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Cinema: Tsunami (Haeundae) or The Ugly Truth

2009-09-19T00:44:00.000-07:00

Poster : Tsunami (Haeundae)

Last friday, I went out as usual, I'm not planning to watch movie actually. But my friend insisted to watch korean Movie entitled Tsunami (Haeundae).

Of course I'm expecting that movie will have a very good effect and bla bla bla..... For me it's simple, because when anything deals with Korean, should be love story... and the end of the story must be happy ending or someone died in the film..

Oh no, not again.. There's no time for love.. Hahaha...Just joking...

Bout the story......?

No comment at all, because I almost cry when I watched that movie (stupid). Yes, I never cry before but this story really open my eyes about the world disaster and you should appreciate people arounds you especially your friends, mummy, daddy, and your sibling as well. Without further due, let me tell you the story.... The story goes like this.....

Ha Ji Won as Yeon Hee

Sol Kyong Gu as Man Shik

Located on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula, Haeundae-gu of the city Busan draws one million visitors to its beaches every year. Several years ago, Man-sik, a Haeundae local, lost Yeon-hee's father due to his mistake in the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake while deep-sea fishing together at the Indian Ocean. Because of this, for years, Man-sik wasn't able to tell Yeon-hee, his long time girlfriend who runs an unlicensed seafood restaurant, that he loves her (Yeon-hee doesn't know that her father was killed due to Man-sik's mistake.).Meanwhile, Dong-choon, another Haeundae local and also a neighbor of Man-sik, teams up with Man-sik's son and does stupid things to earn money, but the two ends up caught by the police. Afterwards, Dong-choon's mother, concerned about her unemployed son, decides to prepare him for a job interview, but Dong-choon does not want to do the job interview. As time pass, Man-sik finally plans to propose to Yeon-hee on a night where there is are fireworks.Geologist Kim Hwi somehow runs into his divorced wife, Yoo-jin, who is preparing for an expo in Busan.

Eom Jeong Hwa as Yoo Jin

Although Yoo-jin has a daughter (and also a new husband), they decide not to tell their daughter that he (Hwi) is her real father, afraid that the child would be greatly shocked. Meanwhile, a wealthy college student from Seoul, Hee-mi, accidently falls into the ocean from a luxurious yacht. Hyeong-sik, Man-sik's younger brother and also a lifeguard, rescues Hee-mi rather 'violently'. Later on, Hee-mi becomes greatly angered by the 'violent' rescue and annoys him at no end by following him around. But as time passes on, love starts to grow between them.During the fireworks, Man-sik proposes to Yeon-hee. Yeon-hee says that a ribbon hung outside her restaurant the day after would mean 'yes'. On the day after, Man-sik sees no ribbon, and he meets Dong-choon, who was nearby. Dong-choon tells Man-sik that he told Yeon-hee why her father died several years ago. Man-sik becomes very angered, for he thinks that what Dong-choon told Yeon-hee caused there to be no ribbon.Meanwhile, Hwi notices that the Sea of Japan (East Sea) is displaying similar activity to the Indian Ocean of the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The Disaster Prevention Agency assures him that Korea is at no risk, but a megatsunami soon forms near Japan and starts to travel at 500 miles per hour towards Haeundae. Hwi notices that the citizens of Haeundae has only 10 minutes left to escape. There is a short earthquake in Haeundae; the elevator Yoo-jin is in stops perhaps due to the earthquake.

People run for their lives, but the tsunami soon reaches Haeundae. The streets are shown quickly flooded while the people are trying to escape, and some buildings collapse. Some people and cars on a the Gwangan Bridge are swept away by the tsunami. A powerful electric shock from a telephone pole happens in the now-flooded street where Man-sik and Yeon-hee is in, but the two survive.A big cargo ship gets stuck at the Gwangan Bridge. Dong-choon, who is on the bridge, tries to escape from the falling cargo containers (from the ship). The containers are shown falling at an extreme momentum. Dong-choon has survived this, and later on, he tries to light a cigarette while still on the bridge. His portable lighter ends up on a flammable liquid flowing from one of the containers; there is a gigantic explosion, where the bridge gets cut in half.Hyeong-sik jumps down from a rescue helicopter and saves Hee-mi, who was far away in the sea with one of her friends. When Hyeong-sik and the friend are together on the rope, Hyeong-sik realizes that the rope is about to break and only one can go up to the helicopter. After a deep thought, Hyeong-sik cuts down the rope his body is connected to and falls down into the violent sea. The elevator Yoo-jin is in gets flooded with water, and she talks with tears to her daughter by her portable phone. Soon, Yoo-jin is saved by a worker. On the roof of the building, Yoo-jin meets her daughter and Hwi. The two helps their daughter go onto a crowded rescue helicopter. Before the helicopter leaves, Hwi tells the truth to his daughter that he was really her father. Yoo-jin apologizes with tears to Hwi, and they hug onto each other in front of the second tsunami.After the tsunami, there is a funeral for the lifeguards who were killed in the tsunami; among the ones who were killed is Hyeong-sik. Dong-choon realizes that his mother has passed away in the tsunami, and he breaks into tears. People are shown helping reconstructing the city. Man-sik, while cleaning the ruins of Yeon-hee's restaurant, finds the red ribbon which Yeon-hee's said was a 'yes' for his propose. The movie ends with the scene of Haeundae in ruins, but rather in a hopeful atmosphere.

What about the Ugly truth?

The title speaks for society. Are we really pigs in real life who imagine or write grocery lists for our relationships? Maybe. There is not much truth exept it is extremely cliched mounted on the contrast between men and women.

Hmm... I like this scene..

Damn, I thought it was 100% romantic story (actually 20% romance scene)...Hahahah..

My first time ever watching a love story at Cinema. I never done that before, luckily it was not too romantic for me but it's about a guy and a girl which has a differnt opinion about love relationship and sex.

Katherine and Doctor Colin watching baseball game......Guess what happened next????

These 2 things link together, some people says

Girl will give sex to get love and;

Guy will give love to get sex......

Which one is correct??????...... No comment.....

THE UGLY TRUTH has opened up my mind about the serious relationship although I never had a love relationship before... Hahahaha...

Gerard and Katherine... Nice Couple

Never mind....I'll do my best and GOD do the rest.....

2nd phase- Fieldwork

2009-09-12T08:09:00.000-07:00

Being a Geologist is not easy. As I recalled back my life this pass 2 years, I just realized that study makes my life more worse than usual.

But the heart for the things that I had done really open my eyes about the beauty of the Geology.

For people out there, Geology is something that is very non-sense because they didn't know what is Geology all about.

Yes, geology studies about earth rocks and what else? Besides, we studied about the earth structure and how the earth forms (science aspects).

During my 2nd phase fieldwork, we had an accident and of course no injuries. Hahahaha....sounds funny, but if you were in my situation, I don't think you will survive because we were stranded at the place where no one live there.

The road is not well developed and we were trying so hard to think how to get out from that creepy place. We were lucky because it was noon time, so there are 6 hours to go before the sunset.

I just wondering if there any people who live there, so we took the opportunity to walk to the main road and asked for a help.

Thanks God because finally we found a house, we asked one of the men ( macam the owner of the house...whatever)... he decided to help us. One of the uncle babling about the accident and we're keep on blaming the topography of the area..

Hahahah...It's human errors...Finally we were saved.

I continued my fieldwork eventhough I feel very exhausted..

Miss Universe 09 : Stefania makes a HISTORY.

2009-09-04T04:33:00.000-07:00

Puerto Rico : Mayra Matos

Japan : Emiri Miyasaka

Turkey : She' s pretty.

Swizerland : Whitney Toyloy

Mexico : Karla Carillo

Israel : ???????...hehe.. I just love her...

Phillipine : Bianca Manalo

Kosovo : Marigona Dragusha

Peru : Karen Schwarz

Belgium : Zener

Dominican Republic : Adaa Aimee de la Cruz

Malaysia : Joannable Ng Li Vun

Russia : Sofia Rudieva

USA : Kristen Dalton

Australia : Rachel Finch

Indonesia ; Zivanna latisha Siregar

Guatemala : Lourdes Figuoera

Miss Universe pageant is one of my favourite shows since I was young ( 12 years old ). In my expectation, MU 09 should be the most grand and fantastic event this year compare to MU last year. But the show really disgust me now because of the winner. I am not saying that she is not beautifull at all. But it seems that the MU pageant loose it's dignity. Yes, some people might not agree what i'm saying but that's the fact. There are a lot of reason why I hate MU 09 result. As you can see the above photos is my favourite during MU 09 pageant.

1. I think Stefania gown is the worst ever and her disaster hair make she looks like she was in the 80's.

2. I was shocked that Asian is not in the list. Philippine, Indonesia and Vietnam deserve the top 15.

3. Where is Mexico? She is the most gorgeous and stunning among all Latinas contestant.

4. Mostly European make it to the top 15. Russia is not in the list???? How come???? She has an exotic look that makes all men might go crazy after her. I am one of her big fan. naked pics??? that should be not one of the main reason why she was not in top 15. Obviously biased. She was better than Vera Krasova and I just love Russian delegates every year in MU pageant.

5. The MU crown fall. Both Venezuelan were too excited. hmm

The reason why i just love the MU pageant from MU 00 - MU 08...............

1. The 2000 MU Q & A session. - Lara Dutta make all the judges impressed by her answer and finally she got 9.99 mark. I just love the way she talked and delivered the idea.

2. Oxana Fedorova (MU 02) is the most beautifull Miss universe ever in my life although she was dethroned after that.

3. Goodness.. My favourite Amelia Vega (MU 03) is the most gorgeous contestant among all the delegates that time.

4. Yes, Aussie's Jennifer Hawkins is THE TUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER. The most humble and confident contestant during MU 04, even though that time I am more to Yanina Gonzalez ( 3rd runner up ) from Paraguay.

5. I just love all the finalist of MU 05. Nathalie (MU 05) is one of my favourite wins the title. I love her eyes and she answered the question very well compare to Cynthia. Not forget, Renata (DR), Laura (Mexico) and Monica (Venezuela). they are all pretty.

6. Zuleyka is totally out in my list. I prefer Japanese and Switz delegate to win the MU 06 title. And Lourdes Arevalos- 3rd runner up (Paraguay) impressed me a lot.

7. Pearl from Asia, Riyo Mori grab the title from Puerto Rican, yes.. she is hot although I'm more to Honey Lee (Korea - 3rd runner up MU 07). Ly Jonaltis (VEN), Rachel (USA) and Natalia (BRAZIL) is a good competittors.

8. I have to admit that Taliana loose to Dayana during the Q & A session, but it proof that Dayana can handle the crowd very well. I just love both of them and prefer Taliana more. My friend said dayana look like a vampire with yellow gown ( no comment)...hahaha..

Kudat Fieldtrip.

2009-08-29T07:58:00.000-07:00

She was so busy with her camera. Oh Lia, stop that.You are Geologist not Photographer..hehe

Smile for the Camera.. At Niah ( GPS : ????????)

After I finished my fieldtrip, I need to help my friend. She was doing Petrology for her Thesis. Thanx God i'm not taking the subject as my thesis. Sorry Pija. Well, the fieldtrip goes smoothly because everything was well planned by Pija. There, I found a lot of basalt rock and Kudat Formation..By the way, thank you Rafi for helping us ( Rafi is Pija's Boyfriend ) After i went back from Kudat, Miri was my 3rd fieldtrip destination. Can you imagine that in one day, you travelling from north east to the south west of Borneo. It is damn tiring and sometimes you want to finish everything in one day ( If I coud do so ).. Well, this time I'm helping Lia to do structural geology. Beyond my expectation, I was at Niah ( Couldn't believe it )... hehehe.... Yes, finally we explored Miri Town at night. The next day we went back and of course I sleep for the whole day... heheheheh...

Ranau Fieldtrip : Project

2009-08-16T06:17:00.001-07:00

My Holiday????.... No holiday for Geology student this year, we spent our precious time at field. My thesis area is at Ranau, 2 hours from kota Kinabalu...Emm..that was a very good experience for me because i have a friends that really help each other during fieldwork. Heartiest thanx to my beloved friends, Jay, jacinta and Angela...oh, hampir terlupa...Achat also..hahaha...During the fieldwork, a lot of things happen because our research area is too far from Ranau town..Means, the area is not well developed. Here are some pictures that i can share with you all...

A new Blogger...

2009-08-11T08:38:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

Hahaha...after a month i didn't make any profile at Facebook and Friendster, finally i decided to be a blogger. Just to fill my free time, actually it's not easy for me to deal with all those things, i mean this blog because I'm not a type of person who likes to share much about my daily life. For me, it such that we want to reveal our secret...But never mind, I consider this blog things as a part of my work and of course I have a lot of things to say..Mind and Soul Expression is the main objectives why I'm here..By the way, thanx to my friend Nick for helping and persuade me to become a blogger...Hahhaah...really appreciate this...for introduction, let me introduce who am I... Yes that is me...