The Employees Strike Back

Is your boss giving you too much preassure? Is your office wearing you down? Are your colleagues giving you a hard time? All things bad are happening to you, and all you need is a nice cold beer to calm things down. You want it now, but are still in the office. What do you do, what do you do??? But in fact, you can have beer in the office!!! How, you ask? Read on, dear reader, for your thirst quenching answer...

What beer? There's no beer...

I still don't see no beer...

Oh this is gooood....very very good....

Food, Glorious Food...

Weekend of 15th & 16th Sept.

Last weekend didn’t really do much, except to eat, eat & eat. ‘Cause there were so MANY food promos out there, which most people didn’t even realize it existed. For example, did you know that all restaurants in Nikko Hotel are offering 50% off if you charge your bill to ‘Citibank’ credit card? Heck, that’s a pretty good deal if you ask me. There’s a Jap restaurant in Nikko Hotel called ‘Benkay Japanese Restaurant’ which I tried a few weeks ago. The food is not that great (standard stuff if you ask me), but if it’s 50% off, I mean, that makes it great dammit!!!

But if that was great, then wait ‘till you hear this. Just opened at Damansara Uptown was a second branch from ‘Izzi Resaurant’ and for its opening promotion, it offered 75% off total bill when you use ‘HSBC’ credit cards. Needless to say, I took a bunch of friends over there and raided the place like we were cops on a ecstasy drug bust. Downside was, we had to queue for almost an hour to get in there, but it was freakin’ worth it. The food was Italian fare, i.e. spaghettis & pizzas, but the choice was quite numerous and the drinks were bottomless. In the end, total bill stood at RM 160 (4 pax) before discount and after discount it was just RM 42. So each of us only paid RM 10 for a whole stash of food (check out the bill for the food we ordered). Hallelujah and God bless promos:

Yup. Saved on the wallet, but added on the weight. Oh well. ‘Izzi’ was on Sunday using ‘HSBC’. Saturday, it was ‘Citibank’s turn at ‘Planet Hollywood’. Yes, more promos, this time it was 50% off on selected dishes. I had the Chicken Fajitas which was good, but my friend had the Fish & Chips which I stole a few bites and I think it was fantastic. Definitely recommended!!! Total bill was RM 80 (3 pax) from an original RM 150. Delightful. And during the meal, we met an English bloke on vacation in KL, and he was a Spurs fan. It was Arsenal vs. Tottenham on telly, and Arsenal trashed Tottenham 3-1 from a goal down. Needless to say, that bloke went mentally pissed off. Damn I love English fans.

And the foodie promo extravaganza didn’t stop there. ‘Sushi King’ had a promo recently with their Privilege Cards, offering RM 2 on all dishes from the Kaiten belt. I went on a weekday, and yes, the main target was definitely the salmon/smoked salmon, and I had 8 plates on my own, not counting other dishes. After that day, fishes would be scared shitless of me. Dead salmons in supermarkets will slither back to life and crawl away from me. Bbbwwahhaahhaah. And I like it…Spent RM 35 bucks there, but it was all worth it…God bless promos.

'Heroes': Season 2

I love ‘Heroes’ to bits, I mean I watched it religiously on Astro every week and then I downloaded the same episodes from the net. And watched it daily. Yes, besides Jack Bauer from ‘24’, Hiro rocks my balls for some reason (not in a gay way, mind you). Probably he reminds me a little of myself: I know I can do great things, but I’m just scared of it. Sigh. Anyway, ‘Heroes’ Season 2 is about to premiere in America and I caught a clip of the advert. Here it is (Claire still looks great, in fact, hell everyone looks great. God I miss this series):



Can't waitttttt.....

Some Juicy Indiana Jones News..

News just broke regarding a little of what Indy 4 has in store from:

http://www.edmondsun.com/local/local_story_260175820.html

The highlight of it is that:


"Apparently, the Soviet Army was searching for a crucifix skull in the jungles of South America and Indiana Jones was searching, as well.

The Russian Army tries blackmailing Indiana Jones to help them find the crystal skull by threatening to kill Karen, his old flame from the Lost Ark.

Actress Karen Allen of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” fame returns to play Jones’ love interest Marion Ravenwood. Cate Blanchett was cast as the Russian interrogator.

The Soviet Army took Indiana Jones hostage and managed to find the skull. Afterward, other Russian soldiers rejoice in the jungle by wildly dancing and singing to Russian balalaika folk music beside a roaring campfire.

On a particular scene, the film crew were filming inside a tent and in it was Harrison Ford strapped in a chair being interrogated. They were holding this big crystal-looking thing in the tent and a crytal or crucifix skull was being mentioned.

In the movie, Indiana actor Shia LaBeouf plays Indiana Jones’ son. Jones learns of this and falls in love with Ravenwood again."


Whooaaaaaa, sounds plain-o lame-o. God, I hope this movie turns out right. I really, really do...

Indiana Jones & The Official Movie Title

The news is EVERYWHERE, so i might as well hop onto the Indy wagon. It's oficial, it's verified and it's the truth: Indiana Jones' IV title will be:

Yup. Honestly, it sounds abit corny but...'Transformers' sounds lame too but it rocked. Hard. So, we got the tile, but have we any clue to what the heck is the latest Indy advanture is all about? Well according to stuff being published on reputable websites, it's basically:

"The crystal skulls turn out to be alien skulls, underneath a Mayan or Aztec pyramid that takes off and thus reveals itself to be a mothership of sorts."

Again, sounds corny. But with Steven Spielberg directing and George Lucas producing, we may still have a gem of a crytal on our hands...

And the guys and girls in the movie are Harrison Ford (of course), Shia Lebeouf, Cate Blanchett, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, John Hurt & Karen Allen. Sounds like a solid cast, hope the movie is just as solid.

Of Bali and Rambo

I'm back from Bali, and it was a major blast (and i mean it the fun way, not a bomb blast darn it). I was there from 28th Aug to the 1st Sept (5 super days!!) and i'll tell about it later in my upcoming blog post, 'cause now i'm waaaaay too submerged in playing catch-up with work. Anyway, here's a peak into what i've seen in Bali, taken from my Cam, and man, that place was beautiful. It's a Paradise blessed with welcoming people, and touched by God's inspired hand:


But enough of that mushy niceness!!! While I was away relaxing, Johnny Rambo seemed to be quite busy and he even put up a trailer for his upcoming movie. Here’s the scoop just to share it with you guys. So let there be bullets, carnage, body amputations and fountains of blood!!! Go Johnny go!!!



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Batty-licious!!!

It was a slow and lonely night, so I was surfing around the net looking for something to ignite my night. 30 minutes past and I was so close to abandoning all hope for something interesting to pop out online, then suddenly like a slap from Superman, I bumped into a some pictures that ignited my fire and tingled my imagination. No, it’s not Paris Hilton’s latest swimsuit pics, but something FAR more delicious. It was pictures of ‘The Dark Knight’, the sequel to Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman Begins’. I must say Nolan did a batty-licious job with ‘Batman Begins’, and in my opinion was the best Batman movie since Tim Burton’s first ‘Batman’ (how many times I had said ‘Bat’? Hmmm, try saying that sentence 10 times in quick succession!). “Dark Knight’ will star Heth Ledger, Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman and will open in theatres July 18, 2008. Until then, here are the pictures to wet your bat appetite:

Another Shot from Hitman

OOohh, got another cool photo grab off the net. Following my post regarding the movie based on the super-cool and famous video game 'Hitman', here's another shot of Timothy Olyphant (from 'Die Hard 4.0' a.k.a. 'Live Free or Die Hard' a.k.a. 'Final Fantasy Action Movie' a.k.a. 'What happens when Heaven & Hell doesn't exist, people don't die cos they got no where else to go' playing the famed baldie:

Hitman letting off some gas. The stinky ones.

Johnny Bravo Rambo

Oooo, some friend of mine hooked me up with some photos of the upcoming Rambo movie, called simply 'Johnny Rambo'. It's basically set in Burma and its Burmese army is ruthlessly killing its locals for whatever reason we yet not know. So, our Johnny hero here goes all the way to Burma to wipe clean the bad guys and save the day. Starring Rambo as himself and directed by Sylvester Stallone, I just can't wait for this blockbuster. Seriously. It's gonna beat the shit out of 'Transformers'. Seriously. Check out the photos below and you will know what I mean:

Rambo playing in his backyard. He must be really lonely.

Rambo's retirement plan: fishing.

Rambo's retirement plan #2: road-side snake shows. Kids are gonna love him.

Darn, maybe 2000 push-ups a day is too much for an old man like Rambo.

An innocent man forced to watch Rambo III. Twice. Oh, the horror.

A very angry version of Michael Jackson.

Peekaboo! Rambo playing hide-and-seek with the kids. How sweet.

So, this is how he looks like constipated. Hmm, actually that's how he always looks.

Rambo showing his best milking technique. He says its the best way to milk anything. I believe him.

Rambo to Man: "Hey there, wanna wanna watch Rambo III with me?"

Horrified Man thinking to himself: "I'm more scared of the movie than you!"

The Rush for the 3rd Hour & Saving my PS2

This weekend went to Sungai Wang to send my PS2 to fix. Yup, if you didn’t know, my game console went kaput at a most perfect time last week. Just when all the players arrived (Phil, J-son & Vince) for a final session of “Pro Evolution Soccer 6” before J-son & Vince depart back to oh-so-wonderful Sweden, at the very second that Vince’s hand placed the CD into the slot, the PS2 died. Great Lucifer’s Balls, what the f**k??? It’s like Vince’s hand was the touch of death. Spent almost 1 hour trying to revive the thing (applied CPR) but alas, no help. I was seriously considering giving it an ‘IV’ drip attached to some whiskey for extra “ummpphh” but, nah, I’ll save the whiskey for something else instead. It officially died at 11:24pm, cause of death unknown. It’s dead, but not the hope that it will reborn again, it’s just a matter of time… Carlos Tevez at my control will roam the digital fields of my PS2 very soon…I hope.

Anyway, after explaining the problem to the store guy, he said it may take a few days. Oh well, few days no problem. After that, we went for shopping and a movie called…

“Rush Hour 3”

To keep my verdict short – there’s no need to rush for this 3rd hour.

Yes, Jack is back with Tucker tucking behind him as his loyal comedic partner in another installment of this uber-successful ‘Rush Hour’ franchise. It has been six years since ‘Rush Hour 2’ last came out and while the last two ‘Rush Hour’ movies had been fantastically enjoyable, I honestly wasn’t feeling that excited about another one. Partly because it has a ‘3’ in the title (after so many rotten pancakes like Shrek 3, Spider-man 3, Ocean’s 13) and partly because I felt that the franchise can only go so far with an ageing Jackie Chan and a Chris Tucker that had done only 3 movies in 5 years (and all of them are Rush Hour movies). And with Brett Ratner (X-Men 3) at the helm as director once again (renowned NOT for his creative flair, I must add), I was doubtful on how far this series can evolve to make things fresh and exciting. After almost 2 hours of ‘Rush Hour 3’, my doubts had been realized….

The highlight of the old ‘Rush Hour’ movies was the Asian mixture of Jackie Chan’s comedic kung-fu set-pieces with Western boom-box vocal jokes from motor-mouth Chris Tucker. However, this time around the mixture lacked the zest and energy from the previous movies (most probably due to the weak plot and script) and because of this the solid chemistry between Chan & Chris suffered badly. Chan is now aged 53, and his age was obvious in this movie as he was a pale shadow of himself, takes only minimal risks and while watching him on screen I was feeling kind of sad for him in this movie – it made me wonder if Jackie Chan is on the edge of retirement. As for Chris Tucker, his jokes were mostly predictable with major parts of his funny lines recycled from past ‘Rush Hour’ and other movies. If you are expecting the Chris Tucker of old, be sadly disappointed this time around.

The weakest of the weakest links in this movie was the plot. It was overly simple, recycled from any B-grade action movies you can think of and it is set in Europe - heading off to Europe is often a sign of creative bankruptcy for sequels, and ‘Rush Hour 3’ is no exception. I understand that we watch ‘Rush Hour’ movies not for the M. Night Shyamalan style endings, but come on, at least provide a story that is cool or reasonable on a decent scale. But, the movie failed on this point and it made me feel like the producers did not bother about any creative input whatsoever. They only wanted a script that can put Chan and Chris together in another outing and force them to blurb out all the jokes (good or bad) that they had wrote since ‘Rush Hour 2’.

To say ‘Rush Hour 3’ is a complete failure is wrong however as there some scenes that really made me burst out laughing. Moments with the French translating nun, with the kung-fu masters ‘You’ & ‘I’ and Chris’ sporadic inserts of jokes during the movie’s dull moments really helped keep the pace of the movie going. But besides this, the rest of the movie gives you the sense of ‘déjà vu’ as most of the scenes you may already have seen it before or are recycled jokes from better and funnier movies out there. If you are looking for super-fast kung-fu set pieces from Jackie Chan, you are looking at the wrong direction as Chan’s past work in the most recent ‘Rob-B-Hood’ or ‘New Police Story’ may satisfy you better. If you are looking for burst-out-laughing-out-loud-and-rolling-on-the-floor comedy, then you are looking at the wrong direction as well. Comedies like ‘Knocked Up’, ’The 40 Year Old Virgin’ and even ‘Blades of Glory’ are recommended to gratify that hunger for laughter. But if you are looking for that chemistry between Chan and Chris, yes, it is still there but only at its weakness blend.

All in all, do not expect anything more from ‘Rush Hour 3’ than a silly, mindless, B-grade feeling to a moderate 2-hour good time. And right after you have left the cinema, you will very soon forget about the movie as it will entertain you for those 2 hours only, and nothing more will linger in your thoughts as it as forgettable a movie as a newspaper comic strip you have read in the morning…

Verdict: 5 / 10

Reviewed by: Raymond Choy

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