881: The Papaya Girls......Me & Myself

Thought I would return to update on my last blogs with 2 movies I caught over the last weekend.

Lets start with 881: The Papaya Girls.


This Singapore movie received rave reviews in Singapore and was a box office there. Unfortunately it wasn't the same here. Maybe very little publicity and we are just anti-Singapore...kiasu atititude...Anyway I went to catch this movie with my wife.....we anticipated that this will be typical Singapore comedy movie. Well yes true but it also had its touching moments....First with the comedy....the movie was in Hokkien most of the time.....so you must know the language to enjoy it...there were few good comedic moments....the most memorable one what when the main characters were performing the "Ta Siu Yan" ( in cantonese) ceremony in English.....It was literally translated as 'Hit the Little Man"......The audience was roaring with laughter with scene ...even though there were only 30 of us in the whole cinema....Yeah the other comedic moment was not from the movie....but more to do with the aunty sittin behind me...I tell you ....she was cursing the bitch characters in the movie......she was cursing quite loud .....both my wife and I chuckled...

The touching moment came when one of the lead characters was diagnosed with cancer. The scene where she went through the process of chemo .....dropping hair....and death....really has my eyes welling with tears.....caused it brought me to think my friend situation...She is going through chemo now....and there already changes in her outlook....its scares you and also show how vulnerable we are against this disease....I just prayed that she will be strong.....
To me ...live everyday likes there is no tomorrow.

2nd Movie: Me & Myself

Bought this DVD for a few weeks already but never had the chance to watch....So on Sunday evening decided to catch with my DVD collections while my wife attended a wedding dinner.

This is a Thai movie which was a hit in Thailand....and again not here...A sensitive and romantic movie for me....The story is about a guy who was accidentally hit by this car driven a girl....the guy got amnesia ....girl had to bring back and take care of guy...after a while ..girl fall for guy....had sex...then wah la....guy woke up from amnesia....only to know he is gay!....Guy had to leave girl....girl and gay guy got confused...the question posed....would the girl want to have queer husband!.....Can this happened in real life? There was a scene in the movie that depicts how this guy was 'transformed' from an innocent sweet baby to being a gay!...You see the baby was orphaned and grew up in a environment surrounded by transvestite performers...so its his surrounding that caused him to be gay and not born gay...if I think that the movie was trying to tell you.....ah hah really? The movie ended with the girl and guy decided to accept the fact and to be best friends.....touching.

To me ....being gay is something we have to accept as our own responsibility and our own choice and live with it.


So how was your weekend.....

Reflection.....

My fellow blogger, Magusyoung, highlighted that its been a while I have updated my blog....well been kinda like busy for the last few weeks and lazy....ah laziness was the real reason.

Been travelling a bit for work over the last few weeks. Had my first trip to Brunei in early Sept.....if you ever thinking of retirement....Brunei is a place to consider....but that is if you want to bored to death!....hahaha......really really an unhappening city or should i call town.....the town is dead by 7.30 pm...no kidding....clubbing is non existence caused this is an Islamic country. The Sultan is freaking rich and his subjects are all well taken care of.... which makes his subject really contented and boring people...As for the gay community, i think all of them are closeted....caused there is really no place to party or hang out!....Oh one thing that left an impression on me was the picture of the Queen...aiyoh....you would thought that with such wealth she would have been photographed more professionally....but the queen pic that hangs in all government and private offices was really horrendous.....she looked like a made up doll with heavy red cheeks and lots of diamonds....go imagine...maybe next trip i take a pic and share.

Last week was in Singapore over the weekend....ah this is a city I will consider to retire in....really an opposite of Brunei....full of excitements......the gay community is active...just step out of my hotel you will see sistas strutting around....and furthermore ......shopping, shopping and shopping....you can shop till you die...But only if you have the dough to retire in Singapore.

So why my blog title......Reflection?

In the last 2 weeks, I have received unfortunate news ....3 of friends had shared bad news....2 was stricken with cancer and one got Hep A....Both the cancer patients (ladies friends) are diagnosed with late stage of cancer.....one with colon and the other with rectum and lung cancer.....and both are just the same age as I am ( late 30s) ....they were both healthy and they were no significant symptoms.....but out of sudden ..it just hits them....and their life crushed....the other guy with Hep A was ok....but it gave us a scare because we were worried for his family ....cos he has a family of young triplets....so our thought was to the children and wife...what if something seriously happened?

From these news.....it got me to sit down and reflect my life....where i am now...where am i going and how and what i need to do..

I shall return....with my thoughts....