musings on a birthday.

Heey it’s my mom’s birthday again!

Let me recount the events;

Yeehua came over at about 11am, and we hurried on to finish our project… In an astonishing record of 2 hours =D By that time we were pretty hungry already, and so we went off to 1u to go watch a movie (The memoirs of a geisha) and lunch.

Had lunch…at… at…..Chili’s. >_> On most occasions, this is like a super-special place for celebrations and stuff… but… aaghh, after not going for such a long time, I just had to. I had to. So we got full on tostada chips and a freaking huge plate of salad. XP I bet kenken would go, “Yuck….But that’s what most girls do anyway..” or something to that effect.

Memoirs of a geisha was a pretty good movie (I’m sorry yy, I wasn’t as disappointed as you were).

Chiyo was cute. I don’t mean zhang ziyi, but the younger chiyo, chibi-chiyo. So I understand, ken, it’s not just your pedophilic nature. XP It’s true, the little girl’s really cute~ naturally, after having watched azumanga, I was thinking of chiyo and the penguin suit. Don’t look at me like that XP

Specially for you, ken: the kid actress who played chibi-chiyo, ogo suzuka.

I found it really silly that people practically never aged in the show… For instance, watanabe ken. Few years ago, his first meeting with chiyo when she was 9, then a few years later, (I’m guessing about 17 or 18) he still looks the same. Hey, wouldn’t you think almost 10 years would change someone, somehow?! That was just unreal.

Having watanabe ken as a love interest..er…umm…kinda reflects on Japanese nature where men definitely prefer…much…much...younger women, in a sense. I’m not kidding, there are lolikons everywhere.

Gong li, who plays hatsumomo was actually pretty good. I meant good-looking and bitchy at the same time. XD I was happy for that. But her hatred towards chiyo seemed forced… not really convincing.

Michelle yeoh was… the ‘great’ mameha. I disagree with how she gets to walk around without makeup whereas hatsumomo still has to put on all the powder and makeup. I’m sorry to say, she didn’t look great. But her character as a Samaritan was also a really lucky strike for chiyo. Too good to be true; but that’s how stories are made, someone just has to get lucky. *hint* If you even call it luck, that is.

Which reminds me; how the heck can a geisha name herself Pumpkin!? It sounds quite offensive in english. It doesn’t make sense to me. O_o

I still think it should have been in Japanese…having English scripts take away its appeal, to some extent. But it’s more important to have the audience understand what they’re saying… so I guess this couldn’t be helped. But every scrap of Japanese in it…was quite easy to understand (I’m happy I guess; I’m getting a biiiit better XD) the voiceovers were reasonably acceptable.

It’s a pretty artsy movie, I love the sceneries, the feel of Japan before the war, it was so much simpler. And the kimonos were very beautiful, like a painting. Colours were bright as they can be harsh. Rain and snow, they were quite well defined. (For some reason though, chiyo never looks too drenched when she’s in the rain.)

Despite this though, there were some parts where I’m saying to myself, “Oh damn, this is actually boring, can we make a move please….” The movie was abit too long, they could have done without some parts. Which ones, I forgot.

Not to mention that there were 2 girls next to me continuously laughing at the word ‘danna’, which either means lord, husband, or (in this movie) benefactor. But the word was pronounced rather weirdly. And there was this idiot who kept kicking my chair. **** Keep your blardy body parts to yourself why don’t you!

After that, yeehua sent me home (thanks a lot! XD) and I proceeded to bake a cake. (sigh, don’t expect miracles.) ai-chan’s suggestion, which sounded pretty good at the time (where I was stuck trying to figure out what good present to give). Needless to say, it didn’t turn out all that great. Still, my mom was pleasantly surprised.

Silly thing was I had to lose my temper…I don’t know what got into me. Although I did make a quick reconciliation, the damage had been done. Minor, but enough to get mom’s temper off. >~<

After the regular candle-blowing, cake-cutting and eating and photos… there was an unexpected surprise. There were fireworks at the general direction of 1u, which, I’m proud to say, I have a good view from my room… wonder what the cause of ‘celebration’ was. My dad was jokingly suggesting that we should camp out at my room to watch the new year fireworks. >_>