Driving.
I have finally reached stage 3 of my driving lessons, the stage I have officially deemed to be the most horrible stage.
Stage 1 and 2, the lessons are pretty straightforward, start the car, go a few rounds around the circuit and off to the main road, and depending on my instructor will either be a fun chatty session or one that's silent and uncomfortable with some reprimanding thrown in.
Stage 3 on the other hand requires me to actually learn how to reverse a car, how to go through very sharp bends and S bends and also how to park a car, which I have yet to fully experience.
I've also been getting a string of really unfriendly instructors lately so that kind of contributed to why I'm having difficulty finding joy in the lessons anymore.
Movies I watched.
Went to watch 2 movies in the past 2 weeks with my friend, the first one was Kingsman The Secret Service.
You'd think they would at least put Taron Egerton's name on the poster considering he's playing the main character. But look, it's Alfred from Batman.
It's directed by the same guy who directed X-Men First Class, the last movie I watched before I enlisted into the army and a movie I thoroughly enjoyed, mainly because of Emma Frost even though the actress who portrayed her made her character feel a little stiff compared to the comic counterpart, but seeing a female shaped diamond is quite a sight to behold compared to that disgusting looking one in X Men Origins which just triggered my trypophobia.... seeing a picture of it now actually makes my insides feel extremely uncomfortable.
Kingsman was a great film, the story line was great, the acting was great, everything felt very posh thanks to the British accent and the suits, but mainly it's the British accent. This is the kind of movie I watch and still think about when I leave the theater, which means it's really good, which also means I will probably watch it again when it's available, through other means.
Today, I watched Ah Boys to Men 3 with the same friend. (because I really don't have a lot who ask me out)
Ah Boys to Men 3 : Frogman
After watching Kingsman last week, the benchmark I had for movies was set really high and sadly, ABTM3 did not hit that benchmark, nor did it go anywhere near it.
The whole show is very predictable filled with a lot of lowbrow humor that send the entire audience laughing (really?) and the thing that really turned me off the most was how painfully obvious the product placements were in the movie.
Normally in movies, when they are doing product placement, it's all very subtle, for example, if the movie was doing a product placement for a mobile phone, simply showing the brand name by having the character use the particular Nokia mobile phone to contact her parents that there was a killer in the house would be enough, but in ABTM3, their level of product placement subtlety is equivalent having the character say something like...
"Well I better take out my latest Nokia Lumia phone to call my parents to warn them about the possible dangers they might face should they get home, with lighting speed connectivity, I will be sure to get through to them in no time."
....or maybe a particular brand of sports drink, simply showing the characters drinking a bottle of it would suffice, but with ABTM3, there's nothing subtle about their product placement for the facial cleanser they were plugging, even Youtubers do a better job at plugging a endorsed product without making it sound too much like an advertisment than ABTM did.
There's this scene that was probably 2 minutes long, showing this one character taking out the facial cleanser, sharing the benefits of it with his section mates, followed by him showing them how to apply it, literally step by step...
"First we pump, then put apply on our face, after that we take a bit of water and wash our face with it, see, now the cleanser is all foamy, and then we clean it off, now I am so handsome, here, let's all use some" *proceeds to pump the product generously into his co-stars hands*
It was so ridiculous I actually turned to my friend and went "What the fuck?", he didn't really respond though, I guess I was the only one who was taken aback by the lack of subtlety in the plugging of the product.
The whole movie was only mildly entertaining because of how predictable the plot was made less enjoyable by the fact that my bladder was bursting not even halfway through the movie. Had I watched the movie before Kingsman, I might not have been so harshed on it, but sadly, it really is a forgettable movie.
This shows that the difference between a mainstream local production and a Hollywood movie production is gargantuan because sadly, all the good local ones that have won awards overseas are the less popular movies majority of the Singaporean population have no interest in.
After the movie
I went to have Milk Cow at Cathay, that was my main goal of the day.
So much better than Llao Llao, and with a queue that's much shorter, I'm bias against Llao Llao because I hate frozen yoghurt.
I was expecting the ice cream to taste similar to a McDonald softee, but it didn't taste anything like that, the ice cream itself is milk flavoured so it wasn't very sweet but it was really creamy, I got the one that's drizzled with a chocolate hazelnut sauce called Gianduja which I initially thought was Guanaja from Valrhona, at the bottom of the cup of ice cream were a small handful of Milo Nuggets which added a nice crunch, but I would have preferred to have it maybe at the top so I can actually have with my the ice cream rather than only a few pieces of it with the ice cream and the remaining bulk of it drowning in the melted ice cream.
My friend got the honeycomb one, which was also quite nice and because the ice cream itself wasn't very sweet, the honey wasn't an overkill. I did not however had a piece of his honeycomb so no comment on that, but I'm sure my teeth wouldn't approve, would probably get stuck somewhere and I would probably be spending half the day trying to dig it out with my tongue.
Next one I really want to try is Honey Creme because they are a lot more generous with their ice cream, but sadly, the shop is located in Somerset 313 and I rarely visit that place, mainly because I really don't like visiting the Somerset area due to the constant crowds, here's hoping they open another store in the west next time.
New Mouse.
2 days ago, my Razer Abyssus died on me, or more specifically, the left mouse button died on me. It has served me well for the last 4 years, that was $60 well spend on a good mouse.
So I got myself a new non-gaming mouse which was almost as expensive as my previous mouse called the Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Mouse, which I thought looked really nice...
The right one... because I got the right one! Geddit?
My friend didn't think so and just said "disgusting" or something similar when I pointed out the mouse I wanted to get to him, which is always a great response to hear from someone about something you are interested in, he kept insisting I get a Razer, reason being that I played games quite regularly, which is true, but I wasn't really up for the idea of spending a hundred dollars on a mouse, plus I haven't really been playing any MMOs lately, so the need to get the Razer, more specifically the Naga, wasn't there.
Had I followed his advice, I am sure to be hit with buyer's remorse the next day because he was asking me to get all the expensive mouses I could afford but didn't want to. It's like the keitai I bought, instantly hit with buyer's remorse the week after realizing I payed $700 for an android lag fest.
As of now, I'm really liking my new moue, it looks good and it feels good, plus it's wireless so that's another plus point. But the mouse has been disconnecting a few times, so that's getting a bit irritating.
SIMGe
I have also finally submitted my University Application.
Had to head down to the school admission office to do it, I'm really questioning whether applying for that course is the right decision though, or to be exact, whether applying to that school is the right choice.
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