That's me. Me - me - me - me. And Sherly would be standing there, arms folded, shooting a I-told-you-so look right at me.
Now I need to get a job at KFC. Angelene, I now need to 替人斟茶递水了咯!!!
Quoting WW, I have only myself to blame. That's why I think it's best for me to be living in small small Tanah Merah where the only shopping places are for me to buy groceries. I don't mind torturing my bank accounts once or twice every year when I go to KL to shop. But living in Melb where shopping centres are just tram stops away, I am no better than a drug addict.
Oh please Mother of Job, please answer my application letters; or can someone burn down the credit card control building of CBA?
I had been sitting on the Politix coat for a week and I threw in the white towel on Friday evening. Apparently, wait-and-see didn't work this time. Normally I would be able to sit it out if I didn't buy things on the spot. And today, I gave in to all my on-the-spot wants at Oxford. Except for 1 FCUK belt. However... I highly suspect history will repeat itself.
Since I love FRIENDS so much, should I follow in Rachel's footstep and cut my credit card?
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
I ♥ Huckabees
How could I have missed this film? Unglaubitch - was trying to go for a long-lost-in-my-memory German word but it didn't come out quite right did it?
What a cast - often the reason I see a movie - Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, Naomi Watts and Shania Twain!!
What a cast - often the reason I see a movie - Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Jude Law, Naomi Watts and Shania Twain!!
Think I'll have to go to JB Hifi now!!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Stop Multiplying?
I wonder, if the solution to all the problems we have on earth lies in what people do in the bedroom and/or fertility centres?
First and foremost, fuel consumption. From dating to wooing to wedding (or rather it happens by deliberate accidents), how many energy has been put into it - transport, food, clothes, wedding ceremony (or just you know, hotel?) etc etc. And extravagant extra luxurious people have to import or export stuff or people to celebrate with them... All the black black oil is transformed into something called memories - which, can't feed the next generations.
If I were to believe in signs, like some churches blaming the homosexuals of New Orleans landed the place with Katrina, I'd say Tsunami happened because the earth was lack of lubricants - due to all petroleum being sucked up by human! Of course more earthquakes are bound to happen!
Secondly, CO2 emission. With the world pushing prices up by carbon trading, wouldn't it easier if we just produce less human? As I have many times pointed out that human is cancerous to the earth, from fuel consumption above, from the point where a sperm penetrates an egg, how much CO2 is being emitted into the atmosphere due to our actions? Going for check-ups at the clinics, baby clothing, baby rooms and millions of other baby, somewhat unnecessary, gadgets. The productions and transportation of these items - are the burning torches responsible for melting poles.
Look at India & China where the population explodes like an atomic bomb. The whole world is screaming for energy sources. Wind lar, sun lar, geothermal lar, biomass lar, even nuclear. But why aren't we stopping the source of all problem - OURSELVES? Instead, we have been digging out more petroleum and producing more CO2 along the way just to find alternative energy source, or so they claim.
When it's all so glorious about wind energy or nuclear energy to generate electricity, does anyone actually think about whether it is possible to carry a nuclear reactor in a CAR or BBQ with some bio-waste? And until that actually happens, how many more million human will be borned to consume how many more trillion barrels of petroleum and produce how many more zillion tonnes of CO2?
Is this one of the side effects of demoCRAZY, where majority agrees that we can breed without feeling responsible for the earth mother? Is it sensible to suggest human trading than carbon trading? Is it even humane to suggest that we should limit birth? Is it a bad instinct for species survival to think what I think? Like Agent Smith, I think our out-of-control multiplicability is definitely crashing our Matrix.
First and foremost, fuel consumption. From dating to wooing to wedding (or rather it happens by deliberate accidents), how many energy has been put into it - transport, food, clothes, wedding ceremony (or just you know, hotel?) etc etc. And extravagant extra luxurious people have to import or export stuff or people to celebrate with them... All the black black oil is transformed into something called memories - which, can't feed the next generations.
If I were to believe in signs, like some churches blaming the homosexuals of New Orleans landed the place with Katrina, I'd say Tsunami happened because the earth was lack of lubricants - due to all petroleum being sucked up by human! Of course more earthquakes are bound to happen!
Secondly, CO2 emission. With the world pushing prices up by carbon trading, wouldn't it easier if we just produce less human? As I have many times pointed out that human is cancerous to the earth, from fuel consumption above, from the point where a sperm penetrates an egg, how much CO2 is being emitted into the atmosphere due to our actions? Going for check-ups at the clinics, baby clothing, baby rooms and millions of other baby, somewhat unnecessary, gadgets. The productions and transportation of these items - are the burning torches responsible for melting poles.
Look at India & China where the population explodes like an atomic bomb. The whole world is screaming for energy sources. Wind lar, sun lar, geothermal lar, biomass lar, even nuclear. But why aren't we stopping the source of all problem - OURSELVES? Instead, we have been digging out more petroleum and producing more CO2 along the way just to find alternative energy source, or so they claim.
When it's all so glorious about wind energy or nuclear energy to generate electricity, does anyone actually think about whether it is possible to carry a nuclear reactor in a CAR or BBQ with some bio-waste? And until that actually happens, how many more million human will be borned to consume how many more trillion barrels of petroleum and produce how many more zillion tonnes of CO2?
Is this one of the side effects of demoCRAZY, where majority agrees that we can breed without feeling responsible for the earth mother? Is it sensible to suggest human trading than carbon trading? Is it even humane to suggest that we should limit birth? Is it a bad instinct for species survival to think what I think? Like Agent Smith, I think our out-of-control multiplicability is definitely crashing our Matrix.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
On
.. my face there's a pimple ready to ripen and become juicy. I thought I was done with pimples - I'm a man of a certain age, you know, pimples should stay away from me! Furthermore I also shiseido my face twice a day, scrubbed once or twice a week. They only grow on a certain area of my face, which is the lower right part, near the jaw line. Really felt like popping it. It'd be some kinda of a relief, after a sharp pain followed by a tear or two.
.. my desk there's Tony Parsons' The Family Way, Anita Nair's Mistress and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Since I'm only part-timely employed with lotsa of spare time at night, I guess a little reading wouldn't hurt? I wonder how long has it been since I last enjoyed reading... Discounting Harry Potter. I have not touched too many books other than celebrity news (actually I don't read but just skim the pictures), academic must-read, online news and blogs. Since when I joined the Malaysian club where the average Malaysian only read no more than a few books a year! I have become one that refuses to read and think??!? I just want something easy for the eyes and I'm sure to become mentally retarded and illiterate soon!
.. my bed my quilt is still unmade. Some people don't make their beds. For example my youngest brother. We have to remind him almost every other day. We used to yell at him but that hadn't worked out too well I'm afraid. He does it better now, with occassional slips of course. Sometimes I hope that he would be different to other youngest siblings. However, he can't help being rude, demanding, inconsiderate, lazy, irresponsible and having a foul mouth! And somehow it's always the Mom that has to take the hit. Whenever I'm back home, his rough edges are tamed a little. I wonder if I should shoulder such responsibility. I'm not blaming my parents but I think they are a couple of tired parents. So tired that they now lack the superiority we used to fear, especially Mom's. It's strange to see that it's their edges have gone blunt, if I may say so. Now back to my bed. I think my bed is really out of order... I won't be too surprised if there's one night where the whole thing collapses. The saying is really now, good night, sleep tight, and don't let your bed collide?
.. the balcony of my apartment, now this is amusing, there are a couple of branches of a certain plant, rotting away. I so want to pick them up and go from apartment to apartment above mine, to find out who has lost some limbs, to a plant. I can't blame the weather if it was the wind that broke the branches. But I would be furious if some idiot cut those branches and just d-r-o-p-p-e-d them. I think sis was nearly hit by an empty beer bottle when she was out on the balcony. Often, our balcony also acts as a fail-safe due to its width. Whenever people above me washes their balconies, which they are not allowed to do, my balcony catches all the water. Soapy, dirtful water. I remember those branches being fresh, as they just appeared out of nowhere when I peered over the balcony one morning. Now, they have turned brown and wrinkly. Haha, I should actually put them in a vase and it'd serve as a decorative piece in the office of the corporate body.
.. my never accomplished to-do list, the number 1 task is to haul my ass to the gym and get fit. I don't want die of a heart attack or on a theatre table. You know ar, xxxx has just done a heart bypass surgery. So young lar you see.... Mom's kind words are ringing again.
.. my chair, I'm sitting quite uncomfortably. Not because of the chair, but I think I have got to sit on something else now. And you say that I don't share enough?
.. my desk there's Tony Parsons' The Family Way, Anita Nair's Mistress and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Since I'm only part-timely employed with lotsa of spare time at night, I guess a little reading wouldn't hurt? I wonder how long has it been since I last enjoyed reading... Discounting Harry Potter. I have not touched too many books other than celebrity news (actually I don't read but just skim the pictures), academic must-read, online news and blogs. Since when I joined the Malaysian club where the average Malaysian only read no more than a few books a year! I have become one that refuses to read and think??!? I just want something easy for the eyes and I'm sure to become mentally retarded and illiterate soon!
.. my bed my quilt is still unmade. Some people don't make their beds. For example my youngest brother. We have to remind him almost every other day. We used to yell at him but that hadn't worked out too well I'm afraid. He does it better now, with occassional slips of course. Sometimes I hope that he would be different to other youngest siblings. However, he can't help being rude, demanding, inconsiderate, lazy, irresponsible and having a foul mouth! And somehow it's always the Mom that has to take the hit. Whenever I'm back home, his rough edges are tamed a little. I wonder if I should shoulder such responsibility. I'm not blaming my parents but I think they are a couple of tired parents. So tired that they now lack the superiority we used to fear, especially Mom's. It's strange to see that it's their edges have gone blunt, if I may say so. Now back to my bed. I think my bed is really out of order... I won't be too surprised if there's one night where the whole thing collapses. The saying is really now, good night, sleep tight, and don't let your bed collide?
.. the balcony of my apartment, now this is amusing, there are a couple of branches of a certain plant, rotting away. I so want to pick them up and go from apartment to apartment above mine, to find out who has lost some limbs, to a plant. I can't blame the weather if it was the wind that broke the branches. But I would be furious if some idiot cut those branches and just d-r-o-p-p-e-d them. I think sis was nearly hit by an empty beer bottle when she was out on the balcony. Often, our balcony also acts as a fail-safe due to its width. Whenever people above me washes their balconies, which they are not allowed to do, my balcony catches all the water. Soapy, dirtful water. I remember those branches being fresh, as they just appeared out of nowhere when I peered over the balcony one morning. Now, they have turned brown and wrinkly. Haha, I should actually put them in a vase and it'd serve as a decorative piece in the office of the corporate body.
.. my never accomplished to-do list, the number 1 task is to haul my ass to the gym and get fit. I don't want die of a heart attack or on a theatre table. You know ar, xxxx has just done a heart bypass surgery. So young lar you see.... Mom's kind words are ringing again.
.. my chair, I'm sitting quite uncomfortably. Not because of the chair, but I think I have got to sit on something else now. And you say that I don't share enough?
Saturday, July 28, 2007
都走了吗？
应该吧。都已经走得七七八八了。一年比一年少。咖啡嘛，已经很少碰了，少到连瘾也没啦；丰富早餐，已经简化成土司面包美禄了；下午茶、爱我的蛋糕，已经变得很遥远了；就连那若有小成的酒量，已经随风蒸发得淡了；逛街的伴儿、无聊透顶的闲聊、背后说人家的三八、评头论足、什么什么到哪儿去旅行、庆祝生日的……通通都告一个段落了。
也可能是树倒猢狲散，剩下的小猫两三只，却也成不了气候。倒下的枯树值得留恋吗？倒下的树已经不能够挡风遮雨或者抵抗炎炎艳阳。
正所谓，桃花依旧，人事已非。想不到小时候学的谚语竟然会派上用场，而且还那么一针见血。我也不学要再掉什么筵席之类的书包，总之使哑子吃黄连，有苦自己知。看到人家三五成群，你们却在水一方；成双成对的，我也不可能那么不醒目的当电灯泡；本来已经藕断丝连的，经过日晒雨淋风摧风霜也断得彻底了。
哀莫大于心死。要换一换画了吗？温室里的花，还是想念温室吗？
也可能是树倒猢狲散，剩下的小猫两三只，却也成不了气候。倒下的枯树值得留恋吗？倒下的树已经不能够挡风遮雨或者抵抗炎炎艳阳。
正所谓，桃花依旧，人事已非。想不到小时候学的谚语竟然会派上用场，而且还那么一针见血。我也不学要再掉什么筵席之类的书包，总之使哑子吃黄连，有苦自己知。看到人家三五成群，你们却在水一方；成双成对的，我也不可能那么不醒目的当电灯泡；本来已经藕断丝连的，经过日晒雨淋风摧风霜也断得彻底了。
哀莫大于心死。要换一换画了吗？温室里的花，还是想念温室吗？
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Can't wait to get SPRAYed!
John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer (have missed her dearly on the big screen), James Marsden & Queen Latifah are giving us Hairspray this winter! I can't wait to see this movie, can you? John will be in drag for starter. And all the great 60s tune, the big (black?) voice and dance, I live for this kinda stuff you know.
After Dreamgirls, I am really looking forward to seeing Hairspray. I need to get its OST first and learn all the songs. Anyone wanna join me for Hairspray-sing-and-spray-along?
Damn Australian cinemas which are showing the movie so late (September!), by that time I will have used tonned of hairspray to make sure my wig stay in shape!
After Dreamgirls, I am really looking forward to seeing Hairspray. I need to get its OST first and learn all the songs. Anyone wanna join me for Hairspray-sing-and-spray-along?
Damn Australian cinemas which are showing the movie so late (September!), by that time I will have used tonned of hairspray to make sure my wig stay in shape!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
怎么说来说去还是关于穿衣服？
1。大專衣著條例開倒車
2。衣著限制多此一舉
3。將心思放在提高學術水平
很奇怪，马来西亚官方很喜欢管人家怎样穿衣服，比我妈还专制。我真的很生气，很生气政府吃饱太闲空。真的不得不种族歧视，偏偏就是马来西亚的回教徒，每天拜神五次还有那么多时间来管制衣着条例。
真的那么闲空吗？去批一批奏章吧，桌子上还有一大把功夫等着你干呢。别国大学在那儿研究怎么鼓励学生思想进步开放、怎么教育学生准备面对社会大学；马来西亚各大学就等着转行吧，它们打算进军服装业，而且是最没有人买的那一种。
常常有注意吉兰丹政治消息-应该说吉兰丹回教执政党是此大专衣着条例的开山鼻祖吧。你可知道，吉兰丹的女人属于受保护的动物。她们除了要从头包到尾之外，就连口红也不可以涂。听说涂了口红会引起男性性趣大发，对女性不利。哇，他们的想法好令人感动噢，才怪！
我记得在看理查到金的电视节目时，他也是个反宗教的支持者。当他去到一个中东国家时，有个极端回教徒对他这么说，“你们应该先回到你们的国家，管一管治你们女人的穿着”。天哪，当他在讨论到有关宗教及战争的联系时，他还是狗改不了吃屎，就是要提起衣着管制论。他们这些人不做服装生意实在是太亏本了。基本上他们可以这么做:一手拿枪，另一手拿着一套可以从头遮到脚的服装逼他们的俘虏付钱。
好无聊噢……大不了下了地狱还是要光溜溜，不然你以为狱火少烧不了你的衣服吗？
2。衣著限制多此一舉
3。將心思放在提高學術水平
很奇怪，马来西亚官方很喜欢管人家怎样穿衣服，比我妈还专制。我真的很生气，很生气政府吃饱太闲空。真的不得不种族歧视，偏偏就是马来西亚的回教徒，每天拜神五次还有那么多时间来管制衣着条例。
真的那么闲空吗？去批一批奏章吧，桌子上还有一大把功夫等着你干呢。别国大学在那儿研究怎么鼓励学生思想进步开放、怎么教育学生准备面对社会大学；马来西亚各大学就等着转行吧，它们打算进军服装业，而且是最没有人买的那一种。
常常有注意吉兰丹政治消息-应该说吉兰丹回教执政党是此大专衣着条例的开山鼻祖吧。你可知道，吉兰丹的女人属于受保护的动物。她们除了要从头包到尾之外，就连口红也不可以涂。听说涂了口红会引起男性性趣大发，对女性不利。哇，他们的想法好令人感动噢，才怪！
我记得在看理查到金的电视节目时，他也是个反宗教的支持者。当他去到一个中东国家时，有个极端回教徒对他这么说，“你们应该先回到你们的国家，管一管治你们女人的穿着”。天哪，当他在讨论到有关宗教及战争的联系时，他还是狗改不了吃屎，就是要提起衣着管制论。他们这些人不做服装生意实在是太亏本了。基本上他们可以这么做:一手拿枪，另一手拿着一套可以从头遮到脚的服装逼他们的俘虏付钱。
好无聊噢……大不了下了地狱还是要光溜溜，不然你以为狱火少烧不了你的衣服吗？
Sunday, July 22, 2007
And 19 years later...
There has never been anything quite like it, and nobody knows whether there ever will be again.
After about 11 hours of reading I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I am still coming down on it. Into reading the first few chapters, my crying face already started to form and when MEM was killed, I couldn't help it. And then there goes H, D, F, T & R (I didn't cry for R as his death came too abrupt but I had always had deeper affection for R).
The first few chapters were gripping where the protagonists have to run away from You-Know-Who. After the wedding where H, R & H went on their own, I felt that it was a little boring. The boredom was occassionally dampened by some new findings, though not very great ones. It started to pick up again when they return to Hogwarts and get ready for the battle. And we get to see some of the old characters again. It's nice to end it at where it all matters.
On a funnier side, I think it's the first time J. K. Rowling uses the B word in her book. Children book. She hasn't used it before has she? What are parents gonna say to explain it? I wonder. But I thank you, J. K. Rowling, first of all for beating the Queen in wealth. Secondly for Harry Potter. The world had never seen such magical power until you came along. We got hooked since.
And a smart move too to bring the ending to 19 years later - J. K. obviously likes to have an ending from the very beginning, whilst finding ways to get there. No matter whoever, if ever there is, writes the in-between, she's got the ending in her hands, just quite like the current Harry Potter series.
After about 11 hours of reading I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I am still coming down on it. Into reading the first few chapters, my crying face already started to form and when MEM was killed, I couldn't help it. And then there goes H, D, F, T & R (I didn't cry for R as his death came too abrupt but I had always had deeper affection for R).
The first few chapters were gripping where the protagonists have to run away from You-Know-Who. After the wedding where H, R & H went on their own, I felt that it was a little boring. The boredom was occassionally dampened by some new findings, though not very great ones. It started to pick up again when they return to Hogwarts and get ready for the battle. And we get to see some of the old characters again. It's nice to end it at where it all matters.
On a funnier side, I think it's the first time J. K. Rowling uses the B word in her book. Children book. She hasn't used it before has she? What are parents gonna say to explain it? I wonder. But I thank you, J. K. Rowling, first of all for beating the Queen in wealth. Secondly for Harry Potter. The world had never seen such magical power until you came along. We got hooked since.
And a smart move too to bring the ending to 19 years later - J. K. obviously likes to have an ending from the very beginning, whilst finding ways to get there. No matter whoever, if ever there is, writes the in-between, she's got the ending in her hands, just quite like the current Harry Potter series.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
It's here
It's 21/07/2007 - the day every Harry Potter fan has been waiting for - the release date of the final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I woke up at 7.15am this morning, getting ready (still not =P) to go to Borders at 9am.
I think it's a good think that Borders are having celebration at (almost?) each branch and also at Federation Square in the Melbourne CBD, otherwise we might have to wait in a long queue just to pay. Now with all the fans dispersed, I'm hoping to grab my book when the ribbon is cut and head home! Well except I'll have to wait for PJ to sort out her receipt with Borders as she has lost it.
No more speculations, no more waiting, the day is finally here. Thank you J. K. Rowling, for your brilliance.
I think it's a good think that Borders are having celebration at (almost?) each branch and also at Federation Square in the Melbourne CBD, otherwise we might have to wait in a long queue just to pay. Now with all the fans dispersed, I'm hoping to grab my book when the ribbon is cut and head home! Well except I'll have to wait for PJ to sort out her receipt with Borders as she has lost it.
No more speculations, no more waiting, the day is finally here. Thank you J. K. Rowling, for your brilliance.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
After the Order of the Phoenix
I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night. I had had high anticipations for this film. Somehow I couldn't help feeling disappointed by the movie. It's not unjustified, given that the books keep getting thicker and the movies aren't. Therefore loads and loads of details had to go and some story lines were time-switched as well. But it's like paying pilgrimages, I had to watch it. I have to watch all the 7 movies.
The starting of the movie was captivating. I seldom don't pay attention to the time when things happen in a book. Or rather my sense of time is totally out of whack. Often it would be at night when I thought the event happened in day time! So the opening scene where Harry and Big D face-off took place happens in the arvo when my memory told me that it'd be at night? No? I think the Dementors have had a make-over since HP3. I thought they looked scarier in HP3.
Loved it when Harry and the members of the Order rode their brooms and raced to the MoM for Harry's hearing. It was exciting to see some broom actions after so long. I really really miss Quidditch in action - which is totally non-existent in this movie. The black shiny walls in the MoM looks more Matrix than HP. I thought they should be less glamourous.
The middle part of the movie, where Harry is back at Hogwarts, is kinda boring. There were funny bits here and there but I couldn't feel the coherence. I have to give my thumb up for the evil, supposedly-toad-like Dolores Jane Umbridge, fantastically played by Imelda something. Her high-pitched sarcastic laughs were timely and just the right amount. Also good job to the design crew as the tone of the pinkiness of her clothes darkens as the movie progresses, showing her true colours exactly.
Watching the movie is like scanning the book using the most powerful scanner, at perhaps 20-pages per second. And sometimes the scanner comes to a sudden halt to take a better resolution at a particular page. I felt jerky at times - like how Professor Trelawny was fired by Umbridge toad, the Weasley boys tearing the exam hall down, Harry getting his first occlumency lesson from Snape, the part where Harry discovered Mr. Weasley was attacked by the snake and his speedy recovery etc.
I was most angry with how unprofessional Hermione had been made. The fine and tricky arrangement for the DA meetings was supposed to be clever and it should belong to Hermione. Yet she didn't get any credits, including how the consequences on the traitor who sold them out. I have always admired Hermione's cleverness and cool use of intellect (to quote Dumbledore in HP1) yet it is hardly felt in the movie.
Even though rather short, the fighting scenes at the MoM were worth waiting for. How the members of the Order and the Death Eaters teleport in puffs of white and black wind, symbolising the fight between good and evil. The firey snake and locking-Voldemort-in-a-ball-of-water were breathe-holding scenes to watch out for. And the field force by Dumbledore when Voldemort directed million pieces of glass at Dumbledore and Harry. Again I don't like the way both J.K. Rowling and the movie killed off Sirius Black. They all seemed too abrupt!
New comers that are worth mentioning - Tonks and Luna. Tonks only got a few minutes of air time, which was a shame really. I think Luna was well played. Dreamy, a bit out there, weird - all of these are right on the money. I did initially think that she would actually be Harry's love interest.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is coming out this Saturday. There'll be a countdown at Fed Square but I don't think my time is worth wasting. I will want to finish the book as fast as I can. I think I have to get ready some Kleenex too and do some serious crying, depending on who else will die.
Really have to thank J.K. Rowling for such fantastic creations that have given the readers worldwide something that'll last forever.
The starting of the movie was captivating. I seldom don't pay attention to the time when things happen in a book. Or rather my sense of time is totally out of whack. Often it would be at night when I thought the event happened in day time! So the opening scene where Harry and Big D face-off took place happens in the arvo when my memory told me that it'd be at night? No? I think the Dementors have had a make-over since HP3. I thought they looked scarier in HP3.
Loved it when Harry and the members of the Order rode their brooms and raced to the MoM for Harry's hearing. It was exciting to see some broom actions after so long. I really really miss Quidditch in action - which is totally non-existent in this movie. The black shiny walls in the MoM looks more Matrix than HP. I thought they should be less glamourous.
The middle part of the movie, where Harry is back at Hogwarts, is kinda boring. There were funny bits here and there but I couldn't feel the coherence. I have to give my thumb up for the evil, supposedly-toad-like Dolores Jane Umbridge, fantastically played by Imelda something. Her high-pitched sarcastic laughs were timely and just the right amount. Also good job to the design crew as the tone of the pinkiness of her clothes darkens as the movie progresses, showing her true colours exactly.
Watching the movie is like scanning the book using the most powerful scanner, at perhaps 20-pages per second. And sometimes the scanner comes to a sudden halt to take a better resolution at a particular page. I felt jerky at times - like how Professor Trelawny was fired by Umbridge toad, the Weasley boys tearing the exam hall down, Harry getting his first occlumency lesson from Snape, the part where Harry discovered Mr. Weasley was attacked by the snake and his speedy recovery etc.
I was most angry with how unprofessional Hermione had been made. The fine and tricky arrangement for the DA meetings was supposed to be clever and it should belong to Hermione. Yet she didn't get any credits, including how the consequences on the traitor who sold them out. I have always admired Hermione's cleverness and cool use of intellect (to quote Dumbledore in HP1) yet it is hardly felt in the movie.
Even though rather short, the fighting scenes at the MoM were worth waiting for. How the members of the Order and the Death Eaters teleport in puffs of white and black wind, symbolising the fight between good and evil. The firey snake and locking-Voldemort-in-a-ball-of-water were breathe-holding scenes to watch out for. And the field force by Dumbledore when Voldemort directed million pieces of glass at Dumbledore and Harry. Again I don't like the way both J.K. Rowling and the movie killed off Sirius Black. They all seemed too abrupt!
New comers that are worth mentioning - Tonks and Luna. Tonks only got a few minutes of air time, which was a shame really. I think Luna was well played. Dreamy, a bit out there, weird - all of these are right on the money. I did initially think that she would actually be Harry's love interest.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is coming out this Saturday. There'll be a countdown at Fed Square but I don't think my time is worth wasting. I will want to finish the book as fast as I can. I think I have to get ready some Kleenex too and do some serious crying, depending on who else will die.
Really have to thank J.K. Rowling for such fantastic creations that have given the readers worldwide something that'll last forever.
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