Supernatural

I am finally starting to watch Supernatural again after stopping it at season 7. I have just finished season 8 and started to watch season 9. Supernatural is by far the most intriguing, most breathtaking series and the only one I truly follow since the first episode. Season 1 is a bit dull but it is the most original. After all, it's the start. Season 1 is simple, but with its storyline and plot it really ain't sustainable as there is no character development. Season 2 gets better and the best starts Season 4 when angels are introduced, with season 5 the best. The most climatic and captivating season ever in the Supernatural series. Season 6 is bad, as far as I can recall, and season 7 got better. Season 8 is also not bad, though a bit poor. Actually every seasons after the fall of Lucifer back to his cage, the series got poor. But season 9 so far, OMG. I have just watched the fifth episode and oh God please just axe this show. The first three episodes were nice, but the fourth episode is about a witch from the Oz and that was downright ridiculous. The fifth episode is about Dean casting a spell to allow himself to speak with a dog and it backfires. This is a deviant storyline, and it sucks. Please go back to cursed objects or poltergeist. This fantasies, fairy tales and any Dr. Doolittle stuffs need to be put away. Please I love this series, don't spoil it!

Ju-On 4: The Final

Being not directed by the creator who made this film a blockbuster success ultimately made this film a little sad to watch. This film continues where the previous film ends, and is meant to be the final film for the series, although I personally doubt they would actually axe a series that has been so successful. This film manages to send scares as the previous ones, but the plot is very poor. The plot is never meant to be organised as Ju-On films never have an organised plot, but the plots used to be able to be arranged to get a fluid one which are at best logical and connected. This film seems to have very sloppy plots, with inconsistent storyline between characters. There are some scary moments that have been abused so much it is no longer scary. Some things are not explained, and some materialised without proper explanation or clear relation to any of its events, they gave the impression that their mere existence is to scare. This is a very disappointing finale, and is not really worth watching.

The best part of the film would be, quite funnily, a translation error. The little girl in the hospital, upon meeting Toshio, introduces herself by saying “我叫绘菜", but the Malay subtitle wrote it as "saya pesan sayuran campuran". Thank you for making me laugh while watching a horror movie!

Swadaya Marching Band - "Princess Mononoke"

I just have to share this, despite having done so. 

Swadaya Band performance this year has "Princess Mononoke" as its theme, and it is simply mind blowing. 

I just love it.

Mi4i

I've just changed a new smartphone a few weeks ago. With greatest and indescribable sadness I was forced to abandon my old phones due to its rapid deterioration in performance and its almost unsustainable operation and replace it with a new phone. Constrained by limited budget and yet crave for large phone storage, I eventually chose to buy Mi4i. It's newly released in Malaysia, and the price was RM749 so it was ok. After using it for a few weeks, it so far is great but the size is a bit too large to my liking. The speed and, ok well, everything else is great but there are two very disappointing features of the phone: it has no expandable storage meaning you are limited by the 16GB storage it offers, which could be quite good as I consider it as a tool to limit myself from using unnecessary apps that are mostly unhelpful and redundant, and the battery is bad. The battery is really bad, couldn't last more than one day even with minimum usage. I don't play games, I don't surf internet and I use very little social media websites, and it could last only a maximum of one day. The battery is a big let down. I therefore will say I am not recommending Mi4i to anyone who is not financially constrained. However, if money is tight, then yes it would be a decent phone - except the battery. But with low budget, asking for very quality features is simply a luxury.

Is Wealth Worth It?

Working as an intern (though an unofficial one) in a construction site basically exposes me to a group of Bangladeshi who are required to be on site constructing the building as instructed by civil engineers.

Civil engineers, at this stage, chiefly supervise, and ensure materials do come as scheduled, and pressed the suppliers should they fail to come.

Walking at site allow me to see a lot of things. While I can be there to watch how they actually construct a building, I too get to see how these group of people get along with each other.

I am a strong observant. In group interactions I am at most time an observant and listener than a participant. I observe how people interact, I like to read their body languages, eye contacts and I oddly take the effort to interpret from their sentences how they actually feel about their lives.

I'm a weirdo, as I mentioned earlier, I admit it.

This time being surrounded by Bangladeshi, I can't help but watch how their lives are. Sure, their lives are harsh, quite brutal actually, as they are constantly exposed to the merciless sun that could at times so scorching it actually burns your skin.

They have to carry loads so heavy their bones would most likely fail and deteriorate over time. They are exposed to such dirty environment I highly doubt their health is still in the pink. They operate machines that are so dangerous their lives are literally at stakes.

Their lives are harsh. They risk losing their lives.

But then, they get along with each other. In the process of constructing a building, they talk, they make joke with each other, they are actually enjoying each other's companionship. Their friendship bond, or the bonds between colleagues, appear robust.

Their conversations sound so cheerful I sometimes wonder whether I am indeed at a construction site.

They live without technologies and electronics. All they are capable of buying is a handphone that is now obsolete. They don't need great clothes - and they don't ask for one.

And I will tell you their salaries are almost twice higher than most of us. Believe me when I say these Bangladeshi earn a lot - up to possibly 4k a month. Yes, they are quite rich, though it's true they go through hurdles to earn them.

Simplicity sometimes is the key to happiness. I have seen people who are rich, but then they are not happy. With great things and great possessions come greater desire and thus greater demands. People become greedy and they want more.

If you have little, you learn to be satisfied and get by with what you have. If you have money to spend, you will crave for more, and you will most likely not be satisfied and you know you have the capabilities to get better.

I like simplicity. I like it. Wealth comes at the expense of happiness. With increasing wealth there goes happiness. It's bad. Unless you know how to control your money flow but life tells me majority of people go crazy with money. They have no self control to restrain themselves from abusing what they have.

Being simple is how I wanna live my life. Believe me when I say salary is not the utmost importance I will be seeking when I search for job. Sure - a decent one is needed to survive, but if the salary is sufficient to cover my cost of living, I won't become greedy to search for a higher one.

Believe me when I say so, I mean it. I want a simple life - away from materialism, close to sentimentalism.

Internship

Hi guys. Life is a bit lacklustre lately. What I am doing now is actually internship. I apply for early internship, one which the University is likely to refuse recognition as I did it on my own volition and not upon University's request, but nonetheless I did it on the sole purpose to gain early insights of how my future life would be. So far it's ok although the heat is unbearable at the beginning. Right now it's the construction phase and to say the truth there is nothing much to do once it has entered this phase as important calculations, safety measures and everything to be taken into consideration are all done before the construction begins. Right now I just go to the site, watch how they construct the building, and done. The great thing, or perhaps the sad one, is I'm basically left on my own. I do not need to report to anyone, follow anyone, help anyone or in any case work with anyone as I am literally told to 'explore the place myself'. I do not even need to clock in and I have no paperwork to do. I doubt they would even know if I don't go as I don't really see them too. Anyway, so far so good, will keep updating my own blog lest it dies off due to my laziness.