will i am's delayed diary

Even though the DVD has come to replace the near-obsolete VCD, I've noticed that I've retained my VCD-watching habits even with the DVD. What I mean is that I tend to watch a movie over the span of two days. With VCD, one movie equalled two discs. If the movie is boring, we can always stop at disc 1, and revisit disc 2 tomorrow. No need to remember the time where we stopped. However, with the DVD, one movie is just one disc, but I find myself still needing 2 days to finish one. However, now I have to remember where I stopped (the scene function isn't very helpful at times), or rely on the player's memory (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't). I can't even finish one movie in one sitting, I'm wondering how some people can finish one whole TVB series in a weekend. Anyway, I finished watching two movies yesterday. Firstly, Date Movie . I found it very entertaining. Very good use of music. The use of Kelis' "Milkshake" at the opening dance seq...

I have come to the office unprepared today. Things took a different turn than I would have expected. There is unfinished business and I have a feeling it will come back to bite me in the keister. Why is it that when I go to site A, there will be nothing going on, but when I go to site B, people from site A will call and I have to do things via "remote control", which I hate. Ugh. My telephone etiquette is lacking. Or more accurately, my patience is lacking.

Pitcher Plant Originally uploaded by williamnyk . While I was at my neigbourhood landscaping one-stop shop (read kedai jual pasu, jual bunga ) the other day, I saw this pot of pitcher plants. It was selling for MYR26.00 per pot. It's called Pig Cage Enter Water in Chinese, I think, and thus has some Feng Shui application. Its supposed to bring luck, wealth, yadda, yadda, yadda because the plant retains water (Read $$$). Ditto for the price. "26" is supposed to mean "easy business" or something or rather And there was a guy who sedang borong 5 pots. Very typical. Say that something brings luck, people will buy truckloads of it.

Snow White Originally uploaded by williamnyk . I recently finished reading Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" . A collection of short stories in his signature style. One of the stories that I really liked was the one about Snow White, entitled "Snow, Glass, Apples". It's told from the view point of the Queen. In this version, the Queen is the good one, whereas Snow White is a blood-sucking little monstrosity who practically sucked the life out of her father, the King. The story is basically the same, with all the salient plot points, like the Queen's "magic mirror", cutting out Snow White's heart, the 7 dwarfs, the prince, and finally the Queen's demise. It's a refreshing change to the classic. I learnt something new too. "Ballock Sack" == "Scrotum" . Kewl. Do read it. Since I'm on the subject of fairytales and such, Hoodwinked is also a good rewriting of the classic "Little Red Riding Hood...

Watashiwa Tensai Desu Originally uploaded by williamnyk . Took this photo on the Star LRT. Some kid scribbled it on the advertising board with artliner.

Purchase this bottle of "Holy Water" for RM10. It claims to have 1001 uses. Can be used internally (say a little prayer before ingesting) and externally. What will they think of next?

The last movie from Takashi Miike (he's the guy from Istana Takeshi ) I watched was Zatoichi and I liked it. So the moment I saw Izo , I immediately bought it. The movie is confusing. I can't really put it in words. Here's a poor attempt at it: Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Weird guitar solo; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Sex with a lady with bad makeup; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Weird guitar solo; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Sex with "Mother Nature"; Kill; Kill; Kill; Warning: Spoiler ahead! ; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Kill; Weird guitar solo. The scenes are all messed up, ancient characters, modern settings; and vice versa. It got tiresome after a while. Memorable quotes: "We made love once, doesn't it mean anything to you?", "My penis stroked your hole and it felt good, nothing more".