Super-deformed Transformers?

For a long time, I kept wondering why Ironhide and Ratchet looked so terrible as toys. This blog post echoes my sentiments.



I invite you to look at these images and try as hard as you can, to imagine Ironhide's head as a glass screen. When I was young, I tried filling the screen with imaginary eyes, chromedome and fin, etc.. Man, I tell u it was hard.



Well, this latest addition to the really old toy (as in, its just been released lo..) now makes your encore Ironhide/Ratchet look somewhat like what its meant to be.


So all this while, they've been missing their HEADS! And all this while, Takaratomy never thought to fix this issue till.. now.. I pity all the traumatic little kids who made that purchase, and all the silly men who bought the Encore series (new releases, still without heads) and all the silly collectors who paid top dollar for this. All that pent up frustration. lol..

China's tops at Olympics.. or USA?

Just being nit-picky, but I always thought the most number of Golds was placed tops at any games. Am I wrong? So while searching for results online, I came across this site, and according to that site, USA is tops, although China holds the most number of Golds. Why? Because they're basing it on TOTAL number of medals won now. hmm..

Just a gripe. Singapore's never gonna be higher than 50+ ranking anyway right? Kudos to our Olympic athletes, they showed a lot of bite and spirit.

Another random rant:

Microsoft is so hard up to prove to people that they have a competitor, and that is Apple. Apple has an insignificantly small market share of abt 8% so far (from Yahoo news), and so MS feels threatened. The problem is.. there are a lot of people who don't see Apple as the competitor. Such as me.

I don't want Apple cos its freaking ex, they seem "cooler" cos of the marketing and admittedly, some of their functions are really nice (it just works), but you simply can't play good games on a Mac!

MS is afraid that Apple is gaining share of the consumer market? So am I! Is there no one else out there!? I'm all for Ubuntu and the Linux alternative, but that's gonna take ages to catch up, I feel, just cos its a whole 'nother ball-game.

Healthier as a couple

I apologise if this sounds like a gushy TMI post in advance, just wanted to share how much different it is to me, having someone like Shermy around to care for me.

Now I know what it means, to have someone "care" for you. I just finished drinking my green tea + wolfberry/red date mix today and pondered while biting into the chinese herb - this is something I don't usually take, probably wouldn't even consider taking, were it not for Sherm. She expressed concern over my dietary habits and has since been making a conscious change to it. Every weekend, we head out to the Cold Storage or Shop N Save, and pick up some items which we will both consume over the coming week. This usually includes some fruits, perhaps a few muesli bars, cereal and veggies even. Though not much, they do contribute to a healthier, more balanced diet (mine especially). This was something I never bothered with. It's good to know that someone wants to keep me healthy cos they treasure my existence. =)

Of course, the changes have manifested - I now eat most of the veggie in my favourite ban mian; my new favourite at Lau Pa Sat is actually a beef la mian, that is actually thinly-sliced beef on top of a vegetable la mian; I consume fruits and yoghurt on a regular basis now; and I always am conscious of having at least 1 veggie in my cai fan at lunch.

And so, I do my part for advertising the joys of being attached. lol.. not.

Random gush now ends.

Equilibrium (2002)

Guest reviewer Sherm:

"It's 1984 meets Brave New World, only grey, with a barren emotional landscape to replace the soma-induced wonderland that is the latter, and a running background theme of gratuitous violence (yay!). The movie takes root from the premise that human emotion is the base of all evil - remove desire, love, vengeance, hate... and one gets world peace. Equilibrium echoes Brave New World in more ways than one, questioning ideas of social control by a greater power, ostentatiously for the greater good of Mankind. Replace "Ford" with "Father", unlimited access to trippy feel-good Soma with Prozium and set it in an Asimov-esque background of technological superiority... World Peace, but at what price?

An equally enjoyable show if appreciated as a trashy action flick (gun kata: the idea is novel, actual realistic applicability doubtful, but gosh i wanna learn it if i can look as cool!), and a must-watch for all Christian Bale fans!"

***** ***** ***** *****

This movie is known for having one of the top number of body counts by a single character:
Cleric John Preston killed 118 in the movie.

After Shoot'em Up (Smith at 141), his status has been reduced to third place, with the Japanese chambara flick Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974) taking top spot at 150.

Interesting film trivia. =)

Movie Body Counts
Wiki link for Equilibrium


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