My favorite singer in the whole world

Keep on changing, haha seriously. Most recent I really falling in love with Jung Dong Ha voice, this ex-singer of Krock group Boohwal is surely making a big move in Kpop world. For me, his voice jusy to die for. Not a secret I will vote to anyone with husky voice but Jung Dong Ha above all that. He's exceptionally perfect. Now, yesung will be my no 2 and I wish Sandeul of B1A4 will improve his singing technic and become one the greatest solo singer.

JODHAA AKBAR

Saya bukan peminat tegar filem Hindi, hanya kadang kala genre filem itu sendiri yang menarik minat saya menonton, ditambah lagi adanya Hrithik Roshan dan Aiswarya Rai. Dua pelakon yang dianggap 'couple' paling serasi filem Hindi.

Filem ini budget besar, kosnya saya kurang arif, tidak rajin untuk menjengah jaringan ke jaringan mencari maklumat. Fokus saya lebih kepada apa pendapat dan perasaan saya menontonnya.

Saya mungkin tidak adil menilai tapi jujur saya katakan saya tidak berpuas hati dengan penceritaan filem ini. Entah apa salahnya, saya sentiasa membanding filem ini dengan Devdas sepanjang tayangan. Isu perkahwinan berbeza agama begitu menganggu saya sedangkan ini bukan perkara luar biasa di India sendiri. Keserasian antara Hrithik sebagai Akbar dan Aish sebagai Jodha, puteri Rajput yang dikahwinkan atas sebab politik memang begitu mengasyikkan ditambah alunan lagu merdu komposer prolifik AR Rahman. Dua perkara ini saja meyakinkan saya untuk terus menonton filem ini ke akhirnya.

Sekali imbas, tiada apa yang kurang tentang filem ini, pelakon cantik dan kacak, berjaya pula mengangkat watak mereka, lagu yang indah, set yang gah tapi apa yang kurang pada saya ceritanya tidak lancar. Akbar adalah pemerintah Mughal paling berjaya, terkenal dengan kebijaksanaannya terutama taktik peperangan. Di zamannya ilmu dan seni bina islam berkembang pesat di India. Sayangnya, maklumat utama ini tidak diceritakan dengan yakin. Akhirnya bagi saya filem ini tak lebih dari metafora bukan sejarah.

A Love To Kill

Dah lama teringin memiliki DVD drama ini. Kebetulan KBSWorld baru-baru ini membuat tayangan semula dan dengan English Sub rasanya saya akan keep on hold lagi sehingga habis tayangannya. Drama yang didukung oleh Rain ( Jeong Ji Hoon), bagi saya ini adalah persembahan terbaik Rain, yea...Full House is entertaining tapi drama ini diberi jiwa sepenuhnya oleh Rain.

Jalan ceritanya agak perlahan, lebih stress, tegang dan serius...boleh katakan drama ini hanya dilembutkan oleh watak-watak sampingan. Walau bagaimanapun kebolehan Rain dan Shin Mina menjiwai watak memang tak boleh disangkal lagi. Semasa biography Rain yang dipersembah oleh Discovery Channel, Rain mengakui satu-satunya cara melepaskan kemarahannya ialah menjayakan watak dalam drama/filem sebaik mungkin.

Sebagai BokGu, Rain adalah peninju. Selepas 10 tahun, dia bertemu semula dengan abang kesayangannya, hanya seketika....abangnya membunuh diri dengan terjun dari bangunan...Fikirnya, abangnya berbuat demikian kerana ditinggalkan kekasihnya, pelakon meningkat naik, Cha Eunsuk. Bermula episod ' revenge' Bokgu terhadap Eunsuk, caranya dengan mendekati EunSuk dan membuat Eunsuk jatuh cinta kepadanya. Dengan itu EunSuk juga akan merasai apa yang abangnya rasakan apabila ditinggalkan. Sebenarnya ia tidak semudah itu, BokGu benar2 jatuh cinta kepada EunSuk. Bagi saya, takdir menentukan pertemuan mereka yang dihubungkan dengan Minku ( Abang BokGu).

Pengakhirannya, kedua adik beradik itu ( Minku & BokGu) menemui penghujung yang tragis

Qaisy & Laila

Saya ambil 3 tahun untuk akhirnya menulis tentang filem ini, satu-satunya filem melayu moden yang tak jemu saya tonton. Hasil karya Habsah Hassan dan arahan Raja Ahmad Alauddin ini mengangkat kisah kemanusiaan, pengorbanan sukarelawan perubatan Malaysia di negara yang dalam peperangan dan tidak lupa kisah cinta.

Saya membaca blog yang menulis pengalamannya menonton filem ini semasa di panggung, hanya berdua seluruh panggung, bak kata orang filem ini tiada sambutan dari penonton melayu khususnya. Sedih saya mengenangkan mentaliti orang melayu, kalau cerita 'lawak bodoh' mesti jadi filem pecah panggung. Teringat pepatah Eman Manan baru-baru ini semasa mempromosikan filemnya Wayang.

" bukan susah untuk kita mempopularkan filem kita di luar negara, kita hanya perlu buat filem yang memperbodohkan diri kita sendiri, pasti orang akan mengagungkan kita", katanya.

Saya pula tidak suka menonton filem di panggung kerana kurang senang dengan situasinya, sedang asyik melayan cerita ada orang di hadapan yang asyik dengan telefon bimbitnya, suara orang berbisik,orang yang asik keluar masuk panggung tak kira lagi yang ada membawa anak-anak yang memang tak reti etika hormat orang lain. Oleh itu lebih senang beli aje 'movie'nya dan tengok kat rumah, nak lebih syok beli home theater...

Filem ini didukung oleh Fazura sebagai Laila dan Jehan Miskin sebagai Qaisy. Seingat saya ketika itu kedua-duanya adalah pelakon baru. Keseluruhan babak filem ini ditangkap di Quetta, sempadan Afganistan dan Pakistan.

Filem ini diwar-warkan sebagai kisah cinta tapi ia lebih dari itu, meruntun jiwa saya bila babak kanak-kanak berebut roti, suara latar Laila dalam e-mail kepada ibunya,

''kanak-kanak merebut roti sehingga ke cebisan yang terkecil''.

Begitu pula bila Qaisy menerangkan, kanak2 mencari serpihan periuk api untuk dijual buat makanan, kehilangan nyawa kalau tidak setiap hari, setiap minggu, setiap bulan..begitu susah sekali hidup di negara yang berperang.

Cinta Qaisy & Laila bukan cinta fizikal...Cinta mereka adalah cetusan semangat Laila buat Qaisy meneruskan perjuangannya. Cinta tanpa banyak kata-kata ini digambarkan dengan babak-babak yang indah persis menonton drama korea, Autumn in my heart.

Kogitsune Helen

A tear jerker movie definitely although I love Korean movie, 'The Classic' more yet this movie makes me cry and I mean cries...a lot. Beautiful setting, love, strength and friendship between human and animal, that kind of movie is always inviting me because I'm an animal lover myself. At first, I cried because I miss my cat, Michelle, who died more than a year ago but towards the end, I cry to the movie,it touches my heart so deeply. If you think 'one liter of tears' is sad enough, wait till you see this.

Having a photographer mother who travels a lot, Taichi was left to live with her mother's boyfriend, a veterinarian. Being a new student, he finds it's hard to get a friend but that won't bother him because he used to shifting schools. Missing his mother, Taichi is quite an imaginative child, like he's living in his own world until he met a baby fox while coming back from school. He thought he would like to search for the fox mother and went to the police station but instead the officer send him back to the Vet's house, Dr. Kagami( I think that was his name).

Kagami tends to injured animal from nearby forest and abandoned animal. He's only source of income is from taking care a dog named Rossi while his owner travels. Living in such condition, an added animal patient in his clinic is such a burden though he actually like taking care all of them. When Taichi finally run away with the fox, he agreed to keep the fox under a condition, Taichi must help in the clinic. This is when the fox was found deaf, mute and blind . Taichi named her Helen and determined to help the baby fox to find her mother and make her well again.

Under his care, the fox finally eating and gain weight that enable her to go on surgery. Seeking help from his professor to cure the fox illness unfortunately Helen condition is beyond surgery, it's just a matter of time before she dies and Dr. Kagami decides Helen should be kept in the university. Knowing this, Taichi himself with the help of Rossi (he kidnapped the dog actually) went to the university to take Helen back. Found her in experimental table and she cried to him ( called out for her mother) shocking all in the room when they thought the fox unable to make any sound.

Taichi look after Helen with such loving and tender care surpassing what everyone can think of until to the end of Helen life. That's how meaningful and sweet this movie was. I really love the scene where Taichi and Helen in the field of Dandelions and Helen licking Taichi's tears like she understand so much how he feels. I remember what Taichi said, ''Helen, ame janaiyo, boku no mekara dekitaianda''.

Honey and Clover 2

ok...too obvious, dah terlalu lama tak update. East of Eden still continuing, now the latest, English Sub at episode 18, catch it at viikii.net.

Forgive me, I wish to write in proper Malay nevertheless seems like I'm failing. Mostly, it is more tempting writing in 'rojak manglish', non restriction and I can get to job done faster.

Okay, enough of the mumbling, I wanted to share, one of my beloved anime, Honey and Clover, bought Season 2 recently for my collection.

It was sometimes ago, my lil sister introduce this anime, it caught my intention instantly and not to mention it's breathtaking artwork, mostly done in watercolor, nowadays this kind of anime artwork is really rare and somehow this technique really suit H&C, its soften the character.

I wrote my review sometimes ago but it's mostly about Season 1. Season 2 is the final of Honey and Clover, the answer to all questions. By the end of the episode, you are so sure that this is never going to continue although you wish otherwise.

It start where Season 1 left off, Takemoto and Hagu now in their final year at the academy and their senior Yamada, Mayama and Morita now focusing on their future after the university. Mayama resigned from his previous job and working with Ms Rika at Harada Design. While, Yamada helping her family wine shop business, she also doing pottery for Rika. While obviously Yamada had unsettled feelings towards Mayama, eventually she'll understand and accepted that fact, she grew closer to Nomiya.

While Takemoto concentrating on his final year project, he felt adrift from Hagu due to his love confession from Season 1, although they remain as good friend, they barely talk to each other. Hagu met with accident on the first day of Hamabi festival, she lost her right hand nerves, and her future in painting came shattered. Takemoto and Morita were planning to stay with Hagu to help with her rehabilition but finally Hagu choose her uncle, Shuuji Hanamoto over them.

At the end of the series, Morita now working as CG director in Hollywood as the rest watching his interview on dinner table, a parting feast for Takemoto who'll be working at the shrine in Morioka. Just like Takemoto said,''one day, they all be parting to lead their own future, what happen now is only memories in the future''.

Da ren wu

Finally, finished watching this wuxia drama. My first ever review on its kind. Spend about a week watching this online at My Soju . Attached link for English Review that I thought would be similar with what I'm going to write in Malay. Although I wouldn't agree on some of it especially comments on Nicholas Tse as Yang Fan. I feel that Nicholas suited Yang Fan character really well, the major problem is the whole story itself. Some parts of the scene, for me is just ridiculous. Some are unnecessary while others important scene to smooth the transition between scene missing. I kept thinking ''what the hell is happening?'' and the story seems lost.

This drama adapted from wuxia novel written by Gu Long. Although the character is similar, the drama writer had twisted the actual story, somewhat for me is rather interesting than the novel itself ( I couldn't finish reading it, it got really boring at the beginning, maybe it'll get interesting towards the end but the boredom killing me to continue). What lacking is, if they are going to change the chronology of the story, they had done it badly mostly on the later episode of the drama. The main characters ( Yang Fan and Tian Sisi) were missing in some of the episodes and other example:-

1) they meant to keep Yang Fan identity a secret, why must tell it to ChuChu and Chuchu to Tian SiSi and even the Shaolin's Monks Wuxin.

2) am I mistaken?, when the masked man invade the Shaolin temple doesn't he reveal his true self in front monks Wuxin?.. later, they met at the alliance meeting, looks like they completely a different person... wierd???

It's hard to watch if I'm thinking so much about it. It's interesting to watch Yang Fan and I personally like Commander Chu LiuXiang character. A gentle and free spirit person.

Erm...I thought the customes is really nice and again not agree with the English review,being grew up with reading wuxia comic/manga translated in Malay written by Tony Wong and Ma Wing Sing, what Yang Fan wearing is not copying from Matrix, it's just the opposite, the qipao/changsan that's normal in wuxia world. By the way, It's outstanding on the body of Nicholas Tse...hihihi...

SINOPSIS

Bila Tian SiSi diarahkan untuk berkahwin dengan Yang Fan, dia membuat segala yang boleh untuk melepaskan dirinya. Tambahan pula dia menganggap dirinya cintakan Qin Ge, seorang hero celebriti yang digembar-gemburkan oleh Meteor Clan untuk mendapat pulangan untuk tabungan menjadikan Clan itu nombor satu dalam dunia kungfu.

Sebagai ahli keluarga general Yang, Yang Fan ditugaskan untuk menjadi pengintip ayahnya bagi pihak istana. Rahsia yang diketahuinya menyebabkan nyawanya diburu pemberontak, dan dia cedera teruk 2 hari sebelum perkahwinannya dengan Tian SiSi. Diselamatkan oleh seorang yang gila tapi mempunyai skill kungfu yang tinggi, wajah mereka kemudian ditukarkan untuk meneruskan risikan. Lelaki gila itu ( Tie Jun) dihilangkan memorinya dan wajahnya ditukarkan dengan Yang Fan yang tiada harapan lagi untuk hidup.

Apabila Tian Sisi berkahwin dengan Yang Fan, dia juga secara tak sengaja terjerumus dalam konflik yang menyelubungi suaminya. Walaupun mulanya dia yakin cintakan Qin Ge akhirnya sedar dia semakin sayangkan Yang Fan.

Drama ini bukan hanya Tian Sisi dan Yang Fan, karakter lain juga seimbang dengan watak mereka. Paling menarik adalah semasa di Snowy Mountain apabila Chu Chu bertemu Lui Qing dan pertembungan di gunung itu untuk mendapatkan Snowy Lotus yang dikatakan dapat meningkatkan kuasa kungfu.

Permulaan drama ini menarik, rasa tak boleh berhenti menonton. Apabila memasuki separuh epidose, watak utama ( Tian SiSi dan Yang Fan) hilang, beberapa episod langsung tiada hanya dipenghujung cerita, ah! pada saya, rugi sangat, pelakon hebat, cerita hebat pelaksanaannya gagal..