Hallo.

Saturday, June 10, 2006//

Yay. The world cup's starting today! My heart's with Brazil man. They play the cleanest and most beautiful football. No dirty tricks (except for some play-acting during the 2002 world cup from Rivaldo), no vicious tackles and no foul language. That's Bazil! They play football because they love football.

Okay now let me talk about something not related to football. Haha. I had quite a crazy day yesterday (Thursday). Palai and I wanted to watch xmen 3 at Shaw bugis cinema (as xmen3 was being shown at a good time - 5.15pm). So we took a train down to bugis. Unfortunately, we didn't know where the Shaw bugis cinema was. We then went to ask around for directions. And to our tough luck, a man we asked gave us a wrong direction. He told us to keep walking straight from the bugis mrt exit C and then turn left. Blindly, we did as we were told. After about 10 minutes of walking, we realized that we were reaching a block of flats. Now, we knew that we were really lost. After considering taking a taxi for about a minute, we finally did. We flagged a cab and told him that we wanted to go to the Shaw bugis cinema. To our astonishment, the cinema was just about 100m in front of us. We also had to pay an extra $2. It was pure stupidity.

So now, what we had to do was just to purchase our xmen3 tickets and get to the theatre as the time already was 5.10pm. Sadly, we didn't and never knew that we were at the wrong cinema. The lady at the counter said, "There isn't any xmen3 movie being shown at 5.15pm here. It is only being shown at the Shaw bugis cinema.” I felt my gut burst. WHAT?! We were actually at SHAW TOWERS cinema. Haha. I thought we had already come to the correct place. Then, I asked the lady at the counter where was the Shaw bugis cinema located and she replied, saying, “it’s at bugis junction.". I felt a pang of frustration. Bugis junction was the place we were initially at. We knew we had to rush back to bugis junction to catch the movie in time. So what did we do next? We ran! Haha.

We reached the Shaw bugis ticketing counter about 10 minutes late. And again to our touch luck, the xmen3 tickets were not being sold anymore as we were too late. ARGH! We then decided to watch the omen, which was being shown at 7.35pm. So we went into bugis junction for a walk. As we seldom come to town (the most palpable reason to the confusion earlier in this entry), we found bugis junction like a maze. Wherever we walked, we always came to the same place. In conclusion, we were walking in circles.

Then, it was time for dinner. We went to the directory to confirm where to eat. Palai wanted to eat at KFC. I had no qualms. We went to the basement (as stated in the directory). Strangely, what we only saw in the basement was a huge arcade cum entertainment centre. I hate going to these places (except for LAN gaming centers). You feel as though you're in a pandemonium. The cacophony of sound effects coming from hundreds of gaming boxes could somehow, in my opinion, be used as a form of torture as it drives you mad! It’s too damaging to the ears.

We later found out that we went to the wrong basement. Haha. Finally after dinner, we went to watch the omen. The movie wasn't as scary as it seemed in the trailer, like most horror films. Anyway, I feel that the omen is more suspenseful then horrifying. It makes u think, and thinks, and think. It was great though.

And I’ve still not watched xmen3. Haha. What can I say about yesterday? One simple word - crazy.

brandon--
12:19 AM