48 hours, 2 movies.

The family stone

As the title suggests i caught 2 movies in the long span of 2 days. Yesterday was at cineleisure with hao jin, royston, ben ho, jin han and umm the latter three's taiwan trip girl-friends. And also my cousin, justin. Intended to watch Narnia but ben ho declared that he watched it before. So like a stone dropping on my head, they revealed that they intended to watch The Family Stone (pun totally intended).

Contrary to what the name suggests, the family stone isnt at all about a boring stony family. In fact the family is full of intersting characters. Like the mother, Sybil, who uses vulgarities and is incredibly direct with stuff like "Brad is the guy who popped Amy's cherry". Yah. So the story goes that the eldest son brings home his girlfriend to introduce to the family. The family consists of 1 deaf brother who is gay, 1 single sister who is incredibly petty, a brother who like drinks and smokes non stop and a sister who's married and pregnant with second child.

So the usual parents and girlfriend friction and it is slowly revealed that the mother is having a relapse of her breast cancer and this time it's terminal. In the end, the eldest son (Everet) falls in love with his girlfriend's sister - Judy and his younger brother (Ben) falls in love with the brothers girlfriend. Its incredible how the plot in a movie can progress so fast that after taking a walk with Judy at night, Everet feels he is in loved with her instead and plans to marry her. I mean shoundn't there be a time factor here or is this true love at first sight?

Ok warning, spoilers above. But yea its really a chrismas movie and theres a happy ending at the end lah so it leaves you a little warm and fuzzy inside.

"Grandma did a bad sign with her fingers"

Bowling

So for the second time in three days, i met up with the np gang today again cause pason jio-ed me to go out as "Wally is breathing down my neck" or so he claims. Since everyone agreed that wallace and gromit was the show to go, i basically feng4 pe2 lah. But before that it was bowling at The Grassroots Club with pau, teddy, muthu and wally. Bowling was quite okay. Only interesting thing was on the way to YCK, i swear a whole train load of CHIJ girls got off and at the grassroots club there were SNGS girls playing as well. Lol.

Anyway, bowling was quite fun, not to mention i invented a new way of bowling. Then we the nubs tried our hand at pool and erm it was hilarious to say the least. What with the first ball we hit in being the black ball and with little kindergarten kids (who were there for some activity) trying to push as many balls into the holes as possible and what with the great wally.

We left for lunch and since we saw this banner promoting a 6.50++ students meal at the Naked Fish Shoppe, we decided to check it out and have a good meal since hols were ending. And of all the people in the whole 600+sq km of singapore, we met half the RI staff, who were apparently having their staff meeting there. I think what ms low said aptly summed up the feeling of seeing the teachers ("wah don't see them in orchard road, end up meet them at this kind of place"). So it was kind of a pleasant surprise and perhaps God's way to remind us that we were, till recently, RI boys.

"What's up dog?"

Met up with weijie and willy (whoose first phrase of greeting was "Gerald, you fucker") at j8. Sorry to willy for making you wait 40 minutes but lunch took unexpectedly long. In the theatre, we were surprised (or shocked) to see that 90% of the audience was kids. But it turned out that W & G was incredibly funny with its old school clay modelled characters, the crisp british slang and sacarsm, the corny lame puns and the parody of king kong. Although it had a very kiddy plot, it was packed with puns ("its only a hunch") and funny actions. But the think the most bomb of it all was the madagascar penguins (which reminds one of neville) and the scene where wallace's modesty is covered by a cardboard box that had a "may contain nuts" sticker. The adults were instantaneosly in fits while the kids were just puzzled. So for all those who want to have a good laugh, go catch this movie that took the makers 5 years to produce scene by scene. I really salute people who go all out to be so dedicated and not just go and make some action flick with big stars just to make $$$.

Of course you must catch it with the right company (like my crazy friends) who will unabashedly LOL in the theatre.

"The dogfight"

Thats all folks.