Its Finally Here..

Over the past few years, we have been seeing lots of novels being adapted into the big screen. Take the LOTR series for example. The epic fantasy world created by the late J.R.R Tolkien was finally been given a face to show the world. His lovingly created characters, born of his imagination have been given voices and life, so to speak, through the efforts of Peter Jackson and his gifted and dedicated crew. By all means, i could definitely say that by making the 3 movies that he did, he managed to garner a whole legion of new fans to the LOTR universe, let alone the fantasy genre overall.

Beware of road collapsing beneath your feet

Even 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' from the Chronicles of Narnia has been made into a movie. I remember watching the trailer and feeling so pumped and excited anticipating the movie to come out. And what a movie it was! Not as good as LOTR tho'. Who knew that centaurs could look so cool? Haha!

Aslan is the Roxxorz

Which now brings me to a topic very dear and close to my heart - Dragonlance the Movie! Ever since i was a young teenager, i grew up reading Dragonlance novels. I was and still am totally captivated by the colourful characters and the powerful story of love, sacrifice and brotherhood it embodies. In fact, it is the only set of books i have in my collection that i have read over 7 times and will not hesitate to read again!

So imagine my elation when i heard that Dragonlance was going to be made into a movie!

A Movie!!!!!

And whats more, the trailer has been released on my birthday! What more could a die-hard Dragonlance fan ask for?

It is with heartfelt emotion that i present to you the culmination of years and years of debate, the fruit of perseverence in face of uncertainty, pushing through all doubt and criticism, the long awaited DRAGONLANCE TRAILER!

Dragonlance Movie

I don't know to laugh or cry...

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*sob*

What? Where? What tag?

I must admit, after reading the comment Janvier left for me, my mind went blank and empty as the little sweet box at the end of "Graveyard of the Fireflies" (We ALL remember that, do we?). I mean, where do I find this tag?

Upon dilligent searching and browsing, i finally found out WTH this is all about.. sheesh.. can't you give an Internet underdosed guy a break?

But without further lollygagging, here are 8 specially chosen random facts about me :

NUMBER 1

My current sleeping position is with my hands straight over my head, much alike how you would go if someone pointed a gun at you and yelled "Hands up!". Weird, i know. But i can't seem to relax properly when i put lower my hands below my neck.

NUMBER 2

On the topic of sleep, i have been frequently having episodes of "Sleep Paralysis" ever since I was about 12 years old. What happens is that I suddenly wake up in the middle of the night to find myself only able to move my eyes and that my entire body is paralysed.

On top of that, i always feel that someone else is in my room, just outside my field of vision.. watching me lying there. Damned creepy i tell you!

When i was younger, this was a really scary experience for me. But now, after years and years of going through this I mostly go "Aiyoyo! Not this sh*t again! Just close my eyes and continue sleeping!" Hahaha

NUMBER 3

I once saved one of my dad's friends from drowning when i was in Standard 6. It happened when both of our families were swimming in a hotel pool with those REALLY REALLY deep ends.. i'm talking about 10 feet deep!

There i was with my brothers, seeing if we could touch the bottom of the pool when i spotted the poor fella twitching in the water below me. Sensing something was wrong, i paddled over and pulled him to the side, where he vomitted water.

All the thanks i got for that deed was a pat on the head. We didnt see much of them after that.

NUMBER 4

I used to learn Taekwondo when i was younger and took part in international tournaments in Australia and USA in the below 15yrs category. I won 4 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals throughout those years of competitions in both fighting and "kata" events.

The above 15 years category are a totally different story altogether. Can you imagine how big and bulky those Aussies and Americans can get? What they lack in finesse the totally overcompensate with raw beefy power. KAPOW! Lights out for our 60kg (back then) hero.

I now keep all my medals hanging on a mini shrine in my cupboard, which i look at about once a year.

NUMBER 5

I learned to wiggle my ears about 3 years ago, after many attempts to move them ever since secondary school.

On that fateful day, realised that everytime i feel a falling sensation, be it from a roller coaster, dreams or in computer games, my ears would wiggle unconsciously. Soon after the revelation, i isolated the muscles responsible for this act and now have full command of my ear wagging!

NUMBER 6

I have a weird internal clock that somehow allows me to arrive at places exactly at the agreed time. On many occasions i have arrived at someone's house or at a shop and i glance at my watch and see that its EXACTLY 7:00pm for example. Its like my brain can make calculations on travelling time and lets me know when to start the journey.

This also applies to me waking up. About 95% of the time, i will wake up 2 minutes before my alarm and switch it off before it rings! I guess the fear of alarm bells compells my brain to wake up before it goes off.

NUMBER 7

I feel my life would be totally different if i were 3 inches taller. People would look at me with more respect and i would make a better impact at first impressions. Such is the world of, where image matters.

Too bad, too short.

NUMBER 8

When i was really really young, i stuffed a peanut up my nose and got it stuck! My parents had to bring me to the clinic where the doctor had to use a tweezer to pluck it out.

I know what you all are thinking, "What a silly little boy" right? Well, you can't blame a little tyke for being inquisitive, can you? Look at the fine person he grew up to be. Haha

Side note: My parents still think that i sneezed the peanut into my nose while trying to swallow it. Shhh...

Thats it for me today, till next time.

Looking Back on Days Gone By

Hi everyone,

It's been ages since I opened up my Blogger account, let alone write a post. This is mostly attributed to time issues, and other lame reasons my evilly procrastinating mind can make up. So.. rather than take up precious link space on my other friends' blogs, i've decided to make an effort to blog regularly again!

*Waits for crowd to stop ROFL-ing and snorting in disbelief*

... done?

Life has been giving me ups and downs lately, so many changes have been put upon my in a span of a few months. This is probably what made me want to start blogging again.. oh well, but we'll see how it goes, eh?

Gonna get a new phone soon with a camera, then my posts wont be as crappy as this one. Haha, cheers.

New Toy!

Ever wonder what is it with guys and gadgets? How we can spend countless hours just talking about specifications of the latest phones, PDAs, cameras. And when someone actually buys a particular toy, how the guys just crowd around it and make orgasm-like sounds whenever a high-tech feature is shown?

Well, since i joined my new company, i've been given a brand new toy to play with.

Nice hor?

It comes with a 1.3 Megapixel camera and flash. Whee.. no more depending on my 600Kilopixel phone. Also, the flash can be used sorta like a make-do torchlight when i'm looking for stuff in the dark.

I can play music, organise my schedule, make short notes and also do voice recording. There are 2 card slots for SD and Mini SD, so i can store up to about 1 Gig of information. There's bluetooth, IR, telephone, PDF Viewer, MS Office, MSN Messenger... And i also get unlimited GPRS access fully subsidised by the company, so i can surf the internet during lunchtime! (Who's making those orgasmic noises?)

The only downside to this nice peice of technology is, i have to do my daily reports using it and send it out every day via GPRS.. so no excuses for not reporting on time.

Oh well.. i'll take the good with the bad any day.

Whats your HR?

Have you ever sat down and thought to yourself, "How happy am I with my life at this moment?". And if you did, how would you rate it from a scale of 1-10? This is a question that almost always pops up when my friends and I gather for late night conversations. And more often than not, its initiated by my close friend whose name resembles a citrus fruit.

But of course, its much easier said than done. You gotta count in lots of factors. Work, friends, hobbies, family, money and the whole jumble of things you might feel is important in your life. One person's priorities may lie in work, whereas some other person might value his family. Different people percieve happiness differently.

So how do we simplify it to a scale?

Well, first of all, list down your criteria for happiness and think about how each one will affect you. How sad do you feel when you don't achieve any one of those criteria? If you achieve something, how happy will you be? Try to put it all into the perspective of x/10, and add it all up.

Also, you have to look at it as a whole. Don't go saying, "Wah my boss fark me today dam kau man!" and bring the rating down to 6 from a 8 the day before. These everyday happenings are totally short term and shouldn't be affecting the equation. Instead, look at the job and the satisfaction you're getting from working the work you're working (eh?).

Got that? Hm... quite dense, aren't you? How do i know? Because if you weren't that dense, you wouldn't have to read this part of the article and just skipped to posting your HR in a comment.

Haha.. just kidding... really.

So think about it. Whats your happiness rating?

Me? I'm a strong 9.5. Come ask me for details personally.. haha! This is me signing off!

Am i Good?

How evil are you?

If i am, why is that evil character doing in the background? Maybe i have my inner demons too.. Barney Demons!

Happy Belate-lated CNY!

Happy (Belated) Chinese New Year!

Was really really reaaaaaly lazy the past few weeks. So here! Have a funny pic for the lack of other proper chinese new year-zy themed pictures.

Gah-ha-ha! I love the internet.

Easy Stress Relief

Here's something that my brother passed to me and is now stuck on my room wall:

It makes a good conversation piece, thats for sure. Useful for offices too, i can imagine. The picture on my blog is very small... if you want it, go to the CommFrontiers Site.

Just dont place it in a place where you're likely to get drunk at... Seriously!