Sunday, September 24, 2006

Remember i said in the last post that i have started diving? Ya, this week is purely diving (look, i dive almost everyday, save for friday) and boy, it is both fun and exhausting. Completed a lot of tasks underwater and proud to say that i had execute all of them successfully without any accident. Cool! One more week of diving in the pool and we will move off to the sea. Not particularly interested as the Sembawang sea is... simply cannot make it lah.

However, all is not well. Kenna whacked on Friday due to our dip in discipline. Well, can say that we deserved it and no complaints about it.

Went to a Magic: The Gathering event on Saturday @ the concourse. The event was a prerelease of Magic latest product. Quite a fruitful trip i would say. Returned from it with more cards, managed to get my hands on cards i want and most importantly, more experience. Should be going for the next one, if i have the money. Haha

Watched The Banquet(夜宴) this morning in the wee hours.



Good show, and i mean it. The show fully displayed how evil and treacherous human heart (人心) can be. The desire for revenge, for power and for love determine the flow of events and i would say the show is simply a fine piece of art. Why i say so? Because of the music, the emotions of each character, the colour contrast used, the gracious movements of the characters and how the camera is positioned. I almost feel i am watching a theatre show and not a movie. Recent films from China has shown that it can rival its Hollywood counterparts with quality (Think Hero（英雄）and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龙)) and the Chinese has another advantage. 5000 years of history and arts. I can't express in words what i want to convey but throughout the movie, you can't help but marvel at how the actions are perfectly choreographed and you can feel the grandness of the Orient, of ancient China. Highly recommended as the battle in the movie, whether physically or mentally is simply classy.