U-Turn

Haha, I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but I’ve grown tired of the restrictive nature of WordPress.com and have finally decided to move back to Blogger :P

I spent this whole afternoon trying to ‘refurbish’ my old blog by moving and clearing all the old posts and changing the blog template to something nicer. It’s still a work in progress though as I haven’t updated a lot of the widgets and I’ll still have to get a new chatbox.

I’d just like to clarify though, that the WordPress blogging platform is still superiour to the one Blogger has to offer, but only if you have your own paid domain, of which I don’t, hence the switch back.

Anyway, here’s the LINK for those of you who do not already know where said old blog resides.

P.S.: This blog will still be operational, for whenever I have a whim for those occasional “Protected” posts. I can however foresee that that won’t be a frequent occurence in the next 3 months or so, I hope.

Photo Update

From Manchester United Asia Tour 2009 Training Session

From Manchester United Asia Tour 2009 Matchday

From Pulau Jerejak

I Still Miss You

I’m sure you thought I misunderstood your actions,
That I’m behaving this way because it’s a natural reaction to what I perceived was true.

But I’d like to tell you you are wrong,
Because I don’t see why I can’t just  fall, just like that.

If you’d simply bothered to ask me why,
I’m sure things wouldn’t have to turn out the way the are right now.

I Will Be
Performed by Avril Lavigne

There’s nothing I could say to you
Nothing I could ever do to make you see
What you mean to me
All the pain, the tears I cried
Still you never said goodbye
And now I know how far you’d go

I know I let you down
But it’s not like that now
This time I’ll never let you go

I will be all that you want
And get myself together
‘cus you keep me from falling apart
All my life
I’ll be with you forever
To get you through the day
And make everything okay

I thought that I had everything
I didn’t know what life could bring
But now I see, honestly
You’re the one thing I got right
The only one I let inside
Now I can breathe ‘cus you’re here with me

And if I let you down
I’ll turn it all around
‘cus I will never let you go

I will be all that you want
And get myself together
‘cus you keep me from falling apart
All my life
I’ll be with you forever
To get you through the day
And make everything okay

‘cus without you I can’t sleep
I’m not gonna ever ever let you leave
You’re all I’ve got
You’re all I want
Yeah
And without you
I don’t know what I’d do
I could never ever live a day without you
Here with me do ya see
You’re all I need

And I will be all that you want
And get myself together
‘cus you keep me from falling apart
All my life (my life)
I’ll be with you forever (forever)
To get you through the day
And make everything okay (okay)
I will be all that you want (I’ll be)
And get myself together (get myself together)
‘cus you keep me from falling apart
All my life
I’ll be with you forever
To get you through the day
And make everything okay

Worst Movie I’ve Watched This Year

And the notorius title goes to.. *cue drumroll*

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!

Seriously, this movie was SO bad that I literally fell asleep during certain parts. Compared to the book, this movie was like hell. The cast was fantastic and you could clearly see that the acting of the 3 main characters have matured significantly over the years. Emma Watson was lovable as always and Alan Rickman was at his best as Snape. I couldn’t say the same however for the ghastly scriptwriting and directing. I’ve always had my doubts about David Yates directing a movie of such big a scale as Harry Potter, but after that torturous 2 hours plus, I’m pretty sure I would’ve sacked him 1 hour into filming if it were left to me. I just can’t bear to think right now what will the last two movies be like.

From the way I see it, the director totally deviated from certain parts of the book which was so essential to the story’s contiguity. The dialogue sounded at parts as though it was on fast forward. The scenes were terribly disjointed. There were quite a number of unnecessary ones which just served to bore me to death while other very important ones were somehow omitted or rewritten just so that they can cramp a few chapters of the story into one scene. Then there were the parts where the director seemed to be filming scenes and objects while playing with camera angles (which were terrible by the way). Those few minutes were totally irrelevant and could have definitely been put to better use trying to move the story along. In fact, I felt that the rewritten script doesn’t make sense at all for where the book had been so flawless. Personally, I feel even I could’ve done the directing a lot better than Yates.

So all in all, my rating for this movie, taking into account its spectacular cast and desperate inclusion of special effects, is 2.5 stars/C-/Barely Passable.

Not worth the watch on the big screen this one..

P.S.: I might have a better opinion towards the scriptwriter if he had changed the story line so that Harry and Hermione could be together :D

Food + Picture Post

Yay, I finally made my 1st complete meal!! And although it was admittedly rather tiring (the cleaning up and all) it’s still so fulfilling in the end :D

Here’s a list of what I made, all on my own, in conjunction with my dad’s birthday:

• Slow Roasted Garlic and Lemon Chicken
• Mashed Potato
• Caesar’s Salad
• A bottle of Riesling to accompany

Total Preparation Time: 3.5 hours..but that’s primarily because the chicken itself takes 2.5 hours just to cook in the oven. Most of the time while waiting for it I was up here playing the Sims :)

I found the recipes through various sources and the mashed potatoes turned out particularly well! My mum loved the salad but personally I thought I overkilled on some ingredient. The chicken was slight overdone but otherwise just delish! And to think this was just the 1st time I was preparing all these dishes.

Oh I also really liked the Riesling..though that had nothing to do with me :P I’m gonna try the Rose next time out..

By the way, here’s an old picture of the adorable tiger who just came out from a wash in a tub :)

And here are snapshots from the Sims I created ^^

Silent Conversations

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
- Plato

That’s what I’ve always thought and what many people never understand.

In conclusion, I must know quite a lot of fools in my life, no offense.

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Anyway, I randomly found this one by Delta Goodrem while googling up her songs in YouTube. I loved it! A little fact which really caught my interest was that she had to battle Hodgkin’s when she was just 18 (which was less than a year after her mum was diagnosed with breast ca) and only came about with her breakthrough album “Innocent Eyes” a few years after that.

Not Me, Not I
performed by Delta Goodrem

You mixed me up for someone
Who’d fall apart without you
Yeah you broke my heart for the first time
But I’ll get over that too
It’s hard to find the reasons
Who can see the rhyme?
I guess that we where seasons out of time
I guess you didn’t know me

If you think love is blind
That I wouldn’t see the flaws between the lines
Surprised that I caught you out
On every single time that you lied
Did you think that every time I see you I would cry
No not me, not I, not I, no not me, not I

The story goes on without you
And there’s got to be another ending
But yeah you broke my heart it won’t be the last time
But I’ll get over them too
As a new door opens we close the ones behind
And if you search your soul I know you’ll find
You never really knew me

If you think love is blind
That I wouldn’t see the flaws between the lines
Surprised that I caught you out
On every single time that you lied
Did you think that every time I see you I would cry
No not me, not I, not I, not I, not I

All you said to me
All you promised me
All the mystery never did believe
No I never cry no I never not me not I

If you think love is blind
That I wouldn’t see the floors between the lines
Surprised that I caught you out
On every single time that you lied
Did you think that every time I see you I would cry No not I, I won’t cry
No not me, not I, not I

P.S.: I am dying to watch Harry Potter!! But there’s no one here in SP, or Penang to watch it with :(

Holiday Fun :D

I’ve just got my new lappie yesterday. It was a HP Pavillion dv3  and I totally like it!!

Am gonna take real good care of this one…Promise. I’m even giving it a name..so that I can build some kind of personal connection with it wtf :P

I’ve also started playing the Sims 3 and I’m now totally hooked :) Even FIFA 09 or Photoshop CS4 doesn’t seem as interesting. Comparing The Sims to Sims 3, there is certainly an incredible difference! To start with, this new version has such amazing 3D graphics and customisability. The creators have also brought the realism of the game up a level by making the Sims’ moods reflect their actions better and there are now so many more things that the Sims can do. I especially loved the introduction of unique traits for the Sims which was actually reflected in their daily lives and the very cool lifetime achievement awards thingy where you can collect points to exchange for weird and useful stuff :) If there’s one thing I dislike though it’s how hard money is to come by. So now that I’ve googled the cheat codes, I’m really tempted to use them..though I guess that would defeat the purpose of the game. Although..stopping my Sim from getting old isn’t such a bad thing now is it? (especially while I’m getting used to the game) ;) With all these improvements though, there is a huge drawback in that quite a lot of computers are not able to run the program. Heck, even my home PC can’t run it because it lacks the required memory card.

My Sim is designed to have characteristics similar to mine and he’s right now working his way to his lifetime goal of becoming a world reknowned surgeon! Haha :D I wanted to add more Sims to the family but out of accident he’s all I have right now. Which in hindsight isn’t such a bad thing since I would probably have a headache trying to control 3 or 4 Sims at a time! So is there anyone else who’s playing this game and who’d like to share their own  ’Sim Story’? =)

[pictures to be posted after I figure out how to take them, hehe]

Oh yeah, my other plans for this short and final 2 weeks of holday includes learning how to make “ba zhang” with my mum and grandma, trying out a few interesting recipes I found from the internet, and celebrating my grandma’s 80th birthday and my dad’s birthday, which now that I think of it is only 3 days away and I’m still without a plan.

I saw Michael Owen :)

OK, Owen is now officially my favourite ManU player! Ever since he scored that goal which (thankfully) saved the team from what would’ve been a really humiliating loss to a Malaysian team who (no offense) would probably feel more in place playing in Conference – for those who don’t know, that’s the lowest league in English football, like 5 tiers beneath the EPL.

(detailed report later, not really in the blogging mood now)

there’s only
one thing,
to do,
three words,
for you…

GP posting

My conclusion from this week’s happenings?

Darwin’s Law of Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest does not seem to be working very well nowadays. Either that or this just shows us what terrible outcomes we are bound to suffer from if we interfere too much with the laws of nature and allow the weak and incompetent to survive.

Take for example the useless creep of a smoker who harms not only himself but all others around him with his disgusting habit. Why should he survive long enough to cause someone else to get cancer from breathing in his second hand smoke?

And then there’s the case of degenerative and genetic diseases. It’s only because of the latest advancements in medical knowledge that people with such conditions are allowed to live long past their sell-by date.

It’s not that I want to be cruel or anything, it’s just that old people should just figure out where they belong and age gracefully..instead of trying to do dangerous things (for their age) such as driving a car when their reflexes have evidently slowed by a huge fraction!

Talking about old age, going to the GP posting and rotations just reminded me of how much I dislike and in fact fear that particular stage of life. It’s very depressing when imagining how life will be like once we start losing all our faculties one by one. The eyesight will go first, then the hearing, the agility,  the mental capacity, then the kidneys, heart etc. It doesn’t have to occur in that order but whatever it is, our bodies will still end up more dysfunctional after every day.

Why do we have to grow old??

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The GP posting was awesome though. The doctor I had was probably the best general practitioner I’ve encountered through all these years! He really showed me all over again what it really means to be a doctor and he really puts to shame all the other doctors at the government hospitals with all their terrible attitudes. Guess all hope is not lost then.

Provisional Diagnosis?

I’ve have two new additions to my list of symptoms.

– Fever of 38.5 C

– Retro-orbital pain

The myalgia and headache I’m pretty sure can now be attributed to the same cause.

So stay far far away from me :P

I just realised that my GP posting is actually in the afternoon and at night..which is very bad cause I can foresee it spoiling a lot of my plans.