Before you decide to keep on reading the post below, please be aware that the author does not responsible for any physical or mentality changes that you may experience after reading this post which may include saliva drooling, sudden duck craving or drum-rolling stomach.
WARNING!! JUICY AND DELICIOUS FOOD SHOWN IN THIS POST ARE TOTALLY NON-HALAL!!
We all love chicken rice, which is obvious almost everyone's favourite. But sometimes we need some changes and fresh air, right? So, how about Donald Duck rice?
No, not this famous Donald Duck. But this....
On Monday of this week, Jackie called for a gathering since Ying Zi will be around town. Those who attended this quak-quak gathering include Jackie, Ying Zi, me and Evelyn dear, while Victoria joined us as well later.
The duck rice that we had was Sun Ming Restaurant, located at Taman Connaught, Cheras. It is about 15 minutes drive from the city centre and this could be one of the best duck rice I ever had in years.
We have Google Map to show you the location... (Click the picture to enlarge)
We ordered half-a-roasted-duck and a plate of RM 15 char-siew for the four of us.
More up-close of the roasted duck...
...and the char siew...
With Jackie been the photographer, you will only see three of us here only.
By the way, you want to hear to a joke? While waiting for our duck rice to come, I noticed that we have different type of beverages on the table. Then I started to say how our life is like 4 bottles of different drinks.
Here comes Green Tea's Theory of Bottle-drink with Human's Stage of Life.
WHEN YOU ARE BABY, you drink milk WHEN YOU ARE TEENAGER, you drink Coke WHEN YOU ARE ADULT, you drink beer AND WHEN YOU ARE OLD, you drink chinese tea.
Have you ever find yourself in need to urgently get your photos edited, cropped and shaded in time while you are not with your personal computer?
Many of our personal computers are equipped with the readily-installed like Paint or Windows Photo Gallery. For more highly specific editing experience with an up-to-date photo editing software formats, some will choose programs such as Google Picasa or maybe to ever famous Adobe Photoshop.
But do consider this, what if you have an internet connection but find yourself without these important tools and softwares? Easy, you can do editing pictures online. While this is not any fresh news on the sound tubes, www.lifehacker.com has enlisted the Top 5 Best Online Photo Editing Websites (not in any sequence order)
Which smart-phones would you want to buy? Unless you are residing in the United States or some Western countries, you may not see some of these smart-phones in the market yet. PC World review, compare and contrast the hottest smart-phones of the Summer of 2009. (Original article, click here)
The four hot smart-phones are:
Apple iPhone 3G s Nokia N97
Palm Pre and T-Mobile myTouch 3G; each with a large touch displays, slim, pocketable designs and updated operating systems.
Let's see how PC World compares and contrast each, shall we? A symbol of (♥) indicates reviewer's favourite and winner on each category (sometimes, there is a tie)
CATEGORY 1: GENERAL APPEARANCE
iPhone - "Retains the same elegant design as the 3G model - the only difference is that the text on the 3G S’s backing is silver rather than gray"(♥) Pre - "Glossy (albeit easily smudged) back cover and its curved ergonomic shape, but its construction feels a little cheap" N97 - "Has a matte backing and a sturdy body, but it's a bit bulky due to its slide-out QWERTY keyboard" myTouch - "Has a pronounced curve at the bottom, which makes for a comfortable thumb grip"(♥)
CATEGORY 2: WHAT RUNS IT?
iPhone - "ARM Cortex A8 microprocessor running at 600MHz with 256MB of RAM"(♥) Pre - "TI processor running at 600MHz with 256MB of RAM" N97 - "ARM 11 processor running at 434MHz with 128MB of RAM" myTouch - "900/2100MHz processor with 288MB of RAM"(♥)
CATEGORY 3: THE WAY I TYPE
HARDWARE KEYBOARD
N97 - "The horizontal keyboard is superior, though it isn’t perfect. The edge of the display is too close to the top row of keys, and you can't adjust the display's angle or make it lie flat"(♥) Pre - "The vertical slide-out QWERTY keyboard disappoints: slightly recessed, and the bezel lip on the sides and bottom often interferes with typing"
TOUCH TYPE
iPhone - "The portrait-oriented keyboard is slightly bigger, shows you the key you pressed and makes typing easier"(♥) myTouch - "Got used to the software keyboard fairly quickly but it was a bit too tightly packed"
CATEGORY 4: THE HOME SCREENS
iPhone - "Has a more traditional smartphone home screen, with icons for the various applications in a grid"(♥) Pre - "A Quick Launch bar runs along the bottom of the screen, giving you fast access to frequently used functions"(♥) N97 - "has widgets that update your personal Internet feeds in real time on your home screen so that you don't have to open another app to access them" myTouch - "While the N97’s live-feed widgets are useful, I like the overall look and customization abilities of the myTouch 3G"(♥)
Pre - "Pre’s deck-of-cards visualization makes multitasking simple and engaging"(♥) iPhone - "While push notifications are a step in the right direction, it just isn’t the same as true multitasking, and therefore the Pre comes out on top"
NOTIFICATIONS (N97) vs NOTIFICATIONS (T-Mobile myTouch 3G)
N97 - "Doesn’t have a notification system (though some of your info, such as your Facebook account, does get updated in real time via the home screen’s live-feed widgets)" myTouch - "Notifications pop up along the top of the myTouch’s display, alerting you to a new IM, e-mail, app update or the like. To view all of your notifications, you simply tap and pull down the notifications menu"(♥)
CATEGORY 6: MY CALENDAR APPS of iPhone vs myTouch
iPhone - "While it doesn’t receive a huge makeover in OS 3.0, it does get some more flexibility in terms of which calendars you can use"(♥) myTouch - "Natively supports Google Calendar (obviously) and allows you to set up reminders that will pop up on your status bar via the notification system."(♥)
CATEGORY 7: GPS AND DIGITAL COMPASS of iPhone vs N97
iPhone - "The iPhone compass’s elegant interface -- and its integration into Google Maps on the iPhone 3G S"(♥) N97 - "The N97’s compass is a tiny blip in the corner of the Nokia Maps application (which is actually very well-done)"
Here is the result of the review by PC World:
Apple iPhone 3G S (♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥) Palm Pre(♥)(♥) Nokia N97(♥) T-Mobile myTouch 3G(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)(♥)
After hearing the simple verdict by Ginny Mies of PC World, it is profound that iPhone 3G S and T-Mobile myTouch 3G may be the next phones to look for.
New technology applied in these smart-phones but what say you? Do you agree with PC World?
Okay, Starbucks is famous for its highly over-rated and over-priced drinks. Seriously and I'm not kidding. Why not? A brewed coffee in a size of a tiny dinosaur mug also need to cost around RM8.50 and 5% government tax. Now look at the pictures below carefully.
There in the picture, 6 different size of mugs and plastic cup available in Starbucks. This guessing game is pretty easy for the dear reader out there.
1) Simply identified the size of these ceramic-and-plastic-Starbucks-beverage-containers, from A to F.(Hint: Know your Venti, Grande and Tall) and 2) Additional question, how much do you think these cost?(Hint: Probably not as expensive as you think)
Sorry, because GREEN TEA WORLD!! is not subsidized or sponsored in any matter and aspects of all. The author can only hope dear readers will have fun. NO PRIZE FOR THIS CONTEST YEA!!!
First of all, the title above is merely a title. It does not give you any implications that I would say music and politics should never mix. So don't give me those kind of looks that suggesting that I may be misleading you. Okay, I sense obsession and knowledge coming in!
Anyway, our topic for today is "Music and Politics Should Never Mix?" Alright, it sounds misleading again!
According to the Unofficial Green Tea Bern dictionary, the word "Music"defined as a form of entertainment tools that cultivates the music, lyric and melody arrangement and uses them to deliver some form of messages and ideas of life, points of view, hidden codes and other form of expressions to its listeners to highest appreciation as possible. Okay, it sounds like a school kids writing an essay, but my point here is that everyone enjoys music, regardless of music and subjected to the genre they appreciated the most.
Considering music as a form of communication to deliver those joys and saddest moment in a human life, and also recognizing the fat that human do communicates, no one can imagine nor underestimates the important of music in our life.
But what about politics and music had been together?"Politics"are a form of process where people making important decisions that may involves struggle for absolute power, while been influenced throughout the process with ultimatum idealism, religions and intellectual thinking. Okay, can somebody slap me for giving too much academic definitions, please!
Whether music and politics should be mix or not, is not a main question actually because whether our consciousness is still within you or not, I do believe that both have already mixed in the first place. Yes, while I was soul searching the other day, YES - Music and Politics - two separate entities should mix.
When I said they have both mixed up in the first place, they do.
Music influences, so does politic.
Music inspires, politics inspire too.
Music reaches people, politic reaches as well.
Music is entertaining, politics are even entertaining.
(Okay, forget about the last statement.)
In the recent development of entertainments, people now use entertainment as a main idea to create revolution in thinking, to create awareness and to create sensational within the community. Let us step aside a bit from music, just look at movies like Fahrenheit 9/11, a documentary movie that creates sensational political interruption on the events of 911. Implications, it was big and it was absolute sensational as well. Later trends, movie becomes a subject matter of streaming your political sects into the audience, injecting the fuel of passion, patriotism and idealism.
Music is doing it as well if you have been thinking ignorance is something like bliss. As we speaking, let me remind you of the best example we have few years back. In 2003, US invaded Iraq, toppling the then-dictator Saddam but eventually creating collateral damages of death among civilians and US soldiers. In 2004, US President George W Bush was seeking for re-election into the office. It was that time Green Day came into slamming the US policies under Bush administration by producing a mega blockbuster scale album - 'American Idiot' back in 2004. You have heard songs like 'American Idiot' and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' enough, and you will know how much the album, the songs and the band itself become a mastermind that create a new wave of revolution and idealism.
Muse’s album in 2004 as well – 'Black Hole and Revolution', was a tribute to the band’s interests on science fiction and political order. Not really an extreme taste of ‘New world Order’ concept or any reformation concept injected in, but an idealism-creativity to spread the message of ideas for a political stance they believed in. That album went on to be one of the best-selling albums that year.
Not only peoples like Green Day and Muse were doing it, in fact from time to time, even more and more artistes are doing it by fueling their songs with political sentiments that caused uprising in the mentality and virtuosity. Look at US again; music and other form of entertainments did so much of their role during the Presidential Election late last year. I simply believe, see it, feel it and hear it - that music is an instrument to deliver the political message.
People says politics are dirty game of corruption and bad attitude. True, but when using music in a right way, it turns something ugly into something bold and beautiful. As I am trying to say, artistes have a rightful nobility and responsible to turn their good music to nurture their listeners for a push on revolution and idealism for mentality development to the greatest effort to change our society and what we believe in. Music influences our life and we may quickly love a song that pleases us. In the end of the day, music contains the idea of story and it’s like listening to some sermon or speeches of an icon we admired the most.
Too bad, our society still can't accept much of this revolution in life. Bold singers like Jason Lo, our very own Malaysian artistes whom songs like 'Evening News' and'Sleepyhead' are enough to create sensational hits while the story behind the lyrical melody is political-fueled. Yet, we love him.
In the end of the day, even though I am pushing forward the idea that music and politics should mix, it is still best we leave the matter to the outside world of listeners to judge. Music plus politic equals a revolution! Sounds too extreme but I am not an extremist - merely a mentality changes in our society.
So, for both of you, ‘Music’ - play it responsibly and you, ‘Politics’ - please behave and be nice. Okay, I sound sarcastic now!
Last checked on Microsoft Words, 985 words – Just nice!
Sipadan Island is a tropical oceanic island located on the south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah, offshore of the town of Tawau. Located in the Celebes Sea (Laut Sulawesi) and right at the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 3,000 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem.
Sipadan Island is actually a mushroom shaped atoll rising six hundred metres from the deep sea floor, with the island rises above the corals that covered above the millenia old extinct volcano cone on the seabed. Although Sipadan is recognized as one of the five best spots for diving, the designation of Marine Park status for the island since 2005 means diving activity will become scarce and a rare seen phenomenon and accommodation was dislodged from the island ever since.
However, this in line with the establishment of the need to protect the oceanic life and natural ecosystem that consists of the schools of green and hawksbill turtles nesting and mating, schools of barracuda and big-eye trevally in tornado-like formations, pelagic species such as manta rays, eagle rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and whale sharks.
Realizing the natural wonder awesomeness in this tiny rain-forest island, recently Sipadan Island was named as one of the official nominees into the selection of the New 7 wonders of Nature.
The New 7 Wonders of Nature will be an online competition that features an international worldwide voting to select for top 7 nature's iconic landmarks around the globe. Sipadan Island is one of 261 qualified contender to eyeing for the Top 77. Therefore, anyone can vote as long as you have registered your e-mail with them.
This is the official website for the Malaysian Sipadan entry into the The New 7 Wonders of Nature at www.votesipadan.com.
And this is how the selection for The New 7 wonders of Nature will be done. So far, sipadan Island ranks #5 and may stand a good chance to enter the Top 77 nominees. I hope we can reach the Final 21 as well.
This is how you can help our own Sipadan Island to gain more international recognition into The New 7 Wonders of Nature. Follow these simple steps and you will make our country proud.
FOUR. Part one of the voting - please register your e-mail and fill in the necessary particular. Remember you need a valid e-mail OK!!
FIVE. Fill in the seven nominees of your choice. The most important - Sipadan Island (Malaysia) should be placed at #1 of the voting list. The rest fill of the 6 nominees on your top 7 can be choose from anything of your choice on the list. (However, I would suggest that you do not place any of the 6 nominees comes from any of those Island category. I forgot to tell you that Sipadan Island is under Island category and there are 7 categories)
SIX.Submit your vote.
SEVEN. Go to your e-mail inbox and check for an e-mail notification by New7Wonders.
EIGHT.Click on the link given in the e-mail to validate your vote. remember to validate because if you don't, your vote is not considered.
So what are you waiting for. Vote for Sipadan Island. Vote for our proud island to enter the list of international recognition. Sipadan is truly a natural wonder island for the world. Remember, you have till 7 July 2009 for voting, but please do so soon.
Green Tea World!! supports Sipadan Island. So how about you? Thanks for your supports!!
"This mushroom-shaped island is known amongst divers around the world for its unique seascape and exceptional beauty. A rich variety of marine life shimmers through the translucent waters surrounding this oceanic island." - http://www.wordtravels.com/
The very famous late French underwater explorer and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau once remarked about Sipadan Island “I have seen other places like Sipadan… 45 years ago. Now we have found again an untouched piece of art.”
Do you own any gaming console? Nintendo Wii, PS or even an old Nintendo 64? Even a PC game is perhaps considered as one too. These gaming consoles are tools of what making gaming an absolute fantastic experience. It can be a cheap or an expensive entertainment to joyride.
Over the years of revolution that last about 3 decades, the process has changed the way we game. Gaming is like music or movie; a platform of entertainment that constantly change and evolve over time.
Therefore, to commemorate the years of we first play Tetris and Super Mario till the day we enjoy gang-banging heroes in DOTA and till the day we have dizzy blasting zombies' head and boomers in Left 4 Dead, let us look at Empire Online's Top 10 Greatest Games of All Time as voted by internet users worldwide.
10) GOLDENEYE 007 (1997 - Nintendo 64)by Rareware
Green Tea Plays: never played before
"Memorable for: Style. After blasting his way off a frigate packed with grenade-tossing enemy soldiers, Bond hurls himself into a waiting lifeboat - and casually checks his cufflinks before sailing to safety. Could they have captured the character's essence any more perfectly?" - EO
09) SUPER MARIO 64 (1997 - Nintendo 64) by Nintendo EAD Green Tea Plays: ****
"Memorable for: Boss battlin'. The heart-pumping terror of swinging Bowser by the tail in the final challenge, and taking your finger off the action button at precisely the right moment to hurl him into a fizzing bomb. And the controller-smashing frustration of cocking it up the first 100 times." - EO
08) THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE OCARINA OF TIME (1998 - Nintendo 64) by Nintendo EAD Green Tea Plays: never played before
"Memorable for: Equestrian escapades. The intense feeling of freedom when you hopped onto Link's trusty steed, Epona, for the first time, and headed off for a canter across the sprawling, haunted landscape of Hyrule. Unadulterated gaming joy." - EO
07) DOOM (1993 - PC format) by id Software Green Tea Plays: ***
"Memorable for: Turing children into sociopaths. Although it wasn't the first game to use an immersive, first-person perspective, Doom was one of the earliest titles to put players in the shoes of their gun-packing avatar, provoking criticism that the game glorified violence and would surely warp the minds of an impressionable generation of gamers. Why anyone would think that is beyond… oooh, a chainsaw." - EO
06) STREET FIGHTER 2 (1991 - Super Nintendo) by Capcom Green Tea Plays: ****
"Memorable for: The level of detail. Your game may essentially be fireball, fireball, dragon punch, sweep, but for the pros SF is broken down to a microscopic level. Tournament players go so far as to count animation frames, using to-the-millisecond timing to crush their enemies, see them driven before them and hear the lamentation of their women. Or something." - EO
05) SID MEIER'S CIVILIZATION (2005 - PC format) by MicroProse Green Tea Plays: never played before
"Memorable for: Diplomatic double-crossing. There's nothing quite like signing a peace accord with the French and then sacking their capital when they least expect it. If they didn't think anything was amiss with the 10,000 angry swordsmen massing outside Paris then we're saying they had it coming." - EO
04) CALL FOR DUTY 4 (2007 - X-Box 360, PS3, PC format) by n-Space Green Tea Plays: *****
"Memorable for: Adding depth to the blasting with RPG elements that allow you to level-up as you play online, unlocking abilities and weapons as you go. The insane part? Hardcore players voluntarily reset to zero upon reaching the level cap, starting all over again for the sake of a prestige tag." - EO
03) WORLD OF WARCRAFT (2004 - PC and Mac formats) by Blizzard Entertainment Green Tea Plays: *****
"Memorable for: The sheer joy of levelling up. That boom-whoosh sound, the blast of heavenly light and then the obligatory announcement to your team/guild mates ("ding!"), followed by a welter of chat-channel backslaps ("'grats!"). Now, what to spend that talent point on…?" - EO
02) FINAL FANTASY VII (1997 - PS) by Square Enix Green Tea Plays: ***
"Memorable for: The shocking, heart-rending death of Aeris (or Aerith, if you were playing in Japan), the wide-eyed flower girl and the protagonist's love interest. If you didn't choke back a sob when Sephiroth ran her through and cast her body into the water then you've a heart of cold, black stone." - EO
01) SUPER MARIO WORLD (1992 - Super NES) by Nintendo Green Tea Plays: *****
"Memorable for: Great expectations. When the game came out, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto claimed SMW wasn't as good as he'd hoped, and that it would've been better if he'd had more development time. It may be the greatest game ever but, if it hadn't been rushed onto the shelves to compete with Sega's Sonic The Hedgehog, it could have caused all of us to transcend to a higher state of being." - EO
On another note, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson has passed away....
So RIP King Of Pop (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009)
Ok, as a tribute, here is the Live version of the ever popular Black Or White
Muse, the alternative British rock band out of Devon, England has been a major force in changing the tunes of alternative that we used to listen for years. Muse' music is fun, energetic and always filled their live performance with visually stunning and highly tempo performances. Although they promotes a vibrant sound of alternative rock, but they also infuse a techno jingle and emotion episodic touch into their musics.
PERSONNEL
They comprised of:
Matthew Bellamy (vocal, guitar, piano) Christopher Wolstenholme (bass guitar, vocal, keyboard) Dominic Howard (drums, percussion)
ALBUMS AND SINGLES
1999 SHOWBIZ (Mushroom)
They released their debut album which is certified Gold in UK and Australia, reaching #29 in UK Albums Chart.
2001 ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY (Mushroom)
Their follow-up was a smash hit; earning them many critical reviews. They started to experiment instrumentation into their alternative sounds. The album reached #3 in UK Albums Chart and earned the group a Platinum and spawned several hits.
MEGALOMANIA. This song is a master-piece using a pipe organ that they seldom played this song in a concert.
2003 ABSOLUTION (A&E Rec.)
Absolution became even a bigger hit after the release in Fall 2003. This album helped Muse to score success from both commercial and critical reviews. It reaches #1 on the UK Top 40; yielded their first Top 10 single, "Time Is Running Out" and equally stunning "Hysteria".
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
HYSTERIA
2006 BLACK HOLES & REVELATION (A&E Rec.)
Their fourth studio album b y far is the biggest, earning double platinum in UK and Gold in US. A tribute for their fascination to science fiction and political outrage, the song lyrics mirror such an idealism covering these topics. On June 16, 2007, Muse was the first band to sell out the newly built wembley Stadium in London.
SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE (UK #4)
STARLIGHT (US Modern Rock #2)
2009 THE RESISTANCE
The new album will be released this 14 September. The band has started on planning their next tour. It was announced that one of the songs would entitiled "United States of Eurasia", suggesting another political influenced music in this new album.
Bellamy in an interview said that they are aiming to record the hardest song ever, as quoted to said "There is a new song in three parts, more of a symphony than a song, which I have been working on sporadically for many years". However, no words on the first single will be.
Today I spent some of my hot and sleepy Sunday afternoon browsing through an archive of photos. Looks like I have a huge collection of unpublished photos or I would say something that has been lost in the memory. Having pictures in your personal computer can really helps you to dig those inner sense of memories embedded deep within.
Therefore, I think as a tribute for my bogging career, here I should present to you some rarely and unpublished photos that even I can't recalled them. Haha...I think I should refresh my memory now.
One week equals to seven days, seven days equal to 168 hours, 168 hours equal to 10080 minutes. That is how long a week can be. The first of three weeks I'll be in Kota Kinabalu is something hard to accept while leaving the one you loved far far away.
But unlike any others, a week is too long for me and her. Yes, last Wednesday as in few days ago, it was the 7th day we were officially together. Despite our effort to lay low and remain secretive, it didn't turn out as we planned because of some leaked picture in some blog. It was getting harder to remain low and private when people in Innit started to sensationalize and question about us. Let me ask you people, was it excited you when you started to talk about us?
While there is some people may think that we might sound or look desperate, let us be sure that we are not. We have quite a long history and that we may want to lay secret enough.
To satisfy your appetite for gossiping, here I announce to all of you that we are indeed together.
End of part one.....
Anyway, I intended to dedicate this post to her too. The part two....
THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS
DAY ONE Drag Me To Hell with some sushi
DAY TWO State Of Play with some Papa John's DAY THREE Bern flies back to KK leaving EV alone
DAY FOUR EV celebrated her birthday at Chillis
DAY FIVE Bern found out that EV had no plan for her real birthday day
DAY SIX Bern misses EV
DAY SEVEN EV misses Bern too
Therefore let me present you with our picture. Only one, nothing more...
Now you know, let us have a privacy of our own.(Note: I'm glad that Green Tea is with his Christmas Tree and Bern's Christmas Eve is just everyday. People who busybody about us ever since StandOut, please get a new life now!)
Yesterday we look at the story and the robots that will be featured in the movie, click here for the first part. Looks like it will be hell of a movie with autonomous alien robots will kick ass each other for the second outing. For this second part of Green Tea World's coverage on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the author will brings the readers more into the casts and the characters inside the movie.
CASTS AND CHARACTERS
Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky, the main human protagonist, a teenager attending college to learn astronomy.
Megan Fox plays Mikaela Banes, Sam's girlfriend, who cannot afford to go to college with him and works in a motorcycle repair shop.
Josh Duhamel plays Major William Lennox, a US Army Ranger and part of the NEST.
Tyrese Gibson plays Master Sergeant Robert Epps, a US Air Force Combat Controller and part of NEST.
John Turturro plays Reggie Simmons, a former agent of the defunct sector 7 unit.
Kevin Dunn and Julie White play Ron and Judy Witwicky, Sam's parents.
Ramon Rodriguez plays Leo Spitz, Sam's college roommate who owns a website on conspiracy theories.
Matthew Marsden plays Graham, a member of the UK Special Forces who joins NEST.
Isabel Lucas plays Alice, a Decepticon's Pretender who stalks on Sam.
THE MUSICS
I guess many have knew it but in case you don't, Linkin Park is given the chance again to sing the theme song for the movie. Linkin Park's latest single to be taken from the movie is New Divide, launching a more vibrant music life to the movie. You can listen to the new clip from the the official theaterical trailer.
Also in this soundtrack, Green Day's 21 Guns which also found in their latest album, 21st Century Breakdown.
The Fray also contribute Never Say Never for the soundtrack.
Nickelback's Burn It To The Ground...
All American's Rejects Real World...
Hoobastank's I Don't Think I Love You...
Looking at the few choices of selection, this is going to be a good hella Transformers 2 Soundtrack, a great tunes of the alternative rocks!! Get this album soon, it is scheduled for release on June 23.
Now that the movie will be coming up very soon in your local cinema; next week to be precise, I have decided to take my dear readers to the hype and the mounting anticipation where the fan-boys of the robotic animation Transformers will be screaming right now. It is a sad case that I will not attending the Premier Screening because I am in (you know where) right now. Congratulations to those attending and please don't tell me whether it is good or not soon.
THE BOX OFFICE
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a sequel from the 2007's mega-hit will be in the theater next week, 23 June. 2007's Transformers collected more than RM 18million in the local box office, easily became the most box office sales in the Malaysian history. So, just how much the new movie will make? If possible please make a guessing.
THE STORY
This time, Sam witwicki (Shia LeBouf) will be attending the college and will be enrolled in the astronomy course. While the other autobots now laying low in the secretive life among the human, a war is about to be forged. Sam Witwicky discovers something about the origins of the Transformers and their history on Earth after receiving visions from a remaining piece of the Allspark. The evil Decepticons need to capture him for information. The climactic battle takes place at the Giza pyramid complex, where a temple is located within.
THE ROBOTS
The sequel will features a new range of robots, including some from the previous one. I have made a post on this last time but here is the more updated version on choices of robots that will be featured.
AUTOBOTS
Optimus PrimeThe noble leader of Autobots. Voiced by Peter Cullen. Alternate form is a red-and-blue Peterbilt truck. The big question, will he died in the movie?
BumblebeeGallant protector of Sam Witwicky. Voiced by Mark Ryan. Alternate form is an upgraded 2010 yellow Chevy Camaro.
IronhideThe Autobots' weapon specialist. Will be in its GMC Topkick. Voiced by Jess Harnell.
RatchetThe Autobots' medic-robot. Retain its Search-and-rescue vehicle Hummer H2 appearance. He is not seen in the first official trailer. Voiced by Robert Foxworth.
ArceeFirst female Autobot. Transforms into a pink motorbike (belongs to Mikaela Banes in the movie). It can split into three seperate robots, glimpsed in the trailer.The three are Arcee in pink, Chromia in blue and a purple coloured bike. Voiced by Susan Blu.
JetfireA former Decepticons who crosses over the good force. Transforms into an SR71 Blackbird jet. It uses a walking stick and seen in the trailer been attacked by Scorpionok. Voiced by John Turturro.
SideswipeA sleeky silver Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Concept. It has a brother by the nmae Sunstreaker but will not make an appearance in the movie yet. Voiced by Jason Griffith.
JoltA new Autobot, perhaps a foot soldier that many sees as the most environmentally-friendly robot to date. It turns into Chevy Volt, an upcoming plug-in hybrid car.
The TwinsThey are Skids and Mudflap, based on GM's new cars; The Trax and Beat. Serves as a comedic environment to the new movie. Mudflap is the red Trax while Skids is the green Beat.
WheelieI am clueless about this character myself. It is a small radio-controlled truck.
Now, let us move on to...
DECEPTICONS
MegatronDid I need to say anything about this guy. After killed and thrown into the Laurentian Abyss, he is revived. Classic enemy - voiced by Hugo Weaving.
The FallenAn ancient, malevolent, snarky evil behind the formation of the Decepticons. Leonard Nimoy was approached to voice it. It was reported it can teleports!! Voiced by Tony Todd.
StarscreamLast seen flying and blasting off to Cybertron in search of reinforcements, now in the process to assume Megatron's throne. It transforms into an F-22 Raptor jet. Voiced by Charlie Adler.
SoundwaveThe new feature is that it can fly as a satellite, orbiting in the space and updating the Decepticons about movements in earth. No more CD player for you!! It transform into Cybertronian craft and satellite. Voiced by Frank Welker.
Grondor and Scorponok Grondor is an MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter that resembles Blackout. Scorponok meanwhile is an evil scorpion-like that gives a hell out on the first movie but ended up losing its tail. Now it is back!!
SidewaysA new Decepticons that transforms into an Audi R8. Seen smashing some Chinese apartment walls while Arcee in hot pursuit.
The DoctorRumoured to be called simply as Scalpel. A tiny Frenzy-like robot that can transforms into various torture tools. It has a scary glowing red eye. It seems like a hell time for Sam.
RavageA huge fan-favourtie. It is an expert of hunting and spying, known for its authentic and unique look as an one-eyed cat or jaguar.
DevastatorAn enormous giant robot formed when seven smaller Constructicons come together. The scraps robots include Scavenger, Scrapper (right arm), Hightower (left arm), Longhaul (right leg), Rampage (left leg), Overload (torso) and Mixmaster (head).
DemolisherSupermassive Constructicons that does not need other minions or smaller robots to combine with. In the teaser, it was seen facing off with Optimus Prime somehow...
Did I missed out something?
BarricadeA Saleen S281 police car that MIA during the first movie. Voiced by Jess Harnell in the first film. Will he be a surprise entry into the movie??
That's the end of the first part........ TO BE CONTINUE More On Transformers Soon
Today, Green Tea would like to dedicate a special post for someone whom he knew. Well, not many times that the author would do this but here is a birthday wish for that particular person.
First and foremost, let us say a big Happy Birthday wish to this particular person whom is a blogger and an Innit-er that we have known and familiar with her unique nickname.
21 years ago on this very date of 15th June, a baby girl was born somewhere in this country.
Today, we all know that she is the person behind this colourful blog at http://yenniedoll.blogspot.com
Today, we all know that she is a Camwhore Queen.
Today, we all know that she is referred with the nickname Yenniedoll and Evelyn Goh or simply EV in Innit (click here).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EV..... FELIZ COMPLEANOS, EV.....
I'm sure this birthday would be something memorable and special for her. Today, she can announce herself eligible to vote in any parliamentary election.
However, Green Tea would like to express his apologize for not been able to celebrate this special date with her.
As you all know, the author is currently at oversea (Haha..Yeah right!!). So, the author would like to say SORRY and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to EV. Wish you all the best for the year ahead.
By the way, after reading this post, I hope you guys can flood into her blog here and spam send something nice to her chatbox or commentary box. P/S: NO SPAM PLEASE
Hello people, I am currently in my hometown in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Since I stay in Kuala Lumpur for much of the time for study commitment and considering the fact that both cities are seperated by the South China Sea, air transportation is the only medium available to connect both cities.
For those who never fly before, you will probably can't imagine those excitement and experience while boarding a plane to go from point A to point B. Yet, with the continuous effort and competition between air traveling companies, now almost everyone can fly. Air Asia, Malaysia Airlines, Firefly and many other companies are begining to offer a much affordable fare for people to travel, thus boosting the local tourism and the frequency of people like me to travel back to their hometown. Promotions of low fare , more additional customer friendly-services as well as more approaches for low budget travels has been a tool to beautify the ads section of newspaper and other forms of media these days, so I believe that now almost everycone can fly.
With modern and enhanced technology, now you can buy a ticket via internet, no longer depends solely on ticket booking that need to be purchased from a conventional travel agency. There is also lesser need for the traveler to need to keep the ticket anymore because these days, everything can be done via online - with no tickets and free-seating approaches. While purchasing tickets have become easier these days, the excitement of air travel still ignited with the need for one to board a plane. for my flight home today, I was only given a piece of printed paper that contains my particulars, flight code and time. Long gone the days we need any papered-tickets.
For those who never or seldom fly, I think it is best for me to tell you how is the procedures. To fly, you basically need a confirmed seats on a plane (you have buy your virtual tickets), an identity card, a passport with or without a visa (if you travel across the international borders) and of course your luggages. Thank God I just get back my lost IC yesterday, or else I won't be able to step back to my home. Traveling across Malaysia is relatively easier these days - with just an IC. I can still recalls that even 15 years back, those originated from West Malaysia needed to have a passport in order to enter Sabah and Sarawak. Then, they need to fill in a form like a visa before all of those procedures been abolished and made simplify with just an IC.
You need to get yourself to the airport early, preferably 2 hours before your scheduled flight time for domestic or 3 hours for international flight. Scan your luggages and get tagged before proceeding to the check-in counter to perform the "check-in" procedure - where you are required to confirm your attendance for the scheduled flight and to put your heavy luggages into the cargo of the plane. In returns, you will be given a boarding pass which contains your seat number and the designated boarding gate.
Preferably not more than 30 minutes before the flight time, you must present yourself into the boarding gate. Here, you will undergo a heavy security check-up to ensure you do not bring any hazardous materials into the cabin. Sharp objects, volatile materials, drugs and even a certain amount of shampoo are just some of the stuffs that are prohibited. Here, your hand luggage as well as yourself will go through a scanner and metal detecting machine. However, pregant mother may not need to go through the machine but required to fill in a special form.
Passenegrs are usually allowed to enter the aircraft at least 15 minutes before the scheduled flight time. With a final check before allowed an entry into the cabin, you must produce your boarding pass and your identification-proof (IC or passport) before allowed the entry. Well once you are in the cabin, make sure you find your seat, switch off your mobile or other electronic devices and fasten the seatbelt.
During the departure, the air crews will demonstrate some safety instruction that may be vital during the flight. Then, the pilot will so-called "taxi" the aircraft from the boarding gate to the main runway at a very slow speed. Once it reaches the main runway for a take-off, the pilot will hit the speed to a full max, throttling it at a high speed along the 3km runway (depending on the aircraft you are boarding) before it make a gradual ascend. For the first timer, this can be a difficult period but otherwise, the most exciting one.
Here is the tips: 1. Straighten your seat as instructed 2. Open the window shield so you can look outside as instructed 3. Have some chewing gum (not recommended though), sweets or anything you can bite and chew on during take-off 4. Sometimes you may feel funny sensation on your ear during the take-off due to the changes in atmospheric pressures, you should swallow your saliva or simply open your mouth, or just chew something
After the ascending period, I would say the flying excitement is over and everything can be so boring. Unless you have something to do, or else you really do not what to do, or otherwise, wait for your food or drink to be served.
If you are flying internationaly, you will spend your bored time with some in flight entertainment. You can watch movie or listening to music or even played game with the remote controls on your hand. I can still remember how I fill my 14 hours journey to Amsterdam by watching 5 movies, finishing the Super Mario Gameboy game and watching 4 episodes of 'Friends'; a set of beef steaks meal, a set of English breakfast and multiple glasses of orange juice; constantly locating myself on the satellite map on the screen and walking around the cabin including walking into the business class seats.
After all, the other exciting part will be the touch-down period, when the plane make gradual descend, land on the runway and taxi back into the arrival gate.
Well, if you have not yet experience the flying session inside any aircraft, you should. With low fares, seriously almost everyone can fly. I think most of us have fly before, don't we.
I do not know if you want to consider this as something good or the opposite way - Malaysia is fully blessed with tonnes of sensational issues. While people are just starting to take the Perak political saga issue lightly, in which the helm of administration is in the hands of a bunch of losers, another issue is gathering full attention these days.
Malaysian educational system is regarded as the best in the world but I have to say nothing is great about it in reality. It may have the best in terms of facilities and product potential but yet again, like any fields and sectors you can name in Malaysia, bureaucracy and political involvement will always be the obscures for achieving our aspiration and hopes for greater achievement can be.
TEACHING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IN ENGLISH
Since 2003, the education in Malaysia switched into globalisation aspiration. Mathematics and science subjects are taught in English. The reasons were rather simple - to ensure the standard of English usage been raised and to cultivate a better environment for students to use English as a secondary language than their native tongues.
Over the years, the standard of English usage and the outcomes from this ambitious program seems minimal. Thus, people starts to question the effectiveness of such idea to teach this two critical subjects in English. Some more, there are certain sects are objecting the idea and want it to be scrapped. Funny thing is, they argue that it is time and need to rectify the national language - Malay, back into medium of teaching.
Why English? English is an universal language for science and mathematics, used as a convenient medium of communication and research. Worldwide, scientist from different country, background and culture uses English to interact and to present their ideas and results of their research.
For certain groups, they argued that teaching both Science and Mathematics in English can cause: 1) Potentially demotivating students with poor English commands to excel further 2) Depromote and down-grading the absolute level of the national language 3) Other developed countries use their own mother tongue to teach
POINT ONE I simply believe learning English is like learning other languages or even like learning the mother tongue. Difficulty in learning English should not be a reason to withdraw such absolute claim. In learning language, it will be ample if one has effort, guidance and understanding. Many fail to realize, good English does not always mean a bombastic English. English like any language should be learned as a way that we can listen, read and speak a language fairly well. You don't need to get an A to understand English but with learning both subjects in English, it is a chance for students to get more exposure while improving it. POINT TWO How on earth this can happen? Malay language itself is a unique language that unites the people from all four corners of the nation. Besides, Malay language remains the main medium of teaching for other subjects - Bahasa Malaysia, History, Civic, Moral, Accountancy, Geography, etc. In case you do not realize, science subjects are only taken by the science Stream students and therefore, other streams are less affected. Although English is been used, Malay language remains as a national language and there is no move to down-grade it or sort of. Those who think such way must be some sect that is narrow-minded, unvisionary and chavism. POINT THREE It is true that countries like Japan, German or France use their own national language to teach Science and Mathematic and yet they are the great achiever in such a field. I do not have to remind you that comparing such cases is not the brilliant way. Even if Science and Mathematcs are teach in Malay language, what achievement will we get in the upper hand. Before 2003, Malay language was used but the conceptual and acceptance of Science and Mathematics were low. As I said earlier, English is the universal language for scientist and mathematician around the world. In the end of the day, whether you like it or not, globalisation is taking place!!
I once in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize Ceremony back in 2002, and I have met the Nobel Prize winners from all parts of the earth - United States, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Japan, yet the language they were speaking on their lecture was none other than English. In fact, they spoke English very well although they never learned through English.
In the end of the day, it is not the matter of if Science and Mathematic should be teach in English, but the matter of mastering or at least learning English should be the main concern. As a nutshell, LEARN YOUR ENGLISH and please be remember THE CONCEPTUAL OF LEARNING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IS ONLY A CATALYST FOR INITIATING THE MOTIVATION AND ENVIRONMENT TO UPPERHAND ENGLISH.
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On Monday of this week, Jackie called for a gathering since Ying Zi will be around town. Those who attended this quak-quak gathering include Jackie, Ying Zi, me and Evelyn dear, while Victoria joined us as well later.
The duck rice that we had was Sun Ming Restaurant, located at Taman Connaught, Cheras. It is about 15 minutes drive from the city centre and this could be one of the best duck rice I ever had in years.
We have Google Map to show you the location...
We ordered half-a-roasted-duck and a plate of RM 15 char-siew for the four of us.
More up-close of the roasted duck...
...and the char siew...
With Jackie been the photographer, you will only see three of us here only.
Guess who is drinking what on this picture? (JK)
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