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.