A very very busy weekend :P

Lemme see... Friday was both the worst and most awesome day ever this year... :) My BMT buddy who is in the camp just beside mine asked me whether I would be interested in joining fencing at Balmoral Plaza, plus a movie afterwards. The journey to the fencing center itself was kinda perilous - I had to wait for about an hour for him at the bus stop coz something cropped up at his camp... :P

Anyway, the fencing school was pretty cool. It's at Balmoral Plaza and the school's called zFencing, perhaps as a homage to the French pronounciation of 'the' as 'ze'? Lol... :) Anyways, the ppl there were really cool with us planning to join and even managed to get us private coaching on Saturdays from 4.30 to 6.30 until we were up to standard with the other youths in the school... Youths meaning 13-20... The two of us being awkwardly the oldest among the batch. :P

After that was the fun part... Going to Lido to catch a movie but not before having dinner at Heeren. The plan was such that we were to watch Ghost Train at Lido but somehow or rather that fell through because my bud's recourse bmt buddy wanted to watch a movie too. I was ok with anything so eventually the movie of choice became Mr and Mrs Smith. Great movie with many comedic moments. Brad and Angelina looked very cute together, especially when they looked at each other in the movie as husband and wife. The plot twist was extremely simple but when both of them found out each other's secrets... hilarious. Point blank. You have to catch this movie just to see them do a 'dangerous tango' of sorts when this revelation appears to both of them. Very funny. To say strictly, this wasn't really an action movie, neither was it a romantic movie. A mix of both I guess? Though I would have to say that the movie was more of an exploration of marriage woes and how they are resolved, though in a more larger-than-life household which is anything but ordinary. Nice movie. 3.5 stars out of 5.

Halfway through the movie, my bud had this crazy idea that we should watch Star Wars Episode 3 all the way at Cathay at 2am. That was nuts. But he somehow got me to agree. Shit. So right after Mr and Mrs Smith ended which was at 1.50am, we ran down Orchard Road to Cathay and got there at 2. Seriously. We were panting like shit when we arrived! :P Only to find... there was no Star Wars at 2!!! Only at 3.20am... Damn late yes... but since we ran there already I didn't feel like giving up. And my bud kept telling me how good this bloody movie is... So I agreed. Why oh why must I say yes to everything in this world?

Star Wars Episode 3 (beware-spoilers abound) - I've never been a fan of the Star Wars franchise, mostly because I never managed to watch a single episode in its entirety. But this movie bowled me over. Though I still think that the actor who played Anakin sucked big time... His "I'm angry", "I'm depressed", "I'm shocked" (I'm not sure he said these things but he talked about his emotions a lot :P) all sounded the same. Same tone and expressionless. It was very disheartening that such a central character couldn't really act out all the emotions required of such a complex character. Especially since he had so many things on his mind... but he simply looked like he had no care in the world. But hugging his wife at the end of the day. And Natalie Portman was as gorgeous as usual though her hairdos this time - some of them were really aweful. But the thing about this movie was that it had a lot of heart and a lot of humour to boot. Plus the inclusion of some very emotional set pieces... though the fade to next scene transitions were very irritating... :P The betrayal had me in tears... Seriously. Especially the scene with the younglings asking Anakin what to do... And he yielded his glowing sword thing (now I remember what they're called - light sabre). That was really sad. I cried. And his conversation with his wife Amidala was also very heartwrenching... His disillusion with serving the Chancellor caused him to accuse his wife of falling in love with Obi Wan and he nearly killed her with the Force (Dark Force). Sad. Anyway, the fight sequences were really really cool and they tried to explain some of the things that happen in the later movies/episodes by inserting various things in the movie... For example, the most obvious being how Anakin becomes Darth Vader. Though you have to question the Chancellor (who was a Sith lord!!!!) how he came up with the stupid name. And I never actually saw the Chancellor teaching Anakin anything despite Anakin having to bow down to the old guy many many times... Lol. Anyway, very very nice show. Most of the movie was CGIed so I guess everyone had to act in front of blue/green screens which would have sucked a lot... I remember Ewan McGregor mentioning this in one of his interviews with the press, that the experience of acting in Star Wars was becoming very tiresome and very difficult since they had to imagine most of the things in the scenes they were in. And the green master, the adorable one was very cute... Especially when he jumped and flipped all over the place, with his very adorable quotes... With some being very quotable... Like for example, "Attachment leads to jealousy" -> which is very true! :) The betrayal as I've said is the best thing about this movie because it's the most heart-wrenching part of the whole show... 4.5 stars/5 stars :)

The worst thing about the whole movie watching experience was having to endure and stay awake till the end of star wars which ended at about 5.30!!! Meaning that I would arrive at home at 6!!!! That's the latest ever I had been out. I was damn afraid what my parents would say... They didn't ask me about anything at first... then when they came back from their marketing on Saturday... I explained everything and they were ok with it... As long I was ok and reached home safely. :) Phew...

Saturday was my first fencing lesson. And I was nearly late... Taking taxi to Balmoral took quite some time... When we arrived at the center... I was stunned. It was filled with litte children fencing and I felt very very intimidated. Very weird right? :P We were told that the school had engaged one of the coaches to teach us individually separately from the other zYouths :P Which was kinda nice because I was very intimidated with the youths too especially when they were wearing their fencing suits. Basic movements in fencing were quite difficult to do at first but after many repetitions they were quite ok and quite fun! :P Moving forward, and moving backward was quite fun after some time especially when we managed to start lunging and poking this dummy bag and the strategic positions its imaginary chest and abs. "Forward... Forward... Backward... Forward 3 steps... And lunge!" Very tiring lol! :P And always positioning yourself such that your feet are shoulder length apart was quite tiring too... and lowering your body to balance yourself was kinda difficult at first... :) But everything turned out fine... Until we managed to grab hold of our foils!!! :) That was really fun... We had to "vite" (sp?) each other by hitting each other's foils against each other's... Really fun... The sound of the two foils beating each other was really cool. :)

Anyway, after that I had to rush to Jurong Point to meet my sis, my 2 brothers and my parents for some shopping. Got meself gray Converse shoes and a few t-shirts... The jeans will prob come later this month! :) As you can see, a rather tiring weekend... Hopefully more weekends turn out like this! Then my bloody NS will end faster! :) Speaking of which... I shall install a countdown timer on the 16th of June at the side of my bloggie... to count down till my ORD!!! Which will be exactly a year left on the 16th of June!!! My ORD? 160606!!! :) Together with one of my best buds ever I've met through NS. :) Cheerios and till then!