Thursday, April 30, 2009

Lampyridae Faeries

Yesterday was a great journey to Kampung Kuantan, Kuala Selangor. We went there early so we had a seafood dinner nearby. The foods were exotic to the city people, where you can’t find something like a sweet curry crab, which you’ll think the taste is strange but after you taste it you just can’t stop thinking of it even after a day.

"A year long Christmas tree"


My family and I went to this village of the fairies just to appreciate their magic creation, ‘The flashing Christmas tree’, even though it’s not Christmas yet. These so called faeries were fireflies or ‘Kelip Kelip’ in Malaysian language where it means ‘to twinkle’. We need to ride a sampan so that we can get near enough to have a sight of it. It was a lucky day because there was new moon and no rains. This amazing phenomenon is special here in Kampung Kuantan, where these fairies, synchronize their light emissions precisely.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Eternity of Love

“Trust is the ingredient for the eternity of love”

This was the words by Tsukushi Makino [Inoue Mao] from the movie of Hana Yori Dango Finale. After waiting for half a year finally I managed to get the DVD for this great drama, Hana Yori Dango which also known as Boys over Flowers. It consists of season 1, season 2 and grand finale, a movie. The great part was the proposal of Domyouji Tsukasa [Matsumoto Jun] to his beloved, Tsukushi Makino. Just when I thought there was merely an ordinary proposal, suddenly there was a crowd of countless people share their joy with them. It’s hard to explain it so if you want to know, please watch the last episode of the season 2.

With this I also bought another few dramas for this year, 2009 winter season:

  • Kiina
  • Mei-chan no Shitsuji
  • Voice
  • Triangle
  • Uta no Onii-san
  • Arifureta Kiseki

It’s already a year since the first Japanese drama I’ve watched, 14-sai no Haha. Here’s the list of the dramas and a few movies that I’ve had enjoyed so far (the order of dramas were from the best in my own opinion, descending):

  1. Proposal Daisakusen SP
  2. Proposal Daisakusen
  3. Bambino
  4. Kurosagi & SP
  5. Galileo & Episode Zero SP
  6. Hana Yori Dango Finale
  7. Hana Yori Dango season 2
  8. Hero movie
  9. 1 litre no Namida
  10. Change
  11. Zettai Kareshi
  12. Liar Game
  13. Gira Gira
  14. Hana Yori Dango season 1
  15. Grand Tribe
  16. Maou
  17. Batista Team no Eiko
  18. Code Blue & SP
  19. Rookies
  20. Umizaru 3: Limit of Love movie
  21. Ryusei no Kizuna
  22. Papa to Musume no Nanokakan
  23. Tokyo Tower
  24. Hanayome to Papa
  25. Celeb to Binbo Taro
  26. Lotto 6, 3 Oku 2 Senman En Atteta Otoko
  27. Last Friends
  28. Gon-zo
  29. Special Police & SP
  30. Hotaru no Hikari
  31. Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu
  32. First Kiss
  33. L Change the World movie
  34. Umizaru movie
  35. Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
  36. Letters from Iwojima movie
  37. Bloody Monday
  38. Tomorrow
  39. 14-sai no Haha
  40. Myu no Anyo, Papa ni Ageru movie
  41. Yasuko to Kenji
  42. Innocent Love
  43. Shibatora
  44. Gakko-ja Oshierarenai
  45. Mop Girl
  46. Puzzle
  47. Uta-hime
  48. Hachi One Diver
  49. Kimi hannin Janai yo ne?
  50. Bara no nai Hanaya
  51. Around 40
  52. Shindo movie
  53. Saitou-san
  54. Haikei, Chichi-ue Sama
  55. Yamada Taro Monogatari
  56. Accuracy of Death movie
  57. Gokusen season 3
  58. Kaze no Garden
  59. Monster Parent
  60. Scrap Teacher
  61. Fujio F. Fujiko, Parellal Space
  62. 33-pun Tantei

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Black or White

I played a game in Cyber Oro this morning and my username is viento. From the nigiri* result I’m playing White, which give me a 6.5 komi. This was the third time I’m confused by the color estimation, the first time was an online game and second one was the league game that I played in the Japanese Club where my opponent was Sin Voon aka Xinwen.

As many people know, Cyber Oro do has a function namely Score Estimation and what distinguished it from other GO* servers was it can make score estimation while the game is going. I used it often and I know that was not a thing a Dan player should do.

What really happen was I’m using white and when I press the score estimator I’ll automatically thought that my opponent was white and hence I thought I was behind because of the komi. I tried very hard to chase after the points and in the end of it I thought I was losing one point on the board. As the game end I realized that I’ve the color disorder again. The reason for this was I’m using black too much in the few previous games.

I hope that this won’t happen in the future games, especially tournament time because I’ll make some unreasonable moves to invade which will probably cause me the game.

REF:
  1. Nigiri is a Japanese GO term [lit. Grab] adopted into English, referring to the procedure common in Japan at the beginning of an even game to decide who will play the black stones.
  2. GO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)

Monday, April 20, 2009

Audition & Movie

Today in the morning I went for an audition in University Malaya. I was playing 2 pieces of songs which were Adoration by Felix Borowski and Fruhlingswalzer by Dmitri Schostakowitsch. It was hard for me that when I started with Adoration, I played it out of tune on the second notes, I try to play calmly after that but I think it was useless since the examiners stopped me in the few next lines. The one which I regretted most was when I played the latter songs, I forget to erase the fingering marks in the score, which was done by the person that I lend the score. With the wrong fingering marks, I miss and can’t play that particular bar.When I went home, I thought for a while, “Is it my lack of practice?” so I started praticing with all I might, and I’m very happy that I manage to play it without any mistake. So it was just that I’m over-nervous and from now onwards I’ll need to rehearse before my friends or in the park forth before any auditions.


Women: are you the exception ... … or are you the rule? : Men


I’ve watch a movie with my sister today, it was “He’s Just Not that into you” based on a book written by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo that was published in 2004. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson, Justin Long, Jennifer Connelly, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Connolly, and Bradley Cooper. It was a great movie, many things that you can learn and adopt it to yourself.

Ben Affleck as Neil Jones was a perfect man there and Jennifer Aniston as Beth Bartlett was someone who really deserves him. The most touching parts of the movie comes from this perfect pair.

Ginnifer Goodwin as Gigi Haim was a woman full of drama-loving in her life, which made her quite unlucky with love but miracles do happen when Justin Long as Alex looks her as an exception. Believe in what you believe and although it was painful sometimes, happiness will be ahead.

Jennifer Connelly as Janine Gunders’ husband Bradley Cooper as Ben Gunders was having an affair with a yoga instructor and aspiring singer, Scarlett Johansson as Anna Taylor. Their relation was a total mess, and it was a good lesson to teach us not to chase after two rabbits at a same time. Must take note of a woman appearances in the movie, her experience was awesome. Not to act as a spoiler, better watch it yourself.

Kevin Conolly as Conor Barry and Drew Barrymore as Mary Harris have a naturally-bond relationship. If you have been trusted in faith, then their sparks will assure you more.

Well, to sum it up, it was a totally amazing movie for me as I love this kind of self-improvement type of movie. There were another two movies which I enjoyed it as much if not more than this: Definitely, Maybe(2008) and LOVE Actually (2003). Hope you’ll enjoy these three movies; it’s really heart-moving where at some point will make you tears.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Ultimate Gift

This was a movie that I’ll never forget in my life, The Ultimate Gift. It freshens up my mind and makes me appreciate life more. After watching it one might find out that every day, every time and anywhere, there could be a gift for you to treasure upon.


the gift of Work
the gift of Money
the gift of Friends
the gift of Learning
the gift of Problems
the gift of Family
the gift of Laughter
the gift of Dreams
the gift of Giving
the gift of Gratitude
the gift of a Day
the gift of Love