2012

In 2009, the sun emits a massive solar flare. American scientist Adrian Helmsley travels to a neutrino detector in a copper mine in India to meet his friend, Satnam, who has discovered that Earth's core temperature is increasing rapidly. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. and submits a report to Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, who immediately takes him to see US President Thomas Wilson. In 2010, Wilson tells other heads of state and heads of government the situation at the 36th G8 summit and the creation of a number of arks begin in preparation for the world ending. To fund the venture, billionaires are allowed a ticket for one billion euros.

In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a divorced father who works as a limousine driver and writer. His ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon Gordon. Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone, where they meet Charlie Frost, a radio show host and conspiracy theorist who believes in the Mayans' prediction of the world ending in 2012. The family return home as cracks begin to develop along the San Andreas Fault in California and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay area. Despite government assurances that all is fine, Jackson grows suspicious and hires a private plane to rescue his family and Gordon. As the Earth's crust displacement begins, Jackson collects his family and escapes Los Angeles as it collapses into the Pacific Ocean.

As millions begin dying in apocalyptic earthquakes the world over, the group flies back to Yellowstone to collect a map from Charlie so they can try and reach the arks. They narrowly escape as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts, killing Charlie who remains behind to watch. Realising the arks are in China, the group lands in Las Vegas and meets up with Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov, who Jackson works as a limo driver for. Karpov, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara and pilot, Sasha join the group as they head across the Pacific.

President Wilson meanwhile elects to stay behind in Washington D.C., and dies when the carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy smashes into the White House, caused by a tsunami hitting the city, while Anheuser escapes with Helmsley and First Daughter Laura Wilson (Thandie Newton) on Air Force One, also bound for the arks. In the wake of the President's death, the Vice President being killed in a helicopter crash outside Pittsburgh, and the Speaker of the House missing Anheuser appoints himself Commander-in-Chief.

Crash-landing in the Himalayas (which kills Sasha), Jackson and his family (along with Tamara) are deserted by Karpov, who has a ticket for himself and his sons onto the arks. However, the group is able to get aboard with the help of a Buddhist monk, Nima and his brother Tenzin who worked on the ark project.

Tsunamis begin to engulf the Indian peninsula as heads of state, hand-picked individuals chosen to repopulate the Earth and the rich elite who bought the tickets begin boarding. Adrian realises they have much less time than anticipated and Anheuser orders the arks be sealed early, although in conference with other G8 leaders Adrian, quoting Jackson's book, manages to convince them to open the gates and let the remaining people on board.

Below decks Jackson's group is sneaking aboard, but as the gates open again, Gordon falls between two gears and is crushed. As the gates start to close once more, Yuri sacrifices his life to get his two sons on in time, and Tamara drowns in a compartment. Jackson realizes their entry into the ark has jammed the door mechanism, setting the entire ark on a crash course with Mount Everest. Together with his son, Jackson fixes the problem in time for the ark to suffer only minimal damage from hitting the mountainside.

When the flood eventually recedes, satellite data shows that Africa rose in sea level and may not have flooded at all. As three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope, Jackson reconciles with his family and Helmsley starts a relationship with Laura. The movie ends with a view of the world showing the dramatically changed African continent.
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I went to Mid Valley today with huiteng, tongyang, chanhon, kimberly and jan sen while i'm off from work today. Only jan sen and I was watching 2012. It was something like "The Day After Tomorrow", just it has more touching scenes and devastating happenings. Many people died. I dunno whether Mayans' prediction will be true, but I know someday our Earth will be something like this, no life could escape. Be noted, we were warned.

Perfectionist

Eventually, I realised I have been a hard perfectionist. I hope it's not too late to enjoy my life.

p.s Impurities in life symbolize a complete life. Imperfections in one's personality represent one's humanity.

1st Anniversary

To my dearest SONIA,

HAPPY 1ST YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
I LOVE YOU,
NOW AND ALWAYS
TILL ETERNITY...

love,
SHAWN

One year flew past, and we are still here. I'm glad that I have you beside me. I dunno sweet words, I dunno lots of things, neither am I a good partner, but I just want to say, Thanks and LOVE you always. Muax

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Thanks dear, my baby for trying your best to come out. muax
Thanks dear for loving me a year. muax
Thanks tong yang, hui teng and chan hon for baking a cake for us. (and successfully deceived me)
Thanks kimberly for your presence though you were not free.
Thanks pamela for your belated wish.

p.s. I really love the movie [Phobia 2]

冷战

你把我当成石膏 再不跟我吵 是不是一种预告
假装都看不到 不再重要 我不会再跟你闹

无言是一种毒药 更像一把刀 切开我们的拥抱
到底爱剩多少 需要思考 承诺随爱蒸发掉
不想再当配角 安静让我动摇 我想逃跑

我听到你冷战的心跳 两败俱伤的记号 闪躲不了
我知道莫名其妙求饶 也不会是解药 不如弃权走掉
面对冷的空气 冷的墙壁 冷到昏迷 冷到我真的快窒息
冷战到何时能平息 放我离去//
就让回忆停止呼吸 成冰

YE TRIP

Followed a trip to Giant today. Of course not shopping and all that. What we did was exploring the business management of Giant and overview the history of Giant. The meeting room was really really cold. I was like shaking all the while in the room. I FEEL COLD. After looked at all the slide shows and business handling and marketing strategies, we went to EXPLORE the inner operations part. We explored the COLD STORAGE ROOM where the temperature is -18 degree Celsius. We also entered a room where the "Biggest-Cendul-in-the-world" is placed (look at the photo). Went to the store too and see how they managed the in-and-out system (named vacuum system). Too many things. Photos are at Xpertise Facebook (they'll upload).

the so called "Biggest Cendul" (ice mountain)

AMCHAM Interview

I'm back.
We, the seven directors had made through the AMCHAM (American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce) Interview. Well, we were so tensed before that. I'm glad we really had fun during the interview. We joked, we shared, and we laughed. After two days of preparation, everything was fine. TQ to Hudra and Daniel and Pn.Tan too. Thanks to dear too for wishing me. Mostly they asked about our experiences, management of the company, financial statement, leadership, teamwork, best product, challenges and lessons. I hope we impressed them. Thanks Barbara for the photos. And We got "Most Profitable Stall" and 1st runner up for "Best Annual Report Award".

男人最期待的女友

一段真诚的亲密关系始于当男方感受到女方“真正爱他”。

“当我提出她使我感到压力时，她能够欣然接受，而不指责我吹毛求疵或不爱她。我希望她能够依我们讨论的方法将彼此关系拉近。”

“她能承认自己也有自私的一面，我不是唯一以自我为中心的人，她自己对於爱情的付出也有限，甚至有时她只是利用我去满足她的要求；此外，我也不希望她潜意识里隐藏著一些对男人的刻板印象及负面感觉。”

“她知道沟通应该是双向的。当我们争执後能平静地讨论原因，我希望她知道我的激烈反应有部分受她影响所致。我不希望被指为是“有问题的一方”或“不懂如何爱人”

“她爱的是真正的我，而不是她幻想中完美的我。我不希望自己只是去满足她的浪漫幻想，因为我知道现实并非如此，结果可能会令她更失望。”

“她不会因我或我们的关系而牺牲她身边的其他事物；因为她这样做，会使我感到被迫付出多於我愿意付出的。换句话说，我希望我所爱的女人能够了解：当我付出比她期望的少，不一定是我的错。”

“她能够容许我有自己的意见，不会认为我的意见不当，而强迫改变我。”

“当碰到问题时，她能够与我并肩作战；当我们发生争执时，她能够视它为一种拉近彼此距离的沟通方法，而不会认为我提出问题是在找麻烦。”

“她不会过分要求我超越自己的能力去令她快乐。我也不希望她改变自己来迎合我，并希望我为她的牺牲负责，“她不要只告诉我对我们的关系有任何不满，而是要提出一些如何改善的方法。我不希望老是得猜测她的想法，现在她是否不高兴？当问题出现时，被告知它的存在是不够的；我更希望她与我一同解决问题。”

“我也许是比较自我的人，但我不希望我的动机被误会；更不希望当我有甚麽做得不恰当时，就被认为是不重视这份感情。”

“她能够给予我所希望得到的；而不是她希望我得到的东西。”

“她不会过分高估或低估我，我只是一个普通人—有优点亦有缺点，我跟她一样也有脆弱的一面。”

-取自非常健康网，非本人议论-