" |W.Y.K| "

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

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How and who did I spent my Christmas with you ask ? The question is more like : "What movie did I watch for Christmas" HAHA! Since everyone is watching a movie...

So some of you may think I chose either I Am Legend , Alvin and the Chipmunks, Warlords or Heartbeak Kid. But in the end myself, Wei Lun and Jonathan went to watch a CGI anime film at the Grand Cathay's Picture House :

Vexille

a.k.a ベクシル 2077日本鎖国

a.k.a Bekushiru 2077 Nihon Sakoku

We didn't know about it until we got there, it was at the billboard by the walls. I don't think television have done much coverage about it too. But we still decided to go take a look.The movie was absolutely STUNNING! I'd give it 5 stars out of 5. Good storyline, good animated graphics, out-of-this-world animaton and every sense of how a cool and futuristic world would be. Supposedly to be released on the 27th, there was a time slot at the final 5 minutes of Christmas.

The Americans.

The Japanese ( now you can see the slight difference ).

Maria, like the movie suggests... beautiful and dangerous.

YEA! Catch the movie if you can, It's very worth it if you are an anime fan.

-Futuristic ? YES.
-Logical? YES.
-Cool? YES.
-Realistic? YES again!

The Japanese are always best at coming out such anime (s), movies and OVAs. The only flaw about the 'film' is the character design. I feel if they were to co-operate with Square Enix, the movie would be close to perfect (Just look how much they have done with Advent Children). But still the current one is also world-class! Lastly, the studios and animators in charge of the scenery, buildings, ambience, background have done every pixel to perfection. 6 stars out of 5 from me for the animation. Catch 1 or 2 surprizes too.

I wonder if Bleach can achieve a similar result with this kinds of animation .. Hmmm

-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED-

And so for now it's Goodbye and SOUL'd OUT!

Out of the VOODOO KINGDOM at ...
x 11:11 PM x

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

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Merry Christmas to everyone !!!

A question, why is [Christmas] some times referred to [X'mas] ? How is the 'Christ' be related to the 'X'? They don't even sound alike!

Another friend of mine once said. CHRISTMAS ≡ CHRIST . Man . Are . Saved

Amen ...

Goodbye and SOUL'd OUT!

Out of the VOODOO KINGDOM at ...
x 7:56 AM x

Sunday, December 23, 2007

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Two things I think I need to comment today.

1) North London Derby : Arsenal F.C [2 - 1] Tottenham Hotspurs

OK... so that's a good thing. 1st half = boring whereas 2nd half was much better. Bendtner's header that snatched the winner was absolutely textbook. On the overall, the rival match was quite quiet. No fights, no quarrels, no heated moments except Alumnia's save on Robbie Keane's penalty. For a second I thought it was 2-1 the other way around!

2) Koreans invasion into Singapore's media

Whilst anime critics (like myself) stay ''patriotic'' towards the Japanese hemisphere, considerable amounts of K-Drama have already infected the television timeslots of Singapore's broadcast stations today. Firstly, although I admire Hyori Lee and BoA (the only Korean celebrities so far ..) for their success and beauty and talent, I still probably am a 67% peaceful and nonactive anti-Korean-culture-ian, otherwise also known as a Korean-ist. To me, K-Drama on the overall have ZERO attraction value. Whenever a K-Drama is on air, I wouldn't last 10 seconds, seriously. 2 good reasons why you should or want to watch one is either ..

(A) You can't fall asleep so you need a boring drama to help cure your insomnia

(B) You want to experience bad acting

Based on the settings of K-Drama, Koreans tend to live in cramped spaces accommodating medium-sized families. The guys will have a "almost-handsome' look else a punk image and the females tend to have already undergone surgery, which is also another aspect of young females with beauty obsession. It is difficult to find a Korean actress that hasn't gone under the knife...but I'm not pinpointing anybody. Notice how several K-Drama have included less-good-looking supporting female roles around the female main character, probably to emphasize on the protagonist's beauty.

So far, comedic scenes of K-shows have failed to make me laugh, touching & crying scenes don't even sound like crying and heated moments are over reasons, even for my standards, considered lame.

Hmm...

Goodbye, SOUL'd OUT, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Out of the VOODOO KINGDOM at ...
x 3:37 PM x

Thursday, December 20, 2007

|__________| Yesterday I remembered something strange about me ...

I like the colour purple ... o.O" ?

These few days living on a budget, although it's the holidays. Don't feel like studying also. But the class is so smart that if I don't, I can't keep up!

Anyway... today's episode of Bleach is like always. Show a few images of the upcoming movie (22 December 2007), quick recap of the past 7 or 8 episode and then, the actual story.. which still is a recap of the previous episodes. I guess the anime producers/directors/storyboarders/animators can't keep up with the ''1 episode per week'' quota which also reflects on the increasing demand of viewers.

Looking at what it is today, Bleach, the anime has definitely reached a huge milestone. From it's really REALLY interesting start, storyline, occasional quality of the drawing of its debut episodes of 2004, til what it is today... approaching '08.

I guess what's really attracting about the series is that everyone is wielding imba powers and they're only showing the tip of the icebergs. While the main antagonist is just sitting by his chair waiting for the main charactor to arrive, all 5 split up to fight 5 different opponents at 5 different doors so that they can advance further.

So now the storyboard can waste probably 13 to 14 episodes recapping and explaining in detail how the every fight is done. Why can't they just draw a 6th door, which is the exit and meet up with the antagonist str8 so we can see a 5 v 10...

Ok so that's not such a good idea

Goodbye and SOUL'd OUT!

Out of the VOODOO KINGDOM at ...
x 11:55 PM x

Saturday, December 15, 2007

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PLEASE READ .. its lame for blog hopping just to see pictures (although I'm not a very good blogger ... Leave a tag! =DD . Open the pictures in a new window if you don't want to mess up the music.)

Kon Ban Wa! W.Y.K Desu.. ~

December 14th 2007. Probably the last outing of 4F this year. It's been more than 10 months since we left each other onto our own routes. It's been 5 days since I started this post. It came so late cos' Blogger wouldn't upload the pictures.. and I got lazy.. HAHA! Sorry. And YES! It's your lucky day to see Yu Ker wearing a headband. It's not everyday you get the chance...

Morning was lessons as usual with Workshop Practice . Then I dozed off during the lectures. But I still get most of the main points right.

Rushed home via MRT while trying to get the venue and time messaged to everyone. Then at around 1.30 p.m, Jenny was online. And we both decided to meet at Parkway Parade at 3.00 p.m. Prayed to God on the way to praise us with a fine weather. Took the 1st picture of the day with Jenny 'floating' up the escalator.

Jenny

HAHA.

Supposedly wanted to get some speakers. But the electronics departments don't have any compaitable with mp3 players. O well ... Head over to Giant to get some tidbits.

Halfway through the supermarket, Jenny felt really giddy all of a sudden. I really dont' know what to do if she'd fainted ... hontoni ! But like her outlook, she remained quite strong with carry on with the day ahead.

After that, we cabbed to the McDonald's outlet at East Coast, withdrew some money and went on. But the crappy thing is ... OUR PIT IS AT PIT 15! AND WE'RE AT PIT 27 OR SOMETHING. So we walked walked walked to pit 15 only to see the delivery man there with our stuff that I ordered days ago.

So it was just Jenny and me, 4.pm in the afternoon with dark clouds above us telling us to shoo ~! So... surrounded with the cold, raw food that we ordered (except for the already cooked Otah), we began our hours-long wait for the rest. But I guess I'm partly to blamed for my poor estimation of time. And even though I tried to 'cheer' her up, she looked like "Why am I with this boring lamer ??". To be honest, if there ever were a moment where i felt like leaving for home after going through some serious tons of effort, probably 4.27 p.m was that moment. I guess sometimes, peanut doesn't really go well with butter. But religion-wise, I still believed in the prayer I made earlier.

And it did hapened ! Inevitable rain sudden just swept past us leaving only very slight drizzle as traces. So we endlessly chat to kill time although she was doing most of the talking. Then from behind, Wee Loon appeared just like that almost like an Angel. HAHA, that definitely lifted our spirits. Ryan and Nicole appeared at the background too. Time to get the BBQ officially SUTARTAE -- ED! Ryan and I started the fire while the rest got the frozen food out to defrost.

And yes, that's me wearing a headband. The charcoal wasn't really of a user friendly fuel. The fire went out most of the time due to the wind and fire starters were using up ! Managed to get a few satays ready while Joanna, Geraldine(s) , Yee Pei and Kian Lun arrived. YAY! more people.

6.00p.m and still not many of the 4F to be seen. Also was sad to be reminded that many could not turn up at all. Hmmm..

Skewers on the chicken wings

Jenny look a little bit too serious . . . =O

Next, we saw Kris walking towards the pit. =DDD. Our Lucky star with more fire starters and master chef. Evening was setting and all of us have a nice chat by the fires. Another familiar face, Vincent appeared too! LOL cool ~. Sorry I didn't answer your calls. Kudos to Ryan, Kris and Vincent for the BBQ-ing and keeping the fire alive. Next... we realised pit 15 is around 600m away from the nearest restroom. =O

HAHA! I've learnt some physic powers

Suddenly, all boring atmosphere dissipated into the thin air ..." Fwwaaaa ~". The last of the guests were Sharol, Jy2, Tedja, Norwin and Sebastian and all of us enjoyed the potato salad with bacon bits =). Wee Loon took some pictures without flash on! So the end product seemed quite dim... but haha, he really has a nice perspective for photography.

Errr... ?

Me and Sebastian !

Vincent ? LOL !

Sebastian looks like hes looking at the satay ... ~

Me + Kris !!! =OOO

SHAROL HAD INTERNET ACCESS IN EAST COAST PARK!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? CAN TELL ME ?? HAHAHA. Then , everyone went friendster/blog hopping.

Finally.... Some group photos to have fun with.

Leaving soon ?

Haha ...they suddenly camera-shy

Sharol looking at Norwin ...

See... Everyone can look so nice when they pose. :)

Face off ! Round 1 .... (pictures courtesy of C. Wee Loon a.k.a Starzdrops.) Look carefully at the back! =O

Then... It's more group photos again! This time .. with mina - san ~ (everyone)

LOL... there's a story behind this picture... but I think it's better for all of you to guess what it is ...

Aww... best friends.

According to astronomy forecasts on that day, shooting stars can be seen at night from Singapore's view. But I guess they can't be seen from here at East Coast Park. But maybe Xiang Rong at Pulau Ubin did ? o.O"

Bye so soon ?

???

The most amazing and rare photograph of Jy2. Worth gazillions on eBay. (lol.jkjk)

Want to zi lian already then kena caught by me .. and suddenly camera shy. LOL ?

Jenny looks like someone from this picture ... but she looks cute ! =)

Me + Wee Loon

Please keep the park clean ... by Vincent

Hmmm ...

HAHA! Norwin attract attention (He covered 2 people behind)

What's Ryan doing?

I've got a feeling Tedja likes to look at Sharol ...

Me and Jy2.

Aiya... forget to turn off the red eye .. LOL!
From right : Jun Yong , Ryan and Yu Ker

From left, Yu Ker , Ryan , Norwin and Jun Yong ...

Singapore Polytechnics ..

Ngee Ann Polytechnics ... .. HAHA!!

Heok Tao

Sian ~ ~ .....

Haha.. we cleaned up ok ?

Haiz...so many people couldn't stay overnight. O well... at least there are cards. Now that I think back, playing card games with Guo Lin, Sebastian, Norwin, Zhi Heng and Vincent somehow trained me in some ways. HAHA! Miss those years.

14 December was fun... really fun. Now that I think back on those days, it's kinda hard to imagine 2 years went past just like that. But then again there's always the future to look forward to right? For me, every second spent at pit 15 of East Coast Park was well-spent.

Lastly... I want to thank this very special person that has been always there at every outing and every gathering of 4F over the months.

(huh? me ? watashiwa ?)

LOL... yes you. If it hadn't been for her, I probably don't know how to start planning the BBQ and cancelled it. Thank you for your patience and time. Best wishes and special thanks to Miss Jenny Toh. Treat you to dinner next time ok? HAHAHAHA!!

Saving the best for last?

HAHA... don't know why they did this. At least they aren't camera shy anymore. =)

Want to take a seat with me ?

Lastly ... THANK YOU to everyone who turned up and made this December's BBQ a great night to remember. Hopefully there are more gatherings like these to come in the near future and before us guys enroll into NS and more of the rest turning up! Merry Christmas for the next 6 days. Take care!

Before ending. Let us wish Sherlee all the best with her new family.

And so for now ... It's Goodbye and SOUL'd OUT! ( aaah! finally finished )

Out of the VOODOO KINGDOM at ...
x 3:59 AM x