Surprising day
It was quite a surprisingly fun day for me today despite all the awfulness of yesterday's erm... well... quarrels with some housemate. Anyway, had a chance to meet a talented artist today named Nicc who is Carl's good friend from i guess way back in the PW days. So yeah, we hanged out and had a chance to accompany him at the STAC's Retro anime thingie at the Expo.
It was my first time to visit the place and it was damn huge. Aside from the anime event thing, there was also this Buddhism thing going on which occupied more or less 10 halls! It was really huge. Anyway, we got to the Retro anime event and were surprised by how much cosplayers were around so i grabbed the chance to use my new cam and exercised by trigger hapiness. We were also able to see some really nice ball-jointed dolls also dressed in cosplay! I have quite a few pictures but I still have to extract them out of my camera.. so will do that tomorrow. Anyway, it was an interesting thing to see.
After that, we separated ways as Nicc had to prep himself for another meet up while me and Carl decided to catch up on a late night movie. We reached the ticketing booth at Cathay and were set to see 'All about women' as Carl and I thought it was the movie where Eva Mendez and Meg Ryan is in... the he saw Nick and Nora's infinite playlist - which i'm not really interested in watching since it's such an emo/teenage love movie and after seeing all the young people at the cosplay event i thought i've had enough of the teenage crowd in one day so I fought for the 'All about women' movie.
We got the tickets and had stayed in a Kaya toast shop to rest and pass the time. 30 mins before the showtime, we headed back to the theatre floor to go buy popcorn when lo and behold this huge poster of All about women showing three Chinese ladies holding umbrellas and have this huge Chinese character splashed on top of the titled and figured... "OH NO! This isn't what we're seeing right?!?!?!?!" Well, the poster was indeed right. I checked on the internet booth (luckily Cathay cinemas have this) about the real 'All about women' movie and it turns out - it really wasn't about Meg Ryan or Eva Mendez but about this three Chinese ladies finding true love.
It was such a shock that were going to see a Mandarin movie and was praying to God that there will be an english subtitle. Luckily, there was AND... the movie wasn't so bad after all. In fact, it made me appreciate Chinese cinema more than just the Chow Yun Fat, Zhang Zi Yi, and Stephen Chow movies. The editing was interesting, the plot was kinda predictable but still very funny for most scenes, and the actresses were awesome. Such a great way to also know more about cultures from other countries and to know that women in China definitely share the same problem as most women anywhere in the world have - sexism, true love, and contact lenses.
