Entertainment and some Supernatural

Me and ex-Probation Girl caught the movie Shrek 3 at Suntec City today. I like it! Some reviews were not flattering and said it was very formulaic, just like Shrek 1 & 2. But I expected it to be exactly that, so I wasn't disappointed at all. The movie was quite entertaining. I like Beauty alot, and also the kitty and the crossdressing wolf. Sleepy beauty is the one on the extreme right in the picture.



The storming of the castle by the princesses was very Charlie's Angels. The song Barracuda played during the scene can also be found on the Charlie's Angels' soundtrack.

I nagged at ex-Probation Girl to book the movie tickets online and the kind patient soul managed to book tickets via phone. When I arrived to collect the tickets, none of the shows were sold out at all. This was a rather unusual phenomenon in Singapore for a just launched movie. Then we realised, it was because EVERYONE was at the PC Show, which was also held at Suntec. In fact, Suntec was so crowded that the whole mall was a big fat fire hazard.

We went to the PC show. It was crazy, we were sardines all packed up and crawling on land. Just look at this.



This is self-portrait of ex-Probation Girl, we were taking a breather literally in-between stalls. Whew!



But yay! ex-Probation Girl bought an external hard disk at a good price, and something else with multiple USB outlet points, so it was worth it. She thought she was a closet Tech Geek, but there's nothing closet about it because I think the WHOLE WORLD knew already. In fact she uncontrollably yelled out in glee over the phone when I suggested PC show after Shrek. Hee hee.

On route to dinner, we passed by a China fair. Ex-Probation Girl was looking for Tibetan Pearls known also as "dzi". They apparantly help to protect you from evil such as bad weather and office backstabbing politics. We were directed to a Mainland Chinese who took out his private stash from a duffel bag under the stall table. Hmm, must be the good stuff.

He took out a big stone (called a pearl), and a necklace of stones for us to see. The guy also gave a talk on the universe and its influence on the stones (which were river stones carved with eyes and processed by Tibetan monks) but I didn't really understand half of it. Incidently, he was from Liaoning and not Tibet. The stone cost about 200 Singapore dollars, and the necklace he said, was not for sale.

Strange enough, when we touched the stone and necklace, we felt creeped out by their power. So needless to say, ex-Probation Girl didn't buy anything. She thinks she should make a trip to Tibet and go straight to the source: Approach temple monks personally and cut out all the dodgy middlemen.

New Library at Suntec

Check out Suntec City's Food Republic (high-class looking food court)! Looks like a library right? So if you ever were a bookworm rebel and had an eat-away-in-the-library unfufilled fetish, come to this place.

On a side note, Me and friend, Sze Sze (girl in foreground) got haircuts, and I think Sze's is gorgeous!

Gucci captures Mummy's era

My sister, during one of her summer vacations back to Singapore, spent some time scanning old photographs, and luckily I remembered to get her to pass me copies. I remembered this picture of mummy and friends, for some odd reason.



I find that Gucci's 2006 ad campaign is reminescent of the mummy and friends picture, for some odd reason.



Alrrright, mummy and friends were obviously less glamourous, but can you somewhat see the fashion similarities? I love this picture cos it feels so candid. I don't think I have a picture of me and my friends in the same composition.

Yah, I think Gucci copied Mummy.

Strange Infection

Last Monday, I went to see my neighbourhood friendly doctor about a lump at the base of my skull, just reaching the top of neck. It was a hard yet tender lump. I self-diagnosed it as "Swollen Lymph Node". And it was! What a quack I am!

The area above the swollen lymph node was also extremely tender, and was painful to sleep on. The doctor prescribed AUGMEX (which was cheaper than Augmentin by one doller per tab) which made me woozy. The swell, which was caused by probably an infection to the ear, nose or throat, as diagnosed by the doctor, should go down in a week, or, the doctor threatened, I would need to see a specialist.

Strange enough, my ears, nose and throat felt fine. Nothing felt wrong. Hmmm.

Concerned friends offer advice and scares, which ranged from "it might be prelude to leukaemia" to " Is it a pimple? Have you tried squeezing it?" which really cracked me up. I think the swelling was not helped by my incessant checking, which consisted of non-stop pressing of the node to figure if it was still painful.

Anyway one week has passed and the swelling has subsided. Should I return to the doc to confirm it's really alright now? After all, I have become quite an expert at checking the node because I have pressed it continously for one week, heh heh.

Sharp Objects

Today, The Straits Times reported that Civil Servants are encouraged to read FICTION books to improve their sense of empathy. So, just wondering if they would enjoy this book "Sharp Objects".

It's a debut effort by Gillian Flynn whose credentials included being the chief TV critic at Entertainment Weekly...so you would think the book would be flaky right? I was very wrong. The book is pure psycho and I loved it to death. After reading the book, fear and a sense of disturbance just slowly creep in and give you a general sense of unease and subsequently, two nights of insomnia. Very good, pure immersion, even Stephan King liked it. However, I think I got carried away on describing how mental the book was, because none of my friends were keen to borrow it. Most said they were pretty stressed up on a daily basis already, and did not need this addition. But, this could be one of the best books I've read recently, frankly speaking.

So without giving anything away, the story is about Chicago reporter Camille Preaker.

I will perservere and continue recommending this book to friends and family.