Thursday, November 01, 2007
~ 11/01/2007 11:52:00 PM ~
Maybe today, for me, is the first totally relaxed day for the whole year as ‘O’ Level was finally over and nothing much to worry about, for the time being. And I had fun, or had “fear” today. I am referring to the horror movie we have watched.
…“Spooky, thirty-two: use one-oh-five shells. Bring the rain.”
…the AC-130 gunship unleashed a six-thousand-round-a-minute storm of sabot rounds at the metallic shape clearly visible on the ground below…
This was where I stopped for my Transformers novel. Glancing at the alarm clock, I was alarmed as I did not want to be late and be waited for by everyone else. An anxious I sent a message to one of my friends who organized it, the message read: ETA (estimate time of arrival), 5 minutes.
Some of the guys were gathering at Golden Village, discussing which movie to watch. Soon the rest of the people, who just finished playing the LAN at Katong Mall as the former did, joined us. Decision seemed to be made and we took the tickets of a horror movie. Ten minutes before the show, I bought some token at the arcade. Without much time to play, I was only able to spend one coin before heading into the hall.
There were not many people (if not because of our arrival, I would have called them “a couple of people”) in this particular hall. Most of the seats were empty. For a moment I had a feeling that there were full of people in those seats, but apart from us, the rest were all invisible. Anyway, after occupying and settling comfortably in the centre section of the second and third last rows of the velvet seats, we started consuming the hotdogs, coke or popcorns vigorously. Typical cinema foods.
The show began. At first, our staccato laughter echoed in the relatively empty hall and comments like “it’s like bak kua eh” were really funny. But our attitude towards the movie changed as scary scenes turned up, and half of us shut our eyes or plugged our ears. What I did was to duck, whenever necessary, behind the seat in front, as if the seat itself, together with my “half watching” friend in it, could shield me from whatever in the show. Some did something similar.
We went to arcade after the show. I spend the rest of the tokens on a Jurassic Park shooting game with Zhi Hao and watched some of my friends played a quite exciting reaction game. It was in Cantonese, with instructions on the screen in traditional Chinese. And immediately everybody started to imitate the digital voice of the machine, which was explaining a game about making hamburgers in a hamburger shop, in Cantonese. It came to me again and reminded me that I am living in a multi-cultural place now. I have never been exposed to all these dialects before.
Anyway, as a respond to Glen’s suggestion of eating some “really stupid stuff”, seven people, including me, went to food court across the third floor of Tampines Mall. Part of the time during dinner was spent to discuss about the movie. It was later defined by us as a psychological movie.
Chatting with one of my friends through msn when I finally got back to hostel. It was quite enlightening.
Now is late. I guess I’ve got to grab some shut-eyes. Cheerio.
