二十四日四月二零零八年：木曜日

Today since i didn't have any class, and it so happened that Cheese was free... to be.. well our transport minister... (I really should get driving... damn phobia... =.=')

and since we had wanted to watch a movie for quite some time.. we took this opportunity to catch a movie..

so at about 1230.. ccy.. who was part of the party, came over to practise some piano, and that guy learns very fast.. i had only taught him fur elise, like what? 2 days ago, and well his teacher taught him again, and he can play quite well.. Kudos... such a smart student... :)

later at about 1 something.. then it was cheese's turn to arrive... sorry i must have bored him to death.. what with my file transfer, and playing the multiple musical instruments in my home.. i.e. the piano and the violin.. i didn't play the guitar today....

so at 2, we left my house to pick up the girls (mel and xian ai) and headed off to BU to catch.. any movie that was available at that time...

we were supposed to meet meng there..but he came like.. 10-15 minutes before our movie which was at..3pm..

what movie did we watch? well the jet li - jackie chan movie... --> The Forbidden Kingdom...

It's kind of a cliché story.. But if you know some of the old chinese stories/legends, you would have found it really amusing.. they put in characters like:

• The Monkey King,@Son Goku@Sun Wusun aka Jet Li
  
• One of the eight immortals, Lu the Taoist priest aka Jackie Chan
• The Bride With White Hair.. Honestly, i don't know what it is in English, but in mandarin it is Bai Fa Mo Ni.. 白髮魔女 (Direct translation, White hair.. Demoness? ). aka Li Bing Bing
• The Jade emperor, and empress.. though they played a very small role
• The Pangolin Jade hairpin of the empress... Which holds magical powers.. Here in the movie it was used to kill an immortal.. I'm not sure, if it was capable of doing that..
• Little sparrow from... I don't' know.. that name is very common haha
  

Ermm I can't remember what else.. But there was some reference to the old Chinese myths.. Which they changed a little here and there.. Like with the Monkey King... The original myth has it that the goddess of mercy, imprisoned him under a mountain, till the monk.. (don't know how to say his name in English) came a long and started the journey to the west..

I believe the jade hairpin mentioned in the movie, is the magical one that belonged to the jade empress.. in the myth, it was said that an immortal, having trouble fighting a beast with hard scales in the human world needed that hairpin to kill the creature, and end it's destruction of the human world.. so that immortal, i forgot which one, tricked a palace maiden, in the jade empress, palace, to fall in love with him and steal the hairpin for him.. after that, he killed the creature, and lived with the maid as husband and wife for a hundred days.. or was it years.. and later returned the hairpin to the empress.. after that i don't know what happened to him..

About the 8 immortals Lu, the Taoist priest,i don't remember him being a drunk..but i thought he was the one carrying the eight jade boards... but i digress, i can't really remember the story...

The bride with white hair.. is a novel... which was made into a movie featuring the late leslie cheung, and Bridgette Lin as the Demoness.. it was about a women so in love with a man, and when he betrayed her or something.. her grief became so great that her hair turned white.. i can't really remember it.. but i think she exacted vengeance on all men, using her hair to kill.. i can't remember what happened to her in the end...

but that's about how much I can associate with the Chinese stories...

You know it felt kind of weird to have the story being told in English.. I think I would have preferred it in Chinese.. but it was something sort of new...

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The movie was hilarious.. and the fighting was good.. it's really a movie worth to watch, I was laughing here and there.. though I must say that the storyline was very, VERY cliché.. but the humour and the fighting make up for it...

Regarding my title "I laughed when she died" some of you may think I'm some cold hearted sadist or something.. but this is the second time that I've laughed in the cinema when someone was dying...

The first was in Star Wars.. i can't remember which one, but it was when Anakin was still a kid, and his mom was dying... The movie was boring me to hell.. and well iIhad a friend sleeping in another part of the cinema, another stuffing himself with popcorn, and me playing snake on my friend's Nokia handphone..

And when Anakin's mom was dying... my friend who was munching on popcorn i.e. Eugene.. made me laugh.. Anakin's mom was going "I love... i love...."

OK, we all know that she is going to say "I love you" to her son.. but Eugene goes and say.. "What?... I love popcorn?" the character was dragging it too long... with her" i love.. i love.." but not saying the "you".. Therefore the "popcorn" fit in so well, that i was laughing so hard... earning the glares of other movie goers..

I'm really sorry, i didn't do that on purpose.... =.=' it's Eugene's fault, really... but i digress..

For this movie.. The Forbidden Kingdom.. it's no one's fault.. i just burst into contained laughter (I think it was still loud, but i covered my mouth.. thus contained?).. It happened when the main character.. the western boy, Jason... aka the "hero" of the story..and the girl he liked.. Golden Sparrow.. was dying..

She was dying in his arms... He managed to exact revenge for her... and well was clutching her so close.. he looked like he was about to kiss her.. apparently the other girls were going "just kiss her already" and well, I was going "oh, he's going to kiss her" (but sceptical that he would be able to, hey as I said... it's cliché plus she is dying.. If i'm dying, the last thing on my mind would be to kiss some guy... =.=') when.....

She just dies.. and i burst into laughter.. much to meng's chagrin.. he was like.. "you sadist.. the girl just died, and you are laughing....."

Well, i found it so funny... imagine you are about to kiss this girl, and she just dies.. it's like.. how do i explain it decently... ermm... okay, i can't, so what the heck... it's like someone is having sex with you, and just before you reach your orgasm he stops... Just right, at that crucial second... you know...?

it's like so potong steam, no? just being cut off like that? haha.. but oh well... so yeah, i laughed when the character was dying.. but maybe because I knew it was cliché, i knew he was going to meet her again later.. so yeah.. there you have it... a feel good cliché movie, which is still worth watching for the humour and the fight scenes..

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I enjoyed myself today :)

-Oracl3-