Tuesday, December 06, 2005

[This is going to be a long entry.]

I AM BACK!

Yeah, after being MIA since last saturday, I am finally back at home! Hee..
So where did I go since sat? I went to Korea for a short holiday! It was real fun and the weather was really good!!

Just kidding. Hee. I didnt go anywhere out of town.

Hmm, sorry to all those who sms-ed me these few days, especially those that I never get to reply to you. Really sorry. My phone is very lagging due to the amount of smses. (yeah I know I need a new phone LOL) + my nokia software cannot seem to work so I cant mass delete smses or send smses via my com. That's explains why I never reply. I am totally not used to pressing buttons that frequently..sorry..

Saturday:
I went to watch "THE DESCENT". I was choosing between this and "Saw 2". I thought "Saw 2" was bad enough, so I decided to go ahead with this. Halfway through the movie, I wished that I had chosen "Saw 2" instead, cos "The Descent" was worse. But I didnt regret watching it. It is really good and it has an open-ended ending. Makes you think whether the "crawlers" really exist, or is it a journey of the mind into madness?

There are some nice gore and good scares. Not only because of some classic horror shock moments, but more due to the haunting atmosphere and the utter loneliness and fear that the characters undergo. Moreover, director and writer Neil Marshall managed to put several subtle layers in the story, so at the end you’re left with some intriguing questions. The title of the movie is also a metaphorical one, referring to the human psyche and the depths people have to go through after and during a horrible tragedy.

Plot: Sarah is recovering after the shock death of her husband in a vehicular accident a year earlier. She joins five other women friends as they travel into Chatooga National Park in the Appalachians to go potholing for a weekend. The group is led by the experienced Juno – but once underground Juno admits that she left has taken them into an unmapped area, wanting them to be the first to discover it, and that she deliberately left no notification of there whereabouts. But as they try to find their way out, they realize that there are a host of creatures down there, creatures that have evolved blind from living in the dark but have ferocious hunting instincts and live on the flesh of animals, including humans. The journey now becomes a nightmare fight for survival.

Hey gil, you are right about the affair. That Juno, was assumed to having an affair with Sarah's husband. I went to read up more on this film. Some mentioned that the whole "cave trip" was an imagination of Sarah's mind. Remember the night before their outing to the cave, Sarah has a dream. In it, she hears her daughter's laughter and when she goes to the window, the pole from the car wreck comes smashing through the glass. Then in the cave, just before she becomes aware of the crawlers, she hears once again her daughter's laugh...it leads her to the tunnel they chose to take.



Follow which, I went to May's place. We (me, Gil and May) got ourselves wasted over some horrible volka. *lol* I really didnt want to drink it. Haha. And we spent the night talking and eventually fell asleep.


Sunday:

I went to Singapore Turf Club! Thanks to Gil, I didnt need to squeeze with the rest of the people as we were situated at the Owner's Lounge! All we had to do was to sip tea and eat chips and watch the race in comfort! The aircon was a little too cold though..hee..

Erm, three of us taking a shot in the turf's club....toilet..lol..


Till then!