i am so waiting for Le Divorce.
heard bad reviews, but hey! who says i'm watching for the plot?!

to eric the king, the greatest manchester united number 7:

and to the heir apparent, Cristiano Ronaldo.

i'm going to see a skin specialist on monday, pray for a favourable opinion ie downgradeable. =]
meanwhile i plead that you update me on football results. there's a vacuum of information in my camp. =]

9 chin-ups
40 sit-ups
10.1s shuttle run
225cm standing broad jump
sub-11min 2.4km run
silver with 21 points.
cool. =]

i really pity foxtrot (jianming, farand, joel, razin et al).
our field camp had no rain; theirs was monsoon season man. their field pack became a different colour.
poor things. =] then again i couldn't stop smirking. :p

"F is for porkchop,
we love porkchop
if you wanna be the best,
DON'T go to foxtrot"

just finished range, and met james chng there.
managed to finish a book in 2 days, what with all the waiting around...
the tesseract by alex garland, author of the beach.

to sab, edgar (and ian ;] ), matt, and the guys who played soccer on sunday, thanks for making it a fun weekend.
cheers y'all.

wow.
a perfectly dry field camp, and it rained immediately after. God's hand is truly upon me.
we've got range from wed to friday, so i hoope i'm not a bobo.
got marksman twice during IMT, but this the real McCoy - REAL rounds.
3D 2N of shooting, shooting and more shooting. oh and cleaning rifle too. =]

it's been pouring the past few days.
just pray the monsoons have flexed enough muscle and we have a dry field camp.

whoa had fun at sentosa.
30min of bliss: lying on the beach with a magazine, then a soak in the sea. after that went for dinner at pizza hut. had a great time of solitude.
of course i went with my church friends, but spending some time alone with God neck-deep in the sea was, well, heavenly. =]

pray for me guys: technical handling on tues, ippt on thurs. and pray it doesn't rain on sat: i'm off to sentosa!!!

to those of you who *bothered* to think of the chin up question, the answer is 8.
now to work on that dratted standing broad jump. oh and the technical handling test coming up...

bye faithful readers!
here's a little competition: how many chin ups will i be capable of on saturday? stay tuned. hazard guesses on the tagboard.
here's a clue: i did 6 two weeks ago.
i'll think of a prize for the winner. =]

hey guys i'm booking in on wed morning at 0745. do take care...

i just watched alex&emma. here's my post-review, albeit an extremely biased one:

Alex&Emma by Aaron Wong

What do you expect from a romantic comedy? Romance, laughs, and a happy ending.
Alex & Emma delivers on all counts. But only just.

Romantic comedies are common - too common. Thankfully, the movie has a few important ingredients that spice up an otherwise unfulfilling story.

I'll skip the synopsis; you can read that here.

Ingredients:

1 gorgeous actress

Kate Hudson carried her last movie (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), and she repeats her performance here. Her flooziness (some say it's hereditary) makes her so castable in ths genre, and has underlined her reputation as one of the more bankable stars today.

Showcasing her versatility, she plays 5 different women, 4 of which appear in Alex's novel. Ylva and Anna were particularly endearing. Ylva, the Swede, was played to stereotypical perfection. And since stereotypes are so funny to the non-stereotyped, Ylva was roaringly good fun.



Anna, on the other hand, is closer to what Emma is, and somewhat a stereotype herself. Her pure unadulterated soul was what Alex saw in Emma. Alex's hero in his book must choose between French seductress Paulina and the down-to-earth Anna.



As Margaret McGurk of the Cincinnati Enquirer tartly put it, "Alex & Emma is a slight romantic comedy that scores its major points solely on the strength of its charismatic leading lady."

Why do you think I watched it? =]

A liberal sprinkling of stereotypes

Hudson is strikingly beautiful throughout the movie, even as her outfits and hairdos were constantly changing. Sterotypes alone are only that funny, but when played by someone as talented as the adorable Miss Hudson, it inadvertently made me smile.

2 stories, finely blended

The book's characters develop, and life begins to imitate art as two love stories unfold. The constant transition between fact and fiction is surprisingly fresh, partly due to Emma's frequent feedback. From The One About the Ample Bosom to The One About The introduction of Multinational Stereotypes Every Two Pages, Emma's input is refreshing, challenging Alex's cliched writing. Gradually, Alex and Emma appreciate each other's opinions, and respect each other.

Now to be critical:

The movie is cliched, like Alex's book sans Emma, but is worth watching for a few reasons. Well, one.

I watched this movie for Kate Hudson, and she has vindicated my decision.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a new favourite actress - Kate Hudson
Truly one who looks good in anything. anyone who watched How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days would concur. Even an ah-pek Crocodile singlet looks good on her. *sigh*
btw anyone has the Almost Famous vcd?

Julius Caesar was addressing the crowd in the Coliseum.
"Friends, Romans and Countrymen, lend me your ears. Tomorrow I take our glorious army to conquer Northern Europe and I shall start with France. We shall kill many 50,000 Gauls and return victorious."

The crowd are up on their feet "Hail mighty Caesar!"

Brutus turns to his mate and says "That's bollocks! The liar!"

Six months later, Caesar comes back having conqured France and addresses the crowd in the Coliseum. "Friends, Romans and
Countrymen, I have returned from our campaign in France and as I promised, we killed 50,000 Gauls."

"Hail mighty Caesar!" yells the crowd.

"What a load of rubbish" says Brutus. "I'm gonna check this out."

Brutus sets off for France and three weeks later he comes back to Rome. Caesar is addressing the public in the Coliseum again.
" Friends, Romans and Countrymen, tomorrow we set off for Britain and we are going to sort those pasty-white lily-livered wimps out."

The crowd are up on their feet. "Hail mighty Caesar!" they cry.

Brutus jumps up and shouts, "Caesar, you are a liar. You told us that you had killed 50,000 Gauls in France but I've been there, I asked around, you only killed 25,000!"

The crowd are stunned and all sit down in silence.

Caesar gets wearily to his feet, looks slowly round the Coliseum, sighs and says to Brutus:

"Yes, noble friend. But everyone knows away Gauls count double in Europe."

anyone watched alex&emma yet?

do i really lead such a boring life?
i now sleep early and wake up early, even though i don't want to! i need to adjust my body clock.

i found this cool blog.
32-year-old American housewife with three kids named Deb.
she writes with so much honesty, i was immersed in such a beautiful commentary of everyday American life. that's what i think anyway.
she's really funny AND she has the excellent habit of linking stuff to archices and onto the WWW, so Singaporeans and other diverse groups know what she's talking about. =]