Movie Marathon Part 2

I guess since Harry Potter decided to have a second instalment for the show, we (my dear being a fan) too have a second leg to our movie watching.

I cannot really remember much of what happened in the afternoon after my cca meeting in the morning, but I guess I should be making my way to my dear's place to put down my bag before travelling to AMK Hub together.

We had dinner at New York New York, and it was some sort of a reminiscence of the wooing days, whereby I thick-skinnedly joined in their meal date, though there were more people this time. My dear was also very jubilant that her best friend managed to rush for the movie as well. Especially since it is their thing. But as there were some time after dinner and before the midnight movie, we went to play arcade, even though we were merely spectators in this event most of the time.

I wasn't a fan of the book but I quite like the movie this time round. It did not seemed that disjointed as before and it was full of suspense. Even though I was tired prior to the show, but I must say the show got my attention. Maybe I've got the Potter-cyclopedia as my girlfriend thus I can follow the plot quite well (Or maybe it's because I've watched the previous instalments and got numbed to the illogical areas?).

Once again, spoilers ahead. It started off with Potter trying to save his hateful room mate cousin from the death eaters and thus by using magic in the mundane world, he was entitled to a trial by the ministry of magic, in which he was saved by the wits of Dumbledore. Hmm, was that in the previous movie or was it a flashback? Never mind (cos my dear reminded me that this was part of the fifth movie rather than the one i'm talking about), anyway, Potter was then escorted away from his home and he was kagebushined in order to escape to a safe hideout which somehow the powers of the dark cannot find. There were some injuries here and there but in all the members of the Order of Pheonix were safe. At least they did not die here.

I guess news later broke out that the ministry of magic was taken over by the evil Voldemort and the trio went in search of Voldemort's things horcruxes, which supposedly will weaken him if they were destroyed. And so they went on this quest and apparently Ron got jealous halfway and left Harry and Hermione to do their searching. Well, later Ron came back and in the midst of destroying the thing, he was given the genjutsu of Harry and Hermione kissing in this misty naked setting, just like how Naruto will appear after performing his sexy jutsu. Well, Ron was not like Naruto who gets trapped in a genjutsu so easily and thus destroyed the thing.

Later on, they were captured by the minions (the Snatchers) and one of the goblins the elf died while trying to save them. After which, the first instalment ended with Voldemort digging up the Dumbledore's grave to retrieve one of the items for the deathly hallows, which was explained previously here and there in the movie.

I believe I will be watching the next part with my dear and her friends. I am such a sucker for sequels.

*updated after some reminders from a few harry potter fans, especially my dear...

电影马拉松之一

11月25日，男朋友和我约好到大巴窑公园走走。乍看之下，整个感觉就是很荒芜。走进去之后，才发现别有洞天。果然，连公园也是“园不可貌相”。




公园的主题是感官上的刺激，所有的设施都配合着主题，意在让使用公园者在视觉、听觉、触觉、嗅觉上都受到刺激。味觉大概很难做得到吧，是以这个部分并不存在，算是小小的遗憾吧。

公园并不大，但是对很会逛公园的男朋友和我来说，逛个一、两个小时并不是问题。我最爱的铁定是那两个“回声碟”，真的很有趣！除此以外，我们也看了不少花花草草，也拍了不少照片。感觉上，算是过了一个很轻松写意的早晨。







这之后，我又成功说服男朋友陪我到麦当当吃早餐。令人失望的是，早餐并我没有预期地那么好吃。汉堡包的乳酪放得很少，薯饼的油味很重。我想，原因大概是因为油被重复使用太多次了吧。不过，感觉还是很好。因为我又跟男朋友和好了！

吃完了早餐，我们紧接着去看电影。说起来，这还是我们头一回儿在大巴窑看电影呢！难怪我们都找不到电影院。赶在第一时间看刚上映的《Rapunzel》,感觉上挺新鲜的。戏院里就只有小猫两三只，做得很没有仪态也无所谓，真的很爽！说到电影的内容，情节是挺老套的，但还是蛮喜欢这种题材很简单的电影。女主角从小就被充满私欲的巫婆禁锢，偶遇男主角，拜托他带自己出去看看外面的世界。在这个过程中，男、女主角爱上对方，然后受到坏巫婆的阻挠。最后，女主角和亲生父母相认。男、女主角从此幸福快乐。套上既定的模式，再加上女主角人美歌甜，男主角很帅，人物对白令人玩味，歌曲也十分动听，到最后还让观众小小地感动了一下，怎么可能不成功呢？即使是很老套的大团圆结局，也因男主角最后那一句玩笑而显得有意思。总而言之，我喜欢！

被逼上镜的男朋友

看完了电影，我又饿了。是的，我又饿了。为了不吃掉男朋友，在逛完了一圈之后，我们就去食阁吃午餐，祭祭我的五脏庙。他吃拉面，我吃酿豆腐，好满足哦！这之后，又是一轮的购物。我想，当你的男朋友和你的职业一样的时候，很难避免不去书局吧！买完了书，我们都累坏了，于是就打道回府。



就这样，我们又过了一天。到最后，能把心里的话全都说出来的感觉真好！啊！我又再一次在男朋友的温柔乡里沦陷了！

19th Month Anniversary

Not sure how many couples consistently celebrated their anniversary in months, but I guess this is our way of celebrating the successes in our relationship =)

We took turns to organise the outings, and this time, the huge responsibility of planning lies on me. And since the activities I planned happened to cause much trauma (in a positive way) to my dear, I'm also tasked to write about it.

It started only in the afternoon as both of us had official work matters to attend to in the morning. We both reached Harbourfront MRT at 3+pm. The weather was kind to us as it had exhausted its supply of tears in the past two days, though there were remnants of its temper elsewhere. Thus, our first stop, cable car (Jewel Box). Under normal circumstances, my dear will be alright with this ride, however, the combination of her talented memory with the show "Frozen" made her feel otherwise. And her fear was contagious, even to the valiant knight in shining armour moi. Nonetheless, the existence of this entry thereby showed that we (I) survived the cable car trip (after much assurances). Some nice photos were taken as well.

Our second stop: the nature trails near the cable car station. Guess we just like to walk around for blood donations. At least the needles are non-visible and not as scary, though the itches later on were irritating. Once again, some nice photos.

Our third stop: the Luge. Another traumatising experience for my dear as the resemblance of the skyride to the scenes in "Frozen" was uncanny. Maybe it can called "Frozen: the Asian Story". But luckily, the endings were vastly different. Perhaps those pesty mosquitoes died after drinking our blood in our version. We went down the Luge and up the Skyride once in the day and the other at night. Once again, more photos.

Well, in between the rides, we went to walk along the beach and the Images of Singapore. We had fun transporting ourselves back into time using the sepia setting.

Our fourth stop: the restaurants on top of Mt Faber. Our verdict: too few and too expensive. Thus, we had our dinner at Hans instead. Good food and we also need not have to suffer the repercussions of an enlarged hole in the pockets.

Well, to end off, a picture says a thousand words:

Happy anniversary! =)

宝宝奇遇记

哇！最近好像和小孩特别有缘，这难道是一个启示？*男朋友抹汗*

刚刚过去的哈芝节，我一大清早就到男朋友的家里报到。跑了一大圈，感觉真的很好，但是肥肉还是存在，真令人困扰！吃了一顿油油的早餐，我“逼”男朋友陪我一起看《毛毛波特之凤凰密令》，希望他也喜欢，这样就可以慢慢“逼”他看《毛毛波特》的原著了！

看了两集的火影忍者，我实在是太累了，于是我便“抛弃”男朋友，转投周先生的怀抱。睡了大概有一、两个小时，男朋友竟然把我叫醒，真可恶！我们便开始准备去他大学朋友家吃火锅。这是我第一次和他这群朋友见面，心里难免有点儿紧张。不过，很快地，我便不再有这种感觉，他的朋友非常热情，容易相处得很，我的担心其实是多余的。

最棒的是，当他们在话当年的时候，有Jan Jan陪我玩（嗯，应该是我“免费”陪Jan Jan玩）。Jan Jan真的好可爱哦！可以的话，还真想把她给带回家呢！那应该算是拐带吧?没办法啊，谁叫男朋友不要跟我生孩子，都是他的错！

好想再和Jan Jan玩哦！

Megamind

They say that time always has this interesting effect on humans. Associations and connections between people, things and events that were once strongly held will slowly but definitely gets diluted when time is involved. In other words, time makes us forget. And I guess its effect is more apparent in me. So here's this overdued entry before I actually forget the event itself.

Disclaimer: spoilers ahead and you are forewarned. No compensation of any sort will be entertained, that is, if you are even bothered to do so. The movie depicts the life story of a evil guy in constant battle with the good guy with the politically correct ethically correct fairy-taley correct outcome, the evil guy loses. So one day, it was a surprise that the evil guy finally killed the good guy (even the evil guy was surprised) and he finally got control of the city, to the dismay of the people.

However, as time passed, he regretted his decision of killing the good guy as he lost his purpose in life. Well, the usual and natural thing that can happen next, other than killing yourself, is that you find another purpose, which was pursuing the girl that he likes, except that he cannot do it openly since he was the bad guy. Thus, he wore a disguise. At the same time, he tried to recreate a good guy for satisfying his ego. That failed terribly, just like all his usual stints with the previous good guy, and his good guy became the badder guy.

And at the same time, he discovered that the previous good guy did not really die. He faked his own death as he was tired of all the expectations of being a good guy and that he wanted to live a life of his own. So much for knowing that he never won the good guy, he was now given the task of saving the city from the badder guy and thus assuming the role of the gooder guy.

Well, just like any politically correct ethically correct fairy-taley correct story, the gooder guy won and got the girl.

Hmm, it was light-hearted and no brainer movie, but it was still good entertainment and good company with my dear =) despite it being a short day as we had school in the morning. We later went to Sweet Spring for some desserts before retiring to our homes for rest.

宝宝满月了！

嘿嘿！我期待已久的一刻终于到来了！盼了那么久，总算于上周五见到了小宏和小小小虹的小乐乐了！


可爱吧？看到小乐乐的第一个印象是他真的长得好像小小小虹哦！不过，看久了却发现其实小乐乐的嘴巴肯定是出自小宏的“优良”基因。真不知道这是不是一件好事。这个还是别过不提吧，我还想长命百岁呢！

看到小乐乐，心里真的觉得很感动。怀胎十月真的很辛苦，妈妈不易为啊！我不知道自己有没有成为一位好母亲的特质，不过抱着小乐乐的感觉真的好奇妙，心里满满地尽是感动。哈哈！至少我才不像“某人”呢，宝宝一到他手上就开始哭了起来。就某种程度而言，“某人”还需要多加磨练呢！

三天大的宝宝和一个月大的宝宝，谁比较可爱呢？

看完宝宝后，小宏介绍了他家里刚买的游戏机。现在的游戏机超屌的，我这个山顶洞人已经跟不上现在的科技了。男朋友试玩了一下，他真的好棒哦！果然，男朋友只要一玩游戏就会很认真，被冷落的女朋友只能暗自垂泪，好可怜哦！T_T


从小宏和小小小虹的家里离开后，我和男朋友到淡滨尼去吃晚餐。我终于如愿以偿吃到了好吃的酿豆腐，男朋友则吃了自己的同类，实在是太不应该了！不过，简单就是美。虽然吃的不是什么山珍海味，可是我却吃得很开心。这一点，男朋友居功不小哦！;)

The Not-So-Nice Hong Kong Cafe

hmm... seemed like this place is starting to become a food blog of some sort...

went to Wang Jiao at Bugis Junction on Thursday and was quite fascinated by the steaming white sauce or cheese overflowing the hotplate of thy neighbour (at least i was)... after all, we were undecided over what we wanted to eat as we were distracted by the colourful food displays on the menu and their seemingly cheaper price (as compared to other hk restaurants)... there was also an attractive set of instructions to guide us to winning their prizes...


eventually, the girlfriend ordered wanton mee with winter melon and longan tea...


while the protagonist had a lamp chops set... complete with garlic bread, sweet corn soup, jelly dessert and a BIG cup of milk tea...


mine tasted okay with the garlic bread and corn soup and the lamb chop portion was generous, just that the generosity came with lots of fats, lots of soggy fries and some uncooked portions... probably the waitress discerned that i needed more of that on my bony frame... maybe i should also let her know i have high cholesterol as well and let her be my health consultant...

the girlfriend, however, did not have such luck... by contrast, her soup was very healthy, so much so that it tasted like plain water... plus some after-taste due to putting the frozen wanton into the boiling water... however, the winter melon and longan tea was just nice, tasty but not too sweet... guess we needed more luck in picking the better stuffs...

my girlfriend's verdict was more or less decided... she will probably patronise Xin Wang or Kim Gary from now on...