it befuddles me how anyone can give one star or even one and a half stars in his/her review for a movie, because it seems to be the trend for many movie reviews these days. it seems to me that they are trying to prove something, that they are intellectuals and mass, commercialized movies dont appeal to them. which really shouldnt be the way since they are writing the reviews for a mass audience, to help the readers decide if a movie is worth watching. while the number of stars given is obviously based on the writer's opinion, there really is something wrong when the newspapers hire reviewers who have difficulty connecting with the readers. so yes, the clone wars werent particularly spectacular or impressive, but i thought it was good enough and didnt warrant the one star given by many critics. and i am not even a star wars fan. well it helped that i watched it for free, but there was really some storyline going on there, and it was coherent enough to follow. the animation could have been more, well, animated, as the characters seemed a little limited in their expressions and thus the movie wasnt as interesting as it could have been. other than that it was okay, and apparently that is the sentiment of most who watched the show as well.

forgetting sarah marshall was well, forgettable. a romantic comedy injected with sexual content and male nudity. had expected it to be funnier in the dialogue, but in the end they had to depend on slapstick humour and the acting of the actors to pull through. an ok show, but nothing memorable overall.

so the table tennis saga, as the media calls it, has come to a close. and it's good and even brave of lee bee wah to step forward and apologise. wasnt surprising though, very typical of the current government to take swift action before the opposition steps in to capitalise on the entire action. i can just imagine the exchanges between the parties involved.
lhl: "bw, what the hell were you thinking!"
bw: "i... i..."
lhl: "i dont want to talk to you. you have talked too much already. go talk to bala, and get instructions from him"
haha ok. it all stems down to one thing, talking too much, to the wrong person, at the wrong time, so they use the cause - talk - to resolve the entire issue. but trust netizens to attack a person on a personal level when such a fiasco breaks out. it happened to wee siew khim, and it happened to lee bee wah too. like i wrote previously, it boils down to inexperience, and one can only hope she grew out of it stronger. it seems to me the past week was tougher on her than it was for her when she fought in the previous GE. haha.

due to some circumstances and a certain person, i was forced to read some previous entries from years ago and it surprised me how much i have changed in my writing style. it used to be so ... kiddish, unsure, messy and sometimes absolutely boring; and while it isnt perfect or very mature and interesting now, i am glad that my writing has improved over the years. there's maturation and a difference, and that could be due to a change of lifestyle that widens the scope of what can be written. regardless, there's an increase in standard, in my eyes, and that makes me happy.

junyi! posted at 11:38 pm.