The City Never Sleeps

Mrs Edmund Chen vs ex-Mrs Tom Cruise vs The bogus Incredibles

If you still couldn't figure out what is the puzzle, here comes the answer:

Xiang Yun vs Nicole Kidman vs NTUC Fairprice's new mascot icon: the Incredibles imitation. Turn to NTUC Fairprice advertising page on today's Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao for more details, or just take a look when u go to NTUC for groceries.

This is what i'm seen from the 3 major supermart: Shop n Save, Cold Storage and NTUC, where they want to boost their image that they are not your any ordinary supermart. So, they use celebrities or mascots. But before talking to you about Nicole n Cold Storage, let's talk about Xiang Yun first.

The Mrs Edmund Chen aka Mdm Xiang (should i called like this?) and her mother are the spokesperson of Shop n Save. If you had watched any TV programmes and their commerical breaks, you will see this ad: Xiang Yun and her mum outside SnS, and says, 'talking about saving $$$, mother is smart. Shopping at SnS can helps you save a lot. Her mom says: Save!Save!Save!' At the end of the ad, she says, Shopping at SnS, mother is the best.

Two aunties advertising the already auntie like supermart, and the new image you get: very auntie. SnS is now a supermart catering for the aunties, ah sohs and ah mahs. Somehow, it doesn't really wants me to step in again, unless i am driven with no choice but to buy from SnS. Frankly speaking, with the emergence of Giant hypermart in Bedok Central last yr and other areas + mushrooming of new NTUC outlets in various location in S'pore, SnS is coming to an losing end. Everytime i went there, the shelves looks pretty old, with limited groceries and hardly ever stock up fresh foods. The supermart desperately needs an image upgrade, but it seems that the image upgrade has failed. Only housewives buying their groceries from the nearby wet market would goes in to fill the crowd at SnS. The rest of the time? some aunties who needs to buy some stuff from there. Late afternoon and evening crowd consist of those who had just finish their work. Seriously, i've not seen anyone buying their one week supply of groceries from SnS after Giant invades Bedok central. If that's not all, take a look at their outlet in Century Sq. After the major makeover of Century Sq, the size of SnS has shrunk by abt 1/3, leaving with only 2/3 of the space left.

SnS is putting itself in some kind of image where they are about to lose, and at the same time, makes themselves very old and auntie. Just wonder did they do anything to salvage themselves from the losing end, or more rather, bringing themselves back to their heydays?

Let's talk about Cold Storage and ex-Mrs Tom Cruise. Actually, Nicole Kidman did not advertise for Cold Storage, but if you remember there was a movie from her named Stepford Wives which was in theatres last yr, Cold Storage was the official supermart to promote the tale of a TV Station chairwoman who moves into Stepford, and befriends the tai tais, but to find that the tai tais were controlled by their hubbies like robots. The tai tais, are robots, actually. No link at all rite? But hey, take a look at the place where they lives. High class estate with rich people as the resident of Stepford, and that just fits in the image of CS, catering to those living in private estates and those who can afford better products at silghtly higer price.

Just head down to any Cold Storage outlet and you will see that high salary receivers makes up part of the sources of income for CS, and the items sold there are...no difference compared to SnS and NTUC, but there are some items that is definitely NOT available at SnS n NTUC. Cadbury ice creams, concentrated lemonade in a can, cheese cut from the big chunks/blocks, freeze strawberries with creamy vanilla creme filling are some of the examples. And the products sold there? you can find what's necessary, and some other brands that's not commonly available in S'pore. It's neat, but crammed in size. With those ang mohs buying groceries at 100 bucks n more at a go, you can tell the image yaself.

NTUC: For everyone, i suppose. It's the commoner's suerpmart, you would say. But as you look at their new outlets plus upgrading of the old outlets, it has strike a balance of being a SnS, and at the same time, CS. Take a visit at their outlet in Bedok, Marine Parade and in future, Ang Mo Kio, and you get what i mean. :P

Cindy asked me whether if i would like to join their gang for a badminton session at Hougang sports complex. I went, cos 1) it's been ages since i last played badminton, 2) wants to see her best friend Val in person, rather than dropping msg on cin's doodle board, and the troublesome pair (Val and me) is bickering with each other on the board.

So i went to Hougang central (the place that i would choose not to step again, cos the place sucks to me, but i still go for it, cos the gangs lives in that area, and you can't expect them to made their way down to Bedok to plase me rite? School is okay to us, but there are ppl who are not TP's.) and met them at 10.48am. Val arrives at 11am on cab and so we happily went to the designated court.

And the game is quite a mockery to me, cos the last time that i played badminton was in Sec 4, so do the math yaself aka you calculate yaself how long i've never touched a badminton racket and shuttlecock. When entering the court, it was just like entering a sauna, plus the clothes we are wearing, so you can imagine i am wearing a sweaty tees before the game, and you can imagine what happens after the end of the game.

1st round: 2 doubles, with Val and Xiang (Cin's bf) as a pair, Alex (cin's neighbour) and me another. After the 1st round, Xiang was replaced by Cin, 3rd round with Val taking a break, 4th round by Alex and i am the last.

So we just shoot and shoot and shoot till 12noon, where we change the court. It was a game of singles and singles, and eventually a single/double aka one vs two.

2pm: The End of the Game. Everyone took a cab and leaves except me, where i need a shower. The shower room is pretty small, and the changing space? even smaller. School is still the best.

Gained something from this game: Val is a nice girl, but need time to be discovered. Badminton has never been so fun and thrilling before. I admit that i am a mountain turtle in some case, but at least i learnt how to feel the thrill and sharpen my alertness from badminton.

Hey Val, if u read this, we still have to work on what we agreed on: brainwash Ciin...

When i know that Arts Central is having the TV premier of Francois Girard's Red Violin, it was a 1) Yayyyyyy! finally here! feeling and 2) what the heck is Arts Central doing? Having their so called TV premier after waiting for years?

Overall, it is one of the few finest arthouse film ever watch, with a blend of several different types of cast. Put Samuel L Jackson and Sylvia Chang Ai Chia plus several Italian, French and German actors n actresses and you get a unique blend of the history of the red violin, where it was initially made by a craftsman named Nicolo Bussotti for his pregnant wife in the 17th century Cremona, Italy. 5 tarot cards from the results of the fortune telling determines the fate of the violin for the next few hundred years.

If you still coudn't figure out what the heck is this film about, i make it simple for you: it's about a Nicolo Bussotti violin that i mention just now, which has been passed to different owners in different times and eras and different countries. It ends up on auction in Montreal, France, in 1998. And each time the violin founds itself a new owner in different land, it tells us a story behind the era or the owner. The violin was eventually passed down to 18th century orphanage in Vienna, 19th century violinist in Oxford, the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai in the 60's (where Sylvia steps in as the violin's new owner, but has to give it away to another violinist, cos if she was found to own a violin, she will be shamed in the public. You know what i am talking if you know the Cultural Revolution.) and eventually on auction at Montreal, where Samuel steps in as Charles Morritz, who was invited to examine some violins that was found in China, and eventually going on auctions.

What's so worth watching was the history of violin, the types of people the violin sees, and the ugliness of the human through the violin. Ugliness in the sense of : the orphan was adopted by a musician and has to perform for an aristocrat in Vienna, an affair in Oxford, to be destroyed by the extreme communist in Shanghai, and eventually, everyone in the auction house claim that they are the right owner of the violiin.

Ah, not to forget that that was Samuel's 1st arthouse film he ever acted, but sad to say, he did not crosspaths with Sylvia. Ah...what a disappointment.

About the previous title, i did not mention photocopying machine, cos i was to talk about Cinta Fotokopi, the Malay romantic comedy now playing at only Causeway Point cineplex and the whole of M'sia. The plot...however, has nothing gotta do with photocopying machine or to photocopy anything. Just another typical M'sia school lovestory.

The point why i wrote photocopying machine is because i am thinking of going to Woodlands central for a walk, to see the changes, and mabey another movie at Causeway pt cine. Nah, i went to Parkway Parade and town instead. Went to Cold Storage to get a bottle of Vanilla Coke, and met that nice friendly handsome male cashier whose shares the same surname as me. (Note: My surname in Mandarin is known as Chen, just like Tan in Hokkien and Chan in Cantonese. Because i am a Hockchew, it is pronounced as Ting. The Malay officials wrote it wrongly, and it ended up as Ding for me, my bro and my papa. MY SURNAME IS NOT DING IN MANDARIN!!! I AM A CHEN!!!)

When u found someone sharing the same surname in same pronounciation, that could mean one thing: thelucky fella/gal could share the same dialect group as you. Because my dialect group is considered a minority, so it is very rare to meet Hockchewnese, or mabey a West Malaysian from Lumut or Sitiawan, Perak. However, that poor fella met a rather -ve customer tdy: Singaporean chinese SPG and her ang moh hubby. They bought loads of groceries, and they want the poor cashier to hurry up. In fact, some of the items they bought are fresh veggies and frutis which do not even come with a barcode, and thus some typing of numbers are needed. When they bought over $169 worth of groceries, he said: $169.90 pls, the SPG replied: Oei, i give u that $40 vouchers leh? After deduction, he asked the ang moh hubby whether he is paying by cash or nets. The hubby replied in a very polite manner: Nets please. My thought: BITCH.

My thoughts on these SPG:They tend to be more demanding than the ang mohs. Mabey this is the reason: 1. showing off their superiority. They think they are high class by having an ang moh partner, so they tend to show off their powers by being a bit sacarstic, a bit demanding and a bit of 'showing that they are filthy rich loo' to their fellow race/group etc. 2. Going after the ang moh's $$$ ? Cos SPG tend to suck up to the angmohs for the $$$. So, mabey that's why they are so diao? Mabey one day when these ang mohs abandon them, they will cry and curse, swear and weep? If one day their children work and they met such people, mabey this is their retribution.

So took a bus to Suntec and later walked to Bugis Junction. When passing Shaw Towers, hey, there is a CD clerance sale near the box office counter. That reminds me of the ad i saw on today's Classified, where thousands of CD's at $9.90, and plenty of French music cd's. OK, so i take a look trying my luck to see whether i could find any albums from Sigur Ros. Nah, they dun have it, but as they had plenty of old abums, i search all and i found a-Ha's old album in the end. The 1st album i found: East of the Sun, West of the Moon. I told myself: give me more time, and i can find the rest of the old albums from a-Ha. In the end, i found the album that i am searching fo since i was in Yr 1 in TP:

Stay on These Roads. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG, so many albums that i want to buy and they are now on sale. Have to go back there few days later, to get: Astronaut from Duran Duran, Prince, Madonna and mabey OST of La Mala Educacion?

Now playing: Out of the Blue Comes Green from A-ha's 3rd album, Stay On These Roads. Oh yeah, Stay on these Roads is a song actually, and for ya info, this album is no longer in production.

Back to movies again. This time round, i catch The Interpreter, the political thriller by Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, directed by Sydney Pollamets up wick. Wooh!

Before heading down to Lido to catch Nicole's latest film (anyway i am so ashmed that despite that Nicole makes several film last year and i am her fan, i failed to catch Cold Mountain, Stepford Wives and Birth in the theatres.) i was hitting the school gym for normal pump up on muscles. Met Robin, Jia Hao , Macwyn and Edwin on the field and gym respectively, doing their jogging and pumping of muscles. And mabey i am stressing myself, my left palm and the area surrounding my left thumb hurts. Dunno, never hd such a great feeling of getting my muscles over-stretched during workouts.

A hot shower follows after that 50min gym session, and i had to change cubicals in the end. The 1st cubical that i went to releases somekind of weird stench, and the shower is cold, so changed to another shower. This time round, the water is burning like hell...and i had to adjust it to the right temperature. Shit. Even semens could get cooked with that temperature easily.

Head straight down to Lido by taking 518, and managed to reach Lido at 11.20am for the 11.30am show. Wants to grab a Subway but finds it too freaking expensive, so grab a muffin at Starbucks instead. One of the greatest mistakes i had: should have grab Subway instead. Stomach rumbles at 1pm, and i know: muffins is for tea breaks, not a proper meal. Never had a muffin for meal unless you want wants to end up forking out more $$$ later for a decent meal.

Interpreter was great, cos you see a chemistry reaction b/w the 2 Oscar winner who potrays Virginia Woolf and Jimmy Markum, a depression haunted English author and a vengeful bad boy. Kidman plays Silvia Broome, a United Nations interpreter who accidentally overhears a conversation of assissanating Dr Zuwanie, the dictator of Matobo, a fictionous state of Africa. Tobin Keller, played by the silver screen bad boy aka Penn, is an investigator assigned to protect Dr Zuwanie, who is giving a speech at UN. But when Tobin is investigating on the conversation with Silvia, he digs out more secrets on Silvia: she was a Maboto native, whose parents and her younger sister died in genocide ordered by Zuwanie years ago. At the same time, Silvia was wanted by the guys whom talks about the assassination. They want Silvia dead.

Might sounds like another political thriller, but this is no ordinary political thriller. No 1: it is directed by Sydney Pollack, and this is his 2nd political thriller after 3 Days of the Condor, which was made 3 decades ago, with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. While 3 Days might made into a classic, Interpreter takes it to a greater height of political thriller. No 2: this is the 1st film to be totally filmed at United Nations building. Previously no other films are allowed to be filmed in the UN due to security reasons, not even Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Interpreter was granted a chance to conduct the shooting at UN is because Sydney Pollack meets up with the secretary-general Ghanaian Kofi Annan to talk about the filming. Haha, even though permisson was granted, but that doesn't mean they are given any freedom in the shooting. 1st of all, shooting can only be done on weekends so as not to disrupt the functions of UN. So, for some of the scenes filmed in the UN, it was actually filmed about a year ago.

That was the 2nd film from Sydney Pollack watched within a week. Random Hearts was the previous film watched as a Sunday matinee.

OK, time to look for the 3 Days now. Lunching with ma now.

To those who had watched Vanilla Sky, do u still remember the scene where Tom Cruise jump down from the building at the end of the show? That was the song which was played in that particular scene.

And finally i've found who is the wonderful singer behind such a soothening yet emotionally stirring soft rock po. Sigur Ros.

I am not really into soft rock, but i didn't know that the answer to the song has been hiding in my CD shelves for years! And i'm not yet to go and explore the answer myself...finally the answer is here. Back to the point. Sigur Ros is a soft rock band from Iceland, and yeah, that was the birthplace of singer Bjork. Their songs simply gets me addicted to it immediately, and now i am craving for more. Thank goodness, i can enjoy some of their songs free from their official website, compared to some website where no free MP3's were provided, and one of them was the singer that i detest most: Sly sim. Yes, i really detest Sly, not bcos he was sly, but more rather, the way how he handle the issue on his marriage, and he treats marriage like masak masak. He also gives me an impression that he was a Jay Chou wannabe.

Anyway, it was really a pity that Sigur Ros is not rally well known in Asia. Just check out with Gramophone and HMV, and found out that Gramophone do not have their album, while HMV had very limited no of copies of their album, where they had only 3 pathetic albums at $41 each.

This is the link if u want to feel the touch of Sigur Ros: www.sigur-ros.co.uk and the Nothing Song is recorded in their album, (_), recorded in 2002. Yep, that's the title of the album. Track? track 4, cos there's no track listing for the 8 track album.

Ah cindy, if u happen to read this blog, do not sue me or whatsoever for plagirism, cos this is in response to your earlier blog, in which i share the same idea as you.

Since you prefer to shop alone, well haha, i had found someone who shares the common interest. In fact, i have been shopping alone most of the time. But sometimes i do prefer to shop with friends, cos i can get my free advice on fashion, had someone to talk to me, and control my wild ideas. Yes, i am pretty weird, cos when i see something odd, it would trigger my mind to do something funny, and coming out with odd ideas.

However, i would never go shopping with:
1. My dad. My dad hardly shop. Even if he shops, it is with my mum to get new clothes and so on. Everytime we goes to JB, i want to take my time to shop and he would be rushing me like mad. In fact, if i were to buy clothes, he would just asked me whether i'm done if i stay in the changing rooms for more than 2 mins. Hey, i want to get the right clothes cos i do not want to throw my $$$ into the longkang and regret that i've bought the wrong clothes. If i went to any vcd shop, he do not want to see and wants me to be out of that shop asap.
2. smokers. Their breathe sells off their master/mistress.
3. one who gets tired easily. If he/she gets tired easily, he/she should jolly well stay at home and live like a pig. I can go round and round but i will never shop till i drop, cos i do not have a very fat wallet. I can keep on shopping until i get bored with the places.
4. my enemys. you jolly well know why.

Sometimes even my horoscope says i should go shopping alone, cos you will never know what is waiting for you.

And while visiting Plaza Singapura, this is the following new titles which is now on home video: Hitman, the 1998 thriller with Jet Li (again) as a very cheapskate professional killer, who has to work with Simon Yam to track down the mysterious killer, and gets Gigi Leung in the end; Closer, i talk abt that already. See how Jude Law and Clive Owen gets entangled with Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman on SUPERBIT edition Code 1 dvd; Hotel Rwanda (modern Schindler's List), National Treasure (adventure drama for kids) and Flight of the Phoenix. Watched the phoenix in M'sia on dvd and bored with such kind of story, where a group of ppl trapped in the desert and how they rebuilt the plane under the commant of Dennis Quaid.

But this is the most interesting title, which has now re-released under M18: La Femme de Chambre du Titanic aka The Chambermaid and Titanic. The France/Spain/England 1998 production does not contain the you jump i jump style from the multi-million box office hit. Directed by Spanish director Bigas Luna, the French and English drama talks about how drunked words becomes a big big lie. Horty (Olivier Martinez: in case u guys do not know who is he, then i dun think u watched Unfaithful and SWAT), a steel worker, won a ticket to witness the departure of Titanic. he met a beautiful chambermaid and had a nite of passion before Titanic departs. When he found his wife is having an affair with his friend, he gets himself drunk and tells his friend his erotic encounter. Titanic disaster strikes after that, and he was employed as a story teller to tell the big lie about the 'you jump i jump' encounter. The fact is, he wasn't even on Titanic. The chambermaid appears suddenly and a-ha, you guess the ending.

Watched this on Arts Central years back and almost forgotten the existence of this wahaha drama from Bigas Luna. Just in case you do not know who is Luna, i am not surprised. Most of his films were banned on home videos here. La Femme is one of the very few film from Bigas that get a chance to be released on video here. But, to the adults, they might know some of his films. This includes: Jamon Jamon, a very juicy adult drama where you get to see Penelope Cruz in her earlier days; Sound of Sea, another adult drama(which was his most recent, but no so most recent, (cos that was made 4yrs ago) recommended by critics. Pay attention to the schedule of Yangtze cineplex. Luna is another Spanish director whose film was lucky to be screen in S'pore due to erotic contents.

But when i saw the cover of La Femme, it was the Mandarin title that granbs my attention: Chun Qin Hua Hua Tie Da Ni (translate in Eng is Spring Love Flower Flower Titanic.) From the director of Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Nai (The Moon Represents my Breast) ( !!!! ) now brings you the latest production! OK, my apology if this offends anyone, but this is what i saw from the cover, and anyway, i do not even know what is the movie the cover was referring to, cos Blgas makes so many erotic drama, so much that he can put directors such as Yon Fan on shame, or more rather, makes Yon Fan like an porn director than an arthouse director.

Back to shopping again. The sky has been cloudy like...wrong seasons in the wrong area. The right place, wrong timing for sales. Converse sale at Far East coming to an end tomorrow...no $$$, so no old school canvas...And i didn't realised that Level 5 of Far East is a food and hair and beauty paradise, where you can cheap eats, modern hairstyling and facial under the same level...and finally found that FRGL, where they are having an 50% discount for all items. OMG, want to shop there but could not found the shop, now the shop is there, and the sales are there, but wrong timing again...

On my birthday, i had a cup of Mocha Frappuccino at Starbucks Paragon. Now, looking for companies who wants to take in students for internship pr0ogramme, Starbucks just came across my mind.

It's been ages since i last work there, but i could still remember the recipe of their hot/cold coffee drinks. Please do not ask me whether if i know how to make frappuccinos, cos frappuccinos are prepared using frappe mix directly import from US of A, so i do not know what the heck is inside the oh so sweet frappuccinos mix. But if u want to know the secrets behind the hot indulgence, come and ask me.

Still missed their hot chocolate rite now. Even though i have a box of French chocolate powder, i still couldnit make out the taste. Oh, please tell me the secrets behind this...

Day 3

Finally, the day was here. The main purpose of the trip is to visit my late granddad's tomb. We arrived the cemetry at 7.20am and upon arriving the tomb, i finally get a chance to have a look at my granddad's tomb. Oh yeah, the first thing we have to do was to pluck the wild grass, clear the joss papper and offer the offerings to granddad. After the offerings, we had ang ku kuihs, hard-boiled eggs n huat kueh on the spot, so as to minimise the wastage.

The programme later is kinda simple later. Went to Fajar supermart to get some slippers n groceries, but it was such a disappointmnet, that we do not find anything. So, we return back to the pastry shop to get our pastries, and return back home for lunch. Went to grandma's house and wrapped out everything. We buy our stuffs and dinner. Then, pack up the bags and return back to S'pore the next day.

The end of the trip.

Came from the term fried someone's ass, which means to give the person a good lecture or a dressing down. But i really had my ass fried on my holiday, and it was the pan fried style.

DAY 2

breakfast and papers as usual. went to Stitawan in the late am to 1) buy the well known Hock Chiew Kwong Peng, or known as Hockchiewnese roasted biscuit. The hundreds years old pastry are prepared daily, fresh from the traditional mud urn, where charcoal and woods are burned, and have the made pastries pasted on the side of the urn. (Think of the urns the Indians used to made their tandoori and naan bread.) 2) to renew dad's driver's license. Exposed under the hot sun in the open ground, i am tanned on my face, arms and legs. But now after looking at the colour of the skin, it's more like being roasted, than tanned. And oh yeah, we exposed our bike under the hot sun due to the lack of proper parking spaces. There's when and where i get my ass pan fried. It was so damn hot that the moment you sit on it, you will jump out of ya seat. I wonder: to those poor bikers out there, mabey their ass has been cooked after tonnes of frying session?

After renewing the license, went straight to Lumut to buy seafood products, and there's where i 1) finally saw a Caucasian 1st time in Perak. 2) found that lookings things in the day time is much more clearer, and exposes the truth. What do i mean here was the pier to Pangkok Island has gone under a major renovation, where it just looks like One Fullertion/Merlion Park. Disappointing, and disappointing in the sense that it just looks too modernised, does not even preserve a single kampong look. That's where we bought our satay fish, dried squid and saled fish, and i just realised that the former stalls selling such products have been shifted to the shops, and all the stalls facing the sea has now become the new pier.

And here comes the highlight of the trip: Ipoh. It took us an hour to drive there, and it seems that the weather is turning against us. After fetching our cousin from the bus terminal, it starts to drizzle, and then, it pours. Thnaks to the pouring, there goes the street scene of the old shop houses, train station, schools, old cinemas and shopping centres. It took us a while to get us to Ipoh Parade, the biggest shopping centre in Ipoh. And the 1st thing i get off from the car was to look for Starbucks or Coffee Bean, cos i do not have to pay that much for a cup of hot/iced Java with chocolate and cream. Sad to say, it has some of the shops i want, but no Auntie Anne's, no Stars or Beans, not even Anderson's. Went to Quiksilver shop and found that the design carried was kinda old, so skip to Nike shop, so as to look for the ID Baller wristband. And the results? a disappointment: no. out of stock. = (

In the end, shop for some Gatsby hair products, a Billabong tees and Stussy bermudas. And when looking at the checklist, i found out that though there are several CD's shops in the shoppe, the do not have Duran Duran's Astronaut. = ( again. So, a dinner follows and return back home.

Somehow, it seems that everybody is in the craze of getting Baller ID bands, my friends wore it, Larence wants it, and i want it too. On fri, b.i.r.d shop at Shaw house called me and told me that the stock is here. I want to go but mum do not allow me to go out, so the band just say bye bye to me. Nevermind, i bought myself finger sleeves instead.

Sleeves is the next big thing after the band. Wow Nike, can u tell me what is the next craze?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, i am back in S'pore now. Gotta rush to M'sia after cutting birthday cake with Lawrence and sis.

In fact, that was a lovely dinner with Lawrence at home, after meeting Shahrin earlier on. Had Oreo chocolate at 7.45pm, and after that, went straight to Golden Towers to take the coach to M'sia.

Can still rememeber that the auntie who block me from watching Colour Blossoms that day was working on the nite shift. Anyway, i had catched the homo-erotic SM drama liao. Tell u about that later.

1st of all, when dad and i get on the coach, he was yakking away with his friends, and i was smsing with Lawrence, all the way to JB checkpoint after the 2nd Causeway at Tuas. SMSing is much much more better than watching the TV on the coach, cos we were entertained with the extremely lame and stupid A World Without Thieves aka Tian Xia Wu Zei by Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You and some never heard b4 mainlander actor/actress. That was a dumb show anyway. In his role, Andy died in the end for protecting a moron who strongly believed that there is no thiefs in this world. Thanks to the dumb show, i could not sleep well. Just imagine having a dumb show flashing on the tv screen in the dark.

2ndly, as you know, the toilets there badly needs some cleaning, so i forced myself not to visit the loo when the bus stops, but unfortunately, i have to, cos the coach can just go for hours without stopping.

3rdly, reach my hometown much much later than i expected. The bus just go round and round, dropping different passengers, and for dropping passengers in different areas, the bus has to go a long way to another point.

Enough said. Reach my hometown at 7.20am and the day begins.

DAY 1

Dropped off at Granny's house and went to the wet market to buy breakfast and newspapers. Wet market might be filthy, but at least it is different from the wet market in S'pore here. You can get all the best food freahly prepared on the streets at a low low cost...of cos lah, u can't expect the ppl there to be very well off rite?

Went to grandma's house later. Had lunch with the 3 uncles till 2+pm, and return back to Granny's house for a sleep. Walked around the town and had dinner. The after dinner activity: a trip to Lumut to get dried seafood products, but the shops were closed, so we went to the emporium named Billion for food and shopping for the eye. Not really much a feast for my eyes, cos not much stuff was on sale there. Anyway, i reserve my appetite for Colour Blossoms later.

And so here comes the eye candy. Ingredients of the candy: colourful background and surrounding, sexy characters, homo-erotic porn and last but not least: SM. Yes, Colour is colourful, but it is just like cigarettes: smells horrible but addictive. Addictive in the sense that to those who enjoy colourful background and surroundings, this is the show that will makes you happy. The mysterious apartment is colourful, the wet market where Harisu smells her pineapple is colourful too, and not forgetting what happens in the film: the seductive thigh expose on the door, an affair b/w Harisu and SHO, the Japanese model cum actor who plays Harisu's lover and the lesbo scenes b/w Teresa Cheung and Keiko Matsuzaka, who plays Harisu in her older days.

The hot and steamy sex scenes makes up about 20% of the candy, with another 20% goes to the SM b/w SHO and the 2 women: Harisu and Teresa.

Alrite, overall, this is addictive, but try not to eat too much, cos you will get yourself too high and i am not responsible for what happens after watching the show, if you do not control yourself well.