Im thinking...

..of starting a side Graphic Design blog. Well for now. And only so I can brag about it during my job interview next year that I do have a life besides school homework and lazing around. Or something like that. Its probably going to be past homework submissions.

District Sembilan

Seeing my previous movie reviews (Dragon Tiger Gate and The Prestige) were epic fails, I've decided to try a hand at it again to at least put my LimKokWing school fees to good use (Film Studies class. Cesar will be proud!). So, I'll give it a try with Peter Jackson's District 9.


With great time at the TV comes great knowledge of advertisements or so says Uncle Ben thus led me to watching District 9's trailer over and over and over again. But still I had no fockin' clue what the heck the movie was about. All I knew was it was about aliens and a place called District 9. I also noted how there was no focus on the cast but rather on the name Peter Jackson (in case you didn't know, he was the director of LOTR trilogy and also nabbed the Best Director Oscar). In other words, instead of selling the Hollywood cast, he was selling his name and reputation as a director, thus leading to GSC selling District 9's tix at RM6, unlike G.I. Joe's RM9 tickets. They probably googled Peter Jackson's filmography and came up with Lord of the Rings and deduced that he was an Orc extra on set and assumed he's some B-grade actor that settled for some Hollywood wannabe alien sci-fi movie. Maybe. Don't get me wrong, I do respect him as a director for casting Orlando Bloom as Legolas and I think his work is amazing. But that's besides the point. I'm supposed to be reviewing the movie.

To be honest, when I saw the trailer I thought I'd watch it if someone invited me but I wouldn't be the invitee, until my dad saw the poster of the alien mothership. He said he HAS to watch this movie so I said OK and here I am typing this review that isn't going anywhere. Well my point was actually I wasn't that interested in the movie. But after watching it I did. Sorta. Kinda.

What I thought was quite unique about this movie is the way the movie was told. Instead of the usual 3rd person view; watching the story unfold as an audience, it is told in a documentary-like style. Rather than watching a movie, it feels more realistic than just an ordinary fiction. I was expecting the usual hack-slash alien killing action movies (actually my dad was REALLY expecting that) but this gave a more fresh feeling compared to the norm. I won't touch anything about the storyline in respect of the effort they put in keeping us in the dark about the movie's story. There's a reason why the trailer was so vague.

I know the Wachowski Bros. are fans of Japanese mecha and anime, but I'm quite sure Peter Jackson might be one too. Some designs look preeeetty similar to Metal Gear Solid 4's mecha designs (*cough*Metal Ray*cough*). If you didn't get this part, its just the gaming geek in me writing. I just needed to get this out of my system since I can't share this with my dad obviously.

OK I think this review is even shittier than my Dragon Tiger Gate review. At least I made more sense in the latter. Or I just wanted to show off my so called deep observation skills. I DID wanted to be a movie director in one point of my life. I still do honestly. For a very shallow reason. i just wanna be around celebs at work

On a side note, this will be the last movie I plan to watch in Kuantan. There are too many secondary script writers who can't help but express their fockin' ideas.

Classroom Plagarism Law

...is what I wish for. I'm honestly sick of people stealing my ideas and using it for their assignments. Honestly, Idea Thieves are worst than Art Thieves. Not that I've ever had my art stolen, well technically once in LKW, but that was just an idiot who was looking for a free ticket for his life drawing submission. The difference with stealing art is you have solid proof that's enough to defame the poor bastard for life. A signature, raw data file, sketch, anything can be presented to prove that your art was stolen. But what about ideas? There aren't any ways to prove that THAT was originally your idea. In my case,

Case 1 : Limkokwing GDD Semester 3, I made a map for a local tourism poster assignment pointing out the various tourist spots. In the next assignment, TA-DA another classmate used a map as his design. Well maps are rather common so I didn't give that much of a shit about it so lets move on to...

Case 2 : Web Design Semester 1, we had an assignment to design a website for this new shopping mall called Breeze Breeze. My concept was design + youth since the mall was rather artsy fartsy so Breeze = fresh = green and just to throw in something different and young, I used orange as my main colors. We had progression evaluation halfway during the assignment so we got to see everyone's website (which I think was a shit idea cus this whole thing wouldn't have happened if there wasn't one) and this certain classmate's website theme was yellow flowers for borders. Me? I used Flash for my top page and vector motifs and green and orange. My lecturer sort of pointed out my design as an example of a good design for a website as well as commented on using Flash. 2 weeks later, we had our presentation and when I saw that certain classmate's website, it was...green and orange. Just a different shade. And flash. My flash was a vertical image slideshow, hers was horizontal.

Case 3 : My sort of Graphic Design class, in the previous assignment we had to design a summer festival poster. The point of the poster was to attract people by making them think the festival is fun. (which festival isn't?) My theme was to make it look like an American comic and in different panels where the various activities of the festival. Note: I used thick black outlines. The next assignment was to design either Terminator Salvation or Transformers 2 poster leaflet. While walking past a classmate's working station, lo and behold, thick black outlines and....suprise! various panels.

Case 4 : Current assignment and also a design contest. There's no prize money or even any consolation but the chosen's poster design will be up on every corner of Osaka city. Which is a very good thing for your resume and pride. It's a fire prevention poster with the motto that goes something like "prevention comes first"...I think. So I designed all the Osaka icons (eg.: Glico man, Douraku crab, Kuidaore Taro p/s: Sandy if you're going "Wtf is all that shit", I suggest Mr.Google) holding a fire extinguisher. I personally liked how Glico man jumping in the air with one leg up holding the extinguisher up with both hands. My lecturer liked it too. Well, he seems to like everyone's design but I'll take it as he really likes it since he told me to put it in my portfolio. Yes, he only told ME that....I think. So while I was bored I walked over to this certain classmate (refer to Case 2) and she was still sketching her idea and....it was Glico man holding up a fire extinguisher in....both hands! What a coincidence!

End of case study.

Okaay...

After reading MJ's autopsy reports, watching his music videos and live performances on Youtube, I take back what I said in the last post. I'm now devastated over his death. It's such a waste. I'll stop here as I need sometime by myself... eventhough I have lots of that already.

14 more days! Weehoo!

That's counting down to home for the summer vacation. Haven't been posting here lately cus I've been posting on my other blog which is more like an art spam blog. Sometimes I wonder why I bother blogging. It's not like anyone reads either of my blog. But wtf. It's not like I comment on other people's blog unless I'm really close so maybe its just retribution. I'm just not an online community person.

I must add that I have 2 submissions due tomorrow that I have yet to complete and I'm just procastinating by blogging unnecessaryly, while asking myself why didn't I do it over the weekend when I had 48 hours at my disposal. I'm still wondering.

Somehow, ever since Heath Ledger's sudden passing, I think I'm rather immune to sudden death of celebrities. When I heard about Aaliyah, I was like whoaaaa...that was sudden...., as the same with Lisa "Left-eye" Lopes. Okay I admit that I had to wiki up her last name cus I kept thinking it was Lisa Lobes or Lisa Loeb but I vaguely remember a Lisa Loeb with glasses who was white with long blonde hair. Interestingly, there seems to be a documentary on her during her last minutes, just before the accident. Well obviously the part after the accident or during the accident was editted but I'm quite interested in watching that documentary. Anywaaays, my point was that when I heard MJ died, I was just "oh...okay." I think I'm still in shock over Heath's death. Maybe it's because I watched him grow from that troubled teenager in 10 Things I Hate About You to a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain to the best Joker in Batman history. All I remember from MJ was him standing between two trees with the wind blowing really hard while he stamps his feet. Yup, that's the Earth Song, my favourite. Okay while typing this entry I had to look through Wiki and Youtube for reference that I've lost my focus on what I wanted to write. Not that I had a purpose in the first place but whatever. I'll end it here since Earth Song is playing on Youtube right now.

*sigh*

Last week Barrett was admitted into a doggie hospital (or vet if you prefer) cus he suddenly couldn't walk and was diagnosed of being paralyzed. Temporary or permanent, we have no idea because Malaysia has great animal medical facilities that there isn't any MRIs for animals so the vet can't pintpoint where he hurt his spine and how severe it is. He was on meds since last Sunday and til today, according to the vet, he's not responding to the medications, which is a bad thing since its been about a week. Mom mailed me today and said that at the worst case he might have to do surgery, which is only a 50/50 chance and the surgery itself costs a bomb. So she's debating whether or not to do the surgery. And if the surgery fails, the only choice is to put him to sleep because keeping him wouldn't be fair to him since he won't be able to move or walk for the rest of his life. Typing this is already depressing. I'm only hoping that he just bruised or sprained his spine and its nothing too severe and he'll heal soon but its hard to tell since, like I said, the medical facilities for animals here is fucktastic. I just can't wait to see him this Sunday and give him a big, warm squeeze and kiss him. That's all I'm looking forward to this time I'm going home. Sadly I won't be able to spend much time with him this time since I'm not sure when he'll be discharged or if he'll get better during my 3 weeks home.

While I was on the phone with my mom, I heard another disturbing story that she heard from the vet thats treating Barrett. Apparently there are roll up in their shiny Mercedes Benz with their pets to the vet and when they're given the estimate bill of medical costs, they just told the vet to put their pet to sleep, because apparently getting a new pet would be cheaper than paying for the medical bill. Heartless bastards.

So anyways,...

GET WELL SOON U CUTIE BARRETT SO I CAN SQUEEZE U TILL U WHEEZE LIKE ALWAYS!!!!

My fellow people...

Regarding my previous post entitled "Hi! I'm Malaysian...", I deeply regret calling fucker cook,...fucker cook. He is nowhere near a fucker cook. In fact I shall call him Nice-man cook, because, he is indeed a..nice man. Somehow I tried to type this sounding like the President of United States apologizing for sleeping with his secretary but I ended up sounding like Paris Hilton apologizing for her puppy pooing in private property. Well, my point is I take back what I said about him. He's so far the nicest cook at my workplace. Actually they all are. I either look really helpless or they're really nice, cus whenever I try to take something heavy or hot, they'll all stand there and ask "Are you OK?"


Also I would like to apologize to Sony Computer Entertainment. I have decided to back on my word of never owning an Xbox and opt to get a 360 rather than a PS3. I am deeply sorry for the sudden betrayal but at the current situation, I can't even list 5 exclusive games for the PS3 that I'm aiming for. Also, my current financial situation has led to this sudden decision. The price drop for the Xbox360 (about 20-30kyen) is a much better option rather than the 40kyen 40gb PS3. Perhaps one day I shall own a PS3 but just at this moment, I must apologize that I cannot afford to support your company. *floor bow Japanese-style*

Upcoming attractions: Anyone interested in my Japanese written speech on the social studies of the Ah Beng and Ah Lian culture? The information you can get online is truly...interesting. Try wiki.