Archive for December, 2008

Weekly Wednesday Clicks

December 31, 2008

This week’s Wednesday clicks would come a little earlier as I think I might be rushing through the day to complete quite a lot in a very short time. Anyway, there have been some very interesting sites that I managed to troll out from the world wide web so brace yourself and enjoy the links.

On a personal note, I got back from Penang on Monday and I was totally exhausted. I guess the 9 hour drive up on Saturday and the 5 hour drive down on Monday took a huge toll on me but the trip was fun and relaxing. I really didn’t know that prices of food in Penang has gone up, I ended up paying RM8 for “char koay teow” and worse of all, “tau sar pneah” was completely sold out. I got loads of photos to sort through, process and deliver so will be very busy over the next couple of weeks.

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Movie Review: IP Man

December 26, 2008

Ok, the movie is not pronounced as “ai-pee man” but rather “eep-mun”. It is a dude’s name and not a movie about IT geeks gone wild or crudely put it as the next geek flick. On the contrary, this movie reminds me of the good old kung-fu flicks that I watched as a boy and this movie does not disappoint.

ipman Movie Review: IP Man

Ip Man is adapted from the life story of Ip Man, the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu (master) of legendary kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. This movie will be the first important record of the master’s life. Ip’s persistent devotion to Wing Chun is a classic example of the love and respect shown to wushu and the freedom and spirit it represents. Ip Man is a concept, a spirit, a way of thinking – and it represent a new peak in Hong Kong’s wushu movies.

Based on a true story and coupled with realistic fight scenes, like I said earlier, this movie does not dissapoint. Everything about this movie was excellent and I figured that I would enjoy this show.

ipman1 Movie Review: IP Man

The movie brings us back to China just before the Sino-Japanese war, a city called Fushan which was famed to house many martial arts practitioners. With martial arts being popular and people wanting to show that their own style of martial arts is popular, the scene portrays a city where martial arts dojos are the cash cows of the city’s economical height.

ipman2 Movie Review: IP Man

Ip Man was not one of those who set up a training schools and teaching disciples but his reputation of a skilled martial artist precedes him and his humility reminded me of how Jet-Li portrayed “Wong Fei Hong” in the “Once Upon a Time in China” series.

ipman3 Movie Review: IP Man

The supporting casts of Simon Yam, Fan Siu-Wong and Lynn Hung added the much needed sense of drama, romance and friendship which makes this movie complete. If you thought that “Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon” was a real kungfu flick, you are sadly mistaken. This is as real as it gets, there are not fancy flying about waving your swords through the air. This is real down to earth martial arts at its best.

I give it a 9/10 rating. If you haven’t watched it, what are you waiting for, catch the next available show!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year.

xmas2008 web Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year

This time of the year, I pray that I don’t burn out rushing for deadlines and finish all of my post processing. Running out of space on my computer, just checked and there is only 2.16Gb left on my HDD which stores all my photos. Definitely need a HDD upgrade, 1TB hard disks are getting cheap nowadays!

Off to Penang tomorrow for some much needed R&R but will be bringing my laptop to do a little bit of post processing as well.

How Ironic

December 21, 2008

Ok, here I am on a weekend after a long shoot in Malacca yesterday, sitting at Starbucks sending out some emails for work and trying to clear up some of them before the work week starts tomorrow. Whilst everyone is going off for their Christmas holidays, I got an interesting email which might lead me to be located down south in sunny Singapore next year onwards. But that is a different post all together.

Anyway, back to my point. So here I was at 1 Utama and before heading into Starbucks, I decided to pop over at Jusco and I noticed their new slogan which was to not use plastic bags. Wow, I thought, what a wonderful campaign and what a wonderful way to prevent people from using plastic bags. Usually supermarkets would freely give out loads of plastic bags and unless they do something about it, people’s behaviour will not change so easily.

I went into La Boheme and decided to get a couple of buns to ease my appetite which was screaming at me for not finishing my instant noodles which I made for lunch. Lined up behind a very long queue and usually when there is a long queue, my eyes start to wonder around the store. Then I noticed the cashier, she was wearing a badge which showed the same slogan and not use plastic bags to save the environment. And whislt wearing the badge, here she was packing everyone’s buns and pastries into plastic bags.

What really hit me was the way they freely used plastic bags, i.e. for every bun/pastry that you have, you get a small mini pastic bag to wrap it up before being put in a much larger plastic bag. If you had 15 buns there, high chances was that the cashier would probably used about 8 mini plastic bags and a large plastic badge.

How frigging ironic!

Wednesday Clicks

December 17, 2008

Christmas is almost upon us and I thought I would have missed posting this week’s Wednesday clicks as I am away on training and I have no access to the internet when I am on training. But I decided to stick with my schedule and still post this before heading out for dinner with my cell.

  1. Timothy shares his experience with queue cutters in Hong Kong here. Not a bad strategy by our neighbouring Asian countrymen (not the Hongkies) :)
  2. Steve Jobs is skipping MacWorld? Who will present the new Mac Mini?
  3. Check out this interesting Nikon D3 which is nicknamed the “Wedding Photographer Edition”
  4. Twitter chooses Google over Facebook, er, what does that mean to me?

Tomorrow is my last day at my PMP training to prepare myself to sit for the PMI project management certification. One thing I learned is to bring loads of coffee over there and try to avoid the traffic jams at PJ State.

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