Ragnarok The Animation

Having recovered emotionally from the death of her brother Keough, Yufa, an acolyte, and her childhood friend, the swordsman Roan, set out for a new journey across the Rune-Midgard Kingdom. They are joined by the merchant Maya, the magician Takius, the hunter Judia and their old companion, the assassin Iruga. However it seems all is not well in this world, especially since Keough, who was believed to be dead, starts appearing to them once again...

Just before i went to my new vocation unit, i managed to get the whole episodes of Ragnarok The Animation. And today, i managed to finish watching it, despite the very little amount of time left for book out (I was spending the whole of saturday buying stuffs for my new unit). I have not played the game itself, but i feel that this animation shows the towns, monsters, npc, and characters well each uniquely. This is my first time writing a post about an anime, im not really sure how to comment on one, so may not be very descriptive to the point. This anime shows the character slowly developing over time, romance and relationship among the party's characters. And there's always these party of three comical characters to add in some fun and laughter, but hey, they made a major impact on the victory of the final boss, the Dark Lord, somehow or rather.

For me, MMORPG or any RPG made into anime is fascinating for me. This is the type for me, if anyone has any recommendation, pls tell me, =D

A Sound of Thunder

Today, as of discussed yesterday, Joey and I went to Jubilee to watch “A Sound of Thunder”, the 3pm one. Somehow the person didn’t understand that we wanted middle row, and gave us the last row, and Joey didn’t check, and so, we were high up there, watching the show with the exit sign emitting bright lights straight at us throughout.

The show starts by showing the boss of the Time Safari Company, Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley), demonstrating the whole procedure of hunting in the prehistoric time, the safety measures taken to ensure that history is not altered in any way, in any size. They hunt for the same Tyrannosaurus at the exact same spot and time, makes people wonder why one hunting party doesn’t meet up with the previous ones (loophole Mr. Scriptwriter)? Then came this lady, Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), barging into the office and spraying reddish liquid onto the clients. Shouting that history will be altered and unknown consequences will occurred if the trips continue, as she was pulled away by the guards. Travis Ryer (Edward Burns), the main scientist responsible for the trip (he did it just because he wanted to study the extinct animals’ DNA from remote), caught up and asked the guards to let go, as he was very interested to know what Sonia was trying to say. And then they went on to talk about their initial interest, plans, and tricks pulled by Charles Hatton in the contract for doing the whole thing and well, nothing happened.

Then there was this one time, when there was an accident, whereby one of the personnel, Tech Officer Payne (David Oyelowo) damaged one gun without noticing it, which enabled the story going of course! Because the guns were designed and programmed in such a way that not until the lead, Travis Ryer starts to fire, no one can, just another precautionary measures to make sure clients do not shoot at anything else. So it goes on, they thought it was just another usual trips, until when the tyrannosaurus starts to threaten their life and their guns are malfunctioning. This starts the whole thing. (It was supposed to die there and then, but instead it was chasing after the hunting party, strange huh?) Travis Ryer tried to distract it until the guns were fixed, and both the clients were given instructions to hide behind the bushes. And long last, guns fixed, tyrannosaurus dead again, and they embarked on their way back. What they didn’t notice was a footprint left behind, with soils, which probably meant that someone DID step off the tracks. And the all-resourceful Charles Hatton manages to convince the clients that it was once in a lifetime, hard to get, escaped from death trip, which, stupidly both of which accepted.

On the night itself, there was some sort of a wave moving through the whole city. I don’t know what it was also until later part where they said it was a time wave, supposed to bring about the changes abruptly in an instant that was supposed to come slowly throughout millions of years. Strange plants started to grow in the city, tall, odd ones. This was the first evolutionary change. The very first to be affected will be the very first to come in the wave. No one thought of anything yet, just felt strange, awesome eh? Only until the next trip, whereby the hunting party went back to the designated time only to find that the tyrannosaurus was already dead, and they met up with the volcano eruption that was supposed to come 5 minutes later. The computer in charge insisted that it was right in the sending of time; Travis knew then that something is very wrong. After which, he went to find Sonia, trying to get some answers from her. Then strange things happened. There was a cry from outside her apartment as they were in the midst of their discussion; they went to open the door, only to find a human being covered by small, black things. That figure fell, only to reveal that it was ‘eaten’ up by the ‘insects’ that looks quite like ants but much bigger. Both of them panicked and Travis Ryer started spraying water from a hose to try and halt the marching army of insects. This unknowingly sparkles one of the electricity area. Travis saw it and pulled Sonia along as they jumped off the balcony. They were supposed to be dead in this way, but just at this moment of time, another time wave hits. And they fell onto the branches of an enormous tree, which was not there just seconds ago. They were astonished to find that the city is now, a tree city, full of forested areas.

All of them gathered at the Time Safari. It was decided that Travis would travel back to stop the hunting party so that all these evolutionary changes would be stopped and everything be back to normal. And just when Travis was traveling, another time wave hit again! And because of this wave, they realized that it was impossible to travel through the time wave to reach that time when everything started to change (hunting party). But quickly, Sonia came up with one and only way, and that was to throw Travis further back in time (hunting at 65million yrs ago, thrown to 65.1million yrs ago), before pulling him forward 0.1million years to the actual scenes. But this way, the atomic particles are simply not stable enough, and Travis only has a time span of 15-20 seconds to stop the hunting party. Clearly not enough, they have to find out exactly what did they change, so they could tackle the problem straight away in the limited time allowed. Viewing from the video, no one can seem to find anything wrong. But a check discloses the fact that an extra 1.3grams was brought back. Charles Hatton find that the Anti-Bio something feature (sorry, didn’t remember the name) was too expensive to be used and didn’t use it at all, which would have stopped any bio items from entering this dimension. There was no time left, human will be affected in the last time wave (supposedly humans are the last to be affected by the changes), which was no more than a few more. They HAVE to find the clients to know what was brought back.

In a party of five, Travis, Sonia, Payne, Dr. Lucas (Wilfried Hochholdinger) and Jenny Krase (Jemima Rooper), they decided to find the client that was always in a frantic state during the trip, because they believed he had the most possibility of stepping off the track. They moved through a park, the nearest way to the client, where they were observed and followed by an unknown thing. Payne while complaining about wanted to go home accidentally stepped on a thorn-like stem, where it quickly snapped up and pierce its thorns into him. They heard noises and shuffling of movements, in turns leading to hasten pace and they were out in a more open area soon enough. Out of a sudden, a creature jumped out of nowhere and grabbed Dr. Lucas away. Travis immediately entrust the injured Payne to the ladies and chase after it with his hydro gun. He was stunned to find out what creature it was. It had a gorilla face, strong limbs and two very long teeth, longer than a vampire, having a tail too (komodo lizard with gorilla face and cobra fangs?). With no time to lose, Travis fired a shot at the creature, which was useless as the gorilla (I will call it this here xD) had some sort of armored body. It was amazing, because the hydro gun has firepower no less than shotguns, except that it was shooting ice instead of bullets. The gorilla ignored him, trying to eat up Dr. Lucas, but upon repeated firing, the gorilla was frustrated at being disturbed for his meal, he turned to face Travis, stood up high, raising its arms (like a gorilla), growling and showing its fangs. Travis took the chance and shot it at its chest/throat, which luckily is penetrable. Payne died here, killed and eaten by countless gorillas, as he was too injured to go on anymore.

The rest finally reached the place, which was near a mall. At the time of their arrival, they saw a father bringing a child right into the mall, to find foods. Gorillas attacked them, where Travis came in the nick of time, shooting at its throat and saved both the father and son. Then they saw, the remaining living residents actually lived inside a cage, and all armed, to fend against the gorillas. But if all the gorillas come and attacked together, I believed it was of no use, haha. They found the client in his apartment along with several other survivors. They checked through his equipments from the trip, nothing was found. He told them this (something like this): “Just because I was frantic, it doesn’t meant that I forgot and didn’t watched my actions, I did my safety precautionary measures well too!” which I think makes a lot of sense, another way of saying “do not judge a book by its cover”. Knowing that they had no chance of making their way to the other client on foot, this client offered his car to them.

Upon reached the destination, they were astonished to find that some people actually killed among themselves! When they reached the client, he was behaving strangely. In the end, he killed himself, marking that the changes could not be stopped. It was only here, that they knew, the plants that have the sensitive thorns-filled stems, which likes to attack people, actually have poison in the thorns, which causes hallucinations and mental breakdown of victims. And then, they saw it, a dead butterfly under one of the boots. Just imagine a butterfly that died just five minutes before its actual one (volcano what), could cause such a big change? During their drive back to the Time Safari (who knows what changed after many time waves), they were not alone. Creatures with wings attacked them (giant bats =D). The bats rammed on the side of the car, tore open the top cover, and there goes our dear Dr. Lucas (just simply cant escape death). And right at this moment, they were hit again by another time wave, throwing the car to its side. Strangely, all the bats disappeared.

Inside the Time Safari, they went to find out whether the time machine was still available for usage, and to search for anything they could find for usage. While Travis opened the cupboards, he found the police officer (deployed by the government to ensure time traveling is safe) hiding in one of them. The very first that the police officer muttered was: “Keep your volume down, you wouldn’t want to wake them up?” and he refused to leave with the rest for search of time machine. So after Sonia gotten the hard disk (containing program for time traveling), they left, leaving him behind. He was scared, and knew not what to do, and finally decided to follow them, which was rather, abit too late a decision. By then, the gorillas jumped from above (just what are they? Bats also? XD) and surrounded him, there goes another guy~

While walking inside something like a train, they found no way out, and decided to walk back. And at this very instant, the top of this place collapsed and buried the back. Water gushed in and filled the place. Knowing that the train would not be waterproof for long, Travis suggested blasting open a window and swim to safety. Jenny hesitated and asked for a little time for her to prepare mentally, and right at this time, a sea monster burst right in and pulled her out (eaten I guess). Water started to rush in, Travis and Sonia had no time to lose. Travis covered Sonia, as the sea monster (sea dragon I would call it) returned track. Of course Travis lost in the battle with the sea dragon, but well, luck would always be with the heroes and heroines. A big chunk of rock felled and cut the sea dragon into 2. Right then, Sonia dived back in and revived Travis (obviously drown but yet…).

Then they made their way back to a local university (I suppose Sonia works here). They were glad to find the time machine still intact. Travis began locking Sonia’s research lab up as they already knew the gorillas were hot on their tracks, coming in from all direction. As Travis prepare for take off, another time wave seems to hit, and the gorillas only had seconds more till they would break through and invade. Sonia timed it well, the doors were blasted open by the time wave, but Travis had already gone back in time. Meanwhile, all the gorillas were gone (god knows where they went) and well, we got a chance to see the evolved form of humans, lolx.

Travis upon reaching, was in blank, but quickly recovered to stop the client from falling off the track. After which, he hastily told Jenny about what happened. Jenny of course was surprised to find 2 Travis but was quick enough to remain calm. Then Travis disappeared into particles. When backed at Time Safari, everything was back to normal; no one could remember what had happened, those that died, well, were back to life. Jenny immediately pulled Travis to a side and passed him a red ball; containing the information of when the other Travis was speaking to her during the hunt. On the following day, Travis went to find Sonia (again on same day huh?) to pass her the red ball, telling her, that it would be useful for use against Charles Hatton and to shut down the Time Safari, ensuring the history, the present and the future would not be altered.

The show is basically about 100minutes long, but I was not able to catch some parts of conversation, due to the fact of slang, fast speaking and no dialogue. Whenever I watch any show, it is a must for dialogue, as I used both my ears and eyes to ‘hear’. Overall, the plot is fresh, though not much of any particle effects, no romantic developments, and the usual monster eat human. Certainly a movie worth paying for, though I’m not sure what, but it attracts. Abit of lengthy post this time, I think I almost wrote the whole story down, but just as of what I am, I love to do this, don’t blame me if I spoilt ur appetite for the show for disclosing so much, =>
Rate: 7.5/10

16/09/05

My Vocation, My New Unit...

I woke up at 11.56am, "disturbed" by a phone call from a concerned platoon mate in BMTC. And it reminded me to check my posting, available from 12pm onwards.

I logged into the www.miw.com.sg, and after a few fruitless search for the correct portal, i used the search function instead. As i enter my particulars word by word, my heart beats doubled and threatened to jump out of my mouth at any time, as i watched in silence, my vocation, my new unit.

ARGH!!! I'm posted to Tengah Air Base, and as a Regimental Policeman! Why can't i be a Regimental Policeman at SFT, Amoy Quee and Kranji Camps??? And i'm doomed to take taxi everytime, because the place is so far away! Anyone lives near CCK? Let me rent a place there bah...

I just called the unit also to inform them about my specialist appointment on the day itself on the afternoon, trying to see wat kind of arrangement would they make. And i'm very much interested to know wat is installed there for RP, wat do we do, and wat kind of training we have, etc.

And i just unpacked all my stuffs last week to say, now on Sunday, im gona dedicate the whole day to pack my stuffs back, and be ready for my new vocation.

ARGH once again, anyone as suay as me? Probably not... I was exempted from MP, so here i am, going for RP...

Last outings from Tekong, Band of Brothers Unite!!!

*Grumbles, Grumbles* Actually I still have not decided whether I wanted to come for this so-called National Heritage tour yet, but my sergeant called me last night to made me go to settle some issues. Because of my injuries, I asked my platoon sergeant and he asked me to make injury claims. So that’s the cause of it. Because if I want to make injury claims, I need to write a report and meet up with the OC to approve it, basically a whole lots of paperwork for me and my sergeant. So after confirming with my sergeant, I chose not to make injury claims as long as I have my 11B with me, government will pay specialist and treatment fees.

I woke up at around 11am today, opposed to the usual 12pm (sleeping at 5-6am everyday xD). After settling some matters, I went for my shower, and after grooming myself, I went off to the bus stop at around 11.55am. Because I don’t have any polo-tees, I wore the company one instead, and upon arriving there, there was not much ppl wearing it =x. I reached at around 12.25pm, as I haven’t eaten, I went to the Old Chang Kee at White Sand to grab a bite first. Not until 12.47pm, was much people arrived. We were supposed to gather at 12.45pm. Oh well, I guess everyone’s back to themselves after no more restriction as recruits. Total strength was 40 for the day, short of 8… After counting strength and settling some paperwork, we set off around 1.15pm.

Our first station was Johore Battery, which we arrived at 1.30pm. We went down to look at the majestic gun, and the super huge shell it fired with. It was the first time, which I know we did have some big guns for defense during the World War II, except that it was used to guard the sea against ships and not against infantry at the North.

Our 2^nd station was the Changi Chapel and Museum. It was really a fruitful trip, knowing about the life of the POWs during the war. How they sought mental relief and will to live on, through religion. There’s a lot of rebuilt of the structures during the wars, items, and facts, that really fascinated me throughout the 1hr+ in there. Oh ya, by the way, there’s this small outdoor café over there, the stuffs of which are expensive, but there was a quite chio lady maybe in her early twenties working there also, =P

Our 3^rd station was the NEWater plant. Maybe because I had just been there during March of this year due to the National Education of my polytechnic, the place simply does not appeal to me at all. Imagine the ‘agony’ of going through the same thing twice, exact same things, XD. I do know about how precious water is to Singapore, the water treatment between Singapore and Malaysia and what plans Singapore is undertaking to meet the water demands in future.

It was Sergeant Shaziran’s Birthday today! I’m not sure how many of us went to celebrate with him, but because it was a very last minute decision to celebrate together and there was no plan at all, I didn’t go along. Roy, Chopchop, MJs, TKW, and me went over to Simei instead, to dine at the Sakae Sushi buffet. I wanted to use my student pass (which I still kept with me) to enjoy paying less, but since all four of them were paying adult price, I went along too, $19.50, arghh. Well, for 3 months, I haven’t been eating much of rice to keep my weight down, this meal made up all of it instead, XD. And also I saw just how much MJs can eat, its really an amazement, just how can someone eat so much. On the other hand, TKW ate so little; it was like barely eating at all! After which, TKW, Chopchop and Roy went back home, while I followed MJs back to Tampines.

Oh yes, I went back because I wanted to go to NTUC, so it was a nearer choice. Then since it was still early, we went to a LAN shop to play games. We saw some of the rest over there, so shocking, Zeren, Mario, Keith, Rex, Ruiming, Melvin, etc. I played with MJs on a dota map with others because the rest were already engaged in a game. I used Dwarven Sniper while MJs used Lunar Moonfang against Lich and Lycanthrope. And it had been so long since I last did an ownage, much less to this extent. Luckily at times I have MJs playing the supporting role (though he didn’t play very good), if not I wouldn’t have been able to survive at some times (though at last stage, 2v1 doesn’t matter anymore). I was level 23, while they are still at 15.

After playing, we left at around 9+; I went to food court to buy some food for my mum before accompanying MJs to Serangoon (shop name) to browse through music albums. They really had a bad placing of items, maybe because of cheap price, if not, I wonder who will come to this shop? (MJs of course… =.=) After wasting much time in there, I asked MJs to ask the shop assistant for help instead. A 1min talk settled the 30mins search. There was no Elva’s album there.

So finally, I went home in Bus service 72 and reached home at 10pm+, nearly 11pm, so dead tired… that I just want to have a sleep… but still… I think I will probably sleep at 5am today again.

13/09/05

New games…

After playing for a few days, I’ve really become bored or should I call frustrated with Thang Online. Overall, I don’t mind having all sorts of creatures sticking at a place, where some can kill in an instant, but rather the skill system (which they call unique) is a real frustration. Just thinking of training the skill so hard to level it up, only to combine with the same skill with lower level, 1+3+5+7 = new skill level 1. And this goes on and on... just imagine that in order to progress, u definitely need new skill, but most probably most could only stop on the 2nd skill. The entire game sell is the first skill... Just imagine getting to the 3rd skill... how much time and effort would be required? And cant possibly retrained the 1st skill from level 1 on a level 100 creatures whereas compared to a level 1 creature? Pure stupid I would say.

So because of this stupid unique feature they have, I went on my search for new games or possible old ones, just any nice one to occupy abit of my free time, I simply have no idea now wat to do with so much free time, lolx. I've come across alot or most games in the industry since the whole day was spent browsing through the games. There was some that requires payment and you would definitely say, "anyone in their right sense of mind would rather burn up their cash than to pay to play". There was only a few that rightfully deserved paying for. There was also much that I believed would never come out of beta alive, even if they meant to be free forever, cos they sucked too much. Then i finally settled on Myth Wars Online and Gate to Heaven (the one which I wanted to play like on January? No idea y I didn’t) because they were the best for Free Games, there was a couple more, but 1 person cant play so many games at a go, lolz. I wouldn’t be so stupid as to pay real life money to play a virtual game, no matter how fantastic it will be. On my list though, there was some, which I don’t know if need to pay or not, but definitely a must try if free to play, namely, Lord of The Rings (battle for middle earth?) and Dungeon and Dragon Online, etc.

I started playing Myth Wars Online first. Well, just remind me never to play any MMORPG that is 2D trying to act as if 3D… only 2D game that is nice, is basically, a 2D games boasting the good areas of 2D, acting as it is instead of trying to be a 3D one. Few good examples are Gunbound, Maplestory, etc. It just felt like a normal 2D RPG game to me, no way is it in anyway similar to any MMORPG. It is not a game worth recommending to play though I haven’t went much deep into the game.
Rate: 3/10

Hmm, Gate to Heaven, I should have played it earlier this year, shouldn’t I? Well, most probably because I was not able to dl the game, I was with RoseOnline and A3(which aren’t too bad either). This game, well, at least it doesn’t try to introduce some kinds of unique features that are totally frustrating! And the NPC sells items up to level 79(maybe 80 but not higher). This way, no one will be so desperate hunting for items at level 79 using level 30, 40 gears? It is good in some sense, it cost a lot to purchase from NPC, and all of them don’t come with added attributes, which make hunting abit more worthwhile because of added attributes to boast performance. But just in case u aren’t able to find any of ur gears during hunting (4 hermits race x 2 awakening path = 8 types of gears), well, it’s good to purchase from the NPC, which provides gears for all 8. Moreover, you can craft items also; maybe some in between gears, funny gears and stuffs. And about funny items, I think u need to pay for premium items, which looks good and is absolutely powerful and useful for low level to mid-low level. The BGM, sound effects, color particles (magic/skill effect), graphic aren’t too shabby too. There are some automatic quests, which will be automatically obtained during training if you reached the designated level or higher (maybe need to complete earlier automatic quest, i'm not too sure though), some NPC giving specific quests. And a Messenger [Betty] whom u can craft quest scroll from (a very good way for training, training on the specific monster, and completing quest at same time); repeatedly for the same quest until ur level is too high for that quest. Rewards can be chosen also, namely Experience, Zen Experience (a limit that skill is based on, higher level of Zen enable learning of higher level skills), Zen Mastery (points whereby u can distribute into leveling the skills u obtained, by far, the best reward quest), Nak (in game currency, i’m very poor still because I play myself with no help, so to me is important also, gives quite a lot), items (some useful, some not, not sure of higher level ones). Then there’s energy pack, different level and type, which u can purchase to replenish different amount of RA and SA (hp/mp), higher level (better) type, cost a lot more for recharge. And also the help features is useful, containing information, not like some other games namely FlyFF that has empty online help. It also has a craft item guide, where u can see wat ingredients for wat items, lolx. For me, I have chosen an Earth Hermit, going to be a transformation spirit warrior, not a good race and path to choose but I’ll stick on to it. My character nick is Kraazg in game if anyone of u is already on it or want to start playing. There’s a lot more about it which I may have forgotten to note down, just play it, you will discover, XD
Rate:8/10

11/09/05

Three brothers meet again finally after a month? XD

Because of having most of my weekend eaten off, normally I only have like half day to one day excluding sleeping for my book out. And I basically just wanted to rest only, so I haven’t been meeting up with my best pals, LapTak and Joey for nearly a month, maybe more or maybe less. And so here we are finally, meeting up, all 3 of us together, ^.^

Actually, LapTak wanted to watch some shows at Cineleisure, but just the day before, I have watched with Joey 2 movies in a row. And LapTak don’t watch a lot of movies type like horror films (I don’t pay to scare myself), local films (vcd out fast), Chinese films (not worth paying to watch so little and vcd out quite fast too). So we decided to meet at our usual hangout, AMK central. We did the usual stuffs, eating lunch, talking craps, about gals (normally surrounding Joey), money, soccer, life, etc. Then we went over to Raiders to play DOTA and abit of Half-Life, how I missed playing these games. All of us are rusty after a long time of not playing.

Then at night, we rushed off to Sumo House to eat, since it was already near closing time, haha. After a sumptuous dinner, we walked slowly to the bus stop, and we made Joey wait for bus together with us again, hahaha. Then we went back to watch soccer matches and discuss about our predictions and discussion earlier. We only spent 6-7hrs together, but time was not a factor to the extend of how we enjoyed ourselves.

10/09/05

Movie day~

After my POP, i've decided to rest for one full day for my body to totally recover before i decided to go out at all. And i contacted Joey and Laptak to watch movie today, but only Joey responded, oh well.

So, after checking the location and the time, we finally decided on PS GV, to watch The Cave on 2pm and The Maid on 4.35pm. Since The Maid was a local film, and quite abit of people said that it was really a horror film and was quite nice, i've been looking forward to it all these while, scared that no cinema will be showing it after i pop, haha.

Like wat some people said about The Cave, the plot is always the same, human goes inside cave, parasite (not virus zombie blah blah) creatures infest human, human becomes creatures bearing parasite and this goes on and on. And it never did explain wat happened to the initial explorers, were they eaten up or converted to beasts? If converted to beasts, wat made them? Parasite? Wat parasite and how? Beast? But beasts killed them for food, cant believe anything left for mutation! Even the ending is absurb, three person got out of the cave alive. But, one thing that was very strange, was that they went all the way miles under the ground, why would an underwater passageway lead them to a river above ground? Remember, it was already MILES UNDERGROUND!!! Wat's more? The beasts can move underwater, so, why didnt they move out of the cave themselves? Simply one thing to put is, the story plotter just didnt really think it thorough and far and hastily came up with a stupid film. Only and i do mean only thing that was good about the film, was to finally see how the beasts look (LOL), and all the actions, well, also thinking of who would be the next to die, how and when.

The Maid... i thought, well, Joey too, didnt really expect the cinema would be so packed, since it was an old film(14th Aug) and it was only a Friday... sigh... the story plot is very simple, yet from some point of view, quite stupid. About the horror parts, well... they are HORRIBLE, you can say they are scary, only because they were all the same, sudden image and sudden outbreak of sound, and on a second thoughts, anyone would think of "why the hell is this happening here, wat the heck it gotta do with the movie and its plot?". Was this show about "a maid" or was it about the "chinese seventh month-hungry ghost festivals"? I or maybe WE will never know, we are not the story writer, we dont know wat he was thinking of, but we will forgive him only because it was his first attempt at horror film. Like i said, the plot is very simple, about an idiotic son(cant find any other description xD), whom their parents thought was like a child never could grow up(which was wrong cos he did grow up, physically definitely, maybe abit 單純, 幼稚 or simply moronic but definitely has abit of adult mentality there), raping his maid, who had been in good/close relation with him(sister to brother kind only). The maid tried to report to police, the parents because of deep love and care for him, tried to dissuade her, which fails and in turn leads to the father tieing up and burning the poor maid alive. The moron son commited suicide because of this and only to return one day to his parents during the Hungry Ghost Festival, trying to find his bride(ahem, the maid...). Then the parent found a new maid to work(which they chose specially, looking abit like the old one). Initially, we thought nothing of them until the whole thing came to truth, actually they wanted the new maid to consent to marriage with the son, before killing her, so that the son could finally be married even if dead. Well, somehow at the very crucial moment, the son suddenly remembered that the maid he liked was dead already, killed by his father, he screamed and shouted, trying to prevent another wrong doing. Well, ironically, he pushed his father and he burnt his father this time round. The mother wouldnt give up, maybe it was the old maid, Esther looking after Rosa(new maid), the mother was ran over by a truck, =x And the ending was clear, Rosa took Esther ashes back to The Phillipines and thats all for today. Maybe it was with too much an expectation that came along with great disappointment.

And first time in 3 months, i took the North-East line back home, buying myself a sumptuous dinner of Burger King, lamb burger, yum yum. So-so shows for the day and great meals for the night, time to sleep~~

09/09/05

finally... POP!!!

After "suffering" for 13 weeks (supposed 13, maybe 12 now), from 11th June to 7th September, its finally POP day for me!!!

A combined of mixed feelings was wat i felt. Im happy to finally leave Tekong, and attended my BMT course(not completed since i have injuries and unable to attend some physically demanding lessons). But at the same time, i felt a tinge of saddness pricking at my heart also, due to the fact that it has been my 2nd home for like 3 whole months. And most probably i wont be able to see any of my band of brothers in there, that had been with me through those hardships in Tekong, because of different vocation.

For the pop parade, though i have been in alot of parades, big and small, since i was in my NPCC days, im very very much wish to be part of it. I cant help but felt that something is missing from my BMT life, for unable to march through, running in, singing, doing the Infantry Roar and throwing the cap into the sky together with the rest. And only fault i can find with is with my legs, and no one know how much i blame them for suffering injuries.

When everything was over, i went over to my Mum, and she proceeded to take a few photos for/with me around the giant Infantry Statue in the TFT. And since we were taking quite abit of time, i was lucky to be able to take photos together with Dennis and Zhongyi since they were also coming to take photos.

This was the first time, and probably the only time, that sailing across in the fast craft, has the sky been so gloomy and the sea waves violently as if weeping and saying goodbye to these bands of brothers. Probably was the rainy season, but no one can help but felt that it too was sad to see us leave. After getting off the fast craft, my Uncle Mark and Aunt Serene brought us to East Coast Road, Bedok area to have dinner, it was a very sumptuous meal, though i can hardly remember the name of the restaurant now, haha.

Reaching home at around 9pm+, i spent quite an effort in sorting out my stuffs, washing the laundry, checking out on wat i had missed out for the past weeks and finally, a good night sleep, way through the morning and till the sun wakes me...

07/09/05