Project Superstar II.

i'm not really keen on supporting any one of the conestants for the new project superstar. it's not that they are not good, but i jinx anyone whom i support. haha. serious.

let's see. from the first spore idol, david lim and christopher michael lee. first project superstar's wei jian and wei chong. star idol's cheng xi. super host's hong guo an. 爆笑新人王's ying ying. super band's brods. SI2's jay lim.

can see the trend? they all got sent home before the finals and some even quite early in the competition. see lah. how to support now?

i hope kevin and anson wont get kicked out so soon. *pls pls* haha. cos mag is already out.
Francis Ng as Sam

The best performance of this series and I never expected any less from Francis Ng. His work in "Triumph" is iconic. The last time I saw him in a TVB series was in "Old Time Buddy" and he was fantastic in there. He's fantastic in here too, giving an absolutely commanding performance as the super-intelligent but honest-to-goodness Sam. His eyes brimmed with joy, spilled in tears, wavered in confusion, and watched in earnest. When put up against anyone else in this series, you realize just how good of an actor Francis Ng is. Whenever he's on the screen, he owns it. You forget entirely that Sam is being played by an actor...Francis Ng IS Sam in this series.
Remember the very last episode when he successfully proposed to Zoe? I clapped during that scene because I was so moved by Francis Ng's portrayal of Sam's joy.

There's just one minor wrinkle. There's bad English, there's worse English, and then there's Francis Ng's English. Trust me, it doesn't get any worse. That isn't very fair though, since the other actors' English is just as bad as his. But Francis had this grossly exaggerated voice when he was speaking English that I was literally on the floor from laughing so hard! Another thing that had me laughing my head off? His hairstyle in this show that was greatly reminiscent of Elvis. Rumours have it that he designed it himself. But, with Francis Ng's terrific performance I found him to be good-looking. Not in a "Oh my, he's so dreamy and hot" way but in an ordinary, too honest, good man kind of way.

On the Supporting Cast

Shek Sau and the lady who played Mrs. Tong gave hilarious performances as Sam and Isaac's parents and I was pleasantly surprised at veteran Shek Sau being able to play a comic character. His gestures and voice were appropriately silly, and I loved it when Sam referred to him as Phillip rather than as Dad. Lam Hiu Fung was predictably funny as Paul, and Louisa So shines as the blunt and reluctant Ruby. Long one of TVB's most underrated actresses, she's funny and likeable as the often harsh but actually good-hearted Ruby. (i like ruby!!)

The Barf Bag

1) The impossibly positive and perky Zoe. She's so totally chipper that it's irritating at times.
2) Flora Chan's crying scenes. It was torture to watch her try to squeeze out some tears.
3) The actors' English. Most of the time I could only figure out what they were saying by reading the subtitles! If TVB had so much money to finance the airplane scenes and abroad scenes, couldn't they have sent their actors to some English lessons?
4) Coco (Vincent's younger sister). Not the actress, but the character. Spoiled little brat who needs a beating or two.
5) Belle, for the reasons named above.
6) The "love-pair" items in Vincent and Belle's apartment. Pink bowl, blue bowl. Pink towel, blue towel. Pink apron, blue apron. Pink cup, blue cup. You get the idea. A little too cheesy for my taste.
7) The overexposure of the Triangel doll.
8) Please give us a villain!! A villain, TVB, a villain! This is one thing that this series is clearly missing.

hahahaha.

more from http://www.spcnet.tv/reviews/review.php?rID=294

hi. my name is expensive.

went down to poh kim today to check out their collection of tvb drama series vcd. now i noe why people nowadays still rent vcd. korean and taiwanese series are quite affordable, costing u around 30bucks to 40bucks for one show. so i tot there isnt sense to rent this way. but check out the tvb vcd. they cost around 20-30bucks for one part and one show normally has more than one part.

for example, take triumph in the skies (it's relatively cheaper cos it's an old series) in poh kim. it says $49.90 but poh kim is havin a sale and all tvb shows at 50% off(i think it's a long term offer). so 25bucks. there are total 4 parts to it.

$25 x 4 = $100

100bucks for 冲上云霄!! wah. die. and if u choose newer shows like the hotel show or maybe healing hands 3, they cost around 35bucks for one part. now it's really 'hi. my name is expensive.'
你的善良我的倔强
我们的小孩会像谁模样
常常在想几年之外
长睫毛女孩单眼皮男孩
曾经近在咫尺的未来已天涯
我爱你好爱你
对不起,谢谢脑中住着你的脸
我恨你好恨你
对不起,谢谢孤独刺着我的背

eason's voice isnt very special but it makes u feel very comfortable listening to him.

蓝天



蓝蓝天空高挂我的梦
深海潜入最深追逐确与众不同
沿途快乐自由陪伴我
美梦成真因你让我到处去碰

yay!!

"You have been given the provisional approval for your application to register as a relief teacher."

yay!! now is to go to nanyang. hope they gimme something to do.

琛哥.



oh no. 唐亦琛's fan base is expanding. first is belle, then belle plus zoe and nxt wk, belle plus zoe plus vincent's sister!! shoo. shoo. why so many pp like him one. haha.

rewatched无间道, and this time from the perspective of倪永孝. actually he's quite poor thing. at the start of the show, his father was murdered. and then through his scheming ways he managed to create a new empire which collasped so quickly. then to realise his brother, who is a cop, betrayed him.

“出来混的,总有一天要还”

good old cantonese version.

i missed the first few ep and subsequently one or two episodes of 冲上云霄 so after searching for sometime i managed to find someone who posted the show online. it has subs in english and was in cantonese. nice. and it's much funnier when u listen to the jokes in the original one.

but somehow it kinda made me cringe while watching the show. first, the extensive sub in the show. it's gd lah, it shows that the subbers were making an effort to do a good job. but why do they sub the theme song too and somemore the sounds!? haha. really. look.

they even sub the 'hmm' and 'yeah' and everytime i watch the opening i will be like 'ahhh. stop it...'

and the 2nd thing that made me cringe was the scenes in which sam (or vincent) tries to speak in english. haha. omg. i think this scene is the classic. cos it was supposed tat the captain position was always held by angmoh (sam became the first chinese subsequently) so they had to speak english in the cockpit. haha. and there was this line as u can see from above.

i think francis ng was struggling and said 'there is goin to be some *pause* turbulence due to the *pause* thunderstorm' i think he was trying to recall the big words. heh.
lalala. my dad and my sis kept asking me to get a job, maybe becos my sis hoped tat in this way she might get more pocket money. but, prom is comin and im still in a mess. first i dun hav the costume(yes. costume). okay. i noe. i will try to find sth this weekend. i hope. and i still need to dye my hair, maybe find some nice nail polish (haha. omg. u are hearing this from me.) my hair now is irritatingly long. tgt with my nails. but i dun dare to cut in case it turns out damn ugly and i shall have ugly nails for prom. haha.

watched a little of the hotel show yesterday. it was quite.. disappointing lah. maybe i was expecting too much from it in the first place. shall try to get myself to watch the rest of ep1 and then judge whether it's worth the time.

still sticking to my aeroplane show. wah. it's getting nicer by the episode. im not intending to go ahead of the tv one cos it's the thrill of waiting for the nxt episode tat makes me look forward to the nxt day. belle is already married to vincent and i kept wanting to say 'ahhh. 可惜可惜 stupid' whenever i see sam and belle talking to each other. zoe is getting a little irritating but somehow i kinda pity her too. for her weird taste for men. hahaha. it's not tat sam is ugly(in fact he has the charisma loh. taking tat he's already 42 when he was filming the show) but i tot issac would make a better choice yah?

if u have watched yday's ep, issac's method of memorising stuff was to paste his notes all over the wall and then to use his bouncy ball (those rubber ball which u can get at 20cents) to throw at a paragraph and to yell 'yes!' after tat. haha. omg. i was laughing so hard at that part. wat the hell is he doing?

indulge yourself.

i think i get influenced easily. like how i started watching korean shows after i tot dae jang geum was nice. and now im back to watching tvb shows. hais. serious. and im listening to more eason's songs too.

gonna start on this one. isnt very sure whether it's nice (and im not a fan of joe ma) but the review on this on i-weekly is not bad. and there's ron ng. okay lah. he's not bad looking. though i still think he is far too tanned for his features. and his eyebrows are very thick.

and if i have time then i'll watch this show. it was on air this june. but the poster looks it's an very old series. like one that's even before 冲上云霄(2003). it attracted me becos there's wong hei. he's damn gd in net deception. so i tot this show should be not bad. and the pair is the ultimate small eyed duo lah. bowie lam and wong hei.

i cant find this show yet. it's still airring in hk and it's a 台庆剧, a drama which is played during tvb's 台庆. so i guess it should be not bad(like triumph in 2003). and i like 双天之尊. so i wanna watch this. there's bobby au yeung and jessica hsuan, the people i grew up watching. tgt with 罗嘉良 陶大宇 关咏荷 that bunch of people.

scv's starting to play the modern 阿旺which im still stuck at ep1. haha. it's nice lah. but i like the 古装 one better. watch out for bosco wong and kenneth ma in it.

u noe after watching 冲上云霄i realised i watched a lot more francis ng movies that i ever tot i had watched. like 2000AD, 爱与诚. i tot i watched mostly tony leung. and actually francis ng beat him in that. i jus cant rmb him acting in them. wah. im more of a francis ng fan than i tot i am.

oh. i always wanted to blog abt this but i tot this is too trivia to have a blog post on it. do u still rmb this tvb series called 刑事侦缉档案3? the last case was one that played with 金木水火土. each of the victims will die in a way specified by these 5 elements. and the guy who died under 水died in a fish tank. i didnt watch tat series at tat time but all my frens did.

and u noe in pri sch we always have birthday parties where we go to the birthday girl/boy's hse and play until it was late. so all my frens were fans o f tat show, except me lah. so it was the 2nd last ep and we were all over at someone else's hse. and so everyone suggested watching lah. and i watched.

and till now i can still rmb that ep. haha. the killer was joe ma. he was a doctor. and i could rmb a scene where he stuffed a handkerchief into this guy's mouth becos he was havin a fit. i dunno why but this scene is jus stuck in my head. haha.

sprite ice ad.

仁甫's baby is out!! haha.

花样少年少女 will be debuting tonight!! but i think most probably we can only watch it tmr. in the meantime, watch the mv of 怎么办.

羅志祥 SPESHOW 精舞門MV.



the small boy inside is called 威利, quite zai one. haha. watch him here and here.

and the making:

Enthalpy of combustion Kcal/mole

Graphite 93.983
Diamond 94.437

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/Dec2002/1039805494.Es.r.html

The late late show.



omg. this is damn funny.
Once upon a time, there was a woodcutter called Taro. One day when he was passing by this bridge, he heard a painful bird's cry. Taro looked up and saw a wounded white crane falling down from the sky onto the other side of the bridge. Taro went to look at the wounded crane. The crane's wound was very deep and was dying.

Taro took the white crane home, hoping he coud heal it. Very soon they came upon Taro's home. Taro laid down the crane and pondered on how to heal it. Seeing the crane in so much pain, he gave the crane water to drink. Under his loving attention, the crane got well at last. Very often the crane would fly around Taro's head and made him very happy. But suddenly the crane flew away. When it came back it gave taro a bean. When Taro took the bean, the crane flew away and never came back.

Taro didn't know what to do with the bean. Unconsciously, Taro came to the bridge again. All of a sudden, a very beautiful girl appeared before him. The 16-year-old girl soon married Taro. So Taro and Sakurako married and lived very happily. As for the bean, it turned out to be a cocoa bean. Sakurako taught Taro to make delicious chocolates with the beans. Later, they sold the chocolates, which became very popular. Taro started to make a good living and they were very happy. Even so, they still went out to cut wood everyday. But the happiness did not last. One day, lightning struck Taro and he fainted. When he woke up, his beloved Sakurako was no longer there.

The chocolate became Sakura's Lovre Chocolate. (i guess it's a brand of chocolate)

(omg. this story got no plot. haha.)
there's a chem mcq paper later at 230pm but im totally not in the mood the exam lah. it's like as if As is over!! haha. i dunno. i spent the whole of yday playing, thinkin tat this whole irritating thing is over. haiyo. must celebrate today!! okay lah. there's s paper. but heck lah. shall think abt it again when nxt wk comes. yay.

so now my aim in life is to look forward to the aeroplane show. last time it used to be lookin forward to wkends for the computer show and now it's everyday for the aeroplane show!! haha.

so my favourite characters are the tong family. haha. the sam issac phillips and mother(wat's her name? haha.) they are damn farnee lah. in yday ep, issac demanded for 21 presents becos his father did not give him any for his 21yrs in life, so his dad got him those capsule machine cos inside got 21 diff kinds of capsules. haha. damn dumb.

and tat day when i saw aileen i was like 'aileen~ u got watch the aeroplane show? (excitedly)' and aileen's ans was 'a bit lah. not very nice like tat.' haha. then she continued, 'so u like the good looking one or the nerdy one? aiyah. i bet u like the nerdy one.' sigh. haha.

okay lah. sam is like the typical Law By Law (LBL) kind of guy tat jasmine hates. haha. he's quite LBL lah. when he drives, he drives slowly cos it's safer tat day. he's always early for work, then everytime the rest of the tong family joke he will say sth very practical lah. haha. and issac is totally opp. but tat's why it makes the two of them so farnee.

anw, sam is acted by francis ng, issac by ron ng and philips by Shek Sau(石修).

IE7.


from wikipedia.

ie7 have been out for some time already right? haha. i only installed it um a while ago. haha. cos my avg was going to expire so i tot i might as well update all the stuff in my comp. those antispyware programmes since im rather free now.

and i realised, there's ie7. already. haha. since half a yr ago i already gave up on ie6. cos it looks very crammed, and all the security issues. so i switched to mozilla. tabbed browsing ah. better security ah. and of course my fav, extensions and themes.

get a shock at ie7 if u have always been an ie user. but not so much if u are a mozilla user. ie now is much cleaner. optimising around 90% of ur screen space. there's tabbed browsing. and add-ons. but no themes. sigh.

it kinda came as a surprise lah. cos im not really hoping much out of ie7. but yup. surpass my expectations.

so maybe u can try it too. download from microsoft website.

(cleartype is supposed to make the words look clearer right? why does my fonts now look blurrer instead? haha. i went to tune it already. still liddat. maybe i need to get used to it. hmm.)

vista oops.



haha. watch this. too.

zune.



i tot this ad is surprisingly interesting. watch it(:

and if u are interested to see a zune in action, check out this video on the wireless song transfer of zune.

and wii is one interesting um, toy? haha. check out the ad.

"Would you like to play?"

Shinhwa on PTM.

missed shinhwa's interview on prime time news? watch it at here.
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 12 November 2006 1925 hrs

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board has made adjustments to the timing of some examination papers for the GCE O and A levels on the 16th and 17th of this month.

This is in view of possible travel delays due to traffic arrangements to facilitate US President George Bush's visit to Singapore.

The move is to ensure the candidates reach their exam centres on time.

On 16th November, time adjustments have been made to the O level Additional Mathematics and A Level Geography papers, while on 17th November, there are time adjustments to the O Level Food and Nutrition and Principles of Accounts papers and the A level Further Mathematics and Divinity papers. - CNA /dt

(um. wat's divinity? isnt that a subject at hogwarts?)
(hey. unfair. wat abt my chem paper?)
(and why is bush coming?)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/240915/1/.html

trembling.



i think i once told myself not to put music on blogs again. cos it's really moisy tat it will irritate u. but i couldnt resist for this song cos it's so nice!! so u must listen too. but if u really think eason's voice is so unbearable, um, there's a stop button if u can see it. yup. aeroplane show!!

now im trembling cos physics paper is comin. and the impending doom of econs paper3. hais.

冲上云霄。



nostalgic. u noe when i was i think sec 1 or sec 2 i was a super big fan of tvb!! haha. every wk i would spend the little amt of pocket money tat i had on tvb weekly. jus to see wat my favourite actors/actresses over at hk are doing. and somemore the magazines were in cantonese, so i couldnt really understand wat was written (hah. i bet u didnt noe actually cantonese and chinese use very diff words.) it was then i knew how to read words like 'hai2'=yes and 掂'dim2'=can anot.

and of course the craze slowly faded away then i started watching japanese shows and taiwanese shows and neglected tvb. awww. but yay. im back to watching tvb shows!! haha. triumph in the sky has so surpassed my expectations for it. super nice.

first, the genre they chose for this show. pilots. it's quite refreshing. other than the takuya kimura one, i haven seen another drama on pilots, planes and airlines. and i sort of felt tat it may actually be quite cool to become a pilot/air attendant after watching one ep of it. haha. ignore me, cos previously i tot it was not bad an idea to be a doctor after i watched 妙手 and quite nice to be a fireman after watching 烈火雄心. haha.

second, it is very rea. they really made an effort to find real pilots, get real airplanes. it's jus tat u can see the effrot they put into making this film. and somemore the filmin thatwere taken outside hk arealso authentic. not like 真情. hahaha. rmb there was a few ep they said they went to spore. and all they did was to film somewhere in hk where there were a lot of palm trees and the actors jus wore some flowery shirt to indicate tat they were in spore. haha.

third, of course the actors/actresses.



francis ng gave me the greatest surprise in this show. have u watched any other tvb drama with francis ng in it? haha. i only see him in movies (like IA2 tat cool weird triad leader). but he's a very gd actor. a very weird gd actor. but apparently tat's why he makes this show so farnee. haha. rmb in ep3 when his father is playin with his saxophone and his brother and mother were making a hell lot of noise with their ddr, he took out his er hu and started playin it. hahaha. i bet no one else than him can make this effect so so farnee.

i think he, like wong hei, has this special charm in him. wong hei is also not very gd lookin but he jus make u wanna look at him. bobby au yeung also. hahaha.

so of course, im hoping flora chan will choose him over joe ma. wait. wat abt zoe? haha. cannot. okay. flora chan can go with her vincent. lalala. and it's actually quite refreshing to see flora han acting with other actors other than bowie lam. though i dun really like her chracater in triumph. i like her cooler self in like 妙手仁心.

myolie wu(胡杏儿) is not bad in the show lah. but until now her character is still quite small. like some fan of francis ng only. and ron ng is irritatingly irritating in the show. he's francis ng's younger brother but till now he still thinks he is francis ng's uncle. i guess this suppose makes their conversations farnee, but i think instead he is irritating me.

theme song at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX9_qx8n9mk (youtube)

and http://www.haoting.com/htmusic/422ht.htm (haoting. 岁月如歌 - Eason Chan)

official website http://tvcity.tvb.com/drama/triumphintheskies/story/index.html

Evanyo!!

behold the magnetic H.

"However, different 1H or 13C nuclei absorb at slightly different frequencies. This difference results from differences in the small internal magnetic field Be for each 1H or 13C nucleus. Again, the Be field results from the circulation of electrons of the molecule. Different 1H or 13C nuclei have different electron density surrounding them and consequently, are shielded from the applied field Bo by Be fields of different magnitude. Remember, differences in (Bo-Be) translate into differences in the frequency needed to cause the nuclear spin transitions.."

http://orgchem.colorado.edu/hndbksupport/nmrtheory/chemshift.html

aq. NaBr.

"Electrolysis of an aqueous solution of NaBr will produce hydrogen at the cathode, as the aqueous sodium sulfate solution did, because neither Na+(aq) nor Br-(aq) can be reduced at potentials which are less negative than standard hydrogen. The electrolysis of aqueous NaBr solutions will produce bromine at the anode because the standard potential of bromide oxidation is less positive than that of the oxidation of water."

http://www.ualberta.ca/~jplambec/che/p102/p02112.htm

ahhhh. i wrote water discharged!! haha. fine.

My Brother.



this movie is very nice!! haha. sometimes u need to watch a wonbin movie to noe why so many ppl like wonbin. not bad.

nxt fri's movie: The way home

annihilation.



today while i was playin audition, i found this interesting npc rm. haha. look at the word above in blue (blue indicating it's an npc rm)

Battle Royale

haha. omg. cos normally ppl would name their npc rm very lousily, like 'kill the npc' or 'npc battle for $$$' or 'i wan $$$'. battle royale. nice one.

in case u are still clueless abt the movie battle royale, check out this site or the entry at wikipedia.

nanahara!! haha.

audition china.

u noe the online game audition, where u jus spend ur time pressing arrows. haha. there's this part of audition where u can have npc battle. and npc is jus the computer. so a grp of 5 of u, u are supposed to beat the npc by havin higher points than him/her. the npc in audition sea all have very um. boring names.


this guy's called jean.

but check out the npc in audition china.





more:
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http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/yish/cau2.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/yish/cau3.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y264/yish/cau4.jpg
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dont u feel like playin with rain? or jay? or lee hom? or show? hahaha.