Hendy's Blog
Moving site
I moved the hosting of this blog from Tripod to Blogspot. I hate the tripod ads and their no outside linking to image policy pissed me off. You see, when I post my image and preview it in Blogger, it shows up as a different image because of the policy.
This is the new address:
http://htanata.blogspot.com/.
Supergroup Skin
On May 2007 (old news, yeah I know), Yoshiki (formerly in X Japan), Gackt (formerly in Malice Mizer), Sugizo (formerly in LUNA SEA), and Miyavi (formerly in Dué le quartz) announced that they're forming a band called Skin.
Here is the lineup.
* Gackt – vocals, piano
* Miyavi – guitar, shamisen
* Sugizo – guitar, violin
* Yoshiki – drums, piano
Gackt on vocals. Need I say more? On piano, I don't know on which song he played piano. But one of the songs in Mizerable has nice piano segments.
Sugizo on guitar and violin. Oh that feeling of LUNA SEA's violin and guitar.
Yoshiki. Speed drumming is back? Crazy piano again? Piano duet with Gackt?
It's so cool except for Miyavi. Why is that guy there? Good thing he doesn't sing or else I'll be knocking my head on a wall. And it's even better that he also plays the shamisen. Whatever it sounds like, it will be interesting.
I wish Tetsu from L'Arc~en~Ciel is there to cover the bass. Then it will rock big time. Or is this band only reserved for ex big band member? Whatever, I'm in.
Labels: japan, music
Ferrari and McLaren scandal
Ferrari was allegedly sabotaged by Nigel Stepney (Ferrari's mechanic) at Monaco GP and police raid on Mike Coughlan's (a McLaren designer) house resulted in hard evidence: Ferrari's documents.
Hot and sensational. This is an interesting side of F1. F1 is not just about racing. It's about politics too. And dirty play is supposedly part of politics.
Full news
here.
Labels: f1
Singapore Mutual Funds Widget
As
promised earlier, here is my new
widget.
Labels: programming
When enemy becomes ally
What a surprise ending to today's episode of Prison Break. I never thought it would be possible, but I love it. The next episode will be interesting. (^_^)
Prison Break is one of the reason I love Thursday. The other reason being it's one more day to weekend. Woohoo...
On a side note, I've been feeling that time passes quickly these few weeks. For example, I felt that I haven't post for a long time. At least a month. But actually, it's only 10 days. Don't know what's happening here. Rapid aging? Quarter century age syndrome?
And I've been busy with creating a
Netvibes widget (can also be used for iGoogle and Apple Dashboard) to help me track my investment. I'll submit it to
Netvibes ecosystem this weekend. Those who stays in Singapore may find it useful. At least it's useful to me. Well, just wait for the announcement then.
Labels: personal, programming, tv
A Better Tomorrow II
I've seen this in TV before, but never watched it in full. It's another melodramatic gangster movie just like the prequel. Though the actions and drama are acceptable, the plot line is not as much. I felt the characters are suicidal in the end. Some have reason to, but many don't have strong reason to. Though it's kinda cool in the end, but it just felt not right.
Anyway, it's still a good movie. It has better actions compared to the prequel. I love the part when Ti Lung used katana to finish some baddies. Kill 'em in style he did. Repeat it again and again I did. Ti Lung was a kung fu actor in the past. So it's like back to nature for him.
Story wise, I think it's not as good and dramatic as the prequel. A bit unfocused I think. Not a surprise considering Tsui Hark and John Woo fought over the direction of the movie.
Chow Yun Fat is also back with a cool trick. Sucking lighter's fire into his mouth. Damn. I bet people were getting their lips burned after watching this movie. One interesting thing, the big bad boss is always wearing white suit in both movies.
Conclusion? Watch it. You won't regret it. However, the first one is still better. Why? Because I can't wait for Mark to kill the baddies whereas I don't really care in this one.
Labels: movie
YouTube is back to normal
Yippe.. the ugly feature is now only activated by clicking menu button but no official announcement yet. I bet they're having emergency meeting (maybe Google is also involved?) for this matter to prepare for official statement, haha.. I don't think they'll hide their mistake though. It's kind of suicide if they do that. The users will totally hate it.
Who will take the blame? We may never know. But whoever is responsible could be in a boiling pot right now. Can't wait to see the general media pick the news. And maybe
Coding Horror can use this for user interface screw up example? But since it's taken off quite fast, I think not many people know about this.
Anyway, it's good for YouTube to listen to their users. They have to anyway or the 1.65 billion dollar investment can be gone very fast.
