Randomosity

This was why i was never late for school. Haha.

Lost and Found

Okay. Very quickly my history of following the award-winning show, ''Lost''.

Season 1: Followed so closely my eyes were glued to the screen.

Season 2: I started to lose it.

Season 3: I became completely Lost. Didn't watch a single episode of that season.

Season 4: I was found again. Watched a Season 3 recap episode and I was back in it. Alas, I never finished the season.

And just to make it clear, I'm done. No more "Lost" for me. No more comebacks. I'm doing this post just for the potential avid "Lost" followers out there who will be reading this. So, this is for you Louis. Haha. Do you still follow "Lost"??

If you do, then set your calendar for season 5 due to be released 21 January 2009. Yeah. The agony continues.

Here's a sneek peak at the upcoming season.

Recount

8 years ago, George W. Bush got elected President of the United States of America in the most controversial race for the Presidency in history. Probably one of the biggest mistakes ever made in the history of America. It was like electing a baboon to the Presidency. Barely a week ago, as many of you know, Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected to the highest office in the US. On January 20, 2009, he will be inaugurated and the tumultous, disastrous term of George W. Bush in office will finally be over. Have you ever wondered how such an incompetent moron ever took office in the first place? Well this movie which I'm about to review, explains it all beautifully.

Recount

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary

USA Release: 25 May 2008 (straight-to-TV on HBO)

M'sian Release: 31 October 2008 (straight-to-TV on HBO)

First of all i am very sorry for the lateness of this review. I'm afraid to say that stupid HBO only showed the film for like 6 days, the last day being the 6th of November. But if you really wanna watch the movie, you could always *ahem* download *ahem* using *ahem* torrent. Sorry there was something stuck in my throat.

The movie is about the controversy of the 2000 US Presidential Election between a-the-time Vice-President Al Gore and at-the-time Texas Governor George W. Bush. The movie starts off on election day in 2000 and ends when the US Supreme Court delivered its decision in the Bush v. Gore hearing. There were some inconsistencies in the results of the votes casted in Florida which leaned towards Bush's advantage. Being a big state with 25 electoral votes at stake, the winner of Florida would have also won the Presidency. This movie is about the brave and unending fight by Al Gore's campaign team to recount the votes in the state of Florida. After an ensuing legal battle which took the fight for the Presidency to the Florida Supreme Court then the US Supreme Court, the victory went to Bush and so started the madness of the past 8 years.

I thought that this movie was acted out perfectly. Kevin Spacey did a wonderful job. And I thought the cinematography added to the effect of feeling like I was there in the room when things were all so tense. There are so many details in this movie I could never give it all to you. So, watch the movie to learn what really happened 8 years ago.

If you're the political type, or just wrapped up in all the election hype right now, i suggest you watch this movie. If you really really want to watch the movie, tell me. I'll get it for you *ahem ahem*. Haha. But if you're looking for a movie to watch with your family, or your boy/girlfriend, this ain't the movie you're looking for. Overall i thought the movie was an excellent one. Totally captivating.

I rate it 4 out of 5 hangingchads. (watch the movie and you'll understand)

As ever, I have a trailer for your viewing pleasure. It wont make much sense unless you know what happened in 2000. So watch the movie.

Randomosity

Obamania. This is the countdown to Obama winning the election and the celebrations that followed. What i would give to be there. Haha.

'Water' Freezing Instantly. Very cool. Watch this.

Heroes 3.01: "The Second Coming" Recap

Did you catch the season premiere of Heroes on Star World last night? If not, then stop reading right here. Watch it first. Then read this.

So, FINALLY right? Its been so long since Volume 2. Stupid writers strike.

Did you like the chapter? Did it live up to your expectations? It did for me. So what did we find put last night?

Interestingly, we found out that Sylar is the brother of Barack Obama. Okay, no. He's a friggin' PETRELLI!!! Holy crap balls. I didn't see that one coming. Did you?

Imagine. Gabriel 'Sylar' Petrelli. Freaky.

So what else happened?

Sylar Doesn't Eat Brains. I knew it! Its always too stupid to make the villain for the past two volumes just eat human brains. The best part of this chapter was when Sylar was looking at Claire's brains.

Claire: Are you gonna eat it?

Sylar: Eat your brain? Claire, thats disgusting.

Haha.

Another thing that i found out this season is what Sylar's true powers are. But that comes later.

Future Ando Kills Future Hiro. Very surprising. But I'm sure there's a totally, perfectly reasonable explanation for this. Its Heroes for crying out loud! Shit like this'll happen. My theory is that Ando spends too much time with Elle. Haha. We'll see what happens.

New Character. We meet Hiro's 'nemesis', Daphne in this chapter. If you like her, you're in for a treat. She'll be featuring regularly this Volume. The problem i have is that how can she talk and see and interact with Hiro, who supposedly 'bends the time/space continuum', (basically stop time la). I know she's really super fast and all, but if time is stopped, she shouldn't be able to move at all! Oh well. Heroes ain't based on a true story.

Claire is Special. According to the new Petrelli, she "can never die". And now that he's got her power, neither can he. And since Peter's absorbed her power, he can't die either. So the Petrelli trifecta looks pretty healthy.

Just a little precaution, as the chapters come thick and fast the next couple of weeks, the line between good and evil will become thinner and thinner. You can never be sure this volume. The 'hero' you liked might turn out to be a 'villain' and the 'villain' you hate might just defect to the good side.

Next week.

3.02: "The Butterfly Effect".

The Pink Panther 2 Trailer

Wow. Another trailer. Zis time, Inspector Clouseau iz back to cauze more mayhem while searching for ze stolen Pink Panther diamond again. Out next year. February 6. Now i wan a am-bugga. HAHA.

The Day The Earth Stood Still Teaser

Looks like another War of the Worlds except this one is starring Neo from The Matrix and has a really cheesy name. Out December 11 in cinemas and on IMAX too in the US. Not sure if its coming out in IMAX here in Malaysia. If it is, it should be an awesome watch.

Yes We Can!

232 years after the independence of America, 143 years after the abolition of slavery in America and after 43 Presidents of the United States of America, there will be a black man in The White House for the very first time in American history.

Barack Obama, junior Senator of Illinois, earlier today, made history by being elected President in a landslide victory, beating Senator John McCain.

Need i say more? For anyone who missed Barack Obama's acceptance speech, here is the transcript. As well as the video. Read it, then watch it. It is one of the best speeches i have ever heard in my life.

I congratulate Barack Obama and look forward to the 20th of Januray 2009 when there will be CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.

Here is the transcript.

Obama:

Hello, Chicago.

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen. McCain.

Sen. McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.

I congratulate him; I congratulate Gov. Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady Michelle Obama.

Sasha and Malia I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the new White House.

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.

To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.

And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best -- the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.

To my chief strategist David Axelrod who's been a partner with me every step of the way.

To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.

It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

This is your victory.

And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.

You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

I promise you, we as a people will get there.

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.

But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

To those -- to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.

Yes we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

Fanboys Trailer

Fanboys is about a group of Star Wars fans trying to break into George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch back in 1998 to steal a copy of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and be the first ones to watch it. Its a hilarious, probably stupid film that will be released come February 6th, 2009.

Here's the trailer. Enjoy, you will.

Election Day

After more than a year of campaigning, the road to the White House ends for one presidential candidate tomorrow. Barack Obama is being predicted to win by a landslide tomorrow. But you can never rule out underdogs until the fight is over.

If you're not doing anything tomorrow morning, coverage of "Election Night" will begin at 7AM Wednesday (Nov 5) on CNN Astro Channel 511.

Tomorrow, either history will be made or there will be the biggest election upset.