Today is August 9th. A big day for Singaporeans. Happy National Day my Singaporean peeps!
Today the Ipoh Gang which consist of those who left after J3 came out for a gathering. Actually, it was much of a small talk. Four participants - Simpson, Courtney, Wings and yours truly - met up at Soup Spoon, Orchard (in Paragon, in case you aren't aware). I believe there wouldn't be much of a need for me to outline everything that happened throughout the gathering.
In short, other than much soup gobbling, much table-talking, much exaggerating, our lunch passed by rather peacefully still.
I still feel obliged to say something about it. So here it goes. Simpson was still the Simpson you know, not that un-recognizable in the crowd. Courtney got herself tanned (as she claimed, but I still think she's FAIR) and got some hair extension with waves I envy much. Wings looked as if he has got himself an eye-enlargement, if there was this type of cosmetic surgery in the first place. Because he slimmed down (no longer the Fat Hing LOL) his face became lean. Consequently his eyes got a bigger proportion of his entire face. Therefore an eye-enlargement surgery done.
Courtney was so on with taking neoprints so the lot of us were led to this neoprint shop (like, duh?) straightly AFTER we bought our movie tickets. I shall talk about the movie later. Because the four of us were CHINESE and Jap-illiterates, we practically anyhow tapped on the commands. And before we knew it, "Snap!" there went our first picture. We must have made hell of a noise inside that small little cubicle. I say, people outside must be so amused to see four quite-grown-up-teenagers coming out of that machine when they thought the noise must have come from bubbly KIDS who were new at taking neoprints and ultra-excited.
The outcome : I want to go take again. Any takers?
Here comes the movie review. Remember I told you before, that I won't want to watch 'Secret' at all? Today that movie proved to me that, on top of not to judge a book by its cover, we should not also judge a movie by its cast. I had no intention to watch 'Secret' because I thought JayChou would set a chain reaction that ends with a monotonous movie. I have no problems with Jay as a singer, but as an ACTOR?
I wouldn't discourage anyone from watching 'Secret', now that I've watched it. The plot is brain-teasing. The supporting actor (I'm referring specifically to 黄秋生 who played Jay's father. Again.) spiced up the entire thing. Most of all, it was likened to a piano appreciation session.
You get to feast your eyes and ears on superb piano music. All those notes running smooth and sleek across the black and white keys. All of us were so stunned by Jay's skills (I'm still stunned even if you tell me it's all computer effects) and those who played the piano swear they'll start playing the piano again. That actually refers to Wings and me. But we have not touched the piano for.. four years!
And right now, I'm asking a favour from all of you. If you happen to come across the piano score for "Secret", would you please print a copy for me? I so want to lay my fingers on the score which transports people through time!
Lastly, I shall say I'm making myself a mugger tomorrow. But how when I keep feeling the lack of presentable tops in my wardrobe?
