Konversasi (boleh tak?) dengan Ain

Salam & good day all.

Sebaik saja keluar dari Bahagian Urology minggu lepas, telefonku berbunyi. Oh! Abah ropa2nya. Selepas bercakap2 sedikit dengan abah pasai sakit aku, dok dengaq sora Ain baek punya kat belakang kata nak cakap dengan Ngah Jun. so bercakap la dengan dia

Ain : Ngah Jun sakit apa?
Aku : hmm (sambil berfikir nak jawab apa nak bagi budak ni faham)… perut Ngah Jun ada batu
Ain : hah! Pasaipa Ngah Jun makan batu?
Aku : wahahahaha…mana ada Ngah Jun makan batu
Ain : abeh tu, pasaipa ada batu dalam perut?
Aku : (alamak! apa aku nak jawab kat dia ni?) oh, batu tu ada sebab penyakit
Ain : hmm…Ain ingat Ngah Jun ni, Ngah Jun ingat Ain dak?
Aku : ingat, mesti la Ngah Jun ingat Ain
Ain : kalau ingat pasaipa tak balik kampong jumpa Ain?
Aku : Ngah Jun kerja. Nanti Ngah Jun balik OK.

Ya, nanti Ngah Jun balik OK Ain. Esok pagi Ngah Jun ngan Ngah Lin bertolak. Ain tunggu tau kat rumah

Harap2 tak jam la esok. Sakit pinggang aku kalau jam weh.

Ciao.

Yet another reminder to me from Allah

Salam & good day all.

Today I received yet another reminder from Allah. A reminder that our life here in His world is just temporary. A reminder on our purpose being put here in His world. A reminder that I am very thankful of being given to me in this stage of my life.

Ya Allah Ya Tuhanku,

Ampunilah segala dosaku dan keluargaku.
Terimalah segala amal dan ibadat kami.
Pandulah diri kami ke arah jalan yang kau redhai.
Hindarilah diri kami dari kemudaratan.
Dan kau panjangkanlah umur kami supaya kami dapat beribadat dengan lebih banyak kepada-Mu ya Allah.

Amin.

Experiences, we have a new 1 everyday

Salam & good day all.

Been back in Malaysia for a while now, close to 2 months to be more precise. While I was a penganggur when I was at Melbourne, I was also a penganggur here in my mother land for a little bit more than 1 month until I’d a job offer at my current workplace. Thank you to Mr. Wahab for helping me with this, very much appreciated.

I’ve experienced a lot of things during my tenure as a successful(ha!) penganggur. Some experiences were good, some were bad and some were just downright terrible.

I’ve experienced you can always turn to your family in whatever situation. They may not agree with you, but you know whatever they do it is because their love to you.

I’ve experienced true friends will stay true friends doesn’t matter what the situation is. In most cases, bad situation will only strengthen the friendship.

I’ve experienced when money involves, man will show their true colors.

Furthermore, I’ve experienced both ‘colors’ regarding the above.

I’ve experienced that hypocrisy is just part of the business.

I’ve experienced the excitement of knowing you’ll become a father in several months (6 to be exact from now).

I’ve experienced that baby is serious money, in more way than 1 (the experiences I meant).

I’ve experienced how important is money management, more so when you are about to form a family of your own.

And here I am, still breathing in Allah world Alhamdulillah. Hopefully I’ll make good use of all those experiences to prepare myself and my family in this world. Amin.

I’ll end this post with a shot of my new workplace. Other than the food here is so damn expensive, I have no other complain so far..hehehe

ciao.

Rule #1 : an Asian horror at its "not so best"

salam & good day all

It's movie review time (should be doing this for some time already, since the jobless me had been watching a lot of movies lately..haha), and I'm going to start with a Hong Kong horror movie I've been wanting to watch for quite some time now; Rule #1.

Language : Cantonese
Release Year : 2008
Director : Kelvin Tong
Main Casts : Shawn Yue, Ekin Cheng, Fiona Xie, Stephanie Che

*credit to original source from  Hong Kong film poster web for the movie poster.

"These 2 man, who do you think is the cop?
They both are. The one in front is in plainclothes.
So in a world that neither black nor white, never assume"

|start of movie summary|

The movie started with a very slow (as in not-so-clever-person slow) Sergeant Lee Kwok Keung (Shawn Yue) performing his patrol inside a basement parking area, and stopping a seemingly normal harmless car driving super slowly on its way out of the parking area. Apparently Sergeant Lee noticed that the car driver is not wearing the seat belt, hence stopping him for questioning. He even produced a ticket to the driver for it for good measure. Suspecting something more Sergeant Lee went over to the trunk to further check the car and found out 1 of the backlight was not functioning for the car. While checking on the backlight, there were bloods spilled over Sergeant Lee hand, and this lead to him opening the trunk where he saw a body of young girl full with blood on it. In his shock state, Sergeant Lee didn’t notice that the driver is already out of the car and before he managed to pull out his pistol he was shot by the driver. Then he was shot a few more times, with the driver or should I say the killer taunting him along the way. Just before Sergeant Lee passed out due to the all the shots, he vaguely saw the body of the girls sitting up in the trunk and tearing up her own neck before he managed to grab his pistol and shot dead the killer out of all the confusion/shock situation. Then Sergeant Lee totally passed out.

Fast forward a few scenes, Sergeant Lee was transferred to Miscellaneous Affair Department (MAD) after the incident. Apparently it did due to him not want to change his report of seeing the body sitting up in the trunk i.e. him seeing ghost. So here, in MAD is where our hero meets Inspector Wong (Ekin Cheng) who is in charge of the department. MAD is where any cases that cannot be clearly classified belong to any other departments in the police force were handed to i.e. ranging from prank calls to over suspicious old lady and also surely, ghost matters.

And the rule number one in MAD is “there is no ghost”.

|end of movie summary|



Rule #1 has all the potential to be a very good Asian horror movie. It has all the ingredient of good typical Asian horror movie.

- Slow paced with sudden very well placed burst of pace? Sure, it is not as slow as the Japanese horror movie but still I thought for a HK horror movie, the pace of the movie is just nice. So, checked.
- Good story line? Definitely. I thought this is 1 of the movie strong point. Checked.
- Good acting? I thought Ekin Cheng was very good in his role as an outgoing chief of department. It’s not really easy watching him and not thinking of Chan Ho Nam you know, so credit to him for able to make that. Shawn Yue was decent enough, even though I do not really like his portrayal of a police officer at the start of the movie. Other than that, he did OK in my opinion. So, I checked this.
- Long black haired ghost? Sure, every Asian horror had it. Checked.
- Hot chick? Of course. Checked again.
- Twist at the end? If you let your mind into the movie without really thinking that much, you’ll enjoy the twist a lot more. Checked.

I love it when a movie does not keep you guessing too much on the main concept of the storyline. The let-the-audience-make-up-their-own-mind-on-the-story type of movie is fine with me, as long as the main concept of the story is established. And this story did that, firmly established the main concept of ghost. That is a major plus for this movie.

The twist also is very good. Like I mentioned earlier, if we let our mind into the movie storyline without much deliberating on what everything is all about, the twist is quite good.

However, my main gripe with this movie is that 1 of the major scene showed to us viewers are totally different to what actually happened as being revealed nearing the end of the movie. The incident I meant is the old school incident, the 1st scene with Inspector Wong, his ex-wife and Sergeant Lee . I just could not accept that in any movie. I mean, do all you want to add to the suspense, twist, riddle etc of the movie but never, and I mean NEVER use a false scene altogether to create them.

I know that the movie started with “in a world that neither black nor white, never assume”, but this is not us as a viewer assuming. This is the director planted a scene that never was in the storyline to add to the twist revealed at the end of the movie. And what was the function of the police chase scene at the start of the movie other than to establish the tagline as per mentioned above? A missed opportunity for this movie I guess.

With all the above being said, my overall rating for the movie is

5/10 – a strong premise for an Asian horror story with good acting but spoiled by the scene that never happened pictured as major scene and impacting the ending of the movie.

I do wonder whether we have our own MAD or not in our police force :-p

ciao.

dinner semalam....best

salam & good day all

seminggu jugak aku tak update blog ni, Arsenal kalah punya pasai...hahaha. tensen aku, tambah lagi tensen dengan a few other issues, terus takdak mood aku nak update. selalu aku cakap kat bini aku; 'tak rasa la nak tulis apa2'. so macam tu la

sampai la semalam dinner time. bini aku buat segala macam benda pon dia grill..hehehe. atas request aku jugak. pernah sekali masa aku kat Malaysia tengok dia masak menda ni kat Melbourne ni, macam sedap saja. aku pon request la semalam dia buat camtu gak. tengok pon rasa macam dah sehat sikit, belum makan lagi ;-)

maka, terjadilah dinner kami semalam dengan makanan macam gambaq kat bawah ni

 

benda2 makan dalam pinggan2 gambaq atas ialah

1. ayam drumstick
2. ayam kepak
3. ayam fillet
4. asparagus
5. carrot
6. terung (urgghhh...tapi ku telan jua)
7. tomato (urgghhh x2..tapi ku telan jua)

semuanya grill, dan terasa sunggoh sehat. maka dengan ini aku berikrar akan belajar macam mana nak buat masakan ni sebelom aku balik Malaysia :-)

tu la dulu buat masa sekarang. nanti update lagi. ciao.

operasi mencari McDonald halal di Melbourne; MISSION GOOOOO!!!!

salam & good day all

hari Sabtu lepas bini aku jumpa supervisor untuk review terakhir lukisan2 final project dia. bila supervisor dia dah kata everything looks good, happy semacam la makcik sorang ni..hehe. terus dia ajak aku meng'initiate'kan operasi mencari McDonald halal di Melbourne. aku pon apa lagi, terus sarung kasut ja

disclaimer : operasi mencari ni untuk aku sahaja. bini aku dah memang pernah merasa dah McDonald halal kat Melbourne. so sebenarnya bukan la operasi, cuma bini aku nak tunjuk kat mana McDonald halal kat Melbourne ni ja...muehehehehe

MISSION GOOOOO!!!

from left : ketua pasukan operasi memulakan perjalanan.
kelmarin lunch tapau kat sini la. kebab ayam dia ma rvellous!!

from left : tu dien dah nampak dah tram stop.
ketua pasukan operasi enterframe...bwahahahah

from left : stop #4 untuk menunggu tram ke McDonald halal. tram #1 atau #8.
tu dien tram #1 mai dah. masuk, jangan tak masuk.
then berenti kat tram stop #127 untuk ke McDonald Brunswick. 

from left : daripada jauh dah nampak McDonald.
sebagai menghargai ketua pasukan operasi, bagi la dia enterframe banyak2 kali sikit.

from left : ketua pasukan operasi melangkah masuk untuk melengkapkan operasi.
halal certificate untuk McDonald ni.
sekali tengok staff McDonald ni macam muka somebody kat Scope Int daaa...

from left : haul for the day, 3 burgers, 2 fries and 2 drinks.
amek hang, the damage to the pocket. AUD22.05

from left : pandangan atas.
pandangan sisi.
pandangan hadapan dengan kotak burger sudah dibukak maksudnya...sudah ready untuk di NGAP...muehehe

maybe akan ada orang kata "ceh! pi jauh2 sampai Australia susah2 pulak nak makan McD. bukan takdak kat Malaysia". tu la hangpa taktau, sebab dah ada kat sini la kena rasa McDonald halal tengok, bukan senang ni nak jumpa. tapi rasa dia tak banyak beza pon la. tadi bini aku baru cakap yang KFC halal kat sini rasa dia lain, so the next operasi will be untuk mencarik KFC halal la pulok..muehehehehe.

semalam selepas mengerah tenaga berjalan kaki mencari tempat printing lukisan2 bini aku, berenti jap makan kat Blok M. nanti2 la aku buat entry pasal tu. tapi apa yang aku bole kata, menu Ikan Balado dia memang terbaik la. till then, ciao.

pictureOfTheMoment updated 101031

salam & good day all

as per the entry title, aku update pictureOfTheMoment hari ni dengan gambar stesen tram mana patut berhenti kalau nak carik McDonald halal kat Melbourne ni. stesen #127 ye tuan2 dan puan2 :-)

more on that in the later entry. ciao.