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Watched this movie titled ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ while I was having my dinner during the weekend. It is based on an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas (also the writer of The Three Musketeers). The book was completed in 1844. Many directors have tried to produce the film and I watched the 2002 film, which is the 10th film based loosely upon the book.

Plot-

The story is pretty straight forward. An honest, righteous, illiterate guy called Edmond Dantes, was betrayed by his friend (Fernand Mondego, rich, son of count) who is jealous with him for having a pretty girlfriend. Mondego had a plan that end up with the capture of Dantes and later on Dantes was sent to jail. In the jail, he came to know a priest soldier, who later on taught him how to read, write, fight, and even told him the place where he hid the treasure of Spada.

He escaped the jail, found the treasure, and proceeded with his revenge plan which end up with the killing of Mondego and he lives happily ever after with his wife.

My 2 cents-

There are few things that I like about this movie. First of all, it fully shows my idea of ‘you need to be a demon to subdue another demon’. I know, maybe some people would think that revenge is useless and it just makes the world a worse place to live in but I truly believes that something should be done in this way in order to stop other people from becoming the victims to their wrong doing. Of course, this idea only apply if somebody is really bad.

In real life, there is not a lot of white and black. But there is seriously a lot of gray.

There is this chinese proverb -

Literally it means (in the modern way) life is a movie by itself, and movies always reflect what life is about. But I think this is only correct until certain point. In movies, most of the time there is a forever bad team, and another team of forever good people. In real life, your ‘good’ might be somebody’s ‘bad’. The stand is subjective. And not everybody vote for good. We do stand beside our friends no matter how wrong they are right?

Anyway, good movie, recommended!

First of all I do not have a clear planned out plan for holiday, and I’m not very happy to say that my holidays until now is still not very productive. Mood is hard to predict. I would do a lot more things when I’m on study break. Imagine that, I learned how to play so many songs when I gotta study for my exam and now when I’m utterly totally free I learned nothing at all!

I’m just sitting in front of the com doing don’t know what. This is quite frustrating. I think I only move when I’m stressed. Only happy when stressed. And too free means I’m just rotting to death.

Ok, enough of ranting.

Watched this movie called ‘Freedom Writers’ few days ago. The movie is based on a book ‘The Freedom Writers Diary’ by a teacher Erin Gruwell. It is more or less a true story and I think everybody enjoy from time to time a piece of truth instead of fantasy and fiction stuffs.

Pictures from - http://guldasta.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/freedomwriters.jpg

Pictures from - http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/t/J/O/freedomwriterspic4.jpg

Highly recommended! Not for those who are going for finals those. Haha.

I’m getting a bit lazy in watching movies nowadays :(

Yea.. This is a must watch. And yea, few months ago I might think that I’m crazy for saying this but I think I might put India as one of the place that I would like to visit again.

I’m not sure this is a new movie or not (no movie freak) but I gotta say that this is a very good movie. More action packed than any movies that I have came to watch these days. Recommended. 9/10! Will not reveal anything here so just watch yourself!

And today I finally finished my internal medicine cycle. FINALLY! Having dissection class for 3 days starting from tomorrow. Please pray that I gotta do-it-myself. *Evil grin*

Sorry for posting 2 posts in a day. Was blog hopping just now so have the idea of immortalizing this video in my blog. The commercial is made by some Thai insurance company, which I think have a better team than the Petronas in commercial making. LOL. Enjoy!

I know it is a bit TOO late to blog about this movie but it had took me so long looking for this movie here in Russia and luckily I chatted with Zen that day and thanks to him, I watched this just now.

The movie was good! And even better was Jenna cried while watching it, which actually makes the whole process more fun than I thought. It is not that I’m happy that she cried, but the fact that she cried means that the movie is good. Luckily I FORCED her to watch with me (so that I have a Hokkien translator).

I have read lotsa reviews before having the chance to watch this myself. Most of the bloggers said that the movie is slightly too long (2hours) but I kinda disagree with them. The plot is okay and that 2 hours actually felt like 1hr.

There is this scene that I like most. It happens to be depicted in both of these downloaded wallpapers.

When Huige sent his mum to old folks home.

When his mum asked what is that place, the woman in charge told her that it is old folks ‘happy’ place. His mum then saw lotsa old people and noticed that she ended up in an old folks home. She turned and saw her son running away from her. She shouted for him to bring her home. Huige ran off crying. His mum cried.

This is not too far from reality. Actually, IT IS REALITY.

I gotta admit, auntie really can act. Suddenly, I miss my grandma. Chuk chuk chuk.

Not going to disclose too many info about this movie. You gotta watch yourself to know why I love it so much and why Jenna cried.

Like what that guy said in the movie:

Well. Today is the only day that I could enjoy doing my own things at home without the need of stepping out of my house. Since my housemates are out for church and leedwi is out to play for the football match this afternoon, this is the only chance that I could watch this movie that I got from my China friend.

If it had been some time since you watch a movie that can make you cry like a baby, this is the one.

“.. Seeking refuge from an abusive foster parent, the young girl finds safety under the care of a poor, uneducated old man. Despite his lack of money and despite being taunted by friends, the elderly man does everything in his power to protect the young child he believes was delivered to him by fate….”

The description in wiki doesn’t fully describe the movie. You got to watch it to know why people in China were crying like this…

Personal thoughts:

I think it is a great movie! Even thou the ends make me think that the director is doing this purposely to make people cry, which I think it is really ridiculous, but I still cried. It is like “wtf you director purposely do this to make people sad (at the same time tears dropping).” LOL. Anyway, should watch! I rate it 5 stars as it had been a long time since I watch something like this.

Would like to review a movie that I watched on the plane during my journey from Moscow to Thailand that day.

Not until I search for it in wikipedia that I found out that this film is really old! It was premiered in NewDelhi in 1982, starring Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi, the non violent leader.

Well, I had previously heard the name, even read some of the quotes by him but it was not until after I watch this movie that I know what is the story behind this face.

Actually I don’t intend to review much about this movie here. All I got to say that the movie, even thou quite lengthy (a stretch of 2 hours plus) but it is definitely a must-watch. It gives you an idea of what he has in mind and how he executed it, in the most different and special way. A good historical film that would certainly open your eyes and look at India in a different way!

Well, it wasn’t a very good condition for me to blog actually. First of all, when I reached home, something is wrong with the connection for some time already. I need to change the modem (buy a new PCI modem), buy the Jaring reload card and try to wait for the top up page to load, which is bloody LONG! My internet speed now goes like 3kbps only. Sigh~ Now my speed can only enable me to load ONE page at a time and I can’t even update the old MSN messenger to the new one. SIGH…

Anyway, would like to blog about the ‘feast’ that my housemates and I had using out left over food.

Here you go, we had some fish cooked in tomato sauce, potatoes with chicken, long beans with eggs and some mix vege. Everything is fresh or semi-fresh. LOL.

Claire and I left in the morning at 9am to the airport. Our luggages are limited to 20kg per person. It is really troublesome!

Reached Moscow with a lot of bags! Meet Madhu there and happily took her number so that I can call her up when I’m in Chennai during August. Hehe..

I had some 3 hours wait until the next flight from Moscow to Bangkok, it is quite fast actually, we just sit around, played some cards and talk some craps and it is time to say bye bye to some of the friends, who are taking Emirates and SIA.

Reached Thailand, can almost smell home. Haha. I watched Gandhi on the plane. LOL! It is so touching! Haha, there are few parts that even I felt like crying. Highly recommended! Maybe I watched it more attentively because I’m interested with the history. Well, I’m going there soon and it is always good to know more about the man behind this country.

Couldn’t really sleep on the plane. By the time I landed, it is already more than 24 hours without sleep.

To be continue..