While my guitar gently weeps

 

MARA scholarship (I'm screwed) Part I

This is not a bashing post nor it is a screw-government-join-opposition post. No I'm not politically inclined guy. Minta simpang la. It's just a post of me telling you guys how screwed I am during the last few weeks spanning before and after Raya Aidlifitri which beforehand, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

The journey starts a week so so before Raya when A-Level Student KMS Batch 11 keying in their user name and password given by CIE (CIE, I guess) to check the A-Level results, our second examination aka A2 examination. Alhamdulillah, after a very long struggle of keeping eyes open during midnight to complete assignments and stuff, I got 15 points, which for those who are not familiar with A2 marking system, that just mean I got straight As. Oyeah baby Gangnam Style (It's a joke). Later, my friend aka Helmi Amir reminded me of something I've long forgotten; UK Application through UCAS.

Helmi: Kau apply UK tak?
Shai: Apply tapi MARA bagi ke?
Helmi: Entah tapi kitorang dah buat appeal letter kat MARA kalau dapat 15 untuk pergi UK.

I'm Screwed 1: Why no one ever tell me about the appealing this guys are doing?

So, screwed by I'm Screwed Number 1, I proceed with calling Pn Hairiah which phone number given by CIE website to update her of my long-forgotten application.

Shai: Cikgu, kalau dapat 15, boleh apply untuk pergi UK ke cikgu?
Pn Hairiah: Yes, right now MARA is considering of sending those who got 15 and applying to UK but just wait for their call.

Oyeah! I'm burst with excitement and a XL pack of sweats considering how short the period of me staying in Malaysia will be. And don't forget; I call her on the eve of Raya, so I have to expect a little harsh tone of "Why you call me at this time, Shai". Then I remember...

I'm screwed 2: Passport, baby.

Oh my, I haven't done my passport yet and I don't have that discount letter with me.Yeah, and college will only be opening in next week because Raya. So fast forward to next week, I called KMS and been connected to Mr Adha, my former counselor.

Mr Adha: Shai bagi no IC, full name, belajar kat mana and jurusan apa.
Shai: Okay

Short but very contented conversation. At least, I got to save RM150 that later, will be used on something verily unexpected and unintended (Muse).

Let us just skip all the other daily work and go on to the passport-making day. Oh yeah, I'm getting my own  passport. But after all the little chores I've done to ensure the process went smoothly including spending RM18 to get my passport pictures done, all those photocopying of documents, I've got to stumble upon one unexpected problem,

Kak 1: Sorry dik, adik punya IC ni IC lama. Orang dah tak recognize dah muka adik dalam ni. Adik pergi buat baru kat tingkat bawah, then bila dah settle semua, adik naik atas balik pastu complete kan semua borang ni balik cam orang bodoh, okay.

Okay, the last three words were just made up but purposely made up to show my frustrations towards the situation. Come on, kak. Takkan IC lama pon takleh guna. Dammit. Don't you know, sis that making new IC will take time as long as one day, as if making a passport one month before departure was not enough trouble for me, screw you sister. Haha anyway, the day after today, which also known as tomorrow, I got my new passport. Oyeah Gangnam Style!

To be continued...

Almost time (UPDATE)

Today is 12th August 2012.
Tomorrow, it's gonna be 13th August 2012.
Doomsday.

I'm exaggerating on the third line actually, it's not like apocalypse gonna happened anytime soon though the same year, duh. It's my doomsday actually because tomorrow , I'm gonna get my result and basing my expectation from previous examinations and trials plus my effort, it's not gonna be pretty (hopefully it is).

On a completely unrelated topic, I've just got off the Zalora website, you know, that one online shopping website that have really cool TV ad (it's funny) and I must say, they have pretty damn hot model for their clothes. The women of course.

UPDATED (Of course!)

Alhamdulillah, I managed to get 15 (that means 3A) though I really doubt whether I deserved it or not haha, though truth be told, I'm not very happy to see some of my fellow mate just slightly miss their chance i.e getting 12, you know, we are sad when others are sad and hopefully they managed to buat rayuan to the MARA HQ and get sponsored to study overseas. If not, damn I hate it.

A forced posting

Hari ini serius aku rasa malas gila nak menulis tapi aku rasa lagi malas nak tidur or buat benda benda lain yang memerlukan konsentrasi yang rendah. So kalau ikut law of superiority, here I am, writing about nothi.....wait a minute. I have something I wanna talk about and it's called the Breaking Bad.

Breaking Bad is fucking awesome. That's all I have to say. Yes, awesome, just like The Dark Knight trilogy yang freaking awesome too. Tak tahu Breaking Bad itu apa? Google lah sendiri. Malas nak cerita tapi yang aku tau, memang awesome. AWESOME AND ADDICTIVE. Memang macam methamphetamine. And Walter White sangatlah cool dia punya transition from being a good law abiding teacher to a ruthless tricky drug kingpin/cook. Okay dah ada idea?

I am the danger.

Sekarang Breaking Bad dah sampai Season 5 dah, so for those who are interested in watching Breaking Bad especially in Malaysia, unfortunately there's no DVD or Blu-Ray available in the market, be it the original or the pirated one, so the best solution right now is to bukak sini and download it here. Believe me, it's worth every bytes. Kalau tak percaya, check kat sini , kau akan ada idea betapa critique pun sukakan cerita ini (98 metascore babe)

Saul: You and me, we're done.
Walt: We're done when I say we're done.

Keluang Man lagi berbaloi

Haha, hari ini aku nak buat second post dan tajuk second post aku kali ini bertajuk Keluang Man a.k.a Batman versi Malaysia.

Aku tahu, ramai Malaysian yang pernah tengok or at least dengar pasal Keluang Man. So, aku bukannya nak cerita pasal Keluang Man history or anything tapi mostly, I wonder much about why no one ever take the initiative to make a Keluang Man movie, I mean the market is big, Keluang Man have its own follower, the story is real, grounded to Earth, even the villains are real, no ridiculous superpower that gonna suck a lot of money for realizing the CG effect, and Keluang Man itself is portray-able by maybe good Malaysian actor.

Maybe a more realistic (and functional) costume of Keluang Man

Just have a look at the ridiculous and over-hype Cicakman (aku still bengang pasal stupid decision yang KRU Studios buat untuk buat filem Cicakman). First Cicakman, adalah derivation daripada character Marvel yang famous iaitu Spiderman . Dekat situ dah ada satu similarity dengan Keluang Man pasal Keluang Man berkisarkan waktu DC yang juga terkenal iaitu Batman (siapa tak kenal Batman, take a bullet to the head, please~) . Then, kita ada asal usul kejadian Cicakman yang memang over the head and stupid (bengang betul aku dengan Cicakman). Termakan cicak, ada ke patut. Kat sini, Keluang Man lebih real pasal after all, Batman pun tak ada kuasa gak. Dia penuh dengan state-of-the-art gadget saja.

Then, tengok la CG effect yang dibuat KRU Studios, langsung tak real, even final fighting scene dengan Rama ( I'm referring to Planet Hitam, sequel to Cicakman) sangat lah buruk CGI nya sehinggakan PSOne punya grafik time gameplay pun lagi lawa by a factor of 10. At least, part lawan tu, panggillah some martial art choreographer yang boleh tunjuk fighting choreography yang at least kalau tak sehebat KL Gangster (aku tak kata KL Gangster hebat, just good enough by my standard) bagilah boleh tahan. Kat sini gak, Keluang Man ada better advantage cos Keluang Man punya history, dia ni jaguh silat, courtesy from Wikipedia. And kat Malaysia, kita ada ramai jaguh silat yang kalau kalau bagi good offer, bolehlah tolong sikit-sikit.

Take ke cool kalau opening credit Keluang Man macam ni?

What else? Cicakman bergenrekan action comedy which is somehow a sad attempt to broaden the viewer because you know, everyone loves comedy movie, especially trend ada satu ketika dulu, iaitu horror comedy yang sangatlah bodoh. Kalau nak diikutkan, the only horror comedy yang Hollywood pernah tayangkan ialah Scary Movie Quadrology (dengar cerita Scary Movie nak keluar no 5) and itu pun sebab memang dia bertemakan parody iaitu kutuk movie-movie genre seram yang lain. Anyway, Malaysian sekarang dah tak bodoh macam dululah, kitorang nak movie yang more substance than style, not like Transformers or maybe maybe Total Recall yang baru ini. Janganlah feed movie buff macam kitorang ni dengan cerita genre komedi yang entah apa-apa. Lagi aku meluat kalau buka Astro, ada macam cerita-cerita komedi yang entah apa-apa macam Karoot Komedia X, Betul ke Bohong? and lain-lain yang memperlekehkan IQ orang Malaysia.

Anyway, I'm glad that Cicakman only manage to have only two movies and not more. And sekarang KRU Studios dah beralih angin ke movie movie yang bertemakan epic (Is it a genre?) macam yang terbaru aku dengar diorang ada jemput mamat brother Michael Scofield (Prison Break), Dominic Purcell and that tiny martial art guy from less-than-great Tekken movie. Hopefully CGI nya better and storyline-nya tak begitu banyak plot hole.

I'm waiting for my justice, bud.

Kalau ada adalah yang nak buat Keluang Man punya movie, aku cadangkan ambil idea daripada Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy yang sangat sangatlah awesome. Sangat gritty, dark and grounded version that even Malaysian director can afford the CGI cost. And cadangan maybe for suitable, it must never be some director, let's just say anyone who have vision like David Teo or A Razak Mohaideen yang kalau boleh nak produce 20 movies a year. Cadangan maybe pengarah Bunohan, Dain Said yang kalau tengok movie Bunohan itu, nampak vision dia yang certainly different than other director.

That's all I have to say and somehow in my mind, I've already drafted my fan version of Keluang Man, maybe ten minutes or so using The Samurai villain, and hopefully, with enough budget and good creative team, able to pull this off.

The First Post

Assalamualaikum, hari ini nak bagitau sikit, aku nak turn over a new leaf, nak start update blog and aku nak kerja. Woohoo! So hari ini, aku memang tak tau nak tulis pasal apa tapi memandangkan aku memang dah bosan, so let us talk about failure. Yes, failure. The kind of failure yang aku nak cakap mostly kegagalan aku nak mengekalkan status blog yang dah beratus beratus post dah untuk still active.

2008 - First time aku buat blog, pada umur 16 tahun, waktu still From 4, waktu itu, rasa ajaib and rasa different and special kalau ada blog, yes but not now though. Tapi waktu itu mostly terikut-ikut crush buat blog and nak rasa lebih dekat dengan dia (geli-geleman aku) and waktu itu post aku memang macam ni lah, tiada bermotifkan apa apa and mostly about this body and its everyday things. Boring aku tau tapi biasalah otak baru nak matured kot, take time and waktu itu segala widget yang available untuk blog aku nak sumbat masuk dalam blog, apa apa yang kau cakap semua ada. Aquarium, check. Fridge, check. Clock, check. Hit counter, check. Everything, check. So, itulah hidup aku sampai lah satu hari tu, aku buat satu post pasal cikgu akaun aku yang kutuk aku pasal tak reti tulis nombor 4, so aku buatlah satu poem yang diringkaskan mengutuk dia.Then, nak dijadikan cerita, waktu aku ambil cuti tambahan hari Selasa (tak dapat permission pun) tiba tiba member-member aku cakap yang dia dapat tahu pasal post aku, uisshh tak menggeletar lutut kau dengar berita macam itu, so aku terus delete post aku (bukan blog) and terus menjauhkan diri daripada PC for a period of time tapi in the end, apa yang cikgu aku cakap itu, bukan aku yang buat tapi senior aku. Damn haha.

bibligorafi penduduk malaya (waktu ini zaman indie, kene bagi nama kreatif sikit)

2009 - Aku tak ingat nama blog yang aku buat. Seriously, it's just too many names and aku dah delete dah blog tu. Memang no chance lah nak check balik tapi blog itu aku buat mostly untuk you know, still about myself but it's special cos it's in English. Hahaha, waktu ini terpengaruh dengan kata-kata guru bahasa Inggeris aku yang cakap " If you wanna improve your English usage, I recommend you to have a blog. Express yourself in Enbglish cos no one can give a damn of what you are writing". Lebih kurang lah ayat dia. And after 5 posts, aku delete blog itu atas sebab malas.

2012 - Waktu ini, aku dah start kemaruk dengan gambar bergerak (motion pictures) and selalu gak lah mendekatkan diri dengan laman web yang berunsurkan movie and TV series (mostly English series, tak main lah Melayu ni, cewwah, haha). So, aku tertarik dengan konsep 'movie review' ni so, terjadilah blog movie and lain-lain hasil kolaborasi aku dengan Helmi (roommate) tapi blog itu pun tak jadi gak. Maybe sebab waktu itu, dah nak exam and kitorang memang takde masa nak check or update blog.

Sebenarnya ada banyak lagi blog-blog yang aku buat dalam period 5 tahun itu (kot), tapi lupa sebab aku buat bagai melepaskan batuk di tangga saja. So aku nak berubah, sebab itulah first post aku pun panjang kali ini. Selalunya aku buat opening post just entitled "Welcome to my blog". Haha, anyway before leaving, jom dengar Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.