The Dark Knight

Gotham City, the fictional corrupted and seemingly decayed city where lived the ever so famous, Batman. Little did I know, this place does exist. It's actually small village in Nottinghamshire, England but of course, this City is not based on that village.

Anyways, I only remember the 1989's Batman, directed by Tim Burton – that was the one and only Batman which I ever like. The following Batman movies such as Batman Forever and Batman & Robin were a total failure. Bad casting and plots, the whole movie can just be thrown into the dump.

Well, Batman movies/stories are supposed to be dark and it is only right to have Tim Burton in the team. I supposed audience would like to watch something as original and wonderful as what Tim Burton would have to give (I just love Tim Burton's creations).

There are 3 factors on why you should give this movie a try (despite the lousy ones put on the big screen recently)

Joker

In Batman (1989), the Joker was portrayed to perfection by Jack Nicholson (right)…I mean…who can ever send the same shivers down your spine with his wickedly hilarious laughter? In here, he is totally insane and out of control. Besides, he is also much more comical and animated than the newly casted Joker (Heath Ledger). You can see that he is kinda 'cute' at certain angle. It's like a child (at least I'm not when I watched it. It doesn't give me nightmares) will not be frightened by this Joker because of the humour he injected in him. You'll only have to be afraid when you anger him.

In contrast, Heath Ledger's (left) Joker is much darker and serious (though less insane) …I must say…way better. Now, this must be the credits of the actor. You must really re-play the scenes where he licks his lips at intervals. Oh boy…he did a fantastic job of not imitating Nicholson and has been very very originally creative! How can you not love this actor? I came to know about this actor when he was co-starring with Julia Stiles in '10 Things I Hate About You' which I really really adore. Yea, I know…a teen flick but I was a teen back then. Haha…

p/s: I love heath ledger's Joker!!!

Wayne, Bruce

On the other hand, Michael Keaton ain't that outstanding in

his role. I still remember the impression that I had on him when I watched his first Batman role was – he's a super miang (perverted) guy. His eyes just give you the feeling that he is stripping you naked with his gaze; in a l

ess than tasteful manner. No, really! I felt like giving him a slap when he's in that batman suit. In contrast, Christian Bale;without any efforts, gives me a much better notion. So, I think it must have been the face. Michael Keaton just doesn't exude the Batman aura.

Besides, given the good storyline, Wayne's character is more natural and real this time round. Here, we can feel the emotionally alone Bruce Wayne who can be as helpless and human as a Gotham citizen and yet, he has to be the one flesh and blood hero to once again save Gotham City despite being accused and judged by critiques.

Batmobile

Batman = Human

Human = Walks = Confined to the Law of Gravity

Walks = Difficult without a Reliable Vehicle.

Superman = Fly + Laser eye + Super Strength

Spiderman = Web Threads + Use of chemicals

X-Men = Supernatural powers

Hancock = (>.<;;)

So that's why, Batman always come with his own Batmobile. We can't have him taking cabs or runs to his destinations can't we? LOL…

The most interesting fact about Batmobile is that it is a real car. It is not a computer-generated graphical car but a metal-framed car which is capable of making sharp turns and jumps. Yes…jumps. The brilliant building crew of batmobile prepared one plastic toy car 'prototype' for the car before moving on to a Styrofoam version. After that would be a wooden block model before it finally can take form in metal frames. It took millions to built one batmobile but it doesn't matter. The whole Batman movie team is earning. It is no doubt a cumbersome project that took 9 months to complete just the car and another 6 months to train the batmobile driver but I guess a movie with that much of an input is definitely scoring a lot of brownie points and worth a watch.

Not only that, another beauty of the mobile is that building crew took it as their main responsibility for the filming of the car to be as realistic as possible by constructing another miniature race car for the interior scenes shooting. Amazing huh? I'd really love to test drive the car someday (test-drive in b u n n y 's dictionary means sitting in the passenger's seat and test-drive with a pro-driver)

But those are not exactly the ultimate reason to watch this movie (with the exception of experiencing the professional acting skills of Heath Ledger), one should go for this movie because of the themes found. Themes on human nature and corruption, and how the whole Gotham City can be related to the world.

When I was watching the show, every scene reminded me of my home country (yes, let's not talk about the neighboring countries or such. Ours is already a very good example). IN the imaginary city, the police force and its politicians are corrupted, sure, but why? It's due to human nature. How often is it not because of our nature which made us prone to greed and evilness. But, the magical part of this so-called nature is also very ironic. For instance, in the boat scene where the Joker threatened the civilians and criminals alike to blow up each other and yet, they did not do so – for one, they do not believe that it is justified for them to kill another similar being regardless of what their sins are.

At the same time, I also felt that Batman is like a 'mother' to the children of the city. They badly needed a role model and to be disciplined. However, somehow it doesn't change them into a better person because deep down to their core of characters, they are reluctant to make a change. That is also why, 'Mother' Batman will always be there for children of Gotham; when they needed a good spank but doesn't mind if they blame him for the harsh means of disciplinary actions because he knows what's best for them.

Ahhh…the best Batman movie of all…

My morning started with M&M ice cream, and Anal Murderer

Asia Sentinel -- Bearding the Lion City

This is interesting. Let's watch how it goes?

Okay...that was just something that caught my eye when I was at AsiaSentinel.com (went over after I read the email by a friend..thanks for the mail, dude). The next that came was this ...ahh...yes..the oh-so-usual news nowadays. Come to think of it, they/he are/is so good at evading questions. Anyways...anal murderer...that is a good one...got me laughing...

And then I read on the comments and .... well...not to say offended or shocked nor am I trying to rant on it....but somehow when you read the words : Malaysia, an Islamic Country...my mind was somehow..went blank for a moment....and followed by the ick reaction.

It is undeniable that this is true and so far...things have yet to go off-hands due to the so-called tolerance among all the races. Throughout the years, we lot is being tolerance among one another and you can say that it used to be a peaceful country (when the economy is good). Of course, no one cares much if they are living decently with less to worry about.

Who wants to create a havoc and become a cuckoo? Any sane person will want to live a normal and happy life; rather to bite at another's tail like a mad rottweiler.

That was how it had used to be. The citizen is tolerant and happy and peaceful and do not worry-sick if they can still send the children to school in the coming years.

Sighs...just to make sure, I went google and this was what I found :
1. Is Malaysia an Islamic state? by Maznah Mohamad

2. YahooAnswers

3. Malaysia IS Islamic state by Jeff Ooi



geez...there are so many more links and sites...as of now, I'm too *tired* to read them...ahhh...I don't actually bother you see....I just want to be a Malaysian. A democratic Malaysia with political and economical stability as well as moderate crime rate.
That's all I want. Not too difficult is it? I used to be proud to tell people that I live in Malaysia and I'm proud to be a Malaysian.....but now? Okay...I would say that I'm not proud....it's just that I'm pretty ashamed with all the international spotlights on the country because of the stupid drama on air during these few years.

(How funny to have listen to Evan Williams reporting it on YouTube. It's like I'm truly watching a TVB drama)

On a lighter note, there will be another eclipse soon in Aug 1st! I think I saw it once during high school....which was....quite a few years back...hehee...which made me so glad that I have witness such an event in my life.

Best ever advert

Lol!this is the best ever advert that i've seen among all others!

How cool can that be to publicly announce the defeats and failure in terms of management of the opponent!

Woo-hoo!Way to go AirAsia!

DNA data bank should be set up dino-years back

In times of trouble, all sorts of suggestions suddenly start popping up one by one. In this a good sign or bad? I guess no one can be too sure as every situation/proposal has its pros and cons. Perhaps we can put it this way, troubled waters inspire brainstorming?

Haha...whatever it is, we can't deny that, it is at these moments, everyone can think out of the box. Ever wonder why such important bill wasn't being discussed so many decades back? DNA has not been a new discovery. Watson & Crick have educated the public on what DNA is and followed by the numerous reports and experimentations by great scientist, everyone KNOWS the benefits of what DNA is able to bring.

So, why now?

Are they indirectly admitting their dimmed wits for realizing the advantages offered by DNA profiling or it is only now, they see through the clouds that such a method is of an immense gain?
Geez. They are fools I tell you, playing exactly to his flute. Yes...they are the snakes and he is the master of the snakes.

I neither support nor dislike this master as long as we gain from him. Well. This is afterall, a give and take situation.

Fossils of ICT

The best thing of the day is that the Phyto class was canceled due to LAN inspection; which is also a not so good thing because it seems that a lot of Phyto sessions were missed. ANYWAYS...the next best thing would be the extra time which I could use to do my Lab report.

Sighs...but it's never easy with this farking dumbo computer of ICT. So what if a Symantec Antivirus (as proudly stuck on the monitor)...it's not like I care. All that I'm seriously concerned with is the speed of the processor.

I mean...how good can a computer be if it runs slower than your pet turtle?? I was painstakingly waiting for the site to load and for the pdf files to show some signs of life.

Blardy &()*^^*((%$#% ... and I do not know what's up with UTAR...I thought they have subscribed to those journals...but why am I being denied an access? I'm just trying to finish my report and be done with it...not so difficult eh?!

ARGHH.....anyways...things got slightly better when I came home. Huh...my own notebook can't be compared with those fossils at the ICT. Moreover, I was able to browse through blogs and news to make my mood a bit better. And yes, I do have to make a public comment here..Kath! I enjoyed reading your sis' blogs! I think good humour runs in the blood huh!

Hehe...

Those aside, what's on my mind now is that...sighs, I was so hyped up to hold a commemoration ball before this...gung-ho and all, with all the letter drafted out but now, it seems like the winter wind has extinguishes the fire. Can't make anything that big without some appropriate channels to go to. Which is why I think FES sucks big time in terms of rewarding their students through entertainment.

Ah...I supposed, if no graduation party is going to be held, I'll just propose a small exclusive party for BioTech graduates (only) and hopefully it works out ;)

On a I C E C R E A M H I G H

I am high on ice cream.
This is Bud's Lava Brownie. True to its name, there are BROWNIE CHUNKS in it...the size of your fingernails and damn, they are good!

However, I don't quite fancy the ice cream's texture. It's a little too milky for my taste and gets soft real fast. It is just like a normal Nestle ice cream...only a slight bit better..I know..not really a good choice but it's the best you can get when there wasn't any choices around.

Next, I'll be trying Sara Lee's ;)

And I'll definitely save Ben & Jerry's to the last because, I supposed after trying all the bad ones, the best ice cream will be able to resurrect my tastebuds. *LOL*
I wonder if the hypermarkets are selling B&J here...else I'd have to travel to get one bucket...hmmph...

Anyways...after Sara Lee will be Haagen Daz's ice cream fondue! And that, I'll have it after all the exam is done...just a mini celebration. As of now, it doesn't matter if you serve me with B&J, BR, NN, or HD....it's all the taste same to me...

My senses were all numbed by...phytochemistry.

Even the parent complained to me just now that I should tutor her standard 2 son with more enthusiasm and bring in more life especially in the science lesson -- that I should tell him more stories regarding science and make the subject more interesting to him.

Of course, I have to admit that I tutor just because I needed some extra cash. I don't really put much effort to really teach. But hey...when I was a kid, I didn't have that much luxuries as her son has. During my days, there wasn't even an Astro and heck, my mum doesn't even speak English, let alone teach me about science.

And yet, here I am. A biotech student who now thought phytochemistry is so interesting!

But of course, that parent doesn't see that you don't have to force your child every night to study. Moderation is the key. Their interest will come in later on as they grow up.

(Just to add...my general knowledge is pretty bad, so i definitely can't share with kids on which is the largest planet....which I guess is Uranus and the hottest planet is Mars ....hahaa...i only know the smallest is Pluto)
ehem....at the time when I was writing this, I opened several tabs and run a quick check:
largest planet: Jupiter

hottest planet: Venus (maybe that's why women are from Venus...I find that women kind is pretty hot tempered and the pace is very fast -- when you say the wrong thing)

smallest planet: Used to be Pluto but since it was categorized as a dwarf planet in 2006, the current smallest planet is Mercury.

Now, tell me...how can you share these information with kids? They come up with all the 1001 w h y -questions and then at the same time you as a tutor has to guide them through their homework.

uh-huh...whatever, I get the parent's message...MORE ENTHUSIASM...

sighs...but I don't have the heart you know....I rather finish off quickly with them and get back to my own revision because I sorta fucked up my mid-term today, I think (I hope I'm wrong) .... geez...the questions were easy...I just needed more time and concentration on the subject!

Justice

The rape case which I blogged about earlier has finally got a follow-up news!!! I was delighted to read that article and pray, he better get what he deserved!  

The 'Moment' of darkness....

The 'Moment' has landed on Earth on the fateful 13th of July (Sunday)...

The day went by peacefully until evening; about 4pm at the stretch of road after the KL-Seremban Highway. It had caught all the drivers off guard. They were perplexed and then worried.

What had happened? Was it an accident?

Why was this terrible jam happening?

Some of them could take no more. Everyone did not budge even an inch for almost half an hour. Yes...a good 30 minutes have passed and yet every car was still, stalled and bolted to the ground. They can't make a move; let alone maneuver their vehicle.

Some were impatient and when there was a tiny crack of space, they steered and went to the opposite side of the road. Off they went, paying the toll yet another time to exit near Sri Kembangan.

He was trying to check out the source of this jam......but to no avail.
Meaning..the source was too far to be detected with a pair of naked eyes.

The above is yours truly. Stoned...bored...filled with question marks floating in my head. Accident? Was it bad? But there was no ambulance passing by...hmmmp....

Like duh, we knew that the jam was bad and it was stretching pretty far away. All lanes were congested like a clogged artery...I wonder if they could do better than this. They are conveying a message which everyone knows and I seriously hope that they saved up the money for issues of major importance rather than spending on these digital boards.....

By the way, another thing...they will never offer a hand to help even if they see right with their own eyes that there was a jam. As long as it is not life-threatening, they will not bother...and EVEN if it is life-threatening, they will TRY to overlook. (too bad i wasn't fast enough to capture a photo of him sending text messages. Yes...his hands and attention were on his blardy phone)

So yes...you have guessed it right. Due to today's no-confidence motion...it set the whole police force in KL into a 'roadblock madness'. Every single road leading to the city center, regardless of its usual traffice flow, was blocked at a certain time to nullify incoming attacks (should they have one).

Sighs...and in return, what the drivers obtained were more bribes and even heavier traffic (and of course, just a public apology telling the rakyat that this IS neccessary). I think we are reverting back to StoneAge.....

Article of The Month

Referring to this article from TheStar dated on the 10th(i think) this month..i was infuriated by it.

Even more so is that political news dominate a whole front page which was being elaborated far into several pages and yet covering only 'surface' reports.

In my personal opinion,those political bickerings are uncalled for and they will only rest their case when one authority becomes the sole decision maker.

C'mon,they don't have a life remember?

What a shame to have rudd congratulating(pun intended) our country for our active participation and overwhelming concerns over the political issues.i felt both humiliated and amused.

So,those are of immense importance..how about this piece of article??it only occupies one little corner alongside with some unrelated news.

How pathetic!

An innocent citizen was raped in the POLICE STATION by a POLICE!and that piece of news only take up a small little space like some flimsy news!

No further follow-up reports were being written on the actions taken.i almost choked on my white chocolate ice-cream.

I was still sleepy from the late-night yesterday but this article instantly woke me up--better than a triple shot espresso:-D

Policemen..the force in which the rakyat trust in despite the oh-so-many allegations made as well as from our daily experiences/encounters with them.

Now..tell me..what more confidence can we place in them..anymore?

Don't bullshyte with all those one person doesn't mean that the whole group is the same..but sighs..somehow,one rotten apple is already enough to spoil the whole barrel.one freaking rotten worms infested low grade apple!

Another even as equally saddening news which i wouldn't rant too much in case of stepping over the line and set a trail of fires after me since i do not have a link to the news source.

Anyways,it's an article on some policemen lodging reports against each others due to uneven distribution on collected bribes.

Yay.

Anxious when ya a newbie

Lol..elise was asking why i blogged using present tense in the previous blog..

Well..i was dangerously blogging the other day with my SE phone..Haha..okay i sound so 'ulu' now but i haven't try using this function before!to blog when you are feeling bored and don't feel like playing games..Haha..'kelize aka l.c': get SE!

Now come to think of it..i can write to olivia too..Haha..

Okay..back to today,this post..well..newbies in the field are all very excited about the new things they try and yes..i'm very much a newbie although i have done this solvent separation procedure for quite a number of times.

I'm excited because all the things:materials and methods alike are now making sense to me.or maybe i'm not paying attention last time?Haha..

Anyways..am anxious besides being excited coz i don't want anything to happen to the extracted compounds (like the fungal contamination which happened during the previous expt)

And also,the compounds are nicely separated (and fast..i'm so glad..kath kath..sorry but i'm so happy coz at the time of blogging,my group has completed the whole experiment..lol..i sound so evil!) besides giving some very lovely colors-green and orange.

Okay:) now off i go to get one cold freezing Milo blended..laters readers!

voices

No politician is different.
They are all the same everywhere in the world regardless of whatever state that is. The rakyat complains and so what? A bill which they don't think fits, was approved (note: the legal tapping; spying into the lives of Americans). Here, whatever the rakyat says is ignorable. The freedom of speech is now limited and once a wrong word is typed, then you are doomed.

Boy...what an era we are in.

and perhaps I'm too confused with phytochemicals until now i'm seeing connections in everywhere. Every structure can be derived from one synthesizing compound...and every compound is related to one another, with a relationship chain linking them up.
So similar to this eh? All actions have its cause and effects. Any decarboxylation or methylation will result in a different compound

*screams*
all these connections are seemingly so simple but why is my brain still reluctant to digest them????????

I love phytochemistry and it's something which I should be interested in due to my life-long ambition/aim....--brain oh brain-- please please be more smart!

Unwilling to go Uni

It's raining and i'm running late..i really just want to stay in the bed..under my warm blanket.i mean look!the sky is dark and the weather is so brrrgrr cold!! anyways..the bright thing of the day is : at least today's gotcha call by jj and rudy is home despite the stupid uneven road towards uni..