Story from Multiple Eyes

I am still hang up over Inception and reading the interpretation obsessively on the web? No, I am not going to reveal nor discuss it here since I think you (those who have yet to see it) would enjoy it more if you know it less.

Staying on top of the entertainment news. I love to read the entertainment blog. Mainly I keep tab with TV news such as Ausiello site, Kristin site (though she's not so active nowadays ) and various others. Other times, I read other entertainment blog. But never that Perez Hilton guy. I saw him in the Janice Dickinson show one boring day, and if even Janice thinks you are repulsive(ok, maybe not to that extent, but I do), then you  must be. I think his site is vile and his commentary is merciless. In turn I usually went and read something Trent (Pink is the New Blog). He is generally much more nice in his commentary regarding these things even if he does get too obsessive with Britney (I updated this last sentence in. Boleh pulak tertinggal and leave sentence hanging). 

Which brings me to this. As much as I love drama gossips, I hate it when it involved a marriage. While I think Malaysian artists is just as bad in the scandals as the Hollywood one, at least the artists or usually the MISTRESSES does not plaster themselves on the paper to get fame or money. Maybe sebab compare to the entertainment business here, our entertainment reporters thinks they are the shizzz and artists should be paying them for interview instead, while over there exclusive interviews is something highly sought and they will pay millions to get one measly gambar wedding. 

Let me rant for a while: Oi journalist entertainment Malaysia yang duk nak kecik hati tak tentu pasal kenapa artist tu tak jemput kau bile wedding die. Ikut suke dia la kan. Dah itu kan wedding dia, bukan press conference. Which is why Pancaindera is my weekly paper of lulz , not for the writer tales of the artist, but because of the 'journalist' so called entitlement issues bile die tak dapat exclusive interview/pics/news. Idiotic. The lots of them. 

Anyway, rant of the general idiotic masses of Malaysian entertainment journalist finished. I am starting with the tabloids and general public of the Hollywood when a marriage scandal erupted. It made great news, yes. Some entertaining read. 

On the other hand, it is just something I read and discarded afterward. Why demanded the artists who had cheated on their spouses to make public apology to the general public? Ape kena mengena dengan kau? There is no need for apologies or regret being issued in the media. Those thing should be settled only in the family and closest friends circle. All we should care about is their work. If their personal lives is tainting their work, then maybe we can taunt them a bit in a review and stop looking at their work. Like the Mel Gibson case. I don't believe just because he is a racist ass, I should not be watching his movies anymore. Apocalypto suffered in part of his Jewish drunken rant, and it should not be so. It was a pretty good movie. Not as epic as I like it to be, but still it is entertaining.

I guess the world is not perfect. More so the entertainment world.

I was with wifey when she was in Dungun for her job interview that we encountered a classic case how Malay owned shop just plainly throwing rudeness to our face.

It was dinner time and by God, we was hungry. We stopped by at a seafood/tomyam/masakan panas restaurant which you could find aloooottt in east coast. The restaurant that we choose was a good appearance restaurant, a clean one at that. That does score few point with me. We take a seat and we wait for the waitress. And the tragedy enfold:-

1) The waitress couldn't speak properly. She mumble and fumble along the conversation.

2) No air buah! But in the menu was stated all sort of air buah including air kelapa. When I asking what other air buah not available, she just asked me to order any air buah and she will then tell me if the air buah available or not. And she said it rudely.

3) After placing our order, the waiting time just killing us. We have to wait up to 15 minutes for our drinks.

4) The food finally arrived after 45 minutes. But my sotong goreng tepung wasn't there. The sotong was done for the day. It's a seafood restaurant but not even 9.30 p.m. and your seafood already done? WTF!

5) I try to place order for kerang bakar. But the waitress not even bother to look at our table. I finally called the guy who deliver the food to our table but he was too busy with delivering order and ask me to place my order to the guy at the bakar-bakar station.

6) The restaurant not even half full of customers and almost half of the customers didn't get their drinks even after 30 minutes.

7) The price is not the most expensive in town but it did make me feel cheated for the service.

8) The food quality is so-so. I asked for sup perut but there were only like 6-7 thinly sliced perut.

As what I observed, classic seafood/tomyam/masakan panas restaurant owned by Malay could have any of below things to happen:

1) Dirty floor

2) Kucing kurap is around

3) Tight face waiter/waitress

4) "Ada duit kecik tak?"

5) No greetings or smile thrown

6) Painfully slowly prepared food

7) Waiter/waitress that busy with handphone/chit chat/watching TV

8) Waiter/waitress that give you nasty look when you enter the restaurant

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I hugely disappointed by the same group of people who give you nasty racist remarks when we preferred Chinese or Indian restaurant when the same group of people couldn't deliver good service. These people moaning that Malays should help Malays but it wasn't right to help Malays if they didn't even want to help themselves.

Otherwise, I will keep looking for good eatery..I don't care about who owned it or operated it. I just want to enjoy my food. When will these people start picking up instead of moaning around?

I watched Lagenda Budak Setan last weekend. Having read the novel, my expectation couldn't be any lower. Come on man, it's like fantasy become reality. It's like for long watching porn and suddenly found out that you'll be in one. Ok...bad analogy but you get what I mean.

But ended up, I'm hugely disappointed by the facts as followed:-

Disclaimer: Spoiler alert. Writing in point form easier.

Disappointment Indicator (DI): 1 for no disappointment at all and 10 for WTF is this stuff doing here?

1) The setup was in college instead of high school. The college setup was unreal, it's more like college that didn't passed LAN (Lembaga Akreditasi Negara) or fake college. DI: 5

2) The vice chancellor talks with Kasyah at the corridor. One of WTF moment. FFS, do some research on how college should look like. Malay movies always make college and university student look retarded. DI: 10

3) The chemistry between Farid Kamil & Lisa Surihani. Another WTF moment. They look stupid together. Some might say that they look good together in I'm Not Single but not in Lagenda Budak Setan. DI: 8

4) Fazura was Katerina when I'm expecting her to be Amelia/Ayu. Marah sungguh. I'm freaking pissed when I realized that. DI: 10

5) However, Fazura acting looks more lively and genuine. Heck, she could act. Girl should be given more screen time. I love Fazura's acting, she had grown gracefully in her acting career. I love it! DI: -1

6) The prank (2 pranks only, WTF!) was half-asses done. Kasyah definitely not live up to "Budak Setan" title that he earned. DI: 7

7) They called Cikgu Loga. This is college, you don't call your lecturer as "Cikgu". Do you want to setup it as college or high school? Wrap your mind around it, Mr Director. DI: 9

8) What kind of college (I think a fake one at that) would allowed research grant to an undergraduate art student going away alone to remote area for a long time? Do your homework la, Production Team. Attention to details, please. Don't treat your audience like fools. DI: 10

9) Who-is-she, Amelia/Ayu is a tunggul kayu. She can't act to save her life. She shouldn't bare this huge of responsibility and shattered by imagination on how Amelia/Ayu look like. And she's not even pretty. Raja Farah could nail the role as Amelia/Ayu better than her. DI: 10

10) Kasyah should be very messy and distorted when he met with Amelia for the first time. Farid Kamil barely shows emotion and like tunggul kayu. He should lose weight also. Wasn't convincing at all that Kasyah was suffering from Ayu's marriage. DI: 7

11) Que Haidar as Azmi is great. He's violence and revengeful. Just a bit sissy at times though it does fit with his character. I loike it. DI: -1

There are few more details that should be paid attention by the production team however it's small enough to distract me from writing it here. The accumulation of half-asses work done make me losing faith in adaptation movies produce by Malaysian. When you can't pull things right for such legendary piece of work like Lagenda Budak Setan, it shows how much we're bothering in creating the hype and disappoint the audience rather than genuinely appreciating the value of the masterpiece.

I wasn't expecting it to be 100% according to original piece cause time is the constraint, however doing things right means so much in adapting the piece to silver screen. I could let go that the movie didn't shows side story of Sapi and Kasyah, the evil girls that tag-team with Kasyah and many more small things but even with so many short cut of the storyline, they still couldn't put it right.

I would love to suggest that Malaysian should stop adapting literature masterpiece to silver screen for once and for all but there will be some hasty idiots that will go out their way to offend the masterpiece lover again. In near future.

And I should support Malaysian movies? Come out with more believable things at silver screen and never treat audience like a bunch of fools. Be smart for once.

 [FEMALE HOUSEMATE WANTED] 

Big room with attached toilet, balcony, carpark, furnished house & cool landlady who loves cooking. Double storey house in Taman Kosas, Ampang. Good neighbourhood. Sharing up to 2 persons only. Long term tenant preferred.

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I have been living with other girls since I was 12. Living in dormitories in normal government to the dormitories of privileged, premier school. Then, for another 5 years in hostel of a private university.

When I start my life in Kuala Lumpur, I live with at least 5 girls in a small flat in a crowded area.

Based on my experience, I can confidently say that I know how to live with a lot of other people around me and how to be a cooperative housemates/dormates/roomates...etc...

I never received any complained from the girls... nothing about my hygiene or my attitude.

Now, I lived in a double-storey house with a housemate. After years of living with a lot of people in a  dormitories and rented flats.. I so much wanted peace and solitude in this place I called home.

... and the girl I am living with totally gave me that peace. 

Guess, I got what I asked for. 

A girl that choose to just live in her room and never care about hygiene. Not even when maggots crawled all over the kitchen floor and the stink evaporated to every nook and cranny of the house -_-"

For this next housemate, I wish for a girl who knows how to sensibly share cleaning and security responsibility in the house... and yes, maid service is not included in the package. 

I love my house and I hope to get somebody who will love it as much as I do.

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P/s: Have you watched Lagenda Budak Setan? I am such an avid movie-goer nowadays that I saw at least 2 movies per week. My favourite to date: Prince or Persia. My tips? It is just a story... I love the game... the movie is beautiful... don't be too critical to how real the storyline is... and you will be a happier bunny out of GSC  :D