Previously on Patvandiest….

Posted on October 11, 2007
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Been hectic these past few days (not!). But I don’t know, maybe I’m just too focused on watching the ads flowing on FJB. Probably because of this holiday season that urge my “shopaholic” blood rises high.

So tomorrow the holiday will start for me, yet sadly it only lasted three days here according to the “company’s policy”. Shucks… :D

Anyway, three days will be sufficient since staying in the house for too long can be stressful nowadays, no no, there’s nothing wrong with the family or sort. It’s the house, the hot and damp conditions around the house (heck, it’s around everywhere) that is bothering me these days. Won’t bother buying an air conditioner though, my money is set to other useful things. (don’t ask…it’s complicated)

So to welcome this beautiful holiday I brought some of the newest episodes of Heroes (Season 2 episode 3), Prison Break (Season 3 episode 4, yeah! Why buying cheap rip-off when you can copy it from your friend, haha), and Bionic Woman (Season 1 episode 1-2) to home cause It’s TV Series frenzy my friend! Yeah!!

So, see you next week (literally, since I will come back to work on Monday) and oh yeah…

Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1428 H
Mohon Maaf Lahir dan Batin

Transformer (2007)

Posted on July 1, 2007
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Transformer-2007 Yup, it’s official, Transformer is the number 1 movie on my ~~guilty pleasure~~ blockbuster movies for this year. Though at first I kind a skeptical with this movie and scoffing with all the hype that happening. But, sold-out tickets? that’s interest me. I mean, regardless of the hype, it’s still is a Michael Bay movie, I’m a fan of Bay’s work.

So, last Saturday I took a spin and watch that movie at Kartika Chandra. Wow, it was a two-hours of quite extraordinary experience. Yes, I had a thing with Transformer in my childhood. But this… This live-action adaption of Transformer was different from those cute robots from 1980’s. This one kick-ass!

Just like any other Michael Bay’s movie, this one has the same cars and machines blowing up in a pandemonium crash and burn stuffs. I just love these kind of scenes. Plus the storyline, though fiction, was still acceptable.

So, why are you still here reading my blog? Go, buy yourself a ticket and watch that Optimus Prime astonishing transformation to a Peterbilt truck

image via IMDB

Slightly Injured

Posted on June 26, 2007
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I twist my left arm the other day. This is the part of me where I should remember to back down a little bit. I have not crash or had a bicycle bails before this happened. My guts were way up high before then. I guess now I should think twice before trying something rather insane in the future

This is how it happened. Last Saturday, I went cycling to the forest of UI with the guys at the office. At one stop, I had to try a steep slope that I thought was jumpable. Me and my overly guts wins that time, but the experience had to stop me. I fell hard on the ground.

It’s been three days now and I think I have recovered from it little by little. However, that was a hilarious yet important experience for me because you wouldn’t know how sharp a knife is without having cut from it first, would you?

Moreover, this injury makes me realize that sometimes we forgot important things in us until we lose it. I’m right-handed, but I value my left arm now more than ever. We need something or someone to support our main things, I need my left arm to support my right arm, as do Batman needs Robin to fight crimes (this was quoted from the time where Tim Drake becomes the new Robin), even Jerry needs Dorothy to complete him (Jerry Maguire, 1996)

Aah, here I am with my oh-so-philosophical times…. screw it…I’m tired, I need to crash home and get some sleep. It has been a hectic day…

PS: You can check Dodi’s blog for more of that UI experience.

Ocean’s Thirteen

Posted on June 10, 2007
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Ocean’s thirteen, the third installment of a professional con men saga. I always love this series. If I had children I want them to be as smart as Danny Ocean. He is the best thief in the world. This Ocean’s trilogy shows us you don’t need blood and violence to get cash (lot’s of cash), you only need your brain (and someone who will invest to your operation too)

Ocean’s Thirteen sets right after Ocean’s Twelve left off. The guys are back to Vegas to settled the score to a powerful hotel owner who hurt one of them (Reuben). They cast are all there (except of course, Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones, I don’t know why they refuse to play in this).

If you’re following the series you’ll notice that in this movie, the team’s understand each other like they have the same mind or some sort. They’re more professional with what they do. The methods are more firm and the executions were flawless.Face it, these guys do the best when it comes to con jobs.

Overall, this is a nice movie for all of you who like genius storyline. The jokes are still there, but I don’t know, the plot are kinda “been there seen that”. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen the same stuffs in the previous two movies. Because sometimes I kinda knew what would happen next in some of the scene. It lack of creativity, lack of surprise factor. But it’s Danny, everybody loves Danny Ocean and his gang. They play it clean. This time they play it for revenge but in a special kind of way, because like the tagline says “revenge is a funny thing”.

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The Lost…

Posted on June 4, 2007
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I have three TV series that I love the most, one is Heroes the most popular TV series these days. Next is Prison Break, I just love Michael Scofield and his master plan on escaping. And the last one is the now forgotten Lost.

A couple of months before Heroes shock your TV scene, Lost was the big thing. Now it seems that people were somewhat bored with it and with all the Heroes hype cloaking up our TV, Lost looks like… kind of lost.

But not for me, Lost still had it; I love their hangovers and twisted storylines. Last weekend I stayed up late to watch the third season right where I left it a couple of weeks ago, from episode 10 going through the season finale. Now, haven’t you all seen it? So much mysteries have resolved, yet Lost has not finished. I wonder what will come next season since many things has resolved in the end of last episode? Okay let’s keep that question asides for some time until the next season arrive (February 2008 to be exact).

Jimmy resigned as of last Thursday. It’s shocking news for me. Jimmy is one my dearest friend here in CHIP. He is one my mentor here. We did great things together. I ask his guidance if I had technical trouble and I had certain belief that he would help me. I never wrong. You would always help me, Jim.

But I respect his decision. You have to be rational with life. I know Jim, that working in here is paradise, but sometimes paradise isn’t enough. Well, maybe for you, but for me it still is enough, yet…

We lost one of our dear colleagues. Life will never be the same again here in CHIP without you Jim, something just missing. Nevertheless, we will learn to deal with it.

Then so long my dear friend. However, this is not goodbye. You will always come here now and then, and the “business” of ours would always continue. But, I will miss your morning noodles, your FC Barcelona and the morning and late noon lovely music. Thank you for all the memories….

Finally! A Whopper!

Posted on May 23, 2007
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The quest is over, I don’t have to wait in a blistering 3 hours worth of queue, I don’t have to wait for the opening, and here it was:

One thing to say, It’s worth every damn penny that I spend to bought this menu… It’s taste as good as it looks.

On another thing, today I was lucky enough to went to the screening of “Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End”. It’s about time! I’m so desperately curious since the second episode. This movie has it all, good character, good storyline, and of cource a great ending to finish a trilogy. Plus…Keith Richards! yes, Keith Richards ladies and gentleman.

The funny thing is there wasn’t any mass-moviegoers outside the studios queueing up to watch the premiere like the one when “Spider-man 3″ came up. Because, hands down this movie is much much better than that last Spidey movie… :)

Firewall (no, this is not a tutorial about setting up a firewall)

Posted on November 29, 2006
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First I just want to say that the last good movies that Hollywood made about hacker was Antitrust. Okay, last Saturday I’m home doing nothing and so I decided to watch this DVD called “Firewall”. For I am a great fan of Harrison Ford and I guess this movie was about IT security stuff, so I guess it wouldn’t hurt me to just enjoy this movie.

It’s about Jack Stansfield (Ford) who worked for twenty years in a bank as a head of network security. He developed a security system that was successfully securing the system almost all the time.

One day he got introduced by this fellow named Bill Cox (played by Paul Betanny) who first seems to be a nice guy until Jack realized that he was being harassed, that he and his family was being taken as a hostage in their own home by Bill.

He force Jack to use his skill to hack unto his own system and transfers an enormous amount of money to Bill’s account or his family would be dead. Yeah, you get the picture where this would lead on, right? This is a very typical Hollywood…no…No a very typical Harrison Ford movie, almost every part of this film reminds me of his act at “Air Force One”. This one is so very similar.
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