1 YEAR PLUS!

in the midst of my busy schedule, i've forgotten that actually, i've been blogging for a year and more!!! that's despite some very cold months with about 1 - 2 posts per month but i would say that this is some progress that i've been making!! HAHA

i didnt use to blog for so long coz i'm just pure plain lazy but oh well, sometimes it's good to rant and chant on the internet for everybody to see once in a while.. mainly, i've been updating movies and games critics but very little of my life.. well, that's because... ehhmmm.. it's private.. and mainly because i'm just pure plain lazy..

and sadly, i dont fancy taking pictures even though i have a camera.. so oh well, you all can only see words and lesser picture...

blogging can be quite some chore sometime and so i shall keep myself from being a bore to you faithful readers out there :)

The Dark Knight

Gone were the days when Batman wears a greyish rubber suit with his faithful companion in a colourful red-green-yellow costume. over the last few years superheroes movie and most of the good movies seems to stem from comics. well other than Hancock, which was well... hmm i shant say more. The last Batman movie was really good with depth and darkness, all that a batman show should have. this one is even better. particularly with another one of my favourites: the joker. i remembered watching the first joker on screen about more than a decade ago. it's nothing like what i've just seen and yeah, the joker shows you that you dont need effects to be a good actor. one of the best shows this year that i've watched. 9/10

Red Cliff

Watching 2 movies in a week is something which i only did in holidays, which is like now... so let's hear it from the first one: it's been quite a while since they released an epic chinese movie and frankly, this film on one small part of the Han Dynasty will be one of the best that i've watched. heck i dont really know much about romance of the three kingdoms but this show sure inspired me to read more. sorry to those who're outside of asia it will only be released in 2009! overall it's a great film with cheem chinese and my personal favourite: mr guanyu with his green dragon crescent blade. 8/10 oh yar, the show is about the battle of red cliff. how could i forget that HAHA.

Devil May Cry 4

To say that this game is good, well it will really underrated. personally, as a fan of role-playing games (FFX, Mass Effect, KOTOR just to name a few) and also a fan of fighting games (KOF, Street Fighter 1-3) , this game has incredibly fused this 2 together as a serious kinda hack and slash. Yeah it doesnt really have much of a RPG kinda build since it is almost entirely linear, the combat is just soooooooooooooo sweet. Mind you, it is not easy to play as i'm still trying to master certain skill but the tremendous satisfaction that it gives when you can execute let say, a High Roller + 2 aerial rave + jump cancel + devil snatch + 2 more aerial rave + devil trigger + devil snatch + 2 more aerial rave and a final buster in a matter of seconds, it really pumps adrenaline into your hands and well, gives u kinda like a good exercise. I've never written such a long review on games before simply because i enjoyed this game a lot. and how i thank God that it came out before school starts. 10/10

Hellboy 2

Yeah he sure is a redneck if u tell me. i've never heard of him before, even in comics and stuff. the only time i heard him before this is hellboy one, which kinda suck according to a lot of reviews. well, i guess this is one helluva rare sequel which is better than the original show. at least they didnt outdo their own failure *which in my opinion is the classic line for avp and avp2*. overall it's quite an entertaining show. 8/10

The Journey

well i started out long time ago, holding on to a slab of wood in the shape of a trident. how old was i? ahh... about 12 years old then. when i got the first solid body baby, i was about 15... hmm that seems kinda far away.. still remember the lake placid blue and one small flaw in it - the E string will always get tangled up at the edge of the fingerboard if you strung too hard.

i remember having lots of complaints about it - doesnt sound right, doesnt feel right and heck it just seems so common. i mean, which guy out there doesnt have an electric guit that looks like mine. and it wasnt an original strat to start with. so after a long consideration, i sold it and acquired something more exotic. les paul to be exact, and for a moment in history, i was in love with it.

as people grow, they change. so do i and when an opportunity arises for me, i've decided to get something for good - the tele. well it still pains me everytime i think of the lost now. she's really like the elegant lady who struts across in tremendous fashion and sings to you like nothing you've heard before.

but is she something for me? perhaps when she was taken away, there's a greater lesson to be taught - that something so grand may not be something which is suitable. it's like a ferrari. good to see, nice to play with, red. but i'll never get it, even if i've the money. HAHA.

you know i've heard many people say. at the end of the day, nothing beats the good ol strat. i used to think that it was just a stereotype. what possibly can a strat do. MAN i've owned one before. lake placid blue. rosewood neck. strings get stuck when you strung too hard. but i guess sometimes things just happened in a humorous way.

now that i've decided to get one at the end of the day just proved to myself that sometimes the best things are always around. you just need to know how to appreciate them.

Hancock

There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then, there's Hancock Will Smith. Seriously, if not for the comedian, together with a Charlize Theron, the 'han' would have been replaced with a 'dumb'. was a tad disappointed by the film, since it looks really kinda cool from the trailers and all but well, these kinda things happen.. so if ya wanna catch something slightly funny, slightly serious, slightly nonsense then this is the film for you :D 3.5/10

Diablo III

The picture alone is enough to excite any self-respecting computer user who grew up in the 1990s. if it doesnt, it means you didnt use the computer enough, or you were born a tad too late... MAN! this has to be the game to play. THE GAME.

which of course, according to blizzard tradition, will release in a few more years time. sad.

Verse of the Day

"Do not be yoked together with the unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?"

Just a few thoughts today when i read the Bible. Sometimes our judgment may be clouded by many things, but let God be our guide in all things to come.

21

Have been catching films like nuts lately and yeah, this is another one of the very nice shows which i've watched yesterday, but was quite stunned when someone asked me about its genre. hmm.. it's not thrill.. it's not action.. heck it's not romance... more like just an exciting story with good plot. 9/10