A BMW 7 Series with the “WCIT 2008″ car plate is spotted in KL, on its way to Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. The BMW bears the “Official Car” sticker at the side door.

WCIT 2008 which runs from May 18 - 22, 2008 in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre is one of the biggest ICT events in Malaysia. WCIT or World Congress on Information Technology is a premier global ICT forum that brings together global leaders in business, government and academia. Over 2,500 delegates from over 80 countries will be here.

The keynote speakers include:

• Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
• Mikhail Gorbachev, former President, USSR
• Chen Shui-bian, President, Taiwan
• Colin Powell, former, Secretary of State, United States
• Robert Young, Chairman and Co-founder, Red Hat
• Dr. Dietrich Botsch, Former President, Siemens AG
• Kurt Hellstrom, President and CEO, Ericsson

and many others.

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Play The Indiana Jones Mint Crisp Challenge Now and win the game by clocking the shortest time.

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As part of Yowazzup 2nd Anniversary, I decide to hold a contest to give out some prizes!

First Prize

1 x MyBlogLog Pro account (1 year) worth $25

Second Prize

1 x 125×125 banner ad for one month on Yowazzup.com worth $20

Consolation Prize

1 x 1,000 Entrecard Credits worth $20

How to Win?

All you need to do is find your favorite post on Yowazzup.com and write a short article that’s relevant to the post and link to it (do not copy 100% directly). After that just email me what post you have written and linked to. It’s that easy! The contest will run until June 30, 2008 (However, Yowazzup reserves the right to extend the contest if deemed necessary).

After June 30, 2008, I will choose the winners based on the creativity of the contestants.

Some posts you may want to consider blogging about:

1. Finding the Right Sports Bra
2. Sexually-Themed Wedding Cakes
3. Super Cool Graffiti of Optimus Prime
4. Easy Steps to Successful Branding - The DiGi Way
5. How Does One Find The Perfect Match?

Good luck!

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(Source: /Film)

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Joker in Lego Batman

In September, a new game will be released and for now you can watch some Batman movies in Lego or download the Batman wallpapers.

Check out http://batman.lego.com/

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SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Prince Caspian, the Pevensies and Trumpkin

Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) is wakened by his professor who explains to him that his aunt has given birth to a son. Caspian has to escape because Lord Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) has a newborn son who will be the next heir if Miraz kills Caspian. Caspian is told to head for the woods with the Telmarine soldiers follow despite the initial reluctancy. He meets the Narnian dwarves and blows the magic horn only to have Nikabrik, the black dwarf knocks him out. However, the other dwarf, Trumpkin is captured by the Telmarine soldiers.

1,300 years have passed since the Pevensies were rulers of Narnia when the four of them, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back to Narnia when Prince Caspian blows Susan’s ivory horn. They manage to save Trumpkin who is thrown by the Telmarine soldiers into the sea. Trumpkin and the Pevensies eventually find Prince Caspian.

Caspian and Peter have different ideas on attacking Miraz’s armies. Peter suggests to attack Miraz at the castle which Caspian thinks is absurd. But, they go on anyway, without Aslan. The Narnians attempt to capture Miraz at the castle at night and are doing fine until the archers are alerted. Asterius (Shane Rangi), the great minotaur sacrifices himself by keeping the gates open with his great strength but only half of the Narnians are able to escape leaving the rest brutally slaughtered when the gate goes down crushing Asterius.

Back in Narnia, Peter blames Caspian for wasting too much time trying to kill Miraz in his bedroom. Nikabrik manages to lure Caspian into a cave to meet his two friends, a hag and a wer-wolf who attempt to summon the White Witch who wants just a drop of Caspian’s blood. Fortunately, Peter, Susan and Edmund show up and Edmund shatters the ice where the witch is before she can get her wish.

As the Telmarine armies march nearer towards Narnia, Peter suggests to have a one on one dual with Miraz in order to delay the marching while Lucy rides off quietly to find Aslan. Peter manages to defeat Miraz but he lets Prince Caspian to finish Miraz off only to have Caspian lets Miraz go with the promise to give back Narnia to the Narnians.

In a dark twist, Lord Sopespian (Damián Alcázar) finishes off Miraz and blame the Narnian archers who betray them to start off a war. The Narnians try all sort of ways including destroying pillars in the underground tunnels when the Telmarine calvaries march towards them, swooping over the Telmarine soldiers using archers on Gryphons, but eventually have to retreat.

Luckily, Lucy has found Aslan who awakens the trees who have been in a deep slumber with his powerful roar. With the trees helping the Narnians, the Telmarine soldiers has to retreat back to the castle only to have Lucy standing on the opposite side of the bridge with Aslan. When Sopespian calls for the Telmarine soldiers to charge to the other side, Aslan roars to bring the River God to life who destroys the bridge and wipes out the Telmarine soldiers.

Overall, the movie is far more superior than its predecessor with better special effects, greater actings despite the darker scenes and superb cinematography. The movie is also surprisingly hilarious with adorable characters such as Reepicheep, a swashbuckling mouse and Trumpkin, the cynical red dwarf.

My ratings: 8 out of 10. Definitely, one of the must-watch movies in 2008.

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Apple has signed several new deals to bring iPhone to Asia. The latest licenses to sell the iPhone have been granted to SingTel in Singapore, Bharti Airtel in India, Globe Telecom in the Philippines and Optus in Australia.

Sadly, Malaysia is not in the list just yet.

(Source: PC World)

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Made by the Wachowski brothers, best known for the “Matrix” franchise, the kaleidoscopic “Speed Racer” is unlikely to recoup its $120 million budget, experts said.

“Unfortunately, it didn’t perform to our expectations,” said Dan Fellman, president of Warner Bros. theatrical distribution.

Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr., opened last weekend with $100.8 million, the second-highest opening ever for a non sequel since Spider-Man debuted in 2002.

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Update: Don’t forget to catch Marie Digby performing “Live” in One Utama this coming Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 8pm - 9pm. Do RSVP on Facebook event page for the Marie Digby Live in KL if you are interested.

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• Uma Thurman sues Lancome for $15 million over use of her image in ads.
• DMX goes to jail. Nick, son of Hulk Hogan, goes to jail as well.
• Behold, people! Check out Lindsay Lohan and her new line of leggings.

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SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The race cars in Speed Racer are beautiful like candies

The movie opens with flashback of Rex’s racing days mixes with Speed Racer’s attempt to beat Rex’s record at a race. After the flashback is over, it is learned that Rex is killed in an accident in The Crucible race many years ago. When Speed becomes popular despite having not won a Grand Prix just yet, Royalton (Roger Allam), the owner of Royalton Industries pays the Racer’s family a visit. Royalton makes Speed a lucrative offer. After considering, Speed pays Royalton a visit only to reject the offer, angering Royalton while he learns that Royalton has been cheating and fixing races all the while.

When he does not qualify for the Final Grand Prix after Royalton’s effort to him out of the races, Speed with his Mach 5 joins Racer X (Matthew Fox) and Taejo Togokhan (Rain) to enter The Crucible in order to expose the Royalton’s dirty business. Since his family does not support him to enter The Crucible as that’s very dangerous race where his brother is killed, Speed and his girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) fool his dad by telling him they are going on a skiing holiday.

Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) and his supportive girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci)

As Pops Racer (John Goodman) and Mom Racer (Susan Sarandon) find out about Speed racing in The Crucible, they want him to leave the race but eventually show him their full support. When Speed wins The Crucible together with Racer X and Taejo, Taejo betrays them by not exposing Royalton’s secret.

Horuko (Yu Nan), Taejo’s sister comes to find Speed in order to give him a special access card which will allow him to gain a wild card entry into the Grand Prix race since her brother, Taejo is not interested in the race and she feels ashamed of his family’s wrongdoing.

In the end, Speed manages to win the Grand Prix with his new Mach 6 car and Royalton is exposed. Quite a happy ending and predictable plot but the movie is just awesome with the candy-like buildings, landscapes and cars. Speed Racer reminds me of colorful movie The Cat in the Hat but with a mixed of Hanna-Barbera’s popular animated series, Wacky Races with everybody trying to whack everyone’s else during the race. Maybe since Hanna-Barbera is absorbed into Warner Bros. in 2001, they incorporate Wacky Races into Speed Racer.

Overall, the movie is wonderful to watch as besides the never-seen-before stunning visual effects, it has its amusing moments especially with Paulie Litt as Spritle, Speed’s younger brother and his chimpanzee pet, Chim Chim.

My ratings: 8 out of 10.

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Scarlett Johansson showing off her engagement ring

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Google has set up a page to support disaster relief in Myanmar (Burma). There are two options of donation — donate to UNICEF or donate to Direct Relief. For both of these, 100% of your contributions will go to the programs. You need to have a Google account though as both of these use Google Checkout to process the donations.

Let’s help the survivors of the cyclone to rebuild their communities, and their lives.

Go to www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/ and start donating.

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Scarlett Johansson, 23 and Ryan Reynolds, 31, the star of Definitely, Maybe and the popular sitcom, Two Guys and a Girl, are engaged. However, according to the rep, no wedding date has been set.

Good luck to them!

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• If you haven’t heard about the cyclone in Burma, until now, more than 10,000 dead and thousands missing in Burma cyclone. Let’s pray for them.
• Cruelty never stops as trapped sea lions are shot dead in Oregon.
• Following Radiohead’s latest album In Rainbows which costs almost nothing and Coldplay’s recent decision to give away the first single from their new album, Nine Inch Nails are giving away a second new album online for free.

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The British consumer-advocacy group, Which? Computing had a microbiologist test the bacteria levels on the 30-plus computer keyboards in its office and then compare the results with those found on a toilet seat and a toilet door handle.

The tests found that one keyboard had to be removed from the office as it had 150 times the pass-limit of bacteria and was five times filthier than the toilet seat.

Which? urges computer users to find time to clean their keyboards — unplug the keyboards from the computers, turn keyboards upside down and shake them so crumbs and whatever else has accumulated there to be removed. Then, they should use alcohol wipes to get rid of the germs.

Alternatively, you can always invest in a Computer Keyboard Vacuum.

(Via Which? )

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It’s Yowazzup’s birthday today. It was exactly two years ago since the first post on this blog — when I decided to blog casually. My main purpose is to create a platform in which I can share all the interesting stuff I found on the Internet with my friends. And after 2 remarkable years, here I am, still blogging casually, except that the blog has grown a lot now it is opened to the public eyes — virtually everyone with Internet access can visit this blog and view on what I have to share. The blog is also partially monetized in order to sustain the web hosting and maintenance of the blog since it has grown so big now.

After 2 years, Yowazzup has over 1,300 posts and 428 comments so far and ranked 154,368 on Alexa. Not too bad, for a part-time blogger like me. Yowazzup is basically a blog about everything happening — from movie reviews and movie trailers to the coolest or most bizarre fashion, to the latest hip hop music and more. Yowazzup has also branched out into two other blogs — Yowazzup? Coffee, a blog dedicated to coffee and Yowazzup? Food, a blog dedicated to food in Malaysia (so far).

If you are new or one of my regular readers, why not subscribe to my RSS feed and fave me in Technorati?

Thank you to everyone for your support. Without all you readers and commentators, Yowazzup would not be what it is today.

I am thinking to give away prizes as part of Yowazzup Birthday Bash but I am lacked of sponsors and ideas. Personally, I am unable to give away prizes the way Problogger did, that’s why I am in need of sponsors. The sponsors will get a permanent backlink on Yowazzup as well as 3 months spot on one of my 125×125 banners. Any takers?

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Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic and sarcastic superhero who is misunderstood by the public.

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Leslie looks really adorable in it! Check it out: -

Thanks, Parisa!

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7 lucky winners from the Asia Pacific region, will be awarded with an opportunity of a lifetime as they head on down to visit the Palazzo FENDI in Rome this fall. This is where the whole FENDI design, production, merchandising and retailing process will be unveiled to the winners.

To enter the competition, visit www.fendi.com/10plus. Hurry up, the contest runs from May 2 to June 1, 2008.

Note: You have to disable popups for the site to work. This contest is only opened to the residence of Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

(Via MTV Asia)

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She has a few upcoming movies — The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Trick ‘r Treat (2009), Miss Nobody (2008) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009).

She’s a definite hottie, don’t you think?

Click on the images to enlarge

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1. Condom Fashion Show in Beijing
2. Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon (2008) - Movie Review
3. Definitely Maybe (2008) - Movie Review
4. Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Movie Review
5. Monkey vs Dog
6. OneChanbara Trailer
7. The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) - Movie Review
8. Deception (2008) Trailer
9. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Trailer
10. Beyoncé, JAY-Z Plan to Marry, Finally

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