Last weekend, we had a mini-minor gathering in one of our friends' place... for Christmas...
it all started when we found out that, he bought a Christmas tree... so, why 'waste' a Christmas tree standing there so lonely??? therefore, we came out with a small Christmas gathering plan... and he offered to cook... yeh!! ^_^V
Another reason was also, ever since we got back in town, we haven't really met all our friends yet... so, Christmas is always a good time to gather around with friends...
As for me... in fact, this year is the first year where we (friends) actually gathered together for Christmas... which is... mm... hehe... a good trend to start... among us... kekekeke!!!!
potluck, or some simple dinner prepared by somebody... especially the latter... is always a very warm thing to think about... huh???
Err... where are the people??? forgive me for forgetting to take the pictures of all the 'guests' around... ^_^;;
as i was putting all my soul and my heart on the food that night, we forgot to take pictures of the people, but only the food!!! keke!!
looked very professional huh???
there's one thing that i finished nearly half of the plate, but is not in this picture... it's tuna stuffed-cherry tomatoes... too handy for me to stop picking and nicking on them... as well as the platter of sushi... ^,^
maybe i'm old, maybe i'm too imaginative, maybe i'm too indulged to the festive mood... as i always think that Christmas has to happen in winter... therefore, in places with super hot weather... i just couldn't have my Christmas mood... however... this year, it's slightly different...
maybe i'm old, maybe i'm too imaginative, maybe i'm too indulged to the festive mood... Christmas this year... summer or winter, didn't really matter too much to me anymore... but, having a Christmas gathering in a very White-ly decorated house... did have its White Christmas effect... ^_^... ghee!!!
having close friends around, in a cosy little house (with cool air-conditioned) really did give one a very warm feeling... warmth in winter... (well... i know outside is damn hot!!! and i was sweating like mad!!! but as i said... maybe i was too indulged to this winter-white-Christmas mood!!!)
I know it's a little bit late.. but Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!
2006-12-14
Small Car with the Big Personality...
haha!!!! i wonder if anybody can tell me, where my 'subject' came from???? i wanted to talk about something like this 2 weeks ago, when my little kancil hit the road again!!!! after 9 months without its beloved owner... my 'xiao p' a.k.a p-chan...
ya, 2 weeks ago, when we came back, when we started my 'xiao p', when i finally drove it myself... i somehow felt 'belonged'... my 'small car with the big personality'..... kakaka!!!! i like to say it, even though... even though... for those who still can recall... it's this commercial by the slutty Ruby Wax, for Vauxhall... (not sure if this car is still around though)
i like to call my 'xiao p' --- a small car with the big personality... kakakakaka!!!!!!
as... well... i practically drove it like a four-wheel drive, and stuff my guests in like it's a MPV... yo!!!!
maybe the one more thing that i've gotta try, is to DRIFT!!!! kakakakak!!! (in my dream)
today, i just sent it for services... a thorough check-up... woo!!! now, it feel even better to drive it.... it's like, it's been given this new energy jab by the workshop mechanic... a full dose!!!!
anyway, while i was waiting for the car to be 'serviced', i went to a small coffee shop nearby, to drink drink and eat eat, and read read newspaper, and talk talk on the phone, or send send sms... i am never a fan of 'wanton' noodle... or, maybe because of this reason, today... i actually thought that the 'wanton' noodle that i had, was good.... (i shall bring him there, to re-evaluate)... that shop was err... i think, was run by old people... the ONLY stall is the 'wanton' noodle stall... (now you see the reason why i, as a non-'wanton' noodle fan, would order a 'wanton' noodle)... the one and only stall was offering 1. 'wanton' noodle, and 2. prawn noodle... the stall is run by an old couple... and i saw that, the tea person, was an old lady... THAT's ALL!!! yep, plus a young guy who helps deliver the drinks...
ooh!!! by now, you can see that, i'm not even a fan of prawn noodle, and between the two, i suppose... 'wanton' noodle is still better... ^_^ at least, for me... ^_^
so... if you come to puchong... ^_^... at the big junction between puchong-LDP-sg.besi... the car workshop that i frequent is called Dinar Daya, and that coffee shop, apparently 'nameless'... is in the same row as dinar daya, facing the LDP, facing the fly-over...
... you can have a try of the 'wanton' noodle... ^_^V
hahaha!!!! as you can see... actually i want to talk about food, rather than my 'small car with the big personality!!'
ya, 2 weeks ago, when we came back, when we started my 'xiao p', when i finally drove it myself... i somehow felt 'belonged'... my 'small car with the big personality'..... kakaka!!!! i like to say it, even though... even though... for those who still can recall... it's this commercial by the slutty Ruby Wax, for Vauxhall... (not sure if this car is still around though)
i like to call my 'xiao p' --- a small car with the big personality... kakakakaka!!!!!!
as... well... i practically drove it like a four-wheel drive, and stuff my guests in like it's a MPV... yo!!!!
maybe the one more thing that i've gotta try, is to DRIFT!!!! kakakakak!!! (in my dream)
today, i just sent it for services... a thorough check-up... woo!!! now, it feel even better to drive it.... it's like, it's been given this new energy jab by the workshop mechanic... a full dose!!!!
anyway, while i was waiting for the car to be 'serviced', i went to a small coffee shop nearby, to drink drink and eat eat, and read read newspaper, and talk talk on the phone, or send send sms... i am never a fan of 'wanton' noodle... or, maybe because of this reason, today... i actually thought that the 'wanton' noodle that i had, was good.... (i shall bring him there, to re-evaluate)... that shop was err... i think, was run by old people... the ONLY stall is the 'wanton' noodle stall... (now you see the reason why i, as a non-'wanton' noodle fan, would order a 'wanton' noodle)... the one and only stall was offering 1. 'wanton' noodle, and 2. prawn noodle... the stall is run by an old couple... and i saw that, the tea person, was an old lady... THAT's ALL!!! yep, plus a young guy who helps deliver the drinks...
ooh!!! by now, you can see that, i'm not even a fan of prawn noodle, and between the two, i suppose... 'wanton' noodle is still better... ^_^ at least, for me... ^_^
so... if you come to puchong... ^_^... at the big junction between puchong-LDP-sg.besi... the car workshop that i frequent is called Dinar Daya, and that coffee shop, apparently 'nameless'... is in the same row as dinar daya, facing the LDP, facing the fly-over...
... you can have a try of the 'wanton' noodle... ^_^V
hahaha!!!! as you can see... actually i want to talk about food, rather than my 'small car with the big personality!!'
2006-12-05
When everything is down the drain, you're down the drain!!! ^_^V
guess what happened again?????????
ok... this started from the very beginning...
In the beginning of time... (ie. When we just got back from Oz/S'pore)
1. my astro, still can't view anything, even the basic channels... even though i have been paying when we're away... (cos, i've been paying the minimum while we're able to view some 'extra' channels, so, i thought i shouldn't 'touch' the subscription... see!!! there's never free lunch huh!!! now i got backfired.. which i hope not!!!)... in fact, we couldn't view any of them since this august... but i was not around... (he came back alone) so, only now, i called astro to try to solve...
2. and guess what??? i called astro, since last week... immediately after we got back, their system was down... then, i waited for a few days, called again, system still down, i couldn't stop myself from asking them, “your system has been down for many many days, doesn't your boss question any of you or scold any of you???” of course i won't be given any 'satisfying' answer... to date (2006-12-05) the system is still not up yet... i called them yesterday, they told me, TODAY!!!!! after 2pm... ya, hope you're right!!!
3. then, mid of last week, we went to IKEA and Harvey Norman, bought some new furniture, and a fridge, a washing machine, and a dryer... (washing machine and dryer came in a bundle, just couldn't resist!!! i know i know, i'm bad shopper!! ^_^)
4. so, later in the week, ikea sent the items that we ordered to our place, and we 'ordered' them to be assembled... however... half way through their assembling process... i noticed a scratch on the front panel... i voiced it out, they (surprisingly without any 'resistance') said they'd exchange it for me...
5. first, there's scratched door, second, there's one screw lack in the packing, so, they couldn't fix one of the 'legs'... ie. My cabinet couldn't stand!!!
6. then, we ordered that, our cabinet door could be fixed with extra key... it's called EFEKTIF A, then, we (including the ikea assembly men) discovered that, the EFEKTIF A, should come together with EFEKTIF B, ie. One is key hole, one is key~~~ goodness!!! now then we know that, ANY EFEKTIF B key will be able to open ANY EFEKTIF A keyhole!!!! SMART!!!
7. 3 unsolved outstanding 'issues' from ikea... however, the assembly men couldn't do anything, the procedure would be... i call the customer services (to launch a complain, i believe), then, the customer services will check with the delivery/assembly men again, then, they'll pass it on to the home delivery DEPARTMENT... THEN home delivery will call me to fix another time and date to come fix the 'issues'
8. however, let me tell you, IT'S EXTREMELY EXTREMELY difficult to get through the IKEA customer services line, and the customer services' staff was not really very helpful... or i'll put it this way... the first person that i spoke to, was not really THAT willing to help (huh!! i wonder why she want to be in customer services department... @#%@#^@^) mind you, her name is SHEENA... then, after zillions of time of trying, i managed to speak to another person again, called Addy... i complained to him about Sheena... this time, finally, he's willing to help and came back to me with something... ya, finally, to fix the second 'delivery' (the screw, the door replacement, and the key)
9. second time, ikea people came... after fixing the keyhole and replacing the door, one of them told us this... the screw that they're given, was WRONG again... so, they need to go back to change, and get the RIGHT ONE!!! oh, before they can proceed.. i've to go through the painful process of getting through their customer services phone line... ok.. this time, it's slightly easier...
10. finally, ikea people came, for the third time.. and finally, our cabinet is FIXED!!!
11. parallelly... our washing machine!!!! hm!!! see... when they delivered the washing machine, dryer and fridge the other day... i was basically over-joyed... at the fact that, i finally can do my laundrette easily (initially, we're using the super ancient twin-tub machine, ie. You gotta fill up the water... and stop the water inlet when it's full, then, start the machine, then, after a few round of washing, you gotta transfer the wet laundrette to the other tub to spin... ie. You can't sleep, you can't go out, and you've to be there to keep an eye when you're doing your laundrette... ^_^ ya, we've been using THAT for err... nearly 8 years!!) so... i was too thrilled to use the machine... i washed the pile of mountain-high laundrette... then, the next day... still thinking of continuing... however... i found out that, the machine refused to drain automatically, and even i forced it to drain.. it refused to spin... so, i called the harvey norman sales... as it was a weekend, he told me, he'll help me to get the electrolux guy on monday (the following day)... fine!!!
12. therefore, yesterday (monday) i called the same sales guy to make sure that he helped me to contact electrolux... (which i think, i can do it myself, however, since it's newly purchased goods, i guess, it'll be better if i go through the same dealer) ... in the afternoon, while i was taking my afternoon nap, electrolux lady called me up, to tell me the time when their engineer will come... mm... at least, she sounded much more helpful than the IKEA customer services... (huh!! i wondered... if if happened that we bought the item and decided to assemble ourselves... and halfway through, or upon near completion, then only we found out that, there's one screw less... what would we have to do?? arrgh... don't tell me, i've to dissemble the whole thing and bring it back to ikea???...)
13. anyway... at the moment, my washing machine is still 'hanging there', as the engineer is not here yet... but guess what?? last night, i boot up my PC (after the PREVIOUS REFORMATTING) ... it failed to launch the explorer.exe process... ie. After booting into the supposed OS.. i can't see anything but blank... can't see any icon, nothing!!!!! then i tried to see what's happening, by doing the ctrl-alt-del... another message popped up and told me that, the task manager was failed to launch (as well!!!) FINE!!!!!
14. the last thing i DIDN'T do, was to bash the keyboard, as well as the notebook... however.. maybe after all the 'events' since the past week, and a very recent reformatting of my PC... or maybe after a long night of watching TV/DVD... my brain functioned a little bit slow, as to feel anything about this... so, i relaxingly took out my rescue disk... (since the last reformat was not THAT far away... therefore, those CDs were still around my side)...
and there i am... happily typing away over here... ^_^
as this time, it's different from the last 'need-to-reformat' event, (my PC was hacked) i didn't know what really happened... as i mentioned, not far from the last reformat and re-arrange and re-configuration... somehow, quite immediately after 1.5 day of rest (for my PC) then suddenly the whole OS failed to launch the vital basic explorer.exe process........
but fine!! fine!! fine!!!!!!....
ok... this started from the very beginning...
In the beginning of time... (ie. When we just got back from Oz/S'pore)
1. my astro, still can't view anything, even the basic channels... even though i have been paying when we're away... (cos, i've been paying the minimum while we're able to view some 'extra' channels, so, i thought i shouldn't 'touch' the subscription... see!!! there's never free lunch huh!!! now i got backfired.. which i hope not!!!)... in fact, we couldn't view any of them since this august... but i was not around... (he came back alone) so, only now, i called astro to try to solve...
2. and guess what??? i called astro, since last week... immediately after we got back, their system was down... then, i waited for a few days, called again, system still down, i couldn't stop myself from asking them, “your system has been down for many many days, doesn't your boss question any of you or scold any of you???” of course i won't be given any 'satisfying' answer... to date (2006-12-05) the system is still not up yet... i called them yesterday, they told me, TODAY!!!!! after 2pm... ya, hope you're right!!!
3. then, mid of last week, we went to IKEA and Harvey Norman, bought some new furniture, and a fridge, a washing machine, and a dryer... (washing machine and dryer came in a bundle, just couldn't resist!!! i know i know, i'm bad shopper!! ^_^)
4. so, later in the week, ikea sent the items that we ordered to our place, and we 'ordered' them to be assembled... however... half way through their assembling process... i noticed a scratch on the front panel... i voiced it out, they (surprisingly without any 'resistance') said they'd exchange it for me...
5. first, there's scratched door, second, there's one screw lack in the packing, so, they couldn't fix one of the 'legs'... ie. My cabinet couldn't stand!!!
6. then, we ordered that, our cabinet door could be fixed with extra key... it's called EFEKTIF A, then, we (including the ikea assembly men) discovered that, the EFEKTIF A, should come together with EFEKTIF B, ie. One is key hole, one is key~~~ goodness!!! now then we know that, ANY EFEKTIF B key will be able to open ANY EFEKTIF A keyhole!!!! SMART!!!
7. 3 unsolved outstanding 'issues' from ikea... however, the assembly men couldn't do anything, the procedure would be... i call the customer services (to launch a complain, i believe), then, the customer services will check with the delivery/assembly men again, then, they'll pass it on to the home delivery DEPARTMENT... THEN home delivery will call me to fix another time and date to come fix the 'issues'
8. however, let me tell you, IT'S EXTREMELY EXTREMELY difficult to get through the IKEA customer services line, and the customer services' staff was not really very helpful... or i'll put it this way... the first person that i spoke to, was not really THAT willing to help (huh!! i wonder why she want to be in customer services department... @#%@#^@^) mind you, her name is SHEENA... then, after zillions of time of trying, i managed to speak to another person again, called Addy... i complained to him about Sheena... this time, finally, he's willing to help and came back to me with something... ya, finally, to fix the second 'delivery' (the screw, the door replacement, and the key)
9. second time, ikea people came... after fixing the keyhole and replacing the door, one of them told us this... the screw that they're given, was WRONG again... so, they need to go back to change, and get the RIGHT ONE!!! oh, before they can proceed.. i've to go through the painful process of getting through their customer services phone line... ok.. this time, it's slightly easier...
10. finally, ikea people came, for the third time.. and finally, our cabinet is FIXED!!!
11. parallelly... our washing machine!!!! hm!!! see... when they delivered the washing machine, dryer and fridge the other day... i was basically over-joyed... at the fact that, i finally can do my laundrette easily (initially, we're using the super ancient twin-tub machine, ie. You gotta fill up the water... and stop the water inlet when it's full, then, start the machine, then, after a few round of washing, you gotta transfer the wet laundrette to the other tub to spin... ie. You can't sleep, you can't go out, and you've to be there to keep an eye when you're doing your laundrette... ^_^ ya, we've been using THAT for err... nearly 8 years!!) so... i was too thrilled to use the machine... i washed the pile of mountain-high laundrette... then, the next day... still thinking of continuing... however... i found out that, the machine refused to drain automatically, and even i forced it to drain.. it refused to spin... so, i called the harvey norman sales... as it was a weekend, he told me, he'll help me to get the electrolux guy on monday (the following day)... fine!!!
12. therefore, yesterday (monday) i called the same sales guy to make sure that he helped me to contact electrolux... (which i think, i can do it myself, however, since it's newly purchased goods, i guess, it'll be better if i go through the same dealer) ... in the afternoon, while i was taking my afternoon nap, electrolux lady called me up, to tell me the time when their engineer will come... mm... at least, she sounded much more helpful than the IKEA customer services... (huh!! i wondered... if if happened that we bought the item and decided to assemble ourselves... and halfway through, or upon near completion, then only we found out that, there's one screw less... what would we have to do?? arrgh... don't tell me, i've to dissemble the whole thing and bring it back to ikea???...)
13. anyway... at the moment, my washing machine is still 'hanging there', as the engineer is not here yet... but guess what?? last night, i boot up my PC (after the PREVIOUS REFORMATTING) ... it failed to launch the explorer.exe process... ie. After booting into the supposed OS.. i can't see anything but blank... can't see any icon, nothing!!!!! then i tried to see what's happening, by doing the ctrl-alt-del... another message popped up and told me that, the task manager was failed to launch (as well!!!) FINE!!!!!
14. the last thing i DIDN'T do, was to bash the keyboard, as well as the notebook... however.. maybe after all the 'events' since the past week, and a very recent reformatting of my PC... or maybe after a long night of watching TV/DVD... my brain functioned a little bit slow, as to feel anything about this... so, i relaxingly took out my rescue disk... (since the last reformat was not THAT far away... therefore, those CDs were still around my side)...
and there i am... happily typing away over here... ^_^
as this time, it's different from the last 'need-to-reformat' event, (my PC was hacked) i didn't know what really happened... as i mentioned, not far from the last reformat and re-arrange and re-configuration... somehow, quite immediately after 1.5 day of rest (for my PC) then suddenly the whole OS failed to launch the vital basic explorer.exe process........
but fine!! fine!! fine!!!!!!....
2006-12-01
Feather Sleep
can anybody tell me how to sleep on a feather pillow??? gosh!!! i'm not the type of person who'll have problem with different places or different bed and so on... however, when it's a feather pillow... that's it... that's it... there go my good night sleep...
the first time we have to 'suffer' a feather pillow was in singapore...
however... these 2 days... over here... gosh!!!! there're many cushions, pillows in one bed... you know, typical marriott, reinassance style... but ALL OF THEM are feather-filled... so.. you can imagine... the sleeping queen can't sleep!!!!!!!! (cry!!! end of the world!!)
i really really have problem with feather pillows... no matter how i sleep... it'll get pressed to thinner and thinner... and then, you feel like, you're not sleeping on anything...
and it won't be shaped back like most of the other cheap sponge pillows, or cotton pillows, to the more expensive memory pillows... it just won't 'bounce' back to its original shape... that's what i hate about feather pillows...
and that's why, i've been blogging whole night...
this morning, near morning hour... i tried to get some sleep... but, no matter how i placed my head... upside down, inside out, right and left... etc.... whatever stunt i could do with my head and my neck, all i tried.. but i just couldn't sleep well...
now... can anybody just tell me... if you know the trick to sleep, on a feather pillow!!!!!
otherwise, i seriously doubt the usability of feather pillows... i guess, they're first invented purely, and solely, for pillow fight!! that's all!!!
ja!!
the first time we have to 'suffer' a feather pillow was in singapore...
however... these 2 days... over here... gosh!!!! there're many cushions, pillows in one bed... you know, typical marriott, reinassance style... but ALL OF THEM are feather-filled... so.. you can imagine... the sleeping queen can't sleep!!!!!!!! (cry!!! end of the world!!)
i really really have problem with feather pillows... no matter how i sleep... it'll get pressed to thinner and thinner... and then, you feel like, you're not sleeping on anything...
and it won't be shaped back like most of the other cheap sponge pillows, or cotton pillows, to the more expensive memory pillows... it just won't 'bounce' back to its original shape... that's what i hate about feather pillows...
and that's why, i've been blogging whole night...
this morning, near morning hour... i tried to get some sleep... but, no matter how i placed my head... upside down, inside out, right and left... etc.... whatever stunt i could do with my head and my neck, all i tried.. but i just couldn't sleep well...
now... can anybody just tell me... if you know the trick to sleep, on a feather pillow!!!!!
otherwise, i seriously doubt the usability of feather pillows... i guess, they're first invented purely, and solely, for pillow fight!! that's all!!!
ja!!
Beef Noodle and Tempura
whenever i see Jay Chou's MTV, or hear his song... they remind me of what momoko (matilda tao) has said about him...
she's one entry about Jay Chou in her blog... (i've posted her link in my link page... ^_^)
for those who don't read chinese... this is what she said... which i find it very funny and err... 'inspiring' in a way...
when i first saw the title of her blog... i couldn't quite understand... cos, she put Jay Chou together with Beef Noodle... err.... @_@?????
she said, she just couldn't understand why people like to complain about how Jay Chou never bother to change his singing style and so on... which, ya, i notice... since the very beginning till now... his songs are all the same style... ya... all these years... ^_^
that's how she put it...
"imagine, once upon a time, when there's no beef noodle at all in this world... and one day, maybe ah wong got struck by lightning and invented the famous beef noodle for the century... and after that, everybody started to copy ah wong and also sell beef noodle...
and now, you start to ask, 'hey, ah wong, you only know how to sell beef noodle meh??!!!'...
ya!!! don't tell me you now expect the famous beef noodle ah wong (the creator of beef noodle) to start selling tempura and waffles and so on!!!???"
further on... she said, style, and even a genre is very difficult to be invented..., ie. not everybody can do it... if you don't like beef noodle, then, go somewhere else!!!
ha!!! i like it!!! momoko!!!
since then... whenever i see Jay Chou... i just can't help but see him as THE beef noodle sometimes.. and i'll talk about it...
same as today... i suddenly thought about Jay Chou, so... i somehow thought of writing it down, to share with my english-speaking friends... ^_^V
she's one entry about Jay Chou in her blog... (i've posted her link in my link page... ^_^)
for those who don't read chinese... this is what she said... which i find it very funny and err... 'inspiring' in a way...
when i first saw the title of her blog... i couldn't quite understand... cos, she put Jay Chou together with Beef Noodle... err.... @_@?????
she said, she just couldn't understand why people like to complain about how Jay Chou never bother to change his singing style and so on... which, ya, i notice... since the very beginning till now... his songs are all the same style... ya... all these years... ^_^
that's how she put it...
"imagine, once upon a time, when there's no beef noodle at all in this world... and one day, maybe ah wong got struck by lightning and invented the famous beef noodle for the century... and after that, everybody started to copy ah wong and also sell beef noodle...
and now, you start to ask, 'hey, ah wong, you only know how to sell beef noodle meh??!!!'...
ya!!! don't tell me you now expect the famous beef noodle ah wong (the creator of beef noodle) to start selling tempura and waffles and so on!!!???"
further on... she said, style, and even a genre is very difficult to be invented..., ie. not everybody can do it... if you don't like beef noodle, then, go somewhere else!!!
ha!!! i like it!!! momoko!!!
since then... whenever i see Jay Chou... i just can't help but see him as THE beef noodle sometimes.. and i'll talk about it...
same as today... i suddenly thought about Jay Chou, so... i somehow thought of writing it down, to share with my english-speaking friends... ^_^V
Flags of "their" Fathers
^_^ i didn't mention that we went to watch "Flags of our Fathers"... while it was released in Oz...
mm... it's not a film that many like to mention after they watch it i guess... even though it's more 'mentioned' before it's in the theatre!!!
mm... nothing much to say about a wartime movie... besides death, and more death...
one thing worth noted was that, while we were in the cinema, we noticed, there weren't many people from the younger generation... the theatre was, err... 20% filled, or less.. and besides us, i guess, the rest of the 20% were mainly old men... which i guess, were directly or indirectly involved in that war, or other similar war that's being shown...
actually, for a moment, i felt sad seeing them, standing there, while the movie was finished and they started showing all the real-life photos on the screen, and those old men were just standing there, staring at the screen... i quickly moved myself out of the theatre, scared that, i'll break into tears again...
i wouldn't way i feel how they feel, but i more or less know what the movie was about...
as i said, wartime movie, nothing much to talk about and nothing 'exciting' to talk about.. besides deaths...
the only interesting part was the very end, where the main character John (young John played by Ryan Phillippe, he's still cute and still very Ryan Phillippe, (i thought he's sparks in his eyes ^_^) after all these years ^_^) finally passed away...
one thing he said... that, there's no real hero... when they're fighting in the battlefield, they fought for their friends, fought for those they loved...
Coincidently... i watched a japanese movie, called "Bokudachi no Sensou" (Our War)... it's slightly lighter and more towards those sci-fi storyline.. however, in the end, the leading actor also said the similar things... ie. "i don't care if i'm fight thing for a war, or for our country, but as for me, i'm fighting for my friend, for those that i love!!"...
i'm very much looking forward to the release of the japanese side of story, ie. "letter from iwojima", starring Ken Watanabe, and my favourite Nino-chan (pronounced as 'chyan') from Arashi... \(^o^)/ i'm sure he'll do the role well...
^_^.........
mm... it's not a film that many like to mention after they watch it i guess... even though it's more 'mentioned' before it's in the theatre!!!
mm... nothing much to say about a wartime movie... besides death, and more death...
one thing worth noted was that, while we were in the cinema, we noticed, there weren't many people from the younger generation... the theatre was, err... 20% filled, or less.. and besides us, i guess, the rest of the 20% were mainly old men... which i guess, were directly or indirectly involved in that war, or other similar war that's being shown...
actually, for a moment, i felt sad seeing them, standing there, while the movie was finished and they started showing all the real-life photos on the screen, and those old men were just standing there, staring at the screen... i quickly moved myself out of the theatre, scared that, i'll break into tears again...
i wouldn't way i feel how they feel, but i more or less know what the movie was about...
as i said, wartime movie, nothing much to talk about and nothing 'exciting' to talk about.. besides deaths...
the only interesting part was the very end, where the main character John (young John played by Ryan Phillippe, he's still cute and still very Ryan Phillippe, (i thought he's sparks in his eyes ^_^) after all these years ^_^) finally passed away...
one thing he said... that, there's no real hero... when they're fighting in the battlefield, they fought for their friends, fought for those they loved...
Coincidently... i watched a japanese movie, called "Bokudachi no Sensou" (Our War)... it's slightly lighter and more towards those sci-fi storyline.. however, in the end, the leading actor also said the similar things... ie. "i don't care if i'm fight thing for a war, or for our country, but as for me, i'm fighting for my friend, for those that i love!!"...
i'm very much looking forward to the release of the japanese side of story, ie. "letter from iwojima", starring Ken Watanabe, and my favourite Nino-chan (pronounced as 'chyan') from Arashi... \(^o^)/ i'm sure he'll do the role well...
^_^.........
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