Can’t wait till Sunday? **Updated**

**UPDATED 5/5/08**

Click Harvey Dent picture to see the New Dark Knight Trailer

Or the see Youtube version below

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain

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..I know I can’t…

Here’s my Card

HOLY F*** BATMAN! Dark Knight New Posters!

Just as I was hyped up about Iron Man, these posters got released in the internet which reminded me that there is only one superhero that will dominate this summer, THE BATMAN!!

There are more posters in Omelete

(Click posters to enlarge)

Courtesy of Omelete

And I heard there is a new trailer coming up after their viral campaign is over. Will update this later when it shows up (I hope it does)

Case of Blogging

Few days ago, my former teacher sent me this link. It was a blog created by a student in my former school dedicated to juicy gossip on teachers and students. ROFL!! I couldn’t resist clicking the link. Sure, I wouldn’t even know the names that will probably get mentioned (you think I know all my juniors?). But what the hell, I was curious so decided to check it out. ROFLMAO!!! I was too late because apparently she deleted her posts and replaced it with an apology:

i apologise if my blog was hurting you guys. i dont have any intention to do any harm, im sorry. i was just bloging, i wrote what i saw and heard, what i observed. well, thats blogging.

LOL I like how she said it. Basically, it’s another way of saying, “hey, it wasn’t my fault. It’s called blogging”

Then my former teacher starts talking about how blog can be harmful to you. He pointed out that blog that caused alot of ‘Hu Har!’ few months ago when the author posted how she would rather die than going to the local university. Yeah I remember that blog, a lot of students from that university got really pissed off and I don’t blame them. Those students in the local university worked so hard only to read what this blogger has to say who, not only bad mouthed their university but the blogger herself hasn’t even gone to a university yet!!

I’ve talked about the sensitivity of blogging to my friends before (right around the time when some Singaporeans got sent to prison for racial post on their blog and all that anti-government blogs that caused a stir on Malaysian politics). Actually, I used to talk about it a lot till the point that one of my friend actually remembers it. She messaged me through MSN recently and said, “you’re blogging now?!! I thought you’re an anti-blogger?!!” :LOL: I guess she misunderstood all of my ‘blog can sometimes be dangerous‘ talk. I used to be a blog lurker and I still do. I love reading other blogs more than I write in my own Hehe. Occasionally, I browse through random blogs and read stuff ranging from a girl thinking about the nature of God to a guy who saved a kitten from being tortured by stupid young kids.

Here’s my stance on Blogging. Blogging, just like any other piece of writing you do or anything you say, comes from you. Therefore, it’s your opinion and it’s your responsibility. So don’t go “hey, it’s blogging. Not my fault“. Do I think about what I’m about to write? Yes. There are cases where I edit sentences on my post due to fear of misinterpretation. I remember saying to myself when I start this blog back in November last year, ‘No politics. No religion.’ Sadly, I couldn’t resist sometimes LOL. So if I’ve unintentionally offended anybody then I apologise.

GI JOE

Channing Tatum as Duke

  

Rachel Nichols as Scarlett

 

Karolina Kurkova as Cover Girl

 

Ray Park as Snake Eyes

 

Lee Byun Hung as Storm Shadow & Sienna Miller as The Baroness

  

Dennis Quaid as General Hawk & Marlon Wayans as Ripcord

 

Release Date: 7th August 2009

Forbidden Kingdom

Just saw Forbidden Kingdom starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li. What’s good? The fight scenes and hot Asian babes. What’s bad?  Chinese English. Speak Chinese with english subtitles dammit!! Just speak English only when you talk to the American Kid. Oh another warning, there’s also too much of those ‘old wise Chinese proverb type of talking’. Something along the line of ‘the bridge between Heaven and Earth of the river with flower to the Sun within the Gate of No Gate’ . OK, it’s not exactly like that but you get my point.

In short, I see the movie as nothing but a tribute to the martial arts genre. Therefore, you get to see stuff like badass monks, a young loser who later turn into a great fighter after training under a martial arts master, sword fights, people defying the laws of gravity, extensive fight sequence (the main highlight is the Jackie vs Jet Li fight), a woman with white hair (like the ‘Bride With White Hair’ referenced in the movie), stuff about heaven and earth realms and lastly Jackie Chan fighting drunk just like the Drunken Master.

Speaking of Drunken Master, I went to Youtube to rewatch those Jackie Chan fight scenes from his past movies that I remember watching when I was a kid.

Here’s Jackie Chan kicking ass from Drunken Master II. No CGI, No Wires, No Chris Tucker LOL Enjoy!

The X-Files: I Want To Believe

That’s the title of the new X-Files movie. Like Simon would say, “I’m not jumping off my chair or anything”

It would be cool if they just use this poster from Mulder’s office as their official movie poster.

But on second thought, it wouldn’t fit with the new movie because it doesn’t have anything to do with UFOs and Aliens.

UPDATE May 13 2008
Official trailer

The X-Files: I Want To Believe - 25 July 2008

Lost Civilization & Alternative History

It was 2001, I went to my local bookstore to find something to read. At that time I was interested in Space travelling related topics. I eventually stumbled upon this book, The Mars Mystery by Graham Hancock. It proposed a theory that there was an advanced civilization on Mars that vanished after a cataclysmic event. But what fascinated me more was the idea of a connection between the Martian civilization and our own past civilization (notably the Egyptian civilization). Little did I know that this book was just part of a series of books by the author who championed the so called ‘lost civilization theory’. Thus, my journey through genres of alternative history, paranormal, conspiracy and general mysteries of the universe began.

“An advanced civilization could indeed have arisen during the last Ice Age – only to be destroyed by the global flood that brought the Ice Age to an end.”

That quote from the ’Mars Mystery’ (yes, I went to my dusty bookshelf and opened the book to look for that passage) sums up the theory of lost civilization. I came to same conclusion by myself before and reading a book that confirms it made me happy. I was into mythology when I was a kid and noticed the similar flood myths and the lost of paradise-like lands. I began searching for Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods, the book where he backs up the lost civilization theory with a list of evidence from South America and Egypt. I didn’t find the book until few years later but by then I had read many different books that were related to the topic.

One of my favourite of these ‘lost civilization’ or ‘alternative history’ books was Atlantis Blueprintby Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath. It was the perfect introductory book for those of you who just started on the whole ’alternative history’ genre. That book introduced me to West’s and Schoch’s breakthrough on the dating of the Sphinx, the mysterious Templars (this was before the whole Da Vinci Code craze fest), advance engineering of the Giza Pyramids, the ‘Hall of Records’, Percy Fawcett, Crystal Skulls (before Indiana Jones), Book of Enoch, etc. For a 13 year old, reading all those stuff was like a sledgehammer into the head.

I became obsessed with it and always write about it in my school essays (eg. While everybody chose volcanic eruption or earthquakes for their natural disaster project, I wrote about Hapgood’s Crustal Displacement theory). I even wrote a story outline for an epic trilogy involving the stuff I’ve read about.

I’m no longer into the alternative history anymore. Although, I still believe that human civilization is far older and that the ancients knew more than we think. Here’s my current stance on the theory:

Atlantis did not exist. The problem with most people is that they try to search for a specific lost civilization literally called Atlantis. Some say it was in South America, the Caribbeans, Southeast Asia and even Antarctica. For me, Plato’s story of Atlantis is just another incarnation of flood myths and sunken kingdoms stories. As for the inclusion of the heroic army Athens in the story of Atlantis? Nationalistic reason of course.

Same goes with other sunken civilizations like Mu, Lemuria, Kumari Kandam, Thule, etc. All of those stories derived from actual civilizations flooded during the end of the last Ice Age. For example, Mu is a mythological super continent with an advance civilization in the Pacific Ocean. A super continent in the Pacific Ocean is impossible yet the story of Mu was probably inspired by possible civilization in Maui Nui (greater Hawaii) or the former landmass that attached Taiwan and Japan (see the picture below).

Yonaguni structure

Another thing is that these Atlantis/lost civilization theory tend to be hyperdiffusionist, a single civilization (Atlantis or Mu) seeding knowledge to all the corners of the earth. I don’t believe in that anymore. I don’t think that the antediluvian civilization in India (eg.the one off the coast of Dwarka or another civilization that inspired the stories of ’Rama Empire’) would have anything to do with a civilization in the Sundaland (now the islands of Southeast Asia). They may have contacted with each other but one didn’t create the other.

World map during the Ice Age (click to enlarge)

This talk about lost civilization makes me wonder about what some of the authors have been up to:

Graham Hancock
The guy who popularize the lost civilization theory in the 90s
What’s he up to recently:
His new book, Supernatural, is about the use of Hallucinogenic by the ancients to spark a cultural revolution (the birth of art and the power of imagination that sets us apart from animals). Haven’t read it yet but it sounds intriguing. Coincidentally, I had a talk with an old friend of mine recently about the mind being like radio that can change frequency.

Robert Bauval
The creator of the Orion Correlation Theory (the three pyramids align with Orion’s belt)
What’s he up to recently: 
He seems to be refining and expanding his theory on the correlation between Egyptian monuments and the stars. 

Robert Schoch
His conclusion that the Sphinx was eroded by water – rain water to be exact – sent shockwave to the archaeological world. This put the date of the Sphinx back to 7000BC (far older than generally accepted date) when the climate was more wet.
What’s he up to recently:
His latest book, Parapsychology Revolution, veers away from his usual work on Geology.

Alan Alford
I didn’t like him at first when he was just one of those ‘humans were too dumb so aliens built everything’  That is until he made a complete U turn and gave this radical theory on explaining the origins of myths centred on an ‘Exploding planet’ and meteorites. I didn’t really buy his theory but ‘When the Gods Came Down’ was one memorable reading experience.
What’s he up to recently:
The Midnight Sun, his interpretation of Egyptian myths. I assume he’s still using the same approach as he did with ‘When the Gods came down’

Andrew Collins
Study on the watchers and Book of Enoch
What’s he up to recently:
Cygnus Mystery, examining how a binary star Cygnus influence the evolution of humans

Rand Flem-Ath
Created the idea that Atlantis was in part of Antarctica that were ice free due to Crustal displacement
What’s he up to recently:
I don’t know

Richard Hoagland
Believed that there was an advanced civilization on Mars and NASA is covering it up.
What’s he up to recently:
Dark Missions, a book about NASA covering up evidence of artificial structures on our Moon

Basically, all of them are still doing what they’ve been doing best, writing things that are thought provoking. I haven’t read any of their latest books and I’m not as enthusiastic with their theories as before but I like to thank these authors for the way they opened my mind to many possibilities during my younger days.

lack of update

LOL wow…haven’t posted anything here for about a week. So what have I been up to?

• Finishing up several drafts and then can’t decide which one to post first. One is my usual movie related topic and the other is my occasionally ‘trying-to-sound-like-a-smartass’ type of post.
• Local Internet connection went down for two days – didn’t know what to do. I remember eating three meals of junk food that day: Dixie Chicken for breakfast, McDonalds in lunchtime and Jollibee in afternoon. Oh and ‘Roti John’ at night
• There was a gathering at my house/ makan2
• Doing work on my other semi-neglected sites: here & here
• Watch movies
• Sleep

New Dragon Ball set pics

Joblo.com got exclusive photos from the set of the upcoming live action adaptation of Dragon Ball.

That’s how Goku will look like in the film; spiky hair and wearing that iconic orange outfit. BTW, that’s not Justin Chatwin, the actor portraying Goku. The guy in the picture is probably a stunt man.

 

It’s Bulma!! HAHAHA Wow! I think they got that “badass adventurous chick” attitude from the anime right. But the hair…umm…I don’t like it. And I see bits of blue colour in her hair too.

Mai played by Eriko Tamura. She’s one of the villain who works for Piccolo (in the anime, she was one of the Red Ribbon army).

More set pics HERE

Other cast members include James Marsters as Piccolo, Jamie Chung as Chi Chi and Chow Yun Fat as Roshi. Cast list can be found HERE.

Dragon Ball movie is scheduled to be released in April 3rd 2009, still long way to go.

The Constructicons in Transformers 2?

IESB.net supposedly got a hold of the casting breakdown for the upcoming sequel of Transformers the movie. Yes, they’re making a sequel, only an idiot would think they won’t make a second movie considering how much money and new fans they gained with the first one (in my place, almost every car has an autobot or a decepticon logo till it isn’t cool anymore to have one in your own car).

You can read the spoiler piece here (With the new WordPress layout, I cannot link the text to a URL for some reason, so I’ll just copy the URL below):

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4663&Itemid=99

 Somehow I can’t open the page right now, it opened perfectly this morning though.

Anyway, the BIG news is the appearance of the Constructicons in the next movie. For those of you who don’t know them (including most of the people in my place with Transformers stickers attached to their cars), the Constructicons are basically this group of Decepticons that transforms into various vehicles that you can find in a contruction site like Bulldozer or truck that scoops stuff. The cool thing is that they can combine into this giant robot called Devastator.

Shit! Can’t wait to see how they’re going to recreate Devastator! Let’s hope this is a real deal. Now I want the Dinobots in there too.

PS: I’m still not used to the new WordPress dashboard layout. And I can’t link a text to a URL hence the awkward way I link to the article.