Robin Hood

This version of Robin Hood tells the story of the legend of Robin Hood before he becomes Robin Hood. He was Robin Longstride, an archer in King's Richard's army which is currently in France in a long strenuous war that left everyone bone-tired. King Richard died from an arrow that struck him at the neck and Robin together with Will Scarlett, Alan-a-Dale and Little John decided to hurry back to England.

On the way home, they encounter Robert Loxley who is ambushed in an attack by Geoffrey who plans with the french to invade England. Loxley, dying asks Robin to deliver the crown and returns his sword to his father Walter in Nottingham. Robin disguised himself as Robert Loxley and manage to sail back to England and delivers the crown and John was crowned King John, Richard's useless, mean and greedy brother. He then continues his way to Notthingham to deliver the sword to Walter and encounters with Marion, Robert Loxley's wife. Walter then asks Robin to impersonate Robert so that his land will not be confiscated by the crown.

Geoffrey meanwhile worms his way into the King's service and acts as the new Marshall to collect taxes and using the name of King John tries to stir oppositions on the King by burning down villages and killing innocent villagers to create havoc in England in hopes of making it easier for the French. Walter who knew Robin's father tells him about his father who wrote "Rise and rise again until lambs become lions" and hopes to unite the barons for a better society and make England a fairer country for all. Unfortunately, Walter was killed by Geoffrey in a raid at Notthingham. Robin together with the barons and the King John rallied and successfully thwarts the invasion of the French and avenged Walter by putting an arrow straight into Geoffrey.

King John who had promised a fairer country for all when the barons rallied backs out of his promise and declared Robin as an outlaw and to be hunted for the rest of his life. Thus, together with his friends and Marion, Robin joins the orphans who made a life in the greenwood and live as Robin Hood which is where the legends begins.

There's been a few version of Robin Hood. There's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and a funny comedy version Robin Hood: Men in Tights which was really funny and stupid. I watch both version and like them both. Can't compare them because they don't tell the same story. One is before the legend and the other two was after. It's up to you to decide which you like more.

Me...I prefer the funny one as it gave me lots of laughter because it was plain stupid...LOL

Shrek Forever After...

Went for a movie marathon on Thursday. I watched Shrek Forever After and Robin Hood.

Seems like the month of May is a month for movies for me.

Shrek was nice. Some parts were kind of boring for me but it was overall kind of funny. A few jokes here and there that would bring laughter to the audiences. I watched it in 3D too. My first 3D movie in the GSC cinema.

After rescuing the princess from the dragon and saving the kingdom and going through lot's of other adventures, Shrek finally gets to live happily ever after...or does he?

Waking every morning to those little ogre babies and having to be nice to everyone and not be the ogre that scares everyone is becoming too much for Shrek until he exploded. He was then conned into making a deal with Rumpelstiltskin to take away a day for a day of becoming the ogre that everyone is scared off. Shrek is then transported into a weird world where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is King and Fiona never met Shrek and becomes this warrior ogre that fight for freedom for ogres.

In order to get back the life he always have, Shrek has to undo all these and make Fiona falls in love with him and restore the world back in order.

It's like you never miss something until it is gone. That's how Shrek felt when he didn't have his wife and kids that he missed it all. He tries to get it all back but will it be too late?

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Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Last week, I think it was a Thursday I went on a tour to the Pinang Peranakan Mansion. It's a Baba and Nyonya mansion on Church Street, Penang. The entrance fees is RM10 and I thought it was pretty reasonable but they should have tickets for students like RM5, then I won't mind going again...hahaha.

I'm fascinated by Peranakan stuff. I love eating Peranakan food which is so yummy. My favourite is all those dishes my grandma cooks. Historical stuff are interesting because they have a story behind them and all. If you think of how these objects once belong to someone from the past, it's like imagining what it was like hundred of years ago...and I'm crapping again...blah blah blah. Ignore me..=.=

Any of you watched Little Nyonya? Then you'll recognise this house. It's where part of Little Nyonya is filmed. This house was actually in bad shape until the owner now remodeled it. The wood crafting and intricate design of the furniture in the mansion is really amazing. Lot's of glass stuff too which are very valuable and very costly.

I'll write an endless post if I keep talking about it because I saw lots of things I want to write about. So, let's just look at the photos instead.

The stairway and part of the courtyard.

Nice isn't it? Looks very classy.

These are mine....Nahh....They belong to some Nyonya years ago...

This is called a longevity mirror I think. The reflection is never ending as two mirrors are placed opposite each others.

One of the dining rooms. If I'm not mistaken, there were 2 or 3. Can you see the window. The glass window is very intricate and you can see the outside from inside but not from the outside to inside and it was made in China hundreds of years ago. How amazing is that to already have that quality and skill at that time?

The antic porcelain bowls and plates are displayed behind and Hui Ping and me are seated on a S-shaped settee.

There's more photos but I'm too lazy to post them. You people should just come down to the lovely Penang Island and see this for yourself. ^___^

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Updates coming on my trip to Pinang Peranakan Mansion.

Too lazy to update now.

Kekekeke....

Iron Man 2

Okay, I watch this last week. I can't really remember much now but I felt that the sequel was not as nice as the 1st movie. You see, when sequels come out, we always have that anticipating in the air because we watched the 1st movie and felt it was so great that we expect more from the 2nd one. Even if the 2nd movie was nice we would not have felt satisfied anyway.

Never anticipate I tell you.

*Spoilers ahead*

After saying that, I actually thought the sequel was nice but could have been better. The show started with Tony Stark being this famous dude now after revealing he is Iron man and all is fulfilling his father's dream of opening Stark Expo that showcase the world's best technologies. Tony Stark is however being demanded by the government to hand over the Iron Man suit. He refused and with his arrogant ways humiliating the minister and making it a joke.

Tony is however suffering from palladium poisoning from the reactor in his body and decided to do whatever he want because he thinks he was dying and all. In the midst of it all, we can see an enemy, Ivan Vanko who wants revenge for his father who actually co-created the reactor. Ivan created a reactor of his own with whips trying to kill Tony. Ivan was arrested but was break out of prison by Tony's rival Justin Hammer who wants to beat Tony in the technologies. Hammer is actually a total jerk and a moron, he kind of sucks in the technologies actually but he breaks Ivan out to help him create his own line of drones to rival Tony's Iron Man.

Tony however thinks he's dying so he appointed Pepper as CEO and he does whatever he wanted, throwing parties, misuse of his Iron Man suit and all. Erm...I almost forgot about Natalie Rushman (Scarlett Johansson). She's really hot and all in this film. Great body shape and what an amazing figure...very sexy. She came out as Pepper's secretary.

During Tony's birthday party, Tony got drunk in his Ironman suit prompting Rhodes to subdue him using another Ironman suit, almost destroying the whole house and all. Tony feeling disgraced was then approached by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. who provides him with things from his father that helps save Tony's life as it contains important info to create a new reactor using a new element.

Hammer however thinking he finally can reveal his masterpieces in Stark Expo actually creates havoc as it turns out Ivan controls all the drones. Tony came with the improvised version of Iron Man to fight of all the drones. Rhodes was caught in between as his own suit was being controlled by Ivan but he tries his best to help Tony. This part was the most exciting to me but I wish they have added more of the fight between Tony and Ivan.

So in the end, Tony manage to defeat Ivan but with help from Natalie who breaks into Hammer Industries to gain back control over the drones. Natalie breaking in was cool in a way. Tony combined with Rhodes finally manage to win Ivan Vanko. However the drones were installed with self destructing devises that almost killed Pepper if Tony did not manage to save her in time.

The end was pretty funny as the minister who despises Tony to the bone have to honour Rhodes and Tony medals for bravery. Just looking at his forced smile was real funny.

What a long summary....finally done...haha. I wanted to write this for days but was too lazy. It was done in a rush...well at least I satisfy myself by actually writing something.

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When unity shows...

You know when we can really see the unity of Malaysian?

It's during sports.

When it comes to sports, Malaysian are best at cheering and supporting our team.

People of different races come together to cheer for our Malaysian squad.

The spirit of unity is really in the air at that time.

So,

Malaysia Boleh for Thomas and Uber Cup!!!


God knows how they are going to win China but we got to have faith in them.

Food!!!

(Now you see it...)

(Now you don't...LOL)

Before I came back home, I went for dinner at Hai Tian Restaurant which is located at Kuala Perlis for some yummy dinner. It was really funny how 4 of us, all girls ordered 5 dishes and finished eating in like 20 minutes. Haha. We were that hungry...LOL. The food was cheap too. 4 of us ate for only about RM50 something.

After that we actually went off for some satay nearby. The power of great food. LOL. If the food is great, we can eat and eat...