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| Release Date: 12 November 2010 |
| Language: English |
| Genre: Science Fiction |
| Running Time:1 hour 33 minutes |
| Director: Colin Strause, Greg Strause |
| Cast:Brittany Daniel, David Zayas, Donald Faison, Eric Balfour, Neil Hopkins, Scottie Thompson. |
In "Skyline", we follow events after a night of partying when a group of friends are distracted by beams of light awakening everyone in Los Angeles and attracting every person like a moth to a flame. As the night progresses, they soon discover that once addicted to the light, one would vanish into thin air, and that extraterrestrial forces are starting to swallow the entire human race. _______________________________________________________ My Comments: Today ME & Kimmy had decided for a walk and we have chosen The Curve as our destination. While we are at The Curve Shopping Complex, we were tempted as we went into Cineleisure Damansara (or now known as e@Curve) and we stepped into Cathay Cineplex Damansara. There, we had decided to watch movie as well and we have chosen Skyline as our movie. Eventually, I've also receive some feedback before I watch this movie and the response was just average only. But when the movie started and right up till the end, I was very surprise. This movie serves 90 minutes of pure action and it started right from the start till the end without any fail. The talking was less and it was purely a great science fiction cum action movie that gives us pure entertainment and thrilling scenes as well. If you love aliens or creatures action and thriller movie, this is definately a movie for you because it's talking about aliens or creatures trying to come to the earth and capture the human race as it will become extinct. In this movie, we can see how human beings survived from being attacked by the aliens or creatures and do they survived? A great movie to watch for you and your whole family too. I would recommend you to watch this movie as it was a great movie to watch. Besides the graphics of this movie was perfectly drawn as well that makes this movie more attractive as well. Enjoy! MY RATING: 4.5/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4.5/5 |

| Release Date: 4 November 2010 |
| Language: English |
| Subtitle: Malay, Chinese |
| Genre: Animation |
| Running Time: N/A |
| Director: Tom McGrath |
| Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell. |
Megamind is the most brilliant supervillain the world has ever known - and also the least successful! Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as Metro Man, an invincible hero until the day Megamind actually kills him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, Megamind has no purpose. A supervillain without a superhero. He realises that achieving his life's ambition is the worst thing that ever happened to him. _______________________________________________________ My Comments: It has been a while that ME & Kimmy had go out for movies because of our availability these few weeks. Of course today I manage to spend my time Kimmy to go for movies and this week, we have chosen Megamind as our movie of our choice. Not only that, we have decided to try out the new cinema that had just opened in Kepong few weeks ago and the cinema name would be MBO Cinemas Kepong Village Mall. Let me comment a little bit on this new cinema where the seats was not nice (like bus seat) and while they start to air those movie previews, you can hardly find you seat because there's no light in between the alphabets in rows and this is a difficulty for its patrons to identity the seat. Hopefully MBO can improve on this. Overall, it's a new cinema and the interior design was nice and fantastic too. I love the entrance and the entire cinema design and infrastructure as well. Maybe you can try it out to catch any movie of your choice as this cinema. The price meanwhile was pretty expensive (RM12.00) for new movie and it should gone lower as their cinema seats standards are not up to the standard as GSC to TGV. MBO Kepong Village Mall also offers 3D halls as well. Alright, let's go straight to the movie comments. Megamind is a movie that talks about superhero movie and if you have catch The Incredibles last time, it was pretty similiar to it. This movie is merely for the kids and family as well. This movie talks about the hero who wanted to save the world and its citizen at metrocity and it backfired. Instead be a bad superhero, he changed to a good superhero and try to save the shit that he have done previously. Did he fell in love too? YES! This movie talks about superhero and of course a little bit of romance and most importanly it does have a lot of jokes for us to laugh as well. Even the kids will love this as it was real funny and for the adults, you will love it too. For me, I did laugh and it was kinda interesting too. The storyline was too simple as we would have expect that because this movie is cater for the whole family and especially for the kids. Of course, I would still recommend you to watch this movie as it was fun to watch too. It also available in 3D version as well. Enjoy! MY RATING: 4/5 ; KIMMY RATING: 4.5 / 5 |
ANALYSIS, Nov 5 — After 20 years in power, yesterday’s Galas defeat shows Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and the first generation of PAS leaders that won Kelantan in 1990 can no longer mount an effective election campaign.
Led by state leaders Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman and Datuk Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah, the campaign to retain the Galas state seat was described as a failure from the start.
“It was top-down all the way. They just issued directives to ground workers, so there was no good communication,” said a PAS strategist who declined to be named.
Abdul Halim was formerly the Kelantan deputy mentri besar from 1990 to 2004 while Wan Abdul Rahim was first elected into the Kelantan assembly in 1995.
Another strategist from an allied party within the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) offered the view that PAS did not offer anything new to first-time voters, who mainly flocked to Barisan Nasional (BN) which ran a moderate campaign under Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
“They didn’t offer any hope, any plans for the future. That won’t wash with the new voters,” he told The Malaysian Insider.
The PAS campaign hurled allegations against the Gua Musang MP that shocked the public, accusing him of hiding vital information on Orang Asli affairs from the state government and distributing money from house to house to buy votes.
The outcome was embarrassing for PAS, as it lost in 12 out of 13 polling districts within the state seat. The Islamist party only managed to retain its stronghold of Sungai Terah with a reduced majority.
PAS also lost in Chinese-majority districts, which the party initially hoped would help them retain the seat.
“Their campaign was not focussed and the strategy was outdated. It just didn’t work anymore. I think the old leaders must go,” said the strategist, who was familiar with the campaign.
With the failure to defend the Galas seat, which it won for the first time by 646 votes in Election 2008, the party is now forced to look at a future without the popular Kelantan mentri besar and other leaders from the 1990s.
The Galas campaign had exposed Nik Aziz’s inability to defend the state government’s inefficiency, from its failure to award land titles to the badly managed logging activities in the state’s highlands that cost PAS the Orang Asli votes.
The Islamist party’s Orang Asli votes dropped from 36 per cent in 2008, to about 18 per cent in yesterday’s polls.
Many PAS campaigners working in Galas privately admitted that the defeat was caused by the state government, and Galas was not the first time when Nik Aziz has put the party in danger.
Just last year, the Kelantan administration was rocked by a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) probe over the appointment of Nik Aziz’s son-in-law to head the state government investment arm, the Kelantan Mentri Besar Corporation (PMBK).
The PAS spiritual advisor also came under fire for accepting sponsorship from a local businessman to perform the Haj pilgrimage in Mecca. Nik Aziz escaped the controversy by removing his son-in-law and cancelling the coveted religious journey.
Overall, PAS dropped just 265 votes from what it gained the last time, reflecting its strength in the state seat.
But the Galas defeat will now hasten the party’s succession plan for Kelantan. Source: The Malaysian Insider.
ANALYSIS, Nov 5 — Despite the euphoria, Barisan Nasional’s (BN) comfortable victory in Batu Sapi last night was a significant showing of the people’s political apathy and the fact that many were still entrenched in the era of “government knows best”.
While BN has insisted that yesterday’s results were proof that the people had accepted Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s development initiatives and 1 Malaysia platform, one significant factor was ignored — the poor turnout of voters.
If anything, the meagre 61.5 per cent turnout clearly indicated that the locals here have little or no regard for politics and place it low on their list of priorities.
Those who did turn up to vote yesterday were largely the community’s elderly, namely the staunch BN supporters of the past, who knew very little of the political changes made by their brethren across the South China Sea.
Many villagers, when met during polling day yesterday, had looked aghast at the uproar the by-election had brought to their otherwise peaceful township and were plagued with questions on why the polls was any different from past elections in the area.
Even Sabah Progressive Party’s (SAPP) candidate Datuk Yong Teck Lee said the small group of supporters seen waving flags and chanting outside the polling stations was a trend alien to the local folk of Batu Sapi.
In previous elections, said the former chief minister, voters merely sailed in and out of polling stations with ease.
If they were indeed politically aware and anxious to support either the BN or the opposition parties of PKR and SAPP, they would have made an effort to let their voices be heard.
But the fact that they did not, resulting in BN’s victory, does not necessarily mean that the majority of voters in Batu Sapi were supportive of Najib’s slew of development initiatives.
In all likelihood even, most of the rural folk living here do not even know what the NEM, ETP, GTP, NKRA and NKEA are, along with the other plans the prime minister may have for Malaysia.
How could they, when they lack access to simple information and even basic amenities like running water or electricity?
Another significant takeaway from yesterday’s polls was Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) success in securing second place.
Although PKR had clearly walked into the race as the underdog, with predictions pointing to its likely failure to secure the seat, in just nine-days of campaigning, the peninsular-based party had managed to push through to second place, above even locally-based SAPP.
Talks with villagers during the last few days of campaigning showed that PKR, armed with its experiences from the peninsular, had managed to make its presence felt in Batu Sapi.
Local folk whispered the tales of corruption the party had brought with them, and grew starry-eyed in the presence of political giants like Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and even Lim Guan Eng.
With their round-the-clock efforts, PKR also managed to clinch the support of the Chinese community here, which make up about 38 per cent of the total electorate.
The party hit many stumbling blocks along the way, however, as they were up against BN’s massive election machinery and resources.
For the local folk in Batu Sapi, many of whom were struggling with monthly salaries of just RM400, simple gifts were enough to convince them that BN was the better choice.
One PKR leader told The Malaysian Insider, “They are so poor and they need these things now. They cannot see beyond tomorrow and the fact that they can get even more if they dared to make a change.”
PKR’s leaders also spoke of problems with teaching people how to vote for the opposition, after finding that some local folk were not even aware of party emblems other than the BN’s.
On the final day of campaign, the party had to mobilise a team of campaign workers to teach the people how to mark their ballot papers.
PKR elections director Fuziah Salleh said that the villagers had long been accustomed to BN’s logo and when faced with a ballot paper, their immediate reaction was to mark an “X” next to it.
Still, despite these shortcomings, PKR’s Ansari managed second place yesterday with 3,414 votes, behind BN’s Datin Linda Tsen Thau Lin’s 9,773 votes. In third place was SAPP’s Yong with 2,031 votes.
If nine days of hectic campaigning could secure PKR second place, who is to say what will happen in Batu Sapi come the next general election, still at least months away? Source: The Malaysian Insider.

Once we sat down, we have to wait for about 5 minutes before the waiter came and serve us. It was rather a bad service from them as the manpower there is not enough that day and it will a bit ridiculous. Many people started to complaint as their service was very bad indeed. Even, we were one of the victims where once the food arrived, there's no culteries for us and I am wondering this could not happen. I have to personally go there and take myself and yet we have to pay for service tax as well! POOR!

If you are free during the weekends and you find yourself boring or you wanted to educate your child, I would recommend you to visit Zoo Negara. It does not dissapoints me at all as firstly, I would taught that there are not much animals to see inside the zoo as the publicity is not much though. For the entrance fees (with MYKAD or MYKID), adults will be charged RM20.00 while childen will be charged RM6.00. For foreigners without MYKAD, you will be charged RM30.00 for adults and RM15.00 for children. Inside the zoo, if you were to enter the insect zoo and butterfly park, you will be charged additional RM5.00 per person and RM3.00 for children. The price meanwhile are reasonable as you can see lots of animals inside as well. There is also animals show inside the Tunku Abdul Rahman Theatre where experts will accompany the animals to perform a show for the audience. The show will commence at 11.00am and 3.00pm respectively Monday - Sunday except Friday where the show will commence at 11.00am and 3.30pm respectively. The opening hours of the zoo would be MONDAY - SUNDAY (Daily): 9.00am - 5.00pm. Also do check out my FACEBOOK account for the full photos as well. For more information, do visit the Zoo Negara website via http://www.zoonegara.org.my/. MY RATING: 5/5