Thursday, 27 September 2007

Ratatouille - Simply delicious!



Its long since the last time I have watched any animation movies, my last one was "Finding Nemo" which was one of the box office miracle film by Pixar. However, after that, all the animation movies that came out were mostly made up of senseless plot and lame jokes... All that was portrayed were animal cuteness or animals trying to be smart and this has ruined most of the recent animations. So, when I was watching the trailer of "Ratatouille" in the theater during one of my movie going days, the first thought that sprang up in my mind was, "Hah......, another boring and senseless animation?", but sooner or later, I was proven wrong... All the positive comments and critics started flooding in after the movie was released with Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review website, giving it a high 96% rating. So, that prompted me to give the movie a try and guess what? The movie was wonderful with a very meaningful plot to it.

Don't worry, no spoilers, basically, the story revolves around the friendship between a "chef" and a rat who loves to cook, what makes the story logical was there was no "human knowing how to speak in animal language" or vice versa kind of thing in the story. The story has a clear direction and a strong "moral of the story". Of course what makes the movie even more enjoyable was the visual effects, it was pretty obvious that Pixar puts a lot of effort into the visual component in the movie, details from every stran of rat's fur to the night view of Paris were just too real to be true. This is another example of what it is called a great animation, Ratatouille kind of bring me back to the good old times when Disney produces animation with strong plot which can last for generations to come. Even though Remy, our little rat might not be able to create an everlasting image like Snow White or whatsoever, but this is a great improvement from all the recent craps in animations. However, Disney would have to work harder to create more memorable characters as it is pretty obvious that Disney is going downhill in recent years, but nevertheless, Ratatouille, like the dish itself was a delicious treat!

4/5 stars (Recommended) Critic by "Duh, ofcourse is me lar"...

Anyway, I went to Pasir Ris Park during one of the nights in our holiday to play, yes, literally play, it was as though I went back to my childhood... Haha...

The bright lamps in the park made it possible for us to shoot "artistic" photos. Haha...

We had another Le-fu family outing few weeks before, this time was actually a farewell party for our dear Shu Hui who is flying off to Denmark soon! We had K session in the morning and went to Marina Bay for BBQ/Steamboat for dinner! This is the second time I go for a K session, the first time it was in K-Box, it was super expensive, K-box likes to 砍 youngsters like us, 对得起良心吗?Haha... But this time, we went to Katong Shopping centre's Teo Heng KTV, guess what? We sang for five and half hours non-stop and for six persons, we just had to pay $8 only!!! So happy, next time sure go there and sing, but Teo Heng KTV must book before hand because of the limited rooms.


I am seen here singing with my dear Sammi! 终身美丽!


Strawberry and apple getting abit high from singing over here. Haha...

End of K session!

On the way to Marina Bay, using our fingers as photo frames, nice sia.

Strawberry is going to be squeezed under our deadly fingers! Ooo... Strawberry juice coming out. Haha...


Freshly opened clams!


Again, nicely done sausages by our sausage queen, lemon!


Guess who is the cook who made our prawns so presentable? Of course its me lar! Haha...

Spicy clams!

牛吃草。。。

Yummy! Who is the great cook?

These two girls went sot sot in the midst of the dinner, making so many crazy expressions for us to take photos... Here are only just some lor!Mama Mia!!! Not long after this classic action by Remy, Remy really appeared below our table, apparently Remy wanted to help us cook. (For those who doesn't know who is Remy, he is our cute little rat in Ratatouille), so you know what I mean? No wonder the food was so nice? But to think of it, I think the health inspector has been tied up by his clan, if not why Remy runs around like no other people's business? Don't know what I am blabbering about? Go watch the movie...

Full liao...

Ice-cream time! Ouch! Is that stone Strawberry is biting on?

Dinner ends! All the best to Shu Hui!!!

Yang Guo helping Xiao Long Nv wear her oversized ring. Its actually Strawberry's seemingly edible candy ear ring...

Saturday, 1 September 2007

雨后终会有情天的!

After a semester of supression by school work, lecturers, friends and parents, I am temporarily let free and I am really grateful for the last few days as I really really did rest and rewind myself. Even though the battery is not fully charged, it is still being charged a little. Thank God, thank God, he really pulled me through all this mind blowing schedule. So let me share what I did these few days.

Thursday:
After my final paper, we wasted a lot of time waiting for stupid Mr. Boh Boh (thats what I call him) for our scheduled meeting, but he 放我们飞机!!! Boy, can you please inform us that you are on MC, waited for you for 1 hour you know? Anyway, after that, few of us went to treat ourselves to dinner for finally surviving the semester, haha... So we went happily to Hans with crazy strawberry singing "我,我要,我要你,我要你的, 我要你的爱!你为什么不走过来!” to banana. Over there, I ate Sirlion steak with mushroom sauce, hmm, not bad, nice nice... Then after that I shared chocolate nut with Shu Hui and strawberry started to shoot some of her masterpieces with my camera (very unglam photos of me) and I did manage to revenge but still not satisfied yet coz she posed for the ugly shoot, not natural one. (Jiamin, I will take my revenge one day one, you don't run away!). After that, Banana came out with a new cocktail with our ice-cream cup, interesting ingredients and I doubt anyone would want to try her new experiment, I guess its not edible too, haha... (Ingredients: Chocolate ice-cream, tomato sauce, roasted chicken, green peas, coke). Banana, next time go do banana split lar, this one won't work. Haha... Then we were so tired after that and went home to sleep!

Yummy desert

My unsatisfied revenge

Miss Banana experimenting with her new cocktail
Friday:
Went to church for street bandy in the afternoon, so long never exercise liao, phew, so soong! Haha... I was so high that I kept singing "Please, Mr. Postman" while playing, noise pollution right, luckily no one thought I was a nuisance, Xiaoling even sang with me, haha... Then Likuan came in with her donuts from donut factory! First time see donuts with so many flavours! I ate the blueberry and the cheese donut, got the 幸福 feeling lor. Wah, donut fever in Singapore now ar. Really very attractive, the look of it already makes you crave for it. I got take photos of it, haven't transfer to my PC, got chance surely show you all. Then we had prayer meeting at night, good sharing, good fellowship, its good to be in the family of God! I enjoyed it!
Saturday:
I went to Wan Yi's evangelical birthday party to help out, good and sunny day even though it did rain a little when we reached, so long never see the sea liao and the sea breeze is super strong today! Even though its still early, I would still like to wish Wan Yi a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Again, I cook a lot and ate a lot (I promised myself to start slimming down after this, haha...) Enjoyable day, I did relax, so long never relax like that le. At night the breeze was even stronger and Kai Xuan did her Zhang Wu Ji stun when she sucked the styrofoam cover with her palm, no lar, is the wind was pushing the styrofoam cover against her palm lar, stop dreaming lar, Kai Xuan! Ahaha... Anyway, that was really hilarious! Then went home and start writing the post you all see now. Ah, what nonsense. So thats all for today, felt so good that I can finally write again, I LOVE writing, write write write...
This is how Mickey Mouse looks under his costume


Jing Yu senting up the fire


Me penging the food


Wan Yi dancing, Go Go Go!


Our yummy BBQ food for the night
Congrats to Singapore Airlines for winning the "Airline of the Year 2007" title this year and to HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT for winning the "AIRPORT OF THE YEAR 2007" title this year!!! Woho!!! Go Go Go!!!

Friday, 31 August 2007

New Generation Seats 大抖决, CX vs SQ!!!

Ever since we said goodbye to those days where even top notch airlines do not have any personal TVs (PTVs) and all they have on board were boring chairs and the only entertainment on board were whistling at pretty flight attendants (for guys only), eat, sleep, watching a movie being blocked by numerous heads infront and looking out of the window, the revolution of inflight facilities have indeed came a long long way. But as human beings, we will never be satisfied and always wants more. So here comes our new generation seats led on by the fiercest competitors of the aviation industry, Singapore Airlines and of course my beloved Cathay Pacific, however, I will not be bias this time, I will post a comparison of photos of seats for you all to decide which new generation seats you all prefer. Please do comment!

First Class:

CX

  • 36 inches wide seat
  • Guest seat
  • Transform into a bed
  • Massage functions
  • 17 inch TV
  • Personal closet

VS


SQ


  • 35 inches wide Seat
  • Transform into a bed
  • 23 inch TV
  • Mirrow and drawer

Comments: Ok ok, 目瞪口呆了吧?So now CX boast itself to have the biggest seat/bed in the sky but does that meant more comfort? I don't think so, if you all noticed, the TV and personal closet actually eats into the space of the bed which when compared to SQ's, there is 100% leg room for the legs. The guest seat and personal closet of CX's seat is also quite useless and the latter takes up far too much space. Now look at SQ's first class seat, simple simple simple but far more comfortable then CX's, firstly its only smaller than CX's by 1 inch which doesn't matter because the seat is still HUGE and oh my look at the TV! 23 inch, big big big, good for movies I would say. However one good thing about CX's seat is that there is massage function which I think is really cool. But in general, I would rather CX keep its design of the seat simple, therefore in this section, SQ wins!

Business Class

CX

  • Herringbone configuration
  • Fully flat bed
  • Massage function (Great!)
  • Guest seat
  • 15 inch TV
  • Plugs for laptops and wireless connection

VS

SQ

  • World's widest business class seat
  • Fully flat bed
  • Plugs for laptops and wireless connection
  • 15 inch TV

Comments: The new business class on CX is really an disappointment. CX has taken the Herringbone configuration concept from Virgin Atlantic which I think looks nice but impractical. Come on, you are a top notch airline, do something better, don't be a copy cat. Firstly, the seats are narrow, and the so called high walls surrounding the seat that they claim to enhance privacy makes passengers feel like they are flying in small packed tubes. Those seating at the window seats will have trouble viewing the scenes outside and this is again due to those high partition walls. Now, anyone who laid their eyes on the SQ new business class seat would actually be "wow"ing, first the seats don't look like business class seats at all, instead they look like first class seats! And oh my, see the width of the chair. Compare the looks of the cabin between both of them and you will find SQ defines "CLASS" more clearer and louder than CX. Too bad, CX loses again to SQ in this section.

Economy Class

CX

  • Fixed seat design
  • Sliding seat (Technology used in Business Class)
  • Larger 9 inch TV
  • More leg room
VS

SQ


  • More leg room
  • Private reading light
  • Plugs for laptops and wireless connection
  • 10.6 inch TV (Woho! Finally something big in economy class!)

Comments: For economy class, CX did quite a good job though. Fixed seat design, a design that will make having your meals without any disruption anymore, why? Because in the old designs, when that idiot in front of you reclines during meal time, you will want to smack his head because it takes up all your space and you will have difficulty reaching your food, so remember don't be an idiot and recline during meal times, you will cause inconvenience for the person behind! So how does this fixed seat reclines? The seat cushion actually slides out and the seat back reclining into the shell of the seat like those in business class and I would say this is really cool and smart of CX to use this design. But talking of class, CX still loses out to SQ, the private reading light is really thoughtful and wow, you can finally use laptops in economy, great. And the big 10.6 inch TV, oh my, this will really make my economy experience different if I were to fly with SQ because the TV is usually the companion I have in economy. Anyway, I think I will give it a fair for this section as both airlines did a great job over here in economy.

General comments: I would say CX was trying to be cool with all the features and stuff but they have forgotten about the main point which is COMFORT, most passengers don't really care about the gadgets you are providing them with, what they care about most is comfort and I think SQ has successfully captured this main point and therefore their new products are definitely lovable. In general, CX is cool this time and SQ is classy. But for me, a classy ambience is still my taste, so I would have to say SQ wins in this new Generation Seats 大抖决!

Monday, 20 August 2007

Well, Its China Airlines again...

As much as we all know, China Airlines has one of the world's most notorious reputation for safety. And this killer airline recently surprised us with another record when everyone thought it was improving its safety records. CI 120 caught fire today after landing due to a fuel leakage in engine number 2. It was so lucky that the evacuation was done quickly if not this killer airline would really kill someone again. So China Airlines, thanks for reminding us that we should always BOYCOTT you. Anyway, congrats to EVA Air, you will see an increase in business again and of course don't forget to thank China Airlines.

The wreckage


Smile, EVA!

Thursday, 26 July 2007

伤害。。。

自讨没趣。。。

我一个人在挣扎在一个我厌倦的环境。。。

但至少我对我珍惜的一切从来没半点假意。。。

可能那真正的关系只能从神和他的家里找到吧。。。

请记住我不是受害者,也不需要你们的同情。。。还我尊严来!

Hooo... 舒服多了...

全都给我滚开!!!