why. so, serious?
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methrowrockIt has been a crazy week. And things look set to get even crazier. I'm going about half-crazy already. But I'll survive. Somehow, someway. By hook or by crook, I had better, anyway. I won't crumble that easily though, I ain't nobody's prey. Better stop with the bad rhymes or I would be beaten up one day. HAHA. Sign of a depraved mind, perhaps. Ah.. moving on.
Finally, NDC is over. Phew. Weird huh, especially since I'm not even in the ad-hoc or HAT. The long rehearsals were draining though. I feel terrible for dragging S11 people along and depriving them of time to study. Terra didn't do that well in the end, sadly. Some may feel that it is a waste of effort; others may feel that the hours were well-spent as we had fun. I'm not quite certain as to which side to teether upon. One thing is for sure though: it can't be just S11 all the time. Please don't abuse their enthusiasm.. Thanks.
The actual day itself was a chaotic affair. Moving around band stages, programme booklets, chairs, helping with angklung, ferrying shirts, last-minute rehearsals of the segment- everything was clumped into two hours of blurry flurry. The people who stayed over must have had a worse time though. It's going to be my turn soon enough. Hurr. Cleaning up was a wearisome affair. It reminded me of Theme Hospital, the part when there was a epidemic and green radioactive patients kept puking up curly brown vomit wigs onto the ground. Frustrating. The handymans could never sweep up fast enough, despite the pay raises and bonuses. I will never look down on you again, dear $65 handyman, with Einstein hair, bewildered blank stare and midnight blue pants. R-E-S-P-E-C-T with Aretha Franklin-esque attitude, yo.
After all that was done, there was TDC meeting. So it was discuss, discuss, discuss. Stress. Lunch was much better- Suki Sushi buffet at Cine. We downed more than 70 plates, which delighted Grace because that meant we beat the 6 CJ guys at the next table. Dilys went gaga over ice-cream puffs, stuffing them into her mouth one after another. Salmon makes me happy so I had a lot of that. And you know what's better?
Yeah, Batman kicked ass, as you probably already heard. The Joker was that great, the action was that spectacular, the overall acting was that solid, the script was that tight, nearly everything went right for The Dark Knight. The only grouse I had was that it was too long but hey, there was hardly anything that wasn't worth watching. The scenes with the Singaporean dude were rather redundant to me, but he probably has a more significant role in the next movie so, yeah. Another thing I didn't like was the abruptness and swiftness of good guy Dent's transformation into the evil Two-Face. Sure, humans are hopeless creatures but his degradation was too quick and too sudden, without any plausible catalyst for his malevolent actions. Perhaps, it was because that he had such unbending rules of justice and such high standards of the innate good in people that when he witnessed the cruel, brutal side of humanity, everything that he knew before simply fell apart and he realsed what a fool he was to believe in humans in the first place. Weird, I'm rationalising it to myself but anyhoo, I still think that it would be more impactful if a struggle, an slow losing battle to evil was shown. It was still great anyway.
Joker was, in a word, phenomenal. He was such a tightly wound-up character, a manic ball of insanity and evil. He really scared the crap out of me. I was sitting in the cinema, biting my shirt collar, heart thumping furiously against the pericardium whenever he appeared onscreen. It wasn't that his apperances were gruesome or frightening. It was that he had no limits. There was nothing in the world that could stop him from bombing up a hospital full of sickly innocents or sticking a dynamite into a man's mouth or leaving trembling children to be shot at by S.W.A.T teams. You can never predict what he would do next. Nothing was too cruel, too disgusting, too violent, too extreme for him. And that was scary because everyone else has morals, has ethics, has principles, has beliefs that would stop them from going too far and you were safe, secure in that knowledge. Usually, you sit there and with a "yeah right" snort, dismiss the notion that that guy would blow up tens of thousands of passengers on cruise ships. Not him. With Joker, you were in constant trepidation, in constant apprehension of what was to come and if everything could end with the next second. The worst part was that he had no motive, no rationale before his attacks. All he wanted to do was to "watch the world burn". That's why you fear for yourself and for everybody else. He was chaos in the purest form. And Heath Ledger was simply electrifying.
My favourite parts were the cruise ship scenes, the interrogation scene with Joker and Batman and when Two-Face held Gordon's family at gunpoint. Those scenes had me all eaten up by tension. There is so much more I want to type about The Dark Knight but since I'm lazy, all I'm going to say is that it is utterly riveting and compelling. I want to watch it once more to feel all the emotions again, this time, more finely and deeply. This movie makes you think and feel a hell lot. What a bang for your buck, ya.
Topping that was walking around Orchard with Melinda, Audrey and Dilys. We tried on clothes and accessories at different stores, semi-stalked a short green-shirted guy whom Dilys went crazy over and nearly proclaimed him better than BSG, took neoprints, confused each other with similar-sounding names at Mos Burger and basically, made a racket whereever we went. It was fun. A day out in a long long time. :)
Because I am a lazy person, I watched À cause d'un garçon as well. It was not bad, I guess. A typical gay coming of age film, yeah, but a solidly acted and written one. French actors and actresses are simply gorgeous. The leads in Juste un peu de réconfort and Presque rien are damn goodlooking as well. Hahaha anyway, the movie had all the usual elements: male lead is living a lie, something happens and everybody else finds out he's gay, bullying and ostracism occurs, family finds out, uhoh family tension results while the lead refuses to get help, then something else happens and people start coming to their senses, others show their love and support for the male lead and in the end, everything ends of fine and dandy. Nothing wrong with that at all, just that it is unoriginal. Still nice to watch though. Jérémie Elkaïm is such a joy to watch. His eyes are so alluring and idunno, he simply oozes charisma from every pore.
Yet despite the many goodlookers and pleasant surroundings, I preferred Get Real much better. Get Real had more heart, I guess. The male lead was more down-to-earth and human, he wasn't perfect like Vincent who was a star swimmer and model pupil. He was more the funny, sarcastic geek who runs like a chicken and occassionally has paper wads thrown at him. Because of that, I empathised and liked him more and thus, I felt his anguish, his happiness, his emotions more deeply. Yeah, Get Real was a quaint little pleasing film. Hahaha I should probably stop investing so much emotions into films and fictional characters. Believe me, I have tried but it's near impossible. I just like movies and films. :)
Currently looking forward to Comme Une Image heh. What's with the French mania suddenly, I wonder. Just a month back, it was Naruwan Taiwan. I lose interest in things too easily for my own good. But I think I'll always be curious about China. What's more, it is the Olympic season now. Behold world, the magnificence and complexity of China. And happy belated birthday Singapore. Despite all my pretentious far-ranging interests, I'm glad to be born right here, really. :D
Finally, NDC is over. Phew. Weird huh, especially since I'm not even in the ad-hoc or HAT. The long rehearsals were draining though. I feel terrible for dragging S11 people along and depriving them of time to study. Terra didn't do that well in the end, sadly. Some may feel that it is a waste of effort; others may feel that the hours were well-spent as we had fun. I'm not quite certain as to which side to teether upon. One thing is for sure though: it can't be just S11 all the time. Please don't abuse their enthusiasm.. Thanks.
The actual day itself was a chaotic affair. Moving around band stages, programme booklets, chairs, helping with angklung, ferrying shirts, last-minute rehearsals of the segment- everything was clumped into two hours of blurry flurry. The people who stayed over must have had a worse time though. It's going to be my turn soon enough. Hurr. Cleaning up was a wearisome affair. It reminded me of Theme Hospital, the part when there was a epidemic and green radioactive patients kept puking up curly brown vomit wigs onto the ground. Frustrating. The handymans could never sweep up fast enough, despite the pay raises and bonuses. I will never look down on you again, dear $65 handyman, with Einstein hair, bewildered blank stare and midnight blue pants. R-E-S-P-E-C-T with Aretha Franklin-esque attitude, yo.
After all that was done, there was TDC meeting. So it was discuss, discuss, discuss. Stress. Lunch was much better- Suki Sushi buffet at Cine. We downed more than 70 plates, which delighted Grace because that meant we beat the 6 CJ guys at the next table. Dilys went gaga over ice-cream puffs, stuffing them into her mouth one after another. Salmon makes me happy so I had a lot of that. And you know what's better?
Yeah, Batman kicked ass, as you probably already heard. The Joker was that great, the action was that spectacular, the overall acting was that solid, the script was that tight, nearly everything went right for The Dark Knight. The only grouse I had was that it was too long but hey, there was hardly anything that wasn't worth watching. The scenes with the Singaporean dude were rather redundant to me, but he probably has a more significant role in the next movie so, yeah. Another thing I didn't like was the abruptness and swiftness of good guy Dent's transformation into the evil Two-Face. Sure, humans are hopeless creatures but his degradation was too quick and too sudden, without any plausible catalyst for his malevolent actions. Perhaps, it was because that he had such unbending rules of justice and such high standards of the innate good in people that when he witnessed the cruel, brutal side of humanity, everything that he knew before simply fell apart and he realsed what a fool he was to believe in humans in the first place. Weird, I'm rationalising it to myself but anyhoo, I still think that it would be more impactful if a struggle, an slow losing battle to evil was shown. It was still great anyway.
Joker was, in a word, phenomenal. He was such a tightly wound-up character, a manic ball of insanity and evil. He really scared the crap out of me. I was sitting in the cinema, biting my shirt collar, heart thumping furiously against the pericardium whenever he appeared onscreen. It wasn't that his apperances were gruesome or frightening. It was that he had no limits. There was nothing in the world that could stop him from bombing up a hospital full of sickly innocents or sticking a dynamite into a man's mouth or leaving trembling children to be shot at by S.W.A.T teams. You can never predict what he would do next. Nothing was too cruel, too disgusting, too violent, too extreme for him. And that was scary because everyone else has morals, has ethics, has principles, has beliefs that would stop them from going too far and you were safe, secure in that knowledge. Usually, you sit there and with a "yeah right" snort, dismiss the notion that that guy would blow up tens of thousands of passengers on cruise ships. Not him. With Joker, you were in constant trepidation, in constant apprehension of what was to come and if everything could end with the next second. The worst part was that he had no motive, no rationale before his attacks. All he wanted to do was to "watch the world burn". That's why you fear for yourself and for everybody else. He was chaos in the purest form. And Heath Ledger was simply electrifying.
My favourite parts were the cruise ship scenes, the interrogation scene with Joker and Batman and when Two-Face held Gordon's family at gunpoint. Those scenes had me all eaten up by tension. There is so much more I want to type about The Dark Knight but since I'm lazy, all I'm going to say is that it is utterly riveting and compelling. I want to watch it once more to feel all the emotions again, this time, more finely and deeply. This movie makes you think and feel a hell lot. What a bang for your buck, ya.
Topping that was walking around Orchard with Melinda, Audrey and Dilys. We tried on clothes and accessories at different stores, semi-stalked a short green-shirted guy whom Dilys went crazy over and nearly proclaimed him better than BSG, took neoprints, confused each other with similar-sounding names at Mos Burger and basically, made a racket whereever we went. It was fun. A day out in a long long time. :)
Because I am a lazy person, I watched À cause d'un garçon as well. It was not bad, I guess. A typical gay coming of age film, yeah, but a solidly acted and written one. French actors and actresses are simply gorgeous. The leads in Juste un peu de réconfort and Presque rien are damn goodlooking as well. Hahaha anyway, the movie had all the usual elements: male lead is living a lie, something happens and everybody else finds out he's gay, bullying and ostracism occurs, family finds out, uhoh family tension results while the lead refuses to get help, then something else happens and people start coming to their senses, others show their love and support for the male lead and in the end, everything ends of fine and dandy. Nothing wrong with that at all, just that it is unoriginal. Still nice to watch though. Jérémie Elkaïm is such a joy to watch. His eyes are so alluring and idunno, he simply oozes charisma from every pore.
Yet despite the many goodlookers and pleasant surroundings, I preferred Get Real much better. Get Real had more heart, I guess. The male lead was more down-to-earth and human, he wasn't perfect like Vincent who was a star swimmer and model pupil. He was more the funny, sarcastic geek who runs like a chicken and occassionally has paper wads thrown at him. Because of that, I empathised and liked him more and thus, I felt his anguish, his happiness, his emotions more deeply. Yeah, Get Real was a quaint little pleasing film. Hahaha I should probably stop investing so much emotions into films and fictional characters. Believe me, I have tried but it's near impossible. I just like movies and films. :)
Currently looking forward to Comme Une Image heh. What's with the French mania suddenly, I wonder. Just a month back, it was Naruwan Taiwan. I lose interest in things too easily for my own good. But I think I'll always be curious about China. What's more, it is the Olympic season now. Behold world, the magnificence and complexity of China. And happy belated birthday Singapore. Despite all my pretentious far-ranging interests, I'm glad to be born right here, really. :D
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