"Eighteen Hundred Billion Billion!"

Well peeps, sorry for the lack of posting. It's not that I don't have anything to write about, it's just that when it comes to the actual process of typing it all down... I get stuck. Inspiration has the tendency to nag me in the back of my head when I'm not near the laptop, and disappears completely whenever I'm on the Internet.

Nuts to that.

Anywayy, there are two TV shows that I'm absolutely crazy about at the moment! For those of you with payTV, you may have heard of these shows, and for those of you without... well, here's to hoping you're overseas, because everyone NOT in Malaysia has access to better TV programming.

The first is The IT Crowd.

It's about the misadventures of two IT department nerds, Roy and Moss, and their manager, Jen (who knows absolutely jack about technology), with occasional appearances from the basement live-in Goth, Richmond, and their new-in-this-season extremely eccentric boss Douglas.

The first episode was okay, but the show really picks up as it goes along. If you've got some time to kill, do check out the clips below:



Same one as above, but longer:
Breaking The Internet

From the first episode, if I'm not mistaken.

And my personal favourite. This is the episode where Douglas comes in.

[I'd embed the vids themselves, but the good ones have "Embedding disabled by request". Retards. Oh well, click if you wanna ^^]

The second is Chowder.

Also about misadventuring, the show is about Chowder, a bear-cat-rabbit apprentice chef who really loves eating. Together with his mentor Mung Daal, Mung's wife Truffles, and pro chef Schnitzel, each episode involves them cooking up stuff, although some episodes revolve around the background characters.

What I REALLY love about the show, is Chowder himself. See below:

Note: The second and third pictures are related.

LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS!!

Storyline-wise, it's mediocre, but there ARE some really good episodes. And Chowder is too cute beyond words! Also, a "Best Of" video below. And YES TO EMBEDDING!

My favourite part is at 0:28. The subsequent pink bunny is Panini, who digs Chowder.

Enjoy! :)

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

[Sorry for the belated post. Totally forgot I've yet to put it up here.]

Saw this one on opening night; rushed back from work to do it. Teeheehee.

So, the basic premise for the second movie is that our boy Sam has a bit of the AllSpark imprinted into his mind (kinda like Chuck), and now has to deal with The Fallen, who's Megatron's big boss. And by the way, Megatron's also back.

In my personal and humble opinion, I thought this movie was pretty awesome.

Sure, some of the camera work was crap (that bit with Sam and Mikaela before he leaves for college LITERALLY revolving around them? Not cool), and for some parts you couldn't see the bots transforming properly because the camera was too close to them, and most of the time you couldn't tell the difference between the Decepticons because of their bland coloring, but overall it was a fun ride.

With a lot more Transforming robots second time around (especially on the Autobot side) and more Bot cameos you can shake a finger at, there are a lot of fight scenes in this movie, something I'm not complaining about. The only thing I feel could've been longer is the fight between Optimus and The Fallen. Major fight like that should be longer than 10 minutes.

And plus, old = Egypt now? Yes, we get that The Fallen came to Earth many, many thousand years ago, but seriously, ever since The Mummy, old things made to look Egyptian is SO clichéd now.

Anyway, for a summer movie, Transformers 2 is really worth your ticket in the theatres. Just don't think too much of the plot (and how some bits of funny are really NOT necessary), and you'll have a great time :)

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UPDATE!

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been meaning to post more on the Melbourne trip, but I've been VERY exhaustedbusy these days.

ARGH!

And I have to totally recharge my camera, but I can't even FIND it at the moment (or the wire connector-thingy, whenever the universe feels like it), so I'm afraid the Melbourne posts will have to be delayed MUCH longer.

:'(

And I see I haven't put up my review for Transformers 2 yet. Oh dear, the backlog I've caused...

Transformers: The Revenge of The Fallen will be up tomorrow or something. I'm feeling quite unburdened this weekend :D

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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

G.I. Joe was totally awesome! But... I'm all for action movies, so in terms of that, this movie did really well by me.

[I actually cringed when I heard my coworkers talk about watching The Proposal and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past today. I must be turning butch. Ugh.]

*choi*

As with all action movies, storyline takes a backseat, though so far, I can't really think of anything wrong with continuity and the usual nitpicky stuff I go through, except that the Baroness sounded like she had an English accent in the beginning, then progressed to an American one for the rest of the movie.

Having already known who's playing the eventual Cobra Commander, and having seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt since The Powers That Be, I totally shat a brick during Duke's (Channing Tatum) flashback sequence, where it turns out that Duke knew the CC, and he was actually the Baroness' biological brother!

When my eyebrows go to the top of my hairline, that means that I'm VERY surprised. For this, my jaw dropped. Just did not see that one coming.

That aside, one of the reason why I loved G.I. Joe was because of the actors. No, I'm not referring to the main cast, not that they were awful or anything.

I'm referring to the supporting cast, some of which came from one of my favourite movie series, The Mummy.

[And by that, I mean the first two. The third one is too shiteous to be included. Plus, it wasn't in Egypt.]

You got Brendan Fraser, ImhotepArnold Vosloo(!!), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kevin J. O'Connor (for like, 10 seconds, but still!), actors whom I loved in The Mummy movies, and whom I haven't seen in quite a long while (except Fraser, 'cuz he was in the crappylast one, and Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who was on Lost for a while).

I got a HUGE kick outta seeing them. They should've brought Oded Fehr in as well :]

[And Jonathan Pryce has already played TWO Presidents; one in this movie, and the other was Juan Peron. I don't know whether he's played more or not, though, but I thought it's a fun fact to share :)]

Anyway, the special effects looked really cool, although it got video-gamey near the end, what with all the underwater fighting and all. For some reason, I was okay with that, seeing as I got pissed when The Scorpion King literally looked like the end-level Boss in the second Mummy movie.

Final verdict: Loved it. A sequel is already announced, but not sure whether Stephen Sommers will be back or not.


[By the way peoples, I saw the trailer for A Perfect Getaway before the movie. You know the couple the cops are looking for? I'm guessing it's Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich, since Zahn is a more of a comedy actor, and audiences will be BLOWN AWAY when it turns out he's a psychopath. I'm not even gonna bother Wiki-ing this.]

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It's not about what you know...

...but who you know.

Sorry for the distinct lack of updates, just been busy with work the past couple of weeks. But, surprisingly, this time my apology is related to my post.

Only by way of category.

My application was rejected by Ernst & Young. Again.

I'd submitted one in April, got the generic Keep-In-View letter, and since my friends at work were called for interviews (TWO of them), I figured I'd give it another try and submit it again.

That was the first week of July-ish. I got the KIV letter again yesterday.

Granted, my application got in much later than everyone else's, and my theory is that EY hires every two months, which means my application was sent in much later than my friends', and thus, very most probably late for the August round.

I'm not saying that I'm entirely blameless in the matter.

But the least they could've done was to call me for an interview.

I heard from a friend that you stand a better chance of getting called (but not sure about hired) if you know someone on the inside, and get them to pass your resume on. He even went on to say that that was the case with a former classmate of ours, and subsequently, a few others.

It's like a chain letter, I feel.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect candidate (requirements on website state that co-curricular activitieswell-roundedness is of the essence, something of which I'm not).

But, I'd be lying if I said I was a lousy student.

I've never flunked a paper during my three years. The lowest mark I've received for a paper is 59, for Auditing, which is very ironic since I'm trying to make a career out of it (I'm not saying I've worked out the kinks yet, but I'm confident enough to say that I'm definitely better than I was before). I'm on the Dean's Merit List for 2009, and have a Distinction average.

So why is it that I have had NO REPLY, (or in EY's case, NO CALL) whatsoever from ANY of the Big 4 organisations?

The fact I have not been participating in out-of-school activities doesn't mean I suck at life. It doesn't hurt my mental capacity in any way, nor does it affect my physical self, or my health, or my happiness, even.

So I don't join clubs and societies. So what if I'm a bookworm.

Would that make me less than capable of carrying out my job?
I mean, it's two times already I didn't get called, you'd think I still haven't graduated yet.

even non-graduates stand a better chance of getting called than i do

For those who excel in studies and Outside Activities, hat's off to you all. For now, I'm hardly in your league, and I'm not being sarcastic here.
For those who just have Outside Activities, when pecking order's concerned, well, it's a tad bit unfair for the rest of us who just have studies, donchathink?

I will be sending in another job application maybe end of next week, since it's only beginning of August, and my previous application would still be, well, rather fresh. Maybe then, I'd be early (or considered to be early) enough for the October round.

If I had a friend working in EY, I'd be an AABS Associate by now.

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