Poseidon

I visited this brilliant Dr. Ooi of SS15 at about 12.30pm with my parents (we must’ve waited for 30 minutes or more, and the good doctor, who’s long-winded, kept us in for another 20-30 minutes) to ensure that painful lump on my earlobe is not bearing all the tell-tale signs of cancer of some kind. Health paranoia should be more common, ever since my mum was struck with cancer, and logically, her sons are at risk too.

The best thing about this good doctor is her ability to reassure you in the most friendly manner, while at the same time dumping you with impressive medical terms (my earlobe thingy was.. I can’t remember, she said it might be ‘bail’ or something of that sort as well) to assure you that she knows what the heck she’s talking about.

Anyhow, parents dropped me at Andy’s, Andy dropped me at Summit and I bought movie tickets at 2.40pm for Poseidon, and ate at McD’s while waiting for the rest to arrive - the rest being Andy, Ding, Kai Tzin and I.

Kai Tzin arrived separately; we also saw Pn Vasantha and another Indian teacher whose name I can’t recall (she sits opposite Pn Jaya in the Staff Room) on the way up to the cinema.

Poseidon was on THX, and being a Monday afternoon, there weren’t many people. Which meant that we had perfect seats in the middle like we all love.

SPOILERS AHEAD

I had to disagree with The Star’s reviewers once again for giving this movie a C-. What I do agree was their point on the lack of character development, so that when characters die (not a big surprise there), you don’t feel for them at all.

The director’s choice of killing off characters was pretty bad - I figured Elena’s character could be developed some more, centering on that little brother of hers that was supposed to be waiting for her. But nope. In the movie world, particularly Mission Impossible: III, if Ethan can be resurrected with a mere electric shock and multiple chest-beatings, why not Elena, eh?

This being not a horror movie, characters don’t die one by one leaving a sole survivor in the end. They die with a purpose, sometimes without.

That aside, I love the obstacles laid out before them, love how a gigantic ship was toppled by a huge rogue wave, and how, unexpectedly, fire was one of the elements that the characters had to encounter.

Nothing too interesting except for Black Eyed Peas’ Ferguson who sang beautifully in the movie, and humourously, died in an accident as well, lol. I wouldn’t say that there’s anything else captivating enough to make you remember something special about Poseidon, since the movie was so short (1 hour 30 minutes plus), and I had expected more obstacles. And more deaths.

When there’s a disaster movie, something incredible as The Day After Tomorrow, you have to lengthen it.

After the movie, Andy dropped off Kai Tzin at his house, and the three of us went to the new cybercafe opened behind Khalifah. This entire month, it’ll only be RM1.50 per hour, which is insanely cheap. o___o

You can cleverly guess which would be our most frequented spot for this month.

At night after dinner, went off to Jon’s house to burn CZ onto a CD (Jon succeeded in downloading it when I gave him a certain link, while I didn’t =.=). Hung out there at his house for a while (we finally have a new guild emblem in MapleStory, woot :D), and went back to my own house at 9.30.

Playing CZ with Jon was fun (hooray for custom maps!). The slight lag is enough to mar the experience completely, and nothing’s better than playing at the cybercafe itself.. although we can now play any multiplayer games with each other using the ingenious program Hamachi.

Looking at people who are already attached, I can’t help but feel a little envious. Envious enough to destroy the wall I built up to enclose the rabid fleeting emotions.

Haih.

Normally I could care less and wish any lucky couples to be happy always and move on with my life. Now, all I’d ask is for someone to sing a song with me.

to move along. for all the love in the world.