Phua Chu Kang: The Movie

Hi Everyone,

Are you a fan of Phua Chu Kang? The hit television series that starred Gurmit Singh, Irene Ang and Pierre Png is a Singaporean production. Gurmit Singh starred as Phua Chu Kang in which he is portrayed as an Ah Beng which is a Singlish slang for a stereotypical, uneducated Chinese gangster.¹ The show's sequel Phua Chu Kang Malaysia Sdn Bhd was aired  in 2009.  The show is famous with the Don't Play Play phrase.

This year, Phua Chu Kang: The Movie is coming to cinemas next month in August. In Malaysia, the movie will be released on 26th August 2010.

Below is the PCK: The Movie No-HP Teaser:

PCK: The Movie No-HP Teaser

Please visit the Phua Chu Kang: The Movie website and the Phua Chu Kang: The Movie Facebook page for more details on the movie.

<sup>1 Source: Phua Chu Kang - Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phua_Chu_Kang 

Cheers,

Rogerkoo</sup>

My World Cup Moments

Hi Everyone,

South Africa has hosted the World Cup 2010 successfully. We saw upsets and suprising moments and also victory for Spain! These are some of my World Cup 2010 @ South Africa moments:

1. Spain won the World Cup 2010 @ South Africa for the first time by beating Netherlands 1-0
2. Germany won 3rd place by beating Uruguay, 3-2. Uruguay has did well in this World Cup although they were placed 4th. They were the best South American nation to reach the 3rd place / 4th place finish stage. 4 South American teams qualified for the Quarter Finals stage. The 4 countries were Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
3. Spain beat Germany 1-0 at the Semi Finals.
4. Netherlands beat Uruguay 3-2 at the Semi Finals.
5. Argentina was eliminated at the Round of 16 stage by Germany. They received a 4-0 thrashing
6. Brazil was also knocked out 1-2 by the Netherlands at the Round of 16 stage. A goal from Netherlands saw the Brazillian goalkeeper slightly touching the ball together with another Brazillian player. The ball then deflected to the net. It was an own goal. This goal allowed Netherlands to equalise 1-1 after Brazil scored the 1st goal after 10 minutes.
7. Germany thrashed England 4-1 at the Round of 16 stage. England did not quality for the finals of the World Cup again. England was denied a goal in this match. The ball went inside the goal and bounced up and down. It did not touched the net at the back. According to the rules, it was supposed to be a goal but it was not given.
8. Italy, the 2006 World Cup winner was knocked out of the World Cup @ South Africa at the last match of the group stage by Slovakia. They beat Italy 3-2. Italy only managed to score at he 81st and 92 minutes. Slovakia was leading Italy 3-1 after 90 minutes of play.
9. Robert Green, England's goalkeeper made a blunder which made U.S.A to score one goal against them at their opening game. The game ended 1-1
10. France also was knocked out at the group stage. At the last game between France and South Africa, the host nation beat France 2-1.
11. Portugal thrashed North Korea 7-0 at the 2nd group game. North Korea was beaten 2-1 by Brazil at their 1st game. It was a nice moment to know that North Korea scored a goal against Brazil
12. It is also good to see that Asian countries especially Korea and Japan made it to the Round of 16. Japan beat Denmark 3-1 in the group stage. Korea also scored 2 goals against Greece.
13. Spain lost to Switzerland at the opening group game 1-0. Spain then went on to win the World Cup and created history.
14. There were a few disputed calls made by the umpire. One of those was the Germany vs England game as explained above. Harry Kewell was sent off in one of Australia's matches. Argentina seemed to score a goal at an offside position. Some umpires or linesman were suspended temporarily as a result of this.

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Music Players

Hi Everyone,

iPod, media players or imitation IPod? iPodhas 3 models to choose from namely iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano and iPod Touch. The latter is bundled with Wifi and touch screen.

After saving and considering other MP3 players, I still choose the IPod Nano 4G personally. Bought it a year and a half ago on January 2009. I considered the Sony and Creative MP3 players by researching on the web and comparing all the features. Also I researched the features of the iPod Nano 4G. 

Creative and Sony may offer more features including FM Radio and support other media formats such as midi and wav files but overall the IPod seems to attract me personally.     

 

 

Now the iPod Nano 5G, the current generation comes with a FM radio and a video camera. For the previous generation, a radio connectivity set costs more than RM100. Prices of the iPod in Malaysia remains the same at RM599 and RM799 for the 8GB and 16GB models respectively. Even though the price is the same, it has more features.

Sony, Creative and Samsung also have their models to compete directly with the iPhone. The Creative Zen MX is one example. It offers the capabilities to play more music formats including the Windows Media Audio (WMA), Midi and WAV files. It also offers radio. This is the same for Sony and Samsung. Radio is a standard for MP3 players nowadays. Only the IPod did not offer any radio features at that time. iPhone can only support MP3 and AAC3 (MP4) files. To play a WMA file on the iPod, you need to use iTunes to convert it to MP4 format first or other softwares to convert it to a MP3 file.

Sony, Creative and other brands also offer better battery life on the MP3 players. My iPod Nano can last about 3 days or so. The claimed battery life for the Nano 4G is 24 hours.

At the end, it is all up to you to choose.

For more information, please visit these websites:

Apple - Play music and more on iPod.
Creative MP3 Players and Accessories - ZEN and MuVo Series: 
Portable Audio : Consumer Products : Sony Malaysia:
MP3 Player | SAMSUNG:
Products | Zune.net:

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Matt Redman Heart Of Worship (When the music fades)

Hi Everyone,

For the past two weeks including this week, I always thought of this song in my mind. Whether it's during work or at home after work, it comes to my mind. I can sing the chorus to myself. I do not know why. Below is the video for the Matt Redman's version of the song.

The pre-chorus and chorus goes like this:

I bring you more than a song

For a song in itself

Is not what you have required

You search much deeper within

Through the way things appear

You're looking into my heart

Chorus:

I'm coming back to the heart of worship

And it's all about you, it's all about you, Jesus

I'm sorry, Lord for the thing I've made it

When it's all about you, it's all about you, Jesus

Indeed, worship is not only singing praises and songs of worship to our Lord Jesus and God. Worship encompasses every part of our Christian life. It includes  our church life, our life at home, our career,  and our relationship with family, relatives, friends and colleagues. No matter what we do, we do it to please God. It's all about our God who sent his son to die for our sins. We should always focus on God in our everyday lives wherever we are.

An example of an obligation is this:

When we are asked to do something that we do not want to do , we are forced to do it. 

This should not be the way. We should change our mindset to that of a service pleasing to God.

May we consider our everyday lives as a service pleasing to God and not thinking it as an obligation.  When we serve at church especially, it is a service to God and not an obligation.

This is worship. Worship is our everyday life. 

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris

Hi Everyone,

This is the Justin Bieber song, Baby ft Ludacris. He is only 16 years old and yet he's successful for his age. This video is viewed over 230 million times on YouTube VEVO.

I do not know if you like this song but it's kind of catchy. When I went back home from work and this song is played on Hitz.FM, it's kind of a feel good song. I do listen to Hitz.FM sometimes. Songs that Hitz.FM are more current than Mix.FM, my favourite radio station.

Hate or like this song? It's quite subjective. Some of you may listen to this song until you hate that song. 

I kind of like this song. Catchy tune. :P. Lol.

Cheers,

Teng Joon

The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Chronicles Of Narnia 3

The 3rd installment of the Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of Dawn Treader is coming in December 9th in Malaysia. It will be shown in 3D. 

Even though this is the 3rd Narnia movie, it is actually the 4th book of 7 books in the series. The 2nd book, The Horse and The Boy is not made into a movie. Instead, Prince Caspian, the 3rd book was made as the 2nd Narnia movie.

Follow the adventures of Lucy, Edmund and their cousin, Eustace on a journey on board the Dawn Treader.  Lucy and Edmund met their friend, Prince Caspian back and Eustace has his first appearance here. Experience more magic and some dragon scenes in this movie.

Enjoy the trailer. For more information, please visit The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader official website.

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Inception

Inception is a movie starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page. It also starts Michael Caine.

Leonardo Dicaprio stars as a skilled thief, the best in skillful art of attraction, who steals valuable secrets from people's minds. It made him a professional in corporate espionage and also a fugitive and cost him everything he loved. His skill is called Inception.

Now, it's time for redemption. Leonardo Dicaprio needs to accomplish the impossible, inception using his own ideas instead of stealing from people's minds to get his life back. The successful planning of this with his team of specialists could result in the perfect crime. However, they could expect the unexpected because of an enemy who could read their plan.

Coming soon in Malaysian cinemas on 15th July, I believe this is also a good movie to watch. Good action and entertainment are awaiting us. May plan to watch this movie on 21st July 2010.

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/inception/mainsite/img/posters/01.jpg 

You can also visit Inception offical website and the Inception's page on Facebook for more details. 

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Smartphones

What comes to mind when you think of smartphones? Phones are getting more advanced nowadays combining phone, entertainment, games and business into one device.

The IPhone 4 and its predecessors, Android, Blackberry, Nokia E-Series and Windows Mobile 7 are some of the most common terms that we heard. I am using IPhone 3G(S) myself. Basically, I can do anything with the IPhone 3G(S) from productivy applications to multimedia applications which include games, music, movies, bibles, news, e-books, flashlight and photo uploading and enhacement applications. I can also use the IPhone as a GPS and as a universal remote control as well.

Which is the best of all of these? IPhone seems to be the benchmark now. Followed closely is the Android, the mobile operating system by Google.  Brands such as HTC, Motorola and Samsung has models using the Android operating system. When I was at Mid Valley yesterday, I tested the HTC Touch Diamond at the Digi Smartphones Fair in front of MPH / Coffee Bean. It has one of the smoothest touch screen UI after the IPhone. It is closely competing with the IPhone. Blackberry Storm or the Nokia X series touch screen phones does not come close. The models do not have a very smooth touch screen UI. It uses a different technology then the IPhone / Android. 

Blackberry is now the leader in smartphones for businessmen and businesswomen. With its push e-mail technology, you will receive office and personal e-mails on the go anywhere and anytime. It will definitely keep you busy. There are less applications compared with IPhone. Applications such as Facebook, Twitter, bibles and others are available but still are limited. IPhone and Nokia E-series may have push e-mail technology also but Blackberry are still th best in push e-mail. For IPhone, I have to launch the Mail application to view my e-mails but for the Blackberry, it is pushed to the phone immediately similar to a sms.

The Nokia E-Series is also good for business users. It has push e-mail, calendar and other productivity features. Samsung Omnia 2 is also a very good phone with vivid images and very good UI. It uses the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. It is one of the most powerful operating systems of the mobile world and can support a lot of features. The only thing is that the speed may be slow and Windows Mobile may hang or crashes similar to Windows crashes.  HTC also has Windows Mobile based phones. It used to be very cool.

Other phones that you can consider are the Samsung Corby and LG Cookie. These phones have less features but still features touch screen and other features.

What would you choose between these phones?

Let's talkback.

Here are the selections / choices:

1. IPhone 4 (also IPhone 3G(S) etc)
2. Samsung Omnia
3. Samsung Corby 
   
4. HTC Touch Diamond
5. HTC Magic
6. Other HTC Phones
7. Nexus One
8. Blackberry Storm
9. Blackberry Bold
10. Blackberry Pearl
11. Nokia X-series (X6, X3)
12. Nokia E-series (E61, E65, E71, E72 etc)
13. Nokia N-series (N95, N99, N85, N86, N81)
14. Motorola Q9h
15. Motorola Droid
16. Motorola Aura / Dext
17. Other Motorola smartphones
18. LG Chocolat
19. LG Smartphones
20. Sony Ericsson Xperia
21. Sony Ericsson Satio, Aino...
22. Sony Ericsson P9i
23. Just the normal phones (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung...)

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Nine Dragons and I, Alex Cross

I just bought Nine Dragons written by Michael Connelly and I, Alex Cross written by James Patterson yesterday. I bought it at the MPH Members' Day Sale which will end today. 20% off for every book. Savings of RM13.16.

Nine Dragons is the latest book by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch, the main detective in the story has visited Fortune Liquors before. It guided him through his darkest days. There is a murder at Fortune Liquors, where the owner, a Mr Li was shot dead. With the help of his assistant, they uncover a link with a crime ring. Then Harry Bosch's daughter was taken from him. Read more in the book. It costs RM32.90 (original price).

James Patterson has written another Alex Cross novel entitled I, Alex Cross. He also wrote the novel, Alex Cross's Trial which talks about his family's history and discovered more about his family.

In the book, I, Alex Cross, Alex Cross discovered that one of his nieces that he hasn't met for a long time were found murdered during his birthday celebrations. He was informed by his leader. He then paired up with his girlfriend, a detective, Bree Stone to find out the murderer and solve the case. He also found that his niece was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. The paperback of I, Alex Cross costs RM32.90.

By the way, if you buy I, Alex Cross from MPH Online, you can get 30% off. Of course, add the RM7 delivery fee, it is RM31.43 unless you buy over RM150 to get free delivery.

Going to start reading these books soon. 

Cheers,

Rogerkoo