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Saturday, August 14, 2004
+ Vincent vs. 10 baldy recruits +
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No prizes for guessing, but my money's on the guy with the Armani suit wasting the 10 teenage dudes in Skeleton Battle Order, probably without getting his shirt untucked either. (don't bother looking for me in the photo... i don't do the whole "chiong swa" scene) I kinda figure they'll still be trying to remember their "enemy contacted drill" before Tom Criuse is done filling their guts with lead. Why the weird/one-sided comparison? Well today i was scheduled to run 13km with 50 or so other sweaty guys. At the end of the run we were screwed upside-down for not being "committed", "disciplined", "professional", and "forgetting who we are" . Apparently we were underperforming. Admittedly i am guilty as charged, but "who we are" really bites you down there. I know damn well who i am. As much as people usually identify themselves with their association(s)... i will never do so with the Army. My friggin life won't find fulfillment if i ran my heart out. I had a gig to practice for later in the day, so the last thing i needed was to be too bushed to carry a guitar, i know what my real committments are... Oh well, enough bitching to fill today's quota, friday was a blast, in stark contrast to saturday morning. I have finally watched the coolest movie this whole year, on its opening day too... Now to join the likes of Ocean's 11, Snatch, and The Italian Job... Collateral. It has won the "cool movie award" in my book, hard to believe it beat Ocean's 11, but yup... it did. Tom Cruise plays "Vincent", a professional killer, in all senses of the word. And Jamie Foxx can ACT?! i mean seriously... i'm shocked, he can!! here's my breakdown of this kickass performance... Directing -9.5 Acting -9 Plot -7.5 (questionable, but hey, thats what artitic licence is for) Action -6.9 (not a movie for ardenaline junkies) Dialogue -8.9 (infectiously cool, even philosophical, but still believable) Ending -9 The portrayal of L.A. is killer, very much like Singapore, minus the carjacks and muggings. "17m people, all of them strangers"...sad but true *sigh*. Oh well, every year we have 25000 or so new baldy chaps to keep us safe, bet you feel a hell lot better... Cheers! *raises wine glass*
ian wong beats around the bush@
11:08 PM
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