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I was SO happy to find out that i don't have to work this week ( my bliss was short-lived however as my manager goes on to inform me that i will have to work more days next week ) because that leaves me the time to cross out the things-to-do on my list

1) Die die also must rent and watch at LEAST 2 of these movies : Silence of the lambs ( i cannot believe that i actually said "Silence of the hannibals" on Sat night to Ah Mao in my slightly tipsy stupor ) , Sin City , Untold Scandal , Se7en , Eurotrip , American History X and Monster's ball

2) CATCH NIGHT WATCH !! And i absolutely cannot wait to catch Corpse Bride as well. Mmmmh ! Tim Burton is a God.

3) Get tickets to Quills , khakis or no khakis .

4) A trip to Chinatown with camera in tow and that awesome vintage shop @ Peninsular Plaza

5) Chill out sessions with Cow and Ah Mao @ Acid Bar !

6) More chill out sessions with P and the filming crew !

7) Get a new monitor/keyboard/optical mouse AND a new whatever-you-call-that because i am getting alot of notices from my computer which goes "WARNING YOUR MEMORY IS RUNNING LOW" or something vaguely like that.

8) Skip classes for a day and hole myself up at home to channel surf ! Woo hoo , Digital Cable TV is fucking cool. Especially the pay-per-view movies , i noticed some really awesome titles like "Nobody knows" by Koreda Hirozaku and even "Untold Scandal" !!! Dangerous liaisons , anyone ? Non ?

Oh yesss i am such a film freak.

Did i mention i caught "Be with Me" with mr okay-thanks-bye ( yes i caught it with him afterall despite the terrible misunderstanding earlier on ) before he left for chilly Eindhoven ?

I'm not going to act like some arty-farty film aficionado here by declaring my love for this film ,how Eric Khoo has created a work of art , oooh the creme de la creme !

Cannes leh , mai siao siao.

To be honest i was slightly disappointed by this film , considering how i had anticipated it.

The lightings were good , tastefully subdued and some shots were absolutely surreal and captured every nuance of what the scene was supposed to depict , for example , the opening shot of the provision shop by dawn's light . The shuffling of the shop-keeper and the towkay-neo felt so mundane , yet somehow it was as if the silhouettes were a story by themselves.

I don't think i wanna contradict myself and launch into a full length critique here but what i was disappointed in was how the stories don't really seem to inter-weave , that the documentary on the protaganist was , though very much deserving , a wee bit too long-winded and tries too much to draw sympathy from the audience when empathy would be much more appropiate seeing how Theresa embraces her life.

And scene which got the film slapped with an M18 tag ?

Risque ? Hell no.

Tender ? Mmm yes.

And ha , the ending a bit too far-fetched for such a mellow theme !!

I still think the best movie i've caught this year was Perth ( though Geylang Massacre part in the title was damn dumb lah , obviously added in hastily in a bid to draw in the crowds ) , and yes i know i've waxed lyrical about this movie a gazillion times but ITS REALLY GOOD !

Lim Kay Tong is a genius.

The past few days whizzed by in a whirl and i almost forgot that i have class this morning because it felt so much like a Sunday.

Celebrated Yan's 19th birthday @ Nic's place !



Nicholas IS THE UNDISPUTED LADIES'S MAN !



Gettin a ride from Yan , who absolutely detests sleeping with me because we're always disturbing each other and successfully preventing sleep from happening

And lectures in my freezing lecture halls



Ben attempting to pull off a cinderalla stunt with my blister-inducing shoe



I just can't keep my creative juices to myself ! Yes , genius i am. HAIL THE NEXT OLD MASTER !

And thanks to my neighbour the Cow for going lantern-toting after the boring Liverpool VS Man Utd match at our friendly kopitiam with me despite your protests !! :D

And i'm sorry i almost ruined your Zippo :p

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listening to : Oasis - Today is gonna be the day ( Hahaha yes i used to think that that was the title of "Wonderwall" )