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My Rating: 8 of 10

No need for synopsis. All people know Romance of The Three Kingdom is very complicated story. This film starred by Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Maggie Q, tries to present one part of the story, that is General Zhao Zilong (Zhao Yun). Although there are still Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, but the focus of the movie is in Zhao Zilong.

Andy Lau stars as Zhao Zilong, a top general of the Kingdom of Shu who takes a last stand against the invading forces from the Kingdom of Wei. Maggie Q is fictional Cao Ying, a granddaughter of Wei warlord Cao Cao, whose eldest son Cao Pi becomes the first emperor of the Wei kingdom.

Yep, there will be another movie titled ‘The Battle of Red Cliff’ that will be launched later this year.

Story is good, actors are good, so there’s no reason not to watch it.

You can check the movie website at here. 

My Review: 9 of 10

Finally come again film by Jack Neo, a reputable film director as well as great comedian from Singapore. It was released on W2 March 2008 in Singapore and Malaysia and quickly became a box office on the two countries. Although many viewers seems not to cheer this film, but I can say that this movie is a kind that ‘don’t bother any critics and just watch it’.

Played by Mark Lee and Fann Wong with plot similar to “My Wife is Gangster 3″, sissy man with a gangster wife, almost 2 hours of film packed with full laugh and singlish words. Movie in 5 language: Singlish, Hokkian, Mandarin, and a bit of Cantonese and Malay. I don’t think it will available in Indonesia, so I just luckily enough to watch it on KL Golden Screen Cinema last week.

“Ah Long Pte Ltd” is a light-hearted black comedy about the triad world and the money-lending business. Following the retirement of her triad leader (Richard Low), a young lady, Li Hua (Fann Wong), tries to restructure her money-lending triad into a professional and ‘loving’ triad that stands against the use of violence. She also suffers a nagging mother and gets involved in a romance with Mr Fang (Mark Lee), an effeminate dance instructor cum image stylist.

Finally I arrived at Jakarta after traveling for 22 days. From Feb 29th to March 22nd, started from Jakarta to Singapore, Shanghai, London, Rome, Florence, Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, Mainz, Frankfurt and return back to Shanghai, Singapore, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, and back to Jakarta. It was quite a long journey, involving many cities and transfer. From airport to other airports, from one railway to others. Exhausting? A bit, but it was a great and unforgettable experience since it was my first time to Europe.

The weather in March was still cold, from zero to 12 Celcius, so almost all of my photos were in leather jacket and sweater. Luckily I had a chance to see rain water turned into snow drops although just less in a minute in a freezing cold night.

Here I upload some photos taken using my Sony CyberShot DSC-T1. The camera have been serving for almost 4 years and something, producing 5000+ pics and yet to be replaced. I brought a tripod so I could take picture together with my wife without asking for person’s help. As T1 owners might know, the camera didn’t come with a tripod hole, that means it was not design to work with all tripods. With a bit tweaking (I’ll explain it in later blog), it could be done.

Enjoy my highlight photo. I’ll post more detail trip of each city in next post!

Me at London Big Ben
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Finally reach my long waited day, I start my Europe journey from a small step. Taking a flight to Batam using AirAsia, continue with taxi to Batam Centre, and take ferry Penguin (SGD 27) to Singapore. Finally arrived at 2pm.

Using MRT like a mad, from west to changi to store luggage, then from Changi back to city, meet a friend, have a dinner and back to Changi for check-in.

Now I’m using free internet in transit mall (hey there’s a new and magnificent Terminal 3), with tired legs I don’t have any power left.  

OK. Boarding now.. bubye..

Hey everyone, I’ve been pretty busy lately after my marriage (you know lah: just married), not to mention my preparation for honeymoon to Europe. It will be started on 29 February till 18 March 2008. 12 days in Europe plus 4 days in Shanghai, China. Need extensive internet research, hotel bookings, travel pass and so on because we are not taking any guided tours.
Just wait for my trip report and tips for budget travellers to be posted in this blog!

It’s been a while I missed Farhan, tv and radio host. Since his late night show ‘Om Farhan’ losts it grip and attention from Empat Mata show (hosted by Tukul Arwana), we don’t see Farhan much. Since his career rose from Prambors to Cosmopolitan FM, then his tv appearance made him busy, current morning radio talk show in Cosmopolitan FM seems dull for me.

Then advertisement in Kompas several days ago got my attention. A nice advertisement Delta FM with a picture of Farhan helping elderly mother. It didn’t mention about Farhan movement, but I could understand that this is movement advertisment. So I turned my radio this morning to Delta FM 99.1 and quite surprise with his ‘old and lovely’ voice.

Welcome back, uncle!