a rather eventful week

it has been a rather eventful week, starting from saturday. am feeling it's a good time to recap my week as i would liked it to be remembered :)

saturday. went to catch "no regrets: a tribute to edith piaf" by hossan leong, robin goh, denise tan and company at the dbs arts centre with a friend. and i never expected myself to actually fall in love with all those french songs (even though i don't understand a single word of french, except maybe bonjour). but edith piaf's songs were really lovely. the music just touch your heart. and now i know why she was such a french icon of her time. her life was reenacted on stage through hossan's narration and it was nice to get acquainted with this french icon.

thereafter, dinner was at a german restaurant called brotzeit at 313. detoured to paradigm infinitum as it was still early. i was first brought to pi by the ex, and now i'm here again. well, i guess some thoughts/memories are better kept to myself. anyway, dinner was great though i think there was too much fats on the pork knuckles for me to enjoy it thoroughly. we had a nice time chatting away. i would have been quite glad for the night to last longer. but i guess all good things must come to an end. and i guess the song for the day would have to be 'somewhere over the rainbow' :)

sunday. attended bro's rite of acceptance. mass was rather interesting as father emmanuel conducted his homily in a different way by having a conversation with two other people. sad to say though that i kinda switched off at some parts as i had a hard time trying to understand father emmanuel's english. i will work harder to understand his accent so i won't keep switching myself off. heh.

monday. saw the doctor who delivered the verdict on the 'status' of my op. but got scolded by him first for deciding on my own to walk with only one side of the crutch. if he knew i walked with the walking stick as well, i think he will jump sky high. anyway, went in and out of the x-ray room three times. was granted permission to finally ditch the walking stick too. and so, from today on, we will pray very hard and see how things go! my dear left hip, please pass the one year test. i appreciate your kind cooperation. thank you.

tuesday. it's vesak day holiday and my family decided to catch a movie at the newly renovated lido. so we decided on 'thor' since it was the in-movie to catch at that point in time. lido looks quite impressive on the outside. in the theatres, the seats were nice, but we felt like we had to go through a maze to get to our theatre and then climb a mountain to get to our seats. definitely not handicapped friendly at all. thank god i was much better le, and had plenty of secret exercises before that day, in order to climb those steps without too much difficulty. we had bk for lunch (yay! my once-a-wk beef fix), shopped for shoes at ion (geox and aldo), grocery shopped for sushi ingredients, and ended up shopping for shoes (again!), this time at isetan (bought another two pairs - elyse and guess). i have not spent so much money in one day for a very very very long time. so, i guess this is forgivable :)

wednesday. returned for rcia lessons with the bro in church in the evening. it was... nice to be welcomed back. but out-of-place as i was away for too long (so did not know most people). no matter, i'm sure i'll blend in again soon enough. it's nice to be back in god's company :)

thursday. i usually get more things done when i am busy. was home the whole day but felt more accomplished today than any of the other days. managed to watch 'we are singaporeans' from the night before, an episode of glee (funeral), the season six finale of how i met your mother (can't wait for season seven now!) and last but not least, the social network (like, finally!). in between, i managed to upload all my postcards from postcrossing onto facebook and put in all the captions too! :)

friday. has not occurred yet, but the plan is to watch sharpay's fabulous adventures with donut in the morning, make sushi in the afternoon, and picnic plus macbeth with a friend at fort canning park in the evening :) sounds like a busy day ahead. so without further ado, i shall retire to my bed. will blog about friday when time allows.

goodnight world! :)


"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." — Mark Twain

Inception

finally, after hearing so much about the much-raved about inception, i went with wei to watch it this evening. i think i have heard so much about it that i've no idea what to think when the show ended. but still, the show is quite exciting. it keeps you on the edge of your seat almost throughout the show.

i ended up having the following questions constantly in my head: "will they get out alive?", "will they be able to complete their task?", "will they end up in limbo instead?". truth to be told, i actually felt kinda stressed during the show - trying to follow, understand, and ultimately, appreciate and enjoy it.

at the end of it all, i still think the idea behind inception is pretty much similar to that of matrix, just in a more complex form, i.e. complex matrix. but i must say that the it's still pretty ingenious. and overall, it's really quite cool. the way they had to really plan everything right down to the last nanosecond, and the way they could improvise and think on the spot is really quite exciting - a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream.

but the parts with the wife is like a horror show - she is kinda scary. and all i could think was, this cobb is one troubled man. i mean, to have that amount of baggage, and seeing his dead wife and kids in every single dream he has, how tiring it must be to be living like that. so i guess at the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether it's a dream or reality, i think as long as you're happy is what that really matters. ^^

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." — Mark Twain

Despicable Me

despicable me - being good is so overrated

caught despicable me this afternoon with wei & lj and it was great! plenty of laughs - the minions are so cute that i want my own little minions too! so are the 3 little girls - margo, edith & agnes! especially agnes who's so adorable - "it's so fluffy i'm gonna die!" and gru himself, though supposedly a villain, is quite the comedian too, saying "light bulb!" whenever he has an idea. the story shows how he changed from someone whose goal in life was to be the world's greatest super-villain to someone who just wants to be a dad and protect his children from harm. the 3 girls taught him many things - of which the most important of all was love and how family members help one another when another is in trouble. it was really quite sad when he was kinda 'forced' to send them away that i teared a little.

agnes - "does this count as annoying?" (and she proceeds to make some noise with her hands on her face and mouth as seen in the picture)

however though, the show's underlying meaning reminds me of UP - where the old man who slowly opened up his heart again and became a better (i.e. friendlier) man after being forced to befriend and spend time with a little boy.

disney pixar's UP that was released last year

it shows the power of kids - how they can change someone, from a cold, unfeeling, despicable person, to someone who's warm, caring and loving. how amazing. i believe that is true, for the love of a child is the most real and the most pure - nothing else in the world matters but you. ^^

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." — Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol 3D

caught a christmas carol in 3d at amk hub last night with wei, donut and boon. and i must say it wasn't what i expected at all. when a story as such has been remade a thousand times, the only thing you can improve on/make a difference in are the effects. and of course, i can't deny that the effects were good, especially watching it in 3d makes every single scene so much closer to you, as if you were almost part of the show itself. however, with the need to "show-off" the effects, there were some irrelevant scenes like the horsemen chasing scrooge down the streets.

there were also scenes that i really liked which were left out. like scrooge visiting his employee's family, bringing the prized turkey along with him and little tim's eyes brightening up when he sees it. this gave the movie a lack of genuine warmth and empathy. but i guess that's the problem when i've watched too many a version of the same show. the very first of which i remember was the donald duck version, where he becomes uncle scrooge, known as scrooge mcduck.

however, i still like the 3d experience of the show, where it really does feel like it's snowing in the theatre as well. and of cos, with jim carrey, there's enough inject of comedy that makes the entire experience more enjoyable. even though some attempts at it kinda failed.

and now, i wonder how the movie would have turned out for me if i had watched it in non-3d instead. perhaps it won't be as engaging, given that i know the whole story inside-out. so, for those who knows the story like the back of your hand, i suggest you catch the 3d version instead. even though it's more ex, priced at 13 bucks per ticket, it'll definitely be worth your while. =)

warning: even though it is promoted as a family movie, it may be unsuitable for young kids. even i found some scenes to be a little scary. anyhow, given that i'm a disney fan and my low expectation of films, my review of the show may be a little biased and unreliable for those with very high expectations. =P