The Time Traveler's Wife

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!

Don't ask me how I ended up watching this, but I did. Paid a good 14.50 AUD to boot. But still, it was a decent movie. Won't exactly download it again in the near future, maybe when I'm bored and out of shit to watch.

The idea of the story is just amazing, where Henry randomly time travels and during his travels he has seen his dead mother over and over again, dying in a car accident and his love, Clare in different stages of her life.

The whole movie kicks off with young Henry meeting Clare for the first time in his life but she has known him all her life. They fall in love, get married, go through some problems since he randomly travels through time at the most inopportune times and such.

The climax of the story is when an older Henry time travels and appears in front of Clare, Henry and their two friends, wounded from a gunshot to the stomach, therefore showing them how Henry will die in the future. As such morbid thoughts are cast away, Henry and Clare decide to have a baby but due to Henry's time traveling abilities being a genetic anomaly, the baby time travels out of the womb as well and causes Clare to have multiple miscarriages.

Eventually, Henry time travels into the future to meet his future daughter, who is 10 years old, Alba, which is proof that Clare's latest pregnancy will not end in miscarrige like all the others in the past.

There's a bit more that I don't think I want to reveal as I've already spoiled it enough at this point.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 3.5/5 Amazing story but not mindblowing. Watch if you've got the time and money.

Aw crap, I feel sick. Got a sore throat and my head feels a tad light. Kicker is that tonight I'm supposed to attend a Penthouse Magazine event at Men's Gallery. Yeah, it's a strip club. Yes, I have free tickets. Yes, I am thinking of NOT going.

We'll see what happens, yeah?

Peace.

Cover-Up

Just decided to post 'cause that last post was quite an eyesore to me. Anyways, I've been enjoying the holidays, not much that I can write specifically about 'cause there's just way too much and I don't know where to begin. And also there's been so much drama under the radar it's just annoying. Imagine waking up to a FB inbox that's just overflowing.

Crap.

But enough of that shit... Well, hm... I suppose I could tell you what's been happening so far... Let's see, I've went to Williamtown's beach. Got a few pics there. I am not aware of how much people can view the albums on Facebook. I will try to get the original copies when I do, and post them up, especially the photos of the beheaded penguin! =D

I went for 2012 again, and it's still awesome, yeap. Oh, I've been practicing a lot on the guitar, but that's just for bass, but I have to say... on this matter. I have to confess that I started learning not because I liked it. I mean, come on, who wants to start learning BASS? I just thought, ah, that's simple, just picking with your fingers, no big deal, I'll get famous if I keep at it, no worries. Boy, was I wrong.

Done a few gigs and injured myself each and every time 'cause my fingertips just weren't ready for the torture it took for many days in a row, practicing for gigs. And I only practiced, 'cause I needed to.

But now, I have to thank Bob, he has inspired me to play for the sake of fun, not because there's a gig to be done or a chick to impress, but just for fun, for your self-satisfaction and I gotta say, it's been a whole new, much more enriching experience than all the other times around that I have picked up a guitar. So, thanks man, and also to the other dudes that I've been playing with that has indirectly spurred me onto this path. Palm, Eric and to a much lesser degree, Gerry.

Crap, wanted to share a few videos of this new band my friend introduced to me called Infected Mushroom... It's not a band per say, since it's just 2 dudes, and their music has been described as psytrance. Yeah, some techno junk, but it's real tight man. Check it.

Peace.

Dear My Neighbor

Dear Neighborino,

I understand that sometimes I play my music a bit too loudly but that is only because I'm in the zone, playing bass and I sometimes need to hear the timing of the notes. The other times I'm pounding the techno and R&B loudly is because I am getting high on the music. I realize since you're mainland Chinese, I am most probably disturbing your conversations of disgustingly slurred and contorted so-called Mandarin with your "homies" back in red country.

I duly apologize if I have woken you up from your slumber, especially if I do so in the middle of the night, more so when it's past midnight. I have acknowledged your displeasure especially when you start pounding furiously on the wall when the music gets too loud so I turned it down.

However, I do not see a problem when I slightly raise the notch during the day time, especially around noon and late afternoon when I am not disturbing your slumber.

Therefore, before I leave, I am going to raise the notch the whole god damn day and when you knock that wall, I will knock back with a beat matching the rhythm of the song I am currently listening to until it finishes. God help you if you start knocking during the beginning of a Tiesto song or a Slipknot song because I will start hammering the wall with a damn steel pole if I have to get the right beats.

I hope YOU stop being such a douchebag and knock that shit everytime I turn it up ONE DECIBEL.

So help you God if you ever come knocking my door wanting a face to face 'cause the only face you're gonna get is the blunt edge of my bleeding bokken into your bleeding face.

Peace,

Your Disgruntled Neighbor

2012

Monk: Oh. Fuck.

Okay. First off. I can't say 2012 is THE most anticipated disaster movie of 2009 'cause I've been seriously out of touch with the masses' opinions but I gotta say that 2012 is one of those rare non-summer gems of a movie.

It's almost a typical disaster movie set up in the beginning. Unknown people discovering that something is horribly wrong with the planet. Government starts setting up shady aftermath plans and shit like that.

Alright, if you're looking for a storyline, go watch 500 Days of Summer. This's not for you. C'mon. It's a disaster movie. The CGI is brilliant in the sense that it really does it's job of providing the presence of real danger to the characters in the story more so than other disaster movies.

Plus, the sight of California sinking into the ocean is pretty tight.

There is seriously not much to say except to keep praising the CGI, the nice touches of action in the movie and suprisingly, some of the more human emotions and instincts that are potrayed wonderfully by the characters in times of danger. There're no superficially insane guys threatening to end everybody else's lives 'cause he's a super-religious fanatic. The Mist, anyone? Also, I love the Bentley part. You'll see.

Ol' Spiky's Rating: 4/5 It sits on top of the disaster movie food chain right next to Lusa. Heard that it was directed by the same bloke. Can't be bothered to check IMDB or Wikipedia but who cares.

Anyhoo... been to another anime convention yesterday and this time in costume. Those who have me on MSN have probably had a sneak preview, those who don't, it's coming soon. Going today to the beach as a cameraman for two lovely ladies. I am praying hard for toples sunbathing chicks and itty bitty two piece swimsuits. Altogether now, give me a Quagmire giggity.

GIGGITY.

Peace.

Final Fanfare (Hopefully)

It's a few days off, but it's official.  Finally done with my final finals in my entire life, hopefully.

This post is not of doubts and worries, but of celebrations!

Finally got back my sweet sweet PSP and got around to re-familiarizing myself with Dissidia. Too bad the game didn't tell me for how long I was away for but it does know that I was away for a long time as it gave me a nice bonus when I opened my in-game mailbox.

Palm lent me his guitar as well. Just a teeny little acoustic one so I can just jam around when I'm bored. Now the problem since that I am a bit rusty on the tune by ear thing and the lack of tuner means I can't play some songs that requires me to drop that god damn tuning.

Anyways, I've got ages until the finals come out. Maybe I'll get a job and get some paper.

We'll see what happens.

Plan for today? All I know is there are Thai people involved and Thai food involved.

Crap. My arse and tongue are gonna get a good beating. WITH A SPOON.

Oh yeah, and it hurts like hell trust me. It HURTS. It doesn't kill you in anyway so the video does have some credibility. But trust me, a grindaxe to the nuts does hurt. I don't really need to tell you why, now do I?

Anyways... good luck to those that have still papers to go. And happy holidays for those that are free!

Peace

The Horribly Slow Murderer With The Extremely Inefficient Weapon

This has got to be the most epic video I have watched this year. Benny Lava was a couple of years back. God knows what was it last year 'cause I saw too much shit.

And this one. Is ace. For those who didn't catch it when I posted it up on FB, here it is. Enjoy.



Oh man.. Epic. Alrighty then. Back to work.

Peace.

2 Down, 2-in-a-row More To Go

Yeah, I'm halfway done, and that's on a Wednesday on the 1st week. The next one's tomorrow, and then the day after.

I'm at the point where I feel like a bleeding shell of my former self that I barely feel emotions of dread anymore. Whatever I have left are nothing but shadows of their former selves.

Well, enough of moping. Time to get down to some real work. I'm at the point where I'm not even mortified I don't have enough time to study.

Just want to get this over with... and then...

14th November 2009. MADNESS. AT SUPANOVA.

Curious? Well, I guess you have to wait then.

Peace.

P.S: On the brighter side, I'm getting my PSP back earlier! Can't wait to get crackin'n on learning those insane Jecht combos!

Misty Morning

Last night's torrential downpour meets with today's potential heat wave.

Hm.

Woke up this morning to a slightly horrific thought.

Tomorrow's the start of my exams and I can't say I'm satisfied with what I've done so far.

I think you guys have heard this enough but won't hurt for me to say that I've got another whopping 3-in-a-row exam coming up after a day's break from this start.

Man, I'm fucked.

Wish me luck. Loads of it. Pray hard like it's Armageddon.

Peace.