Most Fun I Had All Year…

It was much really… The third amigo from Adelaide, Li Chin, came down for holiday and managed to meet up with her and Yan Zhen to hang out… We did mostly eating really… Hahaha… and just walking around but it was really the best time I’ve had since I got to Melbourne… I think mostly because finally had people who “got” me… We think alike so I don’t have to frustrate myself trying to make people understand me or them not knowing what the hell I’m going on about… Yeah so it was really really good for me to get together with them… Well she should be arriving at the airport as I’m’ writing… Safe flight Li Chin… C ya back in KL… and yes hopefully Penang… Cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 10

This week’s theme is rock supergroups!! Sounds good?!?! Well turns out… not really… During the week… the AuI Final 10 has had loads to do… traveling down to Melbourne for a performance in Federation Square and on Saturday at the MCG for the AFL finals… which the Swans won!!! GO SWANS!!! Anyway back to the topic… and of course AuI live performances were on Sunday… so they didn’t have time for much practice and rest… but I guess that’s not really an excuse… Maybe it’s because I don’t really fancy rock music… but I thought that the performances were a little lame… Dan was alright but I reckon his choice of song was wrong even though it gets the crowd going but it doesn’t show his talent… Lee had another brilliant performance… showing that you don’t need a super voice to entertain a crowd… I like Anne’s performance myself… and Emily had a very good night indeed… the judges loved her… I thought she was ok… I don’t really fancy her but I have to admit she’s really good…

The bottom three for the week was James, Laura and Daniel… and the one sent packing was Laura… FINALLY!!! But she really was the worst this week… she admits she’s not a rock chick but I think that’s not an excuse… Idols need to be able to make the song their own… like Lee he made a rock song into a punk/rock song which fitted him really well… This is my comment about Laura… putting my prejudice against her aside… Yes she has a great voice… she’s actually doing a music degree and majoring in vocals… good luck to her on that… but what I think is that maybe she’s too classical and technical… She lacks the ability to understand the music she’s singing and conveying it to the audience… we hear but not listen… her stage presentation lacks the x-factor… and she’s not versatile… and I think she doesn’t know how to pick song which suites her… All in all… she’s just boring and I think she was lucky to have gotten this far even… But James and Daniel live to sing another day… Oh I have to say this as well… I think if James stopped doing those weird dance moves he likes to do so much… he may not en up in the bottom 3… and Daniel needs to look like he’s going to explode everytime he sings… his neck goes all strain-ish and his face goes red… but he likes to shout I guess… Well until next week… Cheers…

The Royal Melbourne Show

Oh man… awesome!!! The only thing I needed was more friends to have gone with me… But never the less… I had fun… I want to thank Pei Ling for asking me to go… if not I would have never gone… Hehe… Anyway for those of you who don’t know what this is all about…The Royal Melbourne Show… which this year marks it’s 150th Anniversary… is basically like a big carnival with games, shows, rides, food, animal competitions and show bags to buy… which are like bags of goodies mostly chocolate and snacks, and toys that are sold at lower than normal retail prices… I bought two bags myself… each costing Au$10… of chocolate!!!! Hehehe… Oh and there was this really yummy thing we had… it’s a skewer of marshmallow covered with liquid chocolate… the cool thing was that the chocolate as from a choc fountain… and it’s good choc… also available with strawberries… Saw a few stunt shows… Rocket Man… Human Cannonball… FMX MotoX… Monster Truck… My fav was FMX MotoX… way cool… makes me wanna go watch X-Games… Hehe… Monster Truck was cool as well… only that all the shows were a little short… Went for the live Madagascar show as well… which was basically for kids… and I have no idea why they would make a kids show sooooo complicated… I was confused half the time… maybe it’s the kids language they were using… and just basically loads of other stuff… They had this section with all the cute furry little animals… sooooo cute… me likey!!! Hahahahah… You know me… I love cute fluffy stuff… Yeah anyway today was the last day so if you missed it… TOO BAD… Hahaha… I’m so bad… But I think almost everyone in Melbourne did go… so good on everyone… Cheers…

Dutch Masters… Bravisimo!!

Oh man… the exhibition was AWESOME!!! I feel so geeky now… But seriously… man the paintings displayed were so good… duh… but it’s been soooo long since I properly enjoyed art… Man I loved so many of them… There was this one painting, which I can’t remember who did it… hehehe, but it looked sooooo real and it’s almost like the guy in the painting was sticking out… spooky!!! Rembrandt’s paintings were of course great but some where smaller than I expected… Hahaha… and they didn’t have some of the ones I really wanted to see like The Night Watch, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, The Descent From The Cross and The Slaughtered Ox… I was rather dispapointed that they only had one Vermeer painting… The Love Letter… which is supposed to be his most famous one so at least they had that… I wanted to see The Allegory Of Painting and Girl With A Pearl Earring… some of you might know remember that as the title of the film with Scarlett Johansson… Anyway there were quite a number of great paintings there… worth my money… wanted to buy the book as well… but it was AU$39.95… too much… sigh… Too bad there weren’t more works… Hahaha… really want to see more… Yeap so if you are in Melbourne and like art… I recommend you go see the exhibition… It ends on 2nd November 2005… Adult ticket costs Au$20, Concession Au$16 and Full time student Au$10… Cheers…

Intrigue…

I didn’t really plan anything for today but ended up doing more than expected… The only thing I planned was to go to the gym… So I went to the gym for and hour… Then I thought… what the hey… why waste the tram ticket I had… So I decided to go to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) to see what it’s like… so I went around to look at my favourite type of art… Renaissance and Classic Art… 1400-1800s… They have a collection of Durer’s work… which was quite exciting… had a few other great artists as well like Titian, Rubens, Bernini, El Greco, Manet, Rembrandt, Turner, Monet… But only their minor works… I’m quite disappointed but what can I expect… not like it’s De Lourve… I wanna go back to the National Gallery in London and go visit Tate Britain as well… But I think I will go back tomorrow or maybe Thursday for the Dutch masters collection!!! Hope it’s worth my money… quite excited… Hehehe… Anyway when I was going around the gallery… I suddenly had a very weird thought… I was thinking I when I go back I want the tram ticket inspectors to have a check on my tram so I would know how it was like… and guess what!!! On my way back…. a group of inspectors came onto my tram… Hahaha… I was like… oh ok… so weird… my first check… way way weird… Yeap I’m so into art right now… if only I had someone here who likes art as well… It’s weird to go to galleries alone… when I went there today… mostly old people… Hahaha… Well anyway… Cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 11

I forgot to mention last week that it was Aussie Nite… This week was 60’s Nite… I have to say that this week’s performances were on average better than last week’s but there were no particularly outstanding performances like last week… I would say that Kate, Anne, Dan, Emily and Lee were the better ones… As the judges said Lee isn’t very strong vocally but he’s very smart and he knows how to pick his songs and he knows just how to work the crowd… Dan like usual gave a great performance but this week he seems to be a little weary of his vocals during the high parts… Kate was good and confident… Emily was awesome but straying towards the yelling side and Anne was good but lost a little bit of her magic from last week… Milly was back to her groovy self this week but not absolutely… I think the most disappointing was Natalie… her rendition of Dancing In The Streets wasn’t that good…

This week the bottom three were James, Laura and Natalie… and the one who left is… Natalie… You know Laura must have a loooooot of support from her family and friends because when the interview people no one mentions her… Well anyway… glad the guys are still in… Hehehe… Cheers…

Must Love Dogs

I’m so tired of writing synopsis… Here’s the one from Yahoo! movies… Sarah Hurlihy (Diane Lane), a divorced preschool teacher who has sworn off dating after her bad breakup, finds her family pushing her back into the dating world. Her sister places a personal ad for her, declaring that anyone answering it “must love dogs,” despite the fact that Sarah doesn’t own a dog herself. When someone intriguing responds to the ad, she decides to borrow Mother Theresa, her brother’s dog, and plunge in. Also stars John Cusack as the male lead.

It’s been quite some time since they made nice romantic comedies… and this would be a good start… When I say romantic comedy… it does not include teen flicks… A fun movie to watch… believable… I love both Lane and Cusack… so for me it’s worth a watch… But still not as good as some of the older romantic comedies… Cheers…

The Island

Starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson… This movie begins in a weird facility which is deemed to be paradise… It is supposedly a containment facility for the surviving mankind after a deadly virus swept the earth destroying all living this… However Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) has many unanswered question and his hunger to find them grows day-by-day… For example… if there is a virus going around for years in the outside world… How do they keep finding new people… In this facility… the residents live by strict rules and routine procedures waiting for the day the win the “lottery” to go to “The Island” which is the only place left on earth that is not infected… As he waits for his turn to go to The Island… Lincoln befriends Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson) and he recently kept having the same dream over and over of him drowning on his way to The Island… One day Jordan wins the lottery and Lincoln feels a little weary of letting her go because he had found a live “flying bug” from the outside world and found it suspicious… So he decides to go investigate… When he does… he finds that instead of the going to The Island… the people chosen were killed for one reason or another… With this he goes to warn Jordan but the facility directors find out and starts to chase after him… They have no choice but to runaway with the help of Lincoln’s friend who works for the facility as a maintenance officer… They find out that everything they know about the world is a lie… They are actually clones of real people in the outside world who are kept as “insurance policies” for medical purposes… After escaping the facility they are continued to be chased after by the facility officers… Meanwhile the facility directors find that within a few “batch” of their clones there were some errors where the real person’s memories were transferred to the clones by accident making them able to think more accurately than they are supposed to… and Lincoln and Jordan were in those batches… with that the facility prepares to “dispose” of those clones and make fresh batches… which means they were going to kill all the defected clones… When Lincoln and Jordan found out the plan they decide to go back and save the clones…

The movie itself was quite excellent really… or maybe cause of Ewan McGregor… Hahaha… but… I can’t wrap my finger around something that’s missing… To me it felt like the movie lacked the depth to make the story come alive… Sure it had action and suspense and all that but something didn’t feel quite right… it was like when one part starts to get good… the movie moves on to the next part really abruptly… but I guess you can’t make the movie too long can you… But I enjoyed the movie… I used to think that Scarlett Johansson wasn’t that pretty and her voice was kinda annoying… she sounded like she had a permanent sore throat… But I thought she was absolutely gorgeous in this movie…!! Worth a watch I would say… Cheers…