This Update comes really late. I didn't expect anyone to read anyway but just update because got people ask. Even just one, I will update. Haha.
My excuses this time round........work.
And also because I spent more time reading comic scans and playing Growlanser 2 and SRW Alpha 2. Strategy are tough to time with all those random abnormality that might affect the scores and such.
Work wise, I do slightly a bit more without Siti around because she had to cut her tonsil and only came back on the last week of August. Then after that David goes for a trip with his family to Genting. However in between that, David and me was suffering from health problems. His, being on the back and me the usual cold, fever, cough and throat whatever hybrid.
It was a tough 2 weeks and there wasn't room for MC because it would put the Suntec store in a disadvantage. Haiz. What to do.
Maybe a media update....
Hinokio
I watched this with Yuki @ Tiong Bahru GV on the 15th. At first I worried about the tickets. Then I realised that I don't have to because tickets aren't moving. So I worried about the movie instead (sweats) since Night Watch and No Regrets are opening on the same day.
Anyway we ought to stick to what was agreed to (although I was the ONE who wants to watch it.). I think I wasn't really awake after I watched that German movie on ch56 that afternoon so despite being asked to buy seat at row G, I bought row H. Haha.
Hinokio is about a boy Satoru who lost his mother in an accident. Upset with the demise, he confines himself in the room, ignoring his father and refused to get treated for his legs. His father (don't all fathers are) made him a robot (603) to get back into the society by 'remotely' going to school through it. Through 603 (nicknamed Hinokio), Satoru rediscovers friendship and kinship in this 110min movie.
Oddly, the pacing goes into a fast forward motion once Satoru installed a Sensory Feedback program into Hinokio. Everything spirals to a quick end unexpectedly with a totally odd reference to 'afterlife' and it's connection to a random web game.
Maybe it's for the kids or the director decided not to overload us with nice to know stuffs so certain elements in the story remain untold.
House of Flying Daggers
I bought the vcd on April but I didn't really watched until last month on a sleepy wed afternoon. (Zheng Yimou's previous Wuxia effort was given the same treatment. I waited like 6 months after purchase before viewing.)
House of Flying Daggers ,in short, is a love triangle that is unfolds in a professional arena.
It was beautifully shot and strangely the real action to the story is the love scenes. The rest of the WuXia Grande is taken as a sideliner.
Watch if you really want to have a break from regular Fighting/WuXia genre.
Crying for Love in the Center of the World
Is a Tale of 2 Love of a Man that somehow interwine.
It's standard tearjerker fare but make to a style only Japanese can pull off (the koreans can make you cry but it's the Japanese that grips the soul.)
Beware it slips critical details in the most unexpected moments so try not to take breaks in between.
Swing Girls
Bewildering funny but if you watched Water Boys before, somehow you get ahead of the storyline. A tale of underdogs getting it fit. Recommend for a Boring and lazy afternoon and when you are in -_- mood .
The Proof of Man (Ningen no Shoumei)
A gripping and intense drama about a hard boil cop in a murder case involving an American that doesn't looks Japanese. Takenouchi Yutaka looks angst and angry most of the time
In brief 10 episodes, pieces of the puzzle are obvious although you wouldn't guess it til the 9th episode. Watch if you can spare lotsa time on the TV. Best to go through in 3 or less sitting.
Jewel in the Palace.
Now this is the one that is responsible for my lateness to work almost every weekday. I didn't watch until ep 20 but it's all so easy to carry on as there are plenty of Back reference moments. Of course I will go back the village for Changjin if I am Min.
LoL. I mean who wouldn't?
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I changed the header pic and profile pic. I am not entirely satisfied with the header pic but it's a temporary measure since WC points out to me it's long over due. I sit down and try to tell if there's anything I need to change about this blog. I am the type who didn't welcome unnecessary change. After all, it's not really for the traffic that I started the blog.
For those who actually read all this,
Thanks. It's a motivation that there are people actually reading all these and looking for more. Appreciate it.
