Saturday, August 31, 2013

Movie Marathon!

It was Eid and basically me and my lil' bro had nothing much to do so we decided to do a movie marathon. Plus we're both are leaving for university/college so...

The marathon spanned for the whole month where we watched movie every weekend. Well, sometimes twice a week. It's crazy, I know. But we got to use our students card, or we went on movie day, so say no to regular ticket price!

We started with The Wolverine: Inmortal


This movie... for me is an exceptional. Cause the setting was in Japan. There. Period. I love Japan so only that, I think the movie is cool. Fukushima Rila is awesome and of course Hugh Jackman. What more can I say about Hugh Jackman. Love it after he was all cleaned-up and attended the funeral. Well, fake funeral. The plot was interesting and overall we really loved this movie. I think we went twice. I think. Haha :D

Next was R.I.P.D.,


I'm not really a big fan of Ryan Reynolds except in The Proposal) so we went to this one merely for fun. It was hilarious and we did enjoyed this movie.

During the second week, we went to see Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.


When I saw Logan Lerman, I really did think whether they had changed the cast. I thought he was a different actor. Huh. I guess teenage actor do changed within a year. duh I love Alexandra Daddario so much! The background music was okay. The scene where Fall Out Boy's song "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" still stuck in my head until right now. Overall, it was fine. Well, we decided not to read the novels and watch the whole franchise first. So, yeah.

Next, we watched Elysium.


The movie was great. Love the plot. It was quite predictable for me but it does have those moments when I was anticipating of what's he's gonna do or decide. Jodie Foster was great as well. It's been a long time since I last watched her movie. I was talking about 2002'2 Panic Room. I know. As for the main actor, which is the ever awesome Matt Damon, well, I didn't really like the fighting scenes in here. But the acting part is great. So yeah, 7/10.

Third week, we went to see Frozen Ground, starring Nicholas Cage, John Cusack and Vanessa Hudgens.


At first, I didn't know this was based on a true story. When the pre-credit photos were shown, I was really grossed out and couldn't take it anymore. I was gonna throw up. Thank God I didn't! The actors were both great and as for the Stripper Vanessa... Nah. I'll give her a pass, though. Overall, 7/10.

Next, and the grand finale of the marathon, is Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.



Okay, I had to watch this movie twice. I watch the first one alone cause I was waiting for papa to finish up his business meetings so I had 4 hours to kill. Hung out at Starbucks was boring so I guess a movie will do. Second one, well of course. With my bro. To me the movie is great... wait for it... but the dialogues were sdooooo cheesy! The plot, the runes, all are amazing cause they're all new things to me. But the script? Hell, no! When I called my best friend and asked about it, she said the same thing. I don't know if I could go through the books or not. But other than that, it was okay. So, I guess I'm looking forward to watch the sequel, City of Ashes. Is it? I think so. Oh, one more thing, since we watched this movie  today, before the movie start, we had a little movie ( I don't really know what to call it actually), showing the sacrifices of our army that lost in the battle, in the recent even in Lahad Datu, and when it's ended we had to get up and sing our national anthem Negaraku. To be honest, after the little movie, I cried. Nonstop, until like 15 minutes into the movie. T_T

So that's it. Our August movie marathon. One of the things me and my lil' bro like is watching movie so yes, we did spent a lot of quality times together. I'm in the middle of letting-go-my-baby-brother thing so this is one of the things I do trying to hold on to whatever what's left. T_T

I don't know if I could do this again next month cause movie tix in KL is crazy expensive so I guess not.

So until next post, see you guys!
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Another Year Has Passed

This year it's seems almost I didn't care for this day. Except for wishes from friends and family, I got nothing else. Heck, even my best friend didn't call to say Happy Birthday. 

Anyway, we just went out and have a slice of cake (well, 3 slices, I was pissed) at Secret Recipe and headed out to Pizza and I got myself chicken steak. With a baby boy was crying (and driving me crazy) on the next table. 

So yeah. On the way back. I deliberately fall asleep. Didn't have much to say. 


Good night everybody. 
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Korean Horror Movie Marathon

I guess there are many people out there who are into Korean movies like moi.

Well, that's a boring statement.

Let's go again.

I guess there are many people out there who can't let a weekend go by without enjoying South Korean entertainment such as movies like moi.

Another boring statement. Haha :D

Anyways, since this is the first week of my so-called summer vacation, I'm calling for a Korean horror movie marathon. Yay! I don't know why I was damn excited. Oh, by the way I just finished final exam last week.

So, let's continue with the top-of-the-list movies, shall we?

First, the most famous Whispering Corridors series.

Whispering Corridors (1998)


Basically, all the five movies are set in typical Korean high school. This first installment tells about the harsh Korean education system. Of course, there's friendship, being the main theme for all five movies. Since this was filmed back in 90s, even the slang is quite different. 

Whispering Corridors: Memento Mori (1999)



This one is a bit... Well, there's one issue being featured in this movie that was depicted for the first time in Korean movies. Wanna know? Check out the movie. With your mind being opened. 


Whispering Corridors: Wishing Stairs (2003)



Song Ji Hyo and Se7en's girl, Park Han Byul. Friendship, betrayal, and ballet. Oh, I checked out that Park Han Byul went through crazy training for her role in the movie. Kinda like in Black Swan. But of course, Black Swan is way awesome. 

Whispering Corridors: Voice (2005)


This one set in a music school. Among the five movies, this one is my fave. There's personality disorder, and student-teacher relationship. Like in Memento Mori. 
  
Whispering Corridors: A Blood Pledge (2009)



As for this one, it was filmed in a convent high school. All girls. I think this one has the most interesting plot. When arrived to some point of the movie, I was like, what??? Why??

Okay. So that's one part of my top Korean horror movies. I'll continue in part 2, for romantic movies. 
See you!

Monday, June 03, 2013

So-called Summer Break

Say hello to 3 months break!

So the plan is to go YOLO.

Seriously laughing out loud right now.

Anyway, this probably my last summer vacation so....

I'll see you guys in September!

Adious!
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Site Analysis: Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design

So I decided to invest a little bit more on Site Analysis book and this time, I got this book. After reading few chapters, I really find that this book is extremely helpful and of course a detailed one. So no more of those shabby-ancient style of presenting a site analysis presentation board. 



Check out this book on Goodreads! here