PAPADOM IN SPACE???

Nowadays its so easy to buy your ticket to see a movie...sure enough, you can book it online either in TGV or GSC....and like anyone else, my dear brother did the same when he wanted to bring his whole family to watch PAPADOM, the most successfull Malay movie todate which had won The Best Movie during our local Film Festival even before the movie was being shown in the cinemas... And yes, Papadom is a great movie with a comedy family drama kinda thang... A true relationship between a single father and his daughter...yada yada yada...

Online ticketing requires you to select from the screen from your computer inter alia, the date, the time and the movie in which you wanted to see. Once confirmed, you will be given a confirmation number for you to produce while purchasing the ticket at the cinema. My brother did just that. After ticking the date, time and movie, he gave the confirmation number with the money to his eldest son who later went to the cinema to collect 7 tickets. Later that nite, all of them went to the cinema. Entering into the cinema, my brother was impressed with the full house and with so many races came to watch this movie, thinking Afdlin Shauki, the award winning director and actor must have hit the jack pot for this movie i.e box office status... (very the 1Malaysia lah....)

My brother was further impressed when the starting of the movie with the appearance of a flying space ship....thinking again that Afdlin had really spent much money on CGI for his movie with a gimmick and waiting patiently for him and the rest of the cast to appear but BEHOLD...none of it came....THEN REALITY STRUCK....they were not watching PAPADOM but ....jeng jeng jeng PANDORUM, a sci fi action movie. Gone were all the anticipated comedy and touching scene at the end of Papadom and being replaced with the shocking action sequences aka.Resident Evil in space....

The chilling scene

You must know the reason by now...my dear brother had paid a price for wrongly ticked the correct movie during his online booking..well I cant blame him, both movies sound quite the same.. Luckily, PANDORUM was not a bad movie, kinda intriguing actually to compare with the awful 2010..opsss. At least its a English movie. I wonder what will happened to them if its Tamil film, no pun intended for that remark...but just my imagination.... as much as I must imagine my dear brother will have his magnifying glass ready every time he books his next movie online again hehe... And ermm..Afdlin Shauki will cry out loud reading this...why in the hell, PANDORUM appeared at the same time as PAPADOM........urghhhhhhh...


What about 2012 then? A trailer IS INDEED a SPOILER to a movie but again..the movie suck nonetheless...together with its partner, TRANSFORMER 2, The Revenge of The Fallen... I hate things so Americanseque (is there a word for that?) ... the Americansavetheworld kinda thing, purely robotic and no sense of human loss at all... (guyssss!!!!! , go and watch Tsunami, the Korean movie at least...the human touch in the movie can give you misty eyes, no doubt), YES except the CGI, I knowledged that but still such a waste of my RM20 ticket price watching at GSC Signature, The Garden, Mid Valley (less RM1,00 if you use your EON GSC gold card, promo sat....gituuuuuu).... The next anticipated movie will be AVATAR...I don't want to say more, suffice to say...ermm the storyline is kinda klise....see how it goes.......

ALOR SETAR /PENANG - PART 2

As mentioned before in my last post, A and I went to Alor Setar first before going to Penang for the gathering the next day. On Friday the 30th, we reached Alor Setar at 8.00pm and after having dinner at A's house, we went out to Alor Setar's town. Kedah was celebrating the 81st birthday of its ruler, HRH the Sultan of Kedah. There was a huge carnival near the Alor Setar Mall including a big Ferris wheel, a merry-go-round and many stalls that sell all kind of things. In the mall, I bought a trouser and I noticed most of the workers or sales person are of Thai's nationality. I also bought a few CDs before entering a karaoke centre there. I can't remember the name but the sound system was good and choices of song were up todate. We went back to A's house near 2 am.

Saturday morning, I had the privilege of meeting A's uncle, Prof Dato' Dr Azizan Abu Samah of University of Malaya who had arrived last night from Kuala Lumpur. He was in Alor Setar for a live telecast forum scheduled that night in the stadium. For such a well respected academician, he is such a humble person despite being the first Malaysian to be in Antarctica and still doing his research there.

After breakfast, A brought me to Jitra..to a special place where his cousin sells this delicious food below..

Moi is actually a rice porridge..and its soooooooooo delicious...

Two of us but 3 bowls..hemmmm huhu

I did not meet A's cousin but I met both his wives working hand in hand handling the shop. Also seen at the modest shop was the famous Datok Habsah Hassan and her hubby.

In Jitra, A also brought me to a shop that sells all kind of a traditional cookies with a speciality i.e kuih talam..

The shop that sell kuih talam

All sort of kuih talam...

But the best part in the restaurant is this sort thing which resemble a cage.....I have not seen foods to be kept in this manner....but I guess its the best and practical thing so as to prevent it from flies......

One glance, its the place where you put dead body inside...noti me..

While in Penang, the day after the gathering, A and I joined the penang and KL gang for lunch and afterwards, A and I went to Queensbay Mall. We watched "Ninja".. a B rated movie just to kill the time before going to dinner at my favourite place again, i.e Pan Mutiara, Batu Maung.

At Queensbay Mall..

Anxiously waiting for the rest of the food to arrive...still the best fish curry head for me

Later, A and I went across the Penang Bridge to Sunway Carnival Mall, Seberang Jaya. Here, Wan (A's friend), together with Zaif and Lego, Zairul and his two friends, we had a karaoke session in Amp Karaoke ending at 1.00am followed by a late supper in one of the mamak's afterward. Later, A and I headed back to Georgetown i.e Sunway, Hotel, only to check out in the afternoon and going back to KL.

Zairul belting one of his favorite songs...

Kusyuk mendengar lagu.....

To all friends in Penang...thx a million........

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PENANG FRIENDS GATHERING DINNER - 31 OCT 2009

Just like last year, Penang Friends Gathering Dinner was held in Penang but this time it was in Sunway Hotel, Georgetown on the 31 Oct, 2009. On Friday, 30th, A and I went to Alor Setar and we only check-in to the hotel the next day, staying there for two days before going back to KL on Monday, the 1st. There were few places of interest in Alor Setar and Jitra in which I will blog on it later...God Willing...

If last year's theme was Hari Raya..now it was 70's retro and it could be more interesting if only the organiser decided to choose Halloween as its theme since that nite in itself was Halloween Nite. Regardless, respecting the wish of the organiser, A and I decided to dress properly according to the theme. I, with the disco era kinda of dress aka John Travolta (with a big tummy, that is...perasannnn) and A chose to be Elvis complete with a wig. Earlier, I thought of wearing an afro kinda wig but decided against it. 70's was my schooling years... and I know how it was like..Not all of us had that kinda of look.... Out of 60 or more guests, 30% of them, I can say did dress up for the nite...

Same like last year, there were games, lucky draws and performances by groups from KL and Penang.... Dinagogo as an emcee was hilarious....a real performer and entertainer....unlike last year A and I were unlucky for the lucky draws (last year, A won the second last lucky draw, winning a huge hamper full of foods)....this year I won second best dress of the nite. taking home another huge hamper in which I discovered later, also included a rice cooker and a toaster as well as all those foodies..

Thanks again to the organizer....it will a nite to remember as always....

70's retro......

The prize...u have to strut and answer the jugde's question for this....

Nobit..3rd runner up best dress... 4 guests were shortlisted for this

Dinagogo in action...

after the dinner, with the organiser...

Fond memories....