Dream Home (2010) - Wai Do Lei Ya Yat Hou (Victoria #1)

Dream Home (2010) - Pang Ho Cheong (D)

Josie Ho, Eason Chan, Derek Tsang, Lawrence Chou, Yip Shuen, Juno Mak, Wong Ching

NOTE : Not suitable for pregnant ladies and those who can't take on-your-face violent scenes.

I now understand why when the movie was shown in one of the smaller film festival (in Italy if I am not wrong....), one of the audience, a middle-aged uncle had a heart-attack. Of course, the whole premise of the film is its gore scenes but being a movie by Pang, it's not just some gore scenes galore.

At the same time, you know it's Josie's vehicle when she produce the movie herself. Too bad she lost Best Actress to Carina Lau but she will get it one day though it might not be the best deserved role (just like Carina).

Pang is one of the new directors who in a way offered some hope to the deteriorating HK cinema. His other feature, Love in A Puff, which is TOTALLY different from this; was a rare gem that came out of the HK cinema in the recent years. I REALLY hope the sequel of Love in A Puff will be free of the malaise that plague HK movies recently; being "mainland-ised".

Yan Ching Sai Gu - Lam Jik

Buy 1 Get 1 Free - Hanjin vs MC Jin

Break-Up Club (2010)

Break-Up Club (2010)

Director : Wong Chan Chan

Jaycee Chan, Fiona Sit, Patrick Tang

The two leads are natural. Wong tried something different here. Commendable but I love the movie mostly because of the performances of the leads. Surprisingly natural and good. And yes, Jaycee's acting is way much better than his father, Jackie Chan.

__________ Please Die

Donald Tsang Please Die - My Little Airport

It's Donald Tsang when Ah P pen the lyrics to this simple tune. Well, it can be anyone, in your relevant context.

Have a good week.

Lesbian Movie Night

Love in A Puff (2010)

Love in A Puff (2010)

Director : Pang Ho-Cheung

Cast : Miriam Yeung, Shawn Yue

Try the trailer here. http://www.mediaasia.com/loveinapuff/tc_main.html

It's not ONLY a love story. Pang Ho-Cheung is delightful, as always. Shawn Yue has a certain charm in some strange way. I personally think Miriam gave her best ever movie performance here.

P/S : It's very HK production, no "bing-bing"s, Big-S or xiao ming and the gang. The movie title is a nice play of the Taiwanese Mayday's hit song but it has nothing to do with it.

陀飞轮 - 陈奕讯

作曲 : Vincent Chow
填词：黄伟文
编曲 : Gary Tong
监制 : Alvin Leong


过去十八岁 没戴表 不过有时间
够我 没有後顾 野性贪玩
霎眼廿七岁 时日无多 方不敢偷懒
宏愿纵未了 奋斗总不太晚

然後突然今秋 望望身边 应该有 已尽有
我的美酒 跑车 相机 金表 也讲究
直 到世间 个个也妒忌 仍不怎麽富有
用我尚有 换我没有 其实已 用尽所拥有

曾付出几多心跳 来换取一堆堆的发票
人值得 命中减少几秒 多买一只表
秒速 捉得紧了 而皮肤竟偷偷松了
为何用到尽了 至知哪样紧要

劳力是 无止境 活着多好 不需要 靠物证
也不以高薪 高职 高级品 搏尊敬 wo~
就算搏到 伯爵那地位 和萧邦的隽永
卖了任性 日拼夜拼 忘掉了为甚麽高兴

曾付出几多心跳 来换取一堆堆的发票
人值得 命中减少几秒 多买一只表
秒速 捉得紧了 而皮肤竟偷偷松了
为何用到尽了 至知哪样紧要

记住那 关於光阴的教训
回头走 天已暗
你献出了十寸 时和分
可 有换到十寸金

还剩低几多心跳 人面跟水晶表面对照
连自己 亦都分析不了 得到多与少
也许真的疯了 那个倒影多麽可笑
灵 魂若变卖了 上链也没心跳

银或金都不紧要 谁造机芯 一样了
计划了 照做了 得到了 时间却太少 no~
还剩低几多心跳 还在数赶不及了
昂贵是这刻 我觉悟了
在时计里 看破一生 渺渺

等待香港 - 林奕华

从我脚尖吻我 - 谢嫣薇

Jackie Cheung is JAZZYING it UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo DOUBLE TAKE!!!!!!!!!!

I never buy any of Jacky Cheung's album. Maybe the reason was when he was the 4 Heavenly King of HK Pop, I had no money to buy any of his albums. After a long hiatus, he's now back to enthrall us with a jazz album. Well... my cup of tea!!!!!!!!!



I listened to HK CR2 903 radio and he's interviewed by Vani and heard a song called 十二个音 and the melody sounds sooooo familiar and it dawned on me that it's a cover of the song by my favourite Sabahan group, Double Take!!!! The original song composed by Roger Wang called Love Scale. Seriously... search for Double Take's album, support local artiste too. Their debut album released in 2002 is called One Voice.Six Strings.Twelve Mood.

Enjoy the good music. The kacau-bilau scenes in Malaysian political landscape need some rest.

《聖誕快樂》- （1984）

I never know that this song was actually featured in the movie. The movie is like the must-watch come every Christmas when I was a small kid. Of course, at the time, there were not many TV channels around, not even TV3 let alone paid cable. The movie will be shown without fail in TV2 or RTM2 at that time EVERY Christmas.. I mean... EVERY Christmas, just like another movie during Chinese New Year (let that be another post in the future). Helmed by Karl Mak and Paula Tsui, this feel-good movie also starred a lot of actors who's not here anymore, i.e. Leslie Cheung and Danny Chan.

Raw Jazz - Hanjin 陳奐仁 (Updated)

See him performing live here. Brilliant!!!

One of my favourite - Cheek to Cheek

If you are familiar with HK music scene, you will know Hanjin 陳奐仁 especially if you know Edison Chen. The Invisible Man anyone?

Given his hip-hop and trend-setting background this recorded-in-one-take-with-a-3-piece band-back-to-basics-raw jazz album is indeed a pleasant surprise! After searching for it high and low, I managed to get it from Rock Records in KL. Branded as on eof the best album of the year by Times magazine, this will stay in my playlist for quite a long time.

3rd KK Jazz Festival - 2nd Day - Jun Kung & The Junk Unit featuring Greg Lyons and Eugene Pao

The last performance comes with big names such as Greg Lyons and Eugene Pao, who to those uninitiated, are BIG names in the scene in the region. Lyons started out as a bassist but now a respected saxaphonist while Eugene had been an eminent figure in the jazz scene in HK in particular.

I like this keyboard player who's so cool with his shorts!

The great Greg with his exquisite soxaphone!!!

Eugene doing his thang!!!

Master with his fingers working out.....

The passion channeled not only through his music... apparently.

Love the saxaphone so much....aged but perfecto mundo!

Nothing beats watching and listening to the musicians jamming

I was kinda surprised with the appearance of Jun who's definitely recognizable to those who are familiar with the HK music scene. He is 恭硕良 who tried his luck in the mainstream music scene few years back. But I guess he found his footing better now in the idol-dominated HK Cantopop music scene.

All I can say is that, these guys are the epitome of cool and their brand of music are more to party-theme fusion oh... what the heck?? Who needs to categorize them in any way? Oh, being the naughty Jun, he did sang a song called Lazy Muther*&^%-er at the end of the performance but shove the mic to the audience during the chorus "Lazy Muther*&^%-er" line ala Leon Lai. Hahaha....wonder whether Ilyas Omar and the whole bunch of organizers were shivering in nervousness then.....

Hong Kong 9 : Kowloon Mosque

Hong Kong 8 : Kowloon Bird Park

A group of senior citizens were busy having bird-watching session. And they told us surprisingly the Kowloon Bird Park is one of the stops for the migratory birds from China on the way to South East Asia though it's surrounded by so many high rise concrete jungle.

Kowloon Aviary

The senior citizen's HQ

Kids and their parents visiting the park

Swimming pool closed for maintenance

What's a park without the flowers?

Outdoor activities for the primary school kids

A feast to the eyes

Some equipments for the elderlies to move their body/exercise

Tai-Chi