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Blogger.com seems to be ultra slow today.... Lag lag lag. Anyway, it's been hell week so far and it seems to be so for at least the next few days. I received an invitation to attend ORA dinner today but I doubt I'm going. No time, no money and most importantly I'm a Nobody. Yeah, I'll never be a prominent Rafflesian and my name will never be carved onto those little wooden panels we used to see high up above our heads along the school building. If it ever appeared, it would probably read 'One who tries everything but knows nothing'. Why I mentioned this is somehow my disillusionment (again! what's new) with my day-to-day work. As I told a friend recently, I end up doing-doing-doing and actually thinking less than I used to when I was a lad. By 'lad', I do mean when I was below 18, yah? I'm now a paunchy, rotund aging-fast-becoming-uncle nightmare. Fortunately at this stage, some people still call me 'kor kor'. Eh, that reminds

We've actually planned to have a gathering tonight... but there's just to many things going on in the office. Stuff left unpacked and undecided, work unfinished and lots more to rush, so we had to call it off. There's a new colleague coming this Friday and more preparations had to be made in order for people to do their job properly. Just remembered the 'Teahouse of the August Moon'. A production I was involved when I was 14 or 15...with Raffles Players. the well-known Jeff Chen in drama circles was then known as Jeffery Chen Rihui. He was Sakini, the effervescent Japanese in the play. There was also Vincent as Lotus Blossom. Can't exactly remember who Cpt Fishby was. But Aaron Loh and Tay Yu'Jin was involved. Aaron was a very good friend of mine... but I guess we have drifted apart, since he was 1 year older than I was. Yu'Jin was 2 years older, but he never spoke to me after a misunderstanding. I was young then and didn't know how to h

Today is a quiet weekend. Stayed at home most of the day. Watched CATWOMAN in the late afternoon in spite of the knowledge that it is going to bore. Well, I was prepared for it. In fact, I wanted to see how bad it is. The script is very uninspiring with very contrived dialogues. (In the case of the mysterious professor, I simply could not swallow those didactics she was sprouting). The direction is bad. There is a lack of continuity possibly due to editing and the camera work seems amateurish - even the framing of the scene looks odd. The special effects are really special. They make you focus on them, instead of enhancing the story value. It's a pity we have Halle Berry and Sharon Stone in it, they can't even save the weak film. Benjamin Bratt is the typical 'vase' role he is good at ...remember MISS CONGENIALITY? On to the National Day Rally. Seems the new PM is all out to woo the general Singaporean with so many goodies to give out. My only gripe is a

Created a post and was somehow not saved.... Spent some time talking about Bernard Taylor's WUTHERING HEIGHTS and the upcoming musical movie adaptation of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.... urrggg... too tired to repeat all that now... but I must wait till the online software updates from Apple is completed before I can go to bed. There's another redemption tomorrow for THE TWINS EFFECTS II which I have to conduct... which reminds me to start on the artwork for THE NEW POLICE STORY for National Fire Prevention Council. Movies... don't they ever end?!?!?!?! There's another Hayao Miyazaki's animation called HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. I wonder how good that is. My favourite is still GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. It's a heart-wrenching story which I shall not forget for a long long time to come. I even bought the identical sweet in the film, the kind which I used to enjoy when I was young. I read Yeak Keat's funny usual posting on on ALIEN VS PREDATOR. I can be

eh I don't like using diaries cos I keep losing them. web log is possibly easier.