Furry Vengeance...how did I miss this?

I don't know how, but this movie completely goes under my radar. I just realized its existence about...erm...a week ago, I guess. The trailer looks funny, and it starred Brendan Fraser, one of my favorite actor. Maybe all those big summer movies had blinded my eyes, and made me overlooked this one. But this could be the movie that I would watch instead of, let's say, Iron Man 2. A lot of people are queuing to buy tickets for Iron Man 2 anyway.

Here's the trailer to Furry Vengeance (thanks IGN!) starring Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, and a lot of animals. Looks interesting, but it kind of remind me of Evan Almighty. Maybe because of the animals. Anyway, enjoy the trailer!

Alchemy + maid cafe. Awesome anime on Animax!

Here are two anime series that I currently followed on Animax Asia (Channel 715, Astro Malaysia).

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

So far, 52 episodes had been broadcast. So if you just about to tune in to the show, your kind of late, but it's better late than never right. It tells the story of two bothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who lives in a world where alchemy triumph over science, and their journey to claim back their missing bodies (Edward's left leg and Alphonse's whole body) after attempting (and failing) to bring back their deceased mother to life by performing a forbidden alchemy transmutation.

Sound a bit complicated but trust me, it's a very good anime series. There was a same anime series called Fullmetal Alchemist (without the word Brotherhood) by the same animation studio that made this one, called Bones, but Brotherhood is more faithful to the manga storyline compared to the former that went a completely different path starting from its mid-season.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a part of the same-week telecast program by Animax Asia that features anime that will be aired in its channel in the same week that it debut in Japan. It airs every Friday on 8.30 p.m. with the last week episode aired on 8 p.m.. It is one of my favourite anime series of all time and judging by the great story and high-quality anime production, you wouldn't be surprised why.

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Maid Sama!

A romantic comedy anime based on a popular shōjo manga series of the same name. The anime is about Misaki Ayuzawa, the first female Student Council President at Seika High, who secretly works part-time at a maid cafe to support her poor family. Being a very fierce and dictator-like president, especially towards the boys, she cannot let her part-time job being known to the others due to her image in school. However, things got out of hand when one of the most popular boys in school, Takumi Usui, found out her secret. Lucky for Misaki, Takumi is a cool guy and he keeps her secret. And their friendship grew as Takumi find an interest in her after seeing her working in the maid cafe and often give her advice in handling the unruly boys at school.

I rarely watch anime based on shojo manga, not that I hate them but I rarely exposed to them. But Maid Sama! has the kind of vibe that I like. I think I mostly like it because of the humor element in it. It's really funny! I tickles me when I see Misaki turning into jelly-like thing in the maid cafe dressing room, or when she becomes panic when she heard other boys saying the word 'maid' in their conversation, or even when she just walking around after school for inspection with her big, loud footsteps. The show is really relaxing, and I like it.

Maid Sama! is also a part of the same-week telecast program by Animax Asia. So far, 3 episodes had been broadcast. You can watch it every Sunday on 8.30 p.m.

Glee mania!

If you love singing competition like the Idol franchise, then you would love Glee. Glee is an American musical-comedy drama that I believe not only popular in the US, but also in other countries that airs it. The second part of season 1 had just started airing in the US but for people in Malaysia, the mid-season finale will air tonight at 10 pm on Star World (Astro Channel 711).

I've been a huge fan of Glee and I will definitely not miss tonight episode. For those of you that had never seen a single episode of Glee, I suggest you watch the mid-season finale tonight. Maybe it will change your mind. And if it did, hopefully Star World would air re-run episodes of the show so that you can catch up with it.

And for all the Gleeks (Glee + geek, that's what fans of the show are called), I hope you enjoy Glee tonight!

Alan who?

I've been hearing the name Alan Wake for quite some time now. Being a passive gamer, I've never bother about that name before. But now I should, since the highly anticipated video game is about to be released.

Labeled as a psychological action thriller, Alan Wake is being developed for Xbox 360 by Remedy Entertainment and will be released worldwide this coming May 2010. Seriously, I have nothing much to tell you about Alan Wake, except that the trailer reminds me of Silent Hill but with more stunning visuals.

So here's one of the many awesome videos of Alan Wake that you can find in GameTrailers. Hope you enjoy it.

How to Train Your Dragon ~ review

Imagine an animated movie filled with dragons. Different types, different species. Lots and lots of them. DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon is such a movie. You can find many different types of dragons in it. Don't like dragons? No problem! Because this movie has another thing to offer... a good story.

How to Train Your Dragon tells a story about a lonely young Viking, the son of the Chief of the Viking tribe, named Hiccup who befriend a Night Fury dragon, who he called Toothless. That wouldn't be much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that the Viking hunt and kill dragons as they see them as nothing more than pests who like to stole their stocks of sheep. As their friendship grew stronger, Hiccup begins to question who side will he be on; the Vikings or the dragons? This movie is actually loosely based on a children novel of the same name.


As I mention above, this movie has a very good story to offer other than just stunning visuals and lots of dragons variety. I find the story to be sweet, entertaining and heartwarming. But that doesn't mean that it's a drama; it has lots of action sequences too to give some energy to it. To be fair, the emotional effect and action sequences are quite balanced. I love the ending too; there is one part of it that I did not expect to happen and for me it's good and refreshing because you rarely see that type of 'twist' in an animated movie; especially one that most likely to have a sequel. The soundtrack also play a major role in the movie. I really love the sound of music during Hiccup and Toothless first meeting and also in the scene where Stoick scolded Hiccup for befriending a dragon. The music was emotional and rightly placed.


There's nothing to complain about the visuals either. The best I've seen from DreamWorks so far. The characters emotions especially for Hiccup are very life-like. And I must say the voice talents behind this movie had done a great job in expressing their characters' emotions. But there is one bad point; I found Hiccup's voice to be quite annoying at first. I really need some time to get used to it. Furthermore, I think his voice is quite unsuited compared to his physical appearance.


To sum it up, How to Train Your Dragon is definitely the best animated film so far that I had seen by DreamWorks. I highly recommended this movie to everyone, not just kids but adults too. Hopefully there's a sequel to this movie.

Images from Yahoo! Movies and Wikipedia.

My thoughts on American Idol Season 9

AI9 had been criticized as the weakest season so far by so many news, articles and comments I read online. To be honest, I don't think it's the contestants' fault that this season is deemed as the weakest season ever. They are, after all, very good singers. But I do admit that the show do seemed to lost its spark a bit. Maybe because the show had already produced such huge talents like Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, David Archuleta and Adam Lambert that people seemed to under appreciate this season's batch of new talents.

For me, this season does have several disappointments. First, the exclusion of Lilly Scott from the Top 12. Second, the elimination of my favourite contestant Didi Benami so early in the show; and third, the use of judges' save on Michael Lynch (in my opinion, he doesn't even suppose to be in the bottom three). Who knows how many 'surprises' will this show brings.

Let's just hope that the best man (or woman) wins.

A New Nightmare is coming

A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake (or re-imagining) of the original 1984 movie will be released in the US on 30th April 2010 and probably sometime in May 2010 in Malaysia. But I think this movie had been overshadowed by other big releases for this summer like Iron Man 2, The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Toy Story 3, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to name a few. It's rather sad really considering how good and promising the trailer looks. Maybe the studio releasing this movie should step up their effort a bit in promoting it because I think it could be as successful as the other movies that I had mentioned.

Here's the trailer to A Nightmare on Elm Street from IGN. The movie sure looks different from the original. It looks more...dark and serious. We shall wait and see how it turns out. You can also visit the official site for the movie by clicking here. Enjoy!

Resident Evil : Afterlife new teaser trailer

I rarely find someone who is a fan of both the Resident Evil video game series and the movie series. Usually people would hate the movie series. Well, you cannot blame them. Look how many horrible video game-adaptation movies out there. Although there are some good ones but they are too few of them compared to the bad ones.

As for me, I LOVE both the Resident Evil video game series and the movie series. It's easier to see them as two separate series that share somewhat similar theme, concept, characters and creatures. I find it a good thing that the movies go on a different path for their storyline because it would be even more difficult for the movies to live up to the greatness of the video game series if they follow the same storyline because, let's face it, the two of them (the movie and the video game) would never be the same. You play a video game and you watch a movie; how can the experience be the same? For me, both of the series are entertaining.

Okay, okay...let's move on. The teaser trailer for the 4th installment of RE movies had recently been released online. Although I was excited about it, but I found the statement about the film being shot with the same 3D technology as the mega blockbuster Avatar was really unnecessary. Anyway, just click here or here to watch the teaser. I hope you enjoy (or maybe hate) it!

My FFXII disc won't load!!!

Can you imagine how frustrating it is when you invested so much in a game just to have the disc stuck in the middle of the game? Well, that's what happened to me. My Final Fantasy XII disc won't load after I enter certain part of the game. I had only play it halfway through story-wise but I had spent more than 96 hours on it. I am so frustrated right now. Oh well, guess I have to play something else before I buy a new one. Wait...does that mean I have to start from scratch again? (gasp!)

It's been awhile....

I had left this blog for more than a month now. Can't help it, I was busy with my work and family matters. Plus, it's getting hard for me to surf the web now, and it's not because of the internet connection. It's because of something else...never mind that.

Anyway, I would try my best to upload new posts in this blog. Hopefully I can manage that.