Paranormal Activity 2 review

I've wrote about the new movie in by earlier post. Paranormal Activity 2 is a sequel (or prequel) depends on how you see the movie. If you haven't seen the first movie, you wouldn't understand a few parts and the last part of the movie. However, you don't have to see one, just google or search on wikipedia about the movie, you can read the plot there.

So, the simple summary of this movie, Kristi just movie in to her new house with husband, stepdaughter, Ali and her son, Hunter. At first there was nothing significant happen, but after looks like a burglary in the house, Kristi's husband, Dan, decide to put on several cameras to monitor the house. Little that there know, it was more than human that destroy their house that day. After several weird incidence, Ali and Kristi believe the house is haunted, Dan, however remain skeptical. This all change however when something happens to Kristi that even Dan can't deny it anymore. So Dan decide to "exorcise" the demon. The family life change forever from that moment. You have to watch the movie to know the rest of the story.

I'm gonna be frank about this one, unlike the first one, this one has a lot more people in it, which to me is really great, because we got to see more interactions and more acting. Plus, in this movie, we got to an idea about why there's a demon that haunting Katie(from the first movie) and Kristi even when they were young (it has to do with first born son).

There won't be any major spoiler here, don't worry, you can spoil yourself by reading about it on the internet.

However, unlike the first movie, there aren't a lot of haunting in this one. Most of the haunting only happened at the second half of the movie. There wasn't any REALLY scary moment, but there are some moment where you definitely jump from your seat, HEHEHEHE.

In this movie, the classic tactic of scaring people is apply, much like the first movie. The elements of darkness and silence before the big BANG is how you scare people. This elements work in the first movie, and the sequel.

There are rumours about alternate endings, I won't spoil the ending for you, so you guys have to watch it, and google it.

I gave this movie a 3/5 stars, because of it's somewhat working scariness, and originality, but still the same story from the first one. So watch it when it hits cinema near you!

Paranormal Activity 2 trailer

From the original writer of Paranormal Activity, here is the trailer for their upcoming sequel, Paranormal Activity 2. Well, it's kinda like a prequel to me. Why? Well, because the girl Katie, in the first movie, is I think younger here, which means, the event in the second movie was before the event in the first movie. Make sense?

From what I gathered in the internet, the movie still about Katie, the main character in the first movie, and how this one explain about the ghost that's been haunting her since her childhood, and lead to the first movie.

Anyway, watch the trailer, for more stronger effect, close all your light, and use your headphones, hehehehe.

The Social Network Review

The movie in 1 word was AWESOME! I don't want to oversell the product here, and just let you guys down, when the movie hits theaters here, but you have to seriously watch the movie.

I know the movie was a documentary, and I thought it was, you know, made like a documentary-ish type. Boy I was wrong.

For those that didn't know, The Social Network is documentary movie about the founder of Facebook.com, who is also the youngest billionaire to date. It tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg, and how he stole, cheats, even lie to get Facebook up and running today. However, there are a lot of drama, some are legal and pretty hard to understand while sometimes it's so screwed up that you just feel you want to go and punch Mark's face (seriously).

Don't get me wrong here, it's not like he's the bad guy..well maybe he is, but he's doing it because he was dump by his girlfriend, yes that's right. Although, do you know the real Zuckerberg didn't like the movie because of this?(I don't know if it's true), but it did shows that he really love Facebook. hehe

Anyway, the movie was great thanks to the great actors and actress in the movie. Jesse Eisenberg acting was top notch, I don't know if the real Mark is like that, but if he was, than he's an asshole. No really, he is. This is why the tag line for this movie is "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies", well said. Why is he an asshole? Well one, he disses his girlfriend, two, he screwed his best friend, and three he doesn't give a f**k. Hahaha

Nonetheless, Facebook has become the most popular social network next to myspace and friendster. Watching this movie, will tell you how the social network become so popular, it's all about exclusivity. I don't want to spoil the movie for you, so you have to watch to understand.

It's a solid 4/5 stars. Watch it when it hit theaters near you.

the song in the trailer is from Creep-Radiohead, but was sung by Scala and Kolacny Brothers, here they are live.

Restoran Sekinchan Ikan Bakar

Pernah dengar nama kedai makan Restoran Sekinchan Ikan Bakar tak? Tak pernah? Aku pun baru dengar. Restoran ni, macam nama dia menyediakan makanan laut yang dibakar, takde cara masak lain kecuali di bakar. Kerang bakar, ikan bakar, ketam bakar (get the picture?).

Makanan yang di bakar tak berapa berbeza dengan cara bakar ikan yang lain, yang menyedapkan makanan bakar adalah asam yang disediakan. Memang tak dinafikan makanannye memang sedap, tapi ada satu je kekurangan, harga.

Kedai ni memang mahal. Hampir semua jenis ikan RM7 per 100 gram. Now, if you a regular at supermarket, you would know that this is really really expensive. Tapi tak salah kalau nak merasa sekali sekala.

Tapi aku takkan datang lagi kedai ni dalam masa 6 bulan. I mean, ikan bakar? boleh dapat kat mane-mane kedai pun.

For more info, korang boleh google jer.

Asus, pronounce it correctly

So how do you say it? Asses?Ay-sus? Ah-sus? hehehe

Blue Valentine's trailer

There aren't a lot of movies, especially love genre movie that can push my basic instinct to watch it, but I may say from this trailer, this might be a great movie to watch. Blue Valentine is basically, in laymen term, a modern day romantic movie.

So how did I heard of this movie? It's all thanks to controversy regarding the movie's rating. The movie receive the infamous NC-17 rated, it's kinda like our movies rate, U for umum (and so on). So in the US, apparently NC-17 is a dreaded rate for any movie, it's hard for a movie to get nominations when getting rated as a NC-17. NC-17 means the movie have a very emm.."suggestive", "extreme", "over the moon"? sex scene. You can read all about it in the Yahoo! link here.

So enjoy the trailer, and let me know what you think about the movie.


p/s: if you're wondering about the song, it's from Mills Brothers-You Always Hurt The One You Love, but I prefer the Micheal Buble version, look for it!

Eco Film Fest 2010

Love the environment? Feels responsible for a better future? Then why not join the Eco Film Fest 2010!

Eco Film Fest helps promotes the environment with interactive films from local and all around the world. This time the venue is in University Malaya(UM). There will be activities through out the day.

So don't miss out on this one. For more info click on the link. http://www.ecofilmfest.my/

Click on the poster for larger picture.

A public service annoucement

I don't want to publicize something terrible, but I think it's one duty to talk about safety nowadays. Yesterday, Seri posted that she's been robbed, the dangerous thing is that she was robbed inside a car.

Now this may seem unlikely to happen to you, but believe me, I've heard stories, from friends, families even strangers that cases like this are on the rise. The scenario is simple, the crime always all the time occurred to single lady in a car, stopping at a traffic light, with handbag or valuables on the passenger's side. Motorcycles come rushing to the passenger's side, break the window and grab everything.

Although, most of this crime occurred at dark and secluded places, there were reports that it also occurred at a busy stops. The worse part is that the victim was sprayed by paper spray to paralyze them.

Now, here are some safety tips. First of all, don't travel alone, and if you have to, do put away your belongings where it can't be grabbed from the outside. Next is to always remember that those things can be replace, but your life can't, so don't fight, unless you know some wicked martial art. Next is to identify the perpetrator, if you can't make up the face, try to remember small details, height, skin colour, what kind of bike, the plate number, every details help.

And remember for those muslims, always say bismillah every time you enter your car, I know it's easy, but the easiest thing that we always forget.

Anyway, stay safe, let us hope what happened to Seri can be avoided by you and your close friends and families.

Bruno Mars - Grenade

Here's another song from Bruno Mars, it's a new single, but I don't think it will be as good as "Just The Way You Are"

Anyway, enjoy and let me know what you think


Easy come, easy go
That's just how you live, oh
Take, take, take it all,
But you never give
Should of known you was trouble from the first kiss, Had your eyes wide open -
Why were they open?
Gave you all I had
And you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I ever asked,
Cause what you don't understand is

I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Throw my hand on a blade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah , yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah) Oh, oh
I would go through all this pain, Take a bullet straight through my brain,
Yes, I would die for ya baby ; But you won't do the same

No, no, no, no
Black, black, black and blue beat me till I'm numb Tell the devil I said "hey" when you get back to where you're from
Mad woman, bad woman,
That's just what you are, yeah,
You'll smile in my face then rip the breaks out my car
Gave you all I had
And you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, yes you did
To give me all your love is all I ever asked
Cause what you don't understand is

I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Throw my hand on a blade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah , yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah) Oh, oh
I would go through all this pain, Take a bullet straight through my brain,
Yes, I would die for ya baby ; But you won't do the same

If my body was on fire, ooh You' d watch me burn down in flames You said you loved me you're a liar Cause you never, ever, ever did baby...
But darling I'll still catch a grenade for ya
Throw my hand on a blade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah , yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah) Oh, oh
I would go through all this pain, Take a bullet straight through my brain,
Yes, I would die for ya baby ; But you won't do the same.
No, you won't do the same,
You wouldn't do the same,
Ooh, you'll never do the same,
No, no, no, no