im still a fan of the original one. i agree with the review on i-weekly; the departed is much more realistic, much more brutal. but i prefer the cleverer plot of IA.

reason:

first, i prefer anathony wong's character to Martin Sheen's. cos in IA, anathony wong was more than a boss to yan. he's like a friend to him and his death actually had quite a big impact on yan and of course a big shock to the audience. but in the departed, queenan is like his boss only, if not a very friendly boss. but his death didnt really have an impact. and somemore there was the Dignam guy. so it wasnt tat bad for leo when queenan died. there was someone else who knew he was an undercover cop.

second, eric tsang is so so so much more 溅 than frank costello. serious. haha. costella is brutal, but eric tsang is.... 溅.

third, the death scene. didnt have the impact lah. the hk u can actually sense that the movie was comin to an end when the scene came. somehow, u could feel tat someone will die, only whether it was the good one or the bad one. the leo and matt scene looks a little... boring. like 'maybe this isnt the climax' tat kind of feelin.

and there's no 傻强!!

but i like the character development of leo, which wasnt really shown in IA for tony leung. and the story made much more sense. i didnt really pity tony leung in IA cos he didnt really looked tat scared. but leo really looked like he was tramutised and he was afraid for his life. matt is.. um. i like andy lau better.

anw, took this from IMDb:

The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said 237 times throughout the film.

omg. haha. that's why it's M18.

城外面我就快要崩溃
城里你不了解
狂风中飘着我的眼泪
你有没有感觉
呵……
na……

he plays nice violin but not as impressive as how tank was when he came out. but he's only 19. haha. and he's the guy from the new kfc ad. haha. but can only see on scv.

finished watching this movie this morning. woke up this morning planning to really start with my revision (it's only 5 days left!!) but sigh, i couldnt resist temptation and switched on my comp to watch this.

dont be fooled by the title and to think that this is some nazi/maozhedong history movie. this is a japanese movie actually abt this grp of students in modern japan.

this movie actually starts off tellin us to imagine japan in a very diferent situation. the police didnt have much power, the unemployment rate was high at 15% and students boycott school. so to solve this problem of delinquency, the adults came out with this Battle Royale (BR) law which each yr they will send a class onto this island and make them kill each other. for each game, there can only be one survivor and if there is more than one, everybody will die.

so it is more or less a do or die game. u wan to live u have to kill. this movie was released in dec 2000 and was initially banned in spore and many other countries. firstly becos it was jus too much gore and secondly the theme is quite morally incorrect. but after cutting, it was given a R(A) rating and recently an uncut version was released under the R21 category. but jasminelee watched this when she was in sec2. tsk tsk. haha.

i was quite put off by the gruesome scenes in the first 10min and i actually wanted to puke. so of course i stopped watching and managed to pursue jasmine into watching the show for the 2nd time. haha. and she tot the show was not bad, so i was very tempted to have a second go at watching the movie.

but it was worth it. i actually used my hands to cover my eyes at the gruesome scenes but i paid attention at rest lah. and guess wat, i think it's a really good movie. i like the themes that were explored. like thrust and friendship and how all of these will collapse so easily under pressure. overall, though ironically, it was a very hopeful movie. throughout the movies, the students had hope that they could survive. a few went crazy mumblin maths equation, some committed suicide but a large majority held on tgt and felt that they could overpower this game and the adults who created it.

not bad. but my favourite movie is still infernal affairs. much neater. less gore (i will puke lor) and very beautifully weaved. but still, worth ur time.

point to note: the protagonist, nanahara shuuya, is the death note guy in the DN movie. raito to be exact. at first i actually didnt really like him as raito. but as nanahara, he's actually quite likeable. haha.

爱上台妹~~台妹爱我~~对我来说林志玲算什麽~~~
爱上台妹~~台妹爱我~~对我来说侯佩岑算什麽~~~

hana hana ('hana' as in 'yah lah' not flowers) im watching the anime which i commented was damn gay. haha. turn out to be not tat gay actually. cos one of the guys is actually a girl (um, so expected.) and that it's actually a very drama like animation.

each episode is 30min and there's only 26 episodes i think. each episode deals with one new problem (like a normal jap drama) and it's actually not like those cheesy japanese animation. quite interesting. watch it if u are bored lah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3DaVHeXMUg

taken from http://www.wild-vanilla.com/

and in case u cant wait for the new ella show, u can actually start reading the comic bk. it has 23 bks and i think u can buy it from all comic bk shop here. i only read like 10pages from the bk. cos wasnt really in the mood the read.

or u can read it from here:
http://dm.www.wangyou.com/html/class38/comic352.html

i think quite a lot of ppl commented tat the raito in the Death Note (DN) movie has a rather round lookin (infer: not very clever lookin) face. though i think he looks kinda like arashi's ohno. with an even rounder face.


the guy on the right is ohno from arashi.


of course there are people who suggested yamap and matsu jun for the role of raito.
yamap as light and matsu jun for L. yup.

and somehow L looks like an otaku to me. um so. if the movie was made into a SP maybe i'll still like. but movie? eh. expected more lah. but the more i think it's not very gd, the more i feel like watching part2. haha.

so anw, if u are like me, disappointed by the movie. fret not. cos the anime is here.

it's still airing in japan. but u can watch it on youtube. i think most of them uploaded till episode 3 now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cjcABchBRo

cos there are times in the comic bk tat becomes a little too taxing. like too much words till it's like almost a novel already. esp like in bk 11 where near and raito are like tokin in codes to one another. so maybe the cartoon will make it less taxing to consume.

and to sidetrack. i cant rmb who, but someone once introduced me to this very violent japanese movie. where students and teachers are on this island and plot to kill each other to win. it was a very controverial movie and the title is Battle Royale. sorry i cant rmb who told me abt this. but listen, u noe one of the main guy with a rather round face. he is the guy who acts as raito.


yup. this is him in tat show.

now i feel like watchin tat violent movie. maybe after As? lend me the vcd. (:

and u see Ella. and 吳尊. and 大東. and 唐禹哲. and 阮經天. and 呱呱. and JJ.

omg. yet another reason to look forward to end of As. starting 26nov. 19nov.

city hall.


welcome to pulau ubin!! um. i mean tanglin camp.


one of my favourites. but not the one i like most though.


moc moc and mer mer!! haha.

saw the second N73 in my life today. there was one time when i told myself i'll never take a second look at nokia phones again. but N73 proved me wrong. if i had the money, i'll buy it. not when my savings had reached the amt. but maybe when someday cash starts to fall down from the sky or when i strike lottery all of a sudden. i'll go buy it.

somehow the tot of the idea of beginner's luck (like beginners no matter how noob can win their first round in mahjong) prompted me to go buy myself my first ever lottery ticket. actually it was sunday's 4D. haha. spent 2bucks and in the end i didnt win. so i told my dad 'why i never har?' so he replied 'i bought 4D from twenty yrs ago and till now i still havent won any, you first time how to win?' haha.

hais. if only i had more money lah. i think this is sth i always think abt. like i'll buy myself more clothes, buy a new phone, buy ipod, get myself a new comp, maybe a better hse and a gd car for my dad. argh. stupid. sometimes u can jus sit down and struggle with urself on whether u shd get urself a job tat u like or one tat can get u loaded.

life kinda suck yah? esp money always seems to be not enough.

yet another piece of news on bloggin today. apparently this mp's daughter commented on her blog abt the old and unemployed, like they shdnt rely on the benefits from the govt, and was bombarded by the public. sigh. maybe we shdnt tok so much on blogs. ppl shdnt rely on govt's benefits? we can only comment on this on econs essays, never ever do it on blogs or newspapers forums. cos it will only get u into trouble. essays yay.

jus when i tot there's no more chance of seein kone dance (eh. properly) after they joined jungiery. yay. nice one.

the song is 為你再活一天 from their new album 爱的故事 罗密欧与茱丽叶.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. ~Author Unknown

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~Franklin P. Jones
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~Author Unknown

An unwatched pot boils immediately. ~H.F. Ellis

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers

When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. ~Author Unknown

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. ~Author Unknown

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. ~Author Unknown

If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire. ~Author Unknown

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter. ~Bat Masterson

No one is listening until you fart. ~Author Unknown

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy. ~Russian Proverb

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. ~Elaine Dundy

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ~Dave Barry

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain, autobiography, 1904 (but, as yet no actual record of this under Disraeli's authorship)

Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ~W.I.E. Gates

i tot i should blog abt yday's flea market too. since the 2 of them blogged abt it too. but anw, the thing is, sg set up a store at the lime mag flea market yday, although the big A is like nearing. but i tot we were rather unlucky.

first thing. our umbrella mate. i guess she had to depend on this flea market thing to earn her livin/earn some capital to open her own shop/earn some allowance. but anw, she was so so so so aggressive. like a mother tiger. i could see how much she wanted it. so much so tat it irks me.

cos the whole flea market thing actually starts at 1 and me and ong arrived at abt 1220. the lime guy had some difficulty findin our space. and u noe why? the woman who is gonna share a huge umbrella with us took the whole umbrella and was prepared to set up this 360degree store (or watever). so finally the guy found it and we rented tables for our stall lah.

and so the woman had her clothes hung all over the umbrella that we were practically outside the umbrella. of course ong asked her to move her stuff and she said in this super disgusting way tat she came here first and that she had her rights. okay. actually that's not wat i disliked abt her. i hated her 'i wan it so much' attitude and it was not the attitude tat an entrepreneur shd hav yah? u wan business, u talk ur way out woman. my attitude can win u anytime. and ur clothes are freaking ugly. haha.

so the lime guy came to talk to her. and of course she had to move her stuff lah. but still, she was 270degree. us, we are facing only one side.

2nd thing tat irked me was the 2 barginning aunties. wah biang. they are the worse. i pity their children man. cos we had some other customers before. and when ann said the skirt was from mango and all that they were quite willing to pay like 10bucks for a skirt lah. (cos it's already a big cut from the original price) but there were these 2 aunties. i dunno whether they are either 1)got eye no see tarzan 2)so good at barginning, they actually asked ann and ong to sell their skirts at $2.50. hello auntie, not pasa malam u noe? the skirt u noe hu design one anot? okay, i bet u didnt.

but this auntie bought my S&K berms at $5.50. auntie, u noe s&k in taiwan is like how ex? got f4 and S.H.E leh. wah biang. but thank gdness i could talk my way out from her inital proposed 5bucks(only a little lah) cos i talked damn quickly to her, and while she was still counting her money (like wat is $5.50 + $2.50) i jus took her 10bucks, shove her her 2bucks and said 'bye bye thank you'. haha.

but i still think they got eye no see tarzan. seriously loh. wait. one of the auntie was holdin a bag from topshop. tamade. u win. i tell u. i hope all ur kids cant wear ong and ann's skirts and while they are out the skirts will bijak.

but there were others who knew the stuff lah. like this woman who gave me 10bucks for my ink bag (thank you!! i lurve you!!) and this girl who bought my tiny flesh imp shirt at 6bucks. yup.

learnt a lot of yday. but more to learn. like how to con aunties. buck up!!

in the meantime. study(:

actually it's been some time since i went to maggiemarket. but anw, there's 3 new games. check it out. haha.

yesterday was officially the last day of sch. i think we are among the earliest for sch to end. took a hell lot of photos yday. and our smiles kinda turned stiff at the end of everything. anw, pictures!!



and of course we went new york new york!! haha. i have to admit we were bad customers. and they were gd hosts. at least not tat bad. but we could see they were rather crossed with our behaviour. but the food is good!! okay lah. i shall advertise ur restaurant for free. go new york new york to have ur meals k? cos they have gd food and ambience. yup.











































lalala.

http://blinkymummy.blogspot.com/2006/10/villa-bali-mp-nonameapplicable.html

http://nanicombi.blogspot.com/2006/08/went-to-simei-ite-today.html

http://rueyfeng.blogspot.com/2006/08/of-home-and-heart-for-your-people-part.html

http://xtremehighvoltage.blogspot.com/2006/07/starstuck.html

http://deskoh.blogspot.com/2006/07/wah-lau.html

http://dan.danzden.com/index.php/2006/05/02/my-reason-for-sudden-interest-in-politics/

http://ellcrius.livejournal.com/194361.html

read them. hahaha.

http://p65.sg/

eh. it's a blog by 12 Post-65 MPs. at first i really tot a blog by MPs will be really boring. haha. but nope, it's really quite interesting. go read.

dear postman,

i am a subscriber of i-weekly from mediacorp publishing(actually it's my frens who subscribed it for me for ur burfday). anyway. i have seen, especially recently, that my copies of the magazine are all dented at the sides. apparently i guess you have found difficulty in slotting the whole magazine into my tiny mailbox. but i hope you can squeeze the magazine with care. i know it may waste some of ur time, but as you can see, i collect i-weekly as a hobby and hope that all my i-weeklies are in perfect condition. from my past experiences, i have always been happy with your services and you are sure worth of your gd reputation. i hope u can consider my tiny suggestion and make the service sector in spore better.

thank you.

ahhhh. there's wo cai on tv. there's my fav jap/korean section on 93.3 now. my boss my hero is waiting for me to watch them. and econs case study is waiting for me.

i am so busy!!

haha.