Character Titles

Protagonists. Antagonists. I believe that these two words are the most commonly used when it comes to describe a character role in stories or movies.

Ever heard of deuteragonists? Tritagonists?

A Deuteragonist is the second most important character (aka sidekick). And as for the Tritagonist, it's referring to the third most important character (example: Hermione Granger).

Well most stories are often straight forward. There is only one Protagonist. Rarely the story takes so much a twist and turn that it has more than 1 Protagonist.

Oh but there is one...

Cocktails

From a coffee addict to an amateur alcohol study, I've taken up interests into exploring alcohol beverages.

The last post I've written about on alcohol was the functionality of each glass for each specific to the drink itself. Well today we'll go a bit deeper, taking on a party must have - cocktails.

Cocktails have their differences from beer and wine. While beer and wine are mostly taken as it is, cocktails are often a mixture of distilled beverage, juice, fruits and many other ingredients.

Cocktails can be also be taken in different methods. Some are shaken, some stirred (Martini, Mr. 007?). Some are taken layer by layer without mixing them together.

 

Classic example of a margarita glass function

What makes cocktails unique, is that the flavors and tastes comes from the ingredients used to prepare. And the alcoholic punch is usually derived from distilled beverage (alcoholic beverage which have a higher content of alcohol, namely above 30% of alcohol).

And yes, apart from growing your own grapes and processing your own wine, you can make up your own cocktail and give it a fancy name. 

Taking cocktails may not be as classy as taking wine or sniffing brandy, but you gotta admit one thing: the various color and decorations it adorn, blends perfectly in harmony when the occasion calls for a party.

 

 

The Diet Coke + Mentos Explosion

Yet another Diet Coke + Mentos related post appeared on my lives feed. This time, it got me thinking. Why does it happen?

Well apparently Mythbusters had it all wrapped up. Apologize for the low resolution but that is the best on Youtube I can find.

Water Irony

Just noticed that the famous Songkran Festival is now in full swing mode in Thailand. Songkran is a New Year festival celebrated in Thailand and it can be described as a "Water Festival" as the main attraction of it is having fun with water.

 

Just struck me how ironic that now in Malaysia we're having a water crisis yet in some parts of the world, water is of abundace.

No don't get me wrong. I'm not condemning or criticizing. It's just that we may be side by side each other, yet we share the different reality and fate.

It also got me thinking that in other parts of the world there are people who are struggling to find clean potable water just to stay alive. Water crisis to Malaysians is just an annual scare or practice. It triggers a momentarily awareness to save water. But then again after we've survived through the crisis, we tend to get back to our old habits.

It's just the same as Earth hour. What was an initiative to create awareness is slowly become a social gimmick.

Cause the way I see it, Earth hour hasn't reduce the carbon emission, even after 7 years since it's induction. Nor do we see an improvement on the ever deteriorating climate change.

Where does our future lie? Pondering...

Car Catergorization

Forgot if I have mentioned this before or not. I'm kinda into cars lately.

Sometimes it is good for a guy to be able to appreciate the beauty and the aesthetics of a car in the absence of a female (LOL!).

Depends on the level of appreciation and interests, cars can be studied to a very deep and technical extend.

Well today let's just make things easier. I'm also learning so hey I've decided to look up the different categories we can divide the cars into.

Usually we always categorize cars by their brands and manufacturers. Which is kinda kindergarten stuff since its almost the same as classifying humans against their race and skin color. So I've looked up on some basic classifications that could come in handy.

And dear how wrong I was when it comes to classifications! There are so many ways that you can group and classify them.

You have specs defined by vernacular and everyday term usage. You have groupings defined by the law and regulation. So yeah it depends. It's too complicated to summarize everything in this one humble post of mine.

But let's start with some basics I've learnt ok?

From top to bottom: Sedan, Station Wagon, Hatchback

1. Sedan - The most common cars we see are sedans. 3 well defined areas i.e: the front, body and back

Examples of cars available in Malaysia: Toyota Vios, Proton Saga, Volkswagen Polo Sedan, Honda City


2. Station Wagon - Something similar to the hatchback but a very long but not well defined end

Examples of cars available in Malaysia: I don't think we have a good example of this over here. Please be noted that SUVs and four wheel drives are omitted from this category.


2. Hatchback - Cars with a two box configuration (just green and red). Basically a car without a well defined boot space like the top picture.

Examples of cars available in Malaysia: MyVi, Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Polo.

So yeah here is a starter for cars 101. I'm into a deeper study so yeah I'll just stop here. VROOM!



p.s. Ever wanted to know the name of the three wheel light blue car that always gets gotcha by Mr Bean? It's called the Reliant Regal.

                             

Dallas Buyers Club

Now a lot of people out there are sad that Leonardo Di Caprio did not win the Oscars. Because they did not pay attention to the other contenders.

Personally I'd say that Chiwetel Ejiofor would have trumped over Di Caprio. But Matthew McConaughey deserves his Oscar based on his best actor part for Dallas Buyers Club.

What it really taught me was, Woodroof lived his life by all means, finding ways to extend his life to more than the 30 days the doctor has given him to live. He lived to a total of 7 years (that's so much more than the predicted death). I said so before on my fb status:"One of the great delights of life is to rewrite your limits, proving your doubters wrong in the process."

Best quote of the movie?

"Sometimes I feel like I'm fighting for a life I ain't got time to live."


Try watching most of the nominated films if you do have the chance. Not only do they provide great entertainment, it is the after effect and feeling of the movie that makes a 2 hours plus of movie something not just purely for fun, but also imparting a deep message that we could all use to live on.

 

*sorry for missing out on this blog for almost a month. A lot of things has happened since the last post till now. I swear I will get my routine back and running as soon as possible. Wish me luck that it starts on tomorrow.