Sayonara 2005... Konnichiwa 2006... Year 2005 has been one of the most happening years in the world as well as in my life. Year 2005, the world sees the ongoing bloodshed in Iraq and the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami as one of the main global events. The death of Pope John Paul II is also one of the most likely events to be remembered by history. July 7 London was devastated with the bombings that left 56 people dead, including four presumed Islamist suicide bombers.





Despite the devastating events, the world also saw the marriage that ends all speculation of a relationship which has spanned the decades since they first met in 1970 – the marriage between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles on 8th April, the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland in September 2005 and the latest event (and I mean late-before-the-year-end-est… hehe) on December 21st, Sir Elton John tied a knot with David Furnish whom he had been together with for 12 years. In the movie industry, 2005 brought the making of 5 famous all-time favourite books into movies - Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire (which is a disappointment actually…:p) and Memoirs of Geisha and The Da Vinci Code which will be released in the year 2006. Not to forget the return of Kong in the remake of 1933’s King Kong to the big screen.

Malaysia itself saw some of its worst too – in politics, who can forget the “Keluar dari Malaysia” case and the shocking untold story of the strip-search case. On 20th Oct 2005, the country had mourned for lost of our Prime Minister’s late wife, Allahyarhamah Datin Seri Endon Mahmud. The country’s clean environment was yet again threatened by the haze caused by the burnings in Sumatra around the month of August.

My life’s course itself took a 180 degree turn when I decided to stay back in Malacca while the rest continued on with their industry training. The decision had not only put me in a very tough situation and earned me the fact that I might not be able to graduate together with the rest of the gang but it had also helped to improve my CGPA and I’ve definitely learned a lot from it. Being with Hammy has its ups and down too. Nonetheless, we still have a long way to go. This year, I’ve learnt so much more about softwares and hardwares and I even learnt how to fix up my own HDD and CPU. And who can forget DotA… the one game that nearly every guy in town is crazy about. Hahaha... FYI, I’m not the only girl player. And I definitely cannot forget the incident where I escaped death, unscathed and had indeed developed a phobia...bleh.

Up until the year 2005, I have lived up to 22 years of my life in this world. And yet it seems to me that life hasn’t changed much since when I was 16 or 17. I’m still wearing the same old shirts that I wore back when I was in Beta year! But I cannot alter the fact that the two-way roads of Malacca had been turned into one-way streets, the flyover in front of the hospital had been fully built, there’s “Breadstory”, “Burger King” and “Starbucks” in Malacca, my room’s furniture has been rearranged more than 3 times and in less than 6 months, I’ll be out in the real-world as a fresh graduate, earning my own cash with a permanent job, paying bills and living the life of a working adult woman. I can’t say that I’ve not worked for people before but to embark on a journey of another 30 to 40 years of working life is totally different from a part-time job that I used to take during holidays since after F5 and I can’t say that I’m not a teensy bit scared. Being a student for more that a decade (17 years to be exact) has made me so accustomed to the life of going to and coming back from school/campus, sitting in front of the TV/PC whole day, taking a nap in the evening, slowly taking my time doing homeworks/ assignments, spending whole day at home, sitting for exams and holidaying during long semester breaks has made me so reluctant and afraid to move on. I don’t know what my future holds for me because even though I’m taking a Software Engineering degree course, I believe that I’m no programmer. I don’t think that I want the life of sitting whole day in the office and staring at a bunch of confusing codes that I can’t understand, trying to debug it. I have lost the determination I had when I chose to change my major in F6 from biology to physics and thus forfeited my dream of becoming a surgeon. I can still remember how much effort I put into studies when I was in school. But I guess things changed for a reason.

When my mum fell sick the other day, I suddenly realize how much older and weaker she has become. She used to be this strong woman that carries me around when I was young and sometimes chased me around the house with a “rotan” when I made her angry by sneaking out to play or accidentally breaking her favourite vase/plates/cups... :p I really can’t imagine how my life would be like without her. I can’t believe how much she’d changed and how much I’ve grown. Oh, how I missed those times...*sniff*sniff*




Sorry for being so emotional all of a sudden. Well, as the dawn of the last day in the old year ends and the start of the new year begins, we just have to move on. We can’t stop time and we can’t stop ourselves and people around us from aging. Kids will grow up, parents will grow old, Malacca roads will change and Malaccan drivers won’t… I guess this is just the circle of life. Happy New Year 2006!!!

If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in the other persons heart.

If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love him or her, feel honored that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain.

How you deal with love is how you deal with you, and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are different.



"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly"


If you fall in love with another, and he or she falls in love with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame, let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will know in time.

Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away.

Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you.

Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in anyway you can.

There is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so long without love, they understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as empty places that will be filled by love, and they begin to look at love as something that flows to them rather than from them.

The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, but as their love cools, they revert to seeing their love as need. They cease to be someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks love.

They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift and that it can be made to grow only by giving it away.

Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its own time, its own seasons, and its own reason for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into saying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. But if it chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do.

Love always has been and always will be a mystery. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life...

(WARNING: KONG SPOILERS!!!)

The legend of Kong continues in the big screen with the remake of Merian C. Cooper’s 1933 original version of King Kong by Peter Jackson. Yeah, you heard me… it’s none other than Peter Jackson who brought to live the great battles in LOTR trilogy and the extraordinary world of Middle Earth!

King Kong was so great that it will leave you glued to your seats even if it’s a whole 3 hours and 7 minutes movie! It is soooo… worth it! I believe that it is the best movie I’ve seen so far this year – definitely a whole lot better than Potty and Narnia, of course.


The Empire State Building... can you spot where Kong is?
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ANSWER: Tadaa!!! Spotted ^^

Kong seems to be a lot smaller compared to the one in the 1976 version and instead of the usual Kong that goes around terrorizing cities and everyone, in this movie, Kong was portrayed as a more emotional creature. He has his fun antiques, his portrayed his egoism manner especially when he had managed to save Ann from the Vastatosaurus Rex (not one but three V-Rexs!!!) and he enjoys watching beautiful sunsets from his cave high up on the cliff, overseeing the valleys. It’s really amazing how Peter Jackson was able to capture the magical moment between Kong and Ann when they were reunited again in the streets of New York and the scene continued on to the snow-covered park where Kong slides around on the ice with Ann on his palm in a brief moment of happiness before being ambushed by the army. It was simply beautiful.

There’re so many scenes that I enjoyed watching… but there was this one scene that left me absolutely breathless – the Brontosaurus scene. . It was the part where the Brontosauruses were running away from the Venatosauruses. The crew that was sent to save Ann including Jack Driscoll and Carl Denham happens to be around the area and soon were caught up in the mist of the chaos. Imagine yourself trying to escape from a stampede of 80 to 120 feets long dinosaurs and ended up actually being below them as they run pass you. Few of the crew were squashed while the rest were merely an inch from death... scary~~~


Tua cicak au be...CHAO!!!

It seems that this version of the film includes a sequence in which the crew was attacked by swarms of giant insects after Kong makes them fall into a chasm. This scene is based on a sequence that was cut from the original 1933 film which had believed to have displeases some of its audiences. And although there is no explanation of where Kong comes from, unlike the 1933 film, bones of huge gorillas are visible in his cave, implying that he is the last surviving member of his species, an explanation that Peter Jackson has offered in interviews.



Lead stars in 1933 film (left...duh!!!) vs lead stars in 2005 film (right)

The movie did make some references back to its original 1933 version like when Carl Denham was considering who to replace his lead actress, Maureen before he meets Ann, he suggested "Fay", but his assistant Preston replied "Fay...no, she's working for RKO". Denham muttered "Cooper" under his breath. Guess what? In 1933, Fay Wray would have been filming the original King Kong at RKO with Merian C. Cooper directing. During the ship voyage, Denham filmed a conversation between his stars Ann Darrow and Bruce Baxter. The exact dialogue was used in the original 1933 film from the meeting between Ann Darrow and Jack Driscoll. And the performance and costumes of the dancers during Kong's New York stage appearance is nearly identical to the one done by the natives on the island in the 1933 version of the film.


Before I continue with the review, let us have a look at Kong’s official filmography:-



1933 – King Kong
Made his first debut to the big screen with director Merian C. Cooper. The film starred Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot.


1933 – The Son of Kong
A sequel to the successful film King Kong, it tells the story after the dramatic finale of its prequel. Director, Carl Denham now charged with numerous lawsuit due to the destruction done by Kong, fled New York to return to Skull Island and soon befriends with Kong’s easy going albino son, Kiko but the movie was a box-office failure.




1949 – Mighty Joe Young
A movie brought to you by the same design team responsible for King Kong with the story written by Merian C. Cooper and Ruth Rose and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack. It is a story about a young woman named 'Jill Young' who is living on a wildlife preserve in Africa. She ends up bringing Joe Young, a giant ape as huge as King Kong but is still along the lines of 10-12 feet tall to Hollywood, California.




1962 – Kong vs. Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla (キングコング対ゴジラ - Kingu Kongu tai Gojira) is a 1962 film produced by Toho Studios in Japan, directed by Ishiro Honda. It was the third installment in the Japanese series of kaiju (怪獣), literally meaning strange beast or mysterious beast, films featuring the monster Godzilla.




1967 – King Kong Escapes
King Kong Escapes (キングコングの逆襲 - Kingu Kongu no Gyakushû, literally "King Kong Strikes Back" or "King Kong's Counterattack") is a 1967 US/Japanese movie produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass in which Kong faces both a mechanical double, robot Kong (sometimes referred to as Mechani-Kong in the film's Japanese version) and a giant theropod dinosaur known as Gorosaurus.




1976 – King Kong
Also known as King Kong: The Legend Reborn) is an American motion picture directed by John Guillermin with several major story differences from the 1933’s film. The movie stars Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange and Charles Grodin. The whole film production crew was replaced by a petroleum corporation’s exploratory team and instead of climbing the Empire State Building, Kong climbs one of the towers of the World Trade Center.




1986 – King Kong Lives
Following the 1976 film, also a John Guillermin film, after being shot down from the World Trade Center, Kong was kept alive in a coma for about 10 years. When another Kong-sized female gorilla is found, a blood transfusion is arranged from the female and an artificial heart is installed in Kong. With a functioning heart, Kong escapes from the facility and seeks to procreate with the female Kong still held in captivity.




1998 – Mighty Joe Young
A remake of its 1949 version, the movie stars Bill Paxton as Grey and Charlize Theron as Jill Young and is directed by Ron Underwood. The ape is somewhat larger compared to its original version, and yes, the pair again goes to Hollywood, California

And finally the movie of our decade,



2005 – King Kong
A movie directed by Peter Jackson (woohoo~~~) and starring Jack Black as Carl Denham, Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow and Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll. It is a movie that relives the 1933’s experience with a touch of advance technology to truly bring out its best. The movie climbed from an initial budget of $150,000,000 to a record breaking $207,000,000, making it one of the most expensive movie ever made (sixth in line from Cleopatra (1963), Titanic (1997), Waterworld (1995), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Spiderman 2 (2002)).


Now here's…. A full review of the movie:-



Old New York town

The movie opens to a set of 1930’s New York. Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is an unemployed comedian and stage-actress whose theatre had recently been closed down due to lack of money. Carl Denham played by Jack Black, on the other hand is a filmmaker whose films does not go over well with his investors’ expectations. When he discovers that they no longer interested in funding for his next movie, he steals away and quickly arrange a trip to leave for his next shoot. As his main actress had decided to pull out, he went around town finding for her replacement. And that was when he stumbles upon Ann. He convinces Ann to join him in his latest movie and soon enough, she boards the "Venture", a tramp steamer supposingly on its way to Singapore. Denham also tricked a screenplay writer, Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody) into joining the journey in order to finish the script. The ship leaves just in time for Denham to escape the police.

On board, Denham then reveals to Jack that he has come into possession of a map that leads to an island known as Skull Island, not yet discovered by anyone. He decided that it will make a spectacular footage for his new movie. Meanwhile, Ann being a fan of Jack’s play fell in love with Jack.


The "Venture" in the thick fog, stumbles upon massive rocks

One day, the captain discovered that there was an arrest warrant out to get Denham. So, he decided to change course and head toward Rangoon. But soon, a thick fog sets in and the ship was steered off-course. They then find their ship caught in between massive rocks. The next day, as the crew tried to fix the ship, Denham decided to bring his production crew ashore. Soon enough, they were ambushed by the angry natives. Some were killed before the rest were saved by the ship’s captain. They returned to the ship and whilst they were busy making preparations to leave, a native slips on board and kidnapped Ann. Jack realizes her disappearance and soon the whole crew went ashore again in hopes to save her. But they were too late. She was tied up during a ritual as a sacrifice or offering to a giant ape which the natives called, Kong.

Kong lives in a massive jungle where prehistoric creatures have been protected and hidden for millions of years. After some discussion, the captain allowed Denham and Jack to go and look for her, with 15 of his armed crewmen. As they tracked through the jungle, the crew had a number of encounters with the local fauna – being merely escaping from a Brontosaurus stampede. Meanwhile, Kong brings Ann home and in an attempt to keep Kong from killing her, she dances and does tricks to amuse him. But when she tops, Kong become angry and after he failed to intimidate her, he leaves and ends up finding the rest of the rescue crew near a fallen tree. After being attacked by the crew, Kong went berserk and threw them (they were on the tree trunk) down the valley into a ravine with giant insects like the moonspider the size of 6 to 8 inches long and loads more geli-fying creature. A number of the crew was killed but the rest were again saved by the captain. Jack decided to go looking for Ann on his own while Denham, losing the camera and film due to the fall decided to capture Kong and bring him back to New York City.


The crew crossing the huge tree trunk

When Kong left, Ann decided to escape but soon encounters a huge V-Rex. She escapes only to be found by another V-Rex and soon there were 3 Rexes going after her. Kong appeared and defeated the creatures whilst protecting Ann from being eaten alive. They went home and she soon falls asleep in his palm. Eventually Jack found Ann and they managed to escape when Kong was busy defending himself from being attacked by a colony of giant Terapusmordax (huge ugly bats).

Kong then catches up to them but instead of retrieving Ann, he had walked into a trapped set up by the captain and Denham in attempt to capture him. Kong breaks free and the rest of the crew ran back towards the ship. Kong went after the crew but in the end he was successfully captured by Denham, who smashed a bottle of chloroform across his face.

Back in New York City, news of this captured giant beast made highlights in cinema and theatres. Denham puts Kong on display in front of large audiences on Broadway with chains which he claimed was made of chromed steel, holding Kong. Shocked and frightened by the press flashbulbs, Kong broke free, went after Jack whom he recognizes for “kidnapping” Ann from him, destroyed the theatre and ran amok through the city in search for Ann. Ann, who realizes this situation went around finding for Kong and soon both were re-united. Kong then calms down and took her to a snow-covered Central Park where he slide around and both enjoying a moment of happiness before they were ambushed by the Army

Kong then ran towards the Empire State building with Ann in his palm and soon was climbing up the building. Six armed biplanes appeared and stats firing at Kong. Kong puts Ann down and began climbing higher towards the top of the skyscraper. Kong managed to destroy 3 of the planes but was badly wounded. Ann tried to stop the planes from firing by waving and shouting at the biplanes to stop but to no avail. In the end Kong succumbs to his injuries and fell off the building, plunging to his death.

It was truly a wonderful movie with actions and emotions blended into one. It was definitely the humans fault, like how Audrey puts it. Kong never would have died if they never stepped foot onto the island or if he did not went after Ann and fell into the trapped. It was indeed a sad story but it is also a MUST watch. Best to view it on the big screen. Definitely a great movie to end the year 2005 with.

Have fun and don't forget to finish up your FYP!!! Hehehe....

DAY

• Woke up at 9am - Thought of bringing Hammy's family for a tour around Malacca but they already know their way around... don't need susah susah come fetch me... ^^
• Called GSC at 10am - Line engaged.
• Went to GSC to get tickets at 11am - Queue was so long that some even gave up waiting and walked off - This is where your unorganized Inbox and Photo gallery comes in handy - Spent whole time deleting unneccessary stuff that when I looked up, I'm like 2 people away from the counter... ^o^
• In front of counter at 11.50am - 10 tickets costs RM90 - Found out I didn't have enough cash - Asked the woman to keep it for me and rushed to the ATM machine.
• Reached the ATM machine to find another long queue (=_="') - patiently waited for 15 minutes.
• Returned to the ticket counter at 12.20pm - Got the tickets for King Kong (10.50pm show)

- Mission accomplished -
*to be continued

I've been out whole day since 7.30 am till 5.00pm. Been going from campus to home to Tesco and to Jusco... After enduring an entire 2 hours of revision class in cold freezing "winter", Mr Suryanata decided to change the System reliability assignment's due date to Tuesday(27/12).... shessh!!! Then I went for breakfast with Chak and Moses and they lepak with me till 12pm. Whilst we were standing outside FIST office and checking out girls (hehehe), I spotted a girl in orange sweater and it suddenly hit me how much her height and size fitted Moses! Hahaha... That was when Moses said, "If she pass by here another time, I'll go and ask her name"... Well, an hour or so passed, she didn't return. Then at about 11.30am, she came walking up the stairs towards CLC! Hah!!! And guess what Moses did??? He said, "If she pass here for the 3rd time, I'll go and ask her name" Bah! We urged him to go after her but in the end the nearest we got to was (yeah, the whole gang, now joined by Naresh went...hehe) ... the CLC lift. Sigh~~~ Wonder how it would be like if Moses were to ask her for her name?

Went to meet our (me, Yeng Chin and Wee Ming) FYP advisor, Mr. Lau at 12pm and he was very pleased with the prototype... I remembered he mentioned how good the flash was (me! me! me!) and how good the webpage design was (Yeng Chin did one leh~~~ hao li hai oo~~~)...Bwhahaha...

Later after meeting Mr. KMLim for our AI assignment, I went back to fetch my dad for a shopping spree... we went to Tesco and JJ for groceries and ready-made tang yuen... Came back and made pizza for dinner and later had a online conference with the gang for tomolo's Christmas Eve plan. Can't wait for steamboat at Johnny's and King Kong movie at 10.50pm!!! Woohoo~~~

Once in every Trimester, there's bound to be sleepless nights like this...

AI assignment 1 due... 23/12
System reliability assignment due... 23/12
FYP prototype due...23/12

And once in a rainy Christmas...
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Hammy's parents comes for a visit... 23/12

:p... By the way, Happy Dong Zhi or Winter Solstice Festival!!! Can't believe that Raymond, HM and Alister made tang yuen... Yupz, guys these days...^o^ If you guys are reading this, you still owe me a bowl of tang yuen ohh~~~ Hehe...

God works in mysterious ways. It's really funny how when you needed Him the most, He's always there to guide you... I'm not here to preach to you about my religion or my beliefs but here's another story that I want to share.




Well, a few years back when I was going through a very tough time in life and that it was so bad that it felt endless, I happen to stumble on a saying that went like this:

God grant us serenity
to accept what cannot be changed;
give us the courage to change
what should be changed;
and give us the wisdom
to distinguish one from another...
-Reinhold Niebuhr-

Those words helped me through the next few weeks of my life. And when everything's done, I wasn't able to find the same page again in the book... till now...

Since it's Christmas season, let me share something I find quite... interesting...

On the night, not long after this happened, I received a message from a dear friend of mine who knows nothing about the incident. And the message goes like this...

God will be...
above you to bless you,
below you to support you,
before you to guide you,
behind you to protect you,
beside you to comfort you,
and inside you to sustain you...
Take care...

Note the sentence I've highlighted. Ponder about it...Coincidence? Spooky huh? ^o^

(WARNING: Ahoy!!! Spoilers ahead...)



Big big mighty poster

Hahaha.. enough said right? I hereby declare that I prefer Narnia to Potty. And it’s not like I’m this hardcore fan as proclaimed by Audrey... ^o^

Anyway, the movie’s.... good, not Lord-of-the-Rings-trilogy-fuiyoh-fuiyoh good (if you know what I mean), but it’s more like a kids-movie-and-it-follows-the-book good. It’s like watching you imagination come to life and that’s what I like about a movie that’s an adaptation from a book. You’ve got to keep the story and characters all in. And Narnia’s got all that. When I first saw the trailer, I thought that maybe they would’ve cut out the part when Lucy stumbles into Narnia alone and met Mr. Tumnus like what they did to Potty’s Triwizard, but I can’t believe that part was in too. As a matter of fact, it was the whole book there! I’ve sat in the cinema for the whole 2 hours watching the book I read come to life (well, my battle was more cruel with blood splattering and all…*teehee). They even included the last part where the adult version of the children stumbles back into the real world! Things can't get any worse!



I do think Edmund is cuter than Peter..^^


Well, I have to admit that the children weren’t that of a good actors and actresses, but it wasn’t as bad compared to that after-4-movies-and-you’re-still-as-bad-as-ever fella. It’s their first time, anyway. You didn’t see me complaining when Potty made his first debut. And it’s not as if they really suck and all but I do think that Peter should be taught to hold a sword before hand. He looks as if the blade might just bend over and strangle him to death. He can’t even lift it up properly. And talking about weapons, let’s comment about Susan. I thought Santa said “Trust the bow and it will lead”. Didn’t it missed when she was practicing and Lucy’s dagger hit the bull’s eye instead? Well, seems to me, the bow was given to her for nothing. She didn’t even go to battle.



The white witch was pretty stiff at times, though (don’t’ really like her in Constatine as well) and check out HER wardrobe. Dressed for every occasion, I’d say. I like the part when she went to battle with the so-called lion’s mane wrapped around her. Looks pretty M-A-C-H-O la konon... hehehe...
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Yeng Chin said that Aslan looks a tad-bit skinny. Yeah, I do agree with that. As handsome as he is, he does look a bit skinny for a king of beasts.



And Audrey dear, Mr. Tumnus does not look like a pervert! He looks just as normal as a faun can be (as if I’ve seen one myself…haha) Anyway, I don’t know why Lucy is very fond of him, maybe because the book says so, but I do feel that there’s nothing wrong with Mr. Tumnus, only the fact that maybe we’re too old for the his type of character. Try asking a 5 or 6 years old what they think about him. They’ll probably be jumping with joy like Lucy. And the part where he held her hand in a so-thought-bzzz-bzzz-adalaaaa-sort-of-way, probably means nothing other than friendship – We adults think too much laaa...

But there’s a scene which I think that everyone did get a shocked from was when Edmund was walking through the statues, the wolf jumped out and pawed him. Made you jumped, didn’t it?

The battle in the movie wasn’t as good as LOTR, of course. Some parts are really funny especially with Mr. Beaver dressed in chain-mail and some parts are pretty lame too including the part with Aslan jumping onto the witch and sort of biting her and all but we didn’t exactly know what happened to the witch in the end.

The unicorns wasn’t obvious enough, they look like any other normal horses with just an additional horn on its head. And the words uttered by Aslan during crowning ceremony were hilarious. Yes, I do read it in the book but it’s not as funny as watching it in real life. King Edmund the Just??? Wonder how it would be if we decide to call him, King Edmund the Betrayer…:p Lucy’s valiant…okay, but I prefer to call her Lucy the Brave, Susan the gentle???!!! No comment… And Peter the Magnificent? Well, way too much flattery for a battle he nearly lost…



But there are some things to look forward to in the movie (if you haven’t watched it... where have you been? Mars???), the loving Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, I like the part when Mr. Beaver brought the children home and Mrs. Beaver going like “You could’ve give me 10 minutes” while she brushes herself, and Mr. Beaver replying, “Even if I’ve given you a week, it wouldn’t be enough!” and the both of them holding hands as they walked around…so cute~~~, the centaurs of course, the witch's castle, the scene at the castle Cair Paravel, the battle between beautiful good creatures and ugly bad creatures and some here and there funny taglines. I guessed that’s about all... although it does seem magical enough to me and I was pretty satisfied with the movie, I can’t seem to find anymore interesting parts to share, I wonder? Well, not bad for a guy who brought you academy award winning movies like Shrek, eh?

Nonetheless, I recommend this movie to those who loves children’s fantasy-like movies and to those who had read the book and enjoys a truly good book to movie type of show. Do not ever compare it to Lord of The Rings although the whole world and creatures in both movies are created by the same special effects team and do not expect much of a battle scene. If not, you'll be walking out of the cinema RM8 short and feeling like there's something very wrong or missing in the movie like what Moses felt....hahaha... Watch it without much expectation and you shall not be disappointed. Enjoy!

Here’s a snipet of the movie:-

It’s the World War II and the children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy were sent off to the countryside to live with a Professor. Since it was raining the day after, the children had to stay indoors and Lucy suggested that they play hide and seek. Whilst finding for a place to hide, Lucy stumbles into an empty room with only a huge wardrobe inside. She did like any one of us would too, pulled down the sheets covering the wardrobe and went inside. She decided to leave the wardrobe door cracked open and as she kept her eye on the room door for Peter (he’s the seeker) through it, she started to beckon herself into the wardrobe. Deeper and deeper she went until she felt something prickly poking her back. She turns around and found… well you’ve guessed it… the snow-covered land of Narnia.

She, of course went in and went wandering around till she reached a lamp-post in the middle of the forest. There she met Mr. Tumnus, who was passing by on his way home. He then invited her back to his house for tea. In his house, he decided to play a Narnia folk-tune for Lucy but it made her fell asleep instead. He was attempting to kidnap her for the white witch! But later on, he decided to reveal the story to her and helped her to escape. She went back out through the wardrobe and went straight to Peter only to find that he had just finished counting… She brought them there but the wardrobe turns out to be JUST an ordinary wardrobe. That night, she went there again just to check whether it was all her imagination but this time Edmund, who came back from the loo, decided to follow her just to torment her more. Instead of finding the back of the wardrobe, he stumbles into Narnia. Lucy was no where to be found and he, instead of meeting Mr. Tumnus, met the white witch herself. After realizing that Edmund is the son of Adam (which actually means a human boy), she showered him with his favourite Turkish-delight and promised that he’ll be king of Narnia if he brings his siblings to her.

Right after she left, he found Lucy and they went back into the wardrobe. Lucy went running off to tell Peter and Susan and insisted that it wasn’t her imagination at all and that Edmund had had witnessed it too. But too bad for Lucy, Edmund acted as if he had just been playing along. The next day, the children decided to go outside and were playing cricket when Edmund accidentally hit the ball through the window upstairs. They went in to find the window broken and a suit of armour scattered on the floor. When they heard footsteps coming their way, they decided to run and hide. In the end, they stumbled into the empty room with the wardrobe again and as the footsteps came closer, they crammed themselves into the wardrobe. And that was when Susan and Peter found out about Narnia. Lucy wanted to introduce Mr. Tumnus to them but to their horror, Mr. Tumnus were taken away by the witch’s police and his place was in a wreck. Later the children met Mr. Beaver and they journeyed on in hopes to save Mr. Tumnus. Edmund in the other hand, had not yet forgotten about the witch’s promise and the Turkish-delight of course. But failed to convince the rest to follow him, he went on himself to the witch’s palace. When the rest realized what he had done, it was too late. So to get their brother back, Peter, Susan and Lucy joined forces with Aslan to defeat the White Witch. There was a prophecy that two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve (here meaning human girls) will come to Narnia one day and free it from the clutches of the White Witch, Jadis who had made it winter for the past hundred years and no Christmas. And there their adventures began.


p/s: For a more detailed review, click here... I’m far to lazy to write the whole story out…^^ And for more of Narnia experience, click here. Now, I’m waiting to watch King Kong and The Da Vinci Code.

... The Santa, The Mischievous and The Chair...

This is a story about something that happened not very long ago. It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Bear Hill.

Once, there were four big children (da hai zhi) whose names are Lawrence, Moses, Sin-Lin and Chak (both Sin-Lin and Chak are not really featured much in this story but I thought you ought to know). This story is about something that happened to them when they were exploring the kingdom of Jaya Jusco.

Just so you know, Moses and Lawrence are two very mischievous boys. They are not all evil or bad boys that tend to torment little kittens and puppies but at times they are just plain naughty. One day, when they realized that they have finished their food supplies, they decided to journey to the kingdom of Jaya Jusco, which is famous for supplying the land of Bear Hill with loads of delicious foods and wonderful goods.

After walking for some time, Lawrence decided to stop and rest at a furniture stall. Little did he knew, that Moses was sitting not just very far from him. While Lawrence was sitting there, minding his own business and trying to act “yeng”, a thought came into Moses’s mind.












Oops....







Then suddenly Santa appeared... riding on a rocking wooden horse! (well after he’d seen what was happening from his home in North Pole, he didn’t have much time to set up his sleigh and tie-up his reindeers and reindeers aren’t very friendly if they were asked to work without meals first. Plus, he was working on his new rocking wooden horse)



Santa was able to stop the fight and gave both a very good scolding each. The boys then were very sorry with what they did.

And that would have been the very end of the story if it hadn't been for kind old Santa and being the very kind soul he is, he decided to give both the guys a gift each and since some of his elves called-in sick this year, he will need some extra help in his factory. So he brought them over to help him out.


Don't you think he looks like an elf? :p




While Chak was being a good boy and not getting into the fight earlier, he was given loads and loads of toys for Christmas!!!




The moral of the story is... someone is always watching you including the guards or the salesperson in JJ (when you are up to stunts like these) and one can never watch or read too much of The Chronicles of Narnia.


The story above is purely fiction and has no relation with anyone, dead or alive. If there is, it is merely coincidence or your imagination only. Do consult a psychiatrist. No Santa, rocking wooden horse, chair, Christmas hats, pigs, snowman on rocking wooden horse, toys of such or any characters featured were harmed in the making of this story. This story is a copyright of bluepig20.blogspot.com...