Have time, will blog:
Tis the beginning of the 1 week March holidays. I'm sure Dorine must have counted down to this day. And I'm doing time in school right now cos of NCC camp. Winnie Tan is in school too for St John's camp and I saw her without her make-up on.
Have been trying my darnest to finish this thick compilation of Stephen King's short stories, presented by Stephen King. In the preface, he claims these stories are NOT taken from the bottom of the heap of discarded short stories he had written over the years, just to rake in $$$. Rather, these stories are prime, first-hand material. So that means I'm getting value for placing my faded National Library card (I still use that same old laminated library card which was issued to me when I was in Primary School; it has my Hanyu Pinyin name on it as well) on that machine that goes 'ding' when I place a tagged book on it. What can I say... Stephen King is a master-storyteller with quite a sick imagination, although I must still say he tends to overwrite at times.
That reminds me, I saw the DVD of 'IT' at Best Denki in Century Square, going for only $19.90. If you are too young to know, 'IT' is a thick thick novel by Stephen King (the guy actually prefers writing novels to shorts which comes as no surprise since he likes to overwrite so much) which was made into a movie starring Tim Curry. If you don't know your Hollywood stars, Tim Curry was the guy whom Lucy Liu did a massage on, using her feet, in Charlie's Angels.
I caught 'IT' when it was telecast on TV a long time ago, and I thought it was a creepier kind of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. And the bogeyman in 'IT' was played by Tim Curry who was dressed as a clown with full make-up, incongruous perhaps, except that this clown had a neat set of yellowish sharp teeth that was revealed whenever he laughed manically. Yes, Tim Curry has such a good villain face. No need for a CGI-generated Chucky!
That brings me to shopping. I used to scoff at my dad whenever we go to shopping centres cos he would inadvertently gravitate towards the DVD section and be stuck there. Now, I tend to gravitate too... maybe this is what happens when you have your own DVD player. But I'm no spendthrift. So far, the movie DVDs I have bought cost less than S$20 each. This means that I usually buy movie DVDs only if they are on sale, unless I really have no choice, e.g. for a film like Battle Royale which will probably have to be ordered from overseas. Luckily enough, I've seen quite a few on sale here which I have always wanted to own-- these are not-so-new movies which I think are worth having on DVD.
My movie DVD collection (really quite modest, unlike my watch straps):
Poltergeist
Clash Of The Titans (bought together with Poltergeist-- 2 for $30)
The Last Emperor (on sale at HMV for $9.90!)
UZUMAKI (on sale at HMV for $6.95! A really cool DVD)
Yup, that's all.
Unfortunately, music DVDs cost much more and are rarely on sale. I have one of Bjork (her first MTV Unplugged featuring an unknown then Talvin Singh) and two of Manic Street Preachers (their music video complilation, and their historic concert in Cuba).
On the subject of shopping, I also bought a pair of Emporio Armani shades on impulse last weekend at the Sunglass Hut in Millenia Walk (after which I bought The Last Emperor DVD from HMV at Citylink). The shades have gradated lenses and I liked the retro design; they came in blue, black, red, green-- I chose green. The feedback from others? I look positively lascivious in them... oh well.
After HMV, I headed to Cortina at Raffles City to get the bracelet of my Seamaster removed, so that I could put on the NATO strap which I ordered from Timefactors, what else but the James Bond version. If it looked good on the Submariner, it will look good on the black on black Seamaster! According to the site: its 'colours are actually the genuine regimental colours of the General Service Corps'. For a nice review and pics of the Seamaster on that NATO strap, check out hacmac's site.
Oh, since I have emailed Omega, the actual A4-sized COSC certificate for my Seamaster has arrived from Switzerland, in a handsome Omega file with complimentary Omega postcards. Now, that is service for you.
Mental note to myself: to get students to record 'incongruous', 'inadvertently' and 'lascivious' in their vocabulary log-books when school reopens.
Kuala Lumpur, here I come! May she be crime-free!
Tis the beginning of the 1 week March holidays. I'm sure Dorine must have counted down to this day. And I'm doing time in school right now cos of NCC camp. Winnie Tan is in school too for St John's camp and I saw her without her make-up on.
Have been trying my darnest to finish this thick compilation of Stephen King's short stories, presented by Stephen King. In the preface, he claims these stories are NOT taken from the bottom of the heap of discarded short stories he had written over the years, just to rake in $$$. Rather, these stories are prime, first-hand material. So that means I'm getting value for placing my faded National Library card (I still use that same old laminated library card which was issued to me when I was in Primary School; it has my Hanyu Pinyin name on it as well) on that machine that goes 'ding' when I place a tagged book on it. What can I say... Stephen King is a master-storyteller with quite a sick imagination, although I must still say he tends to overwrite at times.
That reminds me, I saw the DVD of 'IT' at Best Denki in Century Square, going for only $19.90. If you are too young to know, 'IT' is a thick thick novel by Stephen King (the guy actually prefers writing novels to shorts which comes as no surprise since he likes to overwrite so much) which was made into a movie starring Tim Curry. If you don't know your Hollywood stars, Tim Curry was the guy whom Lucy Liu did a massage on, using her feet, in Charlie's Angels.
I caught 'IT' when it was telecast on TV a long time ago, and I thought it was a creepier kind of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. And the bogeyman in 'IT' was played by Tim Curry who was dressed as a clown with full make-up, incongruous perhaps, except that this clown had a neat set of yellowish sharp teeth that was revealed whenever he laughed manically. Yes, Tim Curry has such a good villain face. No need for a CGI-generated Chucky!
That brings me to shopping. I used to scoff at my dad whenever we go to shopping centres cos he would inadvertently gravitate towards the DVD section and be stuck there. Now, I tend to gravitate too... maybe this is what happens when you have your own DVD player. But I'm no spendthrift. So far, the movie DVDs I have bought cost less than S$20 each. This means that I usually buy movie DVDs only if they are on sale, unless I really have no choice, e.g. for a film like Battle Royale which will probably have to be ordered from overseas. Luckily enough, I've seen quite a few on sale here which I have always wanted to own-- these are not-so-new movies which I think are worth having on DVD.
My movie DVD collection (really quite modest, unlike my watch straps):
Poltergeist
Clash Of The Titans (bought together with Poltergeist-- 2 for $30)
The Last Emperor (on sale at HMV for $9.90!)
UZUMAKI (on sale at HMV for $6.95! A really cool DVD)
Yup, that's all.
Unfortunately, music DVDs cost much more and are rarely on sale. I have one of Bjork (her first MTV Unplugged featuring an unknown then Talvin Singh) and two of Manic Street Preachers (their music video complilation, and their historic concert in Cuba).
On the subject of shopping, I also bought a pair of Emporio Armani shades on impulse last weekend at the Sunglass Hut in Millenia Walk (after which I bought The Last Emperor DVD from HMV at Citylink). The shades have gradated lenses and I liked the retro design; they came in blue, black, red, green-- I chose green. The feedback from others? I look positively lascivious in them... oh well.
After HMV, I headed to Cortina at Raffles City to get the bracelet of my Seamaster removed, so that I could put on the NATO strap which I ordered from Timefactors, what else but the James Bond version. If it looked good on the Submariner, it will look good on the black on black Seamaster! According to the site: its 'colours are actually the genuine regimental colours of the General Service Corps'. For a nice review and pics of the Seamaster on that NATO strap, check out hacmac's site.
Oh, since I have emailed Omega, the actual A4-sized COSC certificate for my Seamaster has arrived from Switzerland, in a handsome Omega file with complimentary Omega postcards. Now, that is service for you.
Mental note to myself: to get students to record 'incongruous', 'inadvertently' and 'lascivious' in their vocabulary log-books when school reopens.
Kuala Lumpur, here I come! May she be crime-free!
