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Friday, October 29

I Survived Body Pump 76 @ Empire

I didn't really realized that Marcos was gonna do the new release in his class for his own practice till Track 2 actually. We did The Climb for warm up and I was thinking to myself, "this is not an old track and I did most of the warm ups tracks (at least everything after The Climb was released by Miley Cyrus). But when he did Telephone for the Squats track, I was confirmed. I didn't really update myself with the new release nowadays. The warm up was quite alright nothing too strong. Squats track as mentioned was Telephone by Lady Gaga but being remixed by Pandora BX. Quite a straight forward track. We have the singles with 4 sets of 4 bottom halves on each set. Then the fast down and hold before the 2 count up is back and going back to 2 count up and down. Great sing a long song. Actually he did the Chest track even the week before and I didn't even realized it as the song, Beautiful Day was an old song by U2. We can load up for this track as there's a break towards the end. 

Love the back track as you can really work your muscle with the tons of triple wide rows in this track. Again a no brainer track with 3 similar sets. Started with the dead lifts and go up twice clean & press and down for two single rows before going wide with 4 sets of triple rows. Combined all that and if I am not mistaken, there's an additional set of clean & press on the last set before we end. Triceps was a killer if you load up this time. Ke$ha is in the house for the Triceps this time around. There is no need for the bar for the Triceps track. Which means we have lots of dips, french press and kick backs. We started off with bench press (please load up on this) then triceps push ups (lots of singles and double down & up). Finished that off and we are going to kick backs and finish off with standing overhead triceps dips. 

Biceps isn't that crazy this time around as we have 2 breaks with 4 sets of similar moves. We have the new move from bottom to half way and down 3/4 before going back to half way and back down again before continuing with 2 singles. I think we have at least 4 sets of that. Lunges started off with squats so you can load up before going to individual lunges on both side, quite easy. We had one of the toughest shoulder track during the last release, so it's quite hard to top that. For the new Shoulder track, we started off with push ups (I think) and going to plates for side raises. But get this, we are still on one knees but doing the side raises. Cool~! Some Mc Raises before finishing off with the over head with bar. In fact, this track seemed to be quite easy for me even though I am carrying 7.5kgs for the overhead. 

For the abs track we have the alternate knee and abs crunch before ending with a new move called arrow push ups or some sort. Imagine you're on your plank but doing push ups. You will need to stretch your hand to the front (hence arrow) and then to the side before going back to the plank and then we move to the other arm. It's something similar to the previous release but different hand movement. I think they copied this from BB (since K-bear showed me this move before). Cooling down with Kris Allen's The Truth and there you have your new Body Pump 76 release. Sorry if there's some mistake on the chorey as it was a Wednesday night class and I had too much in my head. Enjoy~!

Thursday, October 28

House Renovation Continues

It's been a while since I last updated the status of my renovation. So what is the status now? Let's see, the electrical wiring and air conditioning work is up, plaster ceiling are done too. Scout around town for electrical appliances & kitchen accessories these few weeks. Got myself some really good bargain at those warehouse sales during the weekends. Backyard been cemented up and the fencing had been aligned too. Back door taken out and walled up done at the same time. One big hole at the back of my house right now as I am waiting for the security door to arrive. Damn~! There's one freaking big hole at the back of my house right now. And the security door company told me it's gonna be next week before they can send the door to me. WTF~~! At the mean time, started off with the table top on my wet kitchen while waiting for the door to arrive. Need to inform my cabinet people to start manufacturing the cabinets now. Grill almost ready and can be install anytime next week. Looking for painters to do repainting work inside my house while looking for shops selling cheap paints too. Hopefully can be accomplished before my Taiwan trip next month.

Wednesday, October 20

Reign of Assassins

I was quite skeptical bout this movie and it doesn't really into my 'must watch' list of movies this season. But since I heard some occasional 'OKs' from some friends, I'd decided to give it a try. Well I didn't went to the cinema to watch it first of all. I don't have to tell you how I got the movie but just gonna leave it to you all to guess. Anyway, the movie is directed by one of Hong Kong finest action director, John Woo. Set in ancient China, which tells the story of a famous monk who was the master of the martial art world. He died finally of old age and his remains are stolen by some unknown people who later separated it into two halves. It is believe that whoever possesses the whole remain of the monk would be able to be the master of the martial art world.

There is a group called The Dark Stone, an underground society which sent 3 of his assassins, Xi Yu (Kelly Lin), Lei Bin (Shawn Yue) and Lian Sheng (Leon Dai) to get one of the remains. Xi Yu decided to get away with the remains which resulted in the pursuit of Cao Feng (Wang Xu Qie) a.k.a King of Dharma Wheel. Xi Fu later decided to change her face and start a new life without having to hide for the rest of her life. He meet with a nice guy name Jiang-A-Sheng (Jung Woo-Sung). But during one time, she has no choice but to reveal her martial skills and later alerted The Dark Stone. Enough for now, I am not going to spoil the whole movie for you, you can go and watch it to know what is the ending like. 

The movie seemed like Face Off to me at some point, having the same idea of changing faces and personality but at the end fate had the better of it and someone had to sacrifice for what they believe and love. This is your typical martial art (Wu Xia) movie but I like it particularly of it's plot and also the pace of the movie. The movie is not all slash and chop but rather tells the story of how two peoples life got change of what happen in the past which may result in a tragic future. And how they overcome it at the end of the day. As usual, you can see John Woo's trademark in the whole movie if you are a fan of his past movies. Overall, I am really pleased with the whole movie and wouldn't mind introducing it to a friend to watch. Well maybe no in the big screen but who knows. (Rating: 3.8 out of 5.0) 

Sunday, October 17

The Child's Eye - 3D

 It's been a while since I last watched a really good horror/ghost movie. The last would be a suspense thriller called The Shelter maybe. Then come this movie which I heard about from the radio and friends about. This is another movie directed by the in-famous Pang Brothers who brought us The Eye, The Eye 2, Recycle and The Eye 10. This time around, they brought us another type of horror called The Child's Eye. All their movies revolves around 'eyes'. Chinese believes that small children and dogs could easily see the paranormal.  So the movie tells of a bunch of friends who traveled to Thailand for a vacation. During the riot over there, 6 of them are stranded and are force to stay in a run down hotel. 

Rainie (Rainie Yang) first spotted something was amidst when 3 children and a dog looked at them like they saw a ghost. The guys disappeared and the girls are force to look for them and Rainie are believe they are in the hotel being held by a women ghost. One by one of them are going missing and at the end it left Rainie and the dog to save the day. She suspect that the owner (Lam Ka Tung) had something to do with the disappearance of her friends. Not gonna go into details what happened at the end but I am just a bit lost with the ending.

I'd decided to watched it in it's true glory which is in 3D. Well, at least I could say that there are some moments which really worth the additional RM5 for those 3D-glasses. I still felt that The Eye gave me the best shock among all their movies. But again those additional special effect did help on some cheap thrill. Go and watch it and let me know what you felt. (Rating: 4 out of 5)

Tuesday, October 12

Greenpois0n Is Out

Finally Chronic Dev Team had decided to release their JB tool codename, Greenpois0n. Their initial plan was to released on 10.10.10 @ 10:10:10 GMT but Geohot surprised everyone by releasing his own Limera1n one day earlier. This resulted in the Chronic Dev Team to redo their Greenpois0n by reserving the SHAtter exploit for now. Everyone had thought that the Chronic Dev Team would wait for the next iOS update only to release their Greenpois0n but they decided to release it now. The Greenpois0n also able to jailbreak iOS 4.1 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G iOS 3.2.2 for iPad.

Greenpois0n only jailbreak your iDevices running on iOS 4.1 so for those with lock phones, please do back up your 4.1 baseband using Tiny Umbrella or SHSH blob from Cydia. They can use Ultrasnow to unlock their phone after jailbreaking it. You can download the new Greenpois0n tool at this site. Again, let me remind you that JB your phone will void it's warranty. So do go with caution and back up your data beforehand. Greenpois0n now only work on Windows while Mac user would have to wait for the time being. Enjoy~!

Sunday, October 10

Limera1n to Jailbreak iOS4.1

Finally Geohot is back in the scene today when he finally released his latest baby, Limera1n. If you are not familiar with this name and you are using a JB iDevice, then let me give you a brief run through. GeoHot is one of the first people who started JB iPhone back in the years. And he is famous for release JB such as the recent Blackra1n not too long ago. But since he is being harassed in the net, he had decided to retreat from the scene. But just a day before Greenpois0n is released, he had decided to release his Limera1n which uses the exploit by Comex (jailbreakme) which is unpatchable and untethered. Greenpois0n is using the SHAtter exploit which only able to JB all iDevices with A4 processors whereas Limera1n is able to JB all iDevices including the iPhone4, iPhone 3G[S], iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G and iOS 3.2.2 for iPad.

Geohot intentionally released his JB one day earlier before the Chronic Dev Team because he wanted them 'to do the right thing'. In the latest update, Joshua Hill (p0sixninja) from the Chronic Dev Team will incorporate their new JB with the exploit used by Geohot in Limera1n. In other word, they will reserve the SHAtter exploit for the coming iOS 4.2 update. This is kinda a good news for all of us and I think this is what Geohot said by them doing the right thing. Anyway, let's get down to the Limera1n right now. You can download the software from the link I had attached above or here. Please do read through the page for what the genius had to say. And again, jailbreaking your phone might void your warranty so do proceed with caution and always backup your phone before you try anything. Just in case you didn't know what to do, here's a clip on step-by-step way to JB using the new Limera1n. Enjoy~ and do let me know how it goes. As for me, I am gonna wait for a few days after the clouds had clear. 

Friday, October 8

Greenpois0n Coming on 10.10.10 @ 10:10:10 (GMT)

Finally the JB tool which everyone are waiting for, Greenpois0n is coming soon on the 10/10/10 at 10:10:10AM (Yes, I know it's damn cheesy but who can blame them?). The new Greenpois0n utilizes the bootrom exploit first discovered by pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team. Joshua Hill a.k.a p0sixninja from the Chronic Dev Team tweeted that the new JB will be available on the mentioned date. Since it's uses a bootrom exploit which is a low level exploit which Apple can't fix with iOS updates unlike the previous JB. So in other word, the iDevice which uses Greenpois0n (which uses the SHAtter  exploit) will be 'off for life'. In other word, your iPhone/iPod will be JB for life. Now that is some really good news to hear.

picture from Google image search engine 

Where there's good news, there's always bad too. The good news is that Greenpois0n would most probably be an untethered JB. Which is really fantastic. The bad news is that, the new JB would only work on Apple's new A4 processor chip, in other word, iPhone 4, iPod 4G and iPad. It might even work on the new Apple TV. This is because the SHAtter exploit exploit used by Greenpois0n doesn't work on the older bootrom on older generation of iDevices. Sigh~! But I will keep you all updated if there's any news on the new JB.

Thursday, October 7

I Got Punk-ed???

Heard a knock on the door around 10pm and I when looked through the hole it was pitch black. *strange*. Didn't gave it much thought and open the door with the latch still on but I still can't see who the fark was on the other side. I thought it was my colleague as we just got back from dinner 20 minutes back. When I opened the door, I saw one guy who turned out to be a women and another guy who showed me their ID and told me they are policemen. WTH?!!! They told me that they received report that there are China Dolls in my hotel room? WTF?!!! Is this for real? So the women (who look like a men) talked to me while the other Malay guy looked around my room. I am standing between them cause I suspect something was amidst at that point but I can't confirm it. The guy asked for my identification card and jotted it down on a piece of paper while the women (did I mentioned she looked like a guy?) asking me questions.

Few minutes later when they can't find anything, another Malay guy walked in and told me the same story and since they can't find anything in my room, they have no choice but leave. I am all the while looking at them as I am worried that they might steal something from my room during the whole charade. Luckily I'd checked and nothing was lost. But what is that all about? I asked my colleague and he did told me that police actually can't do a spot check or come into my room to do a check. I should actually called the hotel to confirm of this before letting them in at that point. But the whole police stuff caught me off guard as I was a bout to sleep at that moment. I mean, what can they do even if they saw some women in my room? I can just told them that we are friend or meet some where. Duh~! I think I got punk-ed~! 

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