lions for lambs

i have now get to know why this movie...lions for lambs get high profile actress and actors to play their roles in the movie....proud to say they were academy award winners...meryl steep, tom cruise and robert redford as he is also the director of the movie...these stars are selected was understood by me is to strengthen persuasion among the general public...as there were different parties playing different roles...tom as mayor irving...is responsible in US's effort of their project of war on terrorism...irving was trying to justify the reason and excuse on why there is a need for US to fulfill and finish the war against terror...while meryl is playing the role of a senior journalist known as janin...who was writing mostly about irving...about US's effort in the war against terror...how janin had portrayed the news to the public of what exactly did US is doing to promote democracy in countries like ahghanistan and iraq...lastly...robert...he is peofessor who is teaching in a university....he had gone through the vietnam war...he had his views in the war against terror...on how he educate his students...on what is really the real picture that is happening to the world...here comes the synopsis...the story begins with the meeting between irving and janin where irving is giving janin an exclusive interview as a credit of what she had wrote previously about himself...as the interview session goes on...there is another operation was carrying out where soldiers were travelling to a place in order to take down the insurgents in ahghanistan...while another scene is robert counselling his student about his attitude of not attending classes...well...wanna know more about american politics...check out the movie at cinema nationawide,...

abolish one sen coin?

suddenly the domestic trade and consumer affairs ministry announced that the country will standardised the usage of one sen coin...saying that it will help the government to save a lot of money in producing one sen coin in the long run...by standardising it....but to me....i was thinking that the government is trying to earn money from the public...in another way...apart from paying taxes to them...by trading business...to earn our hard earned money...to me...we as consumers are always in the loosing party because we are the people who need to eat and live...by implementing this system which is to reduce the usage of one sen...i can't see any benefits to us as the public...here is the standardisation...one and two sens...don't need to pay...while three, four, six and seven sens will be counted as five sens....lastly eight and nine sens will be counted as ten sens...it make it sounds like fair and we as consumers sounds benefited....but who really know the situation?some of the supermarts..they will not borther to return one sen coins to consumers...assuming that the consumers do not want it...therefore...by implementing this standardisation...isn't it also much more encouraged the traders to monopoly the business...to me...this rounding up mechanism did not benefit the public at all....

datuk ramli named himself

two weeks ago anti corruption agency head ahmad said had given clues to the public though the media where there will be something big occured by the following week...and guessed what...aca is going to press charges to one of the high ranking police officer allegedly to have owned money beyond the finance of his salary...some english dailies had reported the news by naming the involvement of a high ranking police officer but had never revealed its identity...but out of the sudden...datuk ramli who is Commercial Crimes Investigation Department director had suddenly stood out and announced that he is the high ranking officer who was alleged to have possed money of 25 million which was beyond the earning of his post as the department director...not only he had admitted but he had also accused that aca was being unfair to him..that is they have released the information to the media that he had been charged for the charges...although the papers didn't name him...seriously...i just don't know what is the purpose for him to do so...is it some kind of sacrification for the coming general election which it showed that the government is really doing something to combat corruption?is datuk ramli's move under the direction of the executive?what is the real motive behind it?seriously i don't think it is that neutral that it is just about admitting the charges and faced it...it will not be that simple...

umno general assembly

well...it can be said as a one year aftermath of terrified umno general assembly where last year it had given much fear to the society of non-malays when hishammudin hussein suddenly raised up the malay keris which to non-malays it symbolised power and the emphasis of the special rights of malay people...as well as making controversial remarks which had reflected their eagerness of maintaining their status and special rights...hence...this year which is highly possible that the general election is going to be held by end of this year or early next year..our prime minister and deputy prime minister had kept reminding the delegates to control their emotions and be extra alert and aware of the real situation while they are making remarks during the general assembly...and the prime minister had strongly advise that racist remarks are to be prohibited and one factor that had contributed to last year lost of control of the going assembly was because of the live telecast that had been provided by astro which had caused serious disturbance to the people...therefore there will be no more live telecast provided by any of the tv stations...the deputy prime minister had also urged delegates to discuss topics that were related to all the people and not only about race or other things else...looks like this year will be a safe general assembly i suppose?as what the pm and dpm had voiced out their concerns over the general assembly..but still...let's see whether there will be some climax towards the end of the assembly because we will never know....

work

it had been a few weeks since i have started working outside (previously was working from home) which is at sin chew media corporation...although it is just about office works...but i did learn a lot...in terms of photos selection...information management....and others...my reporter friends who is working just one floor above myself who is at downstair...appeared to be quite shocked when they saw me working in the resource centre dept...as i was working with malaysiakini previously...back to my work...apart from the things that i have been doing daily...i also got the chance of doling traditional stuffs (which is not about using computer) like cutting and pasting pictures on paper..due to the fact that i have not been doing this kind of stuff for a long time which is ever since my primary school time...i had cut my finger while i was cutting paper...thank goodness my collegues were around...and they have helped me out with my poor little finger...in here..i would like to take a chance to express my gratitude to my boss who is my supervisor who had take care of me ever since i joined them...thanks for the guidance and care that you have given me...even though there is something keep borthering but it is good enough that everyone are nice...

good bye uncle lim

it had been a week after one of malaysia's famour businessman passed away...dr lim gok tong...the creator of genting highlands...who had provided a fun and enjoyable place for the people in malaysia...not only malaysians made their frequent visits to genting but also attracted a lot of tourists to come by this place...for me...this place is as though equivalent to the disneyland....last week...dr lim had passed away peacefully and left millions to his family...as he was once a poor guy who started his business from zero...he had always considered for the poor..he helped people thoughout the world when he had earned much money..as a successful businessman who had started from zero...he understood the difficulty of not having enough money...hence he had always helped those who had got financial problem...however..as he had always being generous but he never publicised his generosity...and yet there are people throughout the world that had come to his funeral to pay their last respect...people that he had given lives to them...gave them hope to survive and live...i believed he had save thousands of people...once again...thanks for the kindness and generosity that you have contributed to malaysia as well as people outside malaysia...you will always be in our heart...out dear dr lim...farewell....

stardust

haha...i am blogging about movie again...well..another fairy tale movie had released in the cinema...stardust...the name it called is special and give people a a feeling of something unexpected....seriously it is kind of unexpected...in terms of role play...characteristics of all the roles...the storyline...throughout the whole show...it just keeping the suspense...like everytime there is a climax...in the movie...the story began where tristan's father(the main character is tristan who is the son) stayed in a rural area namely wall...it was situated in england, london...where this small village stays...here is the amazing part...not far away from the wall...there is a border which is built in stones...where the other side of the stone wall was said to be a path that is connected to the other world where there is a country called stromhold...in stromhold...magical spells can be used and existence of witch and warlords are always there...tristan's father had always wanted to cross the border to find out whether what is at the other side....whether it is the path that can bring him to the other world...and so he had successfully crossed over the border and truly what was being said about was true...and there he met una..tristan's mother...she is a princess of stromhold but was kidnapped by a witch and was cast a spell where una can never leave her unless she is dead...una and tristan's father fall in love and una give birth to tristan...the future king of stromhold...when tristan grew up...he was at first fall in love with a girl namely victoria who lived in the county...but finally he had found his true love who is the shining star..yvainne...the star that had fallen together with the ruby stone where the ruby stone was fallen after a death of a king of stromhold...and whoever will be the future king of stromhold shall light the ruby stone...basically this is the synopsis of the movie...the climax and suspense i can't described to you guys cause only you guys watched it then only you will feel it...so catch the movie at cinema nationawide...you will have a lot of adventures while watching the show...haha

MCA event

well...i was attending an event organised by malaysia chinese association (MCA) last saturday at stadium bukit jalil...it was a dinner cum cultural show organised by them...why i was there is because my dad said there is good food and that is why i was there...didn't expect much though...just think that went there to eat cause there is plenty of food...most importantly...didn't expect that this is a propaganda event...where mca took this opportunity to brainwash the chinese community here...imagined ong ka ting had spent an extra 45 minutes to talk about their stand in mothertougue education...how the chinese had struggled to survive in today's economy...what they have done so far to reduce the struggle of the chinese...reminding people what they have done to help chinese people from being marginalised...i was like...hello....this is supposed to be a cultural organised in conjunction of the 50th year of independence of malaysia...how could it be turned out as a propaganda event...by mca?i feel that this isn't right...this is just not the occasion for them to publicise their contributions...to the chinese community...and know what...i must felt that the election is really going to be coming soon...because i can see how desperate mca is...imagined using a cultural event to spread its propaganda...don't you think so?people can really feel its desperation...this cultural event was supposed to be a fun and educating event...and what happened the next day in most of the newspapers?it became headlines of that night's event...what is the main purpose of the whole event?just propaganda?i don't know seriously...

bourne ultimatum

the third part of the bourne series...i watch the first and second...and of course i am not going to miss the third part which sounds like an ending episode...which is actually not...the storyline is quite organised and the movie is exciting in terms of stunts and actions...i can say it will never fail the expectation of the people...story continued that jason bourne was still trying to figure out why his girlfriend died as well as some people who were related to him...he had been running throughout the country for the past three years in order to find the truth...on what had happened to him...and why people from the FBI was still chasing after him...what do they really wanted from him...he was confused and he is trying his best to find the answer...finally he managed to get sone signs sort of keys that will lead him to find the answer...from episode one...jason was being chased over by the FBI because he was said to has committed crime of murdering...hence the FBI wanted to prosecute him...however...it was not really that easy...there is something behind the mind of the FBI superior...their purpose is to murder jason and not just to arrest him and keep him in prison...with his death...their secret will never be revealed...as jason found out why people from the FBI was chasing him...he knows that the superior is going to kill him for good...to prevent him from spreading words..or others...and to hide secrets forever...lastly...with the help from pamela or better known as pam...jason had finally managed to put the superiors in court...facing the court and tell exactly what had happened...is jason bourne surviving?catch the movie at cinemas world wide...then you will know...

my meaning of blogging

i started off to blog when i was in university because that time at uni...seems that everyone got a blog talking about their personal stuffs and interests...it was kind of trend during my time at university where everyone just love to share their feelings and views by writing it out...allowed people to read and understand them further...therefore...i have created one for myself during that time...in university time...my posts are mostly about myself...my friends...my views and interests...as i developed to become an adult...exposing myself to lots of discussions, forums, debates and so on...i started to build my interest towards the interest of the country...as my major is in journalism which is about reporting news...hence...my posts were slowly becoming current affairs...expressing my views and listening to other people's opinion...reading books and magazines to build my own perception and judgement...from personal to public...and now here had became the only place that i can write to because i am no longer a journalist...although i eagerly wanted to be one but i am not qualify yet...as my language was told to be athrocious...in order to practice my writing skills..i will spend more time to write more...next time perhaps some mandarin as well...it had been years since i started blogging...but my blog was seldom to be visited...almost no comments...i moved from one site to other site for three times...and now i am back with blogspot...for those who is reading this site...i will be posting frequent in future...got to sleep...good night everyone...if any...

former ISA detainee wins case

originally this is a site where i put all my movie reviews on but due to my other site which discussed about current affairs was currently unavailable...hence...i was blogging about this issue in this site...well...first of all...kudos to the former ISA detainee..abdul malik who had win his case yesterday and managed to claim RM250 million ringgit of compensation from the government for wrongfully detained and tortured him during his unconditionally jail term under the internal security act...this is the first case that a former ISA detainee had finally win the case from the government...it is a big victory not only for him but also to the members of public where finally we can see a sense of light from the judiciary board where justice can be brought...and former ISA detainees like hishammudin rais...tian chua can actually consider on taking legal action against the government for their previous arrests...however...i do have my own view upon this winning of malik...let's see...we all know that general election is going to be called soon...either end of this year or beginning of next year...since the controversial lingam tape had further tarnished the independence of the judiciary...making the bar council to repent by walking in a big crowd...just like ambiga said.."when lawyers walked..there is something wrong"...hence...in order to regain the independence of judiciary and gained back the confidence of the public...therefore malik wins his case?well...only god knows the best....is malik's winning is what that had been expected by the government?what do you guys think?is everything that is happening now are all predicted by the government?well...someone tell me please...

the seeker: the dark is rising

although it is not what i have expected...and the movie chronology is quite under predicted...but still it turned out to be quite good...overall it is a good story...i get to know some people tend to compared it with the century best movie lord of the rings...of course...both of them can't be compared..because it is two type of different shows...for me...i don't compared it...from the title..it seems to be like a horror movie...well..it is about good and evil...the seeker..who is a 14 year old boy namely will...who is dedicated to the task of saving the world...the story started off with will started to see strange things that are happening to him...while wondering what is happening..will is unaware that his life is already in danger because the dark rider who knew about his existence is coming after him to get the signs and then kill him...not knowing what is happening...his school teacher...ms greythorne then explain his birth and tell him about his destiny...also the dissapearance of his twin brother...tom...besides....will was told about his abilities which will help him to get the signs...the signs that will release the light in order to save the world from the hands of the darkness...besides...will was also told by the dark rider that the dissapearance of his twin brother...tom...was actually captured by the dark rider...hence...now will's pressure is high up...one is to save the world from danger and another is to save his brother from the captivity of the dark rider...will he succeed?will tom manage to return to the family safely?catch the film at cinemas nationwide...

chuck and larry

most of the people whp watched the preview of this movie had judged it as a comedy because it is just hillarious...but for me...well..i cannot denied the sense of humour in this movie but it somehow also create some realisation to the public about homosexual marriage...or what the term used in the movie as domestic partners....both the main characters, chuck and larry are well known actors in comedian kind of movie...hence...it gave an impression that this movie cannot run away from the hillarious angle....but actually there is meaning between the lines...at least for me..i felt it that way...the storyline is interesting and also educating...both characters played by adam sandler and kevin james...the chronology of the story is well organised...the story started off as chuck and larry are partners in the fire arm rescue team...and soon they have developed their relationship to close friends...larry was once a loving husband until his wife paula passed away...and left him two children...a daughter and a son...he is a commited and responsible man while chuck is the man who always loved to have fun...his nickname mr febuary earned himself a lot of girls staying around him hence he had never thought of settled down...at a time...when chuck and larry were in the task of rescuing people...chuck's life was in danger and larry without much thinking had saved him...therefore chuck had pledged to help larry in whatever form of difficulties...on the other hand...larry was planning an insurance in order to secure the lives of his children because his job has always exposed himself in danger...and in order to secure this policy...larry will have to get married in order to get this right...coincidently...the states now is promoting the policy of domestic partners where homosexual partners can now registered legally and stayed together...as larry come across this news...he had an idea of getting chuck to help him in order to secure the financial assiatance for his children...that is to ask chuck to pretend to be a gay partner with him and married him legally...so...what will happen with the two guys who are actually straight guys...will chuck agree to what larry requested since he had pledged his life for him...will they relationship work and how the public in the show accepted this so-call homosexual couple...catch it then...it is more than hillarious...

papaya sisters

some of the papers i found had praised this movie which is a product of singapore...i admitted that for some malaysians...product from singapore might be just like another local product...which is always be as bad...well...for me...i think this movie is something unique...it is a musical show..just like hairspray..but the difference here is that the songs sang in the whole movie were mostly hokkien songs where hardly malaysians can understand that dialect...unlike hairspray...although the storyline is quite dull and slow moving...but i still appreciated the effort of the director to produce a musical movie...just like the western countries...at least they have give it a try and hence for this..i think they should be given a loud applause...as to produce a musical base movie required quite a big amount of money and last but not least the talent of people to act and at the same time to sing...where i supposed this is where the place malaysian stars lack off...the story started off with a narrator telling the story behind the happenings...as the movie went on...the narrator explained...the papaya sisters met each other during an open concert held at a football field...from there they get to know each other and decided to become stage singers...for those who know mandarin..it is call 'getaigeshou'...sooner and later...they are famous and during that time..their opponent the 'durian sisters'...was one of the famous group as well...thinking that papaya sisters will steal their fame...they had challenged the papaya sisters to have a competition with them and whoever failed will have to disappear from the stage singer business...with such an attractive offer...papaya sisters took up the challenge..in fact...little papaya was infected by cancer and she can't sustain for long in order to finish the competition...knowing that they will loose the competition...the papaya sisters decided to give their best before departing their beloved stage...will there be any miracle for little papaya?well...watch it to get the answer...

knocked up

went for this movie coincidently, the next day is the moocake festival and also known as mid autumn festival...well...actually i have planned to watch it long time ago...so..here it is...it is a pretty simple story and with a pretty organised chronology of the storyline...both of the actor and actress were new celebrities to me...because i have never come across them until this movie...the movie started off with ben who is jobless and just know how to use drugs to keep himself alive and was building up a so-called website where people get the chance to see famous stars go on nude...while alison scott...is a crew member working in a tv station who had a bright future in the tv industry...and soon she is promoted as a VJ for a tv show which will lead to further promotions though..basically we can see these two characters will not bump into each other lives as their lifestyles are totally different...but here it is...ben and alison met up when alison and her sister debbie went for a bar for drink and dance...ben spotted alison and as they chat...they then spent a night together (you know what i mean)....sooner alison found out that she was pregnant after spending the night with ben...not knowing what to do...her sister debbie..suggested alison to make known this occurrence to ben and come out with a solution...as usual...ben was pretty shocked as well..as he did not know this night will cause him responsiblity to bare...for him who lived in US illegally...no job...and no sense of future direction...he had absolutely zero knowledge on what he is supposed to do as alison had pregnant with his kid...alison and ben try to get along...ben try to be a responsible father and also probably a husband...but somehow...it always appeared to be not good enough for alison...will they get together because of the child?will they fall in love at the end?will ben be able to satisfy the needs of alison...check it out at cinema nationwide...

hairspray

another musical kind of movie...comedy and somehow also reflected some realistic values...i always love musical movies...overall...the chronology of the story was well organised...songs are nice...singers are great too...if only they get a better version of tracy...i believe this show can be more than a success...my opinion...story started off as tracy is a secondary student who loves to watch corny williams show very much...she dreamt that one day she can act in this particular musical show....everyday...her life is somehow survive to watch this show...one day...there comes the golden chance and help tracy to get the golden ticket to be part of the corny musical show...meanwhile...corny fanous stars...amber and link are the key singers....tracy attended the audition where corny show had opened it for people who are interested to dance in the show...amber and her mother vema appeared to be very unhappy with tracy and chase her away out of the audition...however....her singing skills and dancing talent was discovered by the key singer link...and he wished that tracy can be part of the show because of her dancing skills...and link told tracy to attend a dance where the dancefloor were people who performed in musical shows...and link believed that with tracy's dancing skills at the dancefloor will help her being discovered...finally...tracy was part of the corny show and become a famous star in baltimore...at the same time...there is another musical show that is facing the faith of being scraped...which is the black's show...where this show was to provide chance for black people who can sing and dance to perform in this show...and for the black audience...however...it was facing the faith of being scraped from the station...therefore...tracy come out with an idea that the black performers should join the corny show and dance together...voicing the message of integrated television....where all races can perform together for their audience....and finally the integrated musical show appeared to have earn great ratings...catch this show if you enjoy watching dancing and singing...hehe

black sheep

i was not thinking of watching this movie..but somehow..i still manage to watch it...well..i can say this movie is quite terrifying...bloody i suppose this word is quite appropriate to be used on describing the chronology of the movie...the story started off with a young boy who is terrified by a dead sheep which used to be his pet...years later...the boy namely henry...finally returned to his farm after he had somehow overcome his phobia to sheeps...without knowing that his brother, angus..was working on a very terrified research in order to make more money...from the sheeps...however...the research seems to turn the attitude of the sheeps where they had become violent and no longer tame anymore..and they bite human...the most terrified part is...whoever the sheeps bite...the human will later turned to goat...at the meantime...a girl named experience and her friend grant...happened to get the news that angus was using sheeps to do research and experience is an environmentalist...who loves the nature...trying to stop angus from what is he doing...but somehow is a bit too late...the sheeps already turned wild..and her friend grant had become the victim...knowing nothing what his brother, angus doing that had made the sheeps turned wild..henry is finding all the possible way to get out of the place together with experience...will they make it...catch it at cinemas nationawide

fracture

this movie starring award-winner anthony hopkins and new-born star ryan gostling...overall...i can say this movie is quite unpredicted and the movie ending is actually open for imagination and discussion to the audience...the chronology of the movie although is not really organised but it was still manage to be understood...the story started with anthony...who owns a company dealing with planes and married a young wife...and the same time....he discover his wife was having an affair with a police officer...hence he attempted to shot his wife to death...however she was managed to be saved and was in a comma state of mind...while ryan is an attorney to the prosecutor office...who always wins cases and that actually helped him to be spotted by a famous law firm namedly wooton sims...where all the top lawyers were situated there....before his arrival to wooton sims...ryan was required to attend the mention of case for the trial of anthony...and later due to ego and self-confidence...ryan decided to take the case and again try to make it another shining victory before he enters wooton sims proudly...who knows...he had underestimate the old but rich man..anthony who chose to defend himself without any attorney represented him..and ryan just felt that anthony somehow plan the whole thing ever since he shot his wife and until going to jail and waiting for the trial...ryan then loose the case...due to lack of evidence...because the police failed to find the murdered weapon...so..here is the suspense...anthony seems to have manage to be released for the first attempted murder...but will he be getting away always...will ryan manage to put him in jail for what he had done...catch the movie before you guys miss it....

the invasion

this movie starring by nicole kidman and the james bond guy who played the casino royale version of james bond...daniel craig..this is a futuristic movie where human is no longer human...although people are in a human form but their mind, attitude, behaviour and personality is no longer human oriented...this form of human was said to have bring peace and harmony to people and there will be no war and quarel in the this human race...the story started with the saying that people were infected by certain kind of virus and these viruses turned out to be some kind of hormon that manage to break through human's neuron system where after they have infected these virus..they will fall asleep and after they have woke up..they will be a different kind of people...people without emotions...and what had made them perfect...at least they claimed to be perfect...in the story..nicole was a phychologist who owned a clinic and gain trust from her clients because of her professionalism...while daniel craig is a medical doctor who later also get transformed...in order to survive...nicole bring his son who happened to be immuned with such kind of virus away from these columny of people who had infected with this virus that was brought by aliens...finally...they were able to survive with the help of doctors who are researching on these kind of virus and they manage to get the vaksin to cure the people is believed to have mix with nicolde's son who is immune with this virus...finally people are people again...actually this show is quite nice...although some people don't like nicole type of acting but somehow i think she is good...so..catch it in cinemas nationwide...

rogue assassin

although turned out not to be surprising...but still a little bit unpredicted...the chronology of the movie although is a bit messy but overall it can be considered as acceptable..in this movie..jet li who play tom who is originally a cop but later became an assassin..because he wanted to investigate the person who had murdered his family...while jason who is playing john is a cop and partner to tom...and the one who always think that tom is dead and want to revenge for him...and without realising that the person he was following all this while that he thought is rogue was actually tom...who went for a plastic surgery and had a face made over...although not much action was involved as we have watched in jet li's previous movies...for me..it can be consider acceptable...also due to his character and story background of the movie...jet li appeared to be quite relunctant to show his martial art skills...but somehow...the climax of the movie somehow substituted the 'downs' of the whole movie by revealing rogue's real identity who is actually tom...there is one thing that can compliment jet li i think is his english that he had mastered...i think it is a good thing to praise because his english now can at least be understandabled...overall...the movie is quite good and nice...less action packed but good storyline...