The Lost Generation...

I am not much of a poetry lover, but this poem is astonishing!


The poem is written by someone named Jonathan Reed.


Do watch it till the end.. 



Fantastic isn't it?


This poem really gives people hope in changing their mindset.


GBU &  Have a great day ahead ! :) 

Review Of : Hachiko : A Dog's Story

I had just watched Hachiko : A Dog's Story or Hachi : A Dog's Tale. 

It has a very simple storyline yet very touching & heart-warming story .

The story is an adaptation of a true story about a loyalty of a dog to his master..

Hachiko's  loyalty to his master by waiting for him every evening at the train station eventhough his master was deceased for 9 years..

 

The true story as of Wikipedia : 

In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo took in Hachikō as a pet. During his owner's life Hachikō greeted him at the end of the day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where his friend was waiting. Every day for the next nine years Hachikō waited at Shibuya station.

Hachikō was given away after his master's death, but he routinely escaped, returning again and again to his old home. Eventually, Hachikō apparently realized that Professor Ueno no longer lived at the house. So he went to look for his master at the train station where he had accompanied him so many times before. Each day, Hachikō waited for the return of his owner.

The permanent fixture at the train station that was Hachikō attracted the attention of other commuters. Many of the people who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno together each day. They brought Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his wait.
 
This continued for nine years with Hachikō appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.

Movie Adaptation Synopsis : 

This heartwarming film is an American adaptation of a famous Japanese tale about a loyal Akita dog named Hachiko.

This special dog, nicknamed "Hachi," accompanies his master Parker (Richard Gere), a university professor, to the train station every morning to see him off and then returns to the station each afternoon to greet him at the end of his day. The emotionally complex nature of what unfolds when their uncomplicated routine becomes interrupted is what makes Hachi's story a tale for the ages; a dog's faithful devotion to his master exposes the great power of love and how this simplest of acts can become the grandest gesture of all.

(Source: Golden Screen Cinemas Sdn. Bhd.) 

 In remembrance of Hachiko , they made a statue of Hachiko after his death at Shibuya Station.. ( below)

My Rating?

Plot : 3.5/5
Storyline : 3/5
Acting*:5/5
Scoring* : 4/5
OVERALL : 8/10.

I would recommend you to watch if you like a touching, story with a simple meaning of the story behind it...

Review Of : Takers

If you have watched A-Team, or other action-packed movies that consists lots & lots of shooting, explosions & guns, Takers is that.





The storyline is about a team call themselves the Takers, they are a team of highly-trained , well-organized robbers. They execute their mission, take the cash, and leave; without any trace.

But a cunning detective is going after them, & finding out .

Meanwhile , one of their crew who was is jail 5 years ago was freed & he gives the Takers a 30-million heist of their lifetime. Suspicious but tempting mission.

To execute the heist, they...

( Is that too much of a spoiler? Well, go watch them yourselves. :) )

It's about teamwork, betrayal & taking your chances In a nutshell, this movie is 85% action ( consists of mainly shooting & chasing ). Love that genre? You're love watching Takers.

My Rating?

Plot : 4/5
Storyline : 3/5
Acting*:4/5
Action* : 4.5/5
OVERALL : 7.75/10.

Trailer>>

Happy Halloween! :P

Exams' Over, Holidays are coming and Halloween is here!

Even though I don't celebrate Halloween. :P

But, here's a question; what is the first thing you think in your mind when I say :

" HALLOWEEN! "

Jack-O-Lanterns?

Ghosts?

Sweets?

Well, anything you think of ... The origin of Halloween is actually from the Celtics, not the fun, treat-o-treat, costume party thing, ... Here's an extract from Wikipedia.

History Of Halloween

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)". The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced Kálan Gái av).

Snap-Apple Night by Daniel Maclise showing a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The young children on the right bob for apples. A couple in the center play a variant, which involves retrieving an apple hanging from a string. The couples at left play divination games.

The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".

The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces. Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual.

Another common practice was divination, which often involved the use of food and drink.

The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era.

Origin of name

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Up through the early 20th century, the spelling "Hallowe'en" was frequently used, eliding the "v" and shortening the word. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.

It' sort like the Chinese Ghost Month right?

Okay!

That's all for now!

Happy Holidays & Happy Halloween..

Yahoo! News Extracts : Father and son film outer space, do-it-yourself style

HAPPY 10.10.10 !! :D

Here is some interesting news I found on Yahoo!

What a father & son will do when they are into space & astronomy..

Read On..

Like many youngsters, and those young at heart, seven-year-old Max Geissbuhler and his dad dreamed of visiting space -- and armed with just a weather balloon, a video camera, and an iPhone, in a way they did just that.

The father-and-son team from Brooklyn managed to send their homemade spacecraft up nearly 19 miles, high into the stratosphere, bringing back perhaps the most impressive amateur space footage ever. The amazing footage starts at 2:35 minutes in the video below.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

The duo housed the video camera, iPhone, and GPS equipment in a specially designed insulated casing, along with some hand-warmers and a note from Max requesting its safe return from whomever may find it after making it back to solid ground. All told, father and son spent eight months preparing for their homemade journey into space, in hopes of filming "the blackness beyond our earth."

Then, one day in August, Max, his father, and his friend Miles Horner headed out to a nearby park to see their dreams realized. After attaching their equipment to a 19-inch weather balloon and switching on the camera, they watched as their simple craft disappeared high into the sky.

After a little over an hour, the craft reached the stratosphere, 100 thousand feet overhead, and captured some incredible footage of space before the balloon popped and fell back towards earth. They found their spacecraft 25 miles away from where they had let it go -- stuck up in a tree.

Although the camera's battery died some minutes before touching down, the footage the camera returned is impressive. And despite the fact that the craft didn't technically reach the boundaries of space, Max and his father are undoubtedly proud of their accomplishment.

Geissbuhler describes the experience on the video he uploaded to the Internet:

In August 2010, we set out to send a camera to space. The mission was to attach a HD video camera to a weather balloon and send it up into the upper stratosphere to film the blackness beyond our earth. Eventually, the balloon will grow from lack of atmospheric pressure, burst, and begin to fall.

It would have to survive 100 mph winds, temperatures of 60 degrees below zero, speeds of over 150 mph, and the high risk of a water landing. To retrieve the craft, it would need to deploy a parachute, descend through the clouds and transmit a GPS coordinate to a cell phone tower. Then we have to find it.

Needless to say, there are a lot of variables to overcome.

Just as the space-race of the 1960s was driven by a spirit of exploration and ingenuity, so too was the bold idea of Max and Luke Geissbuhler to film the darkness beyond our planet with their homemade spacecraft. And just as mankind was at once emboldened by the success of science and the realm of possibility was widened for an entire generation -- perhaps this father-and-son team can inspire others to follow their dreams, too, do-it-yourself style.

( Extracted from Yahoo! News )

Review Of : Legend Of The Guardians - The Owls Of Ga'Hoole

The movie has a rather simple plot; it is about an owl named Soren that has a very strong faith & courage. One day , he & his brother had been kidnapped by the owls of St.Aggie's together with other owlets. He then escaped out of captive in search to find the Guardians to save the owlets ...

It is a story about faith, love, betrayal, & courage..

The graphics are very good in 3D.

The owls' feathers & their movements are very realistic..
Yes, if you have seen movies like' Happy Feet ', this is a good movie, since it is from makers of ' Happy Feet ' .

My rating :

Plot : 4/5
Storyline : 3/5
Graphics* : 5/5
Scoring* : 4/5
OVERALL : 8/10.

The synopsis is as follows :

Based on the first three Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series by Kathryn Lasky, it tells of Soren (Jim Sturgess), a young barn owl who is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's.

(Source: Cinema Online)

Trailer :