Expenditure for the past 3 days:
V For Vendetta Deluxe Edition DVD : $31.92 from Borders
L'auberge Espagnole DVD + Dido: Life for Rent : $28.95 from HMV
Chocolate custard bun X 2 from Sun Moulin Bakery : $2.80
Espresso Macchiato + +Medium Mocha+ Large low fat latte from McCafe : $10.10
Strawberry sherbet shaved ice from Ice House : $5
6 Pies for Pier's Pie : $11
2 Macau milk tea from Macau Cafe, S'pore Expo : $3.60
And that does not include transportation and dinner. You do the math.
At least, i feel that i am as good as Xavier, the leading character in L'auberge Espagnole aka Spanish Apartment. Had been dying to watch that since Year 1 in TP, because of Audrey Tautou. Sad to say, it was rated RA then.
L'auberge Espagnole is not the type of your feel good French film where it is freaking arty farty. But it is not that easy to understand too. The movie is a mess, but a seam of neatness in the mess.
Xavier is a economics student in his uni years (where it seems to be far far away from me. At least 2 years later... :( ) who dreams of becoming an author in future. He took up an exchange programme to widen his horizons, leaving his beloved mother and girlfriend, Martine, behind France.
Spain was the country he had chosen. There, he met a French couple, Jean Michel, a brain surgeon, and Anne-Sophie, Jean Michel's wife. Jean Michel helps him, but Xavier falls in love with Anne Sophie. When Xavier founds himself an apartment, he starts a life of love, friendship, and partying. To be exact, he rents a room from an apartment where a group of European students lived together.
Wendy is a cute girl from England. Alessandro is a hot chick from Italy. Soledad is another cute girl from Spain. Lars and Tobias is a pair of punk+cute guy from Germany. After Xavier joins in the big family, they take in Isabelle from Belgium.
They attend lessons from the same school and wanted Catalan to be used as the main language for their lessons instead of Spanish, since majority understands Catalan but only some understands Spanish. Their request was rejected.
Anne-Sophie falls in love with Xavier, while Martine wants a break-up.
Isabelle is a lesbo who teaches Xavier love making techniques. Wendy's brother, William, pops by, and makes a nuisance out of himself.
All these and more leads Xavier to a mess of his life, thus developing hallucinatons.
After his exchange programme comes to an end, he say goodbye to his mini-european family and flew back to France, working in finance industry. But in the end, he decided to pursue a career of his interest: author.
And that's where Les Poupees Russes begins.
Back in Singapore, Pegasus Coy Platoon 3 Section 2 is a double of L'auberge Espagnole. Except that i will call it The Tekong Resort, with Singaporeans, M'sian's, IndoChinese, Hongkongers, Indian and Myanmarnese living together under the same roof.