Random Movie Review: The Journey

路有你 The Journey
Language: Mandarin / Cantonese
Director: Chiu Keng Guan
Release Date: 30 January 2014
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes
Genre: Drama
Cast: Lee Sai Peng, Ben Andrew Pfeiffer
Plot Summary: Uncle Chuan is an old-fashioned and conservative man. His only hope is to reunite with his only daughter Ah Bee, whom will be returning from overseas after graduation to live together as a traditional family. But plans get twarted when she brings back her foreign boyfriend Benji with her and plans to get married instead. Uncle Chuan tries, but fails to change his daughter’s mind. According to Chinese culture, son-in-law Benji is obliged to deliver the wedding invitations along with his father-in-law. So with no say in the matter, the journey of long distance road travel has put two unwilling men into the hands of the othe

Review:
The movie is well paced throughout. The beautiful cinematography is quite a treat to the eyes. You will feel as if you are watching a National Geo Wild documentary. The acting from all of the actors are commendable and is very believable, except for the Ah Bee and Benji dynamic. The director could throw in more confrontational situations and stretch their scenes a little bit more to make their relationship more believable.
Overall good story-line that emphasizes on the importance of family, tradition, respect and friendship. A movie for all.

Random Movie Rating:
9.0/10.0

Lunar Horse Year 2014-Pictorials Part 2

Meet Belle the dog

Yee Sang ingredients

Heavenly Mee Siam

Cakes for dessert

In the spirit of everything Chinese New Year, yee sang is a must

The main event..the Yee Sang

The buffet spread

The food was great, but most importantly the fellowship was too.

Lunar Horse Year 2014-Pictorials

Day 1

Chinese New Year Eve

The gambling den

Place your bets!!! Place your bets!!

mummy dearest readying the steamed fish

sister the designated rice  distributor 

Main course

Steamed fish

My adorable nieces and nephew

Group family photo

Day 2

Beef rendang

Chicken Satay

Rice Ketupat

The next proceeding was a visit to my uncles home.

Another family photo

Lion dances commences

Haiyak!!!

Spreading wealth and prosperity around the house

Lion dance in need of some tender loving care.

A photo-shoot kind of family group photo at the lawn

Another one to end the day.

The hill excursion

Yesterday afternoon had a climb on a hill to get some exercise with my friends.

 the climb up was spellbinding....

 And this was definately the aim. To see the telecommunication tower at the top of the hill

 the freakishly scary, route looking down

 the telecommunication antenna up close!!

I've made it!!

and half way down, and at the side of the hill, you can view the whole city from the slope.

I was exhausted from seeing the beautiful view, as you can see from the picture of me being exhausted.

eating it never gets old

I had three of those bad boys for RM14 ringgit about almost 2 weeks ago. Yummylicious it was

IPAD NO PAD

the minion craze 2: Malaysian Style (gangnam not included)

anything you say lah!!

Dear Malaysia

Dear Malaysia,
Regardless of the outcome of the outcome of the 13th General Elections, I still love my brother and sisters of all races, without the extremism, dissatisfaction, egoistic, maniacal, greediness of certain quarters even if it hurts the unity of the country.                 

I hope every takes a stand to put prejudices aside, the fears and the hearsay that has been circulating lately, in Malaysia.

Let work together in love and unity.












Love conquers all thing.

Sincerely
My hope and dreams for Malaysia

Gangnam Style Best and Worst 2012

WORST

Legoland Malaysia

More about LEGO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego (Wikipedia)

I've paid for it Proton

*Adult supervision needed. Some foul language ahead*

This echoed the KFC incident. Who is at fault here? Who knows?

More on the incident:

• Angry Proton customer goes ballistic. (Free Malaysian Today)

Bersih 3.0 4.28.12

The Coalition for Free and Fair Elections or Bersih (which means "clean" in Malay) is a coalition of non-governmental organisations with the aim of revising the current electoral system to ensure fair elections in Malaysia.

Bersih 3.0 in Dataran Pahlawan Malacca.

the banner reads " Dirty Politics, Democracy Tainted; Clean the Voting list

Bersih 3.0 Kuala Lumpur

• 250,000 protestors at Bersih 3.0, Ambiga claims success
• Press pixmen nabbed over assault picture
• 7000 including Penang CM rally at Esplanade

Other notable write ups and video on the event:

That was a  video  capturing the incident when a certain group of food vendors doing a small protest by selling  burgers in front of Ambiga's resident, demanding compensation for lost of income during Bersih 3.0 rally

*Updated*

• my bersih 30 experience behind barbed(blogspot)
• my bersih 3.0 experience the day the police became hooligans( The Malaysian Insider)
• no death reported during yesterdays rally police ( yahoo Malaysia)
• good samaritan gets a beating of his life (Free Malaysia Today)
• bbc signals outrage over malaysian censorship of bersih 3.0 coverage (sarawak report. org) 
• mr straw hat( Yahoo News Malaysia) 
• Food traders grill burger in protest of Ambiga ( Yahoo News Malaysia)
• bersih chants ring out at najib's london speech ( Malaysia Insider) *UPDATED*

Pictures courtesy of Lestrouble CS. Bersih 3.0 Malacca

Videos courtesy of Bryan W  and Xander1430

signs of a transformer overload

*Click for a larger picture*

was trying to check back on my reservation seats when I was greeted what that.

wasted pillow fight

Instead of wasting the pillows why not give it to me because my stiff neck needs all the support it  can get.

when a maid attacks

Full story:

Maid launches vicious attack

This is seriously something for a change. All you read and see all the time is employee attacking theirs maids and not like this one.