Watch out for Skyline

I always love a good alien movie. If last year we have the terrific District 9, hopefully this year we can have a good alien movie with Skyline. I know it's too soon to tell, but so far the trailer looks good. You can check out the trailer in YouTube or just click here to go there. The trailer looks awesome! Skyline is set for release in theaters on November 12, 2010. Can't wait!

Hot music!

Here are some of the songs that I'm listening to (and crazy about) now. Just want to share it with the rest of the world.

Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way

This song is awesome! Another great song from Kylie Minogue. The video for the song is not as energetic as I would like it to be, but I love it so much anyway!

Ke$ha - Take It Off

So far, I like all of Ke$ha's songs, and this one definitely one of the best. I like the colour dust concept she used in her video for this song, it really makes it beautiful despite the raunchy lyrics she used in the song.

Travie McCoy - Need You

This is a song that I would never expect from Travie McCoy. It's more pop than anything that I'd heard from him before. Nevertheless, it's an addictive song, like so many other songs from him.

BoA - Hurricane Venus

She changed her style (again!) for her new Korean album. I love the song although I think it's not as good as her previous Korean singles. Still love BoA though.

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

Oh my, Teenage Dream is a great pop song, I LOVE IT!!! I'm not really into her 1st single so this one was quite a surprise for me when I first listened to it.

Nelly - Just A Dream

Nelly is one of my favourite hip hop artist. I like his voice and this song is definitely one of his best (in my opinion at least).

2NE1 - Clap Your Hands

Yay, new song from K-pop girl group 2NE1!!! One of three promotional songs for their 1st full-length album, this song is catchy and hip, and my favourite from the three songs. The music video is awesome too. They are definitely the most stylish group from Korea, great job 2NE1!

Nadine & Yani are out from TARA 4

Yes, the lovable and dramatic duo Nadine & Yani is the 1st team to be eliminated from The Amazing Race Asia season 4. I was kind of sad to see them leave as they add quite a drama to the season. They work well together, unfortunately not well enough to avoid elimination.

I was beginning to warm up to the teams for this season after watching episode 2, and to be frank, they are all very entertaining. All of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. The Malaysian teams (Ivan/Hilda and Ethan/Khairie) did pretty well thus far and the Singaporean girls (Claire/Michelle) and the Indian teams (Dimple/Sunaina and Manas/Sahil) were pretty good too. But the team to watch this season, in my opinion, is the Philippines boys (Rich/Rich). They argue a bit here and there, they got lost easily, but they still manage to come in 2nd place for both 1st and 2nd leg of the race. If they keep up the momentum, they could win the race.

I do have a bit of a problem though about this season of TARA, I can't remember the contestant's names! I have to search the internet every time I want to type their names. The only teams that I remember are Ivan/Hilda and Rich/Rich (the latter team is easy right?). I don't think I have much of a problem in last season. Either their names are hard to remember or I am getting old. I'm not that old right? Right?

Anyways, it's a great season so far and hopefully things will get more and more exciting.

TARA 4...coming really soon!!!

Here something to post about.

The Amazing Race Asia Season 4 is coming!!! It will premiere on 23 Sept. 2010 on AXN Asia at 9pm for Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia and India; 10pm for Hong Kong; and 11pm for Taiwan and Korea.

The racers had been revealed a week back and as usual, they took a couple of local celebrities for this season (they always does!). So far, the teams that I'm quite interested in are Claire/Michelle from Singapore, Nadine/Hilyani from Indonesia and Richard/Richard from Philippines. I wonder if they will go far in the competition. Overall, this season have 2 teams from India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines each, 1 team from Singapore and 1 team from Hong Kong.

By the way, you can watch the premiere episode for this season on their website starting today! Click here to go to the webpage. May the best team wins!

Tekken...hopefully not too late

Tekken the movie is already out in theaters in Malaysia, I think already in its 2nd or 3rd week. I'm planning to watch it next week but sadly, during my recent trip to the mall, I saw that the screen time for the movie had already being reduced to two showings. How sad! I've been waiting for this movie and knowing that it's not as popular as the other movies showing in theaters now makes me kind of sad. Is it not good?

Hopefully I'm not too late to watch it.

Busy with life

I was and currently am busy with my life, especially because of my new job, that make me away from the web and thus, less and less posts for my blog. Hopefully things will turn around and I could blog more in the future.

But aside from that, I do take my time doing things I love like playing my precious PS2 but unfortunately my Fatal Frame disc got stuck when I'm in Night 4 (the final chapter I think).
Sigh ~ before this was my Final Fantasy XII disc, and now Fatal Frame. Just my luck. I think I'd just start with Silent Hill 3 after this.

The beautiful Butterfly Cloud

I do not read as much shōjo manga as I would like to because of several personal reasons but I can point out one of the mangaka of this genre that I like, and that is Ashihara Hinako. Although her drawings are somewhat similar to other shōjo mangaka, her stories however really stood out the most. And the way she complements her drawings with the emotions of the story are really what caught me the most. One of her manga that show this skills is Awan Kupu-Kupu (translated in English as Butterfly Cloud).

Awan Kupu-Kupu, or in Japanese is called Chouchou Kumo, is a love story between four childhood friends. Complications and conflicts occur when a friend loves the other one, and another one got jealous, and another one trying to fix things up. Accidents happens and they start breaking apart. Heartbreak is a must but what's more important is to let things go. It's confusing I know, but that's what one look forward to in a love story. Besides, I'm not going to spoil the story for you. Set on an island, the story revolves around the four friends during their childhood up to their teenage years. Once you read the manga, you will feel the emotions straight from the pages, and that's what I love about Ashihara Hinako's manga, you can always 'feel' her stories.

Aside from the main story, there are 3 more short stories that come together with this manga, each with new protagonists and new conflicts. While the short stories are not up to par with Buttefly Cloud, but they are still enjoyable and worth to spend time with.

Overall, Awan Kupu-Kupu is a fun read and a must have for those who love shōjo manga, and also for those who are a fan of Ashihara Hinako's work.