A Crazy Christimas - Singapore Rojak!

Last Saturday, I went to watch A Crazy Christmas with an schoolmate at the Drama Centre (inside National Library). I had a great evening.

I have a lot of fun and was humming and Singapore to all the familiar Christmas tunes. Love is in the air for me even as a single girlie now.

Back to the musical carol. The Dream Academy team did themselves another wonder. The comedy show by each of the performer, coupled with their wonderful singing, was quite a thrill. You can most definitely feel that Christmas is in the air. Salute to Hossan Leong and Sebastian Tan! Well done!

Now I'm waiting to go watch Dim Sum Dollies. It will be a wonderful birthday treat for myself. I'm looking forwards to a wonderful 2009 already! Woohoo!!

All Hail Kumar the Queen!

Finally! I have finally finally manage to catch one of Kumar's performance!

Kumar is currently performing at 3 Monkey's cafe, a place where my friends and I intermittedly hang out. As expected, most of the jokes are simply RATED, and some a little crude. Come on, take it with a pinch of salt.

For the faint hearted and easily offended, don't even bother to go. The rest of you who are much light hearted and interested to have a laugh, go ahead and enjoy the show.

Personally I like the performance even though I didn't laugh out that loud. Not a me thing to do. Still, it was quite an wonderful evening for me as I received a compliment of being very pretty. Oh thanks so much Kumar darling! I feel like the top of the world that evening.

Truth or Dare: 6th Floor Rear Flat

As much as it is a simple game we have played in our teens or college years, it can also have a life changing effect as we witness in this No. 2 box office hit from Hong Kong.

I'm not a general fan of Hong Kong movie, but I do recommend this one. The story speaks of 6 young slackers (4 guys & 2 gals), who indulged in nothing but fun, play and parties. Life is like a big game to them. Truth or Dare is the game they frequently engaged in.

They played with true enthusiasm in showing the boldness and foolishness of a young one. Until one day, they are challenged to fulfil a task within a year or accept the penalty of eating someone's shit.

Once into the movie, you will slowly discover the inner wish and dream of each youth and see how they slowly grow and evolve, moving slowly towards their life path and dreams.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 fairy clouds. It is a great movie for a beautiful lazy weekend when you have nothing planned.

Stardust

A young and inquisitive man, Dunstan Thorne, from the Village of Wall, crosses to the the magical Kingdom of Stormhold. He met an enslaved princess and 9 months later, received their son, Tristan Thorne.

Eighteen years later, Tristan ventured inside the wall and started an amazing adventure that later revealed his true identity. Originally he was trying to retrieve a fallen star to prove his love to Victoria, his childhood sweetheart.

He discovered that the fallen star is actually our heroine, Yvaine. This chance meeting changed both their lives. They started on a new journey together and met with many interesting characters of Stormhold while trying to run away from Lamia (witch) and Septimus (almost the heir of the kindgom of Stormhold).

Many unexpected twists and turns on the story to keep you wondering what is going to happen next. Beautiful landscape and visual effects. It is a movie worth watching.

Rating: 5 out of 5 fairy clouds! MUST SEE! Full of unexpected twists.

House of Harmony

Saturday was a movie marathon day for me. After watching "You Are My Sunshine". I took a dinner break before continuing a 2nd movie, "House of Harmony"

The story involves the lives of 2 Asian women, mother and daughter, during the early years of 1920s to 1950s. The story starts on the familiar island of Singapore.

Mother, Mei-ling, as played by Fann Wong was a learned and cultured daughter of a well known doctor. She met a charming Mr Barclay who was unfortunate attacked and subsequently had amnesia. While nursing him back to health, she fell for him. A twist of an unfinished love story as she became pregnant and gave birth to Harmony, played by Maggie Q.

Pretty as she is, Maggie Q acting is lacking in depth and emotional portrayal. She too suffered the same fate as her mother as she fell madly in love with this real father's stepson Gideon. Will she learn from her mother's lesson or will she create her own path where inter-racial marriage was a taboo during that period of time?

It is a long movie. I wonder if the book might actually be more interested to read as the movie seem to have jump at different spots, loosely linking up certain scenes and plots. Story gets old and predictable and annoying as the main female leads tried to fight weakly (quite literally) with the society expectation.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 fairy clouds.

You Are My Sunshine

I watched a very touching Korean movie, "You Are My Sunshine".

The story starts with life of a beautiful girl who works are at coffee shop (ahem, with extra services) and the simpleton farmer. It was love at first sight for our male lead, Suk-jung while Eun-ha is just a skeptic that has been through a tough time in life and doesn't believe in love. Don't blame her when she sees the most awful things in all men.

As the love devoted Suk-jung proposed to Eun-ha, you see our female lead slowly opening up her heart to the sincerity of true simple love. Of course with any Korean movie, their love was tested as her past catches up with her while he discovered she was HIV-positive.

Plot twisted and turned as with any other Korean movies. And at the end, you feel how true love battles and wins against all odd. Quite touching movie. Except that in real life, this is really a tragedy to go through.

Rating: 3 out of 5 fairy clouds. A nice movie if you have nothing else to do and want to get a little sobbie.

A Heartful of Love

Don't we all have regrets? What if one of them is so significant that it can affected your life so much?

The plot of A Heartful of Love started with characters who have regrets in their lives which they would want to change if given a 2nd chance. This chance came in the form of them taking a flight to the town, Moji and experienced time travel to the same place 20 years ago.

The plot thickens as the characters started to unravel the truth behind their regrets. What they are actually missing out in their lives and how they realise what they need to do.

Instead of a simple time travel, they are actually transported back into the past to undo or change their lives before they could pass over. These characters were actually dead but were given a final chance to work on that one thing in their lives which they would change.

It is an amazing and touching story as you follow the characters into the personal journey of their past and how they deal with the situation; grow, let go and made peace. The storyline is very well done.

Rating: 5 out of 5 fairy clouds. This is really a MUST-SEE movie.