More Than Meets The Eyes
9th July 2007, Monday
On Saturday, the much hyped 7th July 2007 or 070707 descended to our calendar and sent everyone globally into the date frenzy when it was just an ordinary Saturday to say the best...
This unique date was chosen by the likes of 777 couples (or should I say suckers) to beat the crowd and among themselves to get knotted matrimonially...
Great you got this special dat which occurs once a millennium and things got buzzing on the wedding ceremony..let's hope the marriage stays as long as 0.1% of a millennium though..SUCKERS!
Then our good friend Al Gore, the former vice-president back in in late 1990s for the Big Bubba Clinton who had transformed into a one-man vigilante against global warming and other ill effects human beings had inflicted towards our precarious mother earth, decided to bandied a troop of well-known musicians to host a 24 hour non-stop concert marathon across the globe in 9 countries over 7 continents, known as Live Earth..much like Live Aid or Live 8 which Bob Geldof had created years ago but at a larger scale...
Our local English speaking channel was good enough to broadcast the entire event from Saturday evening till Sunday..almost all as they explicitly excluded the performances by J-pop artists like Koda Kumi, Otsuka Ai, A.I., Rip Slyme, Bonnie Pink, Ayaka, abingdon boys school etc... which was the main attraction for me to catch for the event, which was a letdown
Then again I could be sleeping or out somewhere when they did feature these artists on TV...
Not that I haven't seen their performances before which will be almost the same as those from their own variety programmes.
I am though quite interested in catching Y.M.O headed Sakamoto Ryuichi in action...then again maybe not...
Got a new hair style, perhaps the shortest crop I had adopted in ages when Wendy, my contracted (which contract is non-existent btw) hairdresser decided to let her creativity get the best of her and it turned out to be quite satisfactory...
Thought I would raised some eyebrows in La Tendo, I slid into the shop with ninja-like stealth and start fiddling with my NDS in the middle of a usual Saturday crowd to everyone's ignorance...SWEET...
Perhaps the crew were more pre-occupied with finalizing the plan to relocate to perhaps Kallang (I shudder at the thought of traveling to beyond the National Stadium on weekly basis) when the current lease for the shop is up...
They had their good run at Sunshine Plaza and before it could celebrate its official 1st birthday (since it was opened on 29th February 2004), it would be facing the sudden need to shift...
It was badminton at Clementi Sports Hall again on Sunday and we were joined by some of EK's chain-smoking chums who can serve and smack better than yours truly (then again that's about 99% of the world population when the other 1% are actual professional players)...
After a brunch which really stuffed me to the brim (an accidental order of too much Tim Sum when all I wanted was a Lor Mai Kai), my New-Super-Mario-Bros-obsessed missus headed to RV Mr Chan at China Square Central to pick up a pre-ordered figurine but ended spending over a hundred bucks there when I managed to unravel the fact that the same shop sold items I wanted which La Tendo couldn't provide (I am getting used to it lately by the way).
We then headed for a rather costly authentic Hong Kong style dessert deli across the road when we could had traveled a bit further to across Chinatown Square for cheaper alternatives since we are heading that direction to take a bus down to AMK Hub while Chan could head down to La Tendo himself...
After a surprisingly comfortable bus rid when both of us reeling the effects of waking up early, fell into slumber and woke up just in time as the bus arrived at Singapore's 2nd air conditioned bus interchange...
As usual the Hub was infested with crowd which seems to be bewitched by the mall to keep patronizing it, and the rest was still not to be found by 4pm before Foo being the first to arrived, followed by CS with his lass, Miss Beer whom we had the honor to meet for the first time before TW who mistakenly caught himself in the jam outside the Hub which we should have warned him about..
By then the movie has began on the dot of the screening time and even we missed the short beginning of it and Foo was not wrong to describe it a usual Michael Bay-action-packed affair since the beginning till the very end...
After the movie, TW was gravely affected by how Optimus Prime was portrayed while unanimously we felt the storyline was pretty bleak but it was entertaining nevertheless...
Bay tried a bit too hard on the cinematography for the action scenes and I found the involvement of the human characters was an overkill especially when they could take down the likes of Blackout by themselves...
It surely paid some tributes to those TF G1 fans (I wasn't one myself, I'm more into He-man & M.A.S.K back then) though still roused some ramblings and rantings from avid fans..
The use of Peter Cullen, the original voice actor of Optimus Prime was an ideal choice and he still brought that voice of justice which we all grew accustomed to from the leader of Autobots...
Meanwhile Hugo Weavings was almost unrecognizable as the voice of Megatron (who transform into an alien jet instead of a pistol now) after all the digital effects into it...
Shia LaBeouf who is the main protagonist, Sam (we all known as Spike back then) did a splendid job, though I'm not sure about being a true action flick hero material, I love the way he was driven to madness when the Autobots invaded his house while his parents are on his tail for all the commotion.. This kid sure had some comedic value in him and might be the next Ben Stiller...
After the show, we had a rare dinner session (hack watching movie as the wreckers is rare by itself) at S-11 near Jubilee since it would be diabolical to just consider squirming through the rabid crown in the Hub for dinner...
It was when we conversed even more on the movie and how it could be better like true-blue losers like ourselves are groomed to be...
Then a habitual visit to a console game retailer (the same where most of the LT gang got their NDS lite from) for TW to quench his gaming need and so-called research while for CS is another day as a hardcore gamer...
It surely is more than meets the eyes as well that my buddy would desert (a strong word but that's what exactly happened) his previous girl for the current squeeze...
It was perhaps her personality that moves him and perhaps that gentle touch that makes him felt she is the one...
At the end of the day, as friends, we felt as long as he is happy, we'll be glad for him as well...
On Saturday, the much hyped 7th July 2007 or 070707 descended to our calendar and sent everyone globally into the date frenzy when it was just an ordinary Saturday to say the best...
This unique date was chosen by the likes of 777 couples (or should I say suckers) to beat the crowd and among themselves to get knotted matrimonially...
Great you got this special dat which occurs once a millennium and things got buzzing on the wedding ceremony..let's hope the marriage stays as long as 0.1% of a millennium though..SUCKERS!
Then our good friend Al Gore, the former vice-president back in in late 1990s for the Big Bubba Clinton who had transformed into a one-man vigilante against global warming and other ill effects human beings had inflicted towards our precarious mother earth, decided to bandied a troop of well-known musicians to host a 24 hour non-stop concert marathon across the globe in 9 countries over 7 continents, known as Live Earth..much like Live Aid or Live 8 which Bob Geldof had created years ago but at a larger scale...
Our local English speaking channel was good enough to broadcast the entire event from Saturday evening till Sunday..almost all as they explicitly excluded the performances by J-pop artists like Koda Kumi, Otsuka Ai, A.I., Rip Slyme, Bonnie Pink, Ayaka, abingdon boys school etc... which was the main attraction for me to catch for the event, which was a letdown
Then again I could be sleeping or out somewhere when they did feature these artists on TV...
Not that I haven't seen their performances before which will be almost the same as those from their own variety programmes.
I am though quite interested in catching Y.M.O headed Sakamoto Ryuichi in action...then again maybe not...
Got a new hair style, perhaps the shortest crop I had adopted in ages when Wendy, my contracted (which contract is non-existent btw) hairdresser decided to let her creativity get the best of her and it turned out to be quite satisfactory...
Thought I would raised some eyebrows in La Tendo, I slid into the shop with ninja-like stealth and start fiddling with my NDS in the middle of a usual Saturday crowd to everyone's ignorance...SWEET...
Perhaps the crew were more pre-occupied with finalizing the plan to relocate to perhaps Kallang (I shudder at the thought of traveling to beyond the National Stadium on weekly basis) when the current lease for the shop is up...
They had their good run at Sunshine Plaza and before it could celebrate its official 1st birthday (since it was opened on 29th February 2004), it would be facing the sudden need to shift...
It was badminton at Clementi Sports Hall again on Sunday and we were joined by some of EK's chain-smoking chums who can serve and smack better than yours truly (then again that's about 99% of the world population when the other 1% are actual professional players)...
After a brunch which really stuffed me to the brim (an accidental order of too much Tim Sum when all I wanted was a Lor Mai Kai), my New-Super-Mario-Bros-obsessed missus headed to RV Mr Chan at China Square Central to pick up a pre-ordered figurine but ended spending over a hundred bucks there when I managed to unravel the fact that the same shop sold items I wanted which La Tendo couldn't provide (I am getting used to it lately by the way).
We then headed for a rather costly authentic Hong Kong style dessert deli across the road when we could had traveled a bit further to across Chinatown Square for cheaper alternatives since we are heading that direction to take a bus down to AMK Hub while Chan could head down to La Tendo himself...
After a surprisingly comfortable bus rid when both of us reeling the effects of waking up early, fell into slumber and woke up just in time as the bus arrived at Singapore's 2nd air conditioned bus interchange...
As usual the Hub was infested with crowd which seems to be bewitched by the mall to keep patronizing it, and the rest was still not to be found by 4pm before Foo being the first to arrived, followed by CS with his lass, Miss Beer whom we had the honor to meet for the first time before TW who mistakenly caught himself in the jam outside the Hub which we should have warned him about..
By then the movie has began on the dot of the screening time and even we missed the short beginning of it and Foo was not wrong to describe it a usual Michael Bay-action-packed affair since the beginning till the very end...
After the movie, TW was gravely affected by how Optimus Prime was portrayed while unanimously we felt the storyline was pretty bleak but it was entertaining nevertheless...
Bay tried a bit too hard on the cinematography for the action scenes and I found the involvement of the human characters was an overkill especially when they could take down the likes of Blackout by themselves...
It surely paid some tributes to those TF G1 fans (I wasn't one myself, I'm more into He-man & M.A.S.K back then) though still roused some ramblings and rantings from avid fans..
The use of Peter Cullen, the original voice actor of Optimus Prime was an ideal choice and he still brought that voice of justice which we all grew accustomed to from the leader of Autobots...
Meanwhile Hugo Weavings was almost unrecognizable as the voice of Megatron (who transform into an alien jet instead of a pistol now) after all the digital effects into it...
Shia LaBeouf who is the main protagonist, Sam (we all known as Spike back then) did a splendid job, though I'm not sure about being a true action flick hero material, I love the way he was driven to madness when the Autobots invaded his house while his parents are on his tail for all the commotion.. This kid sure had some comedic value in him and might be the next Ben Stiller...
After the show, we had a rare dinner session (hack watching movie as the wreckers is rare by itself) at S-11 near Jubilee since it would be diabolical to just consider squirming through the rabid crown in the Hub for dinner...
It was when we conversed even more on the movie and how it could be better like true-blue losers like ourselves are groomed to be...
Then a habitual visit to a console game retailer (the same where most of the LT gang got their NDS lite from) for TW to quench his gaming need and so-called research while for CS is another day as a hardcore gamer...
It surely is more than meets the eyes as well that my buddy would desert (a strong word but that's what exactly happened) his previous girl for the current squeeze...
It was perhaps her personality that moves him and perhaps that gentle touch that makes him felt she is the one...
At the end of the day, as friends, we felt as long as he is happy, we'll be glad for him as well...
Japanese word of the day: 表面的 (Skin deep) Michael Bay's movie tends to be visual treat and barely skin deep in storyline while I doubt earth can be saved very much by a concert marathon
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