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.

And for those wondering where I was this past weekend, I was transferred over to serve in S2 in preparation for Asia Conference. How awesome eh? Though I did handle Expo equipments before, but it’s good to get more familiar with them again. Haven’t touched them since Easter.

*Shall create another post for that*

Anyhow, this post is a delayed post. So just gonna pretty much let the pictures do the talking again.

Note, most of the pictures aren’t taken by me.

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And yes, I was not in any of the photos at all, cos I was serving TV.

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Sin Mun and Shiya. Sin Mun doesn’t have a Facebook account is it? Or did I spell her name wrong or whatever other reasons???

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Oh no. Miranda is not here. No wonder Hao Han machiam so sad.

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Kah Keong, Shiya and Olive.

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The sisters. Or at least the “older” ones. LOL.

Whoops.

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Kexin! Think we celebrated her birthday that day. But I highly doubt the tissue box is the present. It’s probably more for tears of joy to come *ahem* *ahem*.

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Kexin and Olive.

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Shiyuan and Shiya. And no they’re not sisters.

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Bernard and Yerui.

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This classic “against a mirrored surface” thing is nice. Except Bernard’s face got distorted.

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KK’s shoes. Matching colors with the carpet for some reason. LOL.

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Think after that we went for this nice train ride around the west side to look for Kexin.

Hao Han’s like, “aiya, lost again.”

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The brothers.

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Poor Bernard. Kena blinded by the flash.

Kah Keong’s idea to keep this photo btw. But I think it’s brilliant too. Haha.

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Oh yes, we finally found them. At Joo Koon MRT Station.

But by the time we (and the rest) got there, it was already over. And everyone that came late came with their DSLRs! But like, a bit weird to shoot again also, (this is a reenactment btw.) Because like, ?? feeling already you know? Haha.

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But it’s sweet nonetheless. He playing a song on a guitar (I’m guessing it’s their love song.) Then proposing.

Then accepting, then hugging…

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More mad hugging from the girls…

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And meanwhile…

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W369 with Kexin and the lucky guy!

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And Marlin, Mingyao and baby came too! All the way from Expo! So nice right? Haha.

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Anyhow, congrats to Kexin on your engagement. Must be like super happy right? Haha.

Not sure how Allen proposed though, heard it was during the train ride itself. Probably trying to emulate some movie scene. So sweet of him. Though there must be something really significant about them MRT rides that they as a couple love eh? Haha. Very interesting choice of location! (Remember the guy at the Dohby Gaught bus stop?)

Got me thinking about the proposal plan that I had (and only 2-3 other people know about). Sigh. Anyhow…

Congrats once again.

Have been busy throughout the entire week editing this ORD video for my unit. Madness. Barely enough content to put in. In fact, half the content is CG. How amazing eh?

Anyhow, just let the photos do the talking, perhaps I might drop a comment here and there. Haha.

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Kexin and Shiya

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Dennis and his “Uncle” seh….

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Kah Keong, cheerful usher.

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Shiya. Likes to cover her face with weird hand gestures.

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Super photogenic

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And then there were the games after service at the rooftop garden

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Meanwhile…

This guy is going to end up with 4 eyes like me in the future if this carries on…

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Dude tried to snap a photo of me.

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Machiam some serious chinese calligraphy man…

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I have no idea what’s going on…

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But it somehow looks like he’s been attacked, or attacking..

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Don’t jump! I jump with you!!

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Like small kid like that…

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SEE! I told you Shiya always covers her face with weird stuff…

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I love this next picture

Taken by Kah Keong. No doubt it’s being photoshopped and edited. But I’m just amazed at how clean the photo looks. No annoying litter or people strolling around. Very nice.

View the other post on Easter with TV Ministry!!