Sunday, April 24, 2005 -

Yessir.......I'm back again for a brand new spanking post.........one of my fastest updates to date.....a mere week from my last post.....what da ya know? sometimes miracles do happen...hahhaha........well I as I'm writing this sentence....I can just foretell that this is gonna be one long ass blog post again.....felix said on his blog that expectations are a weird thing...I agree cos everyone expects my posts to be long...but I exceed all their expectations by making it even longer then they will ever expect...ahhahaha....

Alright I'm gonna be yapping about wat happen this past week, the nice prank Felix,Liang Jie and Me pulled on our best buddy...Huiling...ahha......and I'm gonna do my review of Sin City and give anybody who isn't familliar with Sin City, a refresher course in what is it all about.....yup...finally finished downloading after the sinfully long download time of 8 days......

Alright first of all.....Damn man.....On wednesday I went to see the movie"Creep" with Amanda and Liang Jie.........bad stuff......I was like shopping at IMM with my parents from Groceries when suddenly at 9pm...I get a call from Liang Jie telling me that Amanda and him are at Plaza Singapura eating asking me to join them in town...the previous Day,amanda had mentioned something about having dinner on msn but I did'nt confirm anything with her...so I was like "HUH?!!I did'nt sayI'm meeting u guys......I'm wearing some crummy t-shirt, slippers n my hairs like all messy and you want me to go town now?!I look like freaking Goondoo in slippers!!"damn lar den Ah Liang told me that they already bought movie tickets for 3 for the 9.30 show and if I din go there....amanda's money will be wasted.....so I had to ask my dad to send me down to town.......damn man...my folks were like nagging at me all the way from IMM to PS about me arranging nonsensical last minute stuff(Yeah .....like I arranged it!!hahaha).......and i managed to get there by 9.40 n by the time three of us went into the theatre the movie just started.............I gotta say Creep is one of the worst movies I've seen this year...haha.......no story at all......completely 100% Plot-free.....basically its about rats,deformed Gollum Lookalike killer called Craig , knives getting stuffed up female privates,sub way tunnels and nothing else much.........hahaha...lucky was only $6.50...........or what Craig did to his victims will be nothing compared to what I'll do to Amanda and Liang Jie...hahaha

Now onto Thursday...just got my final exams results.......not bad lar, AD for Service Management (Wwhich I kinda expected) and for IM(Which I totally did'nt expect at all), A for Buyer Behaviour(Another Big surprise considering after the exam I thought I was done for) and for World Issues( Lawrence Lai and I are tight!!!!), B+ for my Business Planning and control, B for Retail management(karma from making fun of the banglas at Mustafa for our exam case study maybe.....hahhaa) and effing effing stupid C+ for My designing promotional materials......the bloody faggotty doo dar day, Siregar and his stupid marking and high expectations....gave little Candy a D+ for the module....her first D......damn...must be all the anal action that sissy boy Siregar is getting.....that's why he always being such a critical and whiny ass....

Well end at of the day....this is probably my second best term, the best being my 2 nd term for Year 2...where my results were pretty good.......so dunno how siar when all the results for the past three years are consolidated......hope can go into a reasonably reputable local University like SMU perhaps....but I kinda doubt it.....I may have gotten quite a few A's and AD's and B+'s more so then the times I got C's( two or three times over 3 years) or D's (once)......but bottom line I still don't think its good enough to get into the better local Universities......bloody SMU still got personal interviews, persoanl essays to go through and also they place a heavy emphasis on CCA before you can get admitted.....they said in their website that they want Students who will help improve and elevate the environment of SMU.....elevate?! Hell I'm the man to freaking elevate the studying environment with all my mockery,pranks and sarcasm.......no fat girl in SMU will be safe from my unending mockery I promise....how's that for elevating things?!hahhaa......yeah....maybe They'll accept me into the school based on my wonderful personality alone.........yup.... that's about as possible as Pigs flying...or felix not being hungry or Huiling being able to organize an outing...which is to say..hmmm....IMPOSSIBLE!!!hahaha..

So after I checked my results in the morning and checked on how my other friends did....me and Felix went down to Serangoon to meet Liang Jie who brought us to his club at serangoon...which was very near Chomp Chomp food centre......shiok man....we did like one hour of gym,den another hour in the jacuzzi talking crap, another hour swimming and 30 mins in the sauna........and after that we went to Chomp Chomp for dinner.....ain't that the life....hahhaa......the downside to it was straining my srm muscles and one of my leg msucles after the workout...wah....now my arm cannot be like flexed straight cos of the strain(imagine chicken wings and you get the idea)....N i'm walking with a slight limp in one leg.......so if you see me walking on the street...no I'm not doing my impression of a partially-limping chicken .....hahha

So anyway on to the prank on my dear ol' buddy,Ah ling....hahhaha....Funny stuff...this is a detailed breakdown of our Big return to the Good' ol Poly Pranking days.....too long have Huiling not lived up to her nick of Sucker-ling...It was time to change this...hahha..the three of us went chomp chomp for dinner and after dinner while we were chatting...Huiling smsed Liang Jie to ask him how he did for his exams.....so Felix being...well...Felix....hahaha...came up with the idea to get LJ to sms her telling her that he failed his Buyer Behavior module cos we were all sure that she'll fall for it......and after that Felix would follow that up by smsing her telling her to call him quickly because he just heard that LJ had failed... and after that the three of us would discuss on msn on how to execute the prank when we got back home.....

So she called felix up while me and felix were travelling home and being the Oscar-winning actor that he is.....he gave a very convincing performance and convinced her that Liang Jie was not lying and it was not a joke......and after that Liang Jie called her to pour out his woes to her while simultaneously consulting with us online on what to do........hahaha....me and felix were warning Liang jie not to giggle or laugh during his talk or our plans were gonna be all in vain......cos while me and felix were professionally trained actors...we haven't seen LJ's acting...we were not quite sure he could pull it off....boy were wrong!!!hahahaa....he totally exceeded all our expectations!!...

By the end of his hour long conversation wif Huiling.....she was complelety convinced he really failed his BB exams.....plus after getting such wonderful online advice from felix on MSN such as "Forget your Conscience....Go all the way....No sweat man!!!"..ahahhaha....after all that advice...he totally exceeded our expectations and went beyond the call of duty to convince Huiling.....telling her that Jonas Lee dun really bother about him failing,how he is trying to appeal and pay to see his results, how he is afraid to tell his parents about it and man!!!Ah Ling totally lived up to her nick name of Sucker-ling by believeing all that and believeing that LJ is having very depressing and suicidal thoughts.....ahhahahaa.....damn man me and felix were laughing on msn.....enjoying ourselves.....hahaha

Then after talking to Liang Jie,Huiling called me up....hahaha...she said she din know how to comfort Liang Jie and she was like alittle afraid cos she dunno how to respond to his questions....hahaa.....so as I was talking to her.....damn lar felt a little bad abt pranking her..Liang Jie felt so too.......she was saying how she dunno how to respond to Liang Jie's sad words, how she haven't even bathe after coming back from work at 9 plus and how she is beginning to muttering to herself when she toked to him..hahhaha....awww...damn...I'm soft!!!!.....DAMN THIS THING CALLED A CONSCIENCE!!!!!!....

So after that I told her to go bathe and I was talking to the guys......told them that she really is kinda scared and that our small prank is suddenly like expanding into this huge,big elaborate prank......and that maybe we should tone down all the exaggeration.....hahaha......so LJ called me lar...and we both agreed that we felt kinda bad and how huiling is a nice and naive girl....and we were like making use of her naivete...hahaha...damn man...Liang Jie said that he was very very touched by her and that she is a very,very nice girl.....made Huilng sound like freaking Mother theresa sia!!hahahah..................at that time felix began to feel a little bad too..haha...damn funny cos nobody was responding to him on msn cos me and LG were on the phone......and he wasn't such wat was going on...hahha...at first he was all like:"Damn man...hahahah...This is effing fun...I'm effing excited about tommorrow!!!!".....after I told him on msn that the prank is getting alittle too big he was like:" Aye Dudes...wat's happening??! Somebody call me quick!!!......knn Huiling gonna hate me for this!!..."...hahahahhaaa....me and LJ were laughing at felix's sudden change of heart man...funny stuff....

Then I told them lar that if I know Huiling...she won't be angry when we reveal that everything is a prank.....but we should kinda provide some compensation like buying her some small stuff or buying her a meal when we met up with her the following day......because we would feel much better and absolve ourselves of our sins for pulling the prank on her........haiz....DAMN OUR CONSCIENCE ONCE MORE!!!!.........

so anyways felix called me and said:" Aye dude.....I know I suggested this prank..but knn....How do we end it??!!"....hahahahha...shit man....hahaha......after coming out wif the prank...felix had no idea how to tie every thing up neatly...hahaha....we effing spent 30 mins talking about it......I came up wif really detailed and elaborate plans on the 'Big reveal" siar for felix toexecute........ahha...seriously detailed.....came up with the place( must be a restaurant that billed its customers instead of getting customers to pay upfront cos Huiling is shy about people tpaying for her..ahhaha...we chose the ramen shop at Far east), the precise and suitable time frame to tell her( The time where we would chat in the restuarant...between after we had our lunch and before the bill came...so when the bill came after the "Big reveal" everything will be just nice..) and also that Liang Jie must be the one to suggest the ramen restaurant(Cos I figured that since huiling thinks he failed and is so sad..I know that whetever restaurant he suggest,huiling will go along with his choice...hahaha)...............

Not only that I had to come up wif a freaking script on the spot,through the phone for Felix........FElix..If you're reading this...DUN BE STARTING NO PRANKS ANYMORE......cos it seems I always have to come up wif the escape plans for you in the end..hahaa(Yup.....remember the vcd smuggling at KL, Mr " I'm a master smuggler who suddenly got cold feet"??...hahaha)....so anyway I told him to slowly talk about exams stuff when we chat after lunch....den suddenly out of the blue say something outrageous to throw Huiling Off and give her a hint like"Ah Liang...You Fail..FAIL lar!!!!!SHI NIAN HOU,HAI SI Yi TIAO HAO HAN!!!(Rough Translation:10 years later you'll still be as good as new)"...hahha...and den finish things off by asking her "Huiling..let me ask you a question...does a guy who just went gym,jacuzzi,swimming and sauna and finish off by going to Chomp Chomp for a big meal seem like someone who failed his exam.......cos it isn't!!!...that was precisely what me,barry and LJ did yesterday!!....hahahhaa......felix even rehearsed his script lines three times on the phone...haha and and everything went according to plan for the "Big reveal" the next day...haha...My favorite part was when the 3 of us did Huiling's trademark Pose and phrase "YEA!!!" after we told her it was just all a prank...hahaha

Bottom Line: This was the worst prank ever...wanted to have some laughs.......hahaha....but we ended up having to buy Huiling a meal and wasting hours coming up with a delicate and feasible escape route outta the prank(Thanks Felix!) when we could have been sleeping...hahaha.....damn lar but I guess Huiling got her revenge....she tricked us a total of 3 times between saturday and friday.......first she tricked and whined about watching that Vin Diesel Flick:The Pacifier" which was a complete kiddy flick and waste of money......and it was quite touching...well only to Kat I guess.....haha...cos ain't nobody else cried during the movie.......well Maybe I did....AFTER SPENDING $8.50 AND 2 HRS OF MY TIME ON THAT CRAPPY FLICK!!!........Secondly she tricked us into going to Ginza Plaza, where she told us had this super shop with lots of anime for rental.......she made it sound like the freaking Taj Mahal of Anime..haha...but it turned out to be some comic rental shop with only a small section of anime man...I'm serious......when I first walked into the store..I could'nt see any anime at all...only Jap and chinese comics........Plus Ginza had nothing much to walk so it was another waste of time......and thirdly after we returned to Clementi central from Ginza.....she tricked us to go KTV for singing...by daring us......damn lar....that is one huge ass prank.......we ended up having to sing for 4 hrs from 5 pm to 9pm and spent a total of $46 for the whole thing....some chips, a teeny plate of fruits and a drink each......hahhaha.....

Bottom line: Me,felix and Liang Jie are not the master tricksters....Huiling is.......we tricked her once and she retaliated by tricking us thrice over two consecutive days........after thinking abt The pacifier,Ginza plaza and 4 hrs of KTV...suddenly my conscience seemed to have disappeared......hahahaa.....hell....now I need a serious amountof cash flow injection cos of the past few days .......I'm running out of Ker-ching ker-ching.....

Alright Its time for my Sin City Review......first of all lemme give any newbies to Sin City some background information on the comic.....basically Sin City is the creater-owned comic by Frank Miller( My favorite Comic artist EVER) that he first started doing in the early 90's.......its a Black and white comic series that is completely written,pencilled,inked,lettered by Frank Miller himself.......every few years Frank Miller does a Sin City Comic series lasting a few issues...and there's been a total of seven Sin City story collections so far.......I have 5 0f them and have read all the 7 stories....in case you don't know who Frank Miller is.......he's the guy who made Daredevil Popular,created Elektra, totally rejuvenated Batman from this corny guy in a cape to this scary,dark,obsessive vigilante and he wrote the script of Robocop 2 and 3 movies.........yeah..he's also a multiple comics award winner and basically the highest paid and most respected writer/artist in the US comics industry.... he even gets a small appearance in the movie as a Padre in the church who gets killed....

Ok to start things off, Sin City is actually aifctional city in the US called Basin City...but it got the name Sin City because Sin City is famous for their strip clubs,prostitutes and tough guys.........the whole City is runned by this evil family called the Roarks....first there's Cardinal Roark( Sin City's version of the Pope....only he's a cannibal) and then there is his corrupted Brother Senator Roark and lastly senators Roark's son Roark Junior (A pedophile rapist)...anyway the Roark Family has been in power for hundreds of years in Sin City and they had the idea to make Sin City the ultimate place for Sex and Booze...so they imported the prettiest Hookers all over the world from France and other countries and people basically visit sin city to get thier wildest dreams fulfilled...hhaa....and then the early generation of hookers gave birth and generation after generation the hookers have thrived in sin city.....Here are the main parts of Sin City you need to know:

1) Old town- the part of Sin City that is completely runned by hookers, they have a truce with the police and they enforce their own laws in this part of town....so they can basically kill anybody who messes with them in this part of the city...except any cops of course

2) The Tar-Pits - the tar pits used to be a big amusement park filled with dinosaur statues and bones......but after an old lady fell into one of the tar-pits and drowned to death in the tar....the palce was abandoned and its basically a place where killers dump their victims bodies...since nobody is ever going to find them in the tar pits....

3) The Farm - The farm is a piece of land far from the city area and its owned by the Roark Family....its also where Cardinal Roark's adopted son Kevin(The mute cannibal killer) stays and basiclaly the roarkes do all their dirty stuff in this place...

4) Kadie's Bar - The most popular night club in Sin City, its where all the good guys in our story hangs out and its where the super chio gyrating hooker Nancy(Jessica Alba) performs at....

Okay.....now here's a brief run down of the primary characters...the good guys,the bad guys and those tasty hookers....

1.) Marv (Mickey Rourke)- this guy is one huge,super tough and slightly mentally imbalanced brute.......he's also very simple and child-like in many ways....he was always to ugly to be able to even buy himself a prositute...so when a Prositute Goldie offered him sex for exchange for his protection and when she gets murdered.....Marv decides to kills his way to the truth and find out who killed her even it it means that he must die for it because of her one act of kindness towards him..

2) Hartigan (Bruce Willis) - The most noble character in Sin city, a straight and by the books, 60 year old Cop on his last day on the job as a policeman who decides to tie up one lose end before he quits: to save 11 yr old nancy Callahan(Jessica Alba) from getting raped by Roark Junior......and instead he gets framed and imprisoned for 8 years .....throwing away his job,his life,his wife, his reputation and everything by stopping Senator Roark's son and 8 years later Nacy Callahan who grows up to be the super chio bu and gets reunited with her knight in shining armore before he makes one last sacrifice for her...

3) Dwight (Owen Wilson)- Dwight is some guy with a very violent and shady past, some one who has killed before,a guy with bad lucky with girls,a soft spot for the ladies and is willing to go all out to help them at his own expense....

4) Gail (Rosario Dawson)- Yup..she's played by Rosario Dawson...the girl wif the huuge-ass boobs in Alexandre.....Gail is the leader of the Hookers in Old town and she specialises in S&m Stuff.....the former girlfriendof Dwight..

5)Nancy(jesscia Alba) - saved by Hrtigan from getting raped by Roark Junior 8 years ago by Hartigan and currently works at Kadie's Bar as their star stripper.......while studying Law part-time.........the Angel of Sin City ...

6) Miho (Devon Aoki)- The most dangerous Girl in Sin City.......dun really work as a hooker but as a protector and assasin for the hookers.......yup this mute,japanese assasin chops and slices up body parts faster then a hot knife through butter....

7) Shelly(Brittany Murphy )- Jackie Boy's ex girlfriend and current lover of dwight.........played by Brittany Murphy with an extremely cheesy accent..hahaha

8) Kevin (Elijah wood)- Mute,cannibalistic adopted son of Cardinal Roarke,hobbies include: nice walks along the beach,doing flying kicks and eating hookers and mounting their heads on walls....

9) Roark Junior AKA The Yellow Bastard (Nick stahl)- tried to rape Nancy 8 years ago and got his dick and hand blown off by hartigan, goes for extensive Gene therapy and other weird experiments to gorw back his shlong and the side effects left him smelling like shit,looking like shit and having yellow skin.......

10) Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) - A woman-beating,slightly crazed Policeman who's Shelly's ex boyfriend......and is the catalyst for getting all the hookers into Old Town in troulbe when they kill him for pulling stupid shit in Old Town....

Ok...that was long.......basically all the character you need to know about without getting confused by the movie......and this movie's structure is unlike any movie I've ever seen.....its basically an anthology consisting of three main stories ....each spot-lighting a specific character in Sin City(Marv,Hartigan,Dwight) and telling you their story......and each story is not related to each other but is tied together by the fact that all of them live in the same city and some familliar background characters like Shelly(Britanny murphy) for example appears in all three of the stories.........so the structure of the movie is similar to Quentin Trantino's pulp fiction...where we move to a different main character and tell a complete story about that character and on the way these main characters might happen to be in the same places or bump into each other over the course of their own stories.....

The three stories are the Hard Goodbye featuring Marv (Mickey Rourke)as the lead, The Big Fat Kill featuring Dwight (owen wilson)as the lead and That Yellow Bastard featuring Hartigan (Bruce Willis)as the lead.........

Now the film itself is like almost 99% faithful to the Black and White Sin City Comics, its shot completely digitally in B& W with some spots of color on specific items like Hair or eyes and copies the various artwork and panels in the comicbook almost exactly in the film itself.....all the movie dialogue is taken straight from the comicbooks word for word and the director even used the comicbook art as storyboards ....very,very faithful comicbook film......all the violence and over the top stuff in the comics are not toned down or cut out at all.....you get to see multiple head decapitations(at least 3), shlongs getting blown off, shlongs getting ripped off, arrows through chests,sword through heads and chests, hands getting cut off or blown off, a on-screen electrocution by electric chair and lots of other violence.....the violence level is almost like Kill Bill's (Quentin tranatino also directed a small part of Sin City) and all of it is not too gory lar cos its stylized violence with blood being colored luminous white or yellow or black instead of red cos if everything is colored red,it'll be too gory liao.......so I think not many people will be turned off by the violence except the shlong getting ripped off part....that was super gross....hahaha..even for me....and you know me...I like gross dammit!!!

I think Comic readers are gonna love the film but General Movie Goers might be turned off by the weird 3 story structure of the movie and by the 1930's yo 40's hardboiled dialogue of the film.....cos the comics were inspired by the Noir,pulp detective and crime novels of the 30's and 40's of writers such as Mickey Spillane and David Mamet...so the dialgoue in the comics are purposely supposed to reflect the dialogue in these kinda noir,pulp novels.......where every single guy is a tough guy in a trenchcoat with full of internal monologue and tough guy dialogue........so the dialogue may seem weird and corny and supremely wordy cos all of the characters in the movie have internal monologues and you can hear them narrating and talking to themselves throughout the entire movie but well........I guess for Sin City....that's basically the point...to reflect thse kinda 1930's crime,noir fiction.....hahhaha...I thought the film was quite good lar,but its because its so faithful to the comicbooks.......although some dialgoue and the editing may be alittle weird at times.......basically if you like tough guys in trenchcoats talking tough and sexy gilrs dressed scantily in fish-net stockings,lingerie and bondage suits with swords and semi-automatic weapons this movie is the one for you....I give it 8.5/ 10 severed shlongs.....

For More information on Sin City and some example of Frank Miller's super nice Chiaroscuro art style(where his artwork look like photo negatives...the white spots is black and the black spots are white..etc) and actual comic pages...check out this site...

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/109.html


Anyways....I'm still going to catch Sin City when it comes out in Singapore in May 17th.....its a very visually stylish flick and its gonna look great onscreen......May is gonna be another fun month man......lots of good movies.....Mr and Mrs Smith,Star Wars Revenge of the sith,Sin City,Initial D,Kingdom Of Heaven plus Batman Begins,war of the worlds and Fantastic four all coming out soon after that too.....oh yar and Felix's birthday also coming up in may......so...good stuff........

Now onto this coming Monday......it's rollerblading time for me and my buddies at East Coast again...hahaha....gonna be a lot of fallin.....errr...i mean fun......Thank God I already Know how to rollerblade that's all I gotta say...hahahha.....wow long ass post.......exceeding expectations on length and time taken to read a blog post is what I do best!!!


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