Movies~! Yay~!

Aaaaarrrrhhhh... So sick of the fucking internet connection and am still so fucking pissed off with P, the direct-selling 'friend' of mine!!!
Anywayz, finally signed in and time for some movies review here! Basically the first three movies I'll be crapping about are those that I've waited for so so long to watch them! So I'm absolutely excited! As for the last one... You'll know as you read lar!
爱到底

是的，爱到底......好看吗？？？
我的答案是......不好看！
电影由四个不同个短片和成，导演都算是新人--九把刀、陈奕先、方文山和黄子佼。重点我想还是超大咖的一班演员吧！前面三个故事大概有它们的意思在，就是很抽象的表达了他们所谓的“爱”，即使是很明显的，却变成很chessy，看了很觉得很恶心！基本上，前面我都看到打瞌睡了，到了第

四个才回过神来。不是我偏心，但第四个故事--第六号刘海真的让我有比较想看的感觉。虽然是很废的搞笑，但至少不像前面的那几个那么闷。但是剪接真的很烂那倒是真的！==|||
怎么说都是我最爱的小马初次登上大荧幕，那就请允许我在此提一提吧！:p我是说实话，自从马儿参演的黑糖马奇多后，我就确定他是有演戏是有天份的！在第六号

刘海里饰演第5号的他，虽然只有短短的几分钟，但看得出来他演得蛮到位的，一方面也是因为他那个娘娘腔的角色好发挥啦！我觉得他演得超自然的，哈哈，马儿本来就是个很斯文的男生，娘娘腔难不倒他的啦！我真的觉得他是参演的7棒里演得最自然的那个了，尤其是拨刘海的那一幕，因为烈日当空之下还眼睛眯眯的，超自然、超真的啊！就连镜头已经zoom-out了，他还是在演，还跺脚、叉腰的！好样的啊，小马！:)

入殓师 Departures
感谢Lay Jing的帮助，我终于看到这部奥斯卡最佳外语片得主的电影了！其实以故事来说，是蛮简单的，就非常的expectable。失业了的男主角偶然的加入了帮人家做“身后事”的行业，接下来自己就喜欢上了这份工作，却遭到朋友、甚至老婆的嫌弃，到后来当然是被接受了。故事虽然简单，却很成功的带出了一些很感人的故事、很真实的东西、很棒的message，整个就很温馨！我特别喜欢它把“死亡”表现的那么的“多样化”。有快乐、搞笑的，也有悲哀、难过、恶心的，就是没有那一个“恐怖”的感觉！:)

它真真切切的感动了我！哈，整个哭到像个小孩子了~！电影也拍得很漂亮、很棒！
男主角本木雅弘的精赞、自然的演技也真的令我很佩服，还有那些非常棒、听起来那么的舒服的配乐！一级棒~！
总之，Departures is a MUST WATCH!!!

天水围的日与夜 The Way We Are

没错，今年香港金像奖的大赢家之一的这部电影我也终于看了！耶~！
之前有个香港网友告诉我，不是香港人可能会看不懂这部电影，所以我就是有了那心理准备。但看过了觉得还好耶，我想电影里的事情一般平民都会了解的。基本上，天水围的日与夜是一部很平淡、没有大起大落，完全没有我一直以为有的big twist就结束了的电影。这样一部那么平淡的电影，却不让我觉得很闷，那真的很难得耶！或许是我自己本来就是很喜欢很“真实”的东西的人，而这电影就是几个主要人物很真实、很平淡的日日夜夜的生活，所以我特别喜欢。那种每一天都要上班、下班、煮饭、吃饭的生活......加上一小部分handheld的摄影方式，更显得特别写实！

影后鲍起静、最佳女配角何丽云其实并没有那种很难演的戏，但就是因为角色就是需要很自然、很真实的“师奶”和“老人家”的演出，他们就很自然的驾轻就熟。还有饰演儿子的梁进龙也演得很自然、很不错。许鞍华导演就是这样，能够把C咖都变成A咖！

Sell-Out!
Local movie! I supposed there wouldn't be any sell-out for this movie lar...
I just thought the poster(and blogger just decided it doesn't want me to upload the poster) looks pretty cool so I decided to go for a try.
It's kinda artsy and funny, but not all very funny. It's like the normal Malaysian comedy lar, all the jokes tak jadi one. It's actually a Musical but I can't help but started to yawn every time a song came... Ok ok, the Money song is not too bad, at least the MV really did made me laughed a bit. But overall, it's just WEIRD.
I don't like any of the performace of the actors in the movie, although... The main guy Peter Davis is damn cute, but he can't act, and bloody hell can't sing FULL-STOP. But I appreciate the fact that it is a movie shot quite nicely, with really nice locations and props! I wonder where they found the fancy-looking office? Or is it they just built it up for the movie? And you know what? The director, Yeo Joon Han is so 'geng' that I have to give him some compliment. He is not only the director, producer and editor of the film, he is also the lyrics and music composer for most of the songs! But yea... The songs are pretty weird and forgettable lar! Too bad...

Okay, that's it for tonight. More food reviews from Taiping coming up... After I'm done with my whole load of work lar!

Happy 'Ah Boo' Day~!

In conjunction with Mother's Day, I'm happily in Taiping! Yay~! But... I'm going back to KL again tomorrow lar! So sad... Ok lar, I can't be eating about 20 hours per day for too long you know, I will become a true fatty bom-bom! :S
So, in conjunction with Mother's Day, I gave my mom, my dad, my two sisters and my Ah Ma(dad's side) a treat. I think I should say it's also for Father's Day lar cos I'm not coming back for that next month. We had our dinner at Da Hua Restaurant located in Kampung Jambu, a restaurant I fell in love with since my last trip home for Cheng Beng. I still remember we ordered two plates of their La-La just because it was too good! Yum~!My cute Ah Ma who put her hand on my shoulder for the pic... So friend ler!
Oh no~ Mummy is falling asleep AGAIN!!!
The restaurant is always fully-booked, especially during special festivals, so we made a reservation earlier and ordered all the dishes beforehand. So here's the menu of the night..."Go Hok"--The Five Happiness.
Oooh~The Mixed Vege with Scallops!
The Fried Shark...
The Fried Sang Mee... With duck eggs!
Nai Yao Har... Definitely Ducum's favourite dish.
The major thing! The Kam Heong La-La!
To me, the La-La was still really good. They are all big and fresh, just like the last time I came. The Fried Shark was not too bad, but nothing beats my Ah Ma's(mum's side) one. I reckon the curry fish I had the last time was better. The scallops was pretty fresh too! Anywayz, I strongly recommend you guys to try the La-La there! Simply too delicious to ressist!
It all came to a total of RM155, I still think that is cheap for a meal with stuff like prawns, sharks and scallop! Eating in Taiping is just DAMN CHEAP!!!

Also in conjunction with the mummy day, I, or we (Ducum and I) would like to confess...
We always talk about the crazy stuff we did when we were kids, and most of them involve cheating our dear, cute and blur blur mum.
You see last time when we were sleeping in one room, we always have this 'night activity' in our room. Nah... We didn't watch porn or do any nasty thing lar, don't think too much. One of them was to 'korek' money out from our piggy banks. Mine was a shape of a big slice of watermelon while Ducum's was a big round honeydew. We would lie on our bed holding the piggy bank with the little slot facing down to us, then with our metal ruler, we would get coins out very easily. And then... Yay~! Extra pocket money for tomorrow! Can buy snacks or the cup noodles in school! My mum would sometimes knock on the door and we would quickly keep the piggy banks under our blanket before slowly got up and opened the door for her... The second thing was, eating Mee-in-my-Mug! You know Maggi has this tiny packets of noodles where all you need to do is put them into a mug, add hot water and you're done? My mum used to buy that a lot those days and we always sneaked out of the room late at night to make that as our supper. We leave no proof, since we always hide the wrappers underneath all the rubbish in the rubbish bin! The best part was when we were happily having our supper in the room, mum would come AGAIN!!! I know, she just love to check us out so much those days! Guess what? We would keep the mugs in one of our empty drawers! Then when she left the room, we of course continue eating! Hahahaha~!Ducum showing-off the noodles we use to have in our room...secretly! Shhhhh...
I don't know, but we told her about that when we were all grown up, she always say:"You think I don't know ar?"... But I really think she doesn't know at all... Judging by the 'blur-ness' she has.
Oh yes, my mum is always so blur it makes her so cute! Hahaha... Read Vivian's blog, my mum just went through one of her funniest moment of her life last week. For those who don't understand Chinese, she actually went to a Kopitiam with Vivian last week and went to the toilet there. After a while, she called Vivian on her mobile, asking her to push the toilet door for her because she couldn't open the door! So Vivian went, and she couldn't find anybody in the toilet (there is only a Ladies and a Gents toilet there). Then my mum called another few more times kinda losing patience asking why Vivian isn't there yet... And then suddenly Vivian saw my mum walking out from the Gents... Hahahahahah~ The thing was, my mum doesn't even know! She was still questioning Vivian for the delay when she came out!!! See, I told ya... She is so blur...So... HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO MRS. TAN! :)
Hehehe... My cute mum...

Bonus...
My very handsome Xiao Ma of BBT is always so cute whenever he is with his black-framed glasses...And then, the fan got a pair of them too~!Nice or not???

Nothing to shout about...

I actually think there are so little movies that interest me lately. It's like every Tuesday and Wednesday I had to skip movies and do other stuff. Sigh... And! The French Film Festival! Bloody hell, the tickets are now no longer RM5!!! Aaaarrrhhh...
Anywayz, here are three movies I've watched over the past few weeks. First one was a DVD I bought quite a while ago, the second one was because Ducum said it was bloody good while the third one was because we have no choice, but turned out to be better than expected.

亲密 Claustrophobia
单纯因为欣赏岸西，就好奇的去看看。
整部电影80%~90%吧，都在那辆车里.......看着那几个人聊天，说着他们的故事。当然，男女主角就这样有了外遇，但就是整天在车子里说话，根本什么“亲密”动作都没有！哈，你说我肤浅也好，我看到电影名称还真的以为有“那种”场面，结果是失望的.......哈哈哈哈~！最后那一幕也是两个人在车内，走着走着就结束了！就这样哦？没有了？我整个傻眼~！
好啦好啦，我看是我思想单纯，没有艺术细胞才看不懂啦~！
不过我很期待岸西的下一个作品咧，因为有张学友和汤唯！！！期待！期待！！！

Coming Soon
I'm soooooo NOT a horror movie fan. But when someone told me about a bloody good one, I would watch it. It's just like The Shutter and this one, which is also made by the same director.
Okay, I must say one or two parts of the movie is bloody scary! It's like the ghost scares you continuously in about 1 minute time! It was enough to make me scream for a little while in the cinema... ==||| I can't tell you much also because I shut my eyes majority of the time every time I watch scarry movies.
Well, I guess it was pretty not bad for a ghost movie, but to me, it doesn't beat The Shutter.

The Sniper 神枪手
好的，听到了各方各位的批评之后，本来完全不想去看这部电影的。结果因为I Rene还有免费戏票，就“勉强”的去看了！结果！我可以很确定那些极力批评这部电影的人是衝着陈冠希而来的！你们是针对Edison吧？不是针对神枪手这部电影！
老实说，我们四个人一起去看，大家都觉得这电影很不错呀！完全出乎意料耶！
其实，看到是林超贤的电影，大概就没有什么怀疑了吧？不过说真的，电影的故事一点也不好，就很普通，普通到了极点的那种。角色也没有说非常的特别，除了黄晓明的角色以外，其他的角色都太普通了，也没有什么发挥空间。有的可能就让我们这群女观众大饱眼福啰！因为他们都有事没事就穿这背心扮有型，真没办法！Edison演技还ok啦，毕竟角色很适合他。黄晓明得到了一个很不错的角色，不过个人认为还不是很到位，没发挥到，好可惜！可能跟我们看的是他配了广东话的音的关系。其他的不能说不好，只是角色没有很突出。
重点还是动作！这才是我们觉得很不错的地方！当然，它的动作不是很“动作”的，只是开枪的戏码，但很多都令人很佩服！无时无刻都让人觉得很紧张，整部电影都让我紧张得一直用手掩着嘴巴！超刺激的！
所以，真的没有想象中的那么烂啦！还是可以去看看的~！

Shirlexia, the food lover, food review writer and cook!

Ok guys, first of all, if you are staying or working in Damansara or Kepong, you might get a free copy of The Focus, a newly published dining guide. Hey, hey, I'm the writer cum editor for the little magazine! So do support the magazine and you are welcome to give me some comments too! The restaurants actually paid to be advertised lar, but I still have to write them in a way that would attracts the reader too! I think my first time is just so-so, I will do better for the next issue in August! :)

Of course, a special thanks to Yee Chuan who gave me the chance to do something I really love! :)The Focus is here! Check it out!
So now I'm not only a food lover, I'm also a food review writer, unofficially and officially. Plus, I'm also a cook, unprofessionally! Hehe...
After a long long break, I returned to the kitchen and cooked a proper meal tonight for Ducum, Sok and I Rene. It's Wui Fan or Mui Fan (燴饭). It's like the Cantonese Fried, Wat Dan Ho, just that this is serve with rice... Basically because I'm lazy to fry the noodles lar! :p
What you need?
Basically, oil, salt, corn flour, chopped garlic, chicken thigh cut into pieces (marinated with soya sauce and pepper beforehand, add in some corn flour to make the chicken tender), fresh prawns, vegetables-choy sum, two eggs, beaten.
This time around I added some sotong balls, button mushrooms and brocoli, just because I had to clear them off from the pantry and fridge.Ta da~ The very simple ingredients!
Oh, of course, cook some rice lar!
Start cooking the gravy by heating up the oil, fry the garlic, then the chicken, prawns, mushrooms, sotong balls and brocoli until they are all cooked. Add in water as much as you think it's enough. Let it boil. As it boil, add in the choy sum and salt to taste, stir. Wow~ Seriously looking very yummy already...
Next two steps are very important. Stir the corn flour with some water (note: it has to be cold tap water, otherwise it won't work) and pour slowly onto the wok. As you pour, stir. Make sure you stir as soon as you pour the corn flour in, otherwise it will results to some cubes of corn flour in your dish! Do this until the gravy is thicken. Finally, add in the beat eggs and stir! And you're done!
With the corn flour and eggs in, you can be ready to eat now!
To serve, put some rice on your plate, then pour the gravy over the rice! You can do the same with some fried Kuey Tiao, Yee Mee or any noodles you like. We had the healthy five-coloured rice lar! :)
And a look at the very important gravy.
And now you are all ready to have the Hui Fan a.k.a Mui Fan! Itata kimasu!
Yum~ yum~! I used to cook this a lot in Perth, and my housemates from different countries love it! I learnt this from my mum back home, so credit should goes to my lovely mum! :)
And that's us enjoying our dinner under the super duper hot weather! Sweat~Sweat~Sweat~!
To all my friends out there! Please make sure you stay healthy! Drink more water, herbal tea or vitamins. Stay away from the Swine Flu!!! Take good care of yourself! We are going out to get some Chinese Herbal Tea now, see ya~!

Brunch @ Yut Kee... Yum~!

I just broke my personal record of the least blog posts in a month! Phew~! Only EIGHT blog post! I mean LAPAN! BA! BAT! HACHI!
Aiya, faham-faham lar... I'm not a famous blogger whom trips to anywhere in the world are sponsored by some company. Neither am I like my dear friends, who have such dramatic life, break-ups, new crush or madly in love... :p Aaaarrrhhhh... See, my life is so dull!
Ok lah, two days ago I actually went out with the Cincai Group to Sky Bar. But our dear photographer didn't bring his camera. So we had to take pictures with mobile phones with the minimal light we had. So here's quite a nice one taken by Audrey...Not too bad a night at Sky Bar, was like a little ex-Hua Lian(s) reunion...
Anywayz... Today, or to be exact, yesterday, I brought Ducum and Sok (hahahaha... Sok!) to Yut Kee at Jalan Dang Wangi, my second visit to the kopitiam, their first. It was already full with lots of people waiting for tables when we arrived (yea, after getting lost for about 20 minutes), so we ended up with a table outside, with a drunken Indian man who were basically sleeping like 99% of the time we were there... ==||| Here we are... The very famous Yut Kee...The uncle whom we shared a table with...
Ducum and Sok dared themselves to take a picture with him... From that angle, everyone in the kopitiam actually saw them doing that!
I think we just want him to quit drinking and have some good food! :)
Still sleeping with saliva coming out from his mouth... Haha...
We ordered quite a lot of food, as usual. My Hai Lam Fried Mee wasn't really good lor, I reckon the Lam Mee I had last time was better, way better. Ducum had the chicken chop, and oh yeah~ the gravy was oooooohhh~so~good! Sok had a Char Siew Rice, which she said the rice was pretty good. They also love the Roti Babi, Roti Bakar and the Kaya Roll! Ah~ The Kaya Roll is unforgettable! The homemade Kaya is like really thick, not the smooth ones, I really love that kinda Kaya! I actually Ta Pao some home too! :)Roti Bakar with the MAJOR thing... The Kaya!
Everybody loves the Roti Babi... Aih... Nobody really cares about the Swine Flu...
My first Kaya Roll experience... Awesome!
Yum~Chicken Chop with the very homey gravy!
The so-so-only Fried Hai Lam Mee.
The Char Siew Rice wasn't too bad I guess...
Nah... Give you the menu so that you can decide what you wanna try!
After that, can't help... We took some silly pictures at the very old school-looking kopitiam!
So the happy with my Kaya Roll takeaway~! LOL!
No... No... We didn't go to Chow Kit Road!
Trying to be funny? Cute? Nerdy?
Now this one I know... Pretending to look like we are waiting for the bf who is already late for one hour!!!
Ok, this one quite normal I cannot think of an interesting caption.
Urm... Very Hot?Hey, I was imitating somebody, guess who???
Thank god I was standing at the back! I don't have nice teeth! See... I think I'm the most creative one among them, okay?
This one, I look like I was licking some nasty thing and Ducum and Sok are ignoring me...
Haiyo~ I look like I was humping my bag! Euw~ My blog is definitely 18SX! :S
Sexy back~! Time to go home~!
Coming home with sun-burn and now... At about midnight, I'm hungry...