Daily posts are actually quite difficult I realize. But I suppose with the right effort, it could happen too. Anyhow, moving on.
Happy 21st Birthday to Gloria Goh! Awesome stuff. Official turning LEGAL. 18 was nonsense la, that’s technically not legal. That’s just an age where more adult laws apply to you.
Anywho. Nothing much happened. Just a lot of humid days, and a lot of sleepy timings, all at the wrong timings really. And for some reason I tried to freeze my MBP in an attempt to get it’s core temp lowered for faster performance.
Though unfortunately, all I got, was a 25degrees core temp (which is not too bad, just that it rose up again once it was immediately out of the freezer.). Plus a lot of water condensation which essentially rubbed off the dirt on the surface of the Mac. Resulting in me cleaning my MBP for the next half hour. Not a brilliant idea.
Though point, it kinda makes sense to have your machines work at a lower temperature, say a nice cold aircon room. It does makes sense. Just for laptops, gotta find a better way of lowering the core temp rather than using methods like “lifting your Mac up”, which does work to a certain 20% extent. And using those useless laptop mounts with fans powered by USB. I mean come on, seriously? Those ain’t gonna cut it.
Enough of Macs.
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Went to watch movie. Thanks to UOB’s brilliant offer of $6 weekday movie tickets at Cathay. It’s awesome. And I can purchase 20 at one go. Only that guy cheated my of my free popcorns. Don’t wanna kick a fuss la huh.
Okay first though, before watching the movie that is. Typical asian-made horror film. With the exception that it was in 3D. Or so they say.
And no I didn’t watch it in 3D, I watched it in 2D instead. But at some points you will still be able to tell the parts of the film that were deliberately edited to have that 3D effect. (No spoilers here).
Too draggy in the front part. Some attempt to make some cheesy humor parts. But it kinda didn’t work out the way it was supposed to. It was more lame than funny in a sense. Certain parts of the film didn’t really link up either. The characters (including extras) were definitely not in their individual characters in context with the film at certain points in time. Not to say that it was a bad film though.
Okay, so 3 couples from Hong Kong in holiday in Thailand find themselves caught up in a political riot in the city, rendering their airport closed, and forcing them to take refuge in a sleazy rundown hotel (cue bad humor).
So like in most of the Asian made horror films we’ve seen thus far, someone always goes missing, in this case the 3 guys, and the girls , particularly Rainie Yang, tries to find them. Together with another 3 local kids, two of whom mysteriously faints in the hotel corridor, and a dog who apparently can spot them monsters in the murk. Which of course came in rather handy.
Yet another staple in such films are ghostly women with long dark hair. What’s new right. But this one had a nicer face I must say. The only thing I didn’t really get what the messed up child who had a face and paws of a dog. Supposedly from messed up activities during the pregnancy. Which begs one to wonder, unless you were cursed to have a really horrible looking child, or said woman mated with a dog. That’s nasty stuff.
Though the story only kinda revives itself towards the end, with nicely sustained scenes from a strange computer generated fantasy world made up of giant toys. It’s a nice break from the far-to-common green surroundings, which I presume is a textbook color for “fear”. But before you know it, it all fades away and we’re back in the same hotel with a full story-book like explanation of the back-story ad the obligatory happy ending, somewhat.
It’s not a terrible film overall. They’re probably worse Asian made horror films than this. Really annoying draggy shots in the beginning, probably a ploy to make you wonder which part of the frame an odd looking object might come up from. It’s just a feeling that the Pangs have been kicking a dead horse around for quite some time now, there’s nothing really fresh other than the deliberately added 3D effects to throw a chair and a grenade in your face. Otherwise, just watch it to have your nuts woken up.
I have to say, if watched in 3D, it would be nice. Though this film probably wouldn’t make it to the big screens past Asia. It’s too textbook that it’s probably destined for home entertainment instead. Get ready to see this poster plastered on a DVD store near you.
Oh did I mention, this is probably the perfect movie for you couples to bring your spouses/partners to. Gives you a huge reason to be clinging on tightly to said partner. That of course doesn’t make sense if your partner is like me, who made a fool of himself laughing his way throughout the movie at every opportunity. Anyone was at the 14th Oct 1935hrs screening of Child’s Eye 2D at The Cathay? Yeah you probably heard me out loud.
