The Orphanage

Last Week Meow Meow and me went to watch the movie called "The Orphanage". Firstly, this is a foreign film, and secondly, it a horror movie. Let take a look on what is this show is all about.

Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightener about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past. As a child, young orphan Laura spent her formative years being cared for by the staff of a large orphanage located by the Spanish seaside. Those were some of the happiest years of Laura's life, and now, thirty-years later, the former charge returns to the dilapidated institution with her husband Carlos and their seven-year old son Simon to re-open the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. But something ominous haunts the darkened hallways of this silent, stately manor. When Simon's behavior begins to grow increasingly bizarre and malicious, Laura and Carlos start to suspect that the mysterious surroundings have awoken something ominous in the young boy's imagination. It's not long before Laura, too, is drawn into this disturbing web and the repressed memories of the past come flooding back in a terrifying torrent of tension and deeply disturbing revelations. With opening day drawing near and their situation growing increasingly grim by the hour, Simon attempts to write off their son's bizarre behavior as a desperate bid to get more attention from his distracted parents. Laura isn't so easily convinced of this theory though, and soon embarks on a desperate quest to unearth the terrible secret that lurks in the old house waiting for just the right moment to inflict devastating damage on both her and her family.

At the first sight of the poster, i know it will be a horror who which i think it's quite obvious in it. So i thought it will be the last show that i wanted to watch as you guys should know by now that i'm not a real big fan of horror film (horror always remind me of the movie "Saw" which till this day i still hate it even through it is well-made. Let skip that part should we!) but we didn't have much choice and i sought of want to watch movie on that day. So we decided to watch "The Orphanage"

At First, i'm very skeptics on this film as i have not really know what is the movie all about other then a trailer which doesn't tell much on this film. But as the film goes on, i finally show what horror film should be and then trust me when i say it's scary (people did literally scream) . The show is not the kind of show that show blood and gore, this film is more toward the suspense and the ingenious use of human fear on the spirit world. There is one scene that really very scary is when the actress was playing a game with the children spirit when in one second you don't see then then the next thing you know some kid just pop out and slowly going toward the actress. I think in my opinion, the director is really good in using the the correct technique in making the mind wonder or better word to describe it are the emotion manipulation of one person.

So in conclusion, this is one movie that really worth watching. But be warn that this show is not meant for the faint hearted.

Step Up 2 : The Street

Last Saturday i went to watch Step up 2 : The Street which really turn out to me quite a nice movie unlike what the movie review had describe it. Firstly let have an overview on what this show is about.

Andie (Briana Evigan) is a member of the 410 crew, she goes around showcasing her talents illegally. Her brother Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) understands her love for street dancing so he gets her an audition for MSA - Maryland School of Arts. And you've guessed it she gets in but only by the kindness of 1 guy Chase (Robert Hoffman) also a student at MSA. However, not only is he the most popular guy in school but his brother is it's new director.

In Andie's first class she is told to improvise, only used to upbeat music, she panics and makes a fool of herself, then when told to do it again she messes up again. Only this time catching the eye of Chase. After the lesson she heads down to rehearse with the 410 crew, and she's late not impressing her fellow crew members. After being late yet again Andie is kicked out of the 410 crew and now cannot battle in 'The Streets'.

On realising that she needs a crew Chase comes to her rescue, saying that under the radar in MSA there are a lot of people who would be skilled enough to join a crew. They find 10 people to join them in their crew, the MSA crew. They start practising and realise that they aren't good enough to battle at 'the Streets' yet. So Andie enforces the help of an old 410 crew member. She helps them realise they have what it takes and make a prank, something that will help them get noticed. They stage their prank in the home of the lead member of the 410 crew. It doesn't go down to well. But Chase and Andie are drawn together by their unavoidable attraction, almost kissing and shocking the MSA crew.

After this prank things go bad, they realise who did the prank and beat up Chase, then they head down to MSA and trash the school. The director finds out and orders the students to come forward if they know anything. However, he knows that Andie is somehow responsible and calls her to his office, where upon a discussion he expels her and she is left shattered...

A few days later while the school is hosting a fundraiser they all receive the text message telling them where 'The Streets' is being held. Andie chooses the ignore this but the other feel it necessary to take part and go call on Andie, upon convincing her they head down the 8th and Main. Upon arriving they feel unwelcome and are told they don't fit in by the 410 crew. Andie doesn't appreciate this as she knows the true meaning of the streets and that everyone else has forgotten. So she leads them all outside for 1 last showdown..........

In general, this movie a not a must watch but nonetheless a entertaining movie. This have a cool mix of music and slick dance move and also a well acting from the artist. The message behind the movie to encourage people to be who there are and not who there are not. In the current society, we are always been ask to be what your parent or even our peer want us to be but this is really not who really are. Why can't we just be who we are and do the thing that we love to do! This is what our society i really are! Don't you agree?

WTH (What The Hell)

No one is going to believe it, Meow Meow is actually blogging! Actually, what is more unlikely is that Meow Meow is actually not in camp now. People may think, how come? What has happened to Meow Meow's In-Camp Training (ICT)? What has happened to Meow Meow's reservist?..

The whole story begins like this, that the very Monday Meow Meow was supposed to report for reservist, Meow Meow woke up very early in the morning (not to forget, Meow Meow slept at 2am) around 6.15am. After washing up and all the dressing up, Meow Meow make way to Clementi by MRT. And reaching the area kind of early enough, Meow Meow decide to have a decent morning breakfast at Clementi one of the nearby food center.

Meow Meow had a bowl of not-bad Mince Meat Noodles and after that head to bus interchange to take bus. In the meantime of waiting for bus, headache grew from beginning scratch of not-enough-sleep headache to head-pounding headache, so took a change in plan. To consult a doctor Meow Meow goes, Meow Meow visited the private clinic which is frequently visited and went through the whole process and got one day MC.

Meow Meow was feeling like "blessing-in-disguise", and proceed back to camp and endorse the MC. Making the way to find the overall coordinator landed Meow Meow sitting in the camp's canteen waiting for some assistant of the coordinator to get to him through phone (sucks man, it took quite a long while just to come to a conclusion: suspend me from training). Meow Meow's head was little bit tipsy and spinning, as though Meow Meow has just been hit by a rock. The rest are all history...

Got home, rested... But that's Monday. Today, is the most terrible day of all. It actually start pouring cats and dogs when Meow Meow and Woow Woow was about to leave the work building crossing road. That's not the worse part of the thing, Derek mistress came calling saying that he has reached the meeting area and the movie Meow Meow and him is going to watch is not starting at 7.30pm but at 7pm. It directly means "we don't have time to eat dinner"...

But anyway the movie that Meow Meow and Derek went to catch was 10,000 B.C. and it was not a bad show. Basically quite nice and did a lot of scenery, fighting and ancient scenes shooting. Story concept is not too bad, and the actors are good. Meow Meow would grade the movie, 10,000 B.C., 3.5 out of 5. After that, a good dinner near Food Republic. Ends the day with a good bath, nice chat with Woow Woow and blogging. Writing off, Meow Meow.

Spiderwick!!

Well, this would be a short entry as i'm not really on form today. Feeling sick! Anyway, last saturday Meow Meow, Chris, Shahul, Shahul friend and me went to The Cathay to watch The spiderwick, In General, this is a good movie with good plot and lots of special effect.

The down point is that it should have shown more of the fairy world creature, the whole movie is only focus on a few creature only as the guide look quite thick, don't you agree?

Anyway, this is one movie that the young and old would like to watch. I would grade this movie a 7/10. Good movie!

The Eye!

I went to watch movie "The Eye" with chris on Tuesday night after a very disappointing house viewing at Jurong West. The movie starring Jessica Alba as Sydney who is a blind musician who got a corneal transplant, but after the transplant, strange thing start to happen.

This is a remake of the Hong Kong of "The eye" with nothing much have change. Even thought the plot is the same, the acting is way different and of course the directing is also different. For the Hollywood version, it way more scarier then the Asian counterpart. The way the director make use of the atmosphere to make the movie scary in addition to the artist who make the movie scary.

Well, it is not without flaw of course! The plot is basically the same as the Asian version, so people can already predict what would happen next. This way it is the critical point or should you say a cons, as once the suspense is gone then the movie had already not achieve what a horror film should be. But nonetheless, the meaning that i interpreted is that some gift can be both a blessing and a curse, and that sometime you need to really trust someone even if i make no sense at all. It also let you know what it like to look at thing from the eye of another. This not something people can do! Don't you agree on this! Anyway, i would grade this show a 6 star, which in my opinion is a show worth watching.

P.S. I Love You

Romance, anyone? Meow Meow like this movie's storyline a lot, very sweet and juicy romantic story. Actually Meow Meow like the movie so much so that Meow Meow can't really pin-point any specific part out that impress Meow Meow the most. Meow Meow enjoyed the whole movie, both the funny and the touching, and feeling moments in the movie. Really deserved the money if you are a romance (and alittle) comedy goer. It is really amazing and makes Meow Meow wonder so much after the movie, and of course, Meow Meow teared in a few scenes of the movie which worth Meow Meow's tears.

"Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart, and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerrys life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So its a good thing he planned ahead."
Synopsis (contribution from P.S. I Love You Official Website)

If you are interested in the further developments of the story, Meow Meow recommend you to have a trip to the cinema soon ^^ Woow Woow, the movie crtic, enjoyed the movie as well. So nice and warm to have Woow Woow by Meow Meow side while watching the movie. Anyway, Lloyd mistress, and Nick, Derek mistress, and Hong Jun was there as well. Meow Meow personally think this movie deserve a rating of 7/10. Cool, right?!

Let's talk about Sunday, shall we? What's suppose to be a sisters outing, became a sibilings outing, and in the end, became a family outing.. LOL (Laugh Out Loud). Meow Meow and Woow Woow shopped at Tangs today for a wallet, as Woow Woow recently lost a wallet. Oh, Irwan bang (in malay = elder bro) and Woow Woow has a hella bad impression of this cafe and dining house, Fig and Olive, in Vivocity. Woow Woow hated the cappucino he ordered and Irwan bang hated the baked rice. Maybe you guys would know what not to do by now =P.

That was merely late lunch for Woow Woow and Irwan bang, Meow Meow and Anson didi had just strawberry smoothy. Something not exquisite, very common and milky in taste, guess that's the taste of home-made recipe. Dinner at Marche as the other remaining people arrives, Lloyd mistress, Nick and Shahul korkor. The evening was light and wonderful, and how sweet of my sibilings to extent their concerns to Woow Woow. Thanks for that, everyone. Blog from Woow Woow's resident, signing off, smilez!


P.S. I Love You, Woow Woow.

Gym!

Let me reflex on my past 1 week gym ming. Not really that much changes in my overall build but the relive part is that i can see a bit of what you call muscle. This show that a bit more hard work and lots of determination i will be able to get the result i want. I do not wish to be like the muscle bound guy you see on the street but i do want to be a guy with a lean toned body which i always wanted. I am not being superficial, i also don't wish to be skinny for my whole life. What is more important is that i wouldn't fall sick that easily like before.. And the other reason on why i go and exercise is that i can vent all my anger that i had bottle inside me and work out a sweat so after the session, i will be feeling better to carry on my day. Don't you agree on that!

Anyway, i just went go with meow meow to watch a movie! We watch "One Missed Call" which is not a bad movie but i find it to much for me. Even thou the plot isn't that bad but i just felt that this show isn't for the faint hearted people. This is just my two cent worth! Will, after that, we went to PS to eat our dinner and also did some shopping, the food isn't that great but we are not really that picky on it either. Well, it Saturday isn't it! So we did expect to see lots of people queuing for food. Well, tomorrow will be a busy day as well, going to sentosa with meow meow and a few more friend. Anson birthday! So hope tomorrow will have a sunny day. finger cross!

Greek Masterpieces from the Louvre

Had a fantastic day today. It definitely has created a great start for the year 2008, a visit to the National Museum (Singapore). It all began (Friday) with a usual stroll from my work building, Peninsula Plaza, to The Cathay. Meow Meow & Woow Woow was walking with the digital camera on hand snapping around Singapore Management University (SMU) perimeter and as we pass by the National Museum, we took some extra efforts to enter the vicinity and talk a look around.

The "Wet Paint" paddle thing that is displayed in the middle of the lobby was kind of not exciting, but what really catches Meow Meow's sharp and intuitive eyes was this Greek Exhibition event that is currently available in the Museum. And Meow Meow thought it would be sweet to visit the exhibition sometime soon. (Saturday) We met up as usual and we decided to catch a movie and so we picked Elizabeth: The Golden Age, 3.30pm @ The Cathay. But on the way home, Woow Woow asked Meow Meow what should we do on Sunday. Meow Meow suggested a trip to the Museum.

Oh, Anson didi and Derek mistress tagged along. Meow Meow & Woow Woow met and had lunch and made our way there. The Exhibition doesn't seem extremely huge, but in fact, the informations, artifacts and cravings alone sum up to quite something. Greek cultures and history, great philosophers, myths, Gods and Goddesses, etc etc. There are just too much to absorb in a day (2-3hours) trip. But Meow Meow really loves the whole feeling of being embraced with the Greek and everything about it.

Meow Meow and guys ended the day with a wonderfully delicious dinner @ The Cathay, basement. Had Japanese cuisine for dinner, nicely made and taste even nicer than nice! Meow Meow felt sinful though, but with such weak resistant to savor of such fine food, Meow Meow committed the sin still. Just love it... *looking away*