Friday, August 8, 2008

Skinny vs Fat People

so , I was bored and doing my daily blog-hopping (toink.toink..) and I stumbled upon this blog writing about his random thought on skinny && fat people. He wrote:

"Why is it okay to tease someone about being skinny?
but when you call someone FAT, it's insensitive and hurtful...

Why??? Don't tell me it's different because skinny people have feelings too right? Being skinny comes with other problems as well, just because we can eat and not get fat doesn't mean it is something to be enviable about. Fat people have the choice of not eating too..."

so true man, so true
nuff said.

Susuk The Movie: dari hati seorang penonton

Tepat jam 11:55pm, aku dan rakan seperjuangan seramai 15 orang telah masuk ke panggung nombor 8 untuk menonton filem yang dinanti-nantikan sekalian manusia di bumi iaitu Susuk.

Biar aku bagi dulu rating filem nie sebelum aku terangkan sebab kenapa.
(dan note-to-self: dari hati seorang penonton. Maka jangan kutuk review aku, sebab ini pendapat aku. Pendapat/pandangan kita berbeza.)
Out of 5, aku bagi 2.5

Kenapa 2.5?
Kerana...

aku rasakan filem ini agak membosankan. Dan juga susuk itu sendiri tidak diceritakan dengan lebih teliti (sama seperti apa yang terjadi pada Congkak). Mungkin aku tidak memahami apa yang cuba disampaikan tetapi semakin lama filem dimainkan semakin aku terasa bosan menontonnya dan hampir untuk keluar dari panggung dan melaungkan "I want my RM10 back!" (boleh tak?). Pada awalnya aku sudah mengagak Suzanna (Ida Nerina) itu adalah Suraya (Diana Rafar) - sorry for the spoiler, dan banyak persoalan yang bermain di fikiran aku nie mengenai filem itu sepanjang aku menontonnya.

1. Apa kaitannya ayam dengan susuk?
Mungkin aku tidak mengetahui apa-apa mengenai simbolism or what-so-ever, tetapi aku ingin sekali mengetahui apa kaitannya ayam dengan susuk. Kenapa perlu ada ayam setiap kali Suzanna mencari mangsa untuk dijadikan makanannya. Aku masih memikirkannya sehingga sekarang. Somebody?

2. Kenapa susuk dimasukkan di lengan bukannya di muka?
Bukankah susuk itu dimasukkan di muka? Ataupun memang ada dimasukkan ke lengan. Kalau ada sekalipun, kenapa asyik tunjuk muka lawa jer, tak tunjuk lengan lawa? Bagi orang yang zero knowledge pasal susuk nie, aku rasakan susuk itu perlu diceritakan dengan lebih detail lagi supaya yang menonton nie boleh mendapat clear view pasal susuk. Bukan semua orang tau pasal benda alah nie kan?

3. Apa yang mendorong Suraya untuk melakukan susuk?
Takkan sebab ikut Rozana (Aleeza Kassim) ke rumah dukun tu terus dia tergerak hati nak melakukan susuk? Suraya seolah-olah tak ada sebab yang kukuh, ke kerana dia seorang yang lurus bendul? Ke sebab si Rozana telah menayangkannya bodynya (note: menayangkan body dengan membuka bathrobe depan mata Suraya) kat Suraya terus Suraya nak buat kot? Tapi aku rasa kalau sapa-sapa yang buat susuk pun mesti dia fikir banyak kali dulu kan sebelum dia pakai benda tu?

4. Apa telah terjadi pada Rozana?
Memandangkan semua orang yang ada kaitan dengan Suraya/Suzana mati, apakah yang telah terjadi pada Rozana? Mona mati, kakak Suraya/Suzana mati, Farish (Hairie Othman) mati, Producer Lee (Chew Kin Wah), Marcella (Baizura Kahar) mati - dan aku tak tau kenapa dia dibunuh kerana aku rasa dia tak pakai susuk pun malah dia tak ada kena mengena dengan Suraya cuma datuk Marcella dirawat di hospital tempat Suraya bekerja, itu jer. Nak kata dia buat jahat dengan si Suraya tu tak jugak. Takkan sebab dia tak nak tumpangkan Suraya balik Pandan Indah pun kena bunuh kot?

5. Apa terjadi pada Dukun Dewangga (obviouslylah Adlin Aman Ramlee kan)?
Tugas dia dah selesai ke lepas Suzana bunuh kawan baik dia, Mastura (Norkhiriah). Takkan sampai tu jer tugas dia. Lagipun dia tu kan ala-ala manager si Suzana tu jugakkan?

6. Takkan tak ada report pasal kematian orang-orang yang dibunuh Suzana?
Macam tak logik pulakkan, mati punya kaw-kaw, siap putus kepala lagi tu tapi takkan tak ada report pasal kematian dorang? Paling sikit pun mesti ada berita tentang kehilangan orang-orang tu, contoh Marcella, dah nama pun juara Idola kan, dia mati tak ada orang report ke? Si kakaknya Suraya mati dalam kebakaran rumah tu boleh pulak kan masuk news siap. Takkan yang mati dengan tragiknya tak masuk news? Hmm...macam mana tu? Boleh terima ka tak? Hoho

7. Macam mana Suzana boleh dapat superpower?
Pakai susuk boleh dapat superpower ke? Bila bunuh orang siap boleh terbang-terbang, ada taring, kuku panjang (eh, nie superpower ke?) Biar betik?!

Banyak lagi persoalan yang timbul. Terasa kecewa RM10 aku burn camtu jer. Rasa nak mogok beramai-ramai mintak balik duit tu pun ada jugk. Tapi, apakan daya, nasik dah jadi bubur. Nasib baik popcorn sedap pulak malam tu kan.
However, ada jugaklah scene-scene yang telah membuatkan jantung aku hampir-hampir lari dari kedudukan asal sebab terkejut punya pasal (memang macam sial sikit, haha). Antaranya ialah scene bila Suzana yang degil melanggar pantang larang untuk pulang ke kampung setelah mendapat berita tentang kematian kakaknya. Memang boleh sakit jantung jugaklah dibuatnya. Papehal, korang tutuplah mata masa scene kereta Suzana berhenti tepi jambatan lepas dia lalu kat sana. Haha
Aku rasa tu jerlah kot aku nak katakan tentang filem Susuk buat masa nie. Selamat menonton pada yang belum menonton, tapi pada siapa yang rasanya tak nak ambil risiko meng'burn'kan duit RM10 macam tu jer baik korang tengok filem lain (sapa nak tengok Forgetting Sarah Marshall dengan aku sila angkat tangan!)
...dan kepada kaum lelaki, selamat menonton body Aleeza Kasim dalam filem nie. Jangan berdarah hidung sudahlah ye.
Till then,
cheers

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

M&M Cru Won? WTF????!

Ok, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you're probably not a big fan of Youtube. Lol. Let me tell you a little bit what's going on there.

HISTORY OF THE BIGGEST ONLINE DANCE BATTLE IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND:

April 10, 2008
Jon M. Chu and Adam Sevani challenge Miley and Mandy to "The Biggest Online Dance Battle in YouTube history". The rules are...there are NO rules. both crews are allowed to do whatever they want, however they want. Jon and Adam name their crew the ACDC (Adam/Chu Dance Crew). They release their FIRST CHALLENGE video.

April 15 2008
Miley and Mandy respond with a giant video to Madonna and Justin Timberlake's song, "4 Minutes". In 24 hours their video gets OVER A MILLION hits and become an instant YouTube classic. It gets posted on Perez, Access Hollywood, Yahoo News, Ellen etc. They even recruit one of Step Up's own to be in their video (Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan).

April 28, 2008
Adam and Chu release a teaser for their response to the Miley and Mandy video. It sets a date and time for the release of their next installment, "April 30th 9pm PST." Buzz grows.

April 30, 2008
There is an ONLINE frenzy on the ChuPictures youtube page where the fans have gathered for the live release of the battle video. Chu's youtube triples it's views in twenty minutes before the video has even been uploaded. Technical difficulties lead to the delay of the video release for 1 hour. Frenzy only gets bigger.

April 30, 2008
This video is released...The video hits over 3.5 MILLION HITS...

May 2008
ACDC are invited to perform at Ellen DeGeneres' 50th birthday party...YouTube invites the ACDC to perform at their headquarters...Mike Myers and Chris Brown spoof the battle for the opening of the MTV MOVIE AWARDS.

June 10, 2008 7pm
M&M release their newest video...to be continued.

And last night, they had their final LIVE FACE TO FACE dance battle and *drum rolls* M&M Cru had won???!!! I was like "WHAT THE FUCK??!". Yes, you heard me right, WHAT THE FUCK!

I've been watching their battle from the first video up until the live face to face and I can't believe how on earth M&M Cru can win. Their first 4 Minutes video was sucks, then the second video was bullshit, all they did was copying ACDC dance moves and the last one on Teen Choice Awards 08 sucks big time. Yet they won??????????????????? Are you kidding me?! But I'm glad some of the audience booed M&M Cru when Fergie announced the winner. And the look on Adam Sevani when they booed M&M Cru was priceless. LOL Yeah, ACDC should've won! Enough said.

Go to JonMchu & MileyMandy Youtube to watch previous battles and you'll know what I'm talking about.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Oh My!

I am lazy, super lazy. I supposed to install Adobe Photoshop && Illustrator few weeks ago (since all the CDs that I've borrowed didn't work out; either the crack contains viruses or the CD is plain stupid) and now few days left for practical training presentation, I haven't finish up my report yet (presentation = this FRIDAY).

Yikes!

I just got back from my trip to Taman Negara (for my Photojournalism class). I would say it was OK. The experiences are great, but the photographs are sucks. I didn't bring my tripod along. I didn't bring (borrow from my department actually) my micro/macro lens. I didn't have my own flashgun (and again forgot to borrow it from my department); which left me no choice to use the camera's flash but the photos turn out to be craps. So, Delete button is my dear friend during the shooting and I end up having not so many photos (eyh?).

Although

I'm not a big fan of Hujan nor I am one of their 'Raingers' but I admit, their upcoming video 'Bila Aku Sudah Tiada' will be an awesome music video after Love Me Butch - Hollywood Holiday just by watching the preview. Good job to the director/editor, producer and director of photography.




more updates and photos will be uploaded soon. sorry I didn't have the times to read your updates, will do soon.

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have fun everybody
cheers