Superman movie shouldn't be realistic, it should be the opposite

I am a fan of Superman movie.

Words out there which reviewed that the upcoming movie is going to be something realistic and down to earth ? In fact, I feel that it shouldn't be that way.

Superman movie should extend beyond our imagination; going beyond the galaxy and etc, for a simple reason -  being Superman is really too boring without big enemies and threats - there is no point worrying about Earthly issues.


Movie makers must be able to give audience something which is heavenly, something celestial and galactic-nature given that Superman is hailed from another distant planet; an alien.

Therefore, it definitely makes no sense of trying to blend Superman into the real world of USA, lest making similar mistake of The Dark Knight Rises where it was told that Batman exists in a the city of Gotham which is part of USA and he only fights crime in Gotham - come' on guys - why don't US government engage Batman to fight in wars ?

And yes, a real Superman has no place on Earth, lest one has to pretend as Clark Kent.

Harmony - Volunteer Choir Singing Show Sep 1 2012

The MUI Group presents 'Harmony' with the Choir of the Phiharmonic Society of Selangor on 1 September 2012 at Dewan Sivik MBPJ, Jalan Yong Shook Lin, Petaling Jaya at 3pm.

Come join over 100 singers aged between 8 - 85 years young as we commemorate the 55th year of Malaysian independence and the first anniversary of the Phil's Australian Tour with songs from various genres. Come hear songs and medleys including Sound of Music, Grease, Tanah Pusaka, Putra Putri, Getaran Jiwa, Elvis Presley dedication, Shre

k and more!

Through The MUI Group's generous sponsorship, this will be FREE concert for everyone.

For passes, either book them through your friends who are members of the choir or collect them prior to the show. Passes will be available from 1pm onwards. We will update this event listing with the number of passes available.

We welcome groups from homes, etc. For more information, please email them at selangor.phiL@gmail.com

 

Check it out.

MMM4 (Music From Movies & Musicals 4)

I actually went to attend a live performance at KLPac (inside Sentul West) by The Phil, the title of the show is called MMM4 (Music From Movies Musical) 4th edition.

The Phil (the Philharmonic Society of Selangor) is a community choir group consists of volunteer members, rehearsing every Monday (except for public holidays) from 8.00pm to 10.00pm at Ann Perreu's Music Studio in section 19, PJ, Selangor.

It is a true community choir consisting of anyone regardless of race, religion, age, gender or musical experience, everybody is welcomed to join. Orientation and open rehearsal are held twice a year, normally in January and in July or August.

The best thing is that the group sings wide variety of musics ranges from classical, contemporary, hymns, spirituals, folk songs, broadway numbers, jazz, rock and roll, swing, pop and more!!

For MMM4, it performed songs from The sound of music, Grease, Les Miserables, Prince of Egypt, Shrek and more!

Proceeds from this production will be channeled to the Society for the Severely Mentally Handicapped Selangor and Federal Territory (SSMH), Persatuan SLE Malaysia (PSLEM) and the Light a Home Project.

Great show!!! Totally loved it.

Plant vs Zombies - Pogo Party

This mini game from plant vs zombies is pretty challenging due to two reasons:

1. Not enough time to gather enough sunlight to plant powerful weapon. The only cheaper options are either cabbage-pult(cabbage shooter) or kernel-pult(corn shooter).
   
2. Magnet-shroom must be planted early to deal with properly.
   

The solution I found to be effective is to plan Magnet-shroom early (in the front) in a straight line in the middle so that vaulting zombies can be knocked off its pogo stick early so that cabbage shooter can attack it earlier and more effective.

Appropriate usage of pumpkin and cherry bomb is also useful.

More on games.

Captain America - From Childhood Hero To Hopes

I was borned in 1970(s).

Like many others, I grew up reading comic books such as spiderman, fantastic four and of course Captain America. Captain America was really popular when I was in my primary school, not sure why, I even had a costume of it; I remember.

Now, after 30 years, Hollywood finally made a film out of it and it is played by an actor younger than me.

Captain America; The First Avengers is a great movie, you should go and watch it. It comprises of mixture of drama, love story, fantasy and probably scientific hopes for mankind evolution.

The actors played their roles well, especially Hayley Atwell who plays Peggy Carter; love interest of Captain America.

Chris Evans performs well too, he is able to portray a sickly young man who understands pain and later being transformed into a 'superman' figure who demonstrated the great strength, compassionate and humanity. For some reasons, Evans has that kind of look. I think he is a great actor.

In terms of acting, my favourite is between Tommy Lee Jones (who plays Col. Chester Phillips) and Stanley Tucci (who plays Dr. Abraham Erskine). I think I will pick Tucci for the oscar.

Also, Hugo Weaving plays the villain really well, he is a very talented actor.

For my part, the entertainment values come more from Hayley Atwell. She is an absolute success in this movie; A+++.

This movie tells that love story in the oldies are much better, even though clouded by wars and etc. Love stories then were more pure and happy as contrast to today's complicated humanity.

The one thing I want to stress about is hope. I have a reason to believe that ultimately, all mankind should strive to improve themselves. If you are weak in one area, you should and can always strive to improve on that area. It is the answer to every questions in this human age. And if you mixed it with love, political wars, friendship, science, idealogy and humanity, it is called life.

Fundamentally, it parallels with religions which touch on the reincarnation focusing on the point that what lies ahead is for becoming a more superior beings. From Animal realms to human being realms to heavenly realms and so on and so forth. Means, if you are now a human, you don't really want to become a fish, you prefer to go up with higher intelligence capability. If you are a fish, you would most likely wanted to become a human being. So, the right path is always becoming a stronger and better beings with higher level of consciousness.

Also, I think there is something to cherish that the world has to wait for more than 30 years, in order for Chris Evans to be borned, and to play this role. To me, that is called amazing. Why don't they let me play the role ? You know what I am saying ?

You should watch it. Thumbs Up :D

Sierra Pharaoh Nekhen Gameplay Tips

Strategy

1. Use shrines on secluded area. Build shrines for the patron god; Ra.
   
2. Do not over built houses, keep population to 1,000 to conserve resources. Build 9x8 housing will be enough to cater for 1,000 population.
   
3. Build two temples for the patron god.; Ra.
   
4. Build an internal circle to keep necessity services (water, firemen, health) inside by putting a block at the entrance.
   
5. Build festival square and perform festival.
   

Conclusion

1. Do not over built houses and waste resources.
   
2. Try to build a personal mansion later to keep some money.
   
3. Perform festival for each god at least once per year, thus every 4 months rotating.
   

General Tips:

1. Use roadblock, however, must use it wisely. Roadblock prevents people from traveling out to get jobs.
   
2. Palace is the place to keep gold and to provide information about unemployment.
   
3. Gold will provide direct income, must harvest as much as possible.
   

Plant Vs Zombies (Bobsled Bonanza) Tips:

Use chili plant to clear the ice, after than, put a spikeweed with enhancement at the right side so that any zomboni which will attempt to come in will be destroyed immediately.

The most effective way of dealing with the red suit zombie is to plant three spikeweeds adjacent to each other, they cannot succeeded in walking through it.

Need to plant as many sunflower as possible to get energy fast in order to use chili plant.

Start the game by planting Sunflower and spikeweed first.

Also refer to Plant vs Zombies : Survival: Endless (Hard) Tips

Plant vs Zombies : Survival: Endless (Hard) Tips:

• Snorkel zombies - Use walnut on lily pad.
  
• Digger zombies - can't pass through potatoe mines. Use pumpkin to protect all plants in case digger zombies managed to pass through the front defense.
  
• Zomboni is effectively dealt with using spikeweed.
  
• Gargantuar is most effectively dealt with using freezing techniques; freezing melon or freeze shroom(use multiple to freeze them so that shooting pea at the left side can shoot them while they are immobilized). Secondly effective using spikeweed (which will slow them down while they are trying to demolish the spikeweed).
  

The maximum number of flags I have achieved is 22 flags.

Also refer to

• Plant vs Zombies: Survival: Roof (Hard) Tips
  
• Plant vs Zombies: Survival: Fog (Hard) Tips
  
• Plant vs Zombies - Survival - Pool (Hard)
  

Plant vs Zombies: Survival: Roof (Hard) Tips:

Refer to Plant vs Zombies: Survival: Fog (Hard) Tips

1. To fight with zomboni, winter melon is not good enough. Need to use pea shooter with fire. Place it at the right side (where the roof is flat).

2. Do not use kernel pult (not much point). Use cabbage pult at first, later change all to winter melon.

3. Place cactus at the right side of the roof (where the root is flat), otherwise, it can't shoot properly. And also you need to plant one cactus per lane in order to shoot down balloon zombies properly. Thus, it would be a better idea to use blover altogether (more effective).

Plant vs Zombies: Survival: Fog (Hard) Tips

• The challenge is not enough energy (can't have double sun flower).
  
• Have to use garlic (when one lane is weaken) and ice-shroom (very effective as last resort when your front line of defense is weaken and also effective to deal with large invasions).
  
• Biggest threat is catapult zombies. Have to use 'umbrella leaf'. Plant two of it near to the edge and to the pool.
  
• Have to use pumpkin to protect all plants, including the energy shroom.
  
• Another threat is the 'digger zombie'.To deal with this,plant 4 magnets at the land lanes (one on each lane). Without the digger, it cannot penetrate the ground. Once the digger has been absorbed by the magnet, it will be forced out of the ground.
  
• Plant two cattails at the edge of the pool (left side) to deal with balloon zombies, zombies thrown into the edge and also as backup for other lanes)
  
• Use a combination of corn and repeater on a single lane. The corn is able to slow down zombies when butter is thrown, this will be your advantage.
  
• The most effective way of dealing with Gargantuar is using ice-shroom and corn (which throws out butter) to slow it down while the shooting pea (with fire) shoots it from behind.
  
• Plant two lanterns near the right side of the pool to clear the fog.

Penang Trip 9 Mar 2010 - Business Trip

This is called the Happy Birthday Mee. It can be found at Jalan Krian. It is non-vegetarian (don't eat the fish ball lar)

Komtar.. who don't know.

Loh mee, not bad. RM 3.00 (It is non-vegetarian, don't eat the first ball lar).

This restaurant looks cool lar from inside.

I like this house.

It is situated at Lorong Selamat.


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Lorong Bukit Raja

Do you know where I am ?

Look at the buildings at the far back ..

It is here.. Not easy to find.


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Do u know what these korean words means ?

There is a mamak there.

I went there with my friend, checking out the temples.

That is right, we went to visit two temples along federal highway. And the funny thing is that these two temples were locked. Need to press door bell to get in.

Sierra Pharaoh Tips - Bahariya Oasis

Following the tips for Giza, On and North Dashur.

Now we have the tips for Bahariya Oasis scenario.

This scenario is pretty easy, since all trading are done one land which is more efficient than with dock(for sea). And the abundance of wood supplies make economy really easy. So, I only have four tips.

1. Must buy something only can sell something.
2. Never clear off tree areas, otherwise you will run out of supply for woods.
3. Build two infantries and one archer. Beware of massive Bedoiun attack during year 2450BC.
4. Optimizing storage yard. Never let a storage yard to be completely filled up with just one item such as wood or sandstone.

This would make the storage yard workers really boring because they have so little things to do. It is best to fill up storage yard with a majority item (such as woods and sandstone) and minor with barley, flax, reeds and etc (so that these raw materials can be delivered to factories immediately since workers are not too pre-occupied with other things.) Never have a storage yard to be filled up with more than four items, otherwise the workers will be overworked.

If you made it through North Dashur, On and Giza, this scenario will be sure win.

Sierra Pharaoh Tips - Giza

Continuing from previous efforts for On, we now look at the winning strategy for scenario Giza.

Giza:

Challenges:

This scenario may looks easy because you are only required to have two ratings (kingdom and monument), however it will be

harder than you think. You still have to pay your tribute even though you are not require to have any prosperity rating.

Otherwise, Pharaoh army will attack as soon as your kingdom drops to zero.

Beer will be available from a new route to Dendera, after you have deployed Army to help with foreign attack.

The key to wining this scenario is to never ran out of debens. You will have to use your personal savings in the initial

stage.

Once you are able to create an economy which is self sustaining, everything will pretty easy.

As you are expected to play for certain amount of time (since you have to build three monuments), thus this scenario is good

for you to build your personal savings.

Tips:

1. Quickly setup exporting activities for gems and luxury goods. Once you are able to generate income, things should be

pretty easy. Just play in moderation, do not over import things especially limestone in the initial stage. Build more docks

to facilitate the export import capabilities. (at least 2 and even 4)
2. Keep storage for gems, luxury goods, game meat as Pharoah will request for them ocassionally. He will reward you with

copper, limestone, linen (just once) and grain (just once).
3. Have to build at least one fort of archers and infantries because you will need to deploy them to other city for backup.

Thus you should build probably another fort of infantries to backup the city.
4. Funds are limited, you have to import huge amount of limestones, certain amount of woods, clays and weapons. The reliefs

are that you don't have to import beer because the houses are not expected to evolve pass the stage of beer and you get to

export gems and jewellers (Pharaoh will be asking for these too). Don't use up the fund so fast and quickly build a family

mansion as well as a town place.
5. Build as much workcamps as possible to speed up the process of pyramid building.

It took me 882 months to win this scenario.

Mortals - what is the best bet ?

According to the movie "Elizabeth the golden age".

"we mortals have many weaknesses, we fear too much, hurt too much, or too soon we die, but we have the chance of love."

Check it out.

Sierra Pharaoh TIps - On

Continuing from previous efforts for North Dashur, we will now take a look at winning strategy for the scenario called "On"

This is how I win the scenario.

On:

Quite a honey moon scenario compared to North Dashur. There will be no army attack (from Pharaoh) as well. There is no need to build any army fortress. This is a fun scenario with many food options (grain, meat and game meat). You need to build three similar medium mastabas which requires a lot of bricks. (Make sure you reserve ample spaces for this purpose).

Challenges:

1. No option to grow barley farm. Has to import either barley or beer.
2. Without buidling a Senet, the culture will never reach 40 (maximum). However, senet should only be built at the end of the game, when you are ready to win which otherwise it will suck in a lot of beers. And since you do not have the capacity to grow barley, it is not good idea to have senets sucking in too much beer.
3. Pharaoh will only ask for two things; limestone and game meat (from hunting)
4. Hipotamus kill people. Build towers on the bank of the river closed to where hipotamus breading ground is to kill of the hipos. This is the most effective way to kill of the hipotamus where two spears from the tower will get one hipo killed.
5. Each island doesn't allow the landscape of housing estate to cater for 4000 people, that would be about 50 units of residences.

Tips:
1. No need to build senet (since it is sucking beer), just need to make sure you build dentist to push up the culture.
2. Import everything as early as possible, which includes clay, pottery, reeds, paprypus, flax, linen, bricks and limestone (generates the most income).
3. No need to over build the temples as at least one each and with more focus on the patron god Ra.
4. Build a personal mansion as early as possible to collect savings. And get rid of crimes minimize the risk of money stolen. You can't get salary when you decided to rule longer after victory!!
5. Straws (Grows from grain farm simultaneously) are required for cattle ranch and also bricks making. Try to have a storage yard of straws.
6. Continuously perform festival to make sure that people don't leave your city. More that 20 months without festival will risk people leaving the city.

It took around 600 months to win the scenario.

More tips to come, stay tuned!

Sierra Pharaoh Tips - North Dashur

I have been playing this game called Pharaoh by Sierra.



It is an old game, but you may buy it from Amazon.

To play this game, you need to have some skills and techniques. And this website offers much insights. But the walkthroughs isn't comprehensive enough.

I was stuck particularly at the stage of old-kingdom: North Dashur, it took me a few months. But I finally victor after going through some trial and errors.

Here are my tips.

North Dashur:

Challenges:

1. 4 gods. One year can only have 3 celebrations 3 months apart.
2. Need to spend a lot of money in the early stage.

Tips:

1. Increase wages to 31 deben (at least)

2. Start trading early. Serambit will buy a lot of beer. Build the storage yard close to each other and make sure it is easily accesible.

3. Build things slowly, do not rush to build all temples together. Ideally you should have two temples for Ptah (patron) and Osiris (agriculture). Build shrines even things out.
No need to have lavish festival, just make sure that to hold common festival non-stop, every three months. (switch between gods)

4. Keep a storage full of grain. (for pharaoh request).

5. Quickly sell barley and beer. No need to sell other things.

6. Do not let the the kingdom rate fallen completely. Otherwise, Pharaoh army will keep attacking you.
The most important thing is to pay yearly attribute. (This is done automatically, make sure your deben is not negative)
Send gift occassionally to keep Pharaoh happy. Build a personal mansion to collect salary so that you have the money to send gift.

7. It is alright to have tax rate of 8%.

8. Email me (brandonteohno1@yahoo.com) for saved games.

9. Setting priorities is important.

1 - Food & distribution- Granary
2 - Infrastructure - Firehouse, transportation,
3 - Health
4 - Religion
5 - Industry & commerce- Pottery, brewery, labor & peasant
6 - Entertainment
7 - Government - tax
8 - Education (No priority)
9 - Military (No priority)

** Priority 1 - 6 mustn't be changed because you will risk people moving away. Setting government as priority is important so that the taxes are collected.
** Whenever foreign army, set the priority to 7.
** Once you have build up a fort of infantry and archer, military can become the last priority, otherwise no one will go and become archer and infantry.

Sometimes you have may to release all priorities if you don't have enough workers. Priority is used at the beginning and ad-hoc (emergency) basis.

The game suggest that the first priority be set to "Food and distribution" while second is "Industry & commerce"

10. Do not over import things. set to minimum import of 200 units.
Once your deben starts to deficit, stop importing especially copper.
The only thing to keep inporting is clay which is very low cost and keep at 200 units.
Import paprypus directly, manufacturing it from reeds is a waste of time and resources.

11. Building a large pyramid doesn't require deben.

The process of building the pyramid.
I. Peasants from work-camp will build the foundation.
II. Once the foundation is done, construction guilds will start to pull stoens (plain stones and lime stones) layer on the foudation.
III. As the first layer of stones are laid, carpenter guilds will need to build wooden staircase to bring construnction guilds to the lext level.
* Only need to have 1 carpenter guild and stonmaster guild.

13. Only need to build one fort of archers and infantries and train them with academy (u also need recruiter and preferrably two units of weapon smith).
Foreign army attacks are of weak nature, except for Pharaoh army which cannot be defeated. Make sure the kingdom rating don't fall to zero.
Pharoah will request for military service. Thus have to build another fort of infantry to fight off one small team of bedouin army attack.

14. How to make sure kingdom rating don't fall to zero ?

I. Make sure you fulfill Pharaoh request on time. Keep a storage yard full of Grains, Straws and Barley at all time. (three main things it will request)
It will also request for 24 blocks of limestone at later stage.
II. Don't let you kingdom rating fall by paying annual attributes. This is done automatically every March should your deben is not zero or negative.
III. Keep Pharaoh happy by sending gifts to Egypt occassionally. (Similar to having festivals). You need to build a personal mansion to have savings to send gifts.
IV. Build enough storage yards to accept gifts from Pharaoh. Everytime you fulfill Pharaoh request on time, you will be rewarded with plain stones and coopers (at later stage).
You probably need 4 storage yards just to reserve for Pharaoh's gifts.

Falling either one of these might result in Pharaoh's army attack which will comes in two legions.

15. No need to spend too much money building defensives structures, just setup some towers perhaps.
16. Never let the houses run out of food and pottery. This will drive people away. When this happens, the power priority industry will suffer such as goverment and entertainment.
When there is no enough entertainment, more people will leave. Build more grain farms and pottery makers.
17. You need at least 3000 ppl, thus at least 50 blocks of the largest house. Try to accomodate these 50 blocks in a single area, so that you only have to build just one magistrate court, tax collector and health care.
18. When people started to leave the city due to inadequate food, pottery and entertainment. Setting "entertainment" to a higher priority and increasing the wages will bring people back.
19. Build the limestone quarry and storage yards (for storage of limestone) closest to the pyramid building site.

It took me 886 months to victory.

More tips to come.

Something interesting.. I like to do this one day

Let's go bowling..



See that :)