Allright! Thoughts on Ninja Assassin!  It’s my turn to do this! I will try to keep this short and sweet.  Although this movie was far from sweet. Anyways. I’m not gonna start with witty ninja jokes like Val did and go straitght to the point. This is what I thought of the movie.
Storyline:
Acting:
Fight scenes/Action:
Gore:
Hawtness of the main actor:

While Val urges you not to see Ninja Assassin, I would say… do go see it! If you want to see a movie so crappy that it’s awesome, then this is perfect. The story makes little to no sense. The acting is pretty horrible although we did see it in French so it might’ve been a bit worse because of that. K-pop star Rain is somewhat credible as a ninja; well, I can say that he has the body for it. Me-oow! The action is pretty good although sometimes it just goes way too fast and you don’t really get what’s happening. But the ninja-on-ninja fight scenes are pretty sweet. The gore is almost perfect. Not too much, just enough. Like seeing a GI/secret service agent getting eviscerated by a ninja on an infra-red cam. It’s pretty sweet… well, it’s a movie.

So, overall, it’s probably more of a “rent” than a “see”… but it’s fun to see the action on a big screen at the movies. I did have quite a few good laughs because of the poor acting, the gore and the awesome fight scenes. But your girlfriends will most likely not like it. I’m not like most girls, I guess! ^___^

Headache.

I know. I don’t feel so good lately.

Trying hard to function without any pills and just be myself.

Throbbing pain is such a nuisance.

I’m missing the comfort.

And it goes without saying..

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One day, a long time ago, I was listening to podcast about synthesizers because of some school assignment or something. It was a couple of guys talking about ‘The Greatest Presets Evar’ or something like that, going through their favourite demo sounds on various synths and songs that they were in. Eventually, as they were wrapping it all up, they pretty much said that all these synth sounds weren’t that important, and that it’s just the notes that really matter. I’m not sure how literally they meant it, but I’m going to be a dork and whine about how the notes aren’t the only thing music needs, or something.

So, the notes in music are usually the only tonal sounds  in music, meaning that they usually have a single pitch, sometimes maybe. Pretty much, if the notes in music were the only thing that mattered, you could replace every instrument with a single sine tone at the fundamental frequency. This would sound retarded; imagine an album titled ‘The Well Tempered Hearing Clinic’, and you’re pretty much there. All sound is made of sine tones of various frequencies, phases, amplitudes and everything else. Every instrument usually has it’s own unique timbre, a lot of which is from the character of the harmonics or overtones, and the weird stuff they do. The fundamental frequency is just a boring old sine wave, and the harmonics are more sine waves at higher frequencies related to the fundamental, with the higher frequencies being usually attenuated. The way these harmonics are layed out and everything about them has a huge impact on the sound and even the shape of the…sound.

Anyways, this article was supposed to be actually about music, and not badly explained physics principles of sound. While some people love to ponder how music ‘connects our inner soul’ and all this other pretentious stuff, I’m just going to say that music is about mood and atmosphere. The way that musical harmonies and melodies n’ stuff relate with human emotions and whatever else is ridiculous and pretty bizarre. Surely, there’s some logic in it, as happy major chords ‘look’ calm and correct in an oscilliscope, while more dissonant chords tend to look more chaotic and wrong. It’s weird that certain relationships between constant frequencies seem emotional to us, but there’s a crapload more sounds that will affect our mood for pretty clear reasons. If we’re trying to make sounds with some sort of mood to them, using just math to get there is kind of lame, I would say. Some of these atonal sounds with a certain mood are sort of dependant on culture, but a number of them are probably pretty universal to humans, either because of our relatively limited range of experiences or some evolutionary thing.

So, I’m pretty sure if you make a chord like a major chord, but remove the 3rd (the one in the middle!), it will be neither major or minor, it could be happy or sad sounding, depending on the 3rd note you add to it. Let’s just keep those 2 notes, but ‘fill in the blanks’ with completely atonal sounds. Using a soft viola sound or something similar with a slow attack and craploads of reverb for the ‘chord’ with the sound of birds and a babbling brook in the background would probably sound happier than playing the chord with a harsh distorted buzzing sounds with chains hitting barrels and bears roaring in the background. You might expect me to post a song displaying this, but what I’m actually going to do is make an entire song using just white noises and a crapload of bandpass filters.

I’ve always hated Tuesdays, it’s always a pretty shitty day, you know? Monday gets most of the attention, but I think Tuesday is just as bad, if not worse. You’re in the middle of the grind, the weekend is still far out of sight, and the best part of the day is that when it’s over, you’re -almost- half way through the week. The memories of the previous weekend have wained, and you’re just alone in the corporate/academic wasteland of your choosing.

Today was one of those days. I woke up pretty early, but I was just plain exhausted, so I ended up falling back asleep through my alarm like 4 or 5 times (Yes, I have that many alarms, for days like today.) I ended up getting up pretty late (8:50 for my 9:00 class) and I made it out the door no-shower, no-shave, no-change of clothes feeling like crap and still really tired. I got to my class, and remembered it’s my Tuesday class. I swear the teacher thinks we’re all stupid as hell. She talks to us like we’re all idiots, she thinks we don’t know any Kanji (she asked us if we knew the kanji for ‘kanji’.) Like sorry woman, yea we all placed into C class, but we can’t even read basic Japanese? The Tuesday class always goes super slow to begin with, but today was worse because we’re reviewing causative, passive, and suffering causative passive. They can be difficult to master the usage of, but the conjugation is not the hard part. I don’t mind staying on a subject until everyone in the class feels comfortable to move on, but this was ludicrous. We sat and beat the dead horse for like, two freaking hours. Yes woman, we’ve got it. Let’s move on.

By the end of the class, Oliver and I were completely zoned out, I was listening to Bob Marley and talking to friends on AIM and he was writing letters to the German Government about his scholarships and whatnot. There was some problems going on at home as well that were heavy on my mind as well. I had just been talking about how yesterday it feels like I’ve been sorted into the ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ category. I thought that my friends from BG never send me messages on AIM or Facebook anymore, then I realized, they never did to begin with either. (It didn’t really help to cheer me up.) The problems going on for my family just doubled back the feeling of being helplessly out of reach. There’s not really anything I can do to help anyone from 8000 miles away.

It just sucks, you know?

I had a great time with Mr L today but I just don’t feel too good. And the last time I felt this way, it didn’t turn out so well. And now, I am scared. Always worrying that soon, bad news will hit me and I have to face the real reality. The real facts. Yes, there IS such thing as real reality.

Anyway, we went out to Mid Valley at 10:30am. Arrived there at around 11:00+am. Just walked around and stuff. Went to have lunch at KFC. Yeah, suddenly changed our mind and didn’t eat at Sushi King. I don’t mind, really. As long as I’m eating with him, right?

Then, went to MPH. I bought a new Little Black Dress book using my MPH voucher. Only had to pay RM4.90 for it. Yay. Plan to read it on the aircraft so that I don’t bore myself to death in that 10++ hours flight.

Then, we decided to go to Sunway Pyramid! Just to hang out. There were so many people, luckily, we managed to find a parking. But really, traffic jam all the way to go to Damansara (but we were on the opposite road) , probably because of Flyfm Anniversary, is it? I don’t know. But the traffic was way heavier than usual.

Then, went back home. And here I am, feeling sh!tty. I can’t explain myself though. This feeling, it’s just a bad one. And I ended up crying all the way back home. Yeah, nothing bad happened just now. Had a good laugh, he was sweet as usual and it was great. But I went home, crying. Talk about being a weird person. Here I am.

Anyway, let’s ignore that, shall we? Here are 2 pictures I took just now. They are very bad pictures but nevermind, I’ll put them anyway.

Roof - Gardens

The only picture of him I managed to capture

Can you see us? In the tiny mirror. Can you? Yes, he’s the taller figure. As usual, he’s being extremely camera-shy. And that kind of frustrated me just now but whatever, I am used to it, I guess.

What else? Oh, I have to go to my auntie’s house for some open house or something, I don’t know. At 6:00pm. I don’t feel like going but am being forced by my mom to go. All I feel like doing now is curl up in my comforter and just sleep. Although I am not really feeling sleepy. Just want to sleep so that this bad feelings will pass and I will feel as good as new when I wake up.

Why can’t you make me feel better? Why can’t you say the right words?

I don’t know. Maybe because the right words don’t exist. Maybe.

xoxo, Fanah.

And also…

Aik. Belum main futsal dah injured aku ni..

Left thigh muscle kelam kabut. Over-stretch ke apa. Takkan sebab pepagi stretch macam hamster jadi camni?

Ada yg gi lawat doctor and physio lagi ni kang.. Kaki payah sket la.. kena bukak baju + seluar.. Ni yg m a l a s. Huaaaaaaaaaa.. Sakit.

Huaa. Sakit..

Huaaaa. Sakit.

*drama queen*

Nota kaki hamster: The battle begins at 11.55 pm. Mesti habis 2 am. 6 am kena bangun and gi kerja. Camne ni? Kena tengok ni.. Sanggup ke tdo 4 jam je ni?

]]> http://eqlnexiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/sigh/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:44:23 +0000 eqlnexiz http://eqlnexiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/sigh/

Ugh i couldnt even get to watch the game, they lost i guess that was the best option for me not to have a heart attack from that loss to standford…….

I iz heart broken for this week….. </3