Batman Gotham by Gaslight

Batman told in the 1880s steam era



What is it about?
Someone is committing murders throughout Gotham and it up to Batman to find out whom

The Good
Their take on the classic characters. The core is there but everything is stuck in the 1880s.
It will leave you guessing until the very end who is the killer
Art style is clean which it a good in my book

The Bad
Nothing much. Batman is not as powerful as his other comic incarnations. He gets beat up pretty easily
Mutton chops. I think that is a period piece

The Ugly
Nothing much

After Credits: No

Verdict: A great batman animation. You can't go wrong

Things that happened in March

So if anyone been living under a rock the whole world is in crisis mode right now. I don't need to write about that since that is part of my other daily posts. Now its the stuff that isn't pandemic related that I put in here. So we start the early months enjoying the time outside. Went shopping for the girls. I went and send a piece of jewelry for my mom friend. She tripped and fell so she looks quite bad (Now I heard that she is getting better). One of my good friends has an accident and her hand was quite banged up. My daughter sold a painting. The sad story behind the painting is that the person who ordered it past away and their family wanted to buy it as something to remember him by. Quite sad.

My house pipes were block and the plumber has to drill holes in it (really there is nothing much to talk about) And then on March 17th the quarantine started due to the outbreak of covid19. After that the schedule has been. Wake up... Breakfast... Game...Cook lunch... Lunch... Game... Dinner... Tv. With some time of going to do the groceries or the garden... Other than that... It just home isolation all the way. Oh I played some Assassins Creed Origins and I really enjoyed it (Review will come out in a couple of months right after I've done everything)

So the last 10 days of the month. The notable events are I got to hold a $4,500 Louis Vuitton bag. I was like... what the heck.. But it's not for me. Finally the best news that happen for me this whole month (Really can say that this made my day and my whole month) A reported from New York contact me do to an interview on Final Fantasy VII remake for the New York Times. I was geeking out because I like to follow his work. Hopefully the article will drop down. But yeah. March is done and dusted 

Quarantine Day 13

So yesterday cooked some instant rendang and fried some vegetables since most of the are almost rotten.

So yesterday I wasn't in the quarantine zone... Dun dun dunnnnnn. My in laws bless them are old and they need groceries since their fridge is almost empty. So I had to buy wet stuff for them (the meats) and deliver it to not only them but some of their old neighbors as well. Also after that I need to do groceries for me. The total that I spend on groceries is close to $280. I didn't horde groceries but I did buy two of each items. Which made the trolley cart super full. Had to do two rounds of it. Oh on the second round (cleaning supplies) I bought some sushi for the girls.

Cases are still steadily going in the hundreds everyday. And the goverment has started phase two on  the lock. This means after 8pm everything else will be close. Anyone caught out will be arrested. Which is good. I don't think its going to be over by april 14th. Time will tell 

Quarantine Day 12

So yesterday we ate the leftover beef rice for the second day. I accidentally cooked a lot and at night I just fried some chicken with veggies.

Yesterday we had the most death at 7. They are not releasing a lot of details about this cases which makes the public don't know how serious is the situation is. I've watched videos from doctors around the world and they look exhausted and lost of hope. The influx of patient coming in with the amount of resources makes them just can't keep up. I'm worried for the human race. It looks like this is going to get worse before it gets better.

Today (Day 13) I need to go out and do some groceries for me and also my in laws who are very old. Wish my luck 

Random thought of the moment

Unrelated to what is happening around the world. I need to stop everything and just thing about myself. How am I? I am ok? Am I happy? I ask this questions because no one else cares about my well being. As I am tearing up writing this I just want to say to myself that I am okay. I found that no one cares about me which sucks. But I think it's my fault as well. I don't let anyone to care about me. They will only care if they see me sick or in trouble.

How tiring is to always be giving and never on the receiving end. But I do it because if I don't other people will just be lost. I think I am the stable one in every of my relationship. But truthfully I am just being happy in order to lift everyone else up. They needed it more than me. My happiness means nothing to me but I take solace that I have cracks in my life that make me content. Before I end this depressing rant. I just hope that one day people just ask about me for the whole day and want me to be the center of attention... but I would settle with a simple text of "I am always here for you"

There tears running down and I know no one reads this...I'll end this by saying. I love you...and I love myself.. Goodbye

Quarantine Day 11

So yesterday I cooked a special meal called beef rice. It has a lot of steps but cooking it with vegetable curry is awesome.

It's been the 11th day (12th day today) I wonder how much longer we can hang on. Anxiety and cabin fever has started to set in some people. I can understand why since we are not meant to be living inside for this long. I miss going out but I know if we don't do this things are going to get worse. Yesterday my wife found out that someone in her office has covid19 and the management kept it a secret. She was really upset because that person is close by her office. To make it even worse, that there was someone in her office knew about it and kept it a secret from everyone else.

Global cases has reach more than half a million and it doesn't look like it's stopping anytime soon. I can imagine the worse case scenario is where for a couple of years nobody is allowed to travel due to this pandemic and the total loss of life will be in the 60 to 70 million. But the total infected will be in he 2 to 3 billion. That is just scary... no idea how we are going to face this new reality on life.

Quarantine Day 10

So yesterday I made Aglio Olio for me and the misses and the kids ate the left over mac and cheese. At night I bought the first outside food in a while. I bought KFC which didn't settle well in my tummy

So I bought dinner after 7pm. The problem is with the Movement Control Order (MCO) they don't recommend you to go out unless it's totally necessary. So I got stopped by the police roadblock. They ask me a couple of questions and I answered truthfully. The problem is that I still get nervous around cops even though I did nothing wrong. I got a scolding but they let me though. Never doing that again

So yesterday the government announce a 6 billion financial aid package for everyone. Everyone is getting a piece of the pie. The question is where do they get this money... probably they have to pay more taxes.

Quarantine Day 9

Well yesterday I didn't cook lunch so the kids ate noodles and I ate bread. For dinner I cook fried mac and cheese. I made some more for today's lunch so no need to cook for me

Yesterday was the highest recorded cases at 250+ cases. which makes our total infectious at more than 2000. The say it's going to peak at 6300. The problem is we don't have that much beds to handling that influx of patients. In other news that there is a town that has more than 65 infected. The whole town will  be under extreme quarantine. That means no in and out as well as is under the lockdown of the army for 2 weeks. That is just scary. oh well another 20 days to go 

Quarantine Day 8

So yesterday I cooked Briyani and Tandoori chicken from scratch... I dare say it was the best meal I've prepared so far.

Well well well... since there are still more cases every day. They decided to extend the lockdown for another 21 days. So in total we will be in lockdown until April 14th. This time they are really serious. Anyone caught out at 7pm without a valid reason will be arrested. Everyday we are looking at 100+ cases.. so by the 21 day we will probably have more than 4000+... they probably will issue another lockdown because of this

The situation in Italy has gone from worse to disastrous.. Every day 5000+ new cases and they probably reach a million by August. Scary stuff. 

Hidden Figures

A very interesting movie.Enjoyed this history part of it



What is it about?
3 African American woman who pioneer NASA space program in the 60s

The Good
The story is based on a true events
The struggles during that time were hard for people of colour

The Bad
I didn't enjoy the part where they were not on... Their side story is okay

The Ugly 
Nothing

After Credits: No but the credits did show the real life events

Verdict: Fun movie if you don't want to read the book

Quarantine Day 7

Well yesterday I cooked chicken curry for lunch and wife made some vegetables soup. During dinner we ate flatbread with the curry and i put some noodles in the soup to make some noodles soup. 

So on the covid19 front in the country. Cases are still above in the hundreds with no chance of stopping. The good news is that it looks manageable so far. But by this rate we are probably going to be quarantine longer.. 

Today I am going to write about the positive effects that comes from the pandemic. There are more lot more negative effects but  let's see the brighter things in life. 

1. The world is coming together 

In this tough times you can see everyone is stepping up and helping. Countries donating manpower and resources. Everyone just generally being there to help the first responders. They need it more than ever. This shows that world war 3 won't happen in ever since everyone has a common goal. The survival of the human race.

2. Earth is resetting 

Everyone is asked to stay home. No cars are outside. No factories are working (unless it's the essential) Everyone can enjoy blue skies for a long while. 50% of CO2 is decrease since they issued a worldwide lockdown which in terms helps with climate change and what not 

3.Everyone is connecting more than ever

We usually take going out for granted but now when we can't even see our friends. We find that connecting with them in any capacity is important. Which is great since we get to check up on everyone all over the world. Well it's great in my book. 

Today is day 8... so far its going well. 

Quarantine Day 6

Ok this is going to be a bit different. I’ll be posting about Day 5 and also day 6 (which is today). Day 5 let’s see what we did 🤔. For lunch we had the leftover food from Day 4 which is nasi lemak and for dinner we just ate anything frozen we could find. Food still looks good but really we need to figure out new ways of cooking.

Today on the other hand we cook simple meals that me and my wife use to have when we were young. Fried fish with some coconut curry prawn and for dinner was just a simple fried rice. It was just lovely.

Today the government announce that student loans will be defaulted until the end of the year. Everyone gets $125 from their pension fund and they just release $2.5 million dollars to hire nurses. They are running out of frontliners to help with this virus and it seems it’s getting more and more. Heck I wouldn’t be surprised if our quarantine extends more than the 2 weeks.

Quarantine Day 5

Forgot to blog yesterday on Day 4 situation... So day 4 I cooked some Nasi Lemak and fried some chicken... we ended up just hanging and playing board games as a family.

8 people died 2 days ago... the situation is getting worse and there are still 10% of the population who doesn’t want to stay indoors 😰. Hope it gets better in time

Dunkirk

I did not enjoy this movie so much



What is it about?
The story of the battle of dunkirk tell within 1 week, 1 day and 1 hour.

The Good
The cinematography is awesome. This movie was design for the big screen

The Bad
There are not that many dialogue in this movie. But you understand most of the plot
I really did not like it that much due to it depicts war in a certain way. They did won but they lost a lot as well.

The Ugly
It took me 4 to 5 tries to finish this movie

After Credits: No

Verdict: If you enjoy war time movies. This is for you. If not you probably can skip it 

Quarantine Day 4

Today is the 4th day of quarantine. I think I just figured out that I might do it wrongly since I should have do my reporting at the end of the night... hmmm. oh well I can't change the schedule back now. Yesterday for lunch I made some olio for me and the misses while the kids got spaghetti bolongase. That lasted till night time and I ate instant noodles at night

Thinking of doing a supply run today since starting sunday, they are calling the national guard to come down to help. There are a lot of people are still not staying indoors due to this virus.

We now have 1030 confirmed cases with 3 deaths. It's not as bad but it could be worse.If the amount of cases doesn't go down in this 10 days there is ahigh chance we get to extend our stay at home for another 2 weeks. That's the problem with viruses. We need to break the contact but it's proving to be hard when everyone wants to get out of the house. We literally are doing nothing here right now and just stay at home and relax.

The worse case scenario is that everyone who doesn't adhere to the stay at home rule will get sick and probably die. That's one way to trim the heard. But who am I kidding. This virus kills more people who are weak than the stupid ones. Those guy are going to live on longer than ever.

Quarantine Day 3

Well yesterday was more of the last the same. During lunch made some flatbread to eat with yesterday leftover curry and at night cooked some sweet and sour fish. I did my first grocery run last night when wife wanted some pancakes. Just a 2 minute grocery run. Didn’t want to go that far away.

There are still people who doesn’t want to stay put and is roaming around the city. It’s making it harder for the police to enforced the rules when they are being assholes. I heard that this Sunday the army will be involved due to the fact that they need more bodies on the streets

In my mind this 14 days hopefully our infection rates won’t go that high since I really don’t want another 2 weeks of this. It feels like forever

Super Mario World

I've been a community of a new group of retro gamers called Factory Sealed and every 2 weeks they will give a game for everyone to try. I think I am going to start trying to play their recommendations and see if I like it or not

Game no: 362
Genre: Platformer
Platform: SNES
Release Date: 1990

Factory Sealed Ep: 200

What is it about?

Mario needs to save Yoshi and his friends and also Princess Peach from the Bowser and his kids

What I liked? 

Traditional Mario platforming 

Stages are unique and provide a certain challenge 

Power-ups. The cape provide a fast way to skip everything in the stage

Yoshi provide a certain vulnerability 

What I didn't liked?

This game is hard. You need to have cat like reflexes in order to avoid all the traps and bad guys appearing on stage

The Forest of illusion. You can get stuck in there for a while if you don't know where to go 

The ghost castle. You also need to know where to go because you can get lost in there quite easily 

Status: Finish the game until the credits 

Fun Factor: Worth to play once but that's about it 

The Last of Us Remastered

Last I played this was 7 years ago. I gave it a good review. Let's revisit it

Game no: 361

Genre: Action
Platform: PS4
Release Date: 2014





What is it about?
Civilization is lost due to an infection. The last once of humans are doing whatever to survive. This is a story of two of them

What I liked?
I gave this game a 5/5 (when I did ratings in 2013) but after revising it I can say this game does have it's merits as well as it flaws.
The main reason why you play this game is because of the story. The story is the most captivating story in a video game. The manage to convey the emotion from two different individuals.
Combat is very realistic. Guns have recoil. Melee weapons break. Even punching someone you can feel the force of each punch.
Crafting items makes inventory management is very important.

What I didn't liked?
The gameplay is very clunky. I mean that it's just so slow and it's not buttery smooth. But they are probably trying to build the realism it in.
The stealth sections is great but sucks because your secondary character doesn't help that much
Basically you don't even need to worry about the girl since everything is depending on you which is not that great

Status: Finish the game until the credits

Fun Factor: Worth to be played... and the best part is the sequel is coming in a couple of months 

Quarantine Day 2

So I survived the first day. The girls are in high spirits. Well it's just been a day so I'll check back on day 7th. For lunch we just ate bread and any frozen items, Dinner I cook some curry and fried chicken. That seems to be the everyday problem of trying to think what to cook everyday. But this time I'm cooking more than usual so that it will last longer and I don't need to cook for lunch.

In our country the total has risen to 790. The graph looks the same as china so if this continues we are going to have close to 16000 or more after this two weeks. The thing that drives me nuts is that there are some people are not taking this stay at home seriously. They are still wondering around and acting like the government gave them an extended public holiday. This really reminds me of the Avengers movie where Thanos snaps and 50% of the population dies out. The coronavirus is the same thing. The 50% how got infected in my mind 35% of them deserve the infection for not following the rules. the other 25% are just unlucky by chance. 

The prime minister went on tv last night and gave another speech for everyone to stay at home and just chill out. He sounds like a disappointed father who is angry at their kids. But I heard that there are some crowds are organizing a gathering in a couple of days. Sigh... I think you'll know whose fault if the human race is over

Well that's all for today. I'll give my thoughts about it tomorrow. There are a lot of thoughts

Quarantine Day 1

So today has started the limited movement quarantine in the country. What that means is that we can move around that much unless we want to restock supplies. This is a journal on how I am going to deal with this and how it's effecting the country, my family and myself.

Well the schedule is always the same as always
Laundry (every other day)
Cook Lunch
Play games
Watch tv
Cook Dinner
Probably some gardening

But that's about it

So we just had our first two confirmed deaths from Covid-19. One is a 34 year old male and another a 60 year old male. That's scary that you only have less than 2 weeks to live if you are in the high risk category so I think staying home is the right choice. This is one big vacation of the world as well.

In other news I think the government is not prepared to handle how to spread their information towards the crowd. I think the more they give out news. The more the crowd will just congregate at that area. Just yesterday they said that no one is allowed to leave the state unless you have a special form before 12:01. The forms only can be obtained from the police station. So what did the people do.They all gather to the police station to get the forms... Which case a mass gathering.... Which the country is trying to avoid. Sigh... A lot of people are very selfish at this time. So update again tomorrow   

Ford v Ferrari

This movie is awesome



What is it about?
The true story on how Ford tried to beat Ferrari by designing a better car for the 24 hour Lemans Race

The Good
Story is interesting
The cinematography is very engaging.
There are races but they way they shoot it make an non fan interested
Character development is amazing
A good bad guy

The Bad
The ending. That kinda sucks

The Ugly
Nothing much

After Credits: No

Verdict: One of the great movies I watched in a long time 

Kirby Super Star

A fun Kirby game

Game no: 360

Genre: Action
Platform: SNES
Release Date: 1995

What is it about?

Play as Kirby in 8 different games

What I liked?

Kirby games have always been a simple pickup and play but it's still hard to get by. It offers a a challenging gameplay 

The ability to suck enemies and take their abilities. Which sounds cool but sometimes you get a weird powers such as being a rock

What I didn't liked?

Nothing much. It's not grown breaking or anything. 

Status: Finish the 3 of the main stories 

Fun Factor: It s a replayable SNES game

Creature in the Well

A great game that is hampered by frustrating design and difficult control

Genre: Pinball
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Release Date: 2019







Gameplay
It is a pinball game where the filpper moves and the balls are static

What is it about?
You play as a robot who needs to give power to the city.

What did I like?
The art style is beautiful.
The levels are interesting and so satisfying when you get a whole room cleared
You have the option to skip the level by collecting power
Different weapons and clothes of customization
Boss battles are challenging and yet interesting

What I didn't like?
The aiming is clunky.
You have to do a lot of different things at once which makes it annoying when you die
Some stages require luck more than skills which makes it annoying

Status: Played a good 3 hours of it and rage quit

Fun Factor: It a great game of the patient

The Last of Us Left Behind

Revisiting back The Last of Us before the sequel. So we are starting with this game 

Game no: 359

Genre: Action
Platform: PS4
Release Date: 2014

What is it about?

Follows the story of Ellie before she met Joel and in between the first game where she needs to fend for herself

What I liked?

The story is short and sweet but impactful

The pacing is great where it switch from past to future. 

What I didn't liked?

Since Ellie is a child her combat skills are a bit limiting so I ended up dying a lot. Which sucks

It ends still with more questions and it is not resolved in the end.

The minigames in the flashback story is a hit or miss. In my opinion if it's not added it would be fine

Status: Finish the game until the end credits 

Fun Factor: A good companion to the original game 

30 days losing weight

So im getting fat. I am going to check back on the last day of the month

Weight: 80.7kg
Inches: 41 inches

Let's see how much i can lose

Things that happen in February

February has come and went and there are a couple of notable things that happen during this month. I've stop dieting and I've been gaining a lot of weight. We hosted a family gathering with my wife's family. We cooked roast chicken and everyone bought some food it. It was great pot luck. Had ice cream after all of that, At night me, my wife, my sister in law and my in laws played a game of gin rummy. We enjoyed ourselves immensely. I made some mac and cheese one day and the leftover I  made some mac and cheese balls... not to my expectation. I installed a new clothes rack. I do notice my life this February is a little mundane but that is how I like it. As mundane as possible. I made butter prawn which was awesome. It turns out making butter dishes is quite easy. My wife closest students came and see us with their wives (one of them were missing). Even it has been a couple of years back. They came for my wife's birthday.

One of my friends made killer cookies and I thin k I am addicted to them. Which is an issue because I am getting fat. My cats are being as cute and annoying as ever. They keep sitting on my chairs. Everytime I want to sit I will get hair on my butt. My daughter sold her painting to one of her school chairman which is super awesome

Wife's birthday was this month and she didn't want to go out. So I made steaks and sausages, mushy peas, kicking shrimp and nachos for her birthday dinner. It took me 1 hour to cook everything. One of my proudest culinary moments. My youngest had a ice skating party and she wanted to ice skate without supervision. She didn't move that much and needed her sister to help her to move forward. My best friend ask me to get a very expensive jewelry for her 82 year old mom which I need to give by next week. With that my whole mundane month is done. I'm going to do something new since there are things that doesn't involve my life (or some do) that I am going to put in

Whats happening in the world

• The world is currently experiencing corona virus or covid-19 and the whole world is in a frenzy. With the rate of infection getting higher everyday is going to be at least a couple of months before it is going to get better. With that most air travel has been halted. Ther eis nothing much we can do but practice good hygiene 
• in the last 10 days of February we experience game of thrones level shit of how my country government, all the cabinets members were resolve. The old prime minister resign only to elected again as the interim prim minister. Everything was just crazy. The only take I can take away from this is that how calm everyone is and that shows our King is doing his job    

Tetris Effect

What an incredible journey

Game no: 358

Genre: Puzzle
Platform: PC
Release Date: 2018





What is it about?
Its normal Tetris gameplay but with a visual treat

What I liked?
It a treat for your eyes and ears. Each Tetris board has a different effect and you are going to enjoy the visual
There is a slowdown button that will hold all your lines. I can't seem to get more than 10 lines. It is possible to get 16
The game changes speeds in between so each scene has a different effect towards it
There is a theater mode to enjoy the effects later

What I didn't liked?
I can't enjoy the effects once the speed reaches 10 and above. You just concentrate on the pieces falling out

Status: Finish the entire journey in one sitting

Fun Factor: One of the best Tetris games I've played in a long while. Must play