Public Enemies Review

This was an unplanned movie experience. I was actually going to college to get the results for my previous semester but thanks to the effectiveness of the college, we had to wait for the schedule to be released after lunch which is after 2pm. I got at the college around 11.30am so after taking my results and registering for my next semester (which is Pre-Degree finally!), I still have a lot of time to kill. Luckily I was with a few of my friends. Went to a restaurant and had lunch there and went into the hostel area to hang out with some other friends while waiting for after lunch. There, one of my friend invited us to go watch this movie so lacking of a better thing to do anyway later this day, we agreed. After taking my schedule at 2 something and taking my cheque at 3.30pm, we head for KL. There were 6 0f us including me, going by 3 cars with 2 peeps in each. Parked the car at Berjaya Times Square and then walking to Pavilion for the movie. Since I bought the ticket late, I had to sit on the third row from the screen with Anas. Bought a large popcorn & a couple of soft drinks since we were starving anyway.

The story is about John Dilinger, played by Johnny Depp who is a head honcho of a notorious bank robbing crew who are John Hamilton, Baby Face Nelson, just to name a few. There are very good at what they are doing and they will only rob the bank's money and put away the customers' money. But of course no crime is without it's fighter. With the rise of crimes in the 1920's pf Chicago, a talented police is extracted on the case for Dilinger named Melvin Purvis, played by Christian Bale. Earlier through the movie, Dilinger has also a love interest in a girl in which I don't remember her name in the film nor her name in real life. But she's a big part in the film. Through the course of the film, we see Purvis and his Investigation Bureau chase down Dilinger who is very hard to locate due to his strong influence around his company. I was told that it was based on a true story, and that this particular John Dilinger is the reason why there is FBI today.

I'll tell you earlier, this movie is not for people with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder - the disability to concentrate on something for an extended amount of time) since it is full of story and it is 2 hours and 15 minutes. Yes I know movies nowadays are mostly around 2 hours. Nothing in this movie is improbable as it was based on true story anyway. Therefore for people who's looking for some fabulous hollywood post-effects won't find it here. It's pure movie all the way. The first half of the movie is honestly pretty slow and I admit I am struggling to try to understand what is happening. It's the second half where the first half of the movie really make sense and things becomes interesting. As the law enforcers gets closer to Dilinger the drama heats up and becomes more personal on both side of the party. Gangster life has never been portrayed like this before -- well not this proper at least. And to my favourite part of the movie, the gunfights. They are nothing like you've ever seen in a movie before. If you think you know how a gunfight looks like well watch this movie and get it redefined. They were nothing short of astonishing. it really steals the show. Both sides weren't just spraying bullets as it was absolutely free of charge but rather with a very realistic kind of gunfight. The gun sounds were loud, which is how they supposed to be. And usually during these firearms engagements, there are no background music to give the fake environment. It is pure environmental ambiance in the background. It's the movie with one of the best gunfights I've ever seen anywhere. Every single shot fired in this movie has one thing in which I don't see in many movies, existence. In most movie, they put more attention onto the quantity of shots fired, but in this movie, it's quality, and sometimes both. Johnny Depp was great, Christian Bale too. Great actors as they are. Keep in mind though this movie is not for everyone. It's not the normal action flick you see out there. This is not an action film, it's a gangster drama. And I kinda like it.

Gunshots still ringing in my head, 7.5/10.

My 3rd Semester Final Examination Results

I am not going to display it here because I'm too lazy to do so and it wasn't so good anyway. So if you want to know it, personally ask me about it. And if I feel like it, I'll tell you. And if you're really lucky, I'll be honest about my results :P All I can say is, it's above 3.0 and it's the lowest I've got so far. Not sure if I should blame myself but hey, who else is there to blame?

I think I want to blame my economics lecturer but everyone will say I'm this and that so... oh well. Whatever.

At least I didn't fail anything and therefore I'm still grateful.
All good things come from God, and all bad things come from yours truly.

Why living in Malaysia is a bliss

Actually there is of course a lot of reasons to it but I would like to press on one reason that is...
We have holidays for every celebration!!!

Honestly guys, since my class started back in December, I have been having as much holidays as I am having classes. And most of the time if the holiday is on a Tuesday or a Thursday, the pupils will request the lecturers to postpone the classes on Monday and Friday respectively to a later date so we can have a longer holiday. This is so great. In this 3 weeks in particular I have been having a total of about 10 days of holiday. Yup. Believe it. If you can see our calendar there should be celebration for everything and since Malaysia consist of 3 major race, we do give respect to them by giving out holidays. Some people told me that countries like England only get 3 days of holiday annually. That's like so sad. In Malaysia I guess there's about a total of almost 20 days of holidays annually, even more if you're still studying.

For now I've been on leave because of new year 2009 and just last week I have got 5 days of holiday because of Christmas. Not that I don't like holidays, I love it! Just wanted to say something about it. Starting next week, everything will start to be normal again. Yup. I'll be going home on Fridays by Komuter again. Until Chinese New Year near the end of January that is! And my Finals for this semester should be in the first or second week of February. And then a month of holiday!!! Oh good gracious God thanks for making me a citizen of Malaysia. I'm lovin' it!!!


Anyways,
Hello 2009! Hopefully it will bring more sweet memories ;-)

My new PC

Since I started college, I have been planning to get a PC instead of a laptop that everybody uses in college. So on the 26/12 I went to the famous IT spot in Malaysia, Low Yat Plaza. I've always wanted to custom build my PC so I did. The budget was something below RM3000, minus the monitor. Well it didn't got that high. It was "just" RM2600++. Want to know what I got for that much? I'll tell you in a bit. But first let me tell you about the day.

I went to Low Yat Plaza with my whole family excluding my younger sister. So we got out of house at noon. Just in time for the Friday prayers. After the prayers, I and my father walked to Sungei Wang Plaza to join the rest of my family for lunch at KFC. After that we walk to Low Yat Plaza and went straight to a computer retail store named Thunder Match. There I got a staff and told him the parts I need. All of the parts are from that store except for the processor which I got from PC3 and the speaker is from AllIT. The processor was a pain to look for and the speaker took a number of stores too. The monitor was courtesy of my father. He happened to have an extra one. The PC assembly was also done by the technical team of the store too free of charge. When I got home I only have to install the OS and the drivers. And the end of the day, I still found all I wanted. So here are the parts of my PC:

• Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 8MB Cache Dual Latency
• Motherboard - Asus P5K PRO 775
• Memory - Kingston HyperX DIMM 4GB DDR2 800MHz
• HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500GB 32MB SATA
• Graphic Card - Asus nVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 512MB GDDR3 w/HDMI
• Disk Drive - Lite-On DVD+/-RW 20x Dual Layer
• Casing - iCute P4 ATX 500W Black w/ blue neon
• OS - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
• Mouse - Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
• Keyboard - HP ergo-Keyboard
• Speaker - Sonic Gear Evo 3 Pro
• Monitor - HP L1908w 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor

In short, I'm very happy. Now I have my own PC. A high end PC to top it off. I'm very grateful. And it's a PC . So I can upgrade the parts as time goes by. I'm thankful to my parents for forking out money for this (half of which is mine) and also God for answering my prayers. Hehe. Now let's get cracking!















P/S: rase cam nak tambah lg 4GB RAM. Huhu.

Ice breaking session

Actually this was an unplanned event. This happens in a particular English class on the 23/12. The lecturer did say something about making the class "as interesting as possible" so she came up with this. After doing a random essay as ordered by the lecturer to check our grammar and composition, the next hour of the class was utilized with this. For your information the students of my class changes according to subjects so I never had the same set of classmates every time.

In this session, we had to stick a piece of paper on our backs using a cellophane tape to our backs. Everybody seems so excited for this event while yours truly, as always, was just uninitiated. Hehe. Anyways, we were given around 15 minutes to write on each others back before we were asked to sit in a circle to discuss what were written. This is what I've got. No edits.



Wow I've got so many positive comments! Thanks peeps! Even though I don't know you. Well, maybe it's because you don't know me that I was given such comments. Huhu. Nonetheless I am not the same person in class as I am out of it. So the following is an evaluation of me in class. Oh yes and about the "Masih single!!!" comment I also did state to the class that I'm unavailable. Hehe.

The time where we had to tell everyone what we think about what was written on the paper was hilarious! I was really LMAO!! Haven't had such a good laugh in a long time. There are a few in which I remember that was just tickles my sense of humor.

• "Thank you for borrowing this pen"
• "Belanja"
• "You look like a chinese" to a chinese guy [this one made me laugh into tears]
• "Poor you. Buy new jeans" to a guy wearing jeans with holes at knees
• "I am ugly"
• "I am unattractive"
• "Top up free ade?"
• "Free top up?"
• "Kick me"

And some more which I just can't seem to recall. But it was funny alright. The class even took 15 extra minutes and nobody complained. Random people giving random comments are funny.

In a nutshell, random is funny.

My college's Foundation students motivational talk

The motivational talk was being held on the morning of 20th December 2008, which is on a Saturday. For your information, I am someone who goes home from college every single weekend. Well due to many factors of course such as free food, cleaner toilet, and more comfortable beds. But the most important this is I get to go online! Which is the main reason why I go home on the Friday afternoon although the motivational talk is just the morning a day after. Why waste energy and time? Well, because I just love going online late at night. There's a sense of serenity to it. And joy.

So the night before I had to wake up early in the morning, I slept around 4.30 due to some Skype activities. So you guys must be thinking "Wow this guy is one lousy planner who doesn't manage his sleep at all!" Well, you're partially correct. My sleeping hours is all over the place but hey, for some reason I can postpone my sleep hours and replace it later. For example; if I sleep for only 4 hours tonight, I can replace the remaining 4 hours of sleep the following day, or recently, I didn't even replace my sleep. Huhu.

Ok back on track. So I asked a very dear person to me to wake me up at 6.40am. I did wake up. But since my dad can send me to the bus station, in which I had to take a bus to my college, gave me around an hour of spare time in which I utilized to the fullest by some extra sleeping time. Hehe. But thanks to the person who woke me up earlier to that I slept with my subconcious mind still perfectly awake. Can you do it? Hehe I can. So I woke up at 7.30am, took a shower, had cereals for breakfast, and got sent to Kajang's bus station to catch a bus. The bus didn't have air-cond for God's sake! I don't know whether the AC unit of the bus is broken or maybe the driver is just feeling cold, but you know what happens when air doesn't circulate in a confined space, the incubation of odors. I ignore all of that and took the available oppoturnity to semi-sleep. Hehe.

So the bus arrived to the bus station at exactly 9am, in which the talk is supposed to start. The bus station from my college is about 500m away so I had to walk. When I got there thank God the talk hasn't started yet because the speakers close the door before they start talking in which late entry will induce people to look at you as the center of attraction when you're opening the door. Ok wouldn't need that extra publicity. So the talk went on continuously with no 5 minutes break whatsoever until 12.30pm. Luckily the speakers wasn't as stale as stale bread and they really managed to keep us awake. It was fairly entertaining. They do have a good sense of humor though. Luckily. There was also a session in which they would call a volunteer to break an arrow. Yes that arrow. How? By pressing the pointy part of the arrow against a spot below your neck. Touch for the softest part on the lowest part of your neck. Yes that was where the pointy part of the arrow applied on in order to break it. Well the tip of the arrow is not as sharp as a spear as all of you have in mind now. It's pretty blunt actually but with velocity, it does penetrate stuffs.

So before they press that arrow against that part of the volunteer's body, they asked him to call upon his closest friend to give some supporting word. Out of no where he suddenly said my name! I barely know this kid and truthfully I'm a little annoyed by his childish attitude. So at first I thought,"Ok this must be another guy named Rezza or Redza or any other spelling that brings the same pronunciation". Still in a state of disbelief I look everywhere around the hall in hopes that he meant some other guy. And then he pointed at me. Ok now this guy is really freaking me out. When did I became his closest friend is beyond my knowledge. So the speakers asked me to say some final words before he goes on with it. Refusing to think hard for a good thing to say, I just said "Have fun". Everyone laughed. Yeah I guess that is a pretty good dark sarcasm I have there. A pat on the back for myself. Hehe.

After all of that, the talk ended on 12.30pm. The talk was ok. Nothing I didn't know or heard already. Still a worthwhile though. The jokes alone is a good reason for travel I guess. And there was a quote that the speaker quoted from another quoter and I do think it's a very good quote that I want to share with everyone, and everyone should trust it too. Regardless of who you are.

In the end, everything is going to be OK. If it's not OK, then it's not the end

My 3rd semester

My class will commence this Monday (15/12/08) and this semester will go on until the 10th of February in which I'll have exactly a month of semester break (baru lepas cuti dah ckp pasal cuti lg. huhu). This will be my final semester for my Foundation in Computer Sciences before I start my hell on earth namely the Higher National Diploma (HND) or also known as Pre-Degree, in which I prefer to refer it to. Thaty will go on until March of 2011. For this semester I will only have 3 subjects which are:-

• [IMM1043] Multimedia Principles
• [PEC1013] Introduction to Economics
• [HLE1123] Technical English

I still don't know how I will bare with these subjects but hopefully I wouldn't have a problem. IMM sounds good. Hopefully it would be as simple as last semester's IT. PEC is a new thing for me. But I already have a personal trainer. Someone who is willing to help me with it. Thank you so much! You know who you are ;-) HLE is also a new thing to me. I don't know how it actually is. But if I'm not mistaken it's more about grammar and comprehension with a deeper look into it's usage.

Since this is a short semester, there will be no mid term exam, straight to the finals.

Hopefully I can perform better than my 2nd semester. Keep on supporting me, peeps!

My 2nd semester final results out

Well I'm not a genius as you can see. But I'll try my best to be closer to it.

• Academic Communicative English 2 (ACE2) - [A]
• Engineering Mathematics 2 - [B]
• Pengajian Malaysia (Malaysian Studies) - [A-]
• Introduction to Programming - [A]
• Introduction to Information Technology - [A]

*there's no such thing as A+ in my college

So in short, I got 3As, 1A-, and 1B

CGPA=3.73

ACE2 - It's English with emphasis on grammar rules and comprehension. If you frequently use English this wouldn't be difficult at all, denying all of people's claim of "English ni susah la. Kau bleh la kau terer". So I didn't get to this "terer" stage magically though. It's not difficult seriously as long as you have interest. Trust me.

Maths - Thank God! Last time I got a C. An improvement! Hopefully I can do better and consistently imrove through time and effort. Though the effort part does come a little harder. Hehe.

PM - It's history for the uninitiated. Emphasizing on the important and significant events of generally Malaysian history. Involves a lot of reading and memorizing. Earlier experiences of studying this subject during high school does give a hand. This isn't helped by the fact that the lecturer isn't really someone who keeps you awake. Ehem.

Prog - It's simple when initially, but when everything that you've learned is mixed in seamless kind of way that is sometimes takes more "nurture and attention" to actually notice is quite confusing at times. Haha. That's a long sentence I typed there. Try reading it in one breath and as quick as you can. Hehe. In a nutshell, not for everyone. People with great interest only. I do get confused with this subject too most of the time. Huhu.

IT - A very general subject. If you're up to date with the current IT world in general, this subject is a mere speedbump. Huhu. Fairly simple. I did its Test 1 within 5 minutes! And got an A. Whether you want to believe it or not is your choice. The lecturer is my mentor in my college's mentor/mentee program. Barely benefit from this program though. I don't see the use.

Well, improvement from last semester. Hopefully I can be more consistent. And hardworking. Hehe. Thank you for all of your support. Couldn't have done it without some of you ;-)

2nd sem holiday ending

My 2nd semester college holiday is coming to an end soon. Turns out I did nothing in this holiday. Nothing to unwind and de-stress before my new semester starts. Well. Maybe I might as well bring all the stress forward into my next semester. What else can I do anyway.

Void

My holiday has started a week ago. Until now I have no plans of going out or anything. I have been staying at home doing nothing. Well, actually I have been playing games and get online due to the lack of activities. Hehe. Still it's very boring to do those things all the time and I really want a breath of fresh air. My headaches are still there as usual. Nothing I can do about it I guess. I'm getting fatter. Yeah. Believe it. Somehow I am getting fatter. Need to lose weight. My college life is very depressing. Very very depressing. For combination of things. I want to take this holiday as an oppoturnity to destress. Before I start a whole new semester of more pressure and tension. My semester break, all of them, has also been shortened to around 2 weeks to save time and cost. Therefore I'm the one who among my friends the last to start my holiday but the first to end it. Humph. Guess there's no time to lose then.


P/S: Probably going to PC Fair in December. Anybody wanna tag along?

On 2nd semester holiday!

I am home!!! Well, only for 2 weeks. My class will commence on around the 15th of December. So for all of you out there that have anything to be done with me, such as outing invitations, dinner invitations, things to give (or borrow. hehe) please do so in this very brief 2 weeks. And due to time constraints, I think I'll manage to only get an L car license. Yeah, I still don't have one. Humph. Better than nothing I guess.

Kpd para pelajar INTI yg baru dpt result

Setelah membaca menerusi beberapa blog korang mengenai result korang yg baru kuar, nampaknye sumer org pun tak dpt result yg memberangsangkan. Rilek la. Kalau sorang2 je dpt result camtu bleh la gak nak sedey2 tp ni hampir sumer org pun kecewa gak. Nampak sgt sama ade paper dia susah giler atau mmg cara pemarkahan diorang agak tegas. Kesian plak aku tgk. Sumer sedih & stress je.

Sesungguhnye stress tu tidak bagus kerana bleh menyebabkan darah tinggi, dll. Aku contoh terbaek. Aku ni high blood jgn tak tau. Huhu. Eh bukan hereditary la family aku takde sejarah ade high blood. Aku yg develop sendiri atas faktor2 luaran. Aku selalu pening kepala. Dan sakit kepala tu mkn ubat byk mane pun tak leh hilang. Sesuke dia je nak hilang bile. Oleh itu jgn la korang nak stress, sedih atau kecewa. Gagal itu sebahagian dr hidup kan? Eceh kemain lg aku. Huhu.

So korang rilek je la. Result tu dah kuar. Korang stress, sedih atau kecewa camne sekali pun tak leh tukar dah so tapayah la nak mengabehkan boreh nak susah hati. Mungkin sem ni la korang tak baper bagus sgt tp at least skrg korang dah tau kan mane korang lemah. Bleh improve next sem sbb dah tau. Jgn jadikan alasan result teruk utk seksa diri sendiri plak. Play hard study smart la. Ehehe ceh aku ckp mcm aku ni hebat plak. Hehe.

Jgn stress ye! Take it like a man (or woman) and tell the whole world that "I failed and I'm happy about it!!!" Erm. Ok mungkin tu tak perlu tp don't take it TOO seriously la. 1st sem foundation maa. Jauh lg perjalanan korang.

SMILE!!!

Bak kata pepatah Inggeris:

There's always a silver lining behind a dark cloud

My 2nd semester final exam

On the date of writing, that will be tomorrow and will be going on until the 21st and then one final paper on the 25th. Well, I consider this next weekend a holiday already. Since the last paper is just IT. Which is not as difficult. Wish me luck everyone! Hopefully I'll get good grades and surpass my 1st semester's CGPA of 3.5. Don't fail on me, Mathematics! Huhu. I really wish everything that I read will come out at the right moment and I will have no words puttting it in words. Can't wait for the holiday! Will be blogging again when I get back from college. Until then, adios!

The importance of deodorants

Deodorant comes in many forms. Some roll on, some sprays. Whatever shape and size it comes in, it has one purpose; to prevent you from stinking! It is very cheap and affordable by everyone even from the most difficult family. It it usually used after a shower.





Now you must be wondering why am I rambling about such things? Well, maybe because...

OH MY GOOD GRACIOUS GOD SOME OF YOU CAN'T FREAKIN' APPLY THIS FREAKIN' CHEAP AND SIMPLE PIECE OF ITEM AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOU STINK!!!


Ehem. Now back to my collected self.
Before I tell you what's wrong, the following description has nothing to do with stereotypes. I believe there's no particular race that is better than another one. It's just whether those of you who don't wear deodorant realize how much you stink!
Ehem.

Now, on one peaceful and shady evening, I'm on my way home by bus. Initially, I'm sitting alone and the bus was pretty vacant too. After going through a few small towns, the bus gets crowded. There are the school kids and there are people. This particular guy sat beside. He emits this particular funk that will make any nose hair fall due to its toxicity. Well, except to his own. If he still have any. He have a bad case of B.O (body odor) and he's sitting beside me! Aargh! I can't breathe properly even and if there's anybody noticing they could see my face being blue due to holding my breath. Half and hour later, I arrived at my destination and took a big exhalation of gratitude and salvation. Huargh!! You know, if you really really don't have money for deodorants, I propose you start saving RIGHT NOW! Ugh. And this problem is of course highlighted among men, but ladies, know your role. Deodorants are essential and if you don't have any then I suggest you stay home! Euw.


In a nutshell,
EVERYBODY STINKS

but if you wear deodorant, that stink wouldn't be smelled so it's fine ;)


P/S: I think the inventor of deodorants should win a Nobel Prize.

Bored at the college

My 2nd last week here for 2nd semester. Can't wait for the holiday. Life is very depressing here actually. I don't have a lot of friends and my only entertainment is my mobile phone. I spend most of my time in the room attempting to study, sleeping or messaging people. Anti-social? Well, probably but we shouldn't put it that way. Huhu. All of my assignments are done, final exam preparations are underway. Just waiting for time to come for me to get some holiday. I need recuperate with my hobby. Hehe.


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