Friday, September 30, 2005


Sometimes i think biochemists (or juz chemists in general) are deliberately trying to screw us up. Invent words like creatine and creatinine. AcetylCoA and acylCoA. Keep up the good work of coming up with names that differ in 1 or 2 alphabets for molecules that differ in 10,000 or 20,000 ways. Thanks.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005


Perhaps I should start sleeping so that I dun hypersomm (not an actual word) in the afternoon. But I got the feeling that it wun work.

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Monday, September 26, 2005


I nid to wake up my friggin idea. I also nid to wake up from my afternoon naps. (which usually last from the time I come home to dinner time)

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Sunday, September 25, 2005


The Myth (神话)
A sub-objective post-viewing analysis (spoilers inclusive)

Plot
There are movies which defy classification. This is one of them. Unfortunately, for this case, it is not a good thing. Want to make a tomb raider type movie? Please do. How about a ancient china war epic? No prob. A sci-fi fantasy? Also can. But please do not make a tomb-raider-sci-fi-ancient-china-war-fantasy, with concepts like anti-gravity and space-time continuum thrown in...
Rating: 2/5

Action
First time I've seen Jackie Chan use so many different kinds of proper weapons. By proper weapons, I do not include ladders, chairs, other people's leg/arm/head, steering wheels(Rush Hr) and other random objects that might be present in the scene of fighting. Rarely see Jackie fighting with a proper sword. And on a horse. A refreshing change.
Rating: 4/5

Visuals
If you wan to use CGI (not refering to the prog lang) please make it look convincing. That scene of Jackie jumping the waterfall is....erps. The angles and trajectories are way offffffffff. The final scene in the zero gravity environment can be improved also. Remember: Throw a spear forward = you move backwards...
Rating: 2/5

Sound
Not bad. Appropriately grand and majestic. The duet by Jackie and kim hee seon is also quite nice. But how come some pieces sound disturbingly like LOTR? Must be my imagination isn't it?
Rating: 3/5

My tilt
金喜善. Haha. And for that chariot-over-the-cliff scene. Which was actually not CGI. Impressive. Hence:
Rating: 4/5

Overall: 3/5 Watchable lar. If you not the geh gao type.

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Monday, September 19, 2005


Smoke, sounds and headaches.

The smell of that anatomy hall always give me headaches. The smell of that mosquito coil burning perpetually in my house is giving me headaches. The cacophony of a mahjong game gave me a headache yesterday. The impending massive fogging of the area will probably give me more headaches.

I think I have brain damage liao.

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Monday, September 05, 2005


Feeling the consequences of slacking too much during the weekend...

Anyway today someone told me that no.2 was better no.1...heehee lets juz say you are not the 1st one to say that...=PpP

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