Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire

Excellent… Best of all the Harry Potter films so far… very exciting… Everything that’s been said is quite true… it’s darker… funnier and more exciting… but the only thing is it didn’t really do justice to the book… because they had to cut out quite a lot to fit it into 2 1/2 hours… I have to say that Daniel Radcliffe’s acting has improved… the girls have grown prettier… the twins look better with long hair… Neville looks good… thinner and so adorable… Katie Leung has a weird accent… Robert Pattinson who plays Cedrick Diggory isn’t how I imagine when reading the book… should be cuter… Oh they also changed to story a little… the maze part could have been a little more impressive… the dragon scene was good… the underwater part was good as well… there was one really weird part where Hermione and Ron started fighting and then the scene diverges and comes back where Hermione goes mental… and I really didn’t get it… and I totally forgot what goes on in the book so I got really confused… But Emma Watson’s really good though… strong performance… Ok… all good… so go watch… everyone so has to watch it!!!!!!!!!!!

The Australian Idol Is…

Okay so the Australian Idol has finally come to an end… the Final itself wasn’t really spectacular… I was rather disappointed with the performances really… how sad… Oh the winner’s single is a rather mellow song… Maybe Tonight… not bad but nothing wow about it… personally I think it would be a great song for a country pop singer… the melody has a country-ish sound to it… ah if only I could sing it the way it’s played in my head…

Blah… anyway… the result show is more interesting with performances from the past idol winners and runners-up… as well as this year’s final 13… and some really great fireworks… Bad thing was it took forever for them to announce it… x_x And it really was a sucky result… Kate is the 2005 Australian Idol… bleak… yuck… she’s soooooo boring… ZZZzzz… Sorry Em… but don’t worry you’ll do well… And Lee… you rock!!!! Cheers!!!

The Brothers Grimm

What does Snow White, Jack and The Beanstalk and The Frog Prince have in common? They were all creations of the Brothers Grimm… the legendary brother duo Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm who “created” fairy tales that are now relatively immortalized by all of us… Anyway the movie tells of two brothers who have make their living by getting rid of “evil” in little towns… they have two men who create the disturbance in the town and the tow brothers will put on a show to destroy the evil… That is until one day they were forced to solve mysterious disappearances of 11 girls in a little village with an enchanted forest… They soon find out that this was for real and they really is “something” in the forest… It turned out that that “something” was a 500-somewhat-year-old queen who has been cursed and requires 12 youthful girls to gain back her life as “the fairest of them all”… So the Grimm brothers fight and save the day… Quite a good movie… funny… enchanting… a mix of reality and fairy tales… I actually didn’t want to watch it at first because I hate the two main actors Matt Damon (Wil) and Heath Ledger (Jake)… but decided to give it a go… I liked Heath in this movie but still hate Matt… but it was good… give it a go… Cheers…

Australia Makes World Cup Germany 2006 Finals!!!

After a 1-0 come back in the second leg of the two leg World Cup qualifier between Australia and Uruguay… It all came down to a penalty shootout!! The heros of the night were Schwarzer (the Australian goalkeeper)… saving two of the four penalties taken by Uruguay… and Aloisi who scored the winning penalty… giving Australia a win of 4-2…!!!! And they FINALLY make it to the finals after all these years… and what better time to qualify then to go back to the place where they once previously qualified… Alright!!! Which means that the teams that qualified are:

Africa
Angola (ANG)
Cote d’Ivoire (CIV) [Ivory Coast]
Togo (TOG)
Ghana (GHA)
Tunisia (TUN)

Asia
Japan (JPN)
Iran (IRN)
Korea Republic (KOR)
Saudi Arabia (KSA)

Europe
Germany (GER)
Ukraine (UKR)
Netherlands (NED)
Poland (POL)
England (ENG)
Croatia (CRO)
Italy (ITA)
Portugal (POR)
Sweden (SWE)
Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
France (FRA)

North America
United States of America (USA)
Mexico (MEX)
Costa Rica (CRC)

Oceania
Australia

South America
Argentina (ARG)
Brazil (BRA)
Ecuador (ECU)
Paraguay (PAR)

It’s mayhem in Australia… the people in Melbourne are going nuts… the people are driving around the city honking their horns and shouting and singing!!! It’s certainly great great news even for a country that soccer ins’t that huge… Cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 3

I totally forgot to blog this week’s results… Well the theme was No.1 hits… and each had to sing two songs… I can’t really say much because all of them were good of course… I think Emily was the best… and I like Lee… ;p

Ok so… I was already guessing that Lee would go… well because he was bottom two last week anyway… and it was partly because I voted…!! And well… that’s what happened… Lee’s out… sob sob so sad… I love his work… but what the heck… you don’t have to win to become successful… So good luck to ya mate and Emily I will be cheering for you!!!

Didn’t Think Much Of It…

Ok… so I was out grocery shopping like I do every Saturday… but turns out today had something extra… I headed towards the Asian grocery section and the was this broken bottle of pickled capsicum of some sort… I didn’t think much of it because it wasn’t really my business anyway and being a Malaysian I didn’t really care for it… but I did think of reporting it after I was done browsing through the section… So I was just nicely going through the sauces that were available planning how to make my noodles for the meals for the week when I noticed this woman walking towards where I was and suddenly… *loud thud*… I looked around and there she was lying on the ground on the pool of oil/vinegar from the broken bottle… with her basket of grocery scattered everywhere… I asked her if she was ok… She said not really but managed to get up… So then I went to get one of the employees for help… The next thing I knew I was being interview on what happened… O_O Well I do hope that’s all they need from me because they asked me for my number… So yeah that’s what happened… And now I have to be going to the market to get a honeydew with Yan Zhen because we’re gonna make some honeydew sago!! Yum… Cheers!!

Chicken Little

Excellent animation… I love the beginning of the movie… very funny… Well anyway the story begins by telling us what had happened to Chicken Little… some time ago… an incident happened where Chicken Little saw a piece of the sky fall and in a panic had sounded the town’s emergency bell… causing a chaos… when the people came to see what was wrong… the piece of the sky which had fallen was gone… and there was no sign of any disaster… The people became mad and were convinced that Chicken Little was just crazy… And even now… people are still talking about the incident… His father was very embarrassed about the incident and Chicken Little wanted to make his father proud of him again… But time and time again he gets into trouble and his father needs to take the heat for it… Then as a last ditch… Chicken Little decides to join the school baseball team where his father was a legend… So in the finals the team was a point down and he was the only player left… he was told to take the walk but being the determined little chicken he is… he swings… and amazingly he makes it to the home plate safe!!! He was hailed the town’s hero… But that night… as he was beginning to enjoy his new found fame… a piece of the past comes back to haunt him… Yes!!! A pieces of the sky fell again!!! But this time… he realizes that that pieces of sky was more like an electronic plate… and this plate actually camouflages with it’s background… this time… in a panic he calls his trusty friends Abby Mallard (Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter (a pig) and Fish Out of Water for help… When they arrive and figure out what to do… Fish finds himself in a little trouble when the plate starts to fly away carrying him along and the rest chase after it only to find that the plate was part of an alien spaceship… They go in to find Fish and “discovers” that the earth might be in danger of an attack… When the aliens found them… they decide to go ring the town emergency bell again… but the aliens manage to escape in time and again the town’s people were extremely angry with Chicken Little… But in the whole chaos… a baby alien had been left behind… the next morning… Chicken Little finds that the alien parents had brought backup to find their lost baby which include total annihilation of the earth… But Chicken had made friends with the baby alien and is determined to return him back and at the same time save the planet… Of course with the help of his father and friends he saves the day… It’s seriously hilarious and great fun to watch!!!!! You will have barrels of laughter… and the characters are sooooo cute!!!!!! You’ll love ‘em… Yeah so go catch it… you won’t regret it!!! Cheers…

Australian Idol: Final 4

A heat was definitely on with only 2 weeks left before the grand final… and with them singing songs from THE KING himself… Elvis…!! The final 4 were required to sing two songs from Elvis and I would say the best performance can from Dan followed Kate (WHY!!!)… Lee wasn’t bad… he chose to sing Your Teddy Bear which was quite funny though… he actually threw a teddy bear into the crowd… so cute… Emily was good with her first song… but her second song to me was a disaster… she chose Can’t Help Falling In Love… and I just thought that her rendition was terrible… too much doodling with the song… I very much prefer A-Teen’s version… But overall no clear person was exceptional…

For this week, since there’s only 4 left, there was only a bottom 2 instead of 3 and they were Dan (shock!!!!) and Lee… naturally I already knew Lee was going… I mean he’s the least capable at singing… But personally I really wanted him to stay till top 3 and then let Dan and Emily battle it out or something like that… I was hoping Kate would go actually… I just don’t like her… she seems very pretentious… anyway yeah so… I voted for Lee like maybe 20 times or something… I don’t really know… I just used up the free credit I got… and you know what there was only 27 votes between the bottom two!!! That’s like sooooooo close!!!!! But the shocker was… Dan was the person to leave!!!!!!!! Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!! So sad… I think he really thought he would get further… I think everyone thought so as well… at least further than Lee… I really don’t know whether to feel guilty for voting for Lee or not… But I predict the final 2 will be Emily and Kate… Between those two… hopefully Emily will win… But I guess we’ll have to see… Until next week… cheers…