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In The Heart of Himalaya – Zanskar Valley – India

6 days and more than 100 kilometres, freezing sub zero temperatures with uncertanity of life…and you thought you had a tough time going back to school.

• Tar pau some buffalo wings back home! (@ Chili's Grill & Bar Restaurant w/ 8 others) http://t.co/rYTGyZV4 #
• Lunch time! (@ Restoran Jin Xuan Hong Kong Sdn. Bhd. (????????) w/ 4 others) http://t.co/Sdg7cnV4 #

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Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates “Ghost Protocol”. Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency’s name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on this mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.

I’ve been wanting to watch this for ages, I was even looking forwards to the premiere – but we sadly missed that..and of course I wanted to watch it on the new Sunway TGV IMAX! What’s better than watching this years xmas action blockbuster on a REALLY huge screen.

Finally got around to watching it this weekend and everyone has been saying it’s a must watch movie – it’s doing really well on IMDB at the moment with 7.8 and I imagine it might get even better.

It’s been a while since I remember anything with Tom Cruise in it, of course he was hilarious in Tropical Thunder – War of the Worlds was forgettable and Knight and Day was just shite.

Tom Cruise is of course bad ass..coincidentally, the last movie by Mr Cruise I blogged about was Mission Impossible III….Which was passable – but that was about it. I’m surprised it still holds onto a 6.8 on IMDB.

And well basically, this is just a hell of a movie – it’s fast-paced, action packed, entertaining, amusing and generally a good time will be had by all. The camera work was great, some of the action scenes were truly epic and the sound-track was booming.

It has an especially rocking impact if you watch it on a MASSIVE IMAX screen with crystal clear sound – great experience. A lot of the funnier moments were of course delivered by Simon Pegg.

As you would expect, Simon Pegg is funny..he’s come a long way from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – he showed his talents first in Star Trek I guess.

You may well know the ‘baddie’ in this film Kurt Hendricks AKA Cobalt or Michael Nyqvist – from the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

All in all, it’s a really good movie – well crafted, well directed and very well executed. Kudos to Tom Cruise on his producer spot – he nailed this one and has bought the Mission Impossible franchise back with a bang.

The technology is truly impressive (as it should be) and the missions truly impossible (as they should be) – and of course the cleavage rating is high with Paula Patton delivering the goods.

If you haven’t watched it yet, go and make it happen and watch it on IMAX – I’m actually looking forwards to watching any epic 2D films that come out on IMAX – especially when the next TGV IMAX opens nearer to my place at 1-Utama!

I give this movie an adrenaline pumping 7.5/10.

• Bloody hell it's hot today *sweats* #
• And so it begins – another legendary NYE in Genting! Happy New Year everyone!! http://t.co/kfHhplkC #
• All the mabuks game starting – woowoo http://t.co/OfXUtgWu #
• 5 beers – 5 different types! Erdinger Dunkel, Kronenbourg Blanc, Little Creatures Pale Ale, Carlsberg Gold & Kilkenny ftw!! #

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Inspiring short films. 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…..

= a trip of a lifetime.

move, eat, learn

MOVE

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

LEARN

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

EAT

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Awesome stuff!

• Gonna give this place a try! (@ Chomey Kelantanese Restaurant) http://t.co/OYo79cb7 #
• Happy birthday @lavuarne – muaks! #
• Wei @Myhorng your MSN spamming me with virus leh! #
• Oh man feet are aching, getting there though – phew. Stew is stewing, trifle is trifling – w00t. Other stuff is marinating like a boss. #

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New years resolutions, interesting things aren’t they – I’ve mentioned them a couple of times and I even made some half arsed resolutions back in 2004 here – Random Crapola.

I don’t usually make resolutions, as I said back in this post – Welcome 2009!

Do I have any resolutions to make for this coming year? Not really – but I’ve already made some changes that will effect my 2012 hugely – and I’ll be having my wedding of course (if all goes to plan #BRIDEZILLA).

Anyway what would I like to achieve in 2012?

- I’d like to stick to my diet for longer than a month – the slow carb diet does seem to work for me and my weight has been surprisingly stable and going down rather than up over the xmas period.
- As of the above, I’d like to lose weight and my target is to be less than 100kg by January 2013
- Tied in with the above 2, I’d like to get fitter (both cardio and muscle tone) and I plan to get some gear in the back yard and a treadmill to step up my training
- I’d like to achieve some kick-ass shit career wise, I’ve had a good break and now I’m ready to bust some heads and make some awesome things.
- I need to finally revamp my blog which I’ve been intending to do for over a year – this 2007 design is getting old and breaking.
- Take more pictures with my new camera and post them
- Travel a lot (and post about my trips in a timely fashion..)
- Dive a lot
- Basically work hard and play harder.

That’ll do for now, I’ll take the rest as it comes.

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I hope you all have a wonderfully joyful christmas and a very happy new year, I know those of you coming to our inagural xmas feast will surely be having the best xmas EVAR!

We somehow ended up cooking a sit-down dinner for 22 people, we really wanted to move into the new house in time for xmas last year – but we just couldn’t make it and ended up moving in on January 15th. Anyway this year we’ve been in 11 months and we felt ready to rock out a big dinner for maybe 8-12 people….which seemed quite daunting.

When it ended up as 22 people I shit my pants…anyway I think we’ve gotten things under control (including nibbles, 2 appetizers, 4 types of meat for main courses, 3 types of potatoe, a few vegetables, 3 desserts, a cheese board and coffee)…

I’m actually REALLY excited, first time xmas has been special for a long time.

And well seen as though I’m married now, here’s a family picture to fill your hearts with joy

I’d also like to share this video as well as it really amused me.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

• Downloaded and burned DBAN, copying all my files to the external HDD. Time to say goodbye to the office soon 0_0 #
• Fuck you concert, really, #
• Yay supper time! (@ Geylang Lor 9 Frog Porridge) http://t.co/CBt6dzUF #

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