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ONE MORE WEEK for guaranteed happiness!

This is a special community service announcement.


You now only have ONE MORE WEEK
to go watch Toy Story 1 and 2,
Back to back
In THREE DEE!


So if you haven't already, GO WATCH IT NOW!
(while everyone else is lining up for the 2 IM2s....

HAPPINESS GUARANTEED!

Congratulations to Fulham F.C

May I congratulate Fulham Football Club on their success in the UEFA Europa Cup tonight.

Their achievement in reaching a first European Final in their 131 year history is without doubt a 'fairytale' that has come to fruition.
Fulham are a traditional family club, built on good old fashioned principles including a strong work ethic, and the ability to operate financially within their means.

The masterstroke was the appointment of Roy Hodgson (below left) as manager in December 2007.

By employing such an experienced and astute manager in Hodgson they have allowed him to assemble and mould together a group of players (with no superstars), and install into them genuine self-belief and a magnificent team spirit, combined with a never say die attitude on the field.

Despite often being overshadowed by their affluent West London rivals Chelsea, they have achieved a milestone tonight I suspect even their own fans could only ever have dreamed of - a European Cup Final !

After an epic campaign, which began way back on the 30th July last year with a third-qualifying round tie against FK Vetra of Lithuania, The Cottagers' run has spanned a total of 18 European ties, in which they have overcome the likes of Italian giants Juventus, German Champions Wolfsburg, current Europa Cup holders Shakhtar Donetsk and last night Hamburg.

Their success has been the only shining light on what one can only describe as a poor season for our domestic clubs in Europe, with the 'Big Guns' failing to get beyond the semi-finals of either European competition this season.

The UEFA Europa Final will be staged in Hamburg at the HSH Nordbank Arena on the 12th May 2010, where Fulham will play Atletico Madrid for the trophy.

I am sure every football fan up and down the country wish Fulham the best of luck in Germany next month.

May I say your Club is a credit to the English game.

A Gangland Murder Down The Street

A young man, Carl Reimer (R.I.P.), was brutally killed no more than a block from where I write to you now. This small beach town of Santa Cruz, California is fast becoming not a small town at all. We are fast becoming a city that has young men killed in public parks then proceeds about our daily lives as if nothing ever happened.

I am reminded of when Tyler Tenorio was stabbed to death in front of a 7-11, and the community outrage over this incident. Where are these same people when it comes to this recent gangland killing? Does community involvement stop and end around the popularity of the victim murdered?

I have a mind to take the fight to these murderers, to show them the residents in this area have guns too. Another element here is the complete incompetence of the local police department. Myself and many others are skeptical that the SCPD will be able to do anything to put behind bars the murderer of a 19 year old local. We feel they lack the experience or the tools required to aggressively investigate a murder case to a conclusion.

Police presence has increased ten-fold since the murder in the immediate area, but I don’t feel any safer. I feel I need to openly brandish weapons and start my own “community involvement” group centered in violently resisting criminal elements by any means we deem necessary.

The rumor about town is that this young man was killed for wearing gangland colors at the wrong place and the wrong time. According to my sources he enjoyed wearing red plaid and backwards hats, which many gang members in this area associate with gang affiliation. It is extremely unlikely that Reimer had any gang affiliation of any sort, and likely this was a case of gang members mistaking his identity for a rival gang member. Regardless this recent act of gangland violence in my town has me thinking it’s time to stop playing by the rules with ruthless murderers and psychotic gang-bangers.

His honorary grandmother is quoted in a Letter to the Editor appearing in the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Wednesday, April 28^th 2010) as saying:

Gang members are nothing but cowards. They travel in groups and shoot and stab unarmed people. I want them to know how devastated his family and friends are, and they have taken the life of a beautiful, intelligent, multi-talented and beloved human being.

Cowards don’t respond to fair play and status quo responses. Either these murdering gang-bangers get the message they will be hunted down like animals for this, or they will boldly kill again.

Maybe next time I’ll be the crime statistic, maybe next time a stray bullet will kill one of the many young children who live on the block. Then the community will be sure to rise up, but if you kill a 19 year old in a public park that’s apparently not enough to incite people to do something about it.

KLUNK KLUNK KLUNK WOOPAH KAPOW KLUNK!

Iron Man 2
Not a Review.
KLUNK!
KLUNK KLUNK!
KLUNK KLUNK KAPOW!
KLUNK KLUNK WOOPAH!
KLUNK KAPOW KLUNK KLUNK KABOOM!
KLUNK KLUNK KLUNK!
KLUNK!!! KLUNK!!! KLUNK!!!



I swear If I hear ONE MORE armor on armor KLUNK I'll go mad.
Enough with the armored villains already!
The first one already had two refrigerators going at each other.
This time, we've got LOTS of bad refrigerators,
Going a TWO good refrigerators
(Ok one has a KICKASS Gatling gun on its shoulder)
(WAR MACHINE YEAH!)
(And on that note, that is one hell of a SUIT-case, Tony!)




Did you have VERY HIGH expectations for this?
Well, DON'T.
Sure, it's great fun, entertaining and awesome,
But it's still a little underwhelming.
It's everything the first movie was,
But without that WOW factor.
Still, go watch it though, it's still lots of fun.



Robert Downey Jr. STILL ROCKS though.
Tony Stark was actually more interesting than Iron Man.
Don Cheadle is not bad either.
As the NEW Rhodey a.k.a. WAR MACHINE.
This movie more character development than actual action.
Slows down a bit in the middle though.
But action still pretty damn good.
Just a bit... er... meh, seen that before.



Oooh wait, what's this?
Scarlett Johansson?
Hubba hubba!
Scarlett Johansson in a BLACK LEATHER CATSUIT?
HUBBA HUBBA HUBBA!
Scarlett Johansson in a black leather catsuit KICKING ASS?
HUBBA HUBBA HUBBA WOOOOHOOO!
Drool drool drool....
Cleavage Rating 9! (but of course, she's SCARLETT JOHANSSON)



Oooh, and that's MICKEY ROURKE!
Now THAT is one hell of a bad guy.
Those whips are damn freaking cool.
And that Justin Hammer dude is BAD.
Freaking annoying, but BAAAAD.
At least not as annoying as the bad guy in The Losers.



I'm pretty stoked for the Avengers movie though.
If they manage to pull it off, that is.
There were a few Easter Eggs here.
There was S.H.I.E.L.D., and a certain shield.
And of course, that little teaser after the credits.
It's HAMMER TIME!
(BTW, I wouldn't mind a Black Widow spin-off)
(MORE SCARLETT IN BLACK LEATHER PLEASE!)

Ten Of The Best Names In Football, Ever !

Rafael Scheidt - Rafael was Scheidt by name, and shite by nature. Signed for Celtic from Grêmio by John Barnes for just under £5 million, the Brazilian was sent out on loan to Corinthians by Martin O'Neill after just three appearances. The Guardian newspaper called Scheidt the second worst transfer in the history of soccer in an article published in 2001.

Dean Gerken - From about 2003 onwards Bristol City's Gerken fought it out with Dean Brill for the coveted title of 'best-named goalkeeeper called Dean'.

Rod Fanni - French footballer who currently plays for Ligue 1 club Rennes and the French national team.

Ralf Minge - An East German international in the 1980's, who spent his entire professional club career with Dynamo Dresden.

Jean-Jacques Misse-Misse - Former Cameroon international striker who had brief spells with Dundee Utd and Chesterfield in 1998.

Dieter Stinka - German midfielder who won the German championship in 1959 with Eintracht Frankfurt.

Milan Fukal - Czechoslovakian defender who played at the European Championships in 2000, and once had a trial with Leeds United.

Ricardo Virtuoso - Brazilian midfielder who was unable to live up to his name.

Razvan Rat - Romanian left back who played at Euro 2008, and who currently plays for Ukrainian Premier League club Shakhtar Donetsk.

Daniel Killer - Killer was part of the Argentinian squad that won the 1978 World Cup.

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Donnie Yen vs. Sammo Hung! HELL YEAH!

Ip Man 2
葉問2: 宗師傳奇
Not a Review.
WAAAAY better than any other kungfu movie this year.
Eat your heart out, True Legend!
It's like the first movie,
Got great parts, got not so great parts.
The first movie had better set pieces,
But the flow of the film was much better here.
But as usual, the FIGHTING is AWESOME
Huh? Story? Who cares?



Like I said before, Donnie Yen always kicks ass.
And boy does he kick a lot of ass here.
He even uses KNIVES here ok.
(ok, just the flat of the blade, no slash here slash there)
But add SAMMO HUNG into the movie,
And you've got one heck of a kungfu movie.



HOLY SHIT
SAMMO HUNG VERSUS DONNIE YEN!
ON A TABLE!
FIGHTING! (Don't get the wrong idea, folks)
So cool you don't really want it to end.
Now THAT is REAL kungfu showdown.



OK, so there's a Mat Salleh bad guy again.
Yes, that bloody old Chinese kungfu movie cliche again.
But at least this fight wasn't as bad as most other movies
Especially when you compare it with True Legend's LOUSY finale.
This one was damn brutal ok.
But you really need to see how Donnie Yen takes him out.
(OF COURSE he takes him out, DUH)



There's ONE move Donnie used on the Mat Salleh,
That was SO COOL I wished they would repeat it,
IN SLOW MOTION.
Just so you could see the beauty of that move.
It was THAT awesome.
You just have to see it to believe it.



OK I have a few complaints.
WHY did they edit the fights so closely?
I know they are supposed to look damn fast,
But sometimes you just wanna see the moves properly.
A lot of the fighting was spoilt by the blurry jerky camerawork
And what's with all the pointless characters.
What was the point of Simon Yam?
Oh well, not that I really cared.
Like I said, story? Who cares?
JUST KEEP FIGHTING! YEAH!

Fiery encounter could light up the Emirates - Betting News with Betfred

VERSUS

Emmanuel Adebayor will enter the proverbial lion's den when he returns to the Emirates in a light blue shirt on Saturday evening.

The Togolese striker left Arsenal to join Manchester City last summer and then further incurred the wrath of Gunners fans as he raked Robin van Persie with his studs and then celebrated in front of the away support during his new side's 4-2 win earlier this season.

Adebayor was given a one match ban for his behaviour in that tie and Kolo Toure, who also swapped life in North London for Manchester, has warned him not to get carried away again if he scores - and the striker is 6/1 to be first goal scorer with Betfred.

Toure, who will be looking to help Ivory Coast upset the World Cup 2010 betting in the summer, said: "He needs to show more intelligence because we all know what he did was not the best reaction - and as a friend I've told him that."

City need a win to ensure they remain in contention for a top four finish, as they are two points behind Spurs with four games to go. This urgency could mean many punters see City to win at 3/1 with Betfred as a decent football bet.

Spurs and City will clash at Eastlands at the beginning of May in a tie which could go some way to deciding which of them qualifies for the Champions League.


My Tip Of The Weekend:
I expect a much closer encounter between City and Arsenal this weekend than their meeting earlier this season at Eastlands, so my tip is under 2.5 goals in the game, which can be backed @ 6/5 with Betfred and looks the value bet - Saturday 24th April, kick-off 5.30pm, live on ESPN.

By Drew Swainston
(Guest writer from Betfred on behalf of Beer Footy and Birds!)

The Losers: Not Winners, but Not Losers either.

The Losers.
Not a review.
Not really a loser.
But not a winner either.
More like a draw,
And winning by penalty kicks.



WIN: Set pieces from the comic!
The telekinesis scene!
The bazooka!
The chopperjack!
WOOHOO!



WIN: Zoe Saldana
Cleavage rating not very high,
But Ass Rating is off the charts.
Oooh yeah, work it baby.
Hubba hubba woot woot!
And she can work a BAZOOKA too!
That IS one badass chick.



LOSE: Damn bodoh and annoying bad guy
Are you trying to be funny, dude?
Because you're trying too hard.
You're not even close to being funny
You're just very very cringe-worthy.
That's not being cool, it's just being annoying.



WIN: Cougar
The silent sniper types are always cool.
And CHECK OUT THOSE RIFLES.
DAMN, if I were into guns,
I'd get a replica of those in a heartbeat.
Ones that don't kill people, of course.



WIN: Jeffery Dean Morgan
LOSE: Pooch. Not as cool as the comic one.
WIN: Captain America as a smart-mouthed geek
LOSE: Some of Cap's dialogue a little forced
WIN: The action is GREAT, OTT, just like the comic!
LOSE: WHAT THE FUCK KINDA LOGIC IS THAT?



No, it's not The A-Team,
But it's still damn a lot of fun!
I wonder if they'll make a sequel outta this.
I wanna see that ACTIVE VOLCANO setpiece, godammit!
(er, with more lava and less ash please kthxbai)
And more Zoe is always good.
I think I'll go get the rest of the comics now.

Rip It Up, Curl It Up!

Last week, me, LL and Reta went all the way to KLCC to stare at Elfie's ass.



Now that is some ass, eh? HAHAHAHA. Best advertisement for Ripcurl EVAR!

We were there for the official Ripcurl launch of their flagship KLCC store on the third floor, and there was food, a runway fashion show and some er... local hip-hop artists performing.

Two things were great for me that day - the food, and the shopping after the event.

The food was pretty damn goooood. Apparently there some special cupcakes as well, but I was too busy stuffing my mouth with the awesome O'Briens sandwiches to notice. Would have been awesome if there were beer to wash it down, but we WERE in the middle of freaking KLCC in a healthy sports lifestyle fashion line's event after all... NO DRUNKARDS ALLOWED. Damn.

After that we went up to the store where we were given a 40% discount for anything Ripcurl and Mooks in the store, and I bought a nice little shirt, while LL bought a handbag. Not bad, not bad. And that's on TOP of the cool caps and laptop cover that they gave out as doorgifts! WOOT! Thanks for the invite, Elfie! Next time please provide booze kthxbai!

The Day Books Take Over The World!

In two days time, there will be a reckoning.

On the stroke of midnight, on 23 April, books all over the world will rise up as one, and TAKE OVER THE WORLD. And major fantasy book series will take their thrones as Supreme Rulers of the world's superpowers.

In Australia, there was no challenger to Garth Nix's Abhorsen Trilogy. It's a book about NECROMANCERS, fer gawds sake. Who can beat THAT?

Meanwhile, The Journey To The West lays claim to China and Asia, beating out pretenders like The Romance Of the Three Kingdoms and The Red Chamber by virtue of having an awesome MONKEY KING in its story.

In Europe, a dispute broke out between His Dark Materials, The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter for the throne. In the end however, there would be only one book to rule them all - The Lord of The Rings.

And America? Well, Twilight can have America. It's a silly place anyway.

So that's World Book Day for you. If only reality were as cool as that. Sigh...

So, for the rest of us mundane humans, we'll have to be content with celebrating World Book Day by either reading a book, or buying some books.

If you're doing the latter, you could do worse than heading over to Bookxcess, where they're having a promotion from 23-25 April, giving 20% discounts ON TOP of their already cheap prices on 100 selected titles. Click to enlarge the image below to find out more:



Meanwhile, Kinokuniya is also having some sort of World Book Day thingy, where they've partnered with UNICEF to provide a bin where people can donate their books for charity.

On top of that, they're celebrating their NINE YEAR anniversary. For every RM30 purchase, you'll get a stamp on a card, and when you complete nine stamps, you get a RM30 rebate on your next book. It's not THAT GREAT a deal, but hey, better than nothing huh?

Frogger! Pong! Outrun! Contra! It's Video Games Live!

Last week I fulfilled one of my lifelong ambitions....
To hear the theme to FROGGER played by a live symphony orchestra.



Yup, it was Video Games Live show, and boy was it a blast. If you've not heard of it, it's a live concert where a full symphony orchestra plays themes and music from video games. It's not the usual kind of stuffy orchestral shows you get at the usual Philharmonic hall though - this was at the KL Convention Center Plenary hall and it was FUN!

The National Symphony Orchestra started off with a blast to the past, starting with Pong, then moving on to all the old Atari games and Space Invaders, Frogger, Outrun, and Contra (Holy shit, CONTRA!!!). Boy was that a fun medley - they also showed all the cutscenes and the gameplay on a screen, so it was a hoot watching all those games we used to play for hours on end.



I mean, really, who HASN'T spent HOURS and HOURS playing Contra, Street Fighter and all those old games? Regardless of whether you're still a gamer or not, you MUST have SOME memory of those games! I mean, C'mon... FROGGER! YEAH!



The only thing I was disappointed at was they played mostly console games, many of which I never played before because I never owned a console up till my Xbox a few months back. So while music from hugely games such as Metal Gear Solid, God Of War, Halo, Sonic, and even Shadow Of The Colossus were very well-received in the hall, I didn't feel for them as much as I did when they played the music from say... Super Mario Brothers (heck, later on we even got a SINGALONG of the Mario theme!)



I wish they'd played something from the Command and Conquer series, Street Fighter, or even (a long shot, this) the Wing Commander series, but that was wishful thinking. Oh well, the music that was played was still something awesome and the videos made me want to rush out and buy a damn PS3 NOW NOW NOW I WANNA PLAY GOD OF WAR OMG!!!!



I WAS happy they played something from Final Fantasy VII though - Sephiroth's theme song. And heck, it was hard NOT to geek out when you're watching all those clips of awesome video games AND listening to the music at the same time.

The show was pretty fun too, with Tommy Tallarico talking a lot on stage about video games, and the music. There was a cute chick flutist/opera singer, a JApanese dude who played the Snakeeater theme from Metal Gear Solid; a dude who got to play live-action Space Invaders on stage, and one dude who won the Guitar Hero competition trying to beat 200000 points on Guitar Hero Van Halen (it was only supposed to be on Hard, but the bugger went for EXPERT instead. And he was pretty damn good too!)

They even had Ralph Bear, the CREATOR of the world's FIRST EVER VIDEO GAME live on Skype at one point, and they showed a video clip of him demonstrating the Pong game he had created in the 60's. Wah so primitive WTF!



One gripe though - the afternoon show I went for was rather empty, and only about half the hall was filled. Was the night show any better? Not that it detracted from the show, but it would have been awesome to have more people. Plus it was such a cool and geeky show that MORE people should have come watch it!

Now, excuse me while I go home and play Street Fighter...

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Miranda May Kerr (born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels since mid-2007. She is the first Australian to participate in the Victoria's Secret campaign, and also represents Australian fashion chains Portmans and David Jones Limited. Kerr began modeling in the fashion industry when she was 13, starting at Chaay's Modelling Agency, and soon after winning a 1997 Australian nationwide model search hosted by Dolly magazine and Impulse fragrances.