Last weekend, my mom and two brothers went to Kuala Lumpur by car for one of our relatives' wedding. While they were there, they thought it was a good chance to go straight to my house at Port Dickson after the ceremony to meet me and my kids. 

They live in Terengganu which is around 5 to 6 hours of driving from Port Dickson so I rarely see them much. For them to stop by and stay for a couple of days meant a lot to me. 

My mom or ma as I call her looked basically the same except for her hair. Sitting close to her while she lay on my sofa, I noticed how much her hair has turned gray or white and it hit me hard on the chest. She's getting older and one day, maybe sooner or later, she would be gone. 

I love my ma. She's the rock that has been holding the family together. 

My eldest brother was raised by our grandmother and my two younger brothers were too young to understand and see how hard ma worked to put meals on the table when abah was not around for some time. I was in school and abah left us for months a few times. Not saying that abah was wrong. He was fighting his demons and didn't want us to be caught in crossfires. The time that he was gone made an impact and abah came back a far better man. Al-fatihah to abah. 

But the times when he was gone was rough. You can say that I didn't leave the house for anything because I helped ma. I went to school then I came back home to help out with our grocery shop. That was it. My childhood was kinda meh. Maybe that's why I'm struggling to find my inner child now which is kinda tough for I am a family man and must act like a man. 

Ma never gave up on abah. No matter what he did and how imperfect he was, she always accepted him back. Her love made him change. 

She rarely gives me hugs or kisses. We're not that kind of family where everyone are so close physically with each other. But whenever she does hug or kiss me, the feeling lingers for a long time and I long for it to happen again. 

I haven't been the best of her children. But I hope she knows that I do love her and I long for her. I miss her and under different situations, I would choose to be with her. 

On a side note, I feel so proud of my wife for hanging out with ma. We went to IKEA and IOI City Mall and my wife and ma had some bonding moments. They did gardening together and it just melted my heart that they could get along. Two different women. Both are strong. Both are mine. 

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS

SYNOPSIS: 

After the snap (refer to previous movie), what's left of the Avengers and Captain Marvel tracked down Thanos to bring everyone back. However, Thanos had destroyed the Infinity Stones, leaving each one of them feeling helpless and hopeless. That was until Ant-Man, who people thought had disappeared because of the snap, suddenly appearing at the Avengers Headquarters front gate. 

I didn't want to watch the trailers. I don't like watching trailers because most of them sort of give too many details which ruin surprises in movies. So, at first I didn't want to watch the Endgame trailers but everyone kept talking about it and it kept appearing on my Youtube home so I just WHAT THE HECK OKAY I WATCH IT NOW. 

I have to say that the trailer had done a good job in misleading me to believe that Endgame would be an all out war against Thanos from the start til the end. Especially the part where it shows everyone wearing the white space suit. I thought, YEAH LETS GO GET THAT SON OF A BITCH! 

Yes, they did that. But in a different suit. They were wearing black. At that point, I was thinking, hey, this looks different from the trailers. Then they found Thanos and there was no fight. Literally no fight. 

Of course I felt a bit disappointed but as the movie went on, I sort of understand why they chose the plot. It was to provide more complexity to the story and also to inject it with a little bit of heart. 

Lets talk about the story. As I mentioned, I wanted it to be a full scale battle from the start til the end. But, having it just focused on battle would not make Endgame a good movie. It would just be a meaningless, simple movie that people won't critically discuss about. A mediocre action movie. 

So instead of having them fight from the start, the movie flows at a very nice pace and then BOOM!! CLIMAX. 

To those who supported Thanos' logic in Infinity War, I just want to say, YOU'RE WRONG. The galaxy didn't strive and prosper after the loss of half of the organism. Nope. The survivors just mope around and earth became post apocalyptic. The "5 years later" scenes are so necessary to show how wrong Thanos was and his way of thinking is immature and full of nonsense optimism. It makes sense because world leaders vanished in a just one moment so there was chaos everywhere. Lead scientists vanished, pilots vanished, teachers vanished, policemen vanished. Half of the population vanished in an instant and the people left behind had no plans for this scenario. Just imagine working in a large corporation and suddenly half of the staff went missing. The company would go down into the ground. 

The "5 years later" scenes are also vital to show some emotions and how human the superheros were and also to showcase how well the actors can act. I have to admit that I cried a bit watching this movie but I don't remember during which scene because there are so many touching scenes. Maybe it was during the Hawkeye and Black Widow debate of who should be the sacrifice. Damn that scene. I remember shouting inside my head NO CLINT! YOU DIDN'T HAVE A SINGLE SCENE IN INFINITY WAR!! when he jumped. 

In addition, the "5 years later" scenes kinda serve as a flashback for Marvel Cinematic Universe fans because they got to go back to previous movies. I got chills when Captain America entered the elevator with Rumlow and the gang because the elevator scene in The Winter Soldier is my favorite scene ever. I got so hyped, I let out a weird squeal. 

The time travel part is rather complex. I am interested in the whole science thing but yeah, I have no idea what the concept is in this movie. They were very subtle in telling the audience that the time travel in Endgame is different than the ones in other time travel movies which is true. I thought when they alter the past, the present would be changed too. Like how Nebula killed her past self and yet still remained. I thought she would disintegrate into thin air. But nope, they've said it. The time travel concept is different. So ignore all of other time travel movie plots. I also thought that if they changed the past, Tony Stark's daughter would no longer exist. It was because I have watched About Time (2013) and yeah, it's different so don't think too much about it. 

In a way, the Infinity Stones are like Dragon Balls where when they're together, you can just wish anything to happen. But the catch is not all people can use it. Tony Stark used it and what did he get? End of contract. 

Damn there are so many subtle hints in the movie. The fact that the Infinity Stones were placed on a gauntlet made by Iron Man is such a foreshadowing. 

I have been wondering about whether the MCU would follow the comics on the change of characters. I mean, in the comics, Falcon became Caption America and Thor was female. Now that I have seen Endgame, I can confirm that they would proceed with it at least for a bit. Old Cap passing the shield to Sam confirms it. There are rumors on having a Falcon and Winter Soldier series which I am excited about. The way they bantered with each other during Civil War is so entertaining. I can also see Valkyrie becoming the female Thor since Natalie Portman seems reluctant in returning as Jane. Besides, Valkyrie as Thor makes more sense than Jane. 

Loki is possibly alive. He ran away using the Tesseract and who knows where (or when??) he jumped to. Time and space is a complex concept. Don't think too much about it bro. 

Pepper Potts as female Iron Man! Iron Woman? Iron Lady? Is this a thing that they would continue in the next phase? Either her or Moguna (Morgan) Stark would grow up and take daddy's role. They sort of hint it when they introduced her. She was wearing the mask. Maybe.

Oh I love how the females lined up during the last battle. FEMALE POWER WHOOP WHOOP

Okay, I have to say that Captain America weilding the hammer made me cum a bit. That was HYPE! I love that scene when he fought Thanos. Yeah thinking about the movie climax gives me chills man. I am literally having goosebumps as I am typing this because those epic fights are playing back in my mind. 

Captain Marvel where are you??? THEY NEED YOU! Boom and there she was with her big entrance. Damn, Captain Marvel sure is OP. OVERPOWERED!! 

And we finally got to see Spiderman's instant kill mode. Stab stab stab stabby mcstabface! 

Ah look at me. Instead of analyzing the movie, I have been hyping about it. I don't think this post qualifies as a review haha. It is cool because this movie is the HYPE of the century. Everything has been leading to this. 

All in all, I can say that I love this movie because of many things and this post doesn't cover all of it. Action, emotions, visuals, humor... IT HAS EVERYTHING. I think that the Russo brothers have been doing a good job and I hope that they continue their work in future Marvel movies. 

5 out of 5 Stars!

My wife Azim is in the midst of planning to go to Thailand with her friends but the thing is, kali terakhir kami nampak di mana pasport kami adalah berkurun kurun lamanya dulu. Telah kami usaha cari pasport kami, namun tidak ditemui. We lost our passports and of course they have already expired. 

Oleh itu, untuk mengelakkan daripada membazir masa ke hulu dan ke hilir, we did our online research on how to renew passports in our scenario. 

Based on what we read online, we have to go straight to Pejabat Imigresen. Luckily, Port Dickson has one which near our house. 

Apakah yang perlu dibawa? Ramai orang berkata yang tidak perlu bawa apa-apa kecuali IC. Tapi di Pejabat Imigresen Port Dickson, pegawai yang melayan kami meminta salinan photostat IC. Jadi, lebih baik tuan tuan dan puan puan sediakan salinan IC. 

Selepas memberikan salinan IC, pegawai berkenaan mengambil gambar isteri saya. Semasa kami di sana, terdapat seorang makcik yang memakai tudung merah jambu. Untuk proses mengambil gambar, pegawai imigresen mengarahkan makcik tersebut untuk memakai tudung hitam yang siap disediakan di dalam satu bilik persalinan. Your hijab and shirt must be dark colored and if they aren't, they have prepared those things for you. 

Selepas mengambil gambar, isteri saya membayar duit RM200. 

Pasport siap dalam masa satu jam. Senang sahaja.

I would like to praise the immigration officers at Pejabat Imigresen Port Dickson for being super friendly and helpful. Kami amat berpuas hati terhadap layanan yang diberikan.