You Don’t Mess With the Zohan

I didn’t know anything about the movie “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”, expecting it to be Adam Sandler making jokes about hairdressers and their queer lifestyle, but i usually watch any Sandler movie anyway.

Fifteen minutes into the movie, I was like “wow, they showed this movie HERE?” but it was damn funny…

Hilarious scene:

Zohan: Come on, come on. You guys get along here, huh? Stop this.

Palestinian immigrant #1: Yeah, here… here it’s okay, uh? Its just THERE, the war is never going to end, huh?

Israelis and Palestinians together: (shaking heads) No…

Israeli immigrant #1: You know, we were so close to peace before that a**hole shot Rabin…!

Israelis and Palestinians together: Yeah…

Israeli immigrant #2: Yeah, but Bush, HE see the big picture.

Palestinian immigrant #1: Bush no want peace, he said that all week.

Uri: What about Bush’s wife, huh? This is a wife I would get stinky with.

Palestinian immigrant #3: (agreeing) I would do this!

Israelis and Palestinians together: Yes, yes…

Zohan: What about Clinton? I would do HILLARY!

Everyone: Yes, yes…

Israeli immigrant #3: Oh yes, the big legs…

Palestinian immigrant #3: She’s so strict, like she’s going to teach me a lesson…

Israeli immigrant #1: You know what’s funny? I like JESSIE!

Palestinian immigrant #2: Awww, you’re crazy!

Israeli immigrant: Nooo! If I want legs, I’d take Obama’s wife…! SHE has legs!

Uri: (to Zohan) THIS is what happens when they talk politics.

***

Funny scene number 2:

The Phantom: Ms. Mariah Carey, its a pleasure to meet you (bows)

Mariah Carey: Nice to meet you. how are you?

The Phantom: Ms. Carey, you’re high notes are … so beautiful… like a … Scud missile soaring towards its target.

Mariah Carey: (deeply touched) THANK YOU, its so sweet…

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Mamma Mia! The Movie

My last trip back home, i raided my parents’ old vinyl records, including the vintage ABBA ones. Since then, I’ve been kinda revisiting their music these last few days, reminding myself of their great melodies and the memories they brought back.

As kids, we also had cassette tapes of their albums, and i remembered we played them until the sound quality became bad. Looking back, ABBA embodied the better side of 70′s pop music, holding out far better than cheesy disco music that we used to watch on TV…

Years later, we grew up, my brother went on to idolize Dire Straits, Clapton and The Police, and me, I grew out of pop and into Bon Jovi and Metallica.

But off and on over the years, when were we driving in the car, I’d turn the radio up when i heard the familiar hook asking Chiquitita, tell me what’s wrong, or can you hear the drums Fernando? I’ve always had a soft spot for their slower songs. Never fails to remind me of a better time and better life long ago.

There’s a new movie called Mamma Mia! The Movie, can’t wait to see it. I mean, its ABBA music in a movie, what more can I ask?

Escaping the Heat

Before that, way to go, Lee Chong Wei. All the nation’s hopes on our mercurial boy, hopes he doesn’t wilt in the pressure at the finals.

Anyways, i’ll be watching the final on Sunday in Cameron Highlands, going there for a long weekend. KL is so hot and hazy these fews, one or two degrees of cooler weather will help a bit, seeing that the hilltop will probably be suffering from this heat wave.

Haven’t been there for like 5 years, so it’ll be the usual round of cactus farms, rose gardens, honeybee farms, drive up Gunong Brinchang, visit some tea plantations, etc. The usual gawking touristy stuff ler, cuti-cuti Malaysia ma (meaning no money to go overseas).

By the way, if anyone of you guys have any good recommendation for a decent place to eat (that isn’t steamboat or overpriced scones), feel free to recommend ah? I’ll be online there with my phone (or at the hotel’s internet station if they have one) so i’ll be connected.

Ben Johnson and the 100m

The Seoul Olympics in the summer of 1988 will mostly be remember for one person – Ben Johnson. Yes, the man who won the gold medal in the 100 metre dash finals, broke the Olympic record, beat his bitter rival Carl Lewis, and later was tested positive for drugs, and three days later stripped of his medal and record.

Most of us don’t follow athletics these days, I doubt many would even know who holds the current world record, but in 1988, everyone knew. We were in school, and with nothing else to do except watch the one decent TV channel, we followed the Olympics daily.

Ben Johnson had earlier broken the world record at the World Championships at 9.83seconds, and everyone was watching the showdown between Ben Johnson, the Jamaican turned Canadian, against Carl Lewis. Carl Lewis was the always the all-American hero who had won 4 gold medals in the previous Olympics in Los Angeles.

I remember seeing Ben Johnson at the semifinals – he looked buff with muscles, something uncommon for sprinters.

In the final, Ben Johnson won the gold with a new world record of 9.79s,Carl Lewis come in second at 9.92s. I remember the scene vividly, it was replayed countless times that day and the days following that. Johnson surged ahead in the second half of the race, towards the end, the turned to his left to see Lewis behind him, raised his right hand in victory, and slowed a little towards the finishing line.

Three days later, everything was turned upside down when he tested positive for stanozolol. Lewis was awarded the gold, and the whole drug scandal started to unravel.

That was 20 years ago. In the interim, many sprinters have come and gone, whittling down the world record one hundredth of a second at a time. Later this month, Usain Bolt will defend his world record of 9.72s against Tyson Gay from the US, but even their recent rivalry is nothing compared to that great race in Seoul.

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Kung Fu Oil! (and My Sprained Wrist)

I sprained my forearm muscle just below my left wrist on Monday at the gym. It’s a little better today but i still can’t supinate it both ways, looks like i’ll laying off dumbbells for sometime. Darn.

Usually i don’t treat bruises and sores, but i had a bad feeling about this one, so my wife whipped out this for me…

You’ve heard of Kung Fu Mee, Kung Fu Fighting, Kung Fu Hustle, and even Kung Fu Panda, but you’ve probably not seen…

KUNG FU OIL!!!

Nope, I’ve never heard of it, either. My mother-in-law bought it when she went to Australia. Just in case you missed the name of the product, it’s repeated twice at the bottom of the box in red.

And check out the sifu‘s nonchalant face, man. Doesn’t look much like a sinseh to me. He looks like the guy selling chicken rice near my office.

This is unexpected. There’s no Engrish mistakes here. I’m actually quite disappointed.

The bottle looks like those little bottles of gin you find at cheap hotels.

Bilingual massage instructions.

Yeah, I know, it’s a slow blog day . Can’t really type with my wrist like that, lah…