Koizora and P.S. I Love You

went out shopping with JL yesterday! in the end, she didn’t really see anything she wanted, while i bought a green top from The Box that was on sale. UO was also having a sale - kimono top at only $15! gasps! and they had one last one in my size, for this particular print design. but i resisted. :3

we then went wandering around random stores like Marks & Spencer, where we tried on crazy gold/bronze four-inch wedges for fun. we got bored quickly, and went for tea at Secret Recipe - cake set at $6.50! i had jasmine tea with chocolate banana cake and she had coffee with espresso cheese cake. yummy! (: i also ate Chippy beer battered fish & fries before that (my first meal of the day).

popped by a few more places before we took a bus to my grandparents’ place, including The Cathay (omg, this pushcart sold really quirky heels on sale but only odd sizes were left) and a deserted bazaar at SMU which had dresses at $10. nice. o_O;

my grandma was forewarned about our visit, and cooked us dinner! we were stuffed, but my grandma’s cooking rocks, and we can’t ever say no. i don’t usually like popiah, but the one sold near my grandparents’ place is great, because the chili is so hot, and damn shiok. xD

Qianqi was good enough to drive by my place last night and drop me the car shampoo for our car wash today since she couldn’t make it. (: as usual, the car wash itself today was exhausting. still, there was plenty of rowdy fun to make it less tedious. it really only begun a couple of hours after the set time. and only two subcommers showed up - thanks, Stanley & Pamy. <3 anyway, it does seem to make more sense if we start later in the day for our washes, since we get more business from the lunch/dinner crowds.

we got to enjoy good food from the East Coast Park hawker center again too, when we took time off for lunch and tea break. hur hur. expensive but tasty Indian rojak for lunch! i had like three cups of sugar cane juice the whole time we were there too. haha, should be okay right. it was so hot, and sugar cane is supposed to reduce heat or something, or i’d probably die from sunstroke.

also bumped into Ms Zhu at ECP! apparently my JC’s leadership camp is ongoing there too.

hitched a ride with Cheryl to Bugis Junction with Stan, James and Siti after the car wash. met up with my parents for dinner at the chicken rice place next to Rochor tauhuay. regretfully, it was overpriced and not that fantastic. speaking of Rochor tauhuay! Christine tells me i get to be station master for that particular stop in the Amazing Race for seniors’ camp coming Monday. hur hur. should be good fun. (:

there’s apparently a FOC main comm meeting tomorrow. except the time is still unknown. there’s talk of making it in the evening, and then pulling a sleepover in school overnight. o_O; … i’m worried time might be tight for me. because i still need to get the sleeping bag from my grandma tomorrow morning. pick up my fixed glasses from the optician in the afternoon. and pack, zomg! another major problem, is the fact that there is a Papa main comm meeting as well the day after at 10am at City Hall Starbucks. so it makes little sense for me to sleepover in school, travel down to City Hall and back to school again on Monday for seniors’ camp. don’t know how now! >:

i want to watch Made of Honor! Patrick Dempsey! haha, so i’m reading the reviews. they appear to be rather on the negative end, slamming it as a rehashed cliche. so who knows, maybe i’ll just wait for the DVD. its trailer wasn’t that intriguing in the first place already, sadly.

speaking of movies. last night, i watched P.S. I Love You (Gerard Butler is LOVE) and the Japanese movie, 恋空 Koizora! … both films made me cry. sniffs. i cheated myself a little with P.S. I Love You, i fast-forwarded through several scenes. but i plan to re-watch it in its entirety soon, even though the suspense and surprise is gone.

i know many people said it can’t match up to the movie. but lately, it’s come to me that maybe comparisons can’t be drawn so easily. after all, the story is vastly different in book-form and as a movie. what the book relies on, such as a reader’s imagination, can be represented visually in a film instead. the use of sound and music also makes a powerful difference between how a reader and a film-goer eventually ‘consume’ the story. that’s why we need scriptwriters and screenwriters to rewrite the story to fit the big screen and a different medium. the existence of different elements and so on, really translate into the need for different criteria and judgement of the individual mediums. so i did enjoy the movie. (:

Koizora (which begun as a cellular novel) was a movie i wanted to watch already while it was showing in local theatres, but i never got a chance. to be honest, i felt it was quite predictable. and i feel iffy about how issues/reality were dealt with in the movie e.g. rape/abortion that the female lead has to go through in her romance with the male lead. but like this review suggests, it’s still quite worth watching. especially if you appreciate a beautiful setting and similar films like Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu. Haruma Miura who is the male lead, was also in Naoko with Ueno Juri. dies from the onslaught of sad romance films (mild spoiler).

i also want to watch Accuracy of Death (Shinigami no Seido) starring Takeshi Kaneshiro (based on the 2005 novel). even though it doesn’t look that exciting to me. it’s releasing locally soon too. (: … oh, as well as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. i just watched the trailer for its sequel (to be released 8 August this year) and i’m curious.

Steve & Barry’s should totally set up shop here. and the Devonn kimono dress in this post is divine! pity it’s all sold.

have photos from yesterday to upload to Facebook. (: yay-ness, cakeeeyy. haha, but i’m too sleepy to do it.