Coming from a weird kind of attitude and being weird in self, I find that I got myself kinda intrigue to this new movie from Sony Pictures and produced by Neil Blomkamp. Yes, the movie I am talking about is DISCTRICT 9 and after watching it on Premier screening time last night at the Cathay Cineplex Damansara at Cineleisure (thanks to Nuffnang and Sony Pictures), I must say I do find it impressive that I felt that I have to write a review and my thoughts on it.

Yup, I will only write my own reviews if I watched it on premier (a bit bias because if I watched it on normal screen time, why write the review? Everyone can just go watch it).Basically the name Disctrict 9 feels the same like what we’ve all grown to hear about Sector 7 or Sector 21 in the States, where there are so called alien studies going on. Funny though, this time the show didn’t really happen in the United States where all the monsters, super heroes gather, but in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. What a place to be, but all good for the plot.

For once, at least aliens don’t look like those big eyed 2 fingers thin stick kind of aliens. This time though, they look like prawns. Believe me, they call them prawns, there aren’t better name that I can conjure of though, since they really do look like prawns. I call them cute instead. The aliens here are more normal (humanoid) and seems to understand humans and not those aliens where the mission is to kill and destroy (Aliens series, Predator series).

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It’s August 2009. It’s a historical event. It was the month where Nicol David defended her squash title. It was also the month of this blogger’s BIRTHDAY and more importantly the month where Malaysians all around celebrate their Independence Day… rather MERDEKA~~~

Side Story : Yes, Daniel (DanielCtw) the Weird Blogger is now officially 27. Yes, I am that OLD. Though if you were to compare me and a few others around my age, you would have been in awe and shocked to see the physical differences. BWAHAHA. (Bleach laugh)

Why is my blog post now full of words? Where has all the photos gone to? That’s a long story but seemingly yes, I am now using a different computer and the photos are all stucked in another PC which is monitorless (monitor got kidnapped by my brother).

That’s beside the question. Heard of IPhone? Yes, the one from Apple and quite the IN thing amongst people nowadays. Now how would you like if you could stand a chance to win a IPhone 3GS (yes, IPhone’s New version 3Gs is the latest one)? Not to worry, I am spreading this good news and if you see that banner on the top right, click there and it’ll go directly to the contest form. Then all you need to do is register and be on the running for the contest where the prizes to be won includes Iphone 3Gs and 320Gb Western Digital Hard Disks. Of course, under referrer’s email you can include my email of danielctw[at]gmail[dot]com and I would gladly appreciate it. This is not compulsory though. By the way Exabytes is not paying me to write this contest (If only they do).

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Just back from the Adidas 2009 King of The Road 22.7km run. To be enthusiastic, I think I am clueless as to why did I take up the 22.7km instead of the 10km one. I see so many hills on the first few kilometers that I was thinking this is just the beginning, get yourself pumped up so that I can better my time.

To think of it, even Kenny Sia ran faster than me towards the finish line. Warghhhhh~~~~~ but overall the run was good. Adidas gave me a great running vest, which is a bit orangy and yellow. I ate my first power gel and there are still lots of drinks at the water station. The problem is though, because of the first few “hilly tracks” I had a hard time following my friends who were there. I thought of going under 2′ 30′ 00′ only to get a timing of  2′ 40′ 02′. That’s like 10 minutes more than the desired timing that I was aiming for.

But I must thank for a certain time, it took me awhile to get used to the heavy breathing and suddenly started jogging momentumly and didn’t bothered about being faster than anyone. It seems that if I were to jog at a consistent pace, sooner or later those trying to outrun others either looses steam and then they proceed to walking and then suddenly I am ahead of them.

Here’s the scenario.

1. Ah Tan (illustration purposes only) was running ahead of me, then suddenly started walking for a breather.
2. Daniel consistently jogging and suddenly found himself cutting Ah Tan.
3. Ah Tan after awhile suddenly run again and he was in front of me, for awhile until suddenly he started walking again in search for a breather.
4. Daniel consistently jogging and then ahead of him again (tendency to rest was there)
5. Ah Tan finally started running again and ahead of me (don’t know why he uses me as a benchmark, must be my bright yellow shoes)  and stop short a few steps ahead of me
6. Daniel just jog and jog and jog and then finally after awhile Ah Tan was nowhere in sight.

The scenario above happened somewhere around the 12km mark. What caught me going was to keep running and when I felt that there was pain near the foot, it blanks off my mind about my tiredness on my calf since I can only feel the pain on the top of my foot. This was what kept me going. I think I must be crazy finding delight in this pain that it got me jogging non-stop for at least 7 to 8 kilometers.

Overall, I guessed I am still satisfied with the 2′ 40′ 02 time I got though I tend to compare with the 21km KL Marathon which was 2′ 37′ 00 but after accessing it again, it’s because of the extra 1.7km that got me this timing.

After this run, I think I will be taking a break from running for awhile unless it’s a major event. (They give good running vest)

So What Did I Get Out From This Race?

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