The past 2 weeks I went to watch sequels to two of my favorite movies : Transformers & Harry Potter. Those sequels were the last in a very long movie sequence, especially Harry Potter. They've been in the movie since they were kids & now they've all grown up.. must've been difficult ending such a long journey.
We watched both movies in 3D, the 1st time we watched any movie in 3D. But I'd have to say that the Transformers was a better 3D movie, maybe becoz it was shot in 3D. I felt that HP was just a normal movie then converted into 3D, hence the 3D effects wasn't that revealing.
Transformers : Dark of The Moon was a very long movie, 2 hrs 40 mins, & maybe becoz there was so much to tell. There was action from start to finish, typical for a Transformer movie & even with a new babe, well, the babe was in the action as well. & I dunno whether there will be any spin off movies after this, like the X-men movie, there was no rumor about it. The movie was great, story was great albeit very illogical. & the ending was .. well.. the end. That was what I always look for in a movie of this nature. How the director ends the end of the movie. The LOTR trilogy's end was good. This one was good as well.
But the HP's ending was like... well, in the end I was like,"That's it ? That's all ?" After 7 movies altogether, I was expecting a more dramatic ending. But of course, it ended well enuff, all the characters in the movie ended up with their respective love interests & their kids went to Hogwarts, exactly just like them. But really, that's it ?
Visitors from abroad.
The Malaysian football team is having the time of their lives this couple of weeks. 3 EPL teams, Arsenal, Liverpool & Chelsea are making a visit to the country & play friendly games with the national team. Like what K.Rajagopal said earlier, even Brazil dun get to play 3 EPL teams in 2 weeks like we do. Yeah, but maybe there's a reason for that. Anyway, those players must be living a dream.
I went to watch my favorite team of course, Arsenal. The last time they came it was in 1999 & I didn't have any money to buy the very expensive ticket back then, I was still in university. So when the news got out that they're coming this year, I couldn't let this opportunity pass by. Armed with my new 125th anniversary jersey, I went to the Bukit Jalil stadium for 2 straight nights, to watch them train & play. Sure enuff, the national team was no match for the Arsenal & got thumped 0-4. Nevertheless, we were behind the national team the whole time & I thought we were cheering more for the national team than the Arsenal.
Against Liverpool we managed to score 3 goals, unprecedented for a team of our ranking. Safiq Rahim confirmed himself as Malaysia's dead-ball specialist by scoring from a freekick. Safee Sali scored twice.. the stadium erupted. Good morale-booster for our team ahead of the Singapore tie.
Watching Arsenal in their training session.. they still do a lot of drills.. passing, stopping the ball.. drilled set plays.. Our team dun really do that. Which is why they're so good the Arsenal. Even at that level, they still practice drills religiously.. practiced set plays until it's embedded in their brains & they can do it by memory. Try telling our youngsters, even at state level to do that & U'll be met with a somewhat confused stare from them.
Our athletes, they dun like to do basic, fundamental things. Why ? Becoz they tend to believe they're good enuff already & to progress they need to learn more advanced, difficult moves. But when they fail to do the more difficult moves, they get frustrated & upset & eventually stop playing whatever game they're playing. Seeing Arsenal players, who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars weekly, try to work on their passing, dribbling countless times, to make them perfect... was just an eye-opening experience. I hope those youngsters watching, or even parents of aspiring youngsters will take note of this & keep this in mind. Practice makes perfect & dun get satisfied easily.
Baby coming
My wife's into her 35th week of pregnancy & we're getting pretty much restless waiting for our baby to come into our family. Next week we're gonna have the last check up with our doctor & then it's just a matter of time. I'm on a flexible dateline here at work, I need to get everything settled before I go on leave, so that I can go with a piece of mind.
Seremban Half Marathon
I didn't manage to register for the last race before Ramadhan, the Men's Health Shape Run. My fault really. So to make up for that & for my very poor SCKLM, I decided to go for the Seremban Half Marathon on the 24th. That's gonna be my last race before Ramadhan. I'm not really interested to run phantom at Men's Health. I'm still carrying my plantar fasciitis, but the shin splints seems to be okay for now. I keep telling myself to go all-out for this Seremban, even with my injury, & then I can have a month's rest. I dunno if I can improve on my PB, I dun really know the course. Hopefully I can run a better race than SCKLM. That's all I want.
Livestrong.
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