Rumah Tasik

Just came back from watching the movie The Lake House. Starring KeaNEO Reeves and Sandra Bulldog, the show is a remake of a year-2000 Korean movie entitled Il Mare.

Premise of the plot is basically about two individuals who can correspond to each other through a house on a lake (or more specifically, its mailbox) while living 2 years apart. Something like instant messaging but through time and snail mail. Then they fall in love, I’ll wait for you, you wait for me, yada yada yada, that sort of thing.

The show started out ok by slowing building up the characters as they interact with each other. The important back-story of the lead female (Bulldog) is mostly flashed out through KeaNEO’s point of view (as he is the one living 2 years in the past from her, the viewers get to see her back-story unfolding through his eyes). I find that to be a rather refreshing way of communicating a character’s historical background. There were also scenes where they are like sitting in the same park next to each other. The screen is then split between his and her ‘time’ as they are directly talking to each other. That was kinda cool.

It whole “talking-through-time” theme reminds me a lot like the year 2000 movie Frequency, which is in my opinion, a bloody good show. Instead of mushy romance, Frequency is an action/mystery flick where both father and son are trying to save each other and everyone they love through an old CB radio. However, although their intentions are good, each of their actions causes a butterfly effect in the timeline. It really grabs you by the balls all the way until the end. Now, THAT movie had a proper ending.

*slight spoiler*
The ending of The Lake House is however, sadly disappointing. They had the opportunity to flash out a more powerful (and tear-jerking) ending but instead, the audiences will just go “hey, if she told him that then why didn’t he show up when they agreed on the date instead of waiting ANOTHER 2 more years yet however if he did show up then she would not have found out about the incident in the first place and thus unable to… uggg!"
Temporal Mechanics gives me a headache.

Basically, a very “huh?” ending. An ok movie to watch especially with a female companion. Wait… actually everything goes better with a female companion. :)

The origianl ending from the Korean version sound much more better than this one.

On a bright note, the soundtrack for the movie has an old-school, romantically jazz-like feel to it. Suitable for the show’s slow pace.

“Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.”

Pussy Whipped! WHOOPAH!

Oh, man! This is a classic. Old school stuff (well, if you can count the 2003 MTV Movie Awards as old) but nonetheless one of my favorite Matrix: Reloaded spoofs out there.



The seamless blending into the movie was hilariously timed yet it still made it feel like part of the scenes. I also loved the times where they intentionally made fun of the crazy-ass dialogues in the Matrix trilogy.

Seriously, does anybody understands what the heck these people are yabbering about? How does an underground resistance movement consisting of the last bastion of man against some really scary robots who are bent on making life hell for all humans develop such an extensive vocabulary? Where do they find the time to express themselves when something big, ugly and has intentions to ripped you up a new one is coming to get ya?

Hollywood magic!

“Morpheus! Morpheus! What can we expect at this orgy?!”
“MACHINES!”

A Working Holiday

Well, it has been a swell holiday. I can’t believe I am actually doing much more work than trenching through uni. My dad like got this 100 page + quality assessment laboratory manual he has me typing. A MANUAL!

I really hate the feeling. Whatever I am doing, it is always hanging at the back of my head. Now, that is not the proper way to goof off during the holiz. Deadline for this “assignment” is the 10th of this month and quite frankly I feel more stressed up about this work than regular uni assignments.

Been missing out on a lot of friends who are back from abroad. Sorry, guys!

On a bright note, I actually can put on my contacts on the first try now! It is quite an achievement I must say. No one can properly appreciate the term “patience” until he goes through the trials of putting on contact lenses for the first few times.



For your continuous entertainment, this video is a classic!

Oh, and I finally know what Zouk (is that how you spell it?) looks like now. Thursday was ladies night and hoo yeah! There were the ladiezzzz there alright! And the assorted 3rd genders too. *shivers*

Bumped into Sean (1/4 owner of ESC) there and he got the guys in our group in for free! W000t! And who says going to cyber cafes doesn’t pay off? Nahahahahaa.... I is not bad for a “clubbing virgin”, aye? I got the veterans guy clubbers in for free! Who is da man with the contacts now, baby?!

Inside was like from Tokyo Drift’s party scene or something. Laser lights, neon, loud (ass) music pumping, drunks, dancing girls. Whoa…

But I think it is quite stressful going to these places as a girl. Drunk and leering looking individuals continuously hitting on you and giving catcalls. Also, the occasional wondering hands. It is times like this that it is good to be man!

But the party was cut short. Raid raid raid raid again. Why is it that anywhere I go there is a raid?! It’s like a cosmic karma that states that anything I do or go to is the wrong place to be at the wrong time. Well, I really need not worry. Privileges of being 21 and all. But one of us *ahem ahem* used a another person’s IC to get in cause someone was going to skip their HIGH SCHOOL’s Hari Keusahawanaan the next day. :)

So we jetted outta there. Word of the raid spread quickly among the dancing crowd as people slowly made their way out before the coppers arrive. Bumped with Sean again on the way out. Told us again to scoot away. It’s just odd that EVERYONE was getting out. Guess being 21 doesn’t make you immune to the lock-up quota the police has to filled out if you’re unlucky.

So yeah, basically the highlight of my holidays thus far. Watched a couple of DVDs with the gang sometimes. Cyber café on occasion. But not much DOTA anymore.

Can’t wait for exam results to come out. Weeeee… :(

" I like the 'whoosh'. It's the door saying 'I am closed' "