Bruno is SO gay

This admittedly has to be the outrageously gayest movie I have ever watched in my entire life. Nobody pulls these ambush shock humour as well as Sacha Baron Cohen. But I still prefer Borat as it tackles more issues whereas Bruno tends to play around more with the "gayness" card.

Prawns never seem to look that good

District 9 is a surprisingly refreshing sci-fi flick with an intriguing plot. The style of presentation by using short sequences of interviews and news reports to help describe the background story was interesting but sometimes a little messy. It depicts prawn like aliens as refugees stranded on Earth and being housed and isolated in the slums. Perhaps a direct reference to the refugee problem in Africa? Anw the film highlights the cruelty and selfishness of Man such that in the end, it makes the audience root for the ill-fated lead as well as his alien partner. Action scenes were generally ok, with the inclusion of alien weaponry controlled by alien DNA and a mechanised walker reminiscent of that in Bioshock and Starcraft respectively, which were able to please sci-fi enthusiasts, though I still dislike the shaky camera action ala Cloverfield.

Door : 1 Student : 0

Posted this here after hearing that one of my friends actually smashed through a glass door after a drunken bout. This one is different, the guy literally smashes through as he's not sure how the door opens!

Da Vinci Genius

Went for the Da Vinci exhibition at the Science Centre. Since it was just an extra one buck top-up to tour the exhibition AND the Science centre, me and my friends took a trip down memory lane whizzing through and "fighting" with school-children for the exhibits just like the primary school days. Anw the exhibition was an eye-opener. How the heck could there be someone who is so damn smart? This guy dabbles in art, inventions, military engineering and medicine.

Although Mona Lisa and the Last Supper were interesting pieces on their own right, the part on military engineering captured my attention, especially the bit on the UFO-like tank. A short documentary as shown below on what could be known as the grand-daddy of all tanks.

Comic Con 09

Visited Hort Park in the morning for a green exhibition. It seems nowadays the rage is all about green and clean technology, that plus checking out plants being grown vertically scaled upon a wall, and mixing a bit with plant lovers and gardeners.

Next up was the Toys, Games and Comics Convention at Suntec with loads of Wii entertainment, toys, displays, animation and bringing figureheads of the industry under one roof. Wonder when I will ever get to go to a US convention for it...

Brian Bolland personally drew the Joker face up there and he's one of the several artists that came down for an autograph signing session..

Blythe dolls

And an expensive Barbie one too

WoW minis

Yos and Joes


And finally a whole section dedicated to Transformers. The 2 leaders in various incarnations destined to fight against each other across the different generation line...some of these figures are worth hundreds

And 6 years on...

How odd...I swore 6 years ago I would never ever have the need to even step close to that very traffic crossing where I narrowly threw my life away. Yet here I was on one morning, I was back at the very same spot in that god forsaken place. Still ever thankful and bloody lucky that I got out of that accident miraculously unscathed.

A Yo Joe or Oh No!!

Just caught GI Joe recently and I have to admit I somehow enjoyed this loud trashy flick even more than Transformers. If Transformers was way overboard with military porn (still don't understand why all the military shit is needed in Transformers, but for GI Joe it is completely justified), GI Joe is even wayyyy overboard and absurd in terms of the military technology involved. But still it was all good fun. After all, what's not to like about a classic cartoon series in the 80s coming to the big screen and getting a bit of a revamp?

Some points of interest to me:

1) We used to have nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons but now nanomite weapons as a WMD? Crazy...but fascinating from an engineering point of view

2) It seems the Joes have gone truly international in our age. While GI Joe has always been an all-American army or America's finest, it seems that the forces of globalisation have won this time. I know diehard fans are gonna make noise over this, especially the Americans.

3) Snake Eyes = Ray Park = Darth Maul from Star Wars. This guy has always been a favourite. I remember always using Snake Eyes in the GI Joe game on the Nintendo console over at my cousin's place when we were kids. He's still one of my favourite and cooler characters around.

4) Baroness is hot! But I want her glasses even more! Functions as a scanner and automatically becomes a pair of sunglasses. Cool!

5) The Doctor / aka spoilers ahead Cobra Commander (read: the big bad guy) resembles sooooo much like Darth Vader! Only Darth Vader without the loud heavy breathing noise! His grand schemes make him the overall mastermind though, so I suppose he could also be the Emperor in Star Wars too! Both look dead ugly to me!

An interesting feature for those who have never heard of GI Joe

NDP song 2009

Some ridiculously WTF song by mr brown and gang based on this year's NDP song. The first one is the original "What do you see", the other well....the ah beng version of it. NDP songs nowadays seriously more and more very pop culture sia...

Robo dance to Nobody

Omg...remember my previous post on Wondergirls Nobody dance? It seems that even robots have caught on with the trend!!