Avengers Assemble!!

I guess we now have the complete lineup (well, at least the major ones) for Marvel’s upcoming superhero team up movie, The Avengers (May 4, 2012).

Captain America – Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Sunshine)

Solo movie – The First Avenger: Captain America (July 22, 2011)

Captain America was the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a sickly young man who was enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental serum in order to aid the United States war effort. Captain America wears a costume that bears an American flag motif, and is armed with an indestructible shield that can be thrown as a weapon.

Iron Man – Robert Downey Jr.

Solo movies – Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010)

Tony Stark is an industrialist playboy and genius engineer who suffers a severe heart injury during a kidnapping in which his captors attempt to force him to build a massively destructive weapon. He instead creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity. He later decides to use the suit to protect the world as Iron Man. Through his multinational corporation, Stark Industries, Tony created military weapons and his own metal suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.

Thor – Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek)

Solo movie – Thor (May 6, 2011)

Thor’s father Odin decides his son needs to be taught humility and consequently places Thor (without memories of godhood) into the body and memories of an existing, partially disabled human medical student, Donald Blake. After becoming a doctor and on holiday in Norway, Blake witnesses the arrival of an alien scouting party. Blake flees into a cave, and after discovering Thor’s disguised hammer Mjolnir, and striking it against a rock, transforms into the Thunder God. Defeating the aliens, Thor shares a double life with his alter ego: treating the ill in a private practice with nurse – and eventual love – Jane Foster and defending humanity from evil.

The Hulk – Edward Norton (Fight Club)

Solo movie – Incredible Hulk (2008)

The Hulk is the emotional and impulsive alter ego of the withdrawn and reserved physicist Dr. Bruce Banner. The Hulk appears shortly after Banner is accidentally exposed to the blast of a test detonation of a gamma bomb he invented. Subsequently, Banner will involuntarily transform into the Hulk, depicted as a giant, raging, humanoid monster, leading to extreme complications in Banner’s life.

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The Avengers is scheduled to be released on May 4, 2012

You might be interested in my other post about the DC superheroes franchise

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween :-[

Ghost Hunters TAPS

Dunia Lain (Indonesian)

Youtube’s Most Haunted

London Dungeon

Where have I been…part I

About a year ago, I made a post about my flight from Brunei to London. Well here I am again doing the same thing but this time it’s my flight BACK from London.

Note: Recalling from memory. Times are in UK time (GMT)

10.15am – Was suppose to take off at 9.40 but was delayed by some problem with air traffic control. Dozed off for about 20 minute only to wake up and realize we haven’t even taken off yet

11.30am – Above Frankfurt – Browsing through the music library that the airline provided. Aha! ABBA’s greatest hits! It’s surprising how most people, whether he/she is a fan or not, instantly recognize at least one or two ABBA song…that’s how legendary they were. Speaking of ABBA, I still haven’t seen Mama Mia!

1.48pm – woke up and ABBA’s greatest hits album just finished with the last song Holy Crap! that was a long album and I slept through half of it!

3pm – Approaching Iraq from the north – mosul – kurdistan area. This is new..flying over Iraq…I remember last year on my Dubai-london flight, we had to bypass Iraq by turning to Saudi Arabia and then over to Syria/Lebanon to get to Turkey. I guess things have changed. As we were entering Iraq I was, coincidentally, listening to ‘Rides of the Valkyries’ – Richard Wagner – surreal and Epic at the same time.

3.20pm – flying near Baghdad – listening to ‘What a wonderful world’ Louie Armstrong – too bad I didn’t get the window seat…I wanted to take a peek at Iraq.

5pm – Landed at Dubai and it was about 8pm local time

6pm – Leaving Dubai…too broke to shop there

8pm – Approaching India – Gujarat – Very tired and decided to relax a little…played some relaxing classical music – was sleeping for awhile, listening to ‘Con te partiro’…recognized the music that Will Ferrell movie ‘Blades of Glory‘ …until I woke up instantaneously because I smell food…yup hunger over overrides drowsiness

11pm – woke up and my back hurts….no music coming out of my headphone…i guess the Phil Collins greatest hits album i was listening to just finished….I couldn’t go back to sleep no matter how much I’ve tried….oh well, time to watch a movie….hmmm…no standouts from the list…The International with Clive Owen? heard it’s good but not in a mood for heady stuff….12 Rounds? it’s a JOHN CENA MOVIE!! probably too mindless….I decided with  ‘Taken’ starring Liam Neeson.

Liam plays an ex-super agent badass who’s now retired and having problems with his ex-wife. The movie started with Liam buying a karaoke set for his 17 year old daughter, played by Lost’s Maggie Grace who’s not really 17. Initially she’s overjoyed that her dad bought her a karaoke set (acting all jumpy and annoying like a stereotypical 17 year old) until her rich step dad (played by that guy from 24) comes in and bought a better present….a brand new car? nope..a FREAKIN HORSE!!! by that time, I didn’t know whether this was a really really bad movie or a work of genius

Of course I forgot about all the bad acting and lame dialogue when Maggie got kidnapped in France and it’s up to Liam to save the day. The rest of the film is all about Liam being Jason Bourne and killing everyone that gets in waw between him and his daughter. And that fact alone made it worthwhile.

1pm – Above Cambodia – listening to ‘Fortunate son’ Creedence Clearwater Revival – how appropriate…btw the music was randomly selected

2pm/9am Brunei time – Touchdown in Brunei…good to be home….wait…what’s this? a black van appeared out nowhere at the airport parking…three masked men rushed out..put a bag over my head and took me to an unknown location…WTF?!

TO BE CONTINUED….

Obama is the 44th president

Best part N0. 1:

Obama thanking Bush for “his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition” and then went on about the mess he made for the last eight years such as war, economic crisis; “Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”

Best part No.2:

Obama said, “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” And the camera cuts to George W Bush LOL

Personal favourite line:

“To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society’s ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.“

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As for Mr.Bush…well…..farewell. Thanks for all the hilarious “Bushism”

Click ‘More’ for more Bushism video

BACK!!

I’m back from London! Actually I went back from London almost a week ago..but I’m back from London AND blogging!! I’m just gonna stick this post on the top of the page and will update it later. Meanwhile, other new posts will appear below this one

“I’m The DECIDER!!” – Bush Cabinet, Hollywood style

I want to watch this movie. There I said it. Do I want to see a movie that makes fun of Bush? Maybe~ Do I want to see a movie that makes you feel sorry for this man? Maybe~ The fact is I’m just curious about this movie.

ThePlaylist (scanned from Variety) has two images from the upcoming Bush biopic, titled W., showing the Bush cabinet.

You have Jeffrey Wright (far left;top picture) playing Colin Powell although I would prefer James Earl Jones to play him. There are some good casting like Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney and Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice. And then there’s Toby Jones as Karl Rove which is weird…Scott Glenn doesn’t look like Donald Rumsfeld in the picture but he ‘does’ in the trailer (with what he does to the eyes). Then there’s Josh Brolin as Bush who is awesome from the clips I’ve seen. As for the rest, I don’t know who they are playing LOL hehe

Trailer 2

Trailer 1

W. – Oct 17 2008

An Idiot…

Last night there was this idiot dribbling a basketball at the bowling alley and distracting other bowlers. Felt like throwing the F***ing bowling ball to his face!

Sorry for the Twitter like post hehe I was just trying to finish up another post about Batman 3 but I got writer’s block.

Oh Let it Louie, She’s Under Cover..

Here’s a random ‘game’ that my friend and I came up with during a MSN messenger session. It started with him giving me a link to the theme song of the game Metal Gear Solid over at YouTube. I replied with a link to the Battlefield 1942 theme song and so we went back and forth giving links to musical scores we like, be it from a game or a movie. But eventually we started trading YouTube links to songs that we consider to be ‘guilty pleasure’ songs (he started by ‘rickrolling’ me with that Never Gonna Give You Up song). Note that we don’t neccessarily considered these songs to be bad but they are something we enjoyed, laughed and remember fondly.

It’s kinda funny listening (and watch the music videos!!) to songs like Modern Talking’s ‘Brother Louie’ or Mc Hammer’s ‘Can’t Touch This’ again. We continually went “hey, remember this song?” or “OMG, this song used to…” back and forth. This went on for about an hour and some of these songs are now stuck in my head thanks to it.

Click More to see some of the songs that we ‘rediscovered’ during our little game over MSN. Enjoy the trip back in time

Welcome to my Corner

The idea of creating a new blog have always been in my head for a long time now. At last, here I am at WordPress publishing my first post. Now there are several reasons that made me create a blog now rather than sooner or later:

No.1:I always have several thoughts/ideas or opinions that i just keep in my mind. Storing your thoughts in your head for a very long time isn’t a good idea because it would be too distracting if have lots of stuff in your mind. So I decided to do something about it and it’s urgent because I realize that I have come to a point in my life where I need to focus on my priorities and set aside all those other ideas that I have. You could say that this blog act as my way putting those thoughts out of my head. It’s a thought reliever.

No.2: When I started blogging back in 2005 with “MSN Space” nobody I knew was blogging. Now almost everyone I know is blogging!! So i want to hop into the blogging bandwagon again. BTW, for those who are curious here’s my old blog Yes, this one is kind of a “remake” of my old MSN space (random thoughts & musings)

N0.3: My brother used to have a blog at WordPress (although he sort of retired from blogging because he got a job or in other words he has a life now). Since I usually does the “backstage” work for his blog thus I’m already familiar with most of the features of WordPress.

N0.4: I was bored.

I can admit that this blog is work in progress. But hopefully it will grow unless I decided to pull the plug. I never intended this blog to last for a very long time but hey..who knows, we’ll just see what happens. So I guess that’s it for today (I think). Stay tuned for some random thoughts or musings from me.

Trylobyte

PS: English is not my first language so I’m sorry if I butchered the language with horrible grammar. I’m trying my best