our december sun is coming

I played truant again today.

Not that I don't enjoy school. School is really fun and stuff. But after a while it just gets really tiring and on somedays I feel the need to run away from 12 hour schedules.

Now that exams are over, it's back to the board. For most of us, it's back to covering the syllabus and we got about 1 to 2 topics left to cover for all subjects before term's out on the last week of November. For others, there's the mugging to do for the level up papers. And for the even smaller minority, there's no need for them in school until next year to start with the retainee's J1 year.

Ahaha. Felt really recharged and refreshed today as I slept in for most of the day with my ipod snuggled in my ears. Listening to all the old songs.

O levels start next week. I miss O levels haha.

Movie reviews

So after TOFU told me about how some people in JC join CCAs aiming directly for a leadership position, then quit and find another CCA if they don't get high up enough into the hierarchy, I began to think about my CCA. It's interesting.

I'm in something of a film club that publishes reviews and organizes movie screenings now and then. It's like my old drama club in that most of the members who have had significant passion for the CCA have all passed out long ago. For starters, I'm going to get publishing a shitload of movie reviews and get a shitload of credit to compete with those weeaboos who organize camps for points.

The school organizes advance screenings of upcoming movies. What I'm going to do is to attend these screenings, which will allow me to put out a review before anyone else. I've already done this with my previous review (first page on Google search!). Next I should be covering Royston Tan's Little Note. Oh yeah.

Besides that I'm going to tackle a list of movies I want to get attention for:
Speak (one of my favourite movies ever, though for personal reasons)
Sita Sings The Blues
Singapore Rebel (if they'll let me, which I doubt they will)
Local productions (will probably avoid mainstream offerings though)
Anime movies (so I can burn them and get over 9000 angry pageviews)
Films about the internet and internet culture
Machinima films


With every review I"ll include linkbacks to the fort - so we might we getting some extra visitors in the future. Don't write illegal stuff or anything, lol.

Well remember all those reports on increasing teenage pregnancies and all those rocketing trends... I wondered before, if I'm not having sex, and so are most of my peers, then who the hell is creating all these babies?

Ah well. Couldn't understand before how big sex was in a life of an eighteen year old. Now probably I do understand it a bit more. So I decided to do a little fishing around the net,

and I found that it was the yalams who were having most of these teenage pregnancy problems. Not really sure how reliable these information are. And given my inactivity with the yalam community its really hard to verify.

Irony of ironies. ahahaha.

sounds kinda like a big joke, but really kids; next time, use the condom because I don't want an overcrowded nation.

Ah this is a big joke. Singapore's social systems is getting really "too-big-at-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid" kinda thing for me.

Glad I'm at the point and I want to stay at the tip thank you very much.

I don't know what to do with my life

I've thought up a lot of big projects before. Intended to do them, too. Thing is, I never do.

I have a large, personal film project. I'm beginning to do some research for it. Set up a development blog that's being updated. Can't shake the feeling that in a month I'm going to drop it entirely and just play RPGs during all my free time.

If I succeed, this movie will completely change my life. Maybe then I'll know what to do with it.

You are always on my mind

Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have,
Maybe I didn't treat you quite as good as I should have,
If I made you feel second best,
I'm so sorry I was blind...

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Maybe I didn't hold you all those lonely, lonely times,
And I guess I never told you I'm so happy that you're mine,
Little things I should have said and done,
I just never took the time...

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died,
Baby, give me, give me one more chance to keep you satisfied,
Because you're always on my mind...

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

So far, things have been a little bit shaky.

And the way things are looking out to be, its looking increasingly bad in my favour.

Most of the time, the same thing happens: life kicks in.

half life

Life would have been very different if I haven't step foot into SAJC.

But the question is would I have been happier or would I have to rely on induced happiness to get me through my day. I definitely will find it a struggle to smile in the next year or so with exams looming and coming quickly.

So many options that I've picked in life have so far brought about much to self debate on.

Considering most people say they go through their mid life crisis at late thirties and in their forties, I'm currently probably going through a quarter life crisis.

So many things I've been doing has all been much about trying to induce myself with happiness after tough times I've been (still going) through... After a while, it gets hard and it gets tiring.

Last night I counted sheep trying to get to bed with some big number to remember and smile myself to sleep. But obviously that didn't quite worked out right.

My december sun is setting

Women are from Venus. Men are from Mars

A lot of things are going to change.

I mean it.

Review - Darah (2009)

Type: Feature film
Genre: Horror, slasher
Release date: Oct 8

Perhaps I shouldn't be in an utterly apathetic mood when writing a review, but after over nine thousand years of dawdling on what to say about Darah, I decided that there's not a whole lot, really.

I attended a special advance director's cut screening at Ngee Ann's movie theatre about two weeks before it was due to open in Singaporean cinemas. Darah is an Indonesian and Singaporean co-production, as well as the first film produced by Gorylah Pictures, a new production company.

The producer Gary Goh was there to talk about the making of the film. A lot of it was about budget and marketing and the nitty-gritty behind-the-scenes stuff that only manly filmmakers like myself would be interested in, but he did mention that Darah is essentially a feature-length remake of a short film that the producers spotted. The movie was completed in a fairly short time, and meant to put the production company on the map and grab some numbers. Therefore, don't expect anything revolutionary about this film.

I overheard the overall plot summary before the show even began: A bunch of friends finds a young girl stranded on the road. They send her home, but she persuades them to stay for dinner. Not long after, the house's inhabitants break out the chainsaw, led by a creepy woman(Darah). Bloodfest ensues.

The original short film that this movie was adapted from had an evil woman juggling several visitors around her house while she tried to kill them all without the rest noticing. Apparently this made for some interesting pacing and comedy. In Darah, they threw out the comedy, but kept the tension of simultaneous situations occuring all over the house. We even venture outside of the house a few times, and the plot pulls off just enough little twists to keep you attentive even after the blood starts splashing.

hai i likes red meet

The titular Darah is quite striking and eerie at the same time, despite the actress having her background in comedy(yep). She, along with the rest of her creepy chainsaw children are tanks. I can't quite say they're very badass, but they're definitely tanks. Every time the poor group of friends enter a fight with one of the bad guys, it's like watching a bunch of little people scurrying around throwing rocks at a tank while it leisurely drives around and shoots pain at them. Other than for Darah though, the acting doesn't stand out, and neither does the characterization or the script.

Like I said, nothing very new. I was told the movie has strong female characters, but I'm not the sort to be particularly impressed by feminism in art. The action-y bits are okay, plenty to go around and many different weapons of pain, including a crossbow and a sword (not together in the same scene though). Also, the little leaps of logic may or may not bother you; there is a scene where a policeman fires multiple shots at a target that's moving directly towards him and somehow manages to miss all of them.

I guess it's an alright film, but there are better things to watch. Only see if you're interested in what Indonesia/Singapore has to offer, or if you just need something to pass the time with some friends.