My handcraft of Kimmi Doll named "Kana" which means cheerful

Recently my customer is looking for a Japanese theme office decorations for their launching of Customer Service Center for the country of Japan. So I went back and crack my head and google on my laptop and still did not manage to come up with something interesting and the following day I went to Mid Valley to search for ideas and items and I stumbled across “Kimmi Dolls” (<<click here for the official website and samples of the collection)

Before I continue my story on Kimmi Dolls, I was supposedly hunting for Momiji Dolls which I googled up somewhere stating that they were sold in Borders. So I went on a hunting spree and got disappointed. Next stop, Mid Valley!

So I went from shop to shop looking for Japanese theme shop and found nothing. I beginning to be frustrated but I continue to search high and low as I need to present my proposal to my client soon. I walked in and out and finally I entered into Designer Greetings and saw Kimmi Dolls and some Ninja Dolls (don’t remember the name as it is out of my customer’s budget). So I started browsing, calculating the allocated budget and ideas kept flowing through my mind. So I wandered here and there and got the materials I needed and went home and began my first handicraft since 1995.

Do you like it? Leave a comment … If you are interested to purchase the Kimmi Dolls too, the address is stated below. As I know, there are 2 sets of Kimmi Dolls which comprises of 40 different beautiful dolls with different names, designs and characteristic. This doll I purchased is a key chain which is about 3 inches high and it cost RM 29.90. There are bigger version ones and it is more expensive. These are collector’s item and it is not a toy!

Designer Greetings
Lot-015, Ground Floor, Mid Valley Megamall,
Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 Kuala Lumpur.
Tel : 603 – 2287 1257
Email : designergreetings@gmail.com / amercare@gmail.com
Person in charge : Mrs. Wong or Jess

Side close up view of my masterpiece

Another angle of my masterpiece

Another angle of my masterpiece

Please note that the photos inserted here is the handicraft made by me. The actual package only consist of a Kimmi Doll key chain. The proposal did not work out in the end and now the masterpiece is sitting in my room as a nice decorations~ I’m still happy that even if I didn’t manage to close the deal with it, I made something nice out of my own hands despite more than 10 years i did not paint. Bravo~~

Well, I have been playing this game every year since I bought my PSP. I have also written about the game before so for those who have to try this game before can check out my previous post. I will not elaborate much about it but I will share with you on the experience so far on the latest version.

Being a Man Utd fan, how can I not select my favourite club? So I started the season managing my favourite club, making changes in formation, bringing in new youth players and many more. I prefer to have my own style of managing my club comparing to Sir Alex Ferguson who is now my nemesis (in a way or two as we are both managers). 2 hours into the game, my plans backfired. I was not doing quite well and I was sacked. However, I was not the first casualty; Arsene Wenger was given the boot before the January transfer window. Since I did not save the game from the start, I replay the whole thing.

2nd try and still messing around with the tactics, formations and players. The first season was a double for me – Barclay Premier League & The Champions League titles without counting the Charity Shield trophy. Managerial ranking – 2nd. 2nd season means more testing and switching here and there. Guess what … the players are not used to it. Most outcomes of the matches were draw, with 1 loss and a few wins. I got sacked midway through the season. So sad … Looking for a new job, I saw Belgium coach being fired and I apply for it but failed. Then finally I managed to secure a job with Tranmere – a League 1 club. The season ended with the club in 7th place narrowly missing out on the final match of the final day. The miserable draw where the opponent scored a last minute equalizer dashed our hopes for a playoff.

I’m still coaching Tranmere in my 3rd season and I am now also the England Manager. I promise the Board of Directors that I will lead the club to promotion but I’m laying at 8th placing now (Not even a playoff position yet). I will also be hoping to win some honours and trophies with England.

If you love football managing or football games, you can try it out. You do not need to spend a lot of time and you can also learn the rules and regulations of the games. I have found some new information by playing this game. Despite playing for so many seasons, I still discover new things from the game which I did not try or newly implemented. This game may look easy but try managing a lower league club and move forward. It is challenging and intriguing suffering too … Manage your club today, I will see you at the opposite end of the field!

One Outs [Episode 1] The Mysterious Man

Kojima Hiromichi had been a professional baseball player for 21 years with Saikyou Saitama Lycaons. He had won numerous titles which include Rookie of the Year, Batting title – 7 times, Most Home Runs – 5 times, Most RBI – 8 times, Triple Crown – 2 times except for the Championship. In order to fulfil his dream and search for the missing something, he set up a training camp in December at Okinawa with help from Nakane, minor league pitcher and the trainer, Kinosaki.

After 10 days of training, Nakane injured his finger and was unable to pitch anymore. Kinosaki and Nakane was worried that Kojima will be upset and search for a replacement pitcher from the Universities and company teams but failed. Suddenly they were approach but a fat lady, Big Mama, who brings them to an underground baseball gambling den.

Big Mama told them if they found any suitable candidate, she can introduce him to them. Soon she got them into betting on the game of “One Outs”. It is a game to see if the pitcher can get one out from the batter or not. The pitcher wins from a strikeout, or if the ball does not get past the infield on the fly. Anything else and the pitcher lose.

Nakane and Kinosaki both lost on their bets and decided to pay up and leave the place until they found out that they were being scam. Nakane then went up to bat and believe he could clear up the debt. Tokuchi Toua turns down his offer and up the bet ten folds. Nakane freak out but did not want to back down. He eventually freaks out and lost. They went home and Nakane told Kojima about the mysterious pitcher. Kojima went to the place and beats every pitcher until Toua shows up. They then wager a USD 400, 000 bet. Who will come out victorious in the One Out?

One Outs [Episode 2] Gambler

The bet is on the table of USD 400, 000 between Kojima and Toua on the game of One Out (refer Episode 1 for explanation the game). Toua threw a ball on the first three pitches. Toua threw another off ball on the fourth attempt but Kojima hits it intentionally to the fence. He is eager to show everyone his skills as they bet everything on Toua. On the fifth pitch, Kojima miss hit it and it is now 3 balls and 2 strikes. On the final throw, Toua threw a slow ball which Kojima did not expect and lost the bet.

Kojima disappeared after the game. Kinosaki was out drinking with Big Mama and asked her about Toua. She explains that she freaks out the way Toua can read people’s mind such as nervousness, indecisiveness, anxiety and those slight changes in the human emotions. He has the ability to manipulate the human mind. She further explains that outstanding winning instinct inherited from gambling.

Kinosaki then found out that Kojima was hiding in the mountain and went to find him. Kojima was training to focus by chopping woods in the mountain. He is training himself to put emotions aside and focus on betting. He is training for a rematch and the lost trigger his hunger to win even more.

Kojima approach Toua for a rematch and betting his entire career on the line. In return if Toua loses, Kojima will break his right hand. Toua accepted the challenge.

Kojima continues training in the mountain to regain his full confidence to bring down Toua. He chops 1, 000 log a day to practice his focus. When he was about to chop the final piece, Kojima saw a butterfly on the log and avoiding chopping it into pieces and injured his right wrist in the process.

Kojima wore long sleeves track suit to the underground field for the bet. Nakane is worried about Kojima as he is unable to turn his right wrist. The first two pitches were strikes. Toua then teases Kojima on his injured wrist and Kojima was surprised that he knows about it. Toua says that he is going to exploit his injury and throw him the pitch of fate! Will Kojima be able to hit it or will he go into retirement from professional baseball?

One Outs [Episode 3] One Outs Contract

Kojima’s professional career is on line and Toua threw the pitch of fate straight at Kojima’s weaknesses. A professional batter knows whether if he hits a ball when he swings a bat. Kojima twist his entire right arms and forces a dead ball where the ball hits him and he fell to the ground. Big Mama told Kojima that he lost the bet as it a strike but Toua begs to differ. He reach out his right arm to Kojima and he deems himself to have lost the bet. Kojima told him that he is not going to break him arm and offer him to join baseball as a professional.

Toua accepted his offer and return back to Saitama with Kojima. Toua was to meet the owner to negotiate a contract but the owner told him that he will be paid on his performance. Toua told him that he do not need a contract but to pay him 5 Million Yen each time he strikes out someone and in return he loses 50 Million Yen each time an opponent gets a point. The agreement on accepted on both sides and the contract was signed! The owner thought he have gotten a bargain which can make him profits.

Saitama Lycaons’ pre-season game against the Kobe Bluemars was on the same night. Lycaon’s was losing 8 points after 2 innings and the manager, Mihara Yuuzaburou, was told that he has a new pitcher. Toua was told to warm up which he refuses and that trigger anger around the dugout. Kinosaki then cools everyone down. The matched ended with Lycaons losing 8-0 and Toua shutting out 21 batters from the 3rd innings which makes him earning 105 Million Yen for that particular match.

The 2nd pre-season match is between Lycaons and the Fingers. The game ended with Lycaons winning the game 1-0 and Toua shutting out all 27 batters. Ideguchi recognizes Toua’s talents and freaks him out as his legs were shaking throughout the match and even after the match as the batters are unable to hit even a single pitch. At the end of pre-season matches, Toua earned 270 million Yens in salary!

One Outs [Episode 4] The Team’s Qualification

The season begins and they lost 11 games in a row as Toua did not play in any of the games. Saitama owner did not let him play in a single game and hope that the increase attendance can help him cover his losses.

The owner only thinks about money and does not care about winning. He gave other teams 10 games to analyse his pitching. At the next game, Lycaons were losing 11-0 against the Eagles in the first inning and Toua was called to pitch. He gave out a first batting. The opponent was trying to steal a base and Ideguchi threw the ball straight at Yoshida to bring him out. Yoshida who was bribe before the game by the owner let the ball slip out of him hands. Toua then walked over and asked Yoshida to leave the field. His team mates asked him to apologise to Yoshida but he refuses and became arrogant. The owner felt that by bribing the manager and player, he can recover some loses.

Toua led an 8 men defence team and trigger a confidence within the team. The stadium also changes from booing to cheering for the team. It sparks the comeback from the 7 inning winning 4 points. The Eagles change their pitcher to Mizuhashi, Eagle’s ace pitcher. Lycaons batters were shutout and their confidence vanished. Toua refuses to give up and set up a trap. Lycaons with the new soaring spirits close the gap to a point.

Yoshida receives a phone call from the owner. He was told to get back into the game and mess up the 8 man defence at any means even if he has to apologize. What will happen next? Will the owner gets back his money or will Toua wins the game for the team?

One Outs [Episode 5] Hope

The game between Lycaons and Eagles is in the 9 inning with the Eagles leading a point. Yoshida was let back out into the field and he played against the owner’s order.

Toua approached Yoshida and asked him if it is alright to play against the owner’s instructions. Yoshida then told him that he was the no 1 draft pick and used to be a professional pitcher. He was unable to keep up with the players and was approached by a man to fix matches which later the owner found out and interfered. Since then, he has been threatened by the owner and complying to his instructions.

Yoshida told him that they need to win the game. He replies that he is tired. Toua gave out 2 bases and call a timeout. He request for a replacement and was rejected. He went back to the field and threw a dead ball straight at the opponents head. A fight broke up and Toua was ejected from the game.

The owner rang Toua and told him that will be punished and penalised for 200 million Yens for every point they lost. No wanting to lose his earnings, he went to the stands and fire up Yoshida. Yoshida pitch a fierce ball which broke the batter’s bat and eventually won the game.

Due to the match incident, the owner proposed 4 new conditions to the contract which Toua accepted.

1. He must obey the manager’s instructions even if he is ill
2. In term of runs, it is referring to all runs scored when he is pitching
3. Payment rate of the contract will vary depending on the importance of the game
4. The contract can only be known to four people

Any conditions violated will be fined 500 million Yen.

The next match was against the Chiba Mariners, the top team in the league. Mariners comprise of three top hitters in the league and one of them is Takami Itsuki who is top hitter and scorer this season. Ideguchi ask Toua to study the opponent’s data which Toua then tore it up. He told Ideguchi and his team mates that those data are irrelevant and it is in the past. He then explained his observations of the opponents. The match begun and Toua walked 2 batters. What will happen next? For Toua, it is game on!

Need for Speed Underground promo car!! Awesome ain't it? It was parked at the lobby of Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur

Front view of the car. What do you think about the design?

 Then we headed to Jagoya where there was a promotion where ladies gets 50% discount for the buffet. Siang’s family, Yen and I went for a super dinner! Unfortunately, not much pictures were taken as our hands are busy with the food and our eyes also feasting on girls.

Real life edible fishes (ok it's dead) used as a decoration. Believe me it's huge!

A closer look of the giant fish which we thought was fake until we used our fingers and poke it!!

Next stop – Bangsar South as Frank organized a BBQ buffet gathering at S’mores. The price is affordable and quite a good place to catch up old times with friends for a whole good 3 hours feasting on some delicious meat!

What's on the menu? Check it out yourself. Oh ya, the buffet only takes place on Saturdays while the rest of the days are fine dining

Albert & missus helping themselves on the buffet table at S'mores

The gang (some not in pic as they arrived late) enjoying their meals

This are the food on my plate - spagetti with oysters, mini beef burger, potato salad & vegetable salad

The chefs grilling our meals!!

Ever play the board game called RISK? No? Then I won’t blame you caused you might be the newer generation kids where board games are old skool. If your answer is yes, then this game is quite similar to RISK but played on a digital interface and mafia style!

The whole game originated from a movie (I don’t know the name as I never watched it before). When you play the movie scenario, you will see clips of scenes from the movie. I can’t explain much about it as I skipped the movie scenes.

The whole mafia thingy takes place in Miami. There are 16 turfs altogether for you to gain control over and spread your drugs – cocaine, heroin and pot. You will be given a mission objective before the start of each game. If you place the movie scenario version, your turfs will be allocated. However if you play the cartel version, you will have to grab your turf through selection with the police department and jail randomly placed.

With your limited funds in the beginning, you might not want to spend on buildings. There are 4 types of building namely storehouse, pot lab, cocaine lab and heroin lab. Storehouse is used to store excessive drugs not in trade while the rest of the labs are productions of drugs. Prices vary according to type of buildings and increases after each purchase in a single turn.

How can you be a mafia leader without your army of bad ass? You can hire thugs and pushers as your mafias to guard your territories. Thugs are the one who sacrifice their lives to protect your lands while pushers are the ones who sell drugs. Therefore, ensure that you have a number of thugs in each turf and sufficient pushers to generate revenue for you.

Let’s talk about the twist and turn in the game. When you play RISK, you have dices and cards to support you. In Scarface, there are power moves. There are 3 types of power moves – combat, law and drugs. When you purchase combat power moves, you will be supported with attacking or defensive moves which you can use when you are defend or attack an opponent. The law power moves are the ones governing with law such as to protect you from being attack while the drug power moves are the moves which drive the demand and price up and down.

If you are powerful or weak, you can also offer alliance with the other parties provided they accept for a certain round. However, please note that the alliance can be broken at any given time.

This is a very interesting game which you can hardly find in the market nowadays. However, the graphics are a little ugly which I believe can still be improved. After playing a couple of days in a row it can get bored. The interesting part is that you get rule Miami with the limited resources and gaining power and fame as you grow with consideration of the drug prices withstanding the attacks from other mafias before wiping them out.

Do you have what it takes to become the Mafia leader in Miami?

Recently, I promised a little boy to get him some games but I don’t know what to get him. So I browse through the list and found this game. Since it is quite popular when the movie released – The Last Air bender (Avatar was removed maybe due to avoid confusion with the movie Avatar). After watching the movie, I was curious to find out what happen next and Kenny told me that he has the complete box set of the cartoon. Yup, I completed the whole series!

Avatar Legend of Aang does not 100% follow the storyline where he is supposedly destined to stop Sozin’s comet. In this game, Aang and friends are on their way to stop the destruction but they found out another person is causing troubles by creating machines. Her name is Lian who Aang rescued and she believe her creations of machines are more powerful than the Avatar and can conclude the war going back to world peace.

The whole game consist of 7 chapters. Each chapter, you will be given several quests to complete. The story quest must be complete in order for you to move on while optional quest are of course optional. Completion of quests with will reward you some points to learn bending skills. Some quests are repeatable such as gathering quests. These quests are obtainable from fighting mobs or purchasable from shops. These is a good way to maximize your bending skills because the items are easy to get.

Let’s move to on the skills section. You can only upgrade your skills using the skill points awarded from completion of quest. These points have to be divided between 4 characters – Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haru. Every character will be involved in certain parts of the game. Therefore, you will require to upgrade the important bending moves for the supporting characters while more priority will be focus on Aang as he is the main hero.

When you level up, you will be rewarded with stats points. The bonus stat points can be allocated to your Health Points, Chi or Strength. This is a good way to customize your character according to your playing style.

Overall, this game is suitable for your kids. Although it is do not follow the storyline, the sub story is still enjoyable and you get to be the Avatar with a mission to save the world from Sozin’s comet. However if you are an Avatar fan, the game will totally be a setback to you. It is because Aang only mastered Air bending and moreover he cannot go into Avatar mode except in the final boss mission.

Are you the next Avatar? Try out and find out as you travel the world to master the 4 elements – Air, Water, Earth & Fire!

Fat Princess Fistful of Cake may somehow look childish for someone my age. I was quite hesitant to play it although it was quite popular. The display looks quite childish and girlish (no sarcasm intended) and I though, nah this game is not for me until I have no new games to venture into so I got it to test it out.

Storyline

The story is about 2 princesses hanging out together one day and they found a giant piece of cake. They could not resist it and grab a bite out of the frosting covered wonder. They were overwhelmed by the intense yumminess and finish the whole slice.

The princesses were they surrounded by mysterious furry creatures but the princess continue to stuff their faces ignoring the danger awaiting. The mysterious creatures took both the princes captive. Hours later, the Kings become worried as the princesses did not came back. The Kings send out soldiers to look for her and later accused the other King to have kidnapped his princess.

Game Play

There is no tutorial in this game. I advise you to fully read the tutorial and understand it before begin playing or else you will find that the game is lame or you will be lost on what to do.

Tutorial completed! Try the 15 Chapters of the story mode (or campaign). Basically, you will begin the game as a worker. Inside the castle, grab a workers hat and wear it. Next head out and look for trees to chop or boulders to mine. Once you have obtained a resource (wood or stones) head to the nearest tower or head back the castle to store your resources. The resources are important to upgrade your armies building making them more powerful, building ladders, building bridges and castle gates.

Once you have upgraded your buildings, it’s time to attack or rescue the princess. Select a character which suits you best. You can choose to attack as a mage, ranger or warrior. If you are not the offensive type, select the priest and support the armies in battle.

The story mode gives you a variety of different game play such as rescue the princess, battle mode; capture the opponent’s princess and many more. Alternatively, you can attempt these missions against your friend via multiplayer or you can go against the programmed campaign in the mess about section.

Overview

This game reminds me of “Warcraft” where Orcs go chopping in the woods to gather resources to build barracks and all. It’s something similar but you cannot control the whole army’s action, therefore every move or mistake you make can produce a different result.

The setback to the game will be some bugs left unfixed. Some armies when spawn will get stuck in between the building which may or may not be useful to you depending on your situation in the game. Secondly, the creators ran out of storyline as most of the chapters, the armies retrieves a fake princess. Come on, I believe you can do better than that!! 15 chapters can be a breeze and easily completed within few hours and not even a day. After that, you can play against the computer A.I. in the mess about section or replay the story mode all over again.

Enough of the bad points, let’s see what so nice about the game. It’s challenging as you have many different roles to play such as worker, warrior, mage, priest and archer. You can only choose one and then decide what to do next while the rest of the armies are moving on their own unless you need some escort service. This game may require a bit of strategy (not very much thinking) to complete certain mission as time is ticking pretty fast and your armies are depleting one by one. There are also a few varieties of different challenges available and various maps to play on, so that makes it quite exciting as well.

Do you have what it takes to save the princess? Are you a worker, warrior, mage or priest type? Let’s feed the princess some curse cake to make her all bloated up while you proof that you are worthy to fulfill the mission!

Flo is sick and tired of corporate lifestyle and decided to get rid of it by opening her own restaurant. Flo manages her own restaurant and slowly upgrading it as her business improves to attract more customers. She also opens new restaurants once she accomplished everything she wants in the restaurants.

There are 6 restaurants altogether. Each restaurant has 10 challenges except for the Sushi restaurant. In order to move to the next challenge, one has to reach the pre-set goal or expert goal for the challenge. Once you have conquered the challenge, you will unlock the next challenge or restaurant.

 Well as you know about restaurant, you have to seat your customers accordingly so that the restaurant will maximize its business. Certain tables have colour chairs. These colour chairs will give bonuses if the customer sitting on it wears the same colour clothing.

You will also have to juggle in between your customer and get to understand their characteristics. For example, a family will require a baby chair and when the baby cries, it irritates the customers besides it. Therefore, the ratings will drop and tips will be less. Worse still, the customer may even leave your restaurant. Understand the characteristic will be a great help as you can combo up the job and multiply your points and obtain the expert goal.

Here is briefing of other necessities you should know. There is a drink machine where you serve drinks to customers to boost up the ratings towards your restaurant. A rostrum is where Flo sings to the customers to cheer them up while waiting patiently in line to be seated. The sofa will help customers to be patient and the snacks will boost your sales. The telephone will help you once during your hay-wired moments.

I don’t think I need to explain much about the game as you might have played it before in other platforms such as computer. It’s normally where I played it when I’m bored in the cyber café. This game is similar to cake mania and etc.

Sick of working? Run your own restaurant today!

This game is also known as Everybody’s Tennis. Sounds familiar? Of course, there is the famous Everybody’s Golf version. Hmm … unlike the golf version, there is no tournament in this game.

You begin the game by selecting Hugo or Emily (makes no difference anyway) heading towards Nakagawa Tennis Club. As you reach the club, you saw Troy throwing tantrums and was about to quit the tennis. As a Happy Tennis Club member, you played a match with him and showed him the love of the game. Troy joined the club and journey with Hugo and Emily around the world cheering up people with tennis while recruiting members.

Gameplay
You journey around the world challenging players in tennis and recruiting players into Happy Tennis club. There are a total of 75 opponents in the game where they will challenge you to a game of single or double matches.

The matches are in 2 or more games decider. There are also some special rules in certain matches like No Advantages if score is tied at 40-40, single serve and etc. When you win a match, you will be awarded with loyalty points where if you hit certain level, the specific character will be granted with additional abilities like rising shot and etc …

Similar to Everybody’s Golf, the tennis version also have a lot of costumes to dress up your characters. You can unlock the avatars by accumulating points won from the tennis matches. There are too many to unlock and I am still unlocking it even after completing the game.

The game will end twice. Once when you have beaten the tournament champion and the second time after you found out the truth behind the real Happy Tennis Club. After that, you can journey anywhere in the world and unlocked to battle the remaining mysterious or hidden opponents. You will also unlocked new tennis courts.

Game for a tennis match and can you cheer people up with tennis?

Marmaduke is a typical Great Dane which understands his family in and outs but causes trouble everywhere. Phil is a workaholic trying to give his all to his family. At the new location, he brings Marmaduke to the dog park to meet his boss, Don Twombly (William H. Macy) to discuss about an ad campaign to win over the competitor and getting their product into every pet store.

At the park, Marmaduke made some new friends and enemies. Marmaduke saw a beautiful dog named Jezebel (voiced over by Fergie) whose boyfriend; Bosco (voiced over by Kiefer Sutherland) ruled the park. Bosco gave Marmaduke a warning and asked him to stay away from them and their sacred place.

Marmaduke then met Mazie (voiced over by Emma Stone) and gang – Giuseppe, a Chinese crested dog (voiced over by Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and Raisin the Dachshund (voiced over by Steve Coogan). Mazie invited Marmaduke to her party but Marmaduke destroyed the old juke box. He then suggested that they should crash Bosco’s party. On their way there, they cross path with Chupadogra (voiced over by Sam Elliott), who is feared for killing its owner.

The next day, Marmaduke asked Mazie to groom him into a top dog so that he can have a girlfriend. Mazie even gave her favorite toy to Marmaduke for the grooming session misunderstood that Marmaduke was actually falling for her. The next day, Marmaduke asked Carlos (a cat voiced over by George Lopez) to drop in at the park. Marmaduke pretended to be the mighty ferocious dog taking up a cat and hurting Carlos in the end.

While on the way to work, Phil thought up an idea for the ad campaign with some unintentional help from Marmaduke. He suggested to his boss who didn’t bought the idea and Phil asked him to believe in him. They went on with the plan and launch the dog surfing competition. The competition was between Bosco and Marmaduke. Marmaduke is afraid of water and when he saw he huge wave coming in, he bump Bosco out of the surfing board. Marmaduke then struggles to stay afloat from the water but appear to be surfing the waves from the audience point of view. He even performed a stunt towards the end before plunging into the sea. Marmaduke won the competition. Bosco was irritated about it and chase Marmaduke. Marmaduke wants to avoid a fight and ran all over the stage ruining the whole event which supposedly a successful event.

The next day at the dog park, Marmaduke was the new leader of the park. He was so happy that he has got Jezebel as his girlfriend and told off Mazie and the gang. Marmaduke even brought Jezebel on Mazie’s dream date. Marmaduke then organize a party at his house while the Winslow family is going on a work cum holiday at the boat as Phil was given a second chance by the organizers. Bosco crashes the party and discovers Carlos. Bosco unveil the whole act and everyone left the party. Marmaduke was left with no friends and a damaged house.

When the Winslow family returns home from the holiday, they were shock at their damaged house. Phil was so angry that he sent Marmaduke to sleep outside in the yard. Marmaduke was drenched in the rain and decided to run away from home. He took the toy that Mazie gave him and went to her house to return it. Marmaduke ran and stumble across a shelter which Chupadogra resides. He later learned the real truth about Chupadogra (also named Buster) and thanked him for his advice and return home. Marmaduke was lost on the way home.

Mazie wasn’t ready to forgive and took the toy back to his house. Upon reaching, Carlos told him that he is not home and found out that he had run away. She gathered the gang to search for him but failed.

The next morning, Phil woke up and found out that his kids are unhappy all along with some help from Marmaduke’s hints. He was so focus on the job that he had ignored his family. The Winslow later found out Marmaduke had ran away and drove around town to search for him.

Marmaduke ran and ran and later saw Mazie across the street. Both of them cross eyes and ran towards each other. Phil who was fired for not attending an important meeting to search for Marmaduke also saw Marmaduke in the traffic jam and chase after him on foot. When Marmaduke was about to reach Mazie, the ground below collapse and Mazie fell inside. The strong raging water flushed Mazie away. Marmaduke jump in to save her leaving Phil in dismay.

The firemen told Phil that they are conducting a rescue plan. The firemen somehow manage to save Mazie but lost Marmaduke to strong waves of raging waters. Phil was sad and did not give up hope. He ran towards the river and saw Marmaduke struggling in it. He jump into the water to rescue his dog but was also struggling to hold on due to the strong rushing water. He later persuaded Marmaduke to come over to him and succeeded and later was rescued by the fire department to safety.

The entire incident was recorded by some kids and uploaded on Youtube. The whole incident was so famous that it already has 700, 000 hits. Phil was reinstated but hesitated for a moment. He wanted to move back to Kansas but his family suggested otherwise. He and Don later came out with a fantastic ad after securing a huge deal with Petco.

I think you can find strips of Marmaduke comics back in the old Malay Mail comic section

Marmaduke later told Bosco off at the park and declare that everyone can share a piece of the so called sacred place. Marmaduke was worried about Jezebel was in love with him but she told him that she wanted time to be alone and asked him to go after Mazie. Marmaduke and Mazie began a couple and begin dating.

This movie is very relaxing and family oriented movie. Suitable for kids and adults with the numerous cats and dogs involved. It also has a beautiful storyline with some moral values in it. Did you know Marmaduke originated from comic strips?

P.s. Is the review a bit complicated? I find my review slightly complicated and messy. Maybe today I have wrote too many articles already. I need to rest … 3 PSP articles and 1 movie review.

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