Aftershock vs Legend of Chen Zhen

Yesterday watch 2 chinese movie. One from Hong Kong. Another from China.

The 2 movie is good example of what a good story can do to a movie.

The first movie Legend Of Chen Zhen(精武風雲．陳真) is made by Hong Kong. With Donnie Yan (Ip Man), Hsu Qi, Wong Chau Sheng etc as its cast. And background story of Donnie Yan as the legendary Chen Zhen. If you are not sure who is Chen Zhen then please watch back Bruce Lee movie Jing Mou Mun. With Donnie Yan doing what he do the best, beating up the bad guy. With Hsu Qi as the sexy singer/hostess, and with Chau Sheng as a underworld tycoon, yet the whole movie is a failure. Story that fail to create drama, building up suspense or have any twist. It is not suprise at all. And the hero that suppose to save the world, well it just feel like Ip Man now trying to be Spiderman. Especially when this guy always stand at the roof looking at the Shanghai city.



Now the second movie is a much more different movie. The movie name is Aftershock(唐山大地震) The cast of the movie is not someone famous. At least I only recognize two name in the movie. The director Fong Xiao Kang and the actress that act as the grown-up daughter. The story is a tragedy and touching one. It is not that complicate without any love story, complicate motive, conspiracy. Yet the core of the movie is the great acting by the cast and thus most people who watch this movie will be crying. Yes I did cry.



Anyway, a few weeks back, when I watch Ip Man 2, I mention that, the reason that Ip Man 2 great is not Donnie Yan fighting skill. It is the story and director ability in presenting this story in such a way that the drama, the suspense, the mood is slowly build up. And so the first movie Legend of Chen Zhen that I watch show how true this is, coz it still is Donnie Yan fighting. But it is not even 10% as good as Ip Man 2. The 2nd movie, with a good director, succeed in making a good movie.

P/s: Aftershock(唐山大地震).. Highly recommended but prepare some tissue. I purposely don't mention anything about the story so that you all can watch it yourself.

Countdown....6 more days.....

So abt my cat lover photo and video? no one like it? coz dun see any comment. :P

Anyway, about my left ear hearing problem, right now all seems ok. I can hear normally.
But like the specialist say, this is just temporary solution. I know he is telling me the truth, coz it is my ear anyway. I know if now I use cotton to try clean the ear, it may cause the middle ear wall to swollen again and causing the airway to close. Thus making me lost hearing ability for left ear. Well not fully lost, I just can't hear outside sound, but I can hear my own hearbeat. Something like when we cover our own ear and concentrate, we can hear the internal heartbeat sound.

Specialist suggestion is to perform a surgery on my left ear. Make a cut behind the left ear, remove the bone that is hardened and then see new bone growth. If everything is ok then good. Else they may need to do something else.

Typical answer from a specialist, "I will do my best to cure you but I won't guarantee you are cured. And you need to pay even if not cured."

However I wish to be really cured and healthy again.... So I choose to undergo this operation. Scheduled to do it on 30th September 2010. Probably lose hearing again for a few days after the operation. And maybe some headache or body balance problem....

If you interested to know more, can read the medical term at this website.

For all my kitty cat lover friends

I never know that I am so in love of these cute darling. But when I see cute video or photo of them, I just feel I need to share them out. (><)

Kitty that hide inside the crouch.

Whack A Kitty.

Kitty looking for food.

Kitty Begging for Food.

Sleepy Kitty.

Mean Kitty.

Tom And Jerry?

Suprised Kitty

Playful Kitty

Cute cat photo

Finally, warning to all my Kitty Cat Lover friends

Life is always full of bump and turn

Life is always full of bump and turn. It is hard to have a straight smooth road in front of you. That is what I can say about what happen recently.

When I see the racist issue that starts again in Malaysia, I just feel bad. I really feel want to comment or just write down my taught about it but too bad, I am in Malaysia. Not a place that really support “Free thinking, Free speech ” country.

So let’s talk about other bump that happening to me. Since August 27, my left ear have some hearing problem. Or I should say since years ago. Anyway the story is quite dramatic and long. But the summary is now my left ear is half deaf. I can’t hear sound from outside. But if I concentrate, I will be able to hear my own heart beat using my left ear. The specialist say there is acne at the middle part of my ear airway, causing the wall to swollen so much that it blocked the airway. Thus I can’t hear voice from outside.
Tomorrow I will visit this specialist again. Let see is there any solution to my problem or that I will be like this for the rest of my life.

Another bump. My trip to HK is gone. I am not sure is there recent change to policy or it is due to travel season in HK, but the price for accommodation and airplane ticket to HK has gone so high that it is almost same as going to Taiwan. So now, bye bye HK. Maybe next time.

And Taiwan welcome me, pls. I am coming on 14 Nov and will be there till 21 Nov. Expected to spend this year birthday at Taiwan. So excited when I think about it.

Now why would I say this as bump coz when you can travel it is a great things.
Well this I have to relate back to my last trip. Last year I plan for Taiwan trip and I ended up going to Korea. This year I plan for HK trip and I ended up going Taiwan. So if next I plan to go Australia, will I ended up travel to Hokkaido? Just another turn that always remind me, we don't get what we want but still it may not be a bad thing at all. :P

Dream

Dream is a simple words but can have many different meaning.

But what I want to share is about a dream movie I watch yesterday.
Movie name is Inception.

It story basically means there is people with the ability to go into your dream world and then slowly find your hidden secret in your subconscious mind. To be honest the whole idea is very unbelievable to me cause the movie make it sound like so simple.

Just give the person some medicine that will make them sleep in a stable and peacefully. Stable in a way that unless a very specific way is use. Else you can't be wake up. Like even if I slap you face also you won't be waking up. Only when I drown you in the water, you will wake up.

If really such a medicine exist, it gonna be wonderful for surgery/medical I guess. Coz it sound less side effect compare to the morphine etc that is used now.

Anyway, once you can accept this part, by just tell yourself, this is a movie, then you can have enjoyable time of going to dream world.

It is quite fascinating to see that you can control the dream world. Mess with the normal physic, build a bridge in front of you when you want.

Too bad I dun know how to do it. Else I will imagine a Ferrari or Bugatti Veyron for me to drive. :P

The movie introduce a very interesting idea. One that I do believe is real. The time in a dream is not same with real life. So if you in first dream world, 5 minute may means hours in real life. And if you go deeper, it can go for days. At 3rd level you can be in dream world for years when you are just sleeping for a night. That means you can experience your teenage time again and again provided you can control your dream and imagine the different path of life that you possibly take in your life.

Give life a 2nd chance. Something that many people wish.

Oh yeah.... one more thing need to share is, after watch movie, you possibly tell yourself. I don't want to dream anymore. :P

I want this... I want that....

Have you ever feel you want to have this and you want to have that but you just can't?

Everyone do, right?

Recently my company have staff performance evaluation. Normal staff where the boss and you have a personal talk that boss will tell you what he hope or expect from you. You need to show what you want like to be transfer to another dept, or to progress in your career.

This part is where I guess I fail. Coz I never really think of what I wish to do in my career. My aim is just to earn more money and satisfy my other craving in life. Coz I already give up on those so called dream job or job that I do what I like. I mean dream job like getting 10k a month and doing nothing etc. Or be able to do what I like as a job. Coz what I like is play game. So can I be a professional game player? I am sure I can't.

So when boss tell me, I am now XX age. I should think of what I want or how I want to progress in my career. If really want to think of what I want, I can make a long long list.

Like first, I want to travel to Hokkaido, Japan. To this place :

Also want to go a lot of other place to travel and see those pretty scene with my own eyes.

But then even simple thing that I want also I may not be able to achieve.

Like I just want someone to go watch a movie with me. And even that also I can't seems to find anyone to do that with me...

Well I guess I have to go alone...

Divine message to my future LOVE

Today gone to Thean Hou Gong for prayers. I try to qiu qian or divination for the love Omen and guess what is the answer I got...

總是前途莫心勞，求神問聖枉是多；
但看雞犬日過後，不須作福事如何

This means... God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.

Your future is in your own hands. Wok hard for it and don't resign entirely to divine help. Cheer up, good tidings will be forthcoming for you.


So God is really great. Coz it really tell me the most correct way for what I wish to ask. I maybe should be the one that take first step first instead of sit here waiting.

And thus I go online search. Another explaination is that I should just relax. Take it easy like Long Vacation. Coz after 雞犬日 thing I wish will show. 雞犬日 can means time, day, months and year. For my situation I believe is either months or year. And that means after August and September if it is month. Which is a good thing coz October not too far away from me now. (^^)

And Roster and Dog year if year. Which is very bad coz Now is just 2010 and to wait for Dog year to pass, that will be 2019. 9 more years.

So my future love gonna be waiting for in October 2010? or in 2019?

I think better trust myself. And enjoy my freedom now first. After all, marriage is a very scary thing. :P