Sunday, December 13, 2009

Ok. I wanted to update bout my days after spm as there is so much to update. but i'm exhausted. i think i was online more before spm than after spm. will update after christmas or when i have short space of time to spare. so



MERRRRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!

Friday, December 11, 2009

There is nothing more frustrating than looking forward to play Sims 3 but the STUPID THING CAN'T FUNCTION!!! Gah. Stupid cd auntie. Said no need to crack. GRRRR.

Friday, December 4, 2009

I'm taking carrer tests and posting my results here.

Anyboduy who would like to give opinion, pls do. =D

Personality type results
EI: 10 out of 17
Extrovert |-------------------------------------------------| Introvert
|
58%
SN: 11 out of 17
Sensation |-------------------------------------------------| iNtuition
|
64%
TF: 5 out of 17
Thinking |-------------------------------------------------| Feeling
|
29%
JP: 10 out of 17
Judging |-------------------------------------------------| Perceiving
|
58%
Your Personality type is INTP. Please print this page and keep a copy for your records.

INTP: "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. They are good at logic and math and make good philosophers and theoretical scientists, but not writers or salespeople. 1% of the total population.


INTP




Careers

This lists represent careers and jobs people of your type tend to enjoy doing. The job requirements are similar to the personality tendencies of your personality type. It is important to remember that this is not a list of all the jobs possible. And it is very important to remember that people can, and frequently do, fill jobs that are dissimilar to their personality... this happens all the time...and sometimes works out quite well.

strategic planning
writer
staff development
lawyer
architect
software designer
financial analyst
college professor
photographer
logician
artist
systems analyst
neurologist
physicist
psychologist
research/development...specialist
computer programmer
data base manager
chemist
biologist
investigator


I agree in not being a good writer or salesperson. but the rest is a big HUH??!!!

Gah. Answer 80 stupid questions and all i get is this:

Paying, Receiving: cash transactions (tellers)

2


Musical, Instrumental: professional potential

2


Protecting: Monitor, defend persons and property

2


Supervisory: responsible for work done by others

2


Child and Adult Care: health maintenance, support

2


Modeling: artistic display; fashions, apparel

2


Demonstration sales: store contact with customers

2


Guidance, Counseling: personal, work, school, spiritual

2


Nursing, X-Ray; technical care for patients

2


Interview/Inform: gather, dispense information

3




Career Inventory Test Results


Extroversion ||||||||||||||| 43%
Emotional Stability |||||||||||||||||| 70%
Orderliness ||||||||||||||| 43%
Altruism |||||||||||||||||| 56%
Inquisitiveness |||||||||||| 40%

You are a Technician, possible professions include - surveyor , fire fighter , private investigator, pilot, police officer, purchasing agent, chiropractor, medical technician, securities analyst, computer repair person, race car driver, computer programmer, electrical engineer, legal secretary, coach/trainer, commercial artist, carpenter, paralegal, dental assistant, radiological technician, marine biologist, software developer.

yuck. sure i'll be a fire fighter.


Career Quiz Results
People with Yellow interests like activities that allow them to gather information and then analyze it. They like to create systems that organize their world so that there is a process that governs all activity. People with yellow interests enjoy spending their time managing the details that enable people and organizations function seamlessly. Hobbies may include: record keeping, statistician for sports team, personal investment management, puzzles, home computer. Career choices often are: Accountant, Compliance Officer, Historian, Financial Management, Administration, Auditor, Researcher, Office Management, Computer Science.
People with Yellow strengths are good at managing details and creating sophisticated processes that allow them to get complex work done. Once a game plan has been put in place, it is implemented. Their decisions are based on facts and carefully reasoned. When working with other people, they are fair and democratic and always can be counted on to deliver what they commit to.



HISTORIAN?? HAHAHAHAHA.




Gah. Forget it. I'm going cross-eyed over these questions which are not helping one bit.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Clearing out

all exam related posts. Spm ending soon after all. No need to remind myself of those. haha. Anyway. I deleted my short one bout iris and replacing it with this.


iris_poster1.jpg image by Hunnie1270http://allkoreandrama.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/iris-3.jpg



National Security System (NSS) Top 707 agents Hyun-jun and Sa-woo are blood brothers who swore to trust each other and unchanging friendship for life. They meet agent Seung-hee there and both fall in love with her. But Hyun-jun and Seung-hee become close and Sa-woo fights to hide his feelings for Seung-hee. One day, they are immediately sent on a mission to Hungary. When they successfully finish off their job with immaculate teamwork and are celebrating it, a message arrives to Hyun-jun asking him to meet in secret.
Baek-san, an executive of NSS who had been waiting for Hyun-jun orders a solo mission. Despite the tight protection of bodyguards, Hyun-jun succeeds his mission. But before escaping, Hyun-jun gets wounded by his targets’ head security bodyguards, and later he is shockingly betrayed by his most trusted friend, Sa-woo. Hyun-jun tries to escape with Seung-hee’s help, but he ends up losing Seung-hee. And his car also explodes; they are both misled into thinking that the other had died. Hyun-jun gets saved by an unidentifiable ‘Voice’ and learns the secret identity of a group called, ‘Iris’.

1 year later, with the two Koreas about to be reunified, Hyun-jun makes his return. After spending a nightmarish life of being betrayed and losing everything, Hyun-jun returns to get revenge on those who threw him into the living hell. With the help of the President, Hyun-jun returns to his post in the NSS. Starting a fight against ‘Iris’, the secret society that tries to interfere with reunification, Hyun-jun now puts everything on the line for the battle of his life.



Saturday, November 21, 2009

Clark Little

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From my brother...Malaysia: Refugees for Sale

Unreported World reveals shocking evidence that Burmese refugees fleeing the country's brutal military regime are being detained and then allegedly sold by Malaysian immigration officials to Thai human traffickers.

Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director George Waldrum travel to Kuala Lumpur to highlight how the refugees are forced to exchange one hellish existence for another. Living in complete fear of the state, the refugees claim they are being rounded up and subjected to bloody whippings and indefinite imprisonment in overcrowded detention camps. As Unreported World reveals, for some this is just the beginning of a horrific journey into the trafficking network, where men, women and children disappear into a world of slavery and prostitution.

Malaysia pays no regard to Burmese refugees' right of asylum, since the country refuses to sign up to international conventions. And it's not just the state that acts harshly. Hartley and Waldrum join a night-time city raid by volunteers of the RELA militia to chase down and arrest construction site workers without valid papers. Millions of illegal migrants, many of whom are refugees, fill the building sites and factories, providing cheap labour and doing the jobs Malaysians don't want to do. Despite this, RELA, which has 500,000 members, claims to be cleaning up what they see as an immigrant threat to law, order and health.

On the other side of the city, the team finds a Burmese refugee ghetto where the inhabitants are living in terror, crammed into squalid apartments with dozens of tenants to each floor. One family claims RELA had smashed their way into their home and arrested and beat them. A woman claims the police routinely prey on their vulnerable status, demanding bribes and their belongings, or they will be taken into detention.

A human rights lawyer helping illegal immigrants and refugees tells Hartley how there is little popular opposition to the government's harsh treatment of illegal foreigners. Reunka describes how 'illegals' who carry no papers on them might be sentenced to a maximum of six strokes of the rotan, a thick cane that can leave victims with scars for life.

So afraid are the refugees that some of them try to live beyond the reach of the authorities. In the jungle on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, the team finds one shanty camp where refugee workers are hiding out. Too scared to live downtown, they are part of an estimated two million illegal workers. One of them claims that he was passed into the hands of Thai human traffickers. However, he was one of the lucky ones as he had friends who could pay a ransom. He claims those who can't pay disappear into slavery.

The finds some who've managed to escape a life of slavery. In a secret location, Rahima, together with her small children, tells the story of how they were sold by Malaysian immigration officials to gangsters on the Thailand frontier. Rahima breaks down when she recounts how the Thai gangsters suffocated one of her children to death after he wouldn't stop crying. She says both she and her children were sold into slavery and worked in a fish factory for six months before they were able to escape.

In another location, Abu Bashar and his teenage son Syedul describe how the mother of the family together with two toddler children were arrested by Malaysia's immigration, sold to gangsters in Thailand and then ransomed. Two months ago, Abu got a phone call from his wife in which she said that unless he paid the ransom it would be her last call; since then there has been silence and he doesn't know the whereabouts of his family.

The response of Malaysia's Immigration Director General is to dismiss the allegations of Burmese refugees, but he does admit that one immigration official has been charged in connection with trafficking claims. He says there are no plans for an inquiry into the immigration department's methods, or allegations of systematic corruption, trafficking and slavery.


-http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2009/episode-19

From facebook: Taylor Lautner was in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.. Thats why he was so familiar...

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He was 13. looks way younger than us at that age right? (i'm adressing ppl who are the same age as me)

Like Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee before him, Taylor Lautner came to be an actor after a top-ranking career in martial arts. He was encouraged to try his hand at acting after establishing himself as a karate champion at age nine, and his martial arts skills immediately came in handy for his feature debut as a tween superhero in Robert Rodriguez’s “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D” (2005). More roles in family films like “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” (2004) followed, and while Lautner’s TV career seemed cursed with failed series, it did not hinder the young actor from evolving into a heartthrob with the teen set. In 2008, Lautner was launched to stardom after landing a supporting role in “Twilight” (2008), the pop culture phenomenon based on the teen vampire romance book series by Stephanie Meyers. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the film, Lautner reprised his role as shapeshifter Jacob Black in the sequels “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (2009) and “Eclipse” (2010), vying for the love of human Bella (Kristen Stewart) with an adventurous spirit that earned the actor increasing interest from film directors looking for a new young adult star who could both woo the girls with his intensity and impress the boys with his rugged agility.

Born Taylor Daniel Lautner in Grand Rapids, MI on Feb. 11, 1992, he was studying martial arts at the age of six and earning first place trophies in competition only a year later. Under the guidance of seven-time world champion and actor Mike Chat, he received such a degree of proficiency that he was asked to represent the United States in the 12 and under division at the World Karate Association. There, he took home three gold medals and earned the title of Junior Forms and Weapons champion. At the advice of Chat, he also began auditioning for acting roles at nine. After flying to Los Angeles to try out for a television commercial, he found this new pursuit to his liking and began auditioning on a regular basis. Eventually, the constant flights proved wearying enough for Lautner and his family – as well as detrimental to his school work and training – that they relocated permanently to Los Angeles in 2002.

Lautner continued to compete regularly on the martial arts circuit, which yielded top honors at the World Karate Association in 2001 and a first-place ranking in the world for several disciplines in 2003. He also broadened his interests to include jazz and hip-hop dance; even finding time to play on his school’s football and baseball teams. Despite an extra-curricular schedule that would overpower most children his age, Lautner still found time to audition for film and television roles, which he began to land with some regularity in 2001.

He made his television debut in the 2001 TV-movie “Shadow Fury,” and soon logged appearances on episodes of “The Bernie Mac Show” (Fox, 2001-06) and “Summerland” (The WB, 2004-05). In 2003, director Robert Rodriguez was won over by Lautner’s abundant self-confidence and cast him as Sharkboy, a young hero raised by sharks, in his CG-driven kids’ fantasy “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.” Rodriguez was apparently unaware of Lautner’s extensive martial arts training prior to hiring him for the role, and later asked him to choreograph all of his fight scenes in the film.

After completing filming on “Sharkboy” in 2004, Lautner transitioned to another larger-than-life character – the highly competitive son of Eugene Levy in “Cheaper by the Dozen 2” (2004). The role, which afforded him some exceptionally mild moments of romance with pre-teen actress and dancer Alyson Stoner, helped to elevate him to heartthrob status among girls twelve and under. Lautner also added voice-over work to his growing resume by playing Youngblood, the malevolent, hook-handed ghost of a young boy on the animated series “Danny Phantom” (Nickelodeon, 2004-2007). By this point, Lautner had officially retired from martial arts competition to focus solely on acting.

More voice-over work preceded his first turn as a semi-regular character on a TV series with the short-lived “Love, Inc.” (UPN, 2005-06). The sitcom fell victim to the merger of UPN and the WB, but Lautner was back on television in 2008 with the highly touted “My Own Worst Enemy” as the son of amnesiac secret agent, Christian Slater. Unfortunately, it was also pulled shortly after its debut due to low ratings. Lautner’s up-and-down fortunes on television were soon eclipsed by the whirlwind of excitement surrounding his next feature, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s extraordinarily popular Gothic romance “Twilight” (2008). Lautner was cast as Jacob Black, a young Native American and the descendent of a long line of werewolves. Though the character was relatively minor in the original novel the character proved exceptionally popular with readers, leading Meyer to develop his character in subsequent books.

In the films, Black provided both romantic interest and essential information to the female lead, Bella (Kristen Stewart) about the vampire population in her hometown. His key scene – shirtless, of course – helped to make him a second-tier crush object for the book’s abundant teenaged fans. Over the hype and huge box office numbers of the sequels, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (2009) and “Eclipse” (2010), Black began to be considered for adult roles outside the franchise. Garry Marshall gave him his first shot when he cast him in the romantic comedy “Valentine’s Day” (2010) alongside some of the hottest young names including Emma Roberts, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Biel.

  • Also Credited As:
    Taylor Daniel Lautner
  • Born:
    Taylor Daniel Lautner on February 11, 1992 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
  • Job Titles:
    Actor
Family
  • Father: Dan Lautner.
  • Mother: Deborah Lautner.
  • Sister: Makena Lautner.
Significant Others
  • Companion: Selena Gomez. Reportedly dated in 2009; no longer together
  • Companion: Taylor Swift. Met when they starred together in the movie, Valentine s Day ; rumored to be dating as of October 2009
Education
  • Valencia High School, Valencia, CA, 2008
Milestones
  • 2001 Made acting debut in the Japanese film, Shadow Fury
  • 2004 First TV appearance was a bit part on the WB s Summerland
  • 2005 Cast in the role of Shark Boy in the Robert Rodriguez film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
  • 2005 Lent his voice to the Cartoon Network series, What s New, Scooby-Doo?
  • 2005 Played the son of Eugene Levy and Carmen Electra in Cheaper by the Dozen 2(i didn't know this)
  • 2005 Voiced the recurring role of Youngblood on the Nickelodeon series, Danny Phantom
  • 2006 Voiced the Bully in the ABC special, He s a Bully, Charlie Brown
  • 2008 Played Christian Slater s son in the short-lived NBC series, My Own Worst Enemy
  • 2008 Played Native American character Jacob Black in Twilight, the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer s novel
  • 2009 Reprised the role of Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga: New Moon
  • Will star in Garry Marshall s ensemble romantic comedy, Valentine s Day

And i'm not obssesed with him. Just happen to stumble across this info and finds this interesting.

To everyone who reads house of night!!!

The new book entitled "Tempted" out!!!!! Its a bout her finding out her connection with A-ya. and I think she's gonna end up with stark....

Just got it today. whee. didn't know there was a next book..

Monday, November 9, 2009

Watch if you're too bored from studying. =D

Monday, November 2, 2009

The following is from Carmen Chin's Blog. Since her blog is private, I'm posting her longer and more complete version of our outing. =D

This Is It! This Is REALLY It!!!

I did plan to write yesterday when I returned from tuition but I was too exhausted and my eyes half-closed. I hope after 9 hours of sleep, I could still recall what happen yesterday. I will break my post into several sub-topics which are:

1. First time driving to Gurney
2. The ladies who borrowed I-Lyn’s popular card
3. This Is It!
4. The two baboons.
5. Going home

1. This is my first time ever driving to Gurney and I would consider myself unlucky because I-Lyn and Angeline both prefer Gurney. I would personally prefer Queensbay! (because I know the route to Queensbay!) Lol. However, I sort of remember a bit on the route to Gurney as I went there with my family a few weeks ago and I took the initiative to analyse the roads. =D Or else, I would just sit and enjoy myself in the car. Lol. The part that I am most concern of is my parking. I am just a 1month plus driver and I still need to improve on my parking skills. I fetched I-Lyn there and we took quite some time to find a spot which is easy to park. You know me…=D We went through a ‘pintu rintangan’ to get into the mall. I was surprised that we were not the only students who were there. We brought clothes to change but other students actually walked with their school uniforms on. Oh well…

2. After changing, Angeline informed us that she would be reaching late and so we decided to go to Popular Bookstore as I-Lyn wanted to buy some books. I-Lyn was having a hard time choosing and couldn’t decide on which book to buy because all of them does not have much difference actually. However, she still managed to take… I guess 3 books? I couldn’t remember. As we were walking towards the counter, there were two Adventist hospital nurses who asked whether we could lend them the popular membership card. No offences but their acting were really bad when the counter lady told them that they were not supposed to borrow membership cards from people. Their reason is so lame saying that they brought us to Gurney during their lunch time and now they are rushing back to work as their time is almost over. My foot! We saw them outside Cold Storage half an hour later. =.=” I was telling myself that they wouldn’t have to act also if they just let I-Lyn pay everything together.

3. After having lunch at Wong Kok Kitchen, we went up to the cinema floor to get ready for the show. Since we were still a few minutes early, we went to the washroom first. When we were done, we proceed into our cinema hall and get our seats. It was really a big hall. If I am not mistaken I think that was my 1st time into such huge cinema hall. I was like…(Wow!) Hahaha!!! Angeline wanted to sit in the middle so me and I-Lyn each sat beside her. All I can say about the show is, Michael Jackson is fantastic, fabulous and tremendously great!!! I mean although it seemed to be just a rehearsal where we all would understand that he might not give all his best during practices but by watching how he planned and managed his stage, his dancers, his musics and etc., I can really imagine how grand his concert would be if he would have made it. During his rehearsal, it was shown that he put his whole heart and soul in perfecting every single small details during his concert. He wanted everything to be perfect, special, extraordinary and to look amazing in front of his fans from all over the world. If I were to make any comeback comparisons of Michael Jackson’s and other artistes, I would strongly say that his comeback will be the best among all. =D There were some funny parts throughout his work with his people also. It’s difficult to describe here in words about how superb his show was until really watched it, then you’ll probably understand. Even though he’s already 50 years old, it surprised me that he could still move and dance like how he did during his 30s to 40s. Of course his movements were not as much as last time but let’s think, how many 50 year old people can do what he’s doing? The important part is his energy is still there. His ‘semangat’. He was doing really great and it doesn’t seem as if he was a sick and was about to die. He still looked so healthy but thin. What can I say more? ‘This Is It!’ is really IT!

4. During the whole show, the three of us were so annoyed by some Chinese guys who were so uncivilized, as I would say to sing and shout throughout the show. I mean, don’t they have respect for other people? Everyone in the cinema hall came to watch and listen to Michael Jackson sing, NOT THEM or HIM!!! That bloody guy and his friend were so rude and treat the whole thing as a sing-a-long show, like some baboons that accidentally escaped from the zoo. Thank God I wasn’t sitting beside those baboons but I felt sorry for I-Lyn. Her blood was boiling throughout the whole show I bet. Right I-Lyn? Lol. We were complaining so much after the movie and I-Lyn said she should forgive them since those baboons were MJ’s fans and they love his so much. Oh, please! For me, I won’t forgive them. Because of them, I can’t get my 100% satisfaction of the show. They spoil my mood! Idiot dumbos! I mean, if it’s like in a public area, they wanna sing, go ahead. I might even sing along too. But I paid to watch the show, obviously I wouldn’t want to listen to their voices. Like shit only. I thought that was the worst part and it’s gonna be over soon when the show ended. Guess what? They stayed until the end and they sang even louder. Really like maniacs! They jumped right to the back and sing the other three songs played after the show. Some people might find their actions funny but to me, it was stupid, disturbing and disrespectful. If they were in love with MJ, why don’t they just go to red box and sing all they want? Heard they say maybe wanna rewatch the show in the next slot. *sigh* I pity the group of people there if he was really insane to watch it again at that particular day.

5. It was almost 5pm when we watch until the last bit of the show. For an RM 10 Michael Jackson movie, and since its MICHAEL JACKSON, I will make sure my ticket was worth watching! Lol. Before heading home, I bought some food for my sis in Mcd. There were so many empty parking spaces available when we were leaving. Under that condition, I was able get out of my lot easily. =D I fetch Angeline back to school and from there, her grandfather then fetched her home. Later, I dropped I-Lyn at Mcd in Greenlane for her dinner and she asked Ze Yin to fetch her at 7pm and they would go to tuition together. After that, I drove home alone. I was so sleepy yesterday. Maybe I wasn’t used to driving so much in a day. Hahaha!!!

Lastly, I would like to thank:
Angeline- for getting the tickets for us, paying for the car park ticket (make me feel so paiseh)

I-Lyn- assisting me on the way to Gurney and back to school, paying for the car park ticket (make me feel so paiseh)
* but I paid RM 0.40! Lol

Michael Jackson- for the great show he put on for us, his fans. Although he didn’t have the chance to make it but somehow, we still managed to see it and I truly appreciated everything that he had done.

Thank you, Michael Jackson!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

This is it.

It would have been totally amazingly awesome. If only he did at least one concert before passing away. The pyrotechnics, technology. I like the part where they multiply by ten so it looks like a thousand ppl instead of ten. There is basically nothing not to like in the whole thing. If Michael actually worn his outfits and the full effect is there, it would have been his perfect comeback. I don't know why, earth song always makes me feel sad. Thats the only song that i actually feel sad. Carmen feels sad in I'll be there, Bhav feels sad in you are not alone. So i guess we each have our songs. Through this, at least we get a glimpse of Michael Jackson. He repeats these lines, "Thats why we have practices", "God bless you", "i love you'. Lol. He does act rather childish. Its cute. But i do agree on the fact that he wouldn't have liked to have the rehersals published. He always wanted to be the best, as he is a perfectionist and i doubt he wants ppl to see him being.. not so perfect. although he was conserving his voice, he still sounded damn good. lol. There were a lot of favourite parts in the movie. Definitely worth 10 bucks. and i'm so buying the cd. Oh and thanks to Letitia who told us about staying after the last bit where the little girl hugs the earth. Haha. reminds me of the part where MJ went on the cherry picker(thats what it sounded like when they said it in the movie. Lol. yeah. someone correct me please) and MJ was like yeah, michael the daredevil then Kenny Ortega was like, Michael, hold on to the railings please. Lol. Ok. Now, This is it was fabulous, but it let me feeling a little dissatisfied. Cause its like.. incomplete. i want the full effect. mind blowing. ugh. Ok. Now i'll get to the bad part.. There were these bunch of guys who came and sat in our row. I was directly beside and they obviously idiots as one of them thought they're voice was so beautiful(not!) and started singing along with MJ. At first nobody complained. Then he continued for the second song and yelling Mj's "aoooww!" Ppl started shushing him like mad. Then he quiet down. but was singing loud enough for ppl beside to hear. which was me. -.- i tell you i felt like strangling the life outta him. Especially in earth song. I felt like just telling him, " we all come here to hear Michael Jackson sing! NOT YOU!!!! Grrrr!!!" but i didn't wanna cause a fight or a scene. nyeh. I'm a pengecut all right. I just glared at him a few times and he still hasn't gotten the message. GRRRR. I was fuming ok. haha. angie was like saying how geram i looked in the cinema. haha. but he obviously loves MJ, although he's being a first-classed ass. But even though ppl have the URGE to sing along doesn't mean we all just blare it out for everyone to hear right. -.- Grr. They look like pai kias. hahha. After the credits rolled, they were like up near where the projector are and started tossing their shoes over the projectors and laughed as though they have never seen a shadow. -.- but oh well, forgive them, cause at least they love MJ right? lol. Carmen says she isn't forgiving them. hahaha.



Many of the musicians and craftsmen interviewed in “This Is It” talk about Michael Jackson’s perfectionism, so it begs the question: Would Michael Jackson have wanted this movie of rehearsal footage to be seen by mass audiences?

Filmed during a series of run-throughs for a London concert engagement that was canceled after Jackson’s untimely death this summer, “This Is It” takes us behind the scenes of what was going to be a gargantuan show, complete with dancers, filmed segments, pyrotechnics and acrobatics. The footage was meant for Jackson’s personal archival use; only after Jackson’s death did the concert promoters and others involved with the show decide to go public with this material.

Like any performer rehearsing for a complicated show, Jackson isn’t giving his all vocally over the course of the process — he’s figuring out segues, trying out dance steps, riding the cherry-picker and juggling any number of other issues that pop up while putting together an enterprise of this size. Subsequently, audiences who see “This Is It” expecting a traditional concert film will be disappointed; Jackson skips lines of songs while dealing with other stage matters, and even confesses at more than one point that he’s saving his voice for the real show coming up.


Where “This Is It” soars, however, is as a dance movie; to watch Michael Jackson move is to witness one of the great entertainers of the modern age. Inheriting the legacy of giants like Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr. and Fred Astaire — and adding his own spin — Jackson’s dance routines here are breathtaking. Emotional interviews with his backup dancers, who have come from around the world for the rare opportunity to perform alongside their idol, reveal the influence that the King of Pop (who choreographed the show in collaboration with Travis Payne) has had on subsequent generations of performers.

Watching Jackson collaborate with concert director Kenny Ortega (the man behind the “High School Musical” movies, and the director of this documentary) and the rest of the crew reveals a human side of the performer that’s been hidden from the general public for decades. We see a talented singer-dancer fine-tuning an extravaganza, and in so doing we are reminded that, behind all the tabloid craziness and larger-than-life eccentricities, there was still an artist and a person.

The slickest parts of “This Is It” are the filmed sequences that were intended to be part of the stage show, ranging from a graveyard horror show for “Thriller” to the destruction of a rainforest set to “Heal the World.” (Less successful is the “Smooth Criminal” clip, which edits Jackson into black-and-white footage from film noir classics like “Gilda” and “In a Lonely Place”; seeing Jackson in the same frame as classic Hollywood faces like Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart only underscores the damage that was perpetrated upon Jackson’s visage over the years.)

Like the 1965 documentary “The Epic That Never Was,” about a movie version of “I, Claudius” that stopped production in mid-shoot, “This Is It” invites us to imagine a finished product that never came about. To remember Jackson’s singing voice at its finest, put his albums on; if you want to experience his breathtaking talent as a dancer and showman, in what would turn out to be the final weeks of his life, well, “This Is It.”



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He doesn't look as though he is one step in the grave. At all. He looks damn ready to bomb London with his comeback.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Abducted Again.

So me and Nat went for breakfast before tuition. Ate at Corner's Club. Dim Sum. The funny thing is that when we walked in, the lady approached me to order... We wanted chinese tea. Then the lady said.. which type? i was like... uhhh... and then the lady showed me a bunch of mandarin words. Nat was like.. Ask for something that sounds like guan tin or smth. i was like.. asking the lady to go ask nat for orders instead. Lol. Being a chinese... Oh well.. Guess I'm pretty much as Anglo-phile as Letitia. but i don't think I'm that bad.. am i? lol. My point is Nat orders better at dim sum than me. Lol. The tray cart for fried food came by.. I took 3 plates. Nat didn't want. The cart steamed food came by.. Nat took 3. So we set it 3*2 so the fried facing me and the steamed facing her and we started to eat. Damn full. =D When we were in the car, Nat was cursing other drivers(as usual) and she happen to glare at the lady in the car beside. The lady thought Nat was someone she knew.. Yet she didn't.. So the lady was like gesturing something like do i know you? and Nat was shaking her head. And i was laughing like mad. Cause she was just cursing her before. LOL. Went tui. Followed her home.. My mom was supposed to fetch me from her place. Nat's mom wanted me to join them for lunch, i politely declined. *LOL* and she called my mom(to ask her not to fetch me). my mom was driving and didn't get her message. Mom arrived at Nat's house. Nat rushed out of her house, locked me IN her house, brought the keys out to talk to my mom. I was like finding a way out.. And her house only has ONE set of keys. -.- She locked me in HER house. Then she came in happily saying, your mom left. -.- So i continued stuffing myself. So darn full now. My whole post is bout Nat. Jeez. Doesn't that tell you how boring life is? Haven't posted the pics for that time when i went to her place for Deepavali. One day la.. haha. And her Barbie SHOE collection. Anyway, watched the exorcism of Emily Rose. My teory is that when you're watching with a lot of people, its not easy to be scared. Lol. We laughed through the scary parts. Nat pretended to screamed and everyone screamed in response. =D Grabbed from Facebook. =D






Will upload more next time. Hopefully you won't hear from me till December. Till then!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Happy SchizzowDay!




Happy birthday you grouchy old man. =D


Just a few days ago...
He: *Took a picture of me* *Points at it* So ugly
He: *after awhile* Omg, you look like me! There is family resemblence after all.
Me: Now you know you're ugly.


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which reminds me of this book.. This particular conversation caught my interest...
Molly:Don't you have some mirror where you can admire yourself?
Kevin:I've never seen a woman so hung up on my looks
Molly:Every woman is hung up on your looks, they just pretend its your personality.



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Went out with Ze and kelly for supper after tui. It was fun but they didn't eat much. -.- waste petrol. haha.
Went out with Nat and Su Hoei at like 8AM for breakfast before tui. They didn't each much either. but didn't waste petrol cause on the way.


From these two, I can conclude Natasha is a better driver but Ze Yin has a better sense of direction. Lol. Got lost with Nat. =D

Friday, October 9, 2009

This was posted by KYE from her blog. So all photo credits AND captions goes to her.... Lets give her a round of applause...



This is KIL



KIL's friend Cynthia seems to be a little upset.


Alyaa and Kaveta are fighting for her.



Kaveta: I’m taking her.
Alyaa: No! I’m taking her!
KIL: Chill ladies, chill! One at a time.




Kaveta: Starting with me, your boobs are mine!
Alyaa: No, I’m dry humping her first! If not I’m going to kill myself by jumping down from here!



KIL: No Alyaa, don’t! It’s hard to choose between the two of you.
Kaveta: Yeah yeah that’s right. Go ahead and jump.



Alyaa: I’m not in love with you anymore, KIL! You broke my heart!
KIL: No, Alyaa! I didn’t! Come back!



CHARADES!!!!



Kelly, Sabs



The secret romance between Kelly and Sher Maine



This is a pick of her curang with my Lolly and Carmen is telling KIL to watch out for AIDS.



This is Carmen giving a threatening expression warning to KIL to stay away from threesomes.



Secretly, she checks on herself and uses extra protection.



BM sub marks..7 8 9! Hey KIL got 9, perfect match!



KIL is obviously english oreintated



very nice background setting by Mei *snaps pic*




What does KIL have to say about AIDS?

Well, I don’t really care about AIDS actually, girls love me, there’s nothing much I can do about that



Serious mode



they think I'm emo-ing





*very lenient school*



stares*



"This is a nice picture," says KIL. I couldn't agree better



The guide to flaunt of your biceps *scratch head*



Flaunting off biceps *shake head*



Drinking GREEN drain water *makes the face-actually it tastes pretty good*



Spits it back in..*i didn't, i was just laughing*



Introducing Kye's Fly Here Fly There theory



*continues babbling*



My mei is pretty *hits KIL*



MORAL marks



-Is it just me or are they playing "If i were a boy more often now?"
-So now that its the A+ policy thing, i assume everyones prayers will be from A1 to A+.. So does god change his policy too? lol.

The big big family
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And some old pictures....