bit tired, but cool.
Online vids, here I come.
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