imprisoned (the days)

Reminds me of a guy I used to like... From Z Sec Sch, one year older than me and always sits behind me in the morning bus from Bishan (53) Haha! Maybe he is!

Please leave me your pager number *jute jute*


Caught 'The Days' public premiere this evening. I must say that for a local film, directorial debut, I was VERY impressed! All the 'retro' stuff (movie is set in the 89-90s), they've got it down pat. Though it's not really my era yet, I was 'street smart' from a very young age and thus remember all those familiar memories that probably those in their late 20s till mid 30s remember! Like the tea dances, 'jute jute', scribbling your gang name on back seats of buses and beating people up, hey, those were the good old days!

Look out for scenes of those old childhood playground - the 'dragon' one not the 'bird' series...I wonder where they filmed it...old lifts that only went to the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th floors, those days the lifts had whitish flower wallpaper which yellowed and the buttons always had chewing gum...REMEMBER? Remember the old MCDs and the MCDs cups which had small 'M's printed on them in varying shades of yellow and brown... and the pagers, the old 'telecom' sign printed on telephone booths which we would use to call the people who paged us... those awful clothes, bright yellow shirt with opened buttons, tucked into versace jeans and doc martens to kick people harder (steel toe boots protects feet)...and sneaking into the PE room to get your weapons of choice, those were the good old days! Now gangs are... not as 'brotherly' as before, this show is a really good quasi-documentary about what really happened in the past. I enjoyed every bit of it, perhaps because I can identify with some parts.


The two actors are also quite promising, though I would say the filming could be better if done in a sentimental korean style rather than the singaporean quasi-documentary style.

I hope this show gets more publicity and not be branded as an ah-beng show - but more of something that documents the lifestyle of the students who play truant and escape into gangs.

I wonder what became of my friends who joined these gangs? Now, these street gangs no longer exist in such intensities... I guess society as a whole is becoming more individualistic - the rise of personal sports (think golf, gaming) compared to the decline of group sports also shows that. - heck, except for church groups I hardly hang out in a group anymore. So... in a way, shows the societal changes as well. And what happened to the ah-lian way of highlighting hair in very obvious tigerish strips? Did it really die out or does it still happen in some obscure salons in sarawak? I love the glitter eyeshadow the ah-lian in the show wears...must go get some.


Like a really bad fashion memory...

Go watch!

www.thedaysmovie.com

de-composed

What is the opposite of 'indefatigable'?

Was telling Kie I feel weirded out lately - maybe it's the hectic-ness of life that has got me feeling 'robotic' - I don't feel stressed, I don't feel anything. It's like the calm before the storm!!! The way you feel you have misplaced something, or the feeling you get when you forgot to bring your handphone out... slightly weird.

And one of the other signs that I am weirded out is that ... I haven't been buying stuff. Which I did intend to, at the GSS. GSS leh! Like discounted clothes or a new MP3player - I NEED one, mine is a Creative dinosaur of 4plus years back... Lasttime, 40+ songs is a lot, okay... ... No, I haven't bought anything except some skincare necessities! And I somemore invested in some fund...-_- after bumping into my HK fund manager the DAY after I came back from BKK which is the week he came back from some country also!?!!!....Anyways the fund ...comes with an MP3 player anyway, how ironic... so I am 'blessed' with one, though it is not the one I am desiring for (someone get me an itouch) heh. If this continues on, mmm, I don't know what's the outcome, maybe I will have to keep in touch with the news more often so that I can... invest more? Sigh! But was quite glad to meet him actually.

It's strange how several months back we (think) we care about some things... yet now realise that they are (were) insignificant, after all. Or you think some people are on the same wavelength as you, but suddenly realize how different they are.

And when you're in good company, even bad food tastes good. (Unfortunately the reverse is also true!) I didn't like Shokudo the first time I was there. The 2nd time it got better. The 3rd time last week, everything me and my lunch buddy ordered tasted like it came straight from Heaven... hee. Good company, good conversation and good food. Something to look forward to as I'd be having many sessions of it this week.

And the Shokudos' lunch-buddy aka TBO has a new haircut! Actually I should say old haircut cuz his new (old) look is reminiscent of the way he looked, in my memory, 5 years ago. How time flies! It was so funny, because that awful look was the way I remembered him when we were acquaintances all that long ago. The square top - short, crew look to be exact. Sigh! And... I was just thinking about him looking like that, because while we were at the doctors' last week, he whipped out some identity card and he had that prisoner look in the ID and it jolted me back into the recent past. Heh. And I was just telling myself that I couldn't imagine him looking like that with the squarish-each-strand of hair standing up in a 1 cm by width of his head black grass patch style... and voila! He turns up in that look! -_-

All I can say is I'm glad I prohibited him to wear track pants to church...
It's hard to match clothes with the square patch look... Maybe with a hawaiian shirt... nooo, I didn't really mean that.

TBO's going to be real busy this semester which makes me sort of sad.
Me, too. Busy that is. Not sad. Being weirded out lately also means I don't have much feelings. Robotic.

It's awfully tiring to be out almost every weeknight... correction, EVERY weeknight. (My 'out' means coming home around midnight or past that which I did 3 days last week.)
I'm so tired! And to be honest I'm not all that social. Sometimes I want to escape to Melaka and stay in bed reading books.

I had 3 clashing events last thursday night, I just chose the most fun one to go to... One was a shop opening, one was a media related event at Loof which so far I had never went to because I was always otherwise occupied...and one was a gathering of friends from the extension trip. I keep putting off meeting with people... and sundays I have to sleep in for hours which frustrates me, being the industrious chore-driven individual that I am. Haha... on a side, last sunday I slept and missed lunch, and dinner... And having no time to eat breakfast the next morning I actually almost fainted in the train - hypoglycaemia, low blood sugars... I always prefer sleeping to eating, anyways. Even eating is tiring at times!

Already missing the TBO presence. I need a weekly sighting of the square patch.