August 31 2014, 3.45 pm

So I've watched Lucy yesterday. And this is my fourth time coming to the Setia City Mall Golden Screen Cinema (five minutes from my home) after RoboCop, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Transformers: Age of Extinction with my siblings.

As always, the first fifteen minutes is just long advertisements. But for this time, there's something different about the 'advertisement'. There's a note on the large screen (more like an order) for us to stood up, because we're going to sing our national Anthem, Negaraku (My Country). My elder brother said, "SERIOUSY?". And I just smiling, because I don't think no one will ever stood up.

Then I take a glance in my back. Everyone is standing. Wow. My brothers, sister and I quickly stand (while crunching the popcorn in my mouth). And when the song started, I got a goosebumps. I almost forgot the feeling of singing our national anthem together, while we stood up with everyone else. I think the last I did this was during my convocation day in October last year. I can feel the vibration of the hall resonating from one person to another. Maybe because it's quite seldom for us to sing it together, which makes it kinda special. And I never did the same thing again, until yesterday.

The pride. The spirit.
And true, this is Negaraku.
Our Negaraku.

Happy 57th Independence Day, Malaysia.



~Natural Cure~

August 19 2014, 2.56 am

After spending 396 hours and 1 minute, I’ve finished Johto Pokedex in HeartGold. I never made it in the original Gold during the GameBoy Color era.

It’s like I’m playing the videogame for 15 days, 12 hours and 1 minute consecutively.


And for the evaluation, this is what Prof. Oak said:







It's the same dialogue of you meet him in person in Pallet Town.

So, the next destination is Celadon City. Go to the Celadon Condominiums, and head to the third floor.





Talk to this person.










By the way, the default name for the hero is Ethan and the heroine is Lyra.
Nat is just my nickname for the game.

I started with my Cyndaquil, and the last to fill the Johto Pokedex is my Umbreon.

I will inform if I manage to fill the National Pokedex.


Adventure Started:   Feb. 16 2013.
Hall of Fame:           Dec 25 2013
Johto Pokedex:        Aug. 19 2014 

17 August 2014, 3.22 am

Lepas berjam-jam try download satu episod daripada satu siri ni dalam bahasa Inggeris, saya pun cuba cari English subtitle. Kemudian tekan butang play dan layan cerita tu.

Alih-alih subtitle tu tak sync pulak dengan audio. Mulut diorang cakap lain. Lepas sepuluh saat baru subtitle apa yang diorang cakap tadi muncul.

Lepas tu try cari subtitle yang sync dengan video tu. Rupanya memang tak wujud. Daripada download video baru (yang sync dengan subtitle), better layan je video yag donload tadi. Tak faham pun takpe la.

Waktu tu la baru perasan, yang sebenarnya saya tak perlukan subtitle pun. Sebab saya boleh faham 99% apa yang diorang cakap. 1% tu cuma beberapa istilah Jerman.

Pejam celik, kita ni dah dewasa rupanya. Dah tak perlu guidance for English subtitle lagi kat bawah skrin macam dulu. Entah sejak bila saya dah boleh 'cope' dengan semua ni, saya pun tak perasan. Kadang-kadang, kalau ada berita English malam-malam kat tv (macam Nightline kat tv3), saya akan tinggikan volume tv tu, tapi mata saya leka dekat laptop. So, sambil buat kerja atau main videogame, saya belajar English tanpa perlu menoleh ke kaca tv. Memang banyak istilah yang saya tak dapat tangkap, but we'll learn more as time progressed.

By the way, the series that I mentioned just now is Zero Hour. I love this series becuse it reminds me of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code.

15 August 2014, 1.54 am

Masa raya kedua hari tu, saya bukak tv jam 7 pagi. Ada rancangan Malaysia Hari Ini.
Diorang tengah bersiaran langsung kat restoran kat Gombak sempena sambutan raya.
Diorang ni tengah lepak kat luar satu rumah tradisional.
Keluar je rumah ni, ada banyak meja dan kerusi kat bahagian laman rumah.
Hos MHI tu pun bagitau, rumah tu sebenarnya dibawa dari Melaka ke Gombak.
Dan rumah tu juga sebenarnya rumah milik penulis tersohor di Malaysia, iaitu Ahadiat Akashah.

At that time, saya sebenarnya tak berapa familiar dengan nama tu (walaupun saya rajin membaca novel).
Saya tau nama ni pun daripada filem Lagenda Budak Setan.
(Dan saya ingatkan Lagenda Budak Setan tu cerita hantu. Rupanya cerita jiwang.)
Filem LBS merupakan adaptasi novel beliau.

Sambil menonton, saya pun google nama ni kat Samsung Galaxy Y saya.
Dikatakan bahawa beliau memegang rekod sebagai penulis buku terbanyak di Malaysia.
(Setakat ni, ada 86 buah semuanya.)

Ada sorang mak cik yang merupakan rakan MHI dijemput untuk hadir bersama pagi tu.
Mak cik tu ada bawak 10 novel Ahadiat Akashah dalam beg tangan dia (konfem berat).
Katanya dia kipas-susah-mati Ahadiat Akashah.
Kemudian mak cik ni dijemput untuk duduk satu meja bersama dua orang wanita dan seorang lelaki.
Mak cik nampak teruja and happy-go-lucky je kat meja tu. Ceria gila.
Borak punya borak, rupanya lelaki yang ditemu ramah tu ialah Ahadiat Akashah.

And I was like,
"AHADIAT AKASHAH IS A GUY????? SERIOUSLY????"


Ahadiat tu bukan nama perempuan eh?



Biasanya la kan, kalau baca kat 9Gag ke, forum kat internet ke, even filem-filem semuanya cerita pasal lelaki ni sejenis makhluk homosapien yang suka main videogames, enjoy filem-filem ganas, flirting, kasanova kelas satu, Romeo Taman Jati, and the list goes on. Rumah bersepah macam tongkang pecah pun buat tak kisah je.Baju colour hijau, seluar warna ungu dan stokin warna cream dan kasut kaler brilliant blue pun takpe, as long as it is not pink.And their favourite girls are those that love videogames and anime. Kalau buat assignment, rata-ratanya meniru.~ They're boys. They never grow up. They're just getting bigger.

And the girls are just someone yang kena masuk dapur dan hidang sandwich. Masuk rumah pun kena pakai selipar. Lantai sejuk katanya. Tak pun nak jaga kulit tapak kaki. Siap pakai stokin lagi. Kalau ajak lelaki shopping, yang lelaki tu kena bawak kerusi lipat sebab diorang lenguh menunggu. Almari baju sampai tiga pun kadang-kadang boleh kata takde baju. Kalau hujan, kena pakai payung yang sama colour dengan baju kurung supaya matching. Kalau tak matching, diorang tak nak pakai payung tu.~ Young or old, a woman is a woman.

Ayat yang biasa kita dengar, lelaki ni rasionalnya sembilan, emosinya satu. Perempuan pulak vice versa. Kalau bab baca novel ni, secara umumnya dikaitkan dengan wanita. Sebab novel ni banyak berkisar tentang emosi. Kononnya hilang la macho sorang lelaki tu kalau dia menangis. Dan lagi hilanglah macho kalau baca novel lepas tu menangis. (Macho bagi diorang cuma hisap rokok dan merempit.). Solalnya, diorang yang perasan macho ni pun bukan je tak baca novel, tapi nak bukak buku biasa pun malas. Bila ada perempuan yang cerdik sikit je, diorang dengki. Itulah kerjanya, mendengki je. Tak reti-reti nak bukak buku.

Emosi ni pun penting sebenarnya. Sebab daripada emosilah manusia dapat mendidik anak. Daripada emosi jugaklah manusia belajar untuk menyayangi manusia lain. Kita tak boleh menilai kasih sayang dengan rasional. Sebab tu bila orang dah bercinta, semuanya nampak tak logik. Kalau takdep erasaan kasih sayang, mungkin bayi yang tak berhenti menangis tu akan dicampak  ke sungai. Tak kira la lelaki atau perempuan, belajarlah untuk beremosi dan belajar untuk kawal emosi.

So, back to the point. Dalam golongan yang dikatakan malas membaca ni jugak la ada ramai penulisnya yang saya kira agak hebat la jugak.
Ahadiat Akashah. Hilal Asyraf. Pahrol Juoi. Usman Awang. A. Samad Said. Za'ba. Hasrizal Abdul Jamil. Habiburrahman El Shirazy. A. Ubaidillah Alias. Zaid Akhtar. Hlovate (eh?).Dan banyak lagi.
Diorang ni jugak ada ramai pembaca dari golongan lelaki.

Saya berpendapat, apa salahnya lelaki kat sana mula baca novel. Tak hilanglah macho awak tu. Membaca kan jambatan ilmu. Kalau tengok drama Korea ramai-ramai pun boleh sama-sama buat drama air mata depan laptop, apa salahnya beli novel-novel murah kat kedai buku tu dan mula membaca.

Membaca ni sebenarnya penting, sebab ilmu la yang membezakan orang pandai dengan orang yang memandai-mandai.


*****

Kenapa saya letak Hlovate dalam list tu? Saya pernah tulis kat blog ni, Hlovate tu rock muslimah. Even watak-watak dia pun boleh kata semuanya pakai template sama je. "Heroin yang pakai tudung labuh dan dengar lagu-lagu Butterfingers, Cromok, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Jimmy Eat World, Metallica and so on". Contohnya macam Johanna, Nur Addin Shah, Khairul Batrisya, Minn Edina, Amalia dan Nur Dania Dashrin. But as time passes by, saya rasa pelik sangat kalau kata Hlovate ni perempuan. Bukan sebab dia dengar lagu-lagu rock. I have my own reason. Saya takde bukti la, tapi gerak hati saya lebih cenderung untuk mengatakan Hlovate ni sebenarnya lelaki. Sorry ye H kalau tersilap. Ahahah.


So, saya ni lelaki ke perempuan?
My adik-adik junior always call me 'Kakak Nat' or simply 'Kakak'.


*Tajuk post ni sebenarnya diambil dari ayat yang diucapkan oleh Addin dalam novel aA+bB by Hlovate.*

13 August 2014, 11.00 pm




"A famous explorer once said,
that the extraordinary is in what we do,
not who we are."

~ Lara Croft, Tomb Raider (2013) ~

3 August 2014, 10.18
am

“It’s time for reinforcements”

*****

“Recognize one of your knights”

*****

“The legend exists.”


*****
         

             



“You’ve gotta be kidding me”
                    

“Legendary warriors! The power that created us, now want us all extinguished. We must join forces,
or else you’d rather to be their slave. So today you stand with us, or you stand against me!”

*Grimlock screams and attack Optimus*


“No wonder Prime figure this one out.”
“Very wise”
“There’s no freaking way I’m staying down there with him. No way. NO way.”


“Only together can we survive. Let me lead you”

*Grimlock transform, and breaths out fire*


“Oh no.. I was expecting a giant car.”


“We’re giving you freedom, TOGETHER!”

*Optimus defeats Grimlock*

“You defend my family, or die.”

*Optimus rides Grimlock*

“Autobots, we’re gonna prove who we are, and why we are here.”


“He just wanted to die for the nigh. That’s leadership.  Or brainwashing or something.”
“No. That’s Optimus Prime.”




“Autobots, we charge together! Now, roll out!”


*****

After seeing the trailer, I thought that the Dinobots are the main villain of the movie. Dinobots are actually a sub-group of the Autobots (like the Combiners, Mini-Cons, etc.)

That moment, when Optimus cut through some barriers in Lockdown's ship, and "the leader" appears for the first time on screen in that cinema, my little brother scream out loud "GRIMLOCK!!!!".

And when the Dinobots stood besides Optimus, they're extremely huge. And I didn't expect that both Optimus and Grimlock are going to have a fight. And I think this is the most awaited scene in the whole movie.

FYI, Dinobots are at their best offense (and extremely high speed) when they're in Dinosaur mode, and not their default robot mode (which is contradict with other Autobots and Dcepticons).

Although this movie is totally underrated, and might be the worst Transformers live-action movie ever, I think I love this one more than original trilogy.

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