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While surfing the web, I came across a title of a series named ‘FlashForward’. It caught my attention, and I started downloading it right away. The series mainly revolves of a fictional incident of a global blackout. Everyone on the planet, every human being, lose consciousness for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Well, that’s not all. While they blackout – every single man and woman and child caught a glimpse of the future exactly 6 months ahead prior to the event they called GBO; The Global Blackout – the single most disastrous event in the human history.

The GBO event results in the towering global death rate. Pilots lose consciousness while piloting aircrafts. Doctors lose consciousness during surgeries. Pile ups, traffic accident tolls up.

The tagline of the series is “What did you see?”. The entire human race lives in fear after the GBO event. Dead people are everywhere, but that’s not the most terrifying thing they have to deal with. It’s the 2 minutes and 17 seconds FlashForward to the future they’re most afraid of.

What if you saw your daughter who’d been dead for the past 2 years in your vision?

What if you saw you’re sleeping with another person, and he’s not your spouse?

What if you saw yourself happily walking down your wedding aisle?

What if you saw yourself being drowned by an unknown man?

What if you saw yourself strangling a stranger to death?

What if you saw NOTHING?

Some are afraid that their haunting visions come true. Some are afraid their happy vision won’t. The others have to deal with the possibility of not being able to survive the next 6 months for they did not see anything? Just darkness and emptiness. They cannot be sure why they did not have a vision of future like everyone else. They’re future unlike others are even darker, and scarier.

People begin to live with the awfully little knowledge of their own future. People began to lose trust that they should ‘live for today’ like they already did all their life. There are some who refused to believe the future is definite. Or is it not? Can they fight ‘fate’?

The story takes off with FBI agents trying to find out what actually causes GBO, and who’s behind it. Their investigation is ironically based on an agent’s FlashForward. Slowly, everything he saw in the future falls into place, causing the agents to believe that the future they’d seen in their vision are inevitable.

It’s a very interesting series to catch. I think it’s really worth the watch. Just one episode and it already took my breath away. It’s a thriller, but at certain scene, I find myself deeply touched. You guys should really watch this.

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Before I came back from Shah Alam, I had the opportunity to hang out and catch ‘Surrogates’ with Hui Lin. The funny thing about us is that we’d been SMS-ing a lot, but we’d never really talked much face to face. I really had a great time borak kosong with her. All our topics revolve around our assignments and movie critics.

After movie sempat go dinner some more. I was the one driving, but she’s the one bawa jalan. I wonder when only I’ll know my way around Klang Valley? I’m always doing the wrong turn here and there. Hilarious.

But what i wanted to share here is ‘Surrogates’.
This movie is set in a near future, where humans are actually interacting using humanoid machines that they control with much liberty on a control chair from their respective home. All aspect of life is done using these machines they call ‘Surrogates’.

I wonder why the Malaysia version of the poster is so damn ugly.
This version looks neat and nice.

The movie actually had a pretty nice, neat and easy to understand introduction. The technology used in Surrogates was invented in order to help those who are physically impaired. People who’d lost their limbs in accidents or any other means are given artificial machine limbs in which they can control at ease. Slowly, the technology expanded so much that full humanoid surrogates are created. It’s then commercialized and the government allows its use in daily social life. This action is said to be the first step to generate the crime-free society.

Bruce Willis stars in this futuristic science fiction as Tom Greer. He is a police detective that conducts his investigation using his own surrogate. It was until his machine was destroyed, he is forced to investigate the bizarre case of a few people who actually died, when their surrogates are ‘killed’.

I would recommend this movie. Not 5 star la. Maybe 3 star the best. The special effects are really cool, but the plot, it is somehow too predictable. Still, it’s an enjoyable movie.
You might like it. ;-)

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Wow! I'd been watching 15Malaysia videos for some time since Aj introduced them to me. Although I did not catch them on their respective release date every time, I still go back and watch the latest 2-3 short films in one shot. I must say this short film 'One Future' really grabbed my attention. The style, the story and the voice of the narrator fits perfectly like a well conducted orchestra.



If this is the one perfect future, then I bet all Malaysian will rather live as rebellions. The freedom to speak is so important and so well symbolized in One Future. I hope you'll all enjoy this stop-motion video as much as I did. And I hope all Malaysian will stand tough. Deny our colour, religion, and ideology.
Tell the world that we're One.
More importantly?
Tell ourselves that we're indeed One.


Watch more of 15Malaysia video at http://15malaysia.com/

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It’s currently 4.23a.m.
I’m multitasking: watching House, blogging and looking over my Cabal character at the same time. This is how my screen looked like now.

I’d some assignments I’m supposed to complete, but I’m currently not in the mood. I’d been unhappy lately. I couldn’t really focus, and I’m sleeping a lot lately. And I’d not been sleeping enough. I know I sound like I’m contradicting myself. I’d screwed up my biological clock. I got tired. And I’d done nothing. There’s no reason for me to be this tired.

Well, if I go on, this post would be all about me whining. But I don’t want to.

I rather blog about House. I’d come to love this series a lot. I’d just cover up until season 4. Maybe it’s my current mood. Or maybe, the crew of House did a brilliant job for the finale of season 4. It brought me down to tears.

The House MD series is about the limping and sarcastic Dr. Gregory House which would do anything to solve the puzzle, and his diagnostic team. The original fellow of the team was the always agreeable Dr. Chase, the moral questioning Dr. Cameron, and the dictator Blackpoleon Blackaparte Dr. Foreman. House had a best friend called Wilson, which we see House ‘bullied’ most of the time. Cuddy is House’s protective boss, and also one of the true friends House ever had.

At the end of season 3 House’s team was disbanded when House fired Chase, which leads to Foreman and Cameron’s resignation. House then recruited new fellows by having the candidates competing against each other. Originally there were 40 of them, but after a series of eliminations similar to reality TV programs such as The Survivor and The Bachelor, only 3 doctors remained: Taub, Kutner, and Thirteen. The final team includes Dr. Foreman as well.

But the character that made the most impact in this season’s finale is a candidate whom was eliminated from House’s game earlier. Amber’s character was similar to House’s. She’d do anything to achieve her goals. House calls her ‘Cut-Throat Bitch’ or CB for short. While all the doctors whom House eliminate never make any re-appearance, Amber’s character actually became more prominent in the later part of the series.

She dated Wilson, and their romance blooms at full throttle. At the time House discovered their relationship, they’d only been together for weeks. House and Amber fights over Wilson and in the end House comes to approve their relationship. However, the catch is Wilson is shared under a ‘joint custody’. It's funny how two people fight over a grown up man. I’d like to discuss more about the finale I’d just watched. The direction was executed almost perfectly. Salute. Here's the synopsis.

The first of the two episode finale is titled ‘House’s Head’. House had a concussion on his head and couldn’t remember what happened in the past 4 hours. After being hypnotized by Chase, House realizes he got the concussion when the bus he was on was involved in an accident. House is convinced that he’d someone he need to save from dying, and the 4 hours of memory he’d lost is crucial. In this episode, House is hallucinating; as he searches in his mind what is the important thing that he’d forgot. In this hallucination, House sees a young lady in his mind that told House that “I’m the answer”. The young lady is seen wearing an ember necklace throughout the hallucination. As the revelation, we learned that the patient that House needs to save is Amber. She was in the bus with him when the accident happened.

The second part is titled ‘Wilson’s Heart’. This episode showed Wilson breaking down. He was unable to think rationally when his girlfriend’s life is at stake. When Amber’s heart stops pumping, Wilson insisted that House have her on bypass instead of restarting her heart; in order to give House and his diagnostic team had bonus time to sort things out. Housedisagrees, but comply when Wilson’s said, “Please House, this is Amber”.

House struggles to find the true reason why Amber was with him at the moment of accident. Taub suggested that they might have an affair. Wilson is aware of the possibility of an affair as well. When Wilson suggested that House undergo a risky surgery that involves drilling a hole in his skull, and using electricity to shock his temporal lobe to restore his memories, House agrees.

House was drunk. He called for Wilson, but Wilson was on call for work. Amber picked up the call, and went to the bar to pick up House in place of Wilson. House made her pay for the drinks, and they left the bar. They went up a bus. The restored memory made House realizes that Amber is taking a drug to counter the flu she had. However, this became the cause of Amber’s unexplainable symptoms as the kidneys failed to filter the drug, causing all her organs to fail. There’s nothing the docs can do to save Amber, it’s already too late.

After regaining his memories, House had a seizure and the violent shake of his body caused his brain to bleed. House went into a coma in which he wakes up from at the end of the episode. Wilson had a chance to bid farewell to Amber, before Wilson shut her off the bypass.

It’s my favorite episode of House so far. My knowledge of medical aspect is apparently low, but it doesn’t stop me from enjoying the show. It’s a series worth watching. If you’re reading this, you should catch it. It’s not all medical. It’s as if the doctors are playing detectives to find the culprit, (the disease) that formed the symptoms(the clue). Everyone will love this kinda show.