ahhh another week down, another week closer to ORD! well it still seems very very far away, but we shld all be optimistic all we'll just be consumed by gloooom by the end of these 2 years. i'm wasting my time away, wasting my youth away, my brain cells are dying day by day, all because i'm born in singapore. i defend singapore but can singapore defend me? nooooooooo. every damn thing here is so freakin expensive. transport is killing me and there's severe inflation on practically everything. it's not a very pleasant thought when u're surviving on 400 bucks and trying to make ends meet every month. and i'm really freakin pissed off with my "mandatory" subscription of pioneer magazine which is nothing but more propaganda bout army. all i do every month is flip through the stupid magazine trying to find a section where i can CANCEL my subscription of the magazine but surprisingly enough there's no such section. piece of shit. 

anyway we all decided to watch a movie this weekend, and thanks to farrell's decision making (which cannot really be trusted cos it comes from a brain of a numbskull who has been longer in army than i'm i.e. his brain has degenerated to a greater extent, if he had any to start of at first), we settled for this absolutely weird movie called vicky christina barcelona. well it sounds like one of those chim chim arty farty intellectual movies made only for those who has a refined taste in the arts, rather than ppl who enjoy watching batman in hot pursuit of joker with buildings and cars blowing up in every direction (which sadly i fall into the latter, so pls take note of that in future farrell chan, thank you very much.) the movie just documents how vicky and christina spends their vacation in barcelona, and hence the title vicky christina barcelona. which is a damn noob title in my opinion cos even blockbusters like batman have cooler and more intellectual titles like The Dark Knight rather than Batman Joker Gotham. but i guess the noob title is befitting for the content of the movie, which is absolute junk. all the movie has is sex, sex and more sex.

so for the entire one and a half hours which is an absolute waste of my time, this is how the plot goes - vicky and christina who are both from new york decided to go to barcelona for a holiday. vicky is engaged to this businessman dude from new york while christina just broke up with her boyfriend. so they were touring barcelona when this weird guy (i swear he's freakin ugly) comes up to the both of them while they're having dinner and he tells them this: " i wld like to invite you over to (insert some weird town in bareclona) to view some sculptures and after that the 3 of us can make love together." yes that's wad he said and that's where the movie starts to get absurd. we wld soon learn that this weird guy's a painter (which kinda fits into the art farty theme which abstract movies like THIS wld try to advocate) and even more absurd is that both vicky and christina decides to accept the painter's invitation. so the 3 of them went to see the sculptures and when night came christina decided to have sex with the painter while vicky rejects the idea totally cos she's engaged. oh btw christina is scarlett johansson. but when they were about to have sex christina fell sick suddenly and stayed in bed for like 2 days. so vicky and the painter continued touring the town and for some weird reason vicky ends up having sex with the painter instead. and all 3 of them returned to barcelona after that weekend. at barcelona the horny painter decides to continue jio-ing christina (wich he failed to have sex with) and of cos this time the painter and crhistina had sex. christina decides to move in with the painter where they had more sex. and den one fine day the painter's divorced wife came back to stay with the painter, oh she's penelope cruz btw. and somehow, just somehow, the three of them, yes the THREEEEEEEEEE fell madly in love with each other and had sex. like guy girl girl. meanwhile vicky, though guilty of her one night stand with the painter (WELL THIS IS THE ONLY LOGICAL PART IN THIS MOVIE), can't seem to forget that incredible night. so she decides to meet the painter one last time for sex. by that time chirstina has already moved out of the painter's house cos she needed some time out, for what matters i really have no idea cos i was already damn disturbed by the whole plot by that time. well while vicky and the painter were almost about to have sex, the painter's ex wife popped out from nowhere and started firing a pistol at the two of them. so in the end vicky didn't manage to have sex with the painter one last time before she and christina returned back to new york from their vacation. absurd? yes i really think so. the director is just a sex manic and i swear the painter has superb voodoo skills cos he achieved his goal even with such a lousy pick up line. the only thing i brought back from this sex infested movie was the sights and sounds of barcelona, which are really really pretty and mesmerising! and i heard from farrell it's in spain. lol mel chan's there! 

so thank you very much for this movie farrell chan. and contrary to everyone's belief that i love such movies, i did not enjoy the movie okayyyyyy! i've to admit it's filled with eye candies though. ANYWAY! moving on, f1 was great. i was totally hooked onto it for that 2 hours on sunday. it's really super dramatic. much better than watching 11 guys running around on a field chasing and kicking a tiny football that cannot even be seen clearly from the tele. and to be honest, i was really quite proud of singapore that night. but all these nationalistic sentiments vanished completely when i received my copy of pioneer magazine today which just brought me back to reality of how it feels like living in an authoritarian capitalist state as an nsf. 

sigh.

i'm damn sick now. flu fever cough arghhh. bloody aircon at ben's house really killed me. it's like slping in north pole without a blanket, if u dun get cold u're damn strong man (this excludes farrell cos he's a fish. fish are used to swimming in sub zero temperatures.)