HOPE DIESOne of the many shows i watched on the documentary channels was about two chinese tigers which were brought to Africa. Btw, tigers do not belong in Africa. This was part of a breeding program to get the tigers to breed and multiply faster. Anyways, their names were Hope and Cathy..if im not mistaken. They were taught how to hunt in the African plains..which were unlike their native homes in the jungles. No longer can they pounce their prey for hidden bushes. After much intensive training and a slight scare with ostriches, the tigers proved that they were the most ferocious felines ever. They graduated from their 'training' when they killed 17 deers for the 'fun of it'. That was quite some time ago. Hope died last week. A huge blow to the breeding of tigers in Africa. Rest in Peace.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory proved to be a fantastic movie. Willy Wonka..was just amazingly acted out. It's not only fun but actually gets pretty creepy at times..esp with Willy and the Oompa Loompas. I'll give it 4/5.
Sharkboy and Lavagirl awaits me :D
Went to the beach today. Purposely tried getting a tan....was getting too fair for my liking. I think i overdid it cuz my skin is now roasted red..and it hurts.. hehe
This reminds me of the wonderful futsal i had back at Subang the other day. Me got lima gol. hehe Yea.. I travelled all the way to subang from KL using public transportation. Lucky Tai picked me up from the KTM station. Thank You. kekeke. Lots of new faces playing. New uni friends. My right ankle was swollen like an elephant but i luved it.. wahah the pain~ Tze yong n Tks met me in kl too. Tks noes a lot about the area. Went to Petaling street. And we went to ...actually onli tze yong went to ahem ahem....nvm...and when i went back to my hotel room i saw two old men with one pretty girl. They entered the same lift as me. I think she's a prostitute. 'sour grape'
Till next time..ciao~..oh btw Owen's at Newcastle yea yea yea
~johny
JohnY lived on 8/31/2005 07:47:00 PM
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICWell, I've spent plenty of time watching channel 50, 51 and 52 on Astro lately. Mainly cuz there were not many subscriptions left since i had left. I feel so enlightened.
I watched the science of Lance Armstrong. You know that famous cyclist and all They descried his background. He actually suffered from cancer in his early career as a cyclist. He survived. Lived on to be a legend. His training methods were also explained. Secret was, his muscles were special. It released less toxins during rigorous workout compared to others. Interesting eh~
Then there was the curse of the mummies. People died when they unearthed fresh tombs of egyptian mummies. The fact behind it all was that there were biological factors involved. Microorganisms which had been living in there for centuries were actually very harmful to our respiratory system. Oh well.
Then there was this show about the human eye. It explained how our eyes work and compared it with other animals. It's weakanesses and adventages were also exposed. However, each individual has different capabilities. An experiment with a baseball player showed that his eyes estimated where the ball was before he even swung the bat. After the show was on for an hour, they did an experiment on a group of people. These people were told that it was just a competition between the sexes. A video was played for them. 6 basketball players were seen on the video. 3 wearing black. 3 wearing yellow. Each team would then pass the ball among themselves. This group of ppl viewing the video was asked to count the number of times the ball was passed between the yellow players while ignoring the black ones. The 'competition' began. Midway, a man dressed as a gorilla appeared, beat his breast among the basketball players and walked off. After the show, they were asked if they saw anything weird while counting the passes. Only 4 out of the 20 people saw the gorrlia.
Well, of course i laughed at how dumb they were at missing such an obvious thing. To my horror, at the end of the show, they replayed parts of the episode and i realized that there had been 'gorrilas' throughout the show and i had missed it. For example, when they were showing the baseball player swinging his bat, the gorilla was standing in the background watching....and i had totally missed it cuz i was concentrating on the baseball player. Of cuz there were plenty more other shots where the gorilla was present and i had not seen it at all. It shows how limited our eyes are....
Then there was this show about disasters. A man blew up a truck at a building and the entire thing collapsed. The building was supposed to withstand winds of 160mph but it failed to withstand such a small explosion. Scientific facts started pouring in on how the structure of the building failed it and all.
There was also a reality show. A construction worker was made over. More or less like queer eye for a straight guy..but it's not. Anyways, in a month's time they had to make him a supermodel. They did photoshoots. Makeup. Clothes. and all the other stuff. After all that, he was brought to a world class fashion show in Milan. There were 3 other professional models. There were also 3 reknowned fashion experts. After the fashion show, the judges were told that one of the models were a fake. None guessed the correct one. So for those of you out there interested in modelling...no prob....
Tired. I think i'll continue with the other documentaries some other time :D Ciao~
~johny
JohnY lived on 8/16/2005 11:20:00 PM
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THE LATEST BUMMING NEWS AVAILABLESo how's it been going with the rest of you out there? My bumming endeavours has reached it's peak (i think). I have acheived things which i thought was never possible....and vice versa :D
A 'friend'(censored for confidentiality) decided to bring me 'fishing'. I don't know why, but i was brought to believe that it was a river. It turned out that it was no Rajang river. It was just a stream. Dare i say a pretty big 'longkang'? The bait we brought was rejected by the local fish populace. Poor us. Under the hot sun without a single bite. Another pal came up with an even worse idea(or so i thought at that moment). For non-Sarawakians, this may not be shocking, but for you Kuchingites....we ended fishing at the State Library. You might be saying...hey isn't that NOT allowed. Yea it was. We fished by the lake, under a tree, next to a no fishing sign. made quite a good catch. Biggest fish was a 'Sultan fish' which we could not bring ourselves to eat...that's another story......neways, the moment we saw the security coming in our direction, we split. The car was just behind us 50 metres or so. No chance for the guard to get us :D :D :D
Next day we decided to something less adventerous ..and risky...we went prawn fishing. Darn those old men next to us....they kept hooking the BIG ones. We just sat there oohing and aahing at their catch. We actually felt quite old and maybe a little senile 'prawning' with old men. They did have their laughing moments when they saw our inability to handle the prawns...at first....
A couple days later, another friend told me the tricks of prawning. I feel like a dumbass and will not elaborate on that....
My will power has been on the edge lately. I have managed to hold myself from going to watch Stealth and Seven Swords. I wanted to spread it out a little so that i would have stuff to do when i really had nothing to do (if you get what i mean). Should be watching Seven Swords....aaaahhh finally. Something to do.
Till next time in my bumming updates...
~johny
JohnY lived on 8/02/2005 09:44:00 PM
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