i have been feeling rather patriotic of late, possibly due to the nation's birthday having just past and the ndp organisers did a great job of injecting the singapore spirit into me; or maybe cos the table tennis team won singapore the 1st medal in eons, and somehow your hope and belief in the country is restored - which is a little bullshit really, my belief in this country has never been gone! hrm, ok, haha.

so congratulations to the singapore team for doing a fantastic job today against korea. watched bits and pieces of it (and quite chunky bits at that), and it was pretty exciting - notwithstanding the fact that i play a terrible game of table tennis and dont know much about it. but it was really quite entertaining, thrilling, and adrenaline-filled - the skoreans were great opponents, and i thought any side could have won, but i guess ultimately it was the singapore side that prevailed. i can imagine the headlines already and what they're to say - all that stuff about almost losing, but singapore never gave up, were persistent in their goals, focused and then ultimately prevailed, epitomising the much talked about singapore spirit that's apparently what this year's ndp is all about. in fact i think pm lee is going to talk about this in his ndp rally. except no one's going to listen since the table tennis finals will be held over the same timeslot, on another channel. ah i feel for him. see what a wrong choice of dates can do to you.

hrm first medal in 48 years. exciting. although i feel sad for that wang yuegu who lost all 3 sets in her singles and hence that singles wasnt quite talked about in the news or featured in the highlights. for all the matter, be featured in the interviews. ah the reality of life. like how you are ugly or "not cute enough" you cant be featured in the opening ceremony of the olympics. still i wonder if critisms would be as rampant if say london did it.

do you btw watch the highlights of olympics everyday on 5? gosh, jade seah is really quite bad at this. makes the whole thing look like an amateur school production.

in line with this whole singapore thing (ignore the fact that the ttb semis were held today), watched money no enough 2 (finally) yesterday, which honestly wasnt as bad as the critics had dumbed it out to be. i mean its true the characters could have been better fleshed out, and certain issues were thrown in for the sake of being mentioned (think f1, written in with no actual value to the show) and there were exaggerations or crass jokes that werent funny at all, but i thought neo still did a great job in putting across the views of the man in the street in a light hearted manner, which is obviously what he has been known to be doing for the past ten years. to begin with, he had never set out to direct and script an arthouse film and had intended to create a movie that would strike a chord with the masses and he did just that. i liked the drama in the show actually, although some i know didnt like it. i mean, the stars of the show were surprisingly the eldest son and his mother - i liked the part he had to send his mum to the old folks home and how she died and the flashbacks. quite touching.

as for the jokes, some jokes were funny - the whole erp thing, parking lady incident, coupon with 85 holes etc; some werent and too dependent on the not very natural cgi while some seemed to be better off as emcee jokes. haha. oh and i hated, absolutely hated the product placements. they didnt even fit into the movie well.

all in all it wasnt all that bad. not too dry, it was entertaining at the very least, and i didnt think it is worse than the first movie. yet again i was only ten then so i doubt i can remember all THAT much. but even then, it is not deserving of the one and a half star.

and then 2mr it's back to camp, to serve the mother of all patriotic acts. national service. except the difference this time round is for this you dont have much of a choice. haha

i can sense jonk telling me now biasness towards local acts is not an act of patriotism.

junyi! posted at 11:20 pm.