This week passed like a breeze across the meadow - in what seemed like a short span of time great distances, in my case many things, were covered. Got back home for a friend's wedding, got stuck in the most massive traffic jam ever, zoomed across a quarter of Perak state in my friend's lightspeed vehicle, rejoiced at the end of exams, got many bus tickets, The Christmas Carol, Eugene's farewell, and last but not least, watched Ninja Assassin. That was practically my entire week.
Eventful? Most certainly.
SF's wedding was by far the most tiring wedding I have ever attended, because one, we were there as Sisters (姐妹) instead of guests of honour and be served; and two, we covered the most extensive distance we have ever covered on land just to get to her place. Geez I must say at the end of the day we were all mentally exhausted. To add up to the mental strain, I had to head back South barely after spending one night at home. But of course, I was the most lucky of the lot, since the rest returned to The Island after the wedding.
The Christmas Carol I would say, is overall a very educational movie with superb visuals and valuable life lessons to take away. However I would not suppose the movie was made with a young audience in mind. The dialogues, words and even metaphors were a little too Shakespearean, or maybe I should call it literature-ish, for young minds to comprehend. Even my companion for the day who was old as me missed out some words that were being used, lest a child who hasn't even completed his/her primary education? But if we can understand the movie, then we will take home an important lesson - that Christmas isn't all about turkey or wine or carols, but about a time for us to embrace, to right all our wrongs with an open heart, a time for expression of gratitude, and a time for sharing and giving. And most important of all,
Christmas happens every year to remind us, year after year, how we always get so caught up with life's mandates that we eventually forget these resolutions we make every year - to share, to give, and to repent.If The Christmas Carol paints a rosy picture, Ninja's Assasin then paints also a red picture, but a very, very, bloody one. And I'm not talking about just bleeding blood; I am referring to fountains of blood, or firewords of blood, or even a laundry load of liquid blood and body parts spinning inside the still-operating machine. On top of that, I am also suggesting detached body parts constantly dashing left right up down across the big screen. Yes, gore it is, but gore is such an understatement. It was brutally, inhumanely gory. Now I honestly wonder how anyone could sit in, watch the entire gore exhibit, and best of all, munch down popcorns throughout the show!!? (Alright that was practically everybody but me - most of the time I hid behind my Rabbit's jacket, lowering it only during the peaceful scenes, which made up less than three-fifth of the show.) I really wonder if the main selling point of the show was gore, nevermind Rain's constant muscle-flaunt throught his appearances. Okay, I sighed when he first flexed his outstandingly defined muscles - no clothes on - after which his fine body appeared constantly slashed and wounded and yes, bloody. Which was totally de-appetizing, to some extent even bullemic-inducing.
That's about all that happened this week. Currently waiting for photos taken throughout this week to arrive in my mailbox - a long, long and painful wait it is.
