Just finished watching the documentary ‘March of the Penguins‘. I know… I should be sleeping or if not studying. But this is really a good documentary. It talks about the life of a penguins. Real penguins in Antartica. As said by Morgan Freeman in the trailers, ” They have wings, but cannot fly. They are birds that think they are fish. And every year, they embark on an impossible journey. To find a mate.”

It all started with a march. A march that aims to find their destined mate. They walk and the glide all the way for 20 days and 20 nights to reach a breeding ground which is able to withstand the sun until the next summer so that they can make sure it will not melt when they are on it. But the weather there is extremely harsh and there is no food near that breeding ground. But yet, they are on a mission that is so important that they rather be hungry in order to pass down their lives. They then begin to look for their soulmates. * no, they are not mating yet * After they are all paired up, they will start fondling and kissing each other. ( yes, you see it right ) After some foreplay, they will then start mating. After the process, it’s all waiting. They wait and wait, and wait…

Until the egg is finally laid. The female penguins are hungry by now, hence they will transfer the egg to the male penguin and let him hatch the egg instead. The female will then walk 70 miles away the breeding ground to the sea to proceed on hunting food back for the young and the male will be the one protecting the egg from cold and hatch them. It will be until the baby penguin is hatched, the female penguin returns with a belly full of food. The male penguin will then be the one in turn to look for food. The female and male will each take turns by going back and forth the 70 miles to take care of the lil penguins and go look for food. Until the lil penguins is fully grown up and is able to take care of itself. The whole family will separate and live their lives apart from each other.

I find this show interesting as it is really showing the every aspect of lives of a penguin, even though for those that just laid an egg and the egg is sacrifice when the female penguin tries to transfer the egg to the male penguin. When the egg is cracked, the cruel cold. will froze the inside of the egg immediately and all the long march and mating and laying egg will be in vain. The other real life aspect was, as the penguins is very hungry or it’s too cold, some might not even be able to protect themselves and hence they died in that process.

The one that gives me the deepest impact is the one that lose her child. After the newborn baby is being passed back to the mum, the weather is still very cold. The baby penguin might not be able to stand the cold and died. The mum calls the froze son, but yet the son will NEVER respond anymore. As she can’t take the fact that her son is dead, she goes and try to steal the other penguin’s son. You can see the same traits of protective mum in the penguins as well as in our human. It really touches me alot when I see that. It felt just like a mum has lost his son and she has gone crazy being too upset about it.

Another one is that the newborn child will be hunt by some sort of eagle like bird and the elder penguins can do nothing about it. In this documentary, it shows the strong lives. Eventhough at such harsh environment with such extreme weathers, the penguins can still manage to survive. I see lives. The vicious circle of lives when I watch this movie. Life is harsh and cruel. You do not have all the control over it but you can live through it if you have the will strong enough.

Anyway, when the little penguins are big enough, they will then have their first taste of sea. Eventhough they have not swim before, but yet, they can swim like they have swam for all of their lives. 4 more years later, they too will start their own March of the Penguins.

All in all, this is really an awesome documentary. Watch it if you have the time. Here’s the must watch trailer from apple.com if you are interested in finding out more about the documentary. March of the Penguins Trailers

Official Poster for March of the Penguins


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Collide
by Howie Day

The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You’re barely waking
And I’m tangled up in you
Yeah

I’m open, you’re closed
Where I follow, you’ll go
I worry I won’t see your face
Light up again

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
Out of the doubt that fills my mind
I somehow find
You and I collide

I’m quiet you know
You make a frist impression
I’ve found I’m scared to know I’m always on your mind

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the stars refuse to shine
Out of the back you fall in time
I somehow find
You and I collide

Even the best fall down sometimes
Even the wrong words seem to ryhme
Out of the doubt that fills your mind
You finally find
You and I collide

You finally find
You and I collide
You finally find
You and I collide

Gosh, today really was a good day. I finally watched the movie Sepet. It is really a good movie. Thumbs up for Yasmin Ahmad for writing and directing such a fabulous movie. Though it was being cut at 8 parts, but still don’t worry, you will get the story eventually. I truly agree that this is neither a malay movie nor a chinese movie, but it is a Malaysian movie. I mean, it is not about malay nor it is about chinese. It is not about race, but it is about us Malaysians.

Sepet is a movie about the first love of Orked and Jason. It portrays the struggle of teenagers and the purity of first love. It was a love at first sight. If you are a Ipohan, then u will see familiar places in Sepet. It’s a movie without much complication, just simple and plain storyline. Just like showing you a piece of someone’s life or memories and you are the witness to that someone’s life.

19-year old Ah Loong is in charge of a stall selling pirated vcd’s. Contrary to what you might expect someone of his social standing to be, Ah Loong is an incurable romantic with an unlikely hobby - he loves to read and write poetry. Quite content to carry on being the Romeo of the slums, Ah Loong’s life takes a sudden turn one day when a 16-year old Malay schoolgirl arrives at his stall in search of Wong Kar-Wai’s films.

— quoted from the Sepet official website.

Official Poster of Sepet
Go give it a watch.

I’ve always enjoyed all the festive Petronas ad created by Yasmin. From the ad that uses the Mambai song - Kau Ilhamku until the recent Ladang Poh Poh. It never fail to touch me. I will watch it over and over again whenever possible. Whenever festive season arrive, the first thing i do is to watch out for da Petronas ad.

After the movie Sepet, i went for the next movie Shall We Dance. it was an interesting story about dancing. Anyway, my car’s aircond is broken and it is so damn hot whenever im driving. have to go now cuz tomorrow im having my guitar lesson at 12noon.