A Playful Misconception, A Childhood’s Dream

I walked into a cubicle at the Mall’s cineplex before Death Race started and saw this on the wall partly covered by the cubicle door,

“Emo is just an excuse for …”

I thought, hey this has potential to be something clever, until I read the rest of it,

“guys to behave like girls ”

That doesn’t even make sense.

Suddenly it struck me, I don’t believe Bruneians who vandalise are that original. And sure enough,

Craig’s Blog - whoever Craig is he sure isn’t Bruneian

and… a more likely place said vandal was inspired from,

Zazzle

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Why is it that when almost everyone else give the peace sign in front of a camera, they look normal - like exactly what they are doing, giving the peace sign and posing; but when we Chinese do it, we somehow look like retards? Seriously, it’s just weird and almost unfair.

There’s this unnatural energy we give off; as if we have to contort our arms, hands and fingers to make that sign that our whole body and facial expression just go out the window. And so we over-pose in order to compensate.

And the worse thing about this is, we like doing it so much it has become the only way we know how to pose.

We just don’t realise that the peace sign cannot be used on every occasion or situation. For e.g. substituting a palm-wave with the peace-wave. It just doesn’t work that way.

(And when I say “we” here, I really do not include myself.)

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Right after watching Mirrors, I followed my friends outside for a smoking session and we started talking about mirrors and other superstitions. There was one about window above the head of the bed and another about a mirror next to the bed.

In my room there’s a window above the left corner of the bed and the television screen at the foot of the bed. With that discussion still fresh in my head, the first thing that caught my eye was the reflection of the orange coloured blinds of the window from the empty television screen. After that note, I woke up in the morning with a nightmare.

I don’t quite remember what the dream was about, just that at the end of it I was crouched down near some wooden planks as the floor and the “somebody” was chasing everyone else around.

And in these types of dreams, I am always aware that it’s a dream and that I have full control of the “assailant’s” actions. So I made him come all the way back to me from behind, put a gun against my back. By then I knew I was “done for” but still I managed to scare myself while I made him pulled the trigger and fired.

I woke up with a startled shout. That was probably around 7am and I never went back to sleep after that, resulting in a very tired Saturday morning.

Luckily that was the only “troubled” night.

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For the horror genre, it wasn’t too bad. Yes, there were still a few cheap thrills and inconsistency but the overall story I thought was well-written - probably because it’s a remake.

Rating: 6 / 10 (Full review at silverscreen.thinkbrunei.com)

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Action packed from start to finish with limited storyline and zero character development. But since the characters are already well-known except for one or two, it didn’t really matter. The new Jedi knight Ahsoka, sadly, was irritatingly distracting.

Rating: 6 / 10 (Full review at silverscreen.thinkbrunei.com)

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Surprise, surprise. I went to the cinema to catch the Clone Wars but I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw Darth Vader with his red lightsaber and two Storm Troopers by his side taking pictures with kids outside the cinema.

It’s not a sight you would normally see in Brunei and it is good to know that its people are moving in that direction. I have been wanting to go to these movie premiers in costume, just to see people’s reaction as I walked into the cinema dressed as a character, e.g. Spider-Man. But getting the costume here is near to impossible.

And now if I ever did it, I’ll just be known as the one following after this event.

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I expected this to be bad. If I hadn’t had to write its review for the paper, I would have skipped it. Seeing Eddie Murphy’s name with that face on that poster, you’d know what to expect, or what not to.

Rating: 3 / 10 (Full review at silverscreen.thinkbrunei.com)

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Last week I had a post titled Olympic’s Disgrace. Well, truthfully, that’s quite trivial compared to what happened to Brunei who was “disqualified” because of failure at completing registration on time for our participants.

TV presenters even spoke of the disqualification live to the whole world and it just shows our lack of preparedness, professionalism and commitment in an international level resulting in becoming the laughing stock for others.

The Brunei Darussalam National Olympic Council (BDNOC) can give whatever reasons they want, but a last minute cancellation - which has tarnished Brunei’s name to everyone in the world who’s tuned in - should have been avoided as it spoke volumes. The IOC were scrambling to remove the Brunei flags from the venue because of this.  What other repercussions will this bring in the future?

It was an embarrassing day for all Bruneians.

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