manic monday

after two days of minimal human contact (actually, didn’t even leave the house on sunday), i of course had to break the spell by making plans to watch a movie, possibly meet up with des to return his book as well as a catch-up session with mraccenture on monday.

there i was with therose at cineleisure damansara, well in time to collect our movie tickets, quite pleased coz neither of us had been to that particular cinema before, only to discover that in my confusion of booking several random movies for the day just in case, i got the venue mixed up. the movie we wanted to watch was showing not at the curve, but at gsc 1-utama.

mad, mad dash.

the movie? tentang bulan. a local movie about the friendship of five kids (what is a movie about kids at the age of 12 without bicycles, a stream or railway tracks? this one has all three).


the group of children has the usual mix – the nerdy looking one, the fat kid, the frail one, and the head honcho, mastermind and inevitably fairly good looking one. (if this reminds you of stand by me, suppress the feeling. hard).

having seen eragon two weeks earlier, i have to say i prefer the latter movie.

unfair perhaps to compare a movie based on a book written by a kid, to a movie about kids written by an adult, but there you go.

the kids all did a fairly good job, given their scripts; i can’t however say the same thing about the adults in the movie.

and they could perhaps have found a more pristine stream (i remember the streams of my own childhood, accessible of course by bike and a hike, and they were nowhere near as murky).

there are worse ways to spend your afternoons (like watching eragon).

one jarring error though – what mrsm (science stream boarding school) is there in kl??

oh and miss j and chocolalat, the movie was based in perlis : )