Review: I am number four

Popcorn ready! Water Bottle ready~! Iphones all set to silent mode....

I was so excited to be watching a movie after such a long drought. lol... Despite the advertisement, I was sure that the movie's initial review that I came across in rotten tomatoes could not all be true...

I am number four is a story about an alien who comes from an elite group of alien from another planet. There are nine of them, 3 have been killed and now the killers are after him. The killers were also from the alien planet and came to earth to hunt them down. Although each of the elite aliens were assigned a guardian, he is of the few who grew up with special powers. As the story progress, it went considerably downhill. He fell hopelessly in love with a girl in a place call paradise while on the run. It is like a hopeless mix of twilight and transformer without a backbone.



Why am I so mean? Let me take an example, halfway through the movie, while number four is running away from both the killers and the police force and may I say supposedly recovering from the pain experienced when his guardian of many years was killed infront of him; he saved his lady friend and they ran away together. I guess it should be a no brainer that they should go somewhere safe? No, she brought him to the school's basement where they proceed to develope some photos in a roll of film. I just don't get it. Here the film is emphasizing the fact that many people died for him, let me be honest, for what?? That big WHY was not emphasize in the story. And many times I find it really hard to feel really 'into' the movie because the handsome number four can barely show much emotion on his face. It was like watching Jay chou in Initial D but at least Jay chou was funny.



During the fight, number 6 - a trained and totally cool-headed personality came into the scene. Now that is someone I would rather opt for being the main character. Her looks (those eyes~! LoL), her personality was everything an action movie's main character should have. And she was the main save in it for me. The action was alright, and I expect nothing less from director Michael Bay but the story line is terrible. It makes me wanna retreat myself into another drought of movie nights.

Personal rating : 3/5 stars
Image: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464540/

The land below the wind...

Ever since MAS introduced their direct flight from KK to Perth three times a week, we decided to choose KK as our stopover in Malaysia. But what ever could we do with only just one day and one night in KK? Hehee...

First stop: Sutera Harbour~!
Sutera Harbour resort hotel boasts of 6 stars standard, so we just had to check it out. Upon arrival, we felt the full atmosphere of beach paradise. Everyone was smiling as they welcome us into the lobby and serve us ice cold lime drink. It was really refreshing, and I totally forgot the existence of the local lime drink, it is the mixture of a preserved plum, lime, sugar and salt... so yummy~!


*The lobby*


*Night view of Sutera Harbour Magellan*

The Sutera Harbour hotel management must be huge~! Nestled around a well preserved beach are 3 buildings, i.e. the business hotel, the clubhouse and the resort hotel. Although the room was not as special as Empire's hotel, it was spacious and beautiful~!


*Our room*

And in total, I've calculated at least 4 different pools in the area. The resort's pool comes with a waterfall along with a bar pool and a small beach enclosure; the clubhouse has the lap pool and the pool with the slide (I found it too late!! didn't manage to get a dip~!)


*Club Pool*

5 o'clock and we jumped excitedly into a taxi, headed out to catch the best of Sabah's seafood~! I have heard soo much about the seafood in Sabah. Seeing that Sabah has better beaches than my hometown, the water are almost crystal clear with school of fishies right under the surface. Though I prefer the crystal clear of the beaches in Perth, I don't get to see school of fishies, what I see are jelly fishies... >=P

This is the restaurant that the taxi driver introduced us. I have to say, the best part about seafood in Sabah is the freshness. They are truly not much cheaper than anywhere else.


*Seafood restaurant*


*Creepy fish*


*Stir fry pumpkin shoot - RM15 *

沙白 --> now that is something I have never tasted before. I was gonna opt for something familiar like la la (yes, it is call la la!! lol...) but they ran out of it and they introduced this to me. And all I can say is.... Why have I never tasted it before?? It was so nice, especially when cooked with spring onions and ginger with a hint of hsiao shin wine. Yummy~!
Hint: You don't need to know the names of the seafood you wanna order. Just follow me, point and say 'I want that~!'. Universal~! lol...

*沙白 - RM25 (RM25/kg)*


*Fish head - RM42 (RM6/100g)*


*Crab - RM40 (RM5/100g) *

All the dish amounted to RM138 for that night.
Hint: there were only two of us, so it was kinda amazing we can stuff everything in~!



Would definitely come back here another time, not for shopping but for the beaches and the food. There are also other specialty food that I definitely love, like tuaran mee RM4(the shop in tamparuli serves the best tuaran mee~!), ngao chap/ mixed beef noodles RM9 (Menggatal ngao chap has many franchises and it tastes good) and the DURIAN ais potong/popsicle~! (NOT for the weak stomach~!) Till the next time~!