455 - 2017 book list.

Aha! My routine end of year book list.

This year, I have not been reading much. Mostly comics/manga to be honest. I should just add them into the list too...


January

20/01 - [Superman Earth One: Volume 3] -J. Michael Straczynski
29/01 - [Lucifer Volume 1: Cold Heaven] -Holly Black
31/01 - [Lucifer Book 1] -Mike Carey
-/01 - [Batman/Superman Vol.1: Cross World] -Greg Pak
-/01 - [Batman/Superman Vol.2: Game Over] -Greg Pak


February

03/02 - [Hellblazer: Devil's Trenchcoat] -Peter Milligan
03/02 - [Hellblazer: City of Demons] -Si Spencer
04/02 - [Batman/Superman Vol.4: Siege] -Greg Pak
-/02 - [Batman/Superman Vol.3: Second Chance] -Greg Pak


March

04/03 [Rogue One: A Star War's Story] -Alexander Freed


April
-


May
-


June

10/06 - [Lucifer Volume 2: Father Lucifer] -Holly Black


July
-


August
-


September
-


October

17/10 - [Fantastic Mr Fox] -Roald Dahl
21/10 - [Wonder Woman Volume 3: The Truth] -Greg Rucka


November

10/11 - [Witches] -Roald Dahl
26/11 - [Heroes of Olympus #3: The Mark of Athena] -Rick Riordan
27/11 - [Olympians #4: Hades: Lord of the Dead] -George O'Connor
29/11 - [Earth 2 Vol.6: Collision] -Marguerite Bennett


December

02/12 - [Heroes of Olympus #4: The House of Hades] -Rick Riordan
06/12 - [Heroes of Olympus #5: The Blood of Olympus] - Rick Riordan
08/12 - [Camp Half-Blood Confidential] -Rick Riordan
10/12 - [Olympians #1: Zeus: King of the Gods] -George O'Connor
10/12 - [Olympians #2: Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess] -George O'Connor
10/12 - [Olympians #3: Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory] -George O'Connor
12/12 - [Olympians #7: Ares: Bringer of War] -George O'Connor
13/12 - [Olympians #8: Apollo: The Brilliant One] -George O'Connor
22/12 - [The Trials of Apollo #1: The Hidden Oracle] -Rick Riordan
31/12 - [07-Ghost Volume 2] -Yuki Amemiya


Well! Apparently I read tons in December. XDD I supposed because I have more free time? My shifts were not that packed. And from the looks of it, I am so into Greek mythos. Greek Gods especially. Hahahaha

All these pretty books from the library. Thank God there are librarieS here!!

454 - I'm tired.

Well, I should probably mention Justice League since I was all hyped up in the previous post.

My favourite scenes: Everybody Knows sequence, Amazon vs Steppenwolf sequence and... I don't know anymore. The opening scene with Batman on the gargoyle thing is gooood. Supes turning his head to look at Flash. And when the 5 of them are in the Krytonian ship, there, MOS themes are heard, softly, and then gone. That's all.

IT WAS DEFINITELY NOT WHAT I HOPE TO GET FROM THE TRAILERS I HAVE BEEN WATCHING MULTIPLE TIMES.


Please skip reading onwards, it's just me ranting, ranting and ranting about Justice League.




I warned you.





The damn music is so damn wrong! What the hell is that. I get that nostalgia stuff but tell me, does it  blend even the slightest into the movie tone? I don't know about you but the themes just felt cheesy when put in context with these modern interpretations of the characters. There's no continuity from the previous two films, and from WW. What the hell have you done?! Film score is also one of DC films' uniqueness. Shit.
By the way, Cyborg, Flash and Aquaman don't have a solid theme for themselves. SOLID. Flash has his..sort of tickling theme whenever he's running, I can't remember anything for Cyborg or Aquaman... That's so sad... Batman and Supes are just the old themes. Way old themes. Overused themes. And WW, what we have from the WW film are great, Rupert Gregson-Williams did an amazing job building on the WW theme created by Hans in BVS and added his own twist. In JL, WW's theme just got watered down... I NEED THE ELECTRIC CELLO.
The best music in the whole film? Everybody Knows, and the short MOS theme in kryptonian ship.

Next, the dialogues. Where are the dialogues we have heard from the trailers?!!!! I was waiting for "My turn" from Batman!!!!!! That's important!!! Replacing if with "...didn't bring a sword." What's that? Slandering WW is he?! It's funny on that second, and felt wrong on the next second. Batman just spit out weird dialogues sometimes. "Something is definitely bleeding." That's... he quipped during/after battles now? Huh? From my understanding, Batman is the silent and brooding type. He doesn't usually put focus on himself, or preaching his condition to others etc. He will definitely keep it to himself and continue on fighting...
Besides that, Ma Kent and Lois's scene. .... Wha..what? Why is Ma Kent saying things like this to Lois????? Huh? I don't get the humour in the situation. Awkward as hell. Is the dialogues on the TV necessary??
And the heist scene with WW. THE MUSIC JUST PULLED ME OUT FARAWAY FROM THE CINEMA WHENEVER I HEARD IT. ??? I really dislike it. It sounds so comical. And the dialogues, "I'm a believer." Huh? Believe in what? There's no confrontation, at all. Mind you, they cut the scene where WW wiped the floor with the terrorist. And really, there's no reaction from the government? It felt so isolated, especially in such a public place. The whole building is being held-up by the terrorist! Don't tell me nothing is being done by the government or law enforcement in that period of time. We saw some police or swat team outside the building, wouldn't the terrorist warn them not to come into the building or so? Huh? No scenes for that?

Next, the photography?colour grading? . I'm not an expert in this, so I don't really see any difference on first glance. I know this sounds weird, in JL, Batman just look ugly in some scenes. In BVS, he looked sexy. I know some of you will definitely find me weird saying it like that. The way he was being shot in JL, urrgh, some are just awful. Grrr.....
The colour... for some reasons, Batman/Bruce looked pinkish in some of the reshoot scenes. Pinkish. PINKISH. And, he lost some of his grey streaks in some scenes too. Did they make him younger or what????
Also, why did I kept seeing WW's backside shots?? Why? And Flash face-landing onto WW is a step too far. I got angry. Why would this happened in a battle? Naturally, when WW went and covered Flash, their position wasn't like this, how did it end up like that? WW is basically lying flat on the ground. Huh?
The scenes in Hero's Park.... The first trailer we got, it was during dawn or dusk, at least the surrounding was not bright day. Now we get fighting in bright day light. It's like they enhanced everything to daytime. I don't know what Zack had intended for this scene initially, but I would really had prefer if it's at night.
I didn't even feel the slightest emotional in the Hero's Park scene. Nada. That's so sad. That's supposed to be the center of the film!!!!

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH WHAT WE'VE GOT FOR THE FIRST EVER JUSTICE LEAGUE FILM. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WB?!!!! You really have no idea how all these are important to the day1 fans, aren't you. I couldn't really considered myself as a day1 fan cause I didn't get into MOS until later years. I was not really into CBM at that time, just Batman. MOS makes me appreciate this modern interpretation of Supes. I'm not a Supes fan. I'm a fan of Zack and Henry's Supes, that's all. If you take away Zack's Supes, it would be just normal Supes for me but with Henry, all I care at that point would be Henry, not Supes.

Ok. I want to say things I like in JL.

As I mentioned before, <Everybody Knows> and everything with the Amazons are my favourites! I recognised Zack's style in it. Easily.  With <Everybody Knows>, we were teased with some themes that the film were going to "discuss" initially. Like Supes death's impact on the world, the hates towards different race/religion, the gap between the rich and poor etc. But instead we got.... urgh. Moving on.

The Amazons are freaking cool and powerful! All the while, I was so damn terrified of Hippolyta's safety. I was on the edge for the whole scene. Please no please no.. oh phew, but oh nooo, the Amazons.. But they did so well trying to keep the MotherBox away from Steppenwolf as long as possible.

Next one is WW saving the kids and adults in the heist scene. She's blocking the bullets!!! Blocking a machine gun's? bullets! (Is that a machine gun? I have no idea. lol). And the shots are beautiful! Especially the slow-mo.

Continue on, history lesson. The scenes were what we have seen from the trailers, with much more. The Gods are fighting alongside!!! Great!!! Zeus!! Freaking Zeus!! And Arthemis! And Ares!! Woohoo!! Though, the music/song from the trailer really suits this scene more...meh.

Next is just a split second scene. It's when Flash "arrived" at the rooftop with WW and Batman. He kind of just materialized in air. The shot is beautiful! Gordon standing next to the light looking into the sky is also beautiful. The still shot Zack shared months ago.

Following on, when they were in the krytonian ship, with Flash running to light the MotherBox. The slow-mo shot is incredible! You could see the lightning in everyone's eyes. Besides, this scene also showed us the details in Flash's suit.

Another one of my favourite is in the trailer though. The assumed Dream scene with Clark and Lois, in the corn field. I like the dialogue in this! Zack had even shared the storyboard for this! But, IT.GOT.CUT.

We have 2 post-credit scenes by the way. One is just... eh. Another one just got me hyped! And Zack shot the second one! You could feel the intensity. Aarrrggghhhh. I thought the first post-credit was gonna mean something, but it turned out just for fun. Oh well...

With such limited scenes, Cyborg is amazing!!! Obviously, many of his scenes were cut, because he doesn't feel like the "heart" of the film to me anymore, like what Zack had intended initially. The chemistry between Cyborg and Flash is spot on, what with being the youngest among the group. Flash's scenes were also cut, it's like they are totally deleting the existence of an important character, Iris. Grrrr... .......




I am so tired ranting about this. But I need to get it out.

I have watched the film 5 times, and I don't know whether I have the motivation to watch the 6th, 7th... The generic music and lame jokes made my ears bleed every time I watched the film in the cinema. I maybe exhilarating, but that's my opinion. It just hurts that the film turned like that. I am so tired after all the emotional investment I have done all this time. Obviously, some others have invested more and I don't know how they felt right now, especially those that have been investing so much on waiting for a conclusion for MOS and BVS. ...I am so sad. 

I am only watching Justice League now onwards for the characters and Zack Snyder's lovely shots. Unless something happened, and we got to see the full version of Zack's Justice League. 

453 - bits and bots

I am neglecting this blog. Seriously. Where did all my motivation to update gone to??????

Just few posts away, I read that I just started...on something. And now, I am way ahead of that. I even have different...no. I sort of branched out abit. Not my choice obviously, but, learning something new everyday was great and of course stressful. I am the type of person who felt stress when facing something new that's not my own choice of encountering said subject.

Anyway, life has been busy this past few months.

And oh! WONDER WOMAN was a hit in the theatres. Worldwide. Glad to hear that. It was a nice install to the DC films.

I specifically flew to other city to watch the movie in IMAX. Hahahaha. Besides that, we got to eat Malaysian food!!!! It's expensive but ohmygawdddd. I missed Malaysian food!! The menu says that "Hainanese Chicken Rice coming soon", but how soon?!!! I hope I would get to eat it on my next trip! Which is in November!!! NEXT MONTH!!

CAN'T WAIT FOR JUSTICE LEAGUE IN NOVEMBER!!! Woohoo!!! Another reason to be excited about it? It's Zack's film!!! After seeing his 4 minute short film, which he shot brilliantly using iPhone, I kind of missed his film style. I can't really explain what I missed about his style, but I just do. Also, it appears that, no matter what format Zack filmed with, his style could be identified. That is so damn cool!!

Back to daily life. Ya, it is busy. These 2 weeks, I have like 2 days off in a week. That's great! I hope sis get this too. We have enough employees currently, so why is there the need for her to work like 6 days a week?



I think..my written language is getting a bit weird. Weird as in my written language is getting worse. Months ago it wasn't that bad, now it's getting worse. WHAT SHOULD I DO?!

I know I have been slacking in my reading because I can't seem to find the right mood and time to do so, since my daily life is mostly taken over. THAT IS A LONG SENTENCE.

...

Whatever.

Hmm.. let my just put down at this point in time, what my interest etc are.

I am currently doing <Parks and Recreation> marathon. Make it watching. Of course I skipped season 1 & 2 and straight on started at season 3. I am all for Ben and Leslie. Nothing else matters!!! But then, Ben and Chris appeared at the end of season 2. And so, we went and got the dvd for season 2 too. Hahaha.

I am currently reading... <The Two Towers>. Well, I am reading a few books at the same time, but this one is more of active read. The others are just in idle.

I am currently hyped on JUSTICE LEAGUE MOVIE. HELL YEAH. WHEN HAVE I NEVER?

I have watching the trailers and spots on Youtube nonstop. My favourite footage is still the Comic-Con Sneak Peak this year. The one where SteppenWolf did the voiceover/narration halfway in the footage. Next to that, is the one where Diana said: "They say the Age of Heroes would never come" and showing the league facing in one direction, the one with the orange sunset sort backdrop. OOOO!!!!

For those of you who are interested, this is the one I'm talking about. SteppenWolf doing voiceover.

But the latest trailer is damn beautiful!! Post-production is complete at this stage, I think. So everything looks good now. And HENRY!! T.T

I am currently giddy over 松本潤さん. It's that time again. I tend to go crazy over him from period to period. It's so good to have someone to fall back and get crazy over time to time. He's what I called my 本命。No matter how crazy I am of other people and things, this one here, is always there. I tend to come back to this one. I am not necessarily over the top about this or crazy 24/7 but still, this person is sort of like a base rock. Hmm... I am saying to much.

What else?



I don't like company dinners. I have been seeing you guys everyday, why should I see you guys again on a normally off time? More so, need to mingle. By the way, who organised Christmas Party in the middle of October?? Is this a joke to the religion??? What the hell.

But there's free food. That's good. I am only there for the food, and just because I am new to the company. >_>

452

Happy Birthday Mother.

Exactly twice my age today. ♡

451 Hello

450

Well, I think it turned out alright.

?

Maybe because I am not being handled with bigger duties yet, but, for the current time, I'm still feeling ok. Tad bit whelmed, but I could still handle it.

Training starts next week. Great.

Let's see how all this goes.

449

I'm starting to feel the pressure, and worry, and I am scared.

What the hell. 

448 - Book covers matter!!!

I picked up Clash Of The Sky Galleons and started reading again.

Yup.

Once I am a few pages into it, I can't really stop, except maybe tiredness etc.

I have no idea what I am talking about.

I love Quint and Maris so much. I really like this part of the relationship. Like I usually do. I normally like the part of the relationship where both parties are testing water. They are unsure around each other but they are on sync!!!

As I'm currently on the last book of Quint, I started my hunt on the next book, the first book of Twig. I am trying to collect all the books from the same version. The 2006 version? If I'm not mistaken. I'm not that into the current version. The ... high dark sci-fi feel book covers. I really prefer the covers done by Chris Riddell, be either the 2006 versions or earlier! I am doing my search on Fishpond and found the books, second hands of course, cause they are not publishing the 2006 version anymore. They will have to do, in fact, my first two books are second hands'. Yeeep. Form Fishpond too.

But it's a bit pricey. A bit more than I hope too. But I guess, I am still getting them. As for the next trilogy, I might buy the newer versions, because of the price. They cost like 10 dollars cheaper??? Hell. But it wouldn't look nice together on the shelf!!! Urgh.

Why am I like that????

447

Why am I like this?

Why can't I just step out of my comfort zone?

I wouldn't get anything done with this way I am living.



Why am I like this??

I really hate my attitude on this. 

446 - It's 2017!

It takes me about a week after New Year to sit myself down and do some updates.

Yep like I said in previous...s post, I don't know how to conclude much of 2016. I spent most of my time in idle, doing practically nothing at all. And thus, wasting my time counting the days of my Visa.

Anyway, what have I done so far in 2017?

Oh yeah, watched Assassin's Creed TWICE. I really like to go for another round of Rogue One, but, father's here with us, I can't go for that anymore. I kept telling myself that I have experienced it like 4 times, should let it go and wait for the bluray.

Arrghhh. Please let it quick!! I want to see whether they would include ANY deleted scenes in the extras...or something.

I love the damn cast! Enough said. I am so obsessed that I kept refreshing my tags in tumblr and twitter. And also, it has been so long since I last ship a pairing, a BG pair too, so hard. This is actually a very dynamic pair. I bought the movie novelisation and its estimation arrival date is 13th - 23rd January. Hell!! I ordered it last year!! The down side of no delivery fees. It takes time.
I need all the characters inner dialogue, if they one. And also, it never hurt to have more Rebelcaptain. There, I said it. One of my main reasons watching the movie repetitively and wanting to read the book. I even went on Youtube to watch the press tour, interviews multiple time.

Felicity Jones is so beautiful!!! All those photos from the premieres, press tour, interviews, wonderful. In the movie, Jyn is a badass. A real one. And like they said, a survivor. I like seeing her smacking Stormtroopers. Hahaha. I don't really understand why people would hate her, as a character. I mean, she survives her childhood watching her mother got killed right in front of her, and then abandon by her father, and then further on by her suppose guardian. From then on, she survives on her own, doing illegal things and stuffs. She's not a good person I understand, but hell to anyone who said she's not a strong character. By the way, Jyn and Cassian's relationship and interactions are interesting to watch. Their bond is so strong, be it a negative one from the beginning to a positive one in the end.

And Cassian. Aww Cassian. He is sooo committed to the Rebellion. He has to. All I want for him is to take it slow and have some rest. He is on tight knot since the first scene. Anyway.... love his character too, a lot, as like Jyn's. And thus, the movie introduced me to Diego Luna. I know I have more or less knew him from some movies, I just can't pin point it, and then he said he was in The Book of Life. Ho! And then I remembered Elysium. His face features are incredible. Shiiit. Last I said this, is about Henry Cavill. Diego's is much more... hm.. I ran out of words. More delicate??? I don't know. Henry's more angular, sort of, maybe because he is in character for Supes. I don't know. Other than that, I still have Jun. Ha! Jun is in other category in my list. Ha!

Back to Diego, what I like the most is his side profile. I freaking love the face structure. The lines and everything. I don't want to sound creepy, I'm gonna stop here. I will just gonna gushing over at somewhere else.

There a other characters in Rogue One that I like too, but I will just stop here. If I continue one, I will drive myself mad, sort of, and need to watch Rogue One again to calm myself down. Not gonna happen with my father around.

One more thing, the cast interviews on Youtube are adorable. The Google Search interview was hilarious. Everyone in it is hilarious. Riz just nailed everything, Ben just wants to explain everything, and Alan is funny. Felicity and Diego's chemistry on/off the movie is amazing. Just look at the interviews with them on together and the photos in Facebook. Dammn...I especially like the black and white shots.

I SHOULD STOP TALKING, LIKE, RIGHT NOW.


Next, Assassin's Creed. Wohoo. Parkour and stunts are amazingggggggg. The plot is straightforward. Ha! Have flows and holes, but overall I enjoyed it.