A pretty half-hearted movie review..

Oh I just watched Meet the Robinsons and boy it was funny. It's one of those really good animation movies from Walt Disney in a long time. Err...maybe it's because there's still a kid somewhere in me that's why I think it's funny, but maybe it's also I like cartoons or should it be animations. But not all type of cartoons or animations for that matter!!! Alright, it's still subjective on how you judge a movie to be funny.

Believe me, when the movie started after all those dumb..ads, I thought I was in the wrong theatre. It started off by showing some really old classic Walt Disney cartoon for about 10-15 minutes before showing the real thing.

I was kind of like wandering has Disney ran out of ideas to make good shows; by borrowing material from the past. One family actually went out halfway and came back later only to find out that it started right after the cartoon.

To cut a long story short, the "real thing" started off only after that, maybe because it was some sort of longg ad to promote their old Disney classics.

Spoilers ahead....

The entire show revolves around this orphan, a brilliant 12-yr old kid, Lewis who is a real whiz, He is always inventing things. He stays in a foster home, and he hopes one day someone would adopt him. His most amazing invention is the memory retriever, which was inspired by the fact that the only way he could leave the adoption house is if he met his mother. After all the meticulous research and late-night projects, he finally finished it. He brought it to the science fair one day, and then suddenly a kid, supposedly a police from the future told him to be on the lookout for a guy with a hat.

And that's when trouble started, from there on, he was transported back and forth in time, meeting up with his future family and also having a lot of fun on the way. The villain in the show has only one motive, to destroy his future and to change history.

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On the whole, the storyline is understandable, interesting and peppered with some hillarious moments. You might think that telling a story about an orphan, a villain and his family may seem all too straightforward or predictable even with a little bit of science fiction thrown into it but Disney has certainly done a good job telling it by introducing some interesting characters with strange personality/behaviour mix with good Disney dialogue. The hat was an interesting character. Watch the show and you will know what I mean....

I'll say this show, rates as one of the top Disney movie on my Disney Movies List.

It's an A for the Robinsons!!!

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TIENS Group

I have to say this, this blog post is really long overdue, and ever since Boon Wah came and approach me on his "business presentation", I could only recall only scraps of what I can remember on TIENS. And I even promised to tell others about this company when i decided that I don't want to join. But if they do, I would not hesitate to join...



What??

Company??

Join??

If you guys are lost, Tiens is actually a multinational company which functions very much like Amway, you know those Amway products. I'm sure most of you guys out there must have encountered people who are in to this kind of business coaxing and persuading you to buy all their products and of course join them. The most popular in Malaysia, based on current affairs would be Amway

Tiens develops and sells health-care products which combines the best of Western and Tradiotional Chinese medicine. They sell everything from tablets to supplements. Some of these helps ease stiffness of joints in rheumatoid arthrits, problems of malabsorption, skin care. These are just their normal products, they have some really cool gadgets that really helps alleviate some medical ailments. If my memory serves me well, there is some comb from Tiens that removed a clot from a woman with stroke and she got so much better the next day even when all other advance medical treatment failed. They are also into beauty care and home care but don't ask me on the details.

They are currently listed under Fortune 500 as one of the biggest company in the world and they overtook Microsoft by being the fastest growing company in the world penetrating at least 170 countries. The CEO, Mr. Li is the sceond richest man in China. The company has won numerous awards and one of the most impressive is the FDA approval on its products. Locally they have halal certification...duh!! Ok, they have many many more....

If you have never heard of them, don't fret over it cause they are relatively new here but in Indonesia, just next door to us. They are HUGE and I mean HUGE!!!. From what I was presented, the top 3 richest people in Indonesia all got rich from Tiens alone. There is a true story saying that this dude, a pirated CD seller in a local night market started thinking of joining Tiens. And so he did, and withing a period of less than two years, the company gave him a FREE BMW and within 5 years, he built his very own villa for FREE...Yeap sounds unbelievable(also like some gimmick to join them) but according to the presentation, if you manage to go even higher, you can get a free plane as in NOT Boeing or Airbus but a private jet of your own choice.

And for the uninitiated, the Tiens system is very similar if not, closely similar to Amway. There is sort of a ranking system and you basically go up higher if you introduce Tiens to others. THERE IS NO GOING DOWN even if you don't do anything but join them. The higher "level" you go, the more you earn and once you reach a certain level, you'll be earning much more that most blue collar workers and professionals have even after working for decades. This is something that Tiens can guarantee if you were committed to them for only two years. Committed as in introducing Tiens to more and more people, or maybe if you want to sell their products which is a bonus.

It sounds really easy but it is true. For more info, please visit www.tiens.com or TIENS China

If anyone is interested, just leave your comments and I can arrange a business presentation or just send me a mail at bryan.ps@gmail.com


Disclaimer: Please do not refer to my opinion or facts as a basis to join this company. There are merely a reproduction of what I could remember from the business presentation. If you want clarification or are suspicious of any fallacious claims about Tiens please ask me for a business presentation. I can arrange it for you. For your info, I'm not a member yet though I have expressed much interest in joining them.

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Have A Joyous Easter!

Regina coeli, laetare, alleluia:
Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia.
Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia.
Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.

Queen of Heaven rejoice, alleluia:
For He whom you merited to bear, alleluia,
Has risen as He said, alleluia.
Pray for us to God, alleluia.


Happy Easter Everyone!!!

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A Truly Inspiring Book

This book is a gem of its kind. Truly Mitch Albom has produce some of the greatest books of all times. I've already read "The five people you meet in heaven", which is truly a great book to read.

This book looks at life in a different perspective and documents the true story of a teacher-student relationship, an extraordinarily rare one if you read the book.

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Close Encounter of the Lucky Kind

If there is any chance of meeting one of the greatest sportsman in our country, it is not impossible but very difficult. And here it was, our first encounter with the brilliant and amazing Tan Boon Hiong(in the centre) at Allison, a restaurant somewhere in Seri Petaling. Actually, their training centre is just around the corner at the Bukit Jalil Sports Complex.

If it wasn't for Hong Lim, we wouldn't have spotted him at all who is just sitting a few tables away from us.

Sheesshhh... How blind can we be....

Of course getting an autograph would be a bonus, but he appeared quite embarrassed when I approach him, so nvm a picture together would be good enough. And there you go a picture of Me, Hong Lim, Tan Boon Hiong, Ignatius, Debbie, and Siow Wei(from left)

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