Independence day!

Well it’s lacking of iPod docking support but that really can go. It has HDMI out with 1080 up-scaling conversion which is perfect for LCD TV. It also had radio, USB port and two mic ports. I tried playing AC3 encoded *.avi files in a USB thumb drive but surround option is disabled, I don’t know why. It would have been really cool for it to decode Dolby Digital audio embeded in the file, or I maybe missing something. I was originally aiming for a 5.1 speaker set at around 14K and then we found this item in a brochure at 14,990.00 plus 1,500.00 discount if you pay cash/straight payment. So its a good deal!

If in case I cannot extract surround sound audio off from a USB video file with AC3/DTS encoded in it, there’s the AUX Optical Audio-In at the back, which I am not familiar with. Something new is always fun, either way, I can go back to collecting high quality DVD movies again.

… from reddit, and gas me up a bit on a very long day.

Episode VII

Return of the Saga

The year is 1998 and it is a period of galactic civil war. Scratch that. There’s no civil war. That would be crazy! However, the past fifteen years have been a dark time for Star Wars fans.

but there is hope. A new Star Wars film is on the horizon. In 199 days, 3 hours, 33 minutes and 30 seconds the most anticipated movie of all time will be released.

In the remote state of Ohio, two best friends and lifelong Star Wars fans have drifted apart. Little do they know that on Halloween night, their paths will cross again….

Ever wonder where these words are flying? Maybe aliens in another galaxy will one day read this and think WTF?

sent from my iPhone

Googling further, took me on the english version of the lyrics. Well, if you happen to like the OST as I do, you’d probably be interested in it too.

Now dear children, pay close attention
I am the voice of the cushion
I have brought something along for you
Have torn it from my breast

With this heart, I have the force
To blackmail the eyelids
I sing until the day awakes
A bright light in the heavens
My heart burns

They come to you during the night
Devil’s spirits black fairies
They crawl out of the cellar shaft
And see it become your bed

Now dear children, pay close attention
I am the voice of the kiss
I have brought something along for you
A bright light in the heavens
My heart burns

They come to you during the night
And steal your little hot tears
They wait until the moon awakes
And press you in my cold veins

Now dear children, pay close attention
I am the voice of the cushion
I sing until the day awakes
A bright light in the heavens
My heart burns

My heart burns

Update
(back, saw a movie at Mall of Asia) Movie was great (for children!) Hahaha! Felt like I’m a 12 year old! There’s just a bit odd on the ticket booth. The cashier asked me to choose our seat amongst the green boxes from the monitor she showed me. And I saw only two greens, which means those are the only available seats. Ok, I said to her I’ll get those two available, numbers K10 and K11. While other boxes are orange (or yellow), I suppose those were taken. So we lined up at the entrance of Cinema 2 where others are waiting. Its about 10 minutes past 1, the showtime we got was 1:30pm. Then, another few minutes, they started letting people in. And when we’re in, we looked for our seat number, its somewhere along the aisle. Then, we saw people filling in the upper box and I was able to count the how many we were at the lower box, so I thought its too early. Maybe, the seats were all reserved, and most of them just don’t want to spend time waiting. Trailers after trailers finished, the lower box never even get 5% filled, hahaha.

Then I thought, something is wrong. The seat assignment the lady showed us was fake! Nobody’s really occupying those seats at the lower box. Then, I come to thinking, this is possibly a way for them to sell upper box tickets which of course well get them higher revenues. Ohhhhhh, yes! Basically that’s it. Upsell, scheme, revenues! (people … sigh!)

Anyway, film was good. The fun started when Sean broke the thin layer of something where they were standing, and find themselves falling, and in a little while, Trevor shouted:

We’re still falling!!!

While they were descending, they ask themselves what would they fall onto, and being the scientist, Trevor should know, or what he knows is something even himself have not seen.

All in all, its good for kids, or kids of all ages too. Something you CANNOT say “a waste of money”.

“Some men, just want to see the world burn.”

This line struck me, a sad truth.