Feeling nostalgic

Okay folks, I'm pissed. Here I am with nice pictures and using this blog and somehow, I may have to move again but I'll see how it goes. The reason this time? I have only one Megabyte of picture space so I'll check if I can move into a bigger diskspace without doing the tedious moving or not. I've check at www.blogspot.com, it's pretty good and the limitation is 300 MB of picture space. I know that in friendster blogs, the limitation is 50 MB for picture space. Initially I thought of moving to blogspot but then again I thought of giving this blogsite a try. Sigh. So there you have it folks, check the size allocated for your pictures before you move in. Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.

Anyway, moving on.

I have here two pictures to show to the world. Both pictures are pictures of my church members and the first picture of my "posse" is taken sometime in 2004 and the other is a picture taken sometime in 1995.

The second picture of my "posse" doesn't have my face in it because I didn't join in this fellowship right until end of 1999 and so you wouldn't see my face in there. But you would be able to see familiar faces. Some of them are no longer part of the group and moved on but some of them still there. Changes of some people can be seen quite clearly but others are smaller. However, some still remains. Oh well, you can't stay looking like a teenager forever (though some people still behaves like a teenager though).

P/s: Hey cousin, if you're reading this, I never would have thought you like to be in the middle of the group for a photo shoot.

In the mean time, I'll think about my position whether to move or not to move. This bites!

Underworld...two cents worth...

Yeah, I went out late last night to watch Underworld 2 (that would explain that I'm tired and look like a lychan today). Anyway, here's my "dua kupang" worth.

If you haven't watch it, only read the first point. Skip the rest, I don't want to spoil the movie for you.

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1. Not a bad movie but they should have warned about "You should be familiar...very familiar with the first Underworld before you view the second one".

It was not that great an explaination by the father of all three males (who all are actually playing supporting roles in my opinion) in the second film. If you so happen to watch the second sequeal and skipping the first one, you won't know a few things. For example,

Who is this hybrid and how this hybrid can BE a hybrid and no one else can BE a hybrid (vampiric abilities and were-wolf abilities). I'll enlighten you on that matter, first there was this guy, Alexander Corvinus, who became immortal somehow (I can't remember...it was mentioned in the first Underworld) and had three sons. Yup, three sons. Two of the sons were twins. One of the twin, William, was bitten by a wolf and was the first were-wolf. The other, Marcus, was bitten by a moth (just kidding), a bat and soon became a were-bat, i.e. vampire. What happened to the third? Was not bitten by anything carried the genes of Alexander Corvinus. The decendent, the hero of both the movies, Michael Corvin, carries the genes and in the first movie he was bitten by the heroine AND the were-wolf and so he was the first hybrid.

This would give you some enlightenment in how the Michael Corvin got his "powers".

2. The movie's focus was Selene. In both the movie it was Selene as the heroine. The hybrid fella's just a supporting guy that has more powers than ANY of the villian but does not know how to use it. Probably because he's new with his new founding powers rather than Selene who became a vampire over 600 years ago had lots of practice, seeking revenge of her parents (mentioned also in the first and partially in the second Underworld).

3. The entire movie, the vampire and the hybird needs very little blood to survive. All they did was suck on each other's blood and they have enough energy to kill everyone that is deemed bad. I tell you, the amount of blood sucked in the show was not more than one litre. Okay, the bad vampire, Marcus, has to suck on a whole horse's for its blood to fill him up. Probably because he's the biggest honcho in the movie.Then there was this other villian, all grunts and noise, he was imprisoned in a tomb for all eternity (total was 800 years) and still have energy to kill, rampage and was in beserk mode. Mind you, this were-wolf was entombed and so no food for 800 plus years. Surely his fleas would have sucked HIM dry.

4. The original were-wolf and original vampire fighting a hybrid and a "turned" vampire scene was not good enough. Too short. You have the originals of the two breeds and then destroyed by their enemies by ripping them apart. The hybrid tore the upper snout of the were-wolf like me ripping a wing off a chicken. Then the heroine broke the original vampire's wing, chopped off his hand (very little blood spluttered out by the way) and pushed the villian to the chopter's turning blade to be shredded to pieces.

5. Not enough blood. The fighting scenes were not bad, story was poor but just plain not enough blood. Vampire movie, people getting shot, mutilated, etc but the amount of blood was just below my expectations.

6. So in the end, the hero and heroine CAN live and love each other forever. How sweet. All they have to do is to suck on each other for food (remember they only need less than one liter of blood) and then can battle villians etc. If they have an argument, all hell would break loose. I mean, they have super-strength and super healing ability, and if they get into an argument, catastrophic scene.

Anyway, that's all for now, feel free to add on to the comments on the movie. Brian signing off.

Beyond my horizon

Looking at my wallet the past few days made me think hard, very hard, on what to do with my remaining money. Not much, it may or may not get me by till end of the month. It would be two more weeks till I get my next cheque and another three days for it to clear. I have a little extra reserved for any emergencies. Sigh. Some reserve it seem. Just a couple of hundred bucks. Where did all my money go to? Plenty of places. Most of it not for myself or at least not for my own pleasure. My car, my immediate family, insurance, the likes. So I'll have to find some way to stretch my money's worth for the next two weeks. Problem is my car's paint looks pretty bad now, actually more worse than the last time I'd checked. So it would be time for me to cough out 1,700 bucks to repaint my car. I just checked my tires and it seems that I need to get them changed too, soon, but not yet. So I need to allocate some amount for that as well. The price of having a car.

But you know what? Funny thing is, I'm still not worried. In fact, I am still in control of my stuff. Yes, I sometimes induldge myself in a game or two (or three) with a "boys-night-out" session but that's much less than before. Averaging once a week or even less. So what am I going to do? I'm going to watch myself more closely this time. I already cleared most of my bank debts (credit card debts are sssoooo hard to clear off). So I'm okay with this "no money but not much in debt" situation.

If I do have some spare cash what would I do? First of all, it would depend on the amount. If the amount is at a five hundred bucks extra. I would probably fix my tires. If I have an extra of a thousand? I won't do a single thing. Wait a bit longer to accumulate a bit more then I would repaint my car. If I have a couple of thousand. Hmmm... I would do both my tires and paint my car at the same time. If I have five thousand? I would use two thousand to fix my car and the remainder to go on a holiday with Esther and probably let her buy some stuff that she likes (I know she just loves those cute artistic stuff that they sell at those kiosks). However, these are just my wishes. Possible but still a wish for now. Hmmmm... dream first. Accomplish later. Walt Disney always reminds people that "if you can dream it, you can do it". The thing that stops people from achieving it is the "doing" part. So what's beyond my horizon? My reality that has yet to come true. Adios.

The North American feeling...

Yesterday we had church service that was mostly run in North American style. Meaning the songs that were sung, the part where they bring a show-and-tell session to the children (during the service mind you) and of course the people that were leading the service were Americans. I find myself smiling through out the serivice because of the style and I was explaining to someone next to me who was surprised and exclaimed, "hey why we didn't thought of that" everytime she sees something new and was wondering if it is a new thing. Oh well, she's was wondering if our church could adopt some of the styles that we saw yesterday.

Moving on to something more depressing. Pratiba, I send my condolences to you. I am sorry to hear that your mother passed away and I hope that everything is alright with you. We will pray for your comfort.

I just found out that I need to fix my car. Total amount to fix my car ? Try one thousand six hundred (ouch! Malaysian Ringgit of course but ouch nonetheless). Sigh. My car's pain is ruined (no thanks to the harsh sun ray's in this tropical side of the world) and let's see if I could delay till next year. Hopefully my car won't be in total rust by then. So in the mean time, I got to wash the car more often, apply car wax more frequently and may need to double my layers of wax just to prolong my paint. It's inevitable but it's like delaying death rather than increasing life. Oh well, got to go.

My condolences once again Pratiba.