Is This Your Final Destination?

Recently I had just finished another long run movie after Harry Potter (8 Episodes), Planet of The Apes (6 Episodes) and now Final Destination franchise. Gosh~! How many times do they really have to get kill? Well anyway, we can't blame Death for making his job a bit interesting now, can we? The first franchise started from the year 2000. It tells a group of teenagers who cheated death as one of them had a premonition thingy before the actual thing happens. So the group of teenagers and adults left the Flight 180 before it explodes into flames. But as they all said, you can't cheat Death. So one by one is being killed/died with accordance with the way they were supposed to die in the initial plan.

This first episode gave us all a very good and suspense feeling of death and what is reflects on our real life. I mean, every little thing that we do might lead to our own death or some one else. How cool in a twisted sick way I might say. But the way the director, James Wong lead the audience gripping on their seats on how the person is going to die was just awesome. So at the end no one survived except Ali Larter which come back on the second franchise. Highlight death would be Sean William Scott being decapitated by the metal plate flung off from a passing train. Cool~! 

The second episode comes 3 years after the first. Since they thought they can make some really big money of out how people die. Well, death do sells. So the second part of the movie tells of a bunch of people got save from a freak Highway 180 accident. Trust me, it's really out of the world. So this bunch of people started to die one by one just like the initial movie. But some one gave  them an idea on how to prevent death is by creating another life. Well some bullshit bout balance of life where a life will eliminate off a death mumbo jumbo. OK, here's the interesting part of the movie, they found bout the plane accident (Part 1) and the people on board are related to them one way the other. 

Hence, them (people from Part 1) who were saved from the initial plane crash had created a chain of event which resulted the people in this movie to be still alive and death is not happy about that. But at the end, everyone's dead. As they said, no one cheat death TWICE. Highlight death moment would be the guy being cut in many piece by the barb wires. Wicked~!

The third installment come 3 years later in 2006. This time around, a bunch of teenagers (yes, it always revolves around young people) who went for a roller coaster ride called High Dive and survived yet another freak accident. I think Death is slacking off his job by now. So the survivors did some research online and found out that there are similar cases (plane crash and road accident) where the people who survived those accidents, die one by one after that. So they had decided to fight against their fate and at the end 3 of them survived. But not for long as after 5 months after they all goes their separate ways, they some how bump into each other in a subway. One of them saw the number 081 (in reflection of 180 which is also the same flight number on the plane crash in Episode 1). She had a premonition again but this time it's just few second a head so they didn't have enough time to save themselves. At the end, all of them die. Highlight of the movie would be one guy being penetrated by a flag pole. I mean, how bizarre can it get? 

This movie came 3 years later (I think it's a trend) in 2009. This time, Death comes in 3D. Yup, the movie jump into the 3D bandwagon. The movie focuses on a bunch of audience from McKinley Speedway who had, Yes you got it, survived another bizarre freak accident. Crush to death by a spun off tyres out side the stadium? I mean, death really wanted her to die so badly. But at least, Death is getting more creative after the 3rd installment. Again, they thought that they can cheat death again by skipping an accident on their own life but heck they are wrong. This is the part where the 3 left survivors who get together in a cafe to celebrate their victory against Death's plan. At that point, the main actor had another premonition about Death's coming plan and realized that all that had happened after McKinley Speedway and all the other death is actually a red herring from Death to bring them all together for a final showdown. No money for guessing who won at the end. 

Now, after 2 years, in 2011 Final Destination 5 had reached the 5th installment. I assumed this is the last but we never know. It all depends on the box office I guess. If the cinema goers still like it and would pay for more, why not? The story tells of a company retreat went wrong when the suspension bridge which their bus is on decided to give way, due to strong winds. An idiot would know that Death got something to do with it. Well, the main actor had a premonition and pulled his colleagues off the bus before it plum to the  sea. And you know what that does to Death's reputation by now. It's a big No No. So one by one of them die in some freaky horrifying ways. OK, sometimes, the director did get too creative especially how the gymnast fell to death after some freak accident during practice. 

In this episode, the coroner (same guy from all the episodes, which brought us to believe he is Death himself) gave them some light on how to save their life. They need to kill someone innocent or not meant to die in order to skip the death toll on themselves. One particular funny moment would be the guy visited the spa and the conversation he had with the Chinese masseur. Anyway, three of the survivors left (why is it always three?) and the couple finally managed to board the plane for their trip over to Paris. Now here's the catch, when I saw the date of the ticket, which is dated in the year 2000 and the tickets read Flight 180, I know what is going on. Some teenage kids got kick off the plane right before taking off since he had a premonition that the plane is going to explode in mid air. Yes, it's the same flight 180 from the first movie. So both of them die and the most outrageous part would be the third person who survived got killed by the fallen parts from Flight 180 WHILE DRINKING IN A BAR!!!. I mean, how ironic can that be? Death really have some really sick sense of humor. hahaha! 

iPhone 5 Coming Soon

It's been a while since I updated on the iPhone news. Well since there's been a lot of speculation on the net lately bout the coming soon iPhone 5, I had decided to just mentioned some of it for my readers. Apple had been testing and releasing iOS 5 betas for developers for months preparing the apps developers of their new update (via iOS & iDevices). The launching of the new so-called iPhone 5 is more realistic with both AT&T and VP confirming that the new iPhone 5 would be launch early October (supposedly on the 7th) and are taking pre-orders as early as 29th & 30th September. It means that Apple will launch the new iPhone around 2nd or 3rd week of September before the pre-order. And with Apple's past record, they will announce their new iOS few days before their new gadget (i.e iPod & iPhone). So expect to hear the launch of the new iOS around the first week of October. To tell you the truth, I can't wait to update to the new iOS 5 while waiting for the iPhone 5 to arrive on our shore (maybe late 2011 if we're lucky). Till then, I am alright with fooling around with the iOS 5 since the JB has already been available for it. Fingers cross!

Planet of The Apes .... The Complete Episode

After watching the The Rise of Planet of The Apes few weeks back. I was really amazed how much the digital world had improved. For me both have their own advantage. I walked in the cinema with high expectation since I heard great reviews from the media. And at the end, I walked out the cinema full of praises on the movie. The star of the movie would be Caesar of course. I think everyone will agree with me on that. It tells the story of a Dr. Will Rodman (James Franco) trying to find a cure for Alzheimer. He uses apes to try on the "cure" and  unknown to him that  the "cure" enhanced  the brain functionality of the apes. The first ape was name "Bright Eyes" (it's the same name Dr. Zira from Planet of The Apes from the 1968 movie gave the astronaut, Tylor). 

Cut story short, Bright Eyes gave birth to Caesar (you will hear this name again on the 3rd installment of the episode) who in turn freed all the apes and bring his kind to a revolution. Hence the tagline of the movie, Evolution becomes Revolution. After watching the movie I was really tempted to re-watched the original 1968 movie again. Yup, I'd watched all the 5 episodes since I was really young. And so I did. 

The 1968 movie stared Charlton Heston (he's like George Clooney of our time). It tells of an astronaut, Taylor who crashed landed on a planet after going through a worm hole. The year written on the ship is 3950. He believe that it's another dimension or planet when he discovered that the planet is inhibit by talking apes and humans are being hunted for sport and used as test rat like we so did in our time. Human can't talk in the future and during a freak shoot out, Taylor throat was hurt and he wasn't able to speak. During that  time he meet Dr. Zila and her husband Cornelius. The apes go crazy when they discovered that Taylor can speak and decided to dissect him and experiment on him (just like we human will do if we found a talking ape). But Dr.Zila & Cornelius help Taylor escaped to the forbidden zone. There he discovered the ultimate truth of the human race. The planet is actually earth some 2000 years in the future. The story ends with Taylor discovering the Statue of Liberty as in the movie poster. Cool~! 

The second installment came two years later in 1970 starring James Franciscus as Brent the astronaut from Taylor's time coming in search of the latter. Taylor was ventured into the forbidden zone together with Nova and went missing. Brent discovered Nova and was brought to the Ape City where they meet Dr.Zila and Cornelius. They were caught and was being sent for target practice. They managed to escape with the help of Dr.Zila and Cornelius and decided to venture into the forbidden zone in search of Taylor. There, Brent found the New York subway and know of the fate of the human race. There they encountered mutated human with mental powers which captured Taylor. The gorillas decided to venture into the forbidden land in search of them and at the end battle with the human over there. Brent, Nova and Taylor was killed at the end but before Taylor died, he had activated the doomsday bomb and everything on the face of the earth was annihilated.  

The third installment came a year after that in the year 1971. It continues with Dr.Zila, Cornelius and Dr. Milo landed on Earth several years after Brent and Taylor went missing. Three of them salvaged the space ship from Taylor's crash site and managed to repair and flew off in time watching the future earth being wiped out from the doomsday bomb activated by Taylor. Dr.Milo was killed by a gorilla in the zoo (ironically) while Dr.Zila and Cornelius is being treated like honored guest when humans found out that they can actually speak. But a certain Dr. Otto found out about the down fall of the human race and destruction of the earth in the future and decided to stop at all cost the birth of Dr.Zila's son. Yup, the baby was born at the end and was name Baby Milo (in memory of Dr.Milo). And yes, this is how the brand Bape (Bathing Ape) came alive. Both the parents died at the end while leaving Baby Milo to Armando of the circus. 

After 20 years of the killing of Dr. Zila and Cornelius, Baby Milo grew up and name Caesar (I don't know why). The world as told by Dr.Zila previously had used apes as household pets replacing cats and dogs. Cats and dogs in the world died of an infection several years back and human decided to train apes to be their pets and subsequently slaves to do their works. Caesar shouted "lousy human bastards" when he saw some guard mistreated an ape. Armando gave himself up but Governor Breck & Capt Kopl didn't believe him as they believe that the child from Dr.Zila still lives. At the end Armando died and when Caesar found out about this, he had finally had enough and decided to raise up together with the other apes and take back their freedom. As he believe that freedom can only be achieve with power. At the end of  the movie, the city burn down in rubble  and Caesar walk off together with Lisa, her partner. 

Finally the last installment of the movie. I am a bit confused of the time line but I will try to explain as much as I can. The movie starts off with some introduction of The Great Lawgiver in the early 21st century (if I am not mistaken). He tells the history of the ape king, Caesar after a decade of the ape revolution and the downfall of human race. Caesar tried to find a place where human and ape can live in harmony. Human are still not equal yet and are being watched by apes at that time. Human are teaching apes how to write and read. Ape Shall Never Kill Ape (the same tagline from Bape line of clothing) is the oldest and sacred rule of the apes. With the help of MacDonald (the descendant of the assistant of Governor Breck) and Virgil, they managed to obtained the footage of  Caesar's parents trial and got to know some part of the future. 

The descendant of Capt Kopl is now the so-called leader of the inhabitant of the waste land once called New York city. They discovered the ape city and decided to destroy it once and for all. General Aldo gorilla head decided to kill all the humans and even Caesar if he tries to stop him and accidentally overheard by Cornelius (Caesar's son) and killed him. The human led by Kopl attacked the city but was defeated at the end. The remaining of the soldiers decided to activate the doomsday bomb but at the end called it off. Caesar believe that the future can be change depending on how the ape and people can learn to co-exist with each another. And that is how the movie ends with the Great Lawgiver looking upon the human kids playing with the apes. 

R U Ready?!!

Wow! It's been a while since my last update. Honestly, a bit lazy after moving into my new place. Too comfy to do anything. Just wanna sit down on my nice comfy sofa while watching some movies on my big screen TV. It's really true what they said, that when you have your own home, you won't be going out that much anymore. Now I totally understand and agreed with this idea. So what's up with my life lately. Well, let's see. I'd cut down on my classes in gym. After close to 5 years of work out I had finally decided to slow down on my pace. Getting old? Well, maybe I am just entering another phase of life. There are priority in life and well, working out in the gym shouldn't be the only life I aim for. 

OK, enough bout the serious stuff. Last week me and babe went over to Taman Pertanian, Bukit Cahaya over at Shah Alam. Babe went over previous with her friends for the Flying Fox thingy. This time around we went over for Paintball. Yup, this is my first game of paint ball. We paid around RM100 (inclusive of lunch) for 500 rounds of bullets. I think I get that correct since I am not the one that booked the game. There were 10 of us that morning. But one of the girl decided not to joined after her bf paid the money. haha! She was too afraid after hearing the sound of the rifles in the park. 

So we were briefed on how to operate the air rifles and gearing up before entering the battle field. The equipment was a bit gross since it's very wet and smelly. Sigh~! The air rifles is quite heavy but since I work out a lot, it's a piece of cake for me haha! There were a lot of people when we arrived around 10am. The place was fully booked but we still managed to get a spot to sport. First terrain was jungle where we get familiarize with the rifles and aiming. We split into team of 4 person each and started the game. Rest awhile before moving up to the next location. I think they called it Sacred Ground or something. It's much bigger and more room to move and cover. There's a Marshall to monitor us together with our scout. 

We finished the game around 2.30pm. Damn it was a long day. I was super exhausted. I got shot once on the tummy (damn that hurt) and grace another on my head. I need to say that I am pretty good at this game although it's my first time playing it. Got myself a lot of head shots too. haha! Playing Counter-Strike or any other FPS is really different from the real one. You got to smell the sweat, the dirt and the fear in your enemies eyes when you aim at that. Definitely going back again with more people to join. And it's so damn exhilarating when I got to shout to the other team "Are You Ready?". Beh Tahan!!! 

New Toy @ Home

Finally my new toy had arrived. My friend initially told me I can get it on Sunday but at the end since most of his staff was not free, the delivery need to be delayed to Monday. Had waited in the house anxiously waiting for the cargo to arrived. Actually I never saw a 50" Plasma box before. I saw 42" or maybe 47" in the shop and it's really large. Finally when I saw them carrying down the box, it was really large. The plasma itself weight more than 30kgs. So they opened the box up and started to set up the stand as I am putting in on my new TV console soon. Nope, not hanging it on the wall. 

Well, since my TV console is not here yet. The plasma will just have to sit on the floor for the time being. My media player on the left white the iPTV box on the right. Just nice. Gonna bring down the router and add in a switcher too after the TV console had been installed hopefully by the week end. Quickly tested the quality of the plasma with some of the Full HD movies downloaded from my friend's achieve. What better movie to test rather than Avatar. And no that is not Avatar on the screen, it's Resident Evil IV on 1080 also . 

As you can see, the old 21" CRT next to the new 50" Plasma. It's like David & Goliath. Still flicking around with the settings and I am really glad right now that I am locating my Plasma under the stairs now. Cause it's far away from my sliding window which will give reflection issue if you are gonna watch it in the afternoon. Now I don't have to worry about glaring and other lighting issues. I can even use the plasma to go online and check in Facebook. Cool~!