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Movie Review: The Fourth Kind

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:51:28 +0000

This movie “The Fourth Kind” tries to recreate a “documentary” movie style mixed in with “real” video & audio footage created a fantastic modern yet believable movie that tries to convince the audience that such things do happen all the time.

My first reaction to this movie is shock & awe with a wave of tingling hair standing at the back of my hair as me myself had witness Unidentified Flying Objects in the sky before I can fully relate to the experiences portrayed in the movie starred by Milla Jovovich (Fifth Element, Resident Evil).

I can catch a glimpse of Milla Jovovich Fifth Element lines “Please please” half expecting her to say “Multi-Pass” LOL. Anyway, this movie you have to go into the theaters with a OPEN mind, don’t read reviews, don’t watch the trailers, don’t analyze or proof it’s real or not.

———SPOILER ALERT!!——-

———— Don’t read the following until you had seen the movie—————-

Entertainment wise the movie deliver a fantastic thumbs up for imaginative people like me enough to compare it to the movie “Paranormal Activity” or “The Exorcist” with simple but believable plot but it can be improved.

After the movie, I feel there are some parts of the acting are deliberately poor to purposely create a more believable “REAL” footage compared to the reenactment footage hence many complaint about the poor acting of some of the actors but to me they are all GOOD acting as they gave the “REAL” video footage much more credibility.

The idea that the movie is based on TRUE story or events are simply a irresponsible because it’s NOT a REAL story but the circumstances & experiences of some of the events portrayed may be REAL but the “Real” video footage are simply fake.

The impact of this movie may be two extremes, more ordinary folks will starts to get interested in the subjects of UFO encounters, alien abductions and the paranormal but on the other hand may increase the skepticism bar on actual video footage of the REAL encounters causing more distress to witnesses that want people to believe their experiences and they may get more ridicule even thou they have REAL video & audio footage.

The question now is how people believe video footage anymore as evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial?? Ok, leaving the feelings aside and focus on the movie…yes the movie does have some trivial to take note.

Note that Cindy Stracinski mentioned that there are 2 suicides & murders within months earlier in the movie indicating that they KNOW that Will Tyler death is actually suicide before it’s being revealed
Ronnie Tyler (Abbey Tyler’s Son) know in the beginning that Will Tyler (his father) died of suicide hence ask his mother “How did father died?” but hushed by Abbey Tyler instead
The false memory of the “murder” of Will Tyler are speculated to be imprinted into Abbey Tyler’s mind by aliens due to a failed abduction attempt
Abbey Tyler “Real” footage interview at the end of the movie shows she is in a special wheelchair that indicated that she is paralyzed too from her own “hypnosis” misadventure.
The Sumerian depicted in the movie are real and does have statues that looks weird & looks very much like aliens & spaceships
There are REAL alien abductions in the world but remains hidden because of fear of ridicule but many do have unknown implants removed from their body
The reason why Ashley Tyler was taken away forever probably because she is a “failed” experiment by the alien.
“The Fourth Kind,” is a reference to scientist J. Allen Hynek’s famous categories involving the sightings of UFOs. Close Encounters of the Third Kind also referred to this scale.
According to promotional materials from Universal, the film is framed around a psychologist named Abigail Tyler who interviewed traumatized patients in Nome. However Alaska state licensing examiner Jan Mays says she can’t find records of an Abigail Tyler ever being licensed in any profession in Alaska. Ron Adler, CEO and director of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute and Denise Dillard, president of the Alaska Psychological Association say they’ve never heard of Abigail Tyler. Web sites for an “Alaska Psychiatry Journal” and “Alaska News Archive” containing references to Tyler were created by the film’s producers, but were outed as hoaxes when it was discovered they were registered a month before the film’s release and the purported author of one of the archived news articles stated she had never written it.
The movie’s hoaxed interviews have angered the families of real missing persons in and around Nome, Alaska, for trivializing their loss. Melanie Edwards, Vice President of Kawerak Inc (an organization representing tribal peoples in Alaska) described the movie as “insensitive to family members of people who have gone missing in Nome over the years”. Universal has refused to discuss the movie with that organization or with local journalists.

Solved Wordpress No Spacing Between Paragraphs

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:50:19 +0000

This post is to let me remember the solution to a problem in some of the old themes of wordpress that I’m using. They don’t have the spacing between paragraphs causing most of the text to be squished into a single paragraph instead.

This obviously is a very terrible view on any browser to see a long post to be squish into a single paragraph hence need some CSS code amendments. Here’s the code I amended for the style.css where the bolded text is the new addition

p {
font-size: 0.875em;
line-height: 1.5em;
margin: 0 0 15px 0;
padding:0 0 15px 0;
}

Good Bye MSN IM SPAM!

admin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:28:32 +0000

For years, yes years! I had been plagued with spam bots that send me instant messaging messages via MSN and it’s driving me CRAZY!!

I should had seek for the solutions way earlier!

Currently I’m on a mac and running Adium IM that can connect to MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk & more and I always look into the preference to see if there is any privacy setting but fail to find but at last! I found the solutions from a MacRumors Forum!

It’s right there!!

Adium Menu Bar

Click the Privacy Settings instead of Preferences

Then you will find this

Select the “Allow only Contacts on my contact list”

Close it and you can only get messages from people in your contact list! NO MORE SPAM!

For people running MSN on Windows

The solution is simple.

Open MSN Messenger main window.
Click Options… on Tools window.
Switch to Privacy tab.
Select “All Other Users” in the My Allow List and click “Block>>” button. The “All Other Users” groups will appear in the My Block List list box.
Click OK to save your settings.

Now, only those who are on your contact list can send message to you and you are free of such spam now.

Works in Trillian also

Go To Preferences (Right click tray icon, Preferences)
Scroll down to “Identities & Connections” and select MSN “connection”. Under the MSN option select Privacy
Hidden amongst your contacts is the “All other users” contact in your “My Allow List”, select it and click on the “Block>>” button
Hit OK and voila, no more spam.

Want to make a 3D building in Google Earth?

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:59:28 +0000

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This is one of the coolest tool ever! I haven’t create this yet but it’s one of the most innovative way to create a 3D world in google earth!!

Excellent Google!

Freaking Amazing Head Tracking for 3D Desktop VR Display using Wii Remote

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:21:25 +0000

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I bet looking behind a window of application will be revolutionized by looking behind that application!! WOOHOO!!

I researched a bit more and found out that he is the famous JOHNNY LEE that created many nice hacks and got head hunted into Microsoft X-Box development WOHOO

Check this video out!

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Just saw an amazing video!

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:12:44 +0000

This may be a old video but it’s amazing!

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Weird “Aliens” in my shrimp tank!

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:13:13 +0000

Today when I feed my shrimp pets, I realize to my horror there are some weird “aliens” crawling around the gravel of my shrimp tank!! Ahh!!

I immediately took out my video camcorder to film it down to find out more about this weird creatures! It’s very small and creepy snake like creature that slide around the gravels.

Anyone with information abut this weird “aliens” do let me know please! :3

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UPDATE: Just found out they are Planaria, flatworms!! AHHH now constructing a trap to catch them all!! MUAHAHAH

Muzzle Flashes with iMovie 09 (inspired by yoogle2)

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:59:18 +0000

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This is a test if I can do a gun muzzle flash using iMovie 09 & Photoshop CS4, apparently I CAN!!

This video is inspired by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6fd5… which is a great tutorial on how to make muzzle flash with iMovie 09.

I simply use photoshop cs4 instead of gimp and uses “Smudge Tool” to spread a white yellow brush color to make the muzzle flash.

Adventure with Sony HandyCam & iMovie 09!

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:32:21 +0000

Ever since I gotten my Sony HandyCam & Mac Mini loaded with the latest iMovie 09, my mind just went berserk with great anticipation! I am running everywhere on with my camcorder!

The first event I went to last weekend is my good friend’s daughter’s Full Month celebration and I I reached there and enjoyed a great deal with all my old classmates of Jurong Seconary School.

Here’s the video of that happy event!

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The second event is a Tweet Up organized by @Aprilyim as she head over to Singapore from Malaysia with a “social networking experiment” in mind to get to know many people in Singapore.

Here’s the video of the event!

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To be honest I was too tired and I bet my eye bags were very deep that night haha that’s why I was kind of quiet but I do love to share cool tech stuff to all these twitter friends!! To my delight, many of them have iPhones that I can share my knowledge & passion.

I am glad to know you cool dudes & gals which made me feel young again! haha.

Telco existing contracts leave loyal customers high & dry for iPhone 3Gs

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:16:51 +0000

Currently, I am a proud owner of a iPhone 3G and I bought it early March 2009 and even created a iPhone/iPod application review site! Understandably, I got pretty annoyed when Singtel announce their iPhone 3Gs back in 10th June 2009.

It’s because my contract just entered the 3 months period and initially was told on the phone that I am eligible to upgrade then on the 2nd call the person said sorry cannot.

I waited patiently for another few more months and comes M1 & Starhub to comes out iPhone 3Gs with EVEN BETTER DEALS!!

Once again I tried to call Singtel, but this time round there seemed to be too occupied to pick up my call as I had waited 20 minutes and no luck.

Then I went to a Holland Village Singtel shop to find out I need to wait until 13 March 2010 (with a top up charge) before I can sign up a new contract with iPhone 3Gs!!

However with the speculation that iPhone 4G might then be out end of 2010 that means I need to wait A WHOLE LOT LONGER to upgrade my iPhone 3Gs to iPhone 4G!

Dear Telco, please give your loyal customers a chance to upgrade to the latest iPhone without stupid restriction, you can simply extend our contract period with the stipulated numbers of years or you risk losing the customer to a competitor who have nothing to lose.

Currently M1 offering rebates over 12 months period that may cover the termination penalty of $800+ bucks & of course not to mention cheaper deals with bigger data limit.

It’s obvious why Singtel is offering existing customer to a better deal of 12 GB data & a $30 data cap but the lure of a faster iPhone 3Gs & video camera functionality is also what customers are looking for.

Apparently, these companies still using the old but “proven” formula to practice their business by tying people into long contracts.

If I am to have controls over these companies, I will force them to be consumer friendly & ever forward thinking instead.

The following is what I will do

subcontract their call center to other countries based on their languages preferences, Chinese goes Taiwan or China, English goes India or other English speaking countries that is cheaper
Increase numbers of hours for call center to 24 hours a day 7 days a week
VOIP all call centers to be over the internet like SKYPE calls to computers instead of over the telephone network to save on telephone cost for consumers
Hire over 50 twitter customer relationship officers to reply to customer complaints or queries over twitter, using the search option – makes sure they know their telco short form names such as SinTel or SinkTel or ST
Allow existing customers to buy new iPhone 3Gs at real retail prices with NO PLANs instead of allowing outside retails to charge super high prices

The reason I am saying the above is because in the fast modern world, nobody will wait for you especially in the technology sector.

If you cannot sell hardware on demand, you lose customer…equal you lose them forever.