Weekend..3-D Dragon..Chicken Rice..Icecream

Saturday, if in town, as usual, sent my boy to Yamaha at Plaza Singapura for piano lesson, and spent my whole afternoon hanging around there.  I think I can just close my eyes and walk around already, after going there almost every weekends since past 6 years :D

After lesson which was already 4:30 pm, went to Queenstown, thought of going to Church of Our Savior, however service already ended when I reached there.

Called J out to have the famous chicken rice, oh~ the standard dropped, This stall was actually opened by the ex-worker of the original famous margaret drive chicken rice stall (which now located in meiling street) and frankly, I still prefer the original owner chicken rice stall to this stall.

Went to BukitBatok WestMall to eat that Uaddr ice-cream, just 1 scoop of ice-cream cost $4.80 so expensive~ Then we went to watch the 3-D animation movie "How to train your dragon" .

Wow! another expensive stuff. 1 adult ticket $14 and 3 of us, already cost us $52 !!! Probably I have not been watching movie for quite a long time thus don't know the market price. hahaha~ But imagine just to watch a 1.5 hour movie cost you $14, that is too ex to me.

But nevertheless, it was a new exciting experience watching 3-D movie and "How to train your dragon" - a nice movie.

"...all the things they said about you is wrong~" emm that true in life, we should not believe totally, blindly in whatever had been told, till we take a closer look and experience it ourselves. I liked that part "on-the-job training", sound familiar to me hahaha~.
 Initially, planned to go to Hougang for church service on Sunday morning, but could not make it as I had to sent my boy to Yamaha at Paya Lebar for recording in noon time till 7 pm, and there, gone my whole Sunday sitting, reading while waiting there, by the time reached home so tired.

 

How I spend my time on plane

Early December, due to work, made a trip to Sydney. As could not sleep throughout the whole plane journey for both ways, thus in the end have watched the following 8 movies in total.

 

 

Mao's Last Dancer - A very good film that is worth seeing
The Time Traveller's Wife - Disappointed, prefer the novel
Harry Potter Half Blood Prince - Boring zzzz
District 9 - Excellent Science Fiction movie
Ice Age Dawn & Dinosaurs - so so
Transformer Revenge of the Fallen - great visual effect
Shorts - interesting
Aliens in the Attic - just another adventure film

Here's a brief introduction of the film which I recommend.

Synopsis from the official website :

From internationally acclaimed Australian film director Bruce Beresford comes the inspirational true story of a small boy’s extraordinary journey from poverty to international stardom.
From a grueling apprenticeship as a classical dancer in communist China, to the glory of creative freedom in America. But, there is a painful price to be paid for his quest for self expression. Mao’s Last Dancer captures the intoxicating effects of first love and celebrity, the pain of exile, and ultimately the triumph of individual endeavour over ideology.
 Filmed in China, the US and Australia and with a brilliant performance from Chi Cao as Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer is an exhilarating exploration of what it means to be free.

Li Cun Xin - Mao's Last Dancer
Mao's Last Dancer Website

带我去远方 Somewhere I Have Never Travelled

每个人心中都有一段想要完成却未能继续的旅程。。。
每个人心中都有一个想要前往却抵达不了的远方。。。
因为梦想，所以我们存在。。。
因为梦想，所以我们才有勇气不断地往前进。。。
去寻求属于我们自己的一个心岛。。。

是那几张拍得极简单却又十分好看的电影海报捕捉了我。是那几首极简单却又十分动听的电影配乐吸引了我。是因难得由资深导演吴念真监制，最佳编剧傅天余编剧兼导演，配乐大师兼制作人陈建骐，三人所合作的电影，使我对它有一种无名的期待与盼望。。。

电影简介摘自于该电影官方网站
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阿桂眼中的世界，跟其他人的不一样。她分不清红色跟绿色，衣服颜色乱搭，看不懂红绿灯。祖母很忧心她的脑袋，乩童指示说阿桂的魂魄是被小鬼牵走了，长大以后就会回来。

阿桂最崇拜堂哥阿贤，他有一张世界地图跟满书柜的旅行指南，总是带领阿桂去想像外面那个无奇不有的广大世界。有天阿贤告诉她，在遥远的南太平洋有一座小岛，岛上没有人能分辨红色跟绿色，每个人都是色盲，就像她一样。

他们是彼此秘密的守护者，互相计画有一天要离开这里，到一个不会感到寂寞，也不会被人当作异类的自由天堂。未来就像一个未曾旅行过的远方。乌托邦就在地平线那一端，她们能顺利抵达吗？

在这部电影中我试图呈现一个色盲女孩眼中以及她内心的微妙景观。每个人心中都有一个想要前往却抵达不了的远方。我成长的台湾是个位居边缘的岛屿，对于外面的世界总是有种被隔离在外的寂寥感，而台湾特殊的历史处境，令它就像片中渴望寻找自我定位的女孩跟男孩。 -傅天余

周以文的摄影、黄文英的美术设计，加上一群电影界和剧场界的甘草人物，把几个有偶像明星气质的年轻演员烘托得十分亮眼。 -游惠贞

Gui is a 15-year-old color-blind girl. She admires her cousin Xian. Xian has a world map and a whole bookshelf of traveling guides. He often takes Gui on imaginary journeys to a world full of wonders. They guard the secrets for each other and plan to get out of here someday, leaving for a place without loneliness or alienation. The future is a place untrodden, and their Utopia lies at the other end of the horizon. Will they get there at last?

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“带我去远方”官方部落格： http://myjourney911.pixnet.net/blog