Saturday, April 24, 2010

Acid Rain?


I dont know how many of you have received but I did received quite a few of the same sms telling you about acid rain falling between this period of time and it rains normally but the rain causes skin cancer. I dont know the original source of the message or its intention, but it's something like this:

"From the 20th to 28th of this month; there is the possibility of an acid rain. The dark circle appeared around the moon on 17th of last month and this is an indication of acid rain. Apparently, this happens once in 750 years. It rains normally, but it may cause skin cancer if you expose yourself to it. So, alert your dear ones. This information is from NASA in the USA. DO NOT neglect (emphasis his). Please forward this to your friends. "Better to be cautious than sorry (sic)".

and

"Be careful from 20th to 28th of this month. There is possibility of an ACID RAIN. The dark circle (Marh) appeared around the moon on 17th last month and is an indication of Acid rain.
Apparently this happens once in 750 years. It rains normally but may cause skin cancer if you expose yourself. This information is from NASA."

I went to google it to check it's credibility after my cousin got pretty paranoid when we were caught in the rain this afternoon during lunch.

This is what I found:
"This warning is utter nonsense and should not be taken seriously. Dark circles around the moon are not an indication of impending acid rain. The alert is not from NASA as claimed in the email. In fact, a NASA spokesperson has denied any connection between circles around the moon and acid rain. Forwarding this false warning will do nothing more than cause unnecessary fear and alarm. "
Source: www.hoax-slayer.com

Click HERE for detailed analysis and explanation.

Lol. To believe or not, it's up to you. Anyway I got caught in the rain for the past few days. It's been raining quite frequently these days and the timing of the downpours can be roughly predicted. Maybe it's just pure coincidence.

Anyway, some say it's due to pollution, some say it's due to mankind's acts of environmental irresponsibility. Whatever it is, prevention is better than cure. We should all start to Save Our Earth from now, this day, this moment onwards. Whatever we sow now, will benefit our future generations, our kids, our grand children, our great grand children, our future.

All of us havent seen the sabertooth tiger nor the mammoth before. The reason is because it has extinct since a long time ago. And very soon, if we dont start environmental conservation now, more animals especially the endangered species will be extinct. And they have no right, no control over the actions of mankind. So we have to take the responsibility ourselves, or our future generation may not even get to see the Tigers or Pandas anymore.

Save the trees, save energy, save water!

Let's do it together.

Join my facebook group today. Click HERE

Let's all do our part and create a better future for everyone. (",)

Shutter Island

It's been sometime since I wrote a movie review. Haha. Finally got to take time off to catch Shutter Island with Joseph and Boss yesterday.

Shutter Island


Genre: Thriller
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast : Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio
RunTime: 2 hr 18 mins
Rating: NC16

Movie Synopsis
Set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) is investigating the disappearance of a murderess whom escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote 'Shutter Island'.

Movie Review


Initially, I thought I knew what the movie's plot was. I didnt exactly search for the storyline online, but I read some reviews and watched the trailer. Apparently the trailer is fake. Lol. But that's the twist. I'm not going to reveal more lest you guys blame me for spoiling the movie. This movie is filled with horror and suspense all in one. But it's not the typical supernatural kind of horror. The scenes and settings are very well chosen. Makes the audience to want to follow the movie closely, yet feeling scared at the same time.



What I liked about the movie is the twist at the final part of the movie. But that's what I dislike about the movie too. I couldnt understand the ending. Lol. Maybe you guys watch already then tell me. (",)

Official Movie Trailer



Overall Rating: 3.5/5

Friday, April 23, 2010

No More Jay


My last bet on watching my first ever Jay Chou concert live in Singapore went down the drain today as all tickets of the 2nd additional round were snapped up in less than 5 hours (as far as I know). That is after selling out 10000 tickets last week for the first day concert. According to sistic, Jay Chou's 2010 World Tour Singapore concert was a record breaking feat.

“The hottest concert we ever had sold out in 3 days. Jay Chou did it in 2 hours!” said Kenneth Tan, CEO SISTIC.com Pte Ltd.

I wanted to purchase the tickets at midnight actually. But after accessing the web last night, I was disappointed to know that ticket sales will only start at 9am.

This morning though, Sistic's website was jammed and hung as there were massive traffic and transactions all taking place at the same time. I couldnt enter, my mum couldnt enter, nobody around me could access to the website. Some of my friends who were going to purchase tickets to ABBA's concert couldnt access the web either and after they learnt that's because of Jay Chou concert, they shook their heads. Lol. Poor Joseph went to join the queue at J8 early in the morning. Yes, there's queue everywhere that the tickets are sold. LONG LONG QUEUE. Around 2.30pm (about 5 hours later), he text me to inform me that all tickets have been sold out, with only 4 more to go before his turn. Lol. I know he felt bad and emo for not being able to secure tickets for me but I feel even more bad that he has to help me queue and wait. Would like to say a heartfelt thank you for always helping me. (",)

Anyway, no more Jay Chou for now. To those who missed the sale like me, there's one consolation. That is, there is still hope la. There are contests organised by Scorpio East, the concert organiser.

The first is a talent showcase. Show off your talents, either Jay Chou look alike or sing alike and the winner will walk away with a pair of VIP concert tickets, together with other attractive prizes. Click HERE or the picture below to the talent contest page.


The second contest is to just guess which out of the 3 songs are sung by Jay Chou and one lucky winner will be picked to win a pair of tickets to watch his concert. Click HERE to guess song contest page.

Good luck to all!