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Myst-erious Ramblings... http://azmyst.multiply.com/ <center>Hi. Welcome to my Multiply site. Take a look around and see if there's anything that interests you. Thanks for visiting.</center> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:54:13 -0000 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:03:45 -0000 Myst-erious Ramblings... http://multiply.com/mu/azmyst/logo http://azmyst.multiply.com/ 100 100 Dark Knight Vs Superman http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/44/Dark_Knight_Vs_Superman Now this is how it should really have been. With all his powers Supes can get away with being a Super Dick! College Humour gets it better than Chris Nolan http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/44/Dark_Knight_Vs_Superman Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:03:45 -0000 To Serve and Protect? Hardly! http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/223/To_Serve_and_Protect_Hardly_ It’s been more than three bloody weeks since the idiotic Policeman crashed his Police car into my motorcycle and six other parked motorcycles (coming to a stop only after squashing four cycles together against a parked taxi) and I have yet to see any of the promised compensation money. <img class="alignright" src="http://images.azmyst.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SMAbdgoKCB8AAFSSJHc1/car.jpg?et=GJ0g3m3vaZpDubtzE%2Bo%2CCg&nmid=0" border="0">Three days after the accident, the Police held a news conference in which they blamed the entire accident on the speed demon of a Policeman who wasn’t even licensed to drive. Some Superintendent or something of Police said that he would court martial (or something) the Policeman who was driving the car and have his ass for dinner that night. Fricasseed or deep fried, I don’t know. Much to the initial relief of the owners of the vehicles who woke up in the middle of the night to see the Police car with the “To Serve and Protect” sticker plastered all over it sandwiching four cycles between it and a taxi, the Police Superintendent promised to provide swift compensation to the owners of the destroyed veh... http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/223/To_Serve_and_Protect_Hardly_ Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:28:00 -0000 Ad for fruit drink, Orangina. Wierd! http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/43/Ad_for_fruit_drink_Orangina._Wierd I'm not really sure what to think of this ad for a fruit drink named Orangina. I bet those who like furries will enjoy it though. The animation isn't all that good by today's standards though. http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/43/Ad_for_fruit_drink_Orangina._Wierd Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:41:22 -0000 What the devil is this? http://azmyst.multiply.com/photos/album/66/What_the_devil_is_this I came across these pictures while stumbling. I don't know what this creature is or what the story is here but it sure does look strange. Anybody know where this happened? What's not surprising is that those who found it seems to have immediately bestowed religious significance upon http://azmyst.multiply.com/photos/album/66/What_the_devil_is_this Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:38:30 -0000 Amazing Waterfalll Art http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/42/Amazing_Waterfalll_Art You know, after watching the Olympics opening I thought nothing the Chinese did would surprise me. Well, this did. How the hell do they even come up with such things. It's mindblowing! Then again maybe it's the Japanese. Nothing they do should surprise me http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/42/Amazing_Waterfalll_Art Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:11:04 -0000 Cucumbers are haram?!? LOL! http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/51/Cucumbers_are_haram_LOL Holy vegetables! This was just too hilarious to pass up without sharing. If Adhaalath Party ever comes into power here, we can probably expect silliness and stupidy like this in Maldives too. Not that we don't have that in abundance here already but this is a totally different level, I wager. Al-Qa'eda in Iraq alienated by cucumber laws and brutality Al-Qa'eda is losing support in Iraq because of a brutal crackdown on activities it regards as un-Islamic - including women buying cucumbers. Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, Al-Qa'eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life. They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar. Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni elder, told Reuters: "They even killed female goats because their private parts we... http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/51/Cucumbers_are_haram_LOL Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:38:10 -0000 Sights & Signs of Trivandrum http://azmyst.multiply.com/photos/album/65/Sights_Signs_of_Trivandrum I was in Trivandrum in October last year and the one thing I regretted most was that my DSLR camera was broken. I especially regretted not having when I came across some amusing (to me) sights and sounds while there. Luckily I had my Nokia phone handy and even though the results weren't very good I brought back some fun memories from the trip. Others who don't have the fascination for silly puns that I have might not find these very funny but I sure http://azmyst.multiply.com/photos/album/65/Sights_Signs_of_Trivandrum Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:50:51 -0000 Dexter Season 3 Trailer http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/41/Dexter_Season_3_Trailer Still some time to go before Dexter, one of my favourite TV shows along with Lost and Supernatural, returns. This is the trailer for Season 3 and since the producers of the show have completely ignored the book series it is based on I'm really hyped about it. I mean the books were really lame compared to how good the series is. Anyway, enjoy the trailer and watch as the "student becomes the master" or http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/41/Dexter_Season_3_Trailer Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:26:10 -0000 Raimi shows off Wizard's First Rule TV series trailer http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/222/Raimi_shows_off_Wizards_First_Rule_TV_series_trailer I had really been hoping that Terry Goodkind would not allow his Sword of Truth series of books to be made into movies. But that was before Lord of the Rings took the fantasy world by storm and after watching the trilogy  I had hope that a decent movie could be made if they found a good enough director who was a fan of the books. And then Sam Raimi (Spiderman, Evil Dead, Xena, Hercules) decided to turn it into a TV series. I had mixed feelings about that. <img class="alignright" src="http://images.azmyst.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SIogsgoKCB8AADoRGHc1/legendoftheseeker-logo-1216955519.jpg?et=P%2B9YRLYY50Op45xKRt6xGA&nmid=0" border="0">Today I read Sam Raimi's interview at the Comic Con regarding the TV series (now called The Legend of the Seeker) which will premiere on 1st November, and I have to say he really got me excited about the series. And then I saw the trailer. Oh my! Totally sold me. I was expecting it to be bad but it wasn't, in fact it looked downright good. Although I wasn't sold on the guy who plays Richard or the girl playing Kahlan, but that's just based on the trailer and you really can't judge them based on that alone. The Sword of Truth sh... http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/222/Raimi_shows_off_Wizards_First_Rule_TV_series_trailer Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:39:00 -0000 Watchmen Teaser Trailer http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/50/Watchmen_Teaser_Trailer OMFG!!! Watch it and weep at the awesomeness that is Watchmen. Moore might want nothing to do with the movie version of his book but there's no denying Snyder (who made 300) has tried really hard "not to f*ck things up too bad!" Now I want to read the graphic novel again. Download the trailer in HD from Jurassic http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/50/Watchmen_Teaser_Trailer Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:01:12 -0000 The first 6 minutes of The Dark Knight http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/221/The_first_6_minutes_of_The_Dark_Knight Just watched the first 6 minutes of Christopher Nolan's sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight in Bluray and I have to say that if those few minutes are anything to go by then this movie is really living up to the hype and the rave reviews it has been getting. I wanted to upload the clip but it's frikking 350MB so ditched the plan. But if anyone's interested I think it should be available on YouTube but not in Bluray quality. It's worth checking out, definitely. Hmm, found the link <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QAKdqKaqGY%20">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QAKdqKaqGY </a> I wasn't too impressed by Heath Ledger's performance in the trailers for the movie I've seen but that six minutes nearly won me over. I'll still have to watch the whole movie before I'm convinced that his performance is as good as the critics seem to think. Strangely, no one seems to be comparing the movie to other superhero movies; it's getting compared to such great crime movies as Heat and The Godfather 2. Not a bad thing, mind you, but still strange. Now... http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/221/The_first_6_minutes_of_The_Dark_Knight Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:19:00 -0000 Diablo 3 is coming!!! http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/40/Diablo_3_is_coming Holy hellhounds! You heard me right: Blizzard's sequel to their smash hit (and one of my favourite games of all time) is finally on the way. This is just the trailer (which looks awesome, by the way) but Blizzard has released some gameplay footage as well. I was pretty impressed with the StarCraft 2 trailer too, but it's been months and the game isn't still out. Hope that doesn't happen with Diablo http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/40/Diablo_3_is_coming Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:37:17 -0000 Michael Turner is dead. http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/48/Michael_Turner_is_dead. Michael Turner, one of my favourite comic book artists, is dead. First Carlin, and now Turner. :( Not a good month. I was first introduced to Turner's work when I bought 'Fathom' from Amazon. The art, while not as spectacular as his later work, was impressive enough to make me keep a lookout for his work. Later his rendition of Batman in "Batman & Superman" series' second story arc blew me away and prompted me to buy some 'Witchblade' comics. I even bought 'Superman - Godfall' thinking it was illustrated by him (nope, except for the covers). Although he excels at drawing hot-looking babes (not particularly realistic looking hot-babes but hot nevertheless) his backgrounds and vehicle designs are pretty cool too. Later he left Top Cow and started his own company Aspen. He's done a lot of memorable and spectacular covers for Marvel and DC since then especially during Marvel's Civil War. He was 37 years old when he died. He will be missed. Link to Michael Turner's Civil War covers.... http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/48/Michael_Turner_is_dead. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:31:24 -0000 The Spiderwick Chronicles http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/154 To be honest I wasn't really expecting much from this movie. Although I've seen the books at Asters some years ago and known that the series was pretty popular among kids, I was still expecting a wannabe Harry Potter movie. Boy, was I wrong. This is so much better than most of the Harry Potter movies (except maybe with the exception of Prisoner of Azkaban) on so many levels. Am I glad I watched in HD. The visual effects and CGI are drop-dead gorgeous and magical, better than anything I've seen in such a movie in a long time. The story took a few minutes to unfold but when the action begins it never allows you to sit back and take a breather. I guess the ending could have been better but I'm not really complaining; this is a kids' movie after all. Too bad it didn't do that well at the box-office. It made around $70 million or something, I recall. So far anyway. The new Narnia movie, Prince Caspian, has made almost twice that but that is to be expected as the Chronicles of Narnia ... http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/154 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:45:39 -0000 The Great Intelligent Design Debate http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/220/The_Great_Intelligent_Design_Debate Moderator: We're here today to debate the hot new topic, evolution versus Intelligent Des--- (Scientist pulls out baseball bat.) Moderator: Hey, what are you doing? (Scientist breaks Intelligent Design advocate's kneecap.) Intelligent Design advocate: YEAAARRRRGGGHHHH! YOU BROKE MY KNEECAP! Scientist: Perhaps it only appears that I broke your kneecap. Certainly, all the evidence points to the hypothesis I broke your kneecap. For example, your kneecap is broken; it appears to be a fresh wound; and I am holding a baseball bat, which is spattered with your blood. However, a mere preponderance of evidence doesn't mean anything. Perhaps your kneecap was designed that way. Certainly, there are some features of the current situation that are inexplicable according to the "naturalistic" explanation you have just advanced, such as the exact contours of the excruciating pain that you are experiencing right now. Intelligent Design advocate: AAAAH! THE PAIN! Scientist: Frankly, I personally find it compl... http://azmyst.multiply.com/journal/item/220/The_Great_Intelligent_Design_Debate Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:51:00 -0000 Jumper http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/153 The trailer for this movie was good. Made me interested enough to go and read the books. The books were top notch and the characters in the books really captivated me. The movie however was... bleh! I don't really understand how they could mess this up. Even the special effects were nothing exceptional; I think I liked the teleporting effect (BAMPF!) in X-Men better than this. It could have been done so much better. So could the movie. What really spoils the movie isn't the action sequences or the special effects. It was the lame muddled-up couldn't-give-a-crap story. It started good but then just went nowhere with it. Nothing else to say other than that Hollywood just messed up a good sci-fi series again. Anywhere is possible, the movie tagline says, but the movie failed to convince me. The open ending does leave the impression that there are more going on behind the scenes that what we've been shown so far but by then I couldn't care less. http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/153 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:14:58 -0000 In the spirit of Sex and the... http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/47/In_the_spirit_of_Sex_and_the... The Sex and the City movie is out and, quite disappointingly, is a big hit, knocking off Indy's latest into the second spot even. To get over that and to get into the spirit of it, here's something hilarious to cheer me up... Thank you http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/47/In_the_spirit_of_Sex_and_the... Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:38:36 -0000 Making Money http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/152 This book was a bit of a disappointment after reading the immensely satisfying Going Postal. I had thought that since both books were about the same character it would be quite as entertaining. But I guess now that it wasn't just the protagonist that really made the earlier book so fun. Still, this isn't a bad book (there's no such thing as a bad book when it comes to Terry Pratchett) and it was quite entertaining, to an extent, but when I finished it I got this feeling that it could have been much, much better. Maybe the next one will be. http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/152 Fri, 30 May 2008 04:30:48 -0000 Edward Scissorhands http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/151 I know it's kind of an old movie but I love Tim Burton stuff so when I saw the Bluray version of this I just had to see it. Since it's Bluray I won't talk about the astonishing quality except to say I was impressed and that now I really want to see Sleepy Hollow on Bluray. Since I'd already seen this movie many times (first on VHS, then on VCD many times and at least twice on DVD) I just lay back and enjoyed all the detail that I had missed through on previous viewings. The only thing that got to me was that all the new detail worked a bit against the movie in terms of the makeup effects. I mean the scratches and nicks on Depp's face looked too fake when seen in closeup detail. But still the movie was immensely enjoyable and I loved the art-direction and Tim Burton's skill at directing this kind of movies. The story now seems (I guess that would happen with repeated viewings) kind of oversimplified and even pretentious and Hindi-like at times but I think the concept behin... http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/151 Fri, 30 May 2008 04:21:44 -0000 Going Postal http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/150 This was definitely the most enjoyable Discworld book I have read in a while. I can't remember when I enjoyed a Terry Pratchett book that wasn't about the Watch this much. This was not as funny as some of the books with the Watch in it but this is definitely and by far the most entertaining of all of Terry's books, with the possible exception of Jingo and Feet of Clay. At least for me. Pratchett has created another extremely likable underdog character in Moist Von Lipwig. I wasn't much of a fan of some of Terry's recent heroes --such as William de Worde in The Truth -- but I hope Moist shows up again in more books. Next up: Making Money. I hear it continues Moist's tale, so it should be good. http://azmyst.multiply.com/reviews/item/150 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:18:29 -0000 Alleged black magician arrested in Makunudhoo http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/45/Alleged_black_magician_arrested_in_Makunudhoo Looks like they found the hex and the man responsible. Things should settle down now. Poor bottle. A man accused of putting a curse on Haa Dhaalu atoll Makunudhoo School has been arrested by the Maldives Police Service on Wednesday. According to reliable sources, the Burunee man who is married to a woman from Makunudhoo was arrested early Tuesday morning. “At first they took away the man who allegedly practiced fanditha (black magic),” the source told Haveeru. “Later the Police came and took away all the books on black magic and other paraphernalia related to it that he had.” Click the link above for http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/45/Alleged_black_magician_arrested_in_Makunudhoo Thu, 15 May 2008 06:20:06 -0000 Search on for buried hex in Makunudhoo School http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/44/Search_on_for_buried_hex_in_Makunudhoo_School This just keeps getting better and better. I wonder what they will find hehehe... The Haa Dhaalu atoll Makunudhoo School closed its gates on Sunday as residents began digging the school grounds for the buried fanditha (hex) that is being alleged as the source of the strange illness that has been afflicting students of the school. A senior official of the school said the school had been closed because the parents of the children refused to send them to school because those who had contacted the illness – being referred by the residents as ‘jinni bali’, which roughly translates to ‘illness caused by an evil spirit’ – were not getting better. Check the link for the full news article. http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/44/Search_on_for_buried_hex_in_Makunudhoo_School Mon, 12 May 2008 07:24:37 -0000 Mystics blame tree for anomalous sickness in Makunudhoo http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/43/Mystics_blame_tree_for_anomalous_sickness_in_Makunudhoo Fandithaverin (mystics who dabble in the supernatural) have been called in to combat the strange sickness that has been plaguing the students of Haa Dhaalu atoll Makunudhoo School for almost a month now. Earlier, reports of students at the Haa Dhaalu atoll Makunudhoo School coming down sick with strange symptoms prompted the Education Ministry to send a team to the island to investigate. However, the residents of the island now believe that the sickness is caused by vengeful spirits or jinni and have brought mystics to read scripture throughout the island to exorcise them. Read the rest at Haveeru link above. http://azmyst.multiply.com/links/item/43/Mystics_blame_tree_for_anomalous_sickness_in_Makunudhoo Sun, 11 May 2008 06:40:50 -0000 Comedic Gymnast http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/36/Comedic_Gymnast I'm not really sure what the story behind this is but apparently this was Paul "Pauletta" Hunt's attempt at mixing comedy with gymnastics. The guy er... girl is amazing! Found it on Ebaum's World. http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/36/Comedic_Gymnast Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:17:45 -0000 Eddie on Death Star Canteen http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/35/Eddie_on_Death_Star_Canteen If you're never heard of Eddie, you're in for a treat. For those who enjoy Eddie's standup, here's one of his funniest. "I do not need a tray to kill you! I can kill you with the power of the force!" "I can kill catering with a thought! I can kill me with a thought!" Enjoy! More on YouTube... as if you didn't http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/35/Eddie_on_Death_Star_Canteen Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:22:31 -0000 Tom Creepy... er Cruise's Scientology Video http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/34/Tom_Creepy..._er_Cruises_Scientology_Video I've been hearing about this video for some time now but only saw it today. I was wondering why everyone was referring to it as 'ultra-creepy' and after watching it I have to agree. His laughter, especially the one at the end, is really, really creepy. Anyway, for those of you who haven't heard about it this is a video which shows Tom Cruise talking about his er ahem... religion, Scientology. I am not too familiar with the background of the video since I never bothered to find out but looks like a propaganda video for Scientology. Man did they make a bad decision in getting Tom to do it. He makes absolutely no sense and spends around 10 minutes to say absolutely nothing at all. But man, that creepy laughter. brrrr... After watching the main video at the bottom, just for additional laughs, why not check out the great Tom Cruise impersonation below from the upcoming comedy Superhero Movie. The guy looks dead on. "I can eat... planets!" :D Killer stuff. http://azmyst.multiply.com/video/item/34/Tom_Creepy..._er_Cruises_Scientology_Video Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:49:39 -0000