the REAL me.

So I went for HCI's Mid Autumn Festival last Saturday instead of going for Firestorm. Had wanted to go for Firestorm, if only it was on any other Saturday.

So.. Photos!


The few canoeists who managed to gather for a photo:



Me with Kai Long and Yuhang:




And with Yen Shong here.. And Qing Zhen the crasher!:



Me with the 35SCE people. I feel so extra!:



For photos that I took with my class and videos of the grand light up, check out my class blog.

So anyway, going back and meeting up with old friends certainly bring about many revelations. Found out quite a bit about the love lives of certain people. And found out how gay my juniors are. One of them got A*STAR scholarship. Another one rejected A*STAR and took up DSTA scholarship. And another is taking the IDA scholarship, the one where you can get a Master's degree in 4 years. And another is studying Medicine, even though my junior class doesn't take Biology. Great. How gay is that..

On a side note, the people from my class who attended have gotten considerably less. I hope more of them will be around next year. But I don't know if I should even go again next year. The Hwa Chong culture is like.. something you want to hold on to, but you know will slowly slip away from you as you grow older, and eventually you'll no longer feel much attachment anymore. I hope what I just said isn't that true.
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It's really somewhat late for me to talk about the movie now. It's been more than a week since I've watched it. Two weeks, in fact. Would have blogged about it earlier if I wasn't involved in the Army Open House 2007. But still, it's something I won't let myself off if I don't blog about it.

For most of it, I have to agree with Kaijie's blog. After not managing to find anyone to watch the movie with, I had initially wanted to give up on watching it. But then I saw the music video (above) for the theme song 一人一半 on Jingzhi's blog and I told myself that I had to watch it no matter what. The song is so touching, so sad, I HAD to watch the movie so that I can really FEEL the song.

But in the end, I still managed to find Yuheng to watch with me. He wasn't particularly keen on watching it, just that he didn't mind. But after watching it, he likes most of the Hokkien songs much.

So anyway, on to a little review for the movie. I have to say, it really is quite an achievement for the movie to gross more than S$3M. The movie certainly is good, but.. I suppose my expectations for Royston Tan's movies were too high. Having seen his films such as 15 and Cut, which I really loved, I couldn't help but end up slightly disappointed by 881.

Sure, the movie was touching, and does reflect very well on the 歌台 scene in Singapore. But I feel that he could have given more background on certain characters to let us FEEL for the characters more.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.
Such as why big 881's mother loathed her daughter's performing at 歌台 so much, even though she used to perform too. Perhaps of a.. unhappy past that she had in those times? Also, why did Guanyin's dad end up marrying the other twin sister instead of 仙姑, even though the one he actually liked was the latter? Don't tell me he was confused because they looked the same? And why is Guanyin so close to the cock rooster? I feel that if Royston Tan had given more background on these, it would have allowed audiences to really understand the characters.
END OF SPOILERS.

But overall, the film is still good. It's undeniable. The film really wonderfully portrays the glamour and hardships of the 歌台 singers. And it is touching to see the love and care the characters have for each other. And I like touching movies.
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