Sunday, January 29, 2006

Alright okay. So Federer won. I think it's the ultimate example of how mental strength makes that difference. I mean, I kind of feel sad that Baghdatis lost, and for a 20-year old, he's so precocious and WHAMBOOMBAHBAHBAH! SIGH. WHY CAN'T UNDERDOGS WIN MORE ):

Got ang paos and shamelessly ripped off greetings from mou2mou2di4fang1 to send out so that I hopefully appear chineseyfied on this very much chinesey occasion. I don't know if it's normal, but I can't remember what happened 5 hours ago without thinking a bit, and I'm scared that I'm going senile or something. It's my worst fear, exacerbated after watching "The Notebook" last night.

Anyway, I shall review "The Notebook". Alright, yesterday at 9.55p.m., I decided to watch one of the countless VCDs that have been lent to me but I never got around to watching, and I happened to spot "THE NOTEBOOK". Starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.

Show opens with this old man in a nursing home, and he's going to read a book to an old lady who apparently has dementia. So the story within a story begins with Ryan Gosling as Noah, who spots Rachel McAdams (Allie Hamilton) at an amusement park, and he gets her to promise to go out with him by hanging from a ferris wheel until she says yes. So, blahblahblah they eventually fall in love(the process isn't really elaborated on in the movie)and then parents find out. So they meet him, and realise that he's working at a timber factory earning 40c an hour which is Not-Good-Enough-For-Our-Beloved-Allie. And since Allie is only there for the summer, they break up and Allie goes home. Then, WAR happens and Noah enlists, and Allie volunteers to be a nurse. Then, WAR is over. Allie finds a new fiance in this other guy who is a successful businessman(James Marsden) and Noah restores an old house which he promised to Allie. [In between the Noah story, the old man interacts with the old woman who has dementia, and you realise that they know each other because the old man's children come to visit and the old woman is actually their MOTHER but she doesn't remember them. And that the old man has been reading the same story to her every single sodding day.] And then just as Allie is going to get married, she goes off to the Noah town and then they fall in love all over again, sordid scenes and all (although I think the NC-16 rating is totally unjustified) and then the mother comes over and the fiance comes over and she has to make a choice. The Noah story ends with Allie telling fiance that she knows that she wants to be with him. And they lived happily ever after. Then switches back to old man and woman and the woman asks, "WHO lived happily ever after?" And then she suddenly remembers that the old man is Noah and she's Allie and then she starts dancing with him and everything and it's very sweet, but 5 minutes later, she doesn't know who she or Noah is anymore and goes hysterical and Noah starts crying. And you see afterward when Noah opens the book and the story was actually written by Allie who knew she was going to forget everything and she wrote "Read this to be and I'll come back to you" which is really touching and sad if you watch it, and this review does no justice to it at all. And the show ends with Noah visiting Allie at night, who remembers him and they fall asleep together. IT'S A SAD STORY. SIGH I DON'T WANT TO FORGET ANYTHING. Possibly one of the better love stories I've watched, and the REAL love story isn't the young Allie and Noah, but the old Allie and Noah.

NEW YEAR NEW YEAR <3 (almost) EVERYONE, HAVE A NICE YEAR.

- true champion :\
by @ 8:01 PM