Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Sound of Music

When Captain Von Trapp and Frau Maria kissed for the first time yesterday on the stage, there were someone yelling out “Ewwwwww”, making the hall burst into laughter.

3 hours show in the Plenary Hall is a torture. I figured that the seats in the cinemas is even better than those we have in KL Convention Center.

Well, I’m still wondering they do lip-sync for the songs and conversation, or they are really singing it? Somehow the sound does not appear to be coming off the live stage there.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

‘Super 8’ movie review

The movie is about … kids trying to shoot a movie for a competition and also invasion of the alien – at least some kind of creature we don’t see on earth.

Spoilers alert!

Didn’t know that a truck can be used to stop a train churning at full speed. Train is at least 10 times heavier than the pick up truck, furthermore it is moving at high speed, which the momentum will make it even more destructive. The pickup truck would have been smashed into pieces.

The explosive occurred so close to the boy after the train crashed, but the boy did not get any injuries, not even a bit.

After they curfew off the town, when the kids get caught and about to be transported back in the military bus, when the bus went under attack by the creature, somehow when the main antagonist (apart from the creature) shoots at the creature, seems like the creature did not even bleed a wee bit. Wow, is it bullet proof?

And it’s a happy ending for everyone.

Except for the poor sheriff.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Luggage marked with X

Recently when I flew to Bangalore, my luggage only came out of the conveyor belt after quite a while. I though it’s just a glitch in their system, and I didn’t notice anything until I reached the hotel.

When I was about the unpack the luggage, I saw the top part is marked with chalk, a big white ‘X’ and a even bigger ‘X’ at the bottom.

I googled around about this, seems like quite a lot of people raised this question before. It seems like this often happens to country which has very high crime rate, where the luggage handlers will mark the luggage which has valuable item inside. Either for thief or for the destination customs office to check the bag and find items to be taxed. I checked the contents of my luggage, nothing is missing, well, nothing has been added as well.

Then someone also mentioned that, the ‘X’ could also mean that the luggage has gone through additional screening process. This seems to be a much better possibility, but do they really need to use chalk in this case? Using chalk only makes it more difficult to rub it off. Can’t they use some kind of sticker or some kind of tag that ties to the handle, in this case?

I’m still wondering what’s the chalk mark for. And I wonders who marked the ‘X’ there, could it be the handlers in LCCT or the handlers in BIAL?