Archive for November 2008
This song is gay....
Metro Station - Shake It
Hehe, yeah but I like this song! xD
(and for some reason I can't embed the video here.....)
Well other than that, I'm currenly studying accounts and economics for my final 2 exams later on Monday and Tuesday. After that and I could enjoy more and start finding a job somewhere.....
Hehe, yeah but I like this song! xD
(and for some reason I can't embed the video here.....)
Well other than that, I'm currenly studying accounts and economics for my final 2 exams later on Monday and Tuesday. After that and I could enjoy more and start finding a job somewhere.....
The Fashion
Well during the whole 2 days I played Need For Speed: Undercover, I kept noticing this song every time it appears. The song was really catch and thought I give it a listen to. To my surprised it doesn't sound half bad, and thought I would listen to their other songs on youtube. Wow, another bad discovered in a video game! Thanks EA lol.
In the words from "The Fashion":
Hailing from the underground music scene of Svendborg, Denmark and now calling Copenhagen home, The Fashion have drawn comparisons to fellow countrymen The Raveonettes and Junior Senior, as well as international superstar acts The Hives and Franz Ferdinand. Critics suggest the band evokes memories of revolutionary artists ranging from The Ramones to The Beastie Boys.
Here are the songs that I can recommend you could listen to:
The Fashion - Like Knives
The Fashion - Solo Impala (Take The Money And Run)
Quantum of Solace
Just watched the movie with my parents at Cathay Cineplexes at Damansara a few hours ago. All I got to say is the movie was really awesome. Not "Dark Knight" awesome, but it is very close. Although I haven't really followed the plot as much (who the hell is Vesper?) and that I wasn't really expected to watch the movie today (my brother bought me and my parents a Platinum Movie Suite for us, which was nice of him as he did treat all of us for dinner prior to that.....) So anyway, I think Daniel Craig performed quite well as James Bond in the movie, but I'm just not sure if either he or Pierce Brosnan was the better James Bond. Also, I think some of the action scene was left to be desired. There were one or two scenes that had some bad special effects, or some dialogues gone wrong although I think they were just minor mistakes than anything......
As for the "Bond Girl", Olga Kurylenko was quite okay in the movie, although I do feel her role feels a little left out compared to the other bond girls, but it does make it seem more interesting that the average bond girl. But damn, I feel really ripped of knowing the movie only lasted about 1 hour 45 minutes, compared to some of the other movies that are usually 2 hours plus! But it must have a lot of scenes cut from the movie...... What was worse was that some of the foreign dialogues had no English subtitles! I mean what the fuck man, I can't believe they left that out, and yet the could translate those dialogues into Malay and Chinese....
Meh, whatever. Its getting late and I need some sleep. Will post more stuff later......
Continuing from the post:
Well after a good night sleep and giving a few more suggestions for the review, now I'll try to make out a review the plot for some of the scene. The first one has got to be the car chase scene between the Aston Martin and the Alfa Romeo. That scene itself was quite nicely done and all, but I can't help wonder that one scene where the police van got shot off the road and fell over the cliff, with James Bond being chased by the guys in the Alfa, suddenly that same van crash in front of him. At that point it clearly reminded my of that scene in Tokyo Drift where the guy in the 350Z fell of cliff and the exact same thing happened. Yeah, not what I call "original" though...... =P Also after the end of that chase, James Bond open the boot of his car to find a guy sitting inside there being tied up...... Got a good laugh out of that, I wonder how did he even manage to stay alive in that boot after all that action......
The next thing I want to get to is the boat chase scene, maybe it does look a bit better than some of the other scene and has got to be one of the better scenes that I enjoyed watching. Maybe the only thing bugging me was how did the villain's boat got onto James Bond's boat and he used only a rope and made the boat flipped. Not sure about that one, looks really suspiciously done. Then there is also the part where James Bond meet Dominic Greene for the second time, and where James Bond took Camille and left Fields there with Greene. I mean I swear they had to cut at least 15 minutes from that frame, as suddenly James Bond got pulled over by the cops and open the boot of his car to find René Mathis unconscious at the back of the car. What later made appalling was when the MI6 Agent found Strawberry Fields inside his hotel room died after being drowned in oil. What the hell happened to them!?
The dogfight at the desert also was a bit of a meh from me, I don't really particularly like that part of a reason or two. Firstly after what was looks like to be a conversation between Bond and Camille, there happened to be a fighter pilot trying to gun them down in an old aircraft. It was so sudden and kinda unexpected, but nevertheless I just followed the story. The battle between a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane and aAermacchi SF-260 fighter (with the Bell UH-1 helicopter making an appearance later) was really a no brainer there. I mean even if James Bond manage to fend of the attack, it was highly unlikely he would have survived in that old airplane. Also being mentioned several times was also the parachute scene where they pull the chute just what look liked to be a few feet before they hit the ground. Although it could be done, but I think you could only come out second best.......
Anyways, maybe thats about it from me. I'm sure the soundtrack and the similarities with this movie and The Bourne Ultimatum has been mentioned a lot......
As for the "Bond Girl", Olga Kurylenko was quite okay in the movie, although I do feel her role feels a little left out compared to the other bond girls, but it does make it seem more interesting that the average bond girl. But damn, I feel really ripped of knowing the movie only lasted about 1 hour 45 minutes, compared to some of the other movies that are usually 2 hours plus! But it must have a lot of scenes cut from the movie...... What was worse was that some of the foreign dialogues had no English subtitles! I mean what the fuck man, I can't believe they left that out, and yet the could translate those dialogues into Malay and Chinese....
Meh, whatever. Its getting late and I need some sleep. Will post more stuff later......
Continuing from the post:
Well after a good night sleep and giving a few more suggestions for the review, now I'll try to make out a review the plot for some of the scene. The first one has got to be the car chase scene between the Aston Martin and the Alfa Romeo. That scene itself was quite nicely done and all, but I can't help wonder that one scene where the police van got shot off the road and fell over the cliff, with James Bond being chased by the guys in the Alfa, suddenly that same van crash in front of him. At that point it clearly reminded my of that scene in Tokyo Drift where the guy in the 350Z fell of cliff and the exact same thing happened. Yeah, not what I call "original" though...... =P Also after the end of that chase, James Bond open the boot of his car to find a guy sitting inside there being tied up...... Got a good laugh out of that, I wonder how did he even manage to stay alive in that boot after all that action......
The next thing I want to get to is the boat chase scene, maybe it does look a bit better than some of the other scene and has got to be one of the better scenes that I enjoyed watching. Maybe the only thing bugging me was how did the villain's boat got onto James Bond's boat and he used only a rope and made the boat flipped. Not sure about that one, looks really suspiciously done. Then there is also the part where James Bond meet Dominic Greene for the second time, and where James Bond took Camille and left Fields there with Greene. I mean I swear they had to cut at least 15 minutes from that frame, as suddenly James Bond got pulled over by the cops and open the boot of his car to find René Mathis unconscious at the back of the car. What later made appalling was when the MI6 Agent found Strawberry Fields inside his hotel room died after being drowned in oil. What the hell happened to them!?
The dogfight at the desert also was a bit of a meh from me, I don't really particularly like that part of a reason or two. Firstly after what was looks like to be a conversation between Bond and Camille, there happened to be a fighter pilot trying to gun them down in an old aircraft. It was so sudden and kinda unexpected, but nevertheless I just followed the story. The battle between a Douglas DC-3 propeller plane and aAermacchi SF-260 fighter (with the Bell UH-1 helicopter making an appearance later) was really a no brainer there. I mean even if James Bond manage to fend of the attack, it was highly unlikely he would have survived in that old airplane. Also being mentioned several times was also the parachute scene where they pull the chute just what look liked to be a few feet before they hit the ground. Although it could be done, but I think you could only come out second best.......
Anyways, maybe thats about it from me. I'm sure the soundtrack and the similarities with this movie and The Bourne Ultimatum has been mentioned a lot......
Vocaloid.......
Looking for this software after I've seen a few clips of the songs being made on Youtube. For all who don't know what Vocaloid is, "its a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
So does anyone know where can I buy this software in Malaysia? I don't really trust the torrents since the filesize looks so small compared to the actual product. Most of them don't even have the Miku Hatsune version....... =(
As for my exams, just finished 7 out of the 9 exams taken and now have a 1 week break before the final 2 papers, then its FREEDOM!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow is the big day......
Yeah, tomorrow will be the start of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, and I would just like to say good luck to everyone taking SPM this year.....
Sungha Jung
A friend just gave me a link to one of his songs and I was blown away with his fingerpicking skills. He is only 12 year old this past September, and yet he plays pretty much as good as any other acoustic artists out there. He does have a lot of potential to become an even greater musician when he gets exposed to more people......
You can check out one of the many songs he covers as well as a few of his own songs on Youtube or his Myspace page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jwcfree
http://www.myspace.com/jungsungha
SMKSJ Graduation Day 2008
Oh wow....... I don't even know where to start with this one. Fist of all, I only wanted to go to school today just to get my certificates and only that. Everything seems to went fine, but everything else is left said to be a little..... disappointing. The speech was "okay" was that I could actually bare listening to them and the performance was absolutely rubbish. The food was also terrible (it was Nasi ayam, or chicken rice in English) but I was thankful for it cause I didn't eat breakfast at that time. Wish they had something else that would make graduation day more fun like other schools......... *sigh*
Now that every school activity is finished, now we all can concentrate on the biggest exams of our life, the very exam that could determine our future as a success or failure. Whatever it is, it is very important for everyone except me. Getting all A's in the SPM isn't going to make you 1 second faster around Sepang....... LMAO. =P
Now that every school activity is finished, now we all can concentrate on the biggest exams of our life, the very exam that could determine our future as a success or failure. Whatever it is, it is very important for everyone except me. Getting all A's in the SPM isn't going to make you 1 second faster around Sepang....... LMAO. =P
Chatmonchy (band)
Following yesterdays post, this is something that I found while I was looking up on something at Wikipedia. Even with an all girl band and a quirky name, the song did actually catch on pretty easily and before you know it, their songs become very very addictive. =S So like yeah, song wise it isn't that bad if your into J-pop/J-rock kind of stuff but it isn't for everyone. But at least its better than Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re..... (heck, I don't even know what their song is......)
Just give them a listen and tell me how you guys like/hate them. There was this one song that I got addicted to which was Hana no Yume, its quite catchy and nice to listen to. =D
Chatmonchy - Hana no Yume
Chatmonchy - Shangri-la
Toe (band)
I just heard about this band a few days ago on my friends Myspace page, and as I was looking for several Japanese bands to add to my music collection. (will explain more on that later) I didn't expect their songs to be that good, but after listening to a few of their songs I really started to like their songs. They are mostly a post-rock and instrumental band, but the genre seems to go out more than that. You will see what I mean when you listen to the on Myspace......
http://www.myspace.com/toemusic
The song that is currently stuck in my head are Path and グッドバイ
toe - Path
toe - グッドバイ
SPM is coming.....
Yeah, its times like this that makes nearly everyone worried. But not for me, nope! I don't give a flying s*** about the so called "most important exam ever" because I know SPM doesn't make me become a professional racing driver. =P Then again, I feel sorry for my friends and the other people who keep studying for their own good, oh how I wish I could be like them........
