If you saw someone coughing their guts up because they were choking, would you stop and see what was wrong? Apparently, to most people, it's out of the question. I almost suffocated today because of it =.= Sigh. Shit happens, I guess. Bumped into quite a few people today, which was nice.

Well, not much else to say that's worth saying. Off to watch Infernal Affairs.

Okay, so.. Work as usual today. Working 9 hours a day, 6 days a week in order to be ready for JB Hi-Fi opening next Thursday. It's tiring but eh.. Today I had to make signs and write reviews, all in permanent marker. Tell you what... Five hours straight of having that stuff open near you really killed my brain. I felt so lightheaded and dizzy by the time I finished my shift. Went to visit Caren after my shift and I was so out of it.. I probably looked stoned or something to her lol. I then went to visit Hannah before I went home. She had the biggest smile on her face, which made me feel a little better... Smiling is good. People should smile more often.



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Except Tina. For every smile she gives, a kitten is brutally clubbed to death D:

I went to see Babylon A.D. with Quannie last night. Decent movie, but it had something that really annoyed me. Some idiot thought that it'd be a good idea to have "Handheld" camera scenes where the camera is really jittery and you can't see a thing. IT. IS. STUPID. I guess they're using it as some sort of fancy "imagery", but it really detracts from the story. If you want to show something intense, then use music to make the situation intensify. If that doesn't do the job, whoever casted those actors needs to be sacked. That said, it was cool to see Michelle Yeoh in a role that didn't place her as "OMG AWESOME ASIAN CHICK WHO CAN KICK YOUR ASS WITH KUNG FU LOL". While there were instances when there was fighting, her Kung Fu prowess was not exaggerated at all. It was an acceptable amount of fighting that any actress, who knew how to throw a punch, could pull off. That's a definite plus.

I must also say that the story itself showed good character development, and the chick that played the holy girl (forgot her name =.=) did her job well. However, the story as a whole was pretty awesome...... Until it got near the end. I won't spoil it for anyone that wants to see it, but the ending was lackluster. At best.

I watched Wanted today. FANTASTIC movie. The choice of actors was great, and I was really getting involved in the movie.. However... Making the black guy say "kill that motherfucker", especially someone as respected as Morgan Freeman, was ridiculous. Does NOT suit him, or the movie, at all! Yes, there was a lot of coarse language, but someone in his position, who gave off a cool, calm and collected feel to his character... It really destroyed the moment :( I won't say anymore because it will spoil the story. If you're a fan of action movies, this is probably one of the best I have seen in a long time! I'd hate to say it... But this was better than Forbidden Kingdom... And I'm obsessed with Jackie Chan :( I'd say it even contends with the Police Story movies that Jackie Chan has done! Yes, I liked it that much :P

I was supposed to return to work last week, but Rachma (my manager) still hasn't given me any shifts... So I guess I'm unofficially fired. I'm actually quite happy though. I don't want to go back to Gelare. Ever. Or work with food anymore for that matter.

A bit late on the posting, but oh well. I went to a hip hop dance competition on Friday night. Simply said, it was awesome! And it helped having the people I knew in the same crew... AND they were the best crew. There is no bias in that sentence whatsoever... Okay, maybe a little bit, but they really were the best. When it came to the last two, they had the runner's-up from last year, and the winner from last year (the winner being XCITE, my friends' crew). The runner's-up were Filipinos, and I gotta admit, I thought they were amazing when I first saw them. I really wondered if XCITE could top their performance. What followed just made my jaw drop. XCITE were 2 to 3 times better than ANY other group there. After their performance was over, it was the first time in my life I'd ever felt compelled to give a standing ovation.

Work today sucked... Public holidays + gelare = bad mix. It was refreshing to see Esther come in today though. Haven't worked with her in yonks. Also saw something pretty funny today... An asian guy walked in, with his asian girlfriend. He looked like he was an exchange student or something... Then he had a call before I got to serving him and.. WOW. He had THE most Aussie accent I've heard in a long time. It was more Aussie than most Aussies I know! Think... Ahn Do, but even more Aussie than that.

Anyway, Andy Lau movie starting in 10mins. Let's hope this one doesn't suck like the last one I watched! Movie Title: Fulltime Killer.

I watched Indiana Jones 4 last night. It was pretty interesting, although the whole "Mr Oxley has all the answers in riddles and he's with us most of the time so it's ok" idea kinda sucked. Watched it with Caren, Charmaine and David, and bumped into Andrew and Catrina there too, as well as Henry also being there. Coincidence!

So I dropped by gelare yesterday and some guy was checking out Hannah. Then one of his friends went up to the counter and asked her for her name and number. It was quite funny :p Hannah went all red and couldn't wipe the embarassed grin off her face. SO CUTE~!

Anyway, I'm most likely quitting after next payday at work. Gonna go to Carousel today and drop my resume in some places. Wish me luck!

P.S. Thanks for being my referral Rhys :p

Title is last night and today so far in a nutshell.

I went to see 21 last night with Caren. The movie was GREAT... until it slowed down for the build up to the climax. It was a pretty intriguing movie that broke a lot of the drama-streaks with comic relief. The part that slowed down had no comic relief, which is probably what made it feel like it was dragging on. That, and it was already after 11pm. The resolution was lame... I gotta admit. The music choice was horrendous at best. Opening music made me feel like I was watching a replay of an arcade game. It didn't really add to the situation... Especially since it was so bad it actually made you THINK of the music. The ending song... An opera group singing their rendition of the song "You can't always get what you want" by the Rolling Stones... RUINED!

Had our basketball game this morning. It was four of us against five of them... We beat them 37-10 last week with all our players present, so we were hoping of something akin to that. We were up 16 to 6 at Halftime, then I proceeded to screw up in the second half. A lot. Double dribbled once...two bad passes. Then I did my back in, so I'm now in a lot of pain where my spine meets my pelvis... Lower back for those who don't know anything about bones... It was terrible. It was almost the end of the second half and the score was 23 to 22 in the opponents favour. They drew a foul on Charles. He managed to get both shots in, bringing us up to 24 points. After that, it was a matter of keeping the ball off the opponent for the remaining 47 seconds left in the game. Once the ball got thrown out of court twice, we had the game. Ball was in our possession and they were down by 1. The buzzer rang. Game: Eclipse. It was kinda tough to deal with, only winning by one point. But we did only have four players, and considering how much I screwed up, we didn't do too badly.

So I finally found a layout that works! It's not fantastic, and could do with a bit of modifying, particularly for my usage, but other than that I like how it looks. It isn't my own work... But it's still nice :P I want to get my edit post button back! And I want the dates to work... They're supposed to appear to the left of the post title but it isn't working :( lamesauce imo.

I watched Iron Man today... It's the first Marvel comic adapatation that I genuinely enjoyed, but I am yet to see Transformers which was supposedly really good. The light humour added in Iron Man was fantastic. Visuals were fantastic. The story had some nice turns and the character Tony Stark was very well created, and Downey Jr. played the role impeccably.

Hitch was on TV last night. Gotta love that movie. It's a 'chick flick'...... for guys. I don't know if all guys will hold the same sentiment to it, but any guy who has been in the shoes of Mr. Albert Brennaman will understand, appreciate and fall in love with the storyline. Yes, it is an underdog story... But it's an underdog story that relates very closely to many of our own lives. For all guys that have ever felt that "Nice guys finish last", this is the movie resonating with those thoughts in mind. Needless to say, after watching the movie, I felt a little bit lovesick? If you can call it that. It isn't a case of I'm desperate for a girlfriend or anything, it's more of one of those feelings you feel right after you watch a movie. In this case, it was a thought of "That would be a nice thing to be a part of" when referring to the whole pursuit of love theme presented in the film... Okay, maybe not the pursuit, but the feelings itself.

For those curious, my thoughts after watching Iron Man were "How cool would that suit be to have!!!!! PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW". Yeah. Typical male thoughts. Shut up :P


EDIT: 1 Hour later... I got my Navbar back, the timestamps work, but still no quick edit button... Oh well, it's not too bad at least :) Most of it is functioning!

P.S. Welcome to my blogroll Caren and Ash(Virgilius)

Okay. The movie was funny, for sure. But not one person told me of the several showings of penis in that movie. It was disturbing... It was something like "DID THEY JUST DO THAT?!!?" in my head, then they did it again .___. All in all, it was good. The pearl necklace joke was classic... Speaking of which, I ended up explaining half the jokes to Caren after the movie which was a little bit awkward I guess, but funny all the same x]

Bleh.. There's more to tell but I'm so buggered right now. I'll put an epic post up once I'm feeling better... Today in short though,

1) Bought Mario Kart Wii
2) Worked (quiet day + 2ppl working = win)
3) Trying to recover from sickness

Later readers... Whoever you are... Comments appreciated on posts? lulz.

So, I ended up getting my Nintendo Wii yesterday.. Wasn't exactly what I was hoping for (wanted to get an extra controller and nunchuck) but it was still good :D I ended up spending about 2 hours just creating random Miis for kicks, then about an hour or two of Wii Tennis :P 'Nuf bout that.

I watched Street Kings last night with Andrew and Catrina. I was hoping it would be good, but as usual, the trailer was better than the movie. You've really got to congratulate whoever makes these trailers. They make you want to watch sub-par movies :\ That aside, the movie wasn't TERRIBLE; it had a decent flow to it. However, the whole storyline is a liiiiiiiiiittle bit cliche with nothing to back it up. Keanu's acting was decent. Whoever did the casting, though, needs to reassess who they choose for characters... I mean, Keanu was probably the only person that fit his role nicely.

Don't get me wrong, Terry Crews is a great actor, but having him play a plot-starting / changing character in a serious movie was way too odd for me to see... I think most people are comfortable seeing him in comedy movies, which is where he should stay... For those wondering who Terry Crews is, he's the bald, buff black guy that can flex his pecs to make them look like they're jumping.. He played Freddy 'Fingers' Wilson in "Balls of Fury", the black guy that was into white chicks in "White Chicks" and one of the flight attendants in "Soul Plane". I believe he's also in the upcoming "Get Smart" movie. As you can see, he's a seasoned comedy-actor.. So yeah, that's one thing that really kinda killed the atmosphere the movie was trying to give. If you still don't know who Terry Crews is, go google him if you wish.

Another thing was seeing Hugh Laurie in the movie. Fantastic actor, don't get me wrong. But come ON people! We're so used to seeing him in a hospital as our beloved Dr. House! WHY would you put his introductory scene in a hospital. Please. Why? At least change his attitude a bit too. It isn't much different from his 'House' persona. Yeah, I know that that is how the character is supposed to act, but then shouldn't you cast someone else? His introduction in a hospital and similar attitudes really destroyed the Capt. James Biggs character and made Dr. House a cop... At least in Stuart Little you can't even tell it was him until the credits rolled... (might also be because Stuart Little was before his House debut, but that's beside the point :P)

I ended up buying "No More Heroes" for the Wii today (man, I'm so wasteful...maybe I should get myself a girlfriend instead of spending money on games.. haha) It's fantastic! The combat system is a nice change from what I'm used to nowadays. I haven't exactly played the game in-depth so this is probably the main thing that I have to comment on. The general idea of the storyline and stuff is pretty original though. Kudos to the creators.

I'm really wanting to make this blog look a lot better, but that will have to begin with a complete overhaul (not using the templates provided) and working on my HTML and CSS skills. After looking through some friends' blogs and checking out their source codes for html and css, I realised that I could do that too... I just need to learn how to apply what they did haha. Hopefully, over the next few days / weeks / months even, I'll be able to come up with something that's somewhat pleasing to the eye.

I woke up this morning with the sudden urge to go buy a new game. Don't get me wrong, FF7:Crisis Core is fantastic, but it's too damn easy, even on hard mode :( Maybe I should try getting used to the game Quannie got me for Christmas..... I'm a total noob at stealth games :\ I'm that guy that went in Rambo-style in Goldeneye single player mode. I couldn't even pass the first stage though!!! (on Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops) I mean, sure I can shoot the guy in the face and he'll fall asleep (yaaaaaaawn... why doesn't he just die) but then I get to the next area and if I get spotted I'm a goner :(

I really wanna get my Wii now. Or play Dirge of Cerberus for PS2, but moreso the former. Pay day this Thursday so hopefully I'll grab it then :P

I think I'm gonna watch a movie tonight, don't know what yet... Will tell you all later :P.. While we're on the topic of movies, I forced myself to stay up last night to watch a movie on SBS starring Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung. I was hoping it would be great.. I mean, popular actors + asian gangster movie = can't go wrong, right? Wrong! I mean, the movie didn't really have any climax.. No climax is already auto-fail. The story itself was interesting, I guess. It'd give someone who was critically analysing it, for some deeper meaning or something, a run for their money, maybe, but other than that it was mediocre at best and not worth staying up for...

Well, end of this post. May post more later. Bye!