and have my own Na’vi Avatar, nah even better be a Na’vi itself and have my own Ikran and make my own tsahaylu.

This has gotta be the most fantastic sci-fi movie I’ve ever watched in a long while. So literally fantastic it’s like I was having my own Emerald Dream while still trying digest the reality of Pandora. It is strongly reminiscent of Warcraft 3’s Night Elves, but even better – glow-at-night plants and being able to biochemically bond with animals (what the Na’vi call tsahaylu) beat the Priestess of the Moon or the druids. Anytime.

The 3D’s extremely beautiful, but I think the theme is the most beautiful, if you can see beyond the devastation wrought by the “Sky People” later in the movie. The Na’vi had very few human allies, but these humans stood up and did the right thing of trying to save the Na’vi of giving in to human corporate greed like everyone else. These few humans had the courage to admit that the Na’vi were a spiritually and biologically blessed people, and took a painful and courageous step in opposing their fellow brethren. In the end Jake Sully (who was called Jakesully by the Na’vi) took the side of the Na’vi and finally drove the humans out in a heroic defence of their homeland.

I like to think this drives across a very powerful message to certain people, I’m hoping (a fool’s hope but well, you never know) they can understand that this is not just about beautiful graphics. When you have Russian media giving special attention to a film from Hollywood (think politics) and even praising its message, you know that something’s special about Avatar.

Avatar is definitely the best theatrical eye-candy for me this year, but even more, I’ve never felt so liberated watching a movie. Bottom line, everything about Avatar is fantastic – the graphics, the imagination, the theme, the message, even the duration of the theater version. I was thinking that if they had an extended version of Avatar in DVD or Blu-ray later on I would most definitely snap it.

Now we don’t know about you. Since it just came out we recommend you grab a 3D ticket while it’s still available. Or do yourself a favor by clicking on the play button of the bottom trailer if you’re not convinced. Yet.

Official Avatar Movie

Fellow Malaysians, you should’ve brought your cameras, iphones, lappies along! Blog about it, post youtube vids, tweet it, take pictures. It would have gone viral! Why so little love for Arthur? I couldn’t say much if this was something not ‘big’ enough to garner attention, but even the STAR did something on Sep 25 itself. This was the BEP performing, hello?

Ok, rant aside. The BEP, as usual was greatly welcomed by the crowd at the Sunway Surf Beach in Kuala Lumpur. Here’s what the STAR (a newspaper company in Malaysia) had to say:

However, aside from a few bloggers who took the trouble to write and took vids, there were so few coverage about the event! Sedih lah (so sad).

Smashpop.net had some pictures of the Arthur’s Day celebration in Kuala Lumpur, check it here.

Chris, a very good photographer I met before, had a lengthy photopost of BEP during the press conference.

In addition, Chris also recorded the BEP in Boom Boom Pow action.

Though I have to say, I still think the G.I. JOE version is better.

However one Youtuber actually took a very high quality vid of BEP singing I Gotta Feeling. Will.i.am even said KL KL KL a few times (KL is the shortform of Kuala Lumpur) – makes it more endearing lol. I must say thank you dear Youtuber, that was really excellent and more useful than you think. I love Fergie’s furry vest

As for me, one thing I regretted was not being able to be present myself. Well, I don’t know but I’d really go all way out to make this viral if I were there!

Aside from Kuala Lumpur, the Arthur’s Day celebration was also held in Dublin (Ireland), New York (US), Lagos (Nigeria) and Yaounde (Cameroon). The following clip shows everyone cheering to Arthur in Dublin, much like what happens in the Arthur’s Day ad (I don’t know if you’ve seen it, try search in youtube).

There’s plenty of photos in the Independent.ie for the Dublin celebrations.

Finally, if you want to see more vids for the Dublin celebration as well as some pics of the Lagos concert, go to GuinnessPours.net. Go go go!

It was a bit sad, such a great event had so many people going but the coverage does not compensate as much! And BEP chose to go to KL of all 5 places! That was the greatest honour ever people.

for Susan Boyle.

She’s landed in America for the first time, to sing there for the first time, tracks from her very first album, I Dreamed a Dream. Yes, the same name as the world-famous audition song.

She’s had a first-time very transformational makeover, so much that she look much much better now. I’d say she’ll look fantastic even if she’s really riding a wild horse. However the mainstream media strangely never took notice of her new looks. Here’s a very recent photo of Susan, from here.

Lovely?

Anyway, it’s Susan’s first time releasing her debut album (which will be released in November), and one of the songs which Times Online UK says she will sing is Wild Horses (original by Rolling Stones). Hear her soul in the music below, lyrics included:

Well Susan can’t really run free like a wild horse yet. She’s been taken to Disneyland for some Mickey Mouse fun after hordes of fans and media personnel “mobbed” her. Maybe a song of the same name from Natasha Bedingfield will do the trick for now:

lyrics

So, on a typical working weekday like Tuesday, would you feel running carefreely like a wild horse?

This is how excited I am when I saw it.

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I know I’m a little paranoid but I really <3 that ship Caspian supposedly constructed according to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. CS Lewis wrote that the Dawn Treader

was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation has died out in the reigns of Caspian’s ancestors.

But look at this!

Look at that window! Look at that flower pattern! Look at that seamlessly polished wood! As the Malaysian would say, WALAO!!!!

See the ship in full size below.

Wah!!!!!!!!

Honestly what Lewis said about the ship seems to be disproved by the set producers. But it doesn’t matter, all it matters is

WE LOVE IT!!!!!!

Narniafans.com, which I must rightly credit for the above pics, reported today that a video of Skandar Keynes (Edmund) and Ben Barnes (Caspian)’s fight scene was just posted. Look at that ship, and look at the coolness of the whole scene.

Cool, cool, cool! And you have to agree with me!

But one thing which may not be so cool is the release date which is 10 December 2010. T.W.E.N.T.Y T.E.N. O.M.G. Oh well guess I have to wait…

*rereads the novel to relive the magic again*