The Refusal Nights
At the night like this, the only sounds that you can hear is your own breath. Quiet. Peaceful. Tranquil. Not much words can define the state of emotion that I am going through now. Occasionally I will have the guests the form of screeching tires having to hit the brake as they came close to the speed bump. What makes the lonely night like this scarier is none than the mid of the Hungry Ghost festival.
Burning the midnight oil, these college students will stay up late. Either they believe that they could concentrate well at night while the other busy entertaining themselves through gaming or just simply mamak-ing at night. What else to do then to kill time. Students have plenty of time, and that what everyone says. During these nights, I refused to sleep because I been through hell compiling and coding. Or was it just a part of the excitement to finish the game that I was playing. Either way, it was a choice. I refuse to sleep.
The transition from college to the marketplace. Some called it to face the world. In the end, we still come back to the same point. The nights I had to refuse to sleep due to the work commitment. When I have a tender to submit the next day, I would been burning the midnight oil. Sleep has become a luxury. Less sleeping hours was norm. Why to such extend? Malaysians do things at the very 11th hour. The longer one procrastinate, the more delay we will be. We put things off until that very moment. A very good example is when comes the time for the EPF e-Filing.
And then there are those insomnia. These are just freaking sicko. They got nothing to do with choice when it comes to sleep.
Now, I just refuse to sleep. I just want to stare into the deep black skies. Perhaps I could do the same in my pitch black bedroom when the light were out. It just the same, perhaps.
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Who is Salt?
Who is Evelyn Salt and why that Angelina Jolie was considered to play her “Salt” well? When got to know her the first time through the movie – Tomb Raider.
Two things that I personally felt from after watching the movie was that one, Angelina is still a great female action star. Two, the entire film can be define as the Bourne the female version. Nothing more, nothing less.
The only plot that got me by surprise was when her husband was being shot point blank. An instant death. It wasn’t much of the surprise knowing that she will wipe the entire bad guys later on. A very typical good versus evil kind of the storyline.
My ratings? Personally think it’s at 5/10
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Day 235
Learning By Asking
Me: eh VJ don't ask me go play far far. You should tell me to go tocheng* far far
VJ: so you already tocheng far far and come out already?
Me: you know what is the meaning of tocheng? Then what language is it? Bahasa or what?
VJ decided to keep silence because at that particular time, the surrounding was the ladies in his department. When the admin from other department walked towards his cubicle, I decided to bring the next question out.
Me: So if you know about tocheng, how about kongket*? What language it originate from?
VJ was totally embarrassed with my question. I had that laughter and the rest of the colleagues look at both of us. It was classic.
*tocheng = masturbation
*kongket = sexual intercourse
Day 234
Kin Kin Pan Mee – the famous dry chili with noodles.
Located at the Chow Kit, this is the first shop. The original one.
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Watching Repo Men
On this hot weekend, I felt like catching a movie since my last film was Salt. It was a disappointment but I shall leave it in my next post altogether.
Catching up with Kenny together for the movie, it was the only movie that seems to be watchable. In comparison of the rest showing like Expendables, Last Airbender and Grown Ups. A movie that set 20 years into the future adapted from Eric Garcia’s novel “The Repossession Mambo”, it is gruesome to watch. Imagine that the society no longer care about health. In fact, the health care industry is getting bigger and bigger to a point that almost everything can be artificial. Replaced with artiforgs as they called it.
Repossession only took place when the person couldn’t make their due. It shows that the disease that is lurking beneath the today society. We are getting and accumulating more debts. All of these comes with a heavy price. At the same time, I can only imagine that the health issue was simply and easily taken away. Eat healthy? Why to when you can always replace it with artiforgs. This simply throw things away and they come back to bite you telling you that you owe that to your family. Owe that to yourself.
When I told people that I was going to watch the movie, I was given thumbs up. Most of them told me that it is a good movie. I would say yes. At the same time, I felt empty. Perhaps I was feeling sorry for Jude Law. He who play Remy seems to be a less human. Until the very moment he lost his heart.
The story he told, stuck in me now.
“I decided to put the cat into the box. He was trying to tell us something. We’re all alive, we’re all dead, we’re all that cat. But we have to make a choice. We can all purr and lick ourselves and wait for the poison to put us down or we scream and scratch and claw our way right out of the top of that damn box.” – Remy, Repo Men
Are we making the choices or left it to the scientist?
“I hope that you might learn from my mistakes because in the end, a job is not just a job. It’s who you are. If you want to change who are you have to change what you do.”
Sometimes, we can be crazy. We do hope we can get the different result by doing the same thing. The film may be just all about collecting organs but it was well supported with Forest Whitaker and Liev Schreiber. It makes the narration less morbid.
Alice Braga who had mostly parts known as Beth, the club singer who Remy had his eyes on become the epitome for Remy to change. To become a ‘hearty’ person. Indeed, the plot twisted till the end. Seems like the half of the story lies on that fantasy of Remy. Dark but a little too messy.
My rating? 6.6/10
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