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Yesterday I had just been to this Cats Exhibition @ tHe Spring, Kuching. This event started from 6th Sept until 7th Sept, which is today, from roughly 11am until 8pm according to the schedule. It will be on the ‘North Court‘ @ tHe Spring.

It is rather a short event, but it is quite interesting. There are ton of different type of cats, such as exotic type and also wildcats, such as Persian. They are all kept inside a small little cage, what a pity. Ton of people taking pictures of the cute exotic cats. Not only that, you are allowed to carry those cats with a price (of course).

The activity not just for ‘showing off‘ those cats to the public but to bring public awareness that caring for the animals, not only for cats alone. There are some group of people giving some speech regarding how to care cats and etc. Sadly I only manage to take one shot of the wildcat. The wildcats are usually huge, can be said similar size like baby tiger (cub). This wildcat is called, Maine Coon, not Moon Maine. [Thanks to the commentor, HORATIO for the correcting the name]

Speaking about moon, moon cake festival or formally, ‘Mid-Autumn Festival‘ is just around the corner. There are few stall sell moon cake @ tHe Spring, on the center of it. By the way, they selling durian favor as well, the smell is darn strong.

Lastly, HAPPY MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL EVERYONE.

Have you been in boredom recently?

Let’s spice up your life in Ultimate Flirting Championship. It is a fun & exciting game. It is a BIG BONUS that you can even win interesting stuff while you’re playing the enjoyment game. All you have to do is to have a good and creative flirting in any kinds. The more desirable of your flirting, the more chances to achieve in Victory Hair status. You have to really play this game in order to feel the ‘fun’ and ‘excitement’. Don’t miss this chance, grab the widget and place on your blog or site to let your friends have a chance to play as well. Or you can visit Extreme Style by VO5, which is the Ultimate Hair Care product that gives you the Victory Hair style.

Yesterday, the big ‘G’ or Google just released its first public beta browser, Chrome. Currently it creates tremendous news throughout the big INTERNET. Is it going to be replacement for ‘Firefox‘? Sadly, I doubt it can happen anytime sooner. Currently this beta is only for windows, mac and linux have to wait.

Google Chrome is open source browser and just like Mozilla Firefox. It is a WebKit, open source application framework, and just like Apple Safari browser.

First impression:

• It is pretty cool to have another browser on the INTERNET.
• It is definitely a pretty lightweight browser and with simplicity layout.
• It is easy and simple to search by typing in the URL bar.
• It is pretty fast to load the web pages.

• It has no add-on or plugins supports
• Some websites have problem rendering
• No ‘Home’ button for the keyboard shortcut

Google Chrome is indeed a rip-off browser for all main browsers out there, IE7/IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari. All the good ‘ideas’ have been taken it out and put into Google Chrome. It is kinda like ‘rojak‘ browser. From the simplicity layout, it is actually based on IE7 abit. Chrome can allow user to drag out the tab to be independent windows or other way around, this is based on Apple Safari ‘idea’. Chrome has a feature to be able to track down your most view sites and can be reload at once in a single tab, that is based on Opera ‘idea’ which is speed-dials. There are a lot of similarities. 

What’s unique about Chrome? Each tab has its own process. So whenever ones tab crashes, Google Chrome will not crash its own. There’s no other browser works in such a way. But it is a bit annoyed, see the above image. It creates chrome-babies along the way under your windows task manager.

Lastly, it is still a very early stage to judge this Chrome. The official link won’t give you the full version of installer. That’s mean you have to online to download and install at the same time. Below is the offline installer that I have found.

Downloaded a total of 341 times

Fast and Furious is the upcoming anticipation movie  (2009) in The Fast and the Furious film series(2000s). The teaser trailer just release today. It is related back to the original movie.

Fast and Furious will release in 5 June 2009 (USA). The plot is when he is released from prison, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) teams up with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) work with the feds to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.

My favour part of this teaser trailer.

Unknown Guy: So you two know each other?
Vin Diesel : He used to date my sister.
Unknown Guy: You’re lucky man
Brian : How is that? (O’RLY)
Unknown Guy: You’re still breathing
Vin Diesel: Heh… (XD)

Honey honey, oh. Money money, oh. Mamma Mia, here I go again.

Title: Mamma Mia! 
Year: Summer 2008 / 16th July 2008(USA) / 25th September 2008 (Malaysia) 
Directed: Phyllida Lloyd
Genre: Romance / Musical / Comedy
Runtime: 108 mins
Country: USA / UK 
Language: English

Cast:
Amanda Seyfried (Sophie), Meryl Streep (Donna), Pierce Brosnan (Sam), Colin Firth (Harry), Stellan Skarsgard (Bill), Benny Anderson (cameo)

Synopsis / Plot:
20 year old, bride-to-be Sophie Sheridan was trying to find who her real father is. She had invited three potential man as her ‘father’ based on her mother (Donna) dairy for her wedding. She didn’t tell her mother about them. This is a musical stage movie, based on the catchy songs from ’70s group stars (ABBA), with additional music also composed by ABBA member, Benny Anderson.

Review:
What is ‘Mamma mia‘? It is something like a slang of ‘Oh my god’, ‘Holy cow’. I have just watch it recently. It is a great and wonderful movie, I must say. With the wonderful actresses and actors plus the classical, catchy songs (Honey honey honey) which composed by ABBA. This movie is adapted from stage musical with a book by British playwright (Catherine Johnson). I have no watch the stage musical version before, so I can’t judge much. The story-line is pretty well developed and with the right song in the right scene. In addition, it is also mixed with humors (based on Greek comedy style) during the singing scenes. There’s a twist in the ending, and no reveal who is her real father, unless do a DNA test (spoiler a bit). Nonetheless, the movie is targeted more on older generation of person (at least 30 years old) or the person who enjoys classical English songs. Benny Anderson (ABBA member) had been on cameo appearance. 

Pro:

• Laughable scenes along the way
• Catchy, wonderful, enjoyment songs
• Nice romance story line 
• Parents might enjoy as well 

Con:

• Non English music lovers or youngsters might not enjoy
• Some of the actors have a pretty ugly voice. Sad to say that. 

This movie is really recommended, especially for ABBA fans. I give 4.5 out of 5 in this ‘Mamma Mia!‘.