Question 1: When do you know you’ve gone over the edge?
Answer : When you somehow manage to guess what ‘terminal illness’ the lead female actress of a Korean Movie is suffering from.
Question 2 : When do you realise the reason behind why your friends(esp fellow females) are embarassed to be caught watching movies with you?
Answer : Whenever a character dies/gets injured/is in pain and you start laughing hysterically.
watched A Millionaire’s First Love on dvd with a friend.
[don't continue reading this segment if you plan on watching the movie]
of course, the girl had some tragic illness. in her case, it was hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. it was very obvious which of the two leads was the one that was going to die by the way she kept clutching at her heart and the numerous hospital admissions. so at one point of the movie i absentmindedly thought to myself that she must be suffering from some form of heart disease and the word cardiomyopathy came into mind.
true enough the doctors revealed to the guy the girl’s diagnosis and i was busy whooping with joy about how i managed to guess it right.
yeah i resisted the urge to laugh when she died cos her death scene wasn’t the long drawn-out kind where everybody sobs for like 10 minutes and her head slumps to one side when she says her last words, takes last breath and dies kinda thing.
also watched Step Up with another friend and this is where Question No.2 comes into play.
[yet again, don't read if you plan on watching the movie yah?]
the main supporting cast consists of these two brothers who are the lead’s “homies”. so the skinny little brother(aptly nicknamed ’skinny’) got shot after he tried to steal some bad-ass gangster’s SUV. the timing was sooo absurdly short can. he steals the car, drives off with it and just within 2 minutes of screen time the fella he stole from manages to catch up and shoot him down.
so he dies rather quickly, leaving his brother and the lead crying like babies over his dead body. this scene set off alot of giggles from me. i think the couple in front of me were mad at me. and the girl in the same row was amazed. and my friend was left wanting to hide her face somewhere.
don’t get me wrong. i’m not one devoid of sympathy. its just that some of the sad scenes in movies are a lil too exaggerated, and its purely fiction so whats there NOT to laugh at?
-ahem-
do remind me to stop laughing when others are visibly distressed by the character’s passing/me laughing too loudly 
hmmm…
Friday, April 21st, 2006[note : this entry was blogged yesterday, on the 20th of April 2006 in the morning. i have yet to catch the panelist's retort session so forgive the outdated stuff in here]
watched it yesterday. give it 4/5 stars.1 star taken off cos mainly it sure cost very little to film that movie. didn’t even recognize denzel washington until the credits were rolling. slow, i am. denzel proves his worth as an intense actor, clive owen was really good as the bank robber…and james ransome was in the movie too! for those of you who don’t know who james ransome is…its okay. i didn’t know who he was until recently. but anyway not long ago, he ran after a potential rapist and totally whupped his ass! awesome!!!
sigh..
school has started again. don’t ask me why but let’s just say my school is indeed quite screwed sometimes when it comes to administrative affairs.
i posted a comment on the MM Lee Dialogue thingy in a livejournal community and was promptly shot down by another commenter. which made me realise something. the demographic of the anti a certain party-ers = 24 to 30 years old and highly educated. exactly the kind of people a certain party wants and that the fact these detractors are shooting a certain party for only roping in that kind. hmmm. ironic? you betcha!
i mean c’mon, take a good look at me. i’m not exactly the kind of person that most political parties would be dying to rope in. in fact, i am what they would term as ‘the ordinary folk’, which oh, coincidentally, happens to be the folk who decide who gets to be the ruling party! if i can bring myself to see what a certain party has been doing for us for the past 40 odd years, i think those seemingly intelligent panelists(who by the way are having some kind of retort show hosted by diana ser today. and like DOH, they obviously still think they were right to be rude to MM Lee) should be able to see some light. provided they want to, i guess.
you know ah, they behaving like they are politically disenfranchised. wait until that happens. who’ll start crying first huh?
my older sister(who is in the demographic i mentioned earlier) says that she didn’t find those people were being rude to MM Lee. so i asked my younger sister who’s 16(and extremely opinionated) if she thought that the panelists were being reasonable in their mannerisms and speech. she said she didn’t approve. my older sis has once said she was like me, but her thinking has unfortunately morphed(i’m not insulting my sis, she’s just representative of the mold those panelists are shaped from). so now i’m wondering if my younger sis will follow suit.
in any case, i’ll still stick by to my beliefs. besides i don’t see the other parties focusing on really fantastic stuff anyway. they seem to be harping on the narrow scope of negativity and to me, that isn’t much at all.
SDP : www.singaporedemocrat.org
WP : www.wp.org.sg
PAP : www.pap.org.sg
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