Sunday, January 31, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Fast forward to 2020 and we do not have to wonder anymore. We are sort of living the "dream". 😅
Phew...what a year it has been and how it is still affecting our livelihood. Got to admit that it is not an easy time for all of us. I'm pretty sure every single human being has been affected by this pandemic albeit at a different level. For some, it is a very depressing time in life and for others they found new ways to be better in their life.
Well, did it affect me? My family? What do you think? It's very obvious isn't it? I just mentioned about it one paragraph above.
I would like to focus on how this pandemic called Covid-19 brought my family together and stronger than before. That's the wonderful thing about life, right? You learn to adapt and take the positive out of the negative to become a better version of yourself.
Beginning of 2020 was wonderful.
It marked the first time my 4 year old going to kindergarten. Yes, it was a stressful day for us. Hahaha...Not easy to watch the first step of them being independent. But it has to be done. Little did we know about what was bound to happen in 3 months time. Yes, the magic word "online class".
Exactly one year ago (at the time of writing), me and my colleagues were enjoying ourselves in the neighboring country, Thailand. I had a great time there and the memories are still fresh in my mind like it was yesterday.
Checkout my blogpost about the journey in Phuket here.
Bear in mind that at this point of time, it was not declared a pandemic yet. Life was normal in Malaysia as well as in Thailand. No mask. No social distancing. No political issues. We were living the life back then! WHO only declared that the coronavirus is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January 2020. Exactly 4 days after we were back from Phuket.
And then life went on as usual in February as well. Even though, people were starting to worry about coronavirus, Thaipusam came and went just like normal. Checkout my post on Thaipusam 2020 here.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
I had always wanted to blog about the Astro Tamil channel pouring in all those useless Mega serials\movies\shows 24/7 on the the TV channel.
Watching the below video posted by my colleague on Facebook further fuelled my anger and hence you are now reading this article.
Why this Kolaveri with all this mega-serials? There is too many mega-serial airing on Astro currently. Not saying that it's bad but I just want Astro to remove serials that propagates hatred towards your own family, provide dummies guide to kill a people, ruin another person business, ruin another guys\gals life, serials with a life-span of 5 years, crying to the max and the list goes on. I guess, if they remove serials with only the examples that I provided above, 98% of the serials will not be aired anymore.
Isn't there any serials in India that does not use the camera zooming technology to the max?? Why do you need to zoom in the face of on bloody face with eyes popping out from every possible angle? Not only that, why none of the serials shows good moral values at all? I'm not saying that there should not be any negative scenes shown in a serial, but if 30 minutes of the serial is only about what I mentioned above, do we still need such serials? How the hell did the local sensor board approve these serials in the first place? Remove all this mega-serials and you could provide more space to the local talents to show off their product.
As I watched the video, Logan mentioned that the Astro Vaanavil's contract is to provide 70% local shows. But almost 90% show on Vaanavil is product from India!! Now now...I know there is Vizhutugal and a few more local shows and the yearly Aattam 100 Vagai and Astro Superstar.But, I think you can count it with your fingers.
It is not that we do not want to watch local shows on TV, its just that there a almost none shown on the TV. And I dont even want to drag RTM on to this article as I stoped watching those channels long time ago.
Well, I do agree to a certain extent that some of the locally produced movies\DVDs has bad quality but hey, there a a few bunch of good ones too. There is always two side of a coin. But, if you give them a change to produce more dramas\movies and air it on television more often, they have a change to improve themselves even faster. This is because as all of us already know, Malaysian movies\DVD mostly released during Thaipusam times only and some during Deepavali. With limited funds and coverage, how often do you think they can produce movies??
And during Deepavali, Astro channel shows lots of interview of stars, movies, movie review, some old shows of the Tamil stars performing in Dubai, UK. What happened to the locally produced shows?? THe airtime of local shows are soo low. I guess I don't have to explain further as you would have watched it yourself.
Again, quoting from Logan, many Malaysians are watching the trash that you are providing on Astro Tamil channels. Don't you think, they will watch Astro if you show local shows too??
We have Astro Vellithirai, Thanggatirai, Sun Music, Aadithya, Astro First showing 100% India's content. Can't we have Astro Vaanavil to show 100% local content? Is it too much to ask for?? Why should the local talents beg for it in our own country?? This is Malaysia and we are all Malaysian. Dr. Rajamani, why are you keeping silent on all the noise made by the local artists? Is it true that you have a agency in India that is serving as an intermediate between India and Malaysia to import all that trash. Are you getting commision from it? There are rumours floating around about this. And again, isn't there any local talents that can fill up his position? Why do we need someone from India to manage our channel? Remove Dr Rajamani and replace with with a Malaysian who knows what Malaysian wants!!
Every single local talent needs a platform to show off their talent. Don't we want to have more talents to get international recognition like Yogi B, Dr Burn, Emcee Jesz? The artists are not demanding something that is impossible to provide. Just give them what is stipulated in the contract that Astro have signed in the first place.
Why do we need to pay so much money for such trash?? And to my fellow readers, don't even think bout saying, "If you don't like it, just unsubscribe from Astro laa". That seems to be an idiotic comment as I am talking only about the Tamil channel and not other channels. What good would it make if I cancel my subscription? Instead, we should provide awareness to the public on what is happening and get them to demand Astro to show more local shows! It's already in the contract, get it???
What is your opinion in this matter? Pour it out at the comments section!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Anyways, two days after the official update I decided to install custom ROM : Revolver 4 by Gnufabio. As I have read before that his previous HoneyComb based ROM was superfast and super good, hence I decided to try it. The first thing I needed to do is to root and install RecoveryMod and below I have provided the steps in case you would love to do so too.
Well, the first thing that you should know is that you are doing this at your OWN RISK and I will not bear any responsibilities should you damage your Tablet!
1. Revolver 4 by Gnufabio (go here to get the latest version) and save it to the internal storage\MicroSD.
2. Asus Sync (to be installed on your computer)
3. TF101 ICS Root (Fileserve) OR TF101 ICS Root (MediaFire)
4. Recovery Installer (Fileserve) OR Recovery Installer (MediaFire)
How to root your beloved Asus Transformer
1. Download this file : Asus Sync under the Utilities menu if you do not have it installed on your PC yet.
2. Download this file : TF101 ICS Root (Fileserve) OR TF101 ICS Root (MediaFire) and extract it to your desktop
3. Ensure that your tablet is connected to your PC via ISB and USB debugging is enabled.
4. Double click the tf101 ics root folder and double click on the run.bat file and make sure you follow the steps as it is very clearly stated already.
5. As per the instruction, when asked you have to make a backup using Asus Backup and once completed, hit enter.
6. It will ask you to perform the same backup once again. Please ensure you backup the same app that you backup earlier. Once completed please press enter and your tablet will automatically reboot.
7. Congratulations! You have rooted your tablet.
8. To verify, you may try to install AdFree or Titanium Backup from the Market.
How to Install ClockWorkMod Recovery
1. Download this file : Recovery Installer(Fileserve) OR Recovery Installer (MediaFire) and install it on your tablet.
2. Open the app and click on "Click here to install Recovery"
3. Your tablet will be automatically rebooted.
4. Congratulations again! You have successfully installed the Recovery.
How to go to Recovery Mode on your Tablet
For me it was a bit confusing for the first time but this is how you do it.
1. Shutdown your tablet.
2. Press the Volume Down button and the Power button at the same time for around 5-7 seconds.
3. You tablet will start up and you will notice a few sentences that is small enough until you cant read it.
4. When you see this, immediately press the Volume Up button. (You can release your fingers from the other buttons)
5. And now you are in the Recovery mode!
How to install Revolver 4 by Gnufabio
Please be aware that this ROM is still in Beta and I will not bear any responsibilities should you damage your Tablet!
1. Once you are in the Recovery mode, select Wipe and wipe the below :
- Wipe Data (Factory Reset)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Dalvik-Cache
2. Click "Install from zip file" and choose the Revolver4 zip file from the location that you have saved earlier and select OK.
3. It will now install the Revolver ROM and once completed, select the "Reboot System" option
4. Once rebooted, it will take a while for it to upgrade the Applications and after completed you will be welcomed to continue with the settings
5. Just follow the on-screen instruction and you are done!
Enjoy the extra sweetness of the Ice Cream Sandwich specially prepared by Gnufabio.
How do you find the above review and the steps provided to install the custom ROM? Do let me know your comments if you have some difficulties.
By now I guess all of you have upgraded to the latest Android love, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).
How do you guys feel about the OTA update? Satisified or totally hate it?
So, below is what I think of the latest OS.
First of all, the moment the tablet boots up after the installation you will be presented with almost the same interface as Honeycomb making you wondering if the tablet was upgraded at all. :P
You will notice the battery bar and the time is in blue and the App button on the top right is different. That is the only difference. But, once you press the Home, Back or the Recent key button, there will be a blue glow that was not there before in Honeycomb.Looks nice.
I clicked on the Home button and it popped up with all the application I had installed prior to the upgrade. There is no more "My Apps" tab and it was replaced by the Widgets tab.Scrolling through the pages was pretty smooth, in fact feels smoother that it was on Honeycomb.
There is a new application called App Locker and I fell in love with that the moment I saw it because it has the ability to password protect your applications. The sole reason I loved it was to prevent my son to open all games that is not intended for his age (He's almost 3 by the way) such as GTA III, 9MM among others. Thank you ASUS for including this in the upgrade.
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The keyboard was pretty smooth and the auto-correction is simply awesome. |
Once you click on the Settings, notice that it is categorized to Wireless and Networks, Device, Personal and System. Pretty neat.
Playing videos is quite smooth. I had no issues with that but I did see a few people complained about it on the XDA forum. Camera interface is improved with the ability to take panorama shots and there is video effects. Unfortunately, the camera hardware sucks so you would not see much improvement over here. The good news is I doubt anyone in this world is using the camera, seriously.
The stock browser was fast and now have the possibilities to do Offline Reading and also Request to view a Desktop site in case you are redirected to a mobile version of the web.
Besides the stock browser, I simply love the Chrome browser (not officially available in all countries but you can get it from here or here). It pretty smooth and quite cool. Try it yourself to know it.
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Google Chrome beta |
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Android Stock Browser |
Update - 29th Feb 2012 (Yes, it's a Leap Year)
Yup, I totally forgot about the redesigned Gallery. The new interface is way better than the previous version as you can see in the below screenshot.It is now in a tile interface which I feel is less cluttered than the Honeycomb version. You have option to edit the photos with some new effects thrown in and it does makes the photo looks better. Checkout the special effects options in the screenshot below.
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Notice that the album pictures are now larger and easy to view |
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The pictures inside the album is also in tiles format |
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Once a picture is selected, there is option to edit the photos. Also, see that you can see small thumbnails of all other photos below the main image. |
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All the effects available in the Edit mode. |
How about you? What do you guys think about ICS? Let the world know what you think by commenting below.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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Courtesy from IndiaGlitz.com |
1. ManMadhan Ambu – My Personal Opinion
2. Endhiran – My Personal Opinion
3. Appalam – My Personal Opinion
I love movies..and what do I love about movies, Tamil movies in particular? The story, the actors\actresses, the music, the director, cinematography is the first thing that comes to my mind. So, today I decided to write about my e actors in the current Tamil movie industry. There are many talented actors in the Tamil movie but the world as we know it reckons Indian movie as Bollywood movies and narrows down to Hindi movies as though only Hindi movies and actors are the greatest in India. Of course, there is no denying that there is quite a lot of talented people out there. It just that I hate it when people think movies in India as Bollywood movies only.
Back to the story, my all time favorite is definitely Kamalhaasan and Rajinikanth but I think there is no need for me to explain why I or anyone else in the world like these two guys. They are simply awesome in their own league. One guy is multi talented and he actually can be called the "one man army" of the Tamil movie industry where he can do almost everything related to cinema such as :
1. Acting
2. Singing
3. Directing
4. Writing screenplay.dialogues, story, lyrics
5. Dance and choreograph (in fact he was a assistant choreographer during his early days)
6. and who knows what else.
As for Rajinikanth, his mere presence on screen is enough to enchant you. Dot.
Instead of these two guys, I would like to blog about the current generation of actors that I love. Below is what I think about them in chronological order.

My personal favorite until now is definitely Surya since the days of Friends. It is only in Friends that I noticed his acting talent as the best friend of Vijay. Then, of course Nanda came and changed his life forever. He is smart, good looking, have a talent to choose movies that will click with all type of movie-goers and one hell of a performance on screen. One of the best dancers in the industry as well. I loved his latest movie 7-am Arivu as it gave us a new dimension of the martial arts, KungFu. If not for this film, we would have never known that a Tamilian founded this martial arts.
I always love him during TV interviews. He has a diplomatic ways of answering questions and always smiles definately humble. Eagerly awaiting Maatraan and his next with Venkat Prabhu.
Well, he is in the number two list not because of the recent "Kolaveri" rage. I always admired his natural acting skills for long. He may not have the good looks of Surya but he definately can be a strong competitor to him and sometimes even outclasses his performance. For instance, Dhanush's performance in Mayakkam Enna. I believe no one else could have potrayed such a complex character with ease.
And of course, his voice has now become some sort of national anthem in India. I wish "3" will be another highlight in his film career.
One of the most talented actor in India, I must say for his capabilities to blend well with the character that he is playing. Pithamagan, Raavanan and Deivathirumagal is definately one of the best characters he has done in his career. I simply loved his performance as Veera and of course who can ever forget Krishna in Deivathirumagal. He really made tears flowing in my eyes.
Well, his problem has always choosing the right script and the delay of each movies.I hope after this, he has already overcome those obstacles and that we may enjoy his movies every year. Thaandavam will definately be one of the awaited movie of the year for me since Vikramm, Vijay (the Director) and GV Prakash is teaming up once again.
He may have a big problem choosing a freaking good script but undeniably, he does have acting talent that many people will disagree with me.His last movie that I enjoyed very much was Gilli and Pokkiri to some extent. Many said Velayutham was one of his best movies, but I beg to differ. I totally hated that movie for many reasons that I do not want to talk about here. Nanban was a good movie, definately and will be landmark movie for him, Though, not as good as the original, I still loved the movie.
His plus point is definately in the comic and dance department.He should try to act in more comedy based movies rather that those typical masala movies with the same story lines. I really hope Thuppaki and Yohan : Addyaayam Ondru will change my perception towards him.
And one more thing, please try to be more energetic when you give interview in TV channels. I often feel like you are giving interview while half asleep. Take example from Surya, please.
The Boss. This guy is really good in comedy. Does not mind acting in multi-starrers and seriously talented and good looking. Loved his performance in Madrasapattinam, Boss Engira Baskaran and even Vettai. This guy is ever energetic no matter if he is on screen or offscreen. Not so sure what movie is he acting next, but definately worth waiting.
These are the top 5 guys which made in to my favorite list. I made this list based on my own preferences and how I feel when I see then onscreen and has nothing to do with their personal lives. I don't even care how they are in their personal life as they are not my friends. I just see them as an actor. I hope no one is offended after reading this and even if you do, I can't help it. Sorry.
How about yours?