Just a couple of minutes after midnight, I greeted Arlyn a happy chinese new year at the same moment that I tried to pull the lazyboy’s leg (?) in and failed to do so all the way, hitting myself in the shin as it uncoiled. I hope this doesn’t mean that I’ll hurt myself a lot this year!
But it’s so just like me to do something like that after being all superstitious with donning a green dress, red underwear, jade earrings, and a rose quartz bracelet and filling a red pouch with 8 gold dollars. I’m not actually sure if I’m supposed to do all that for luck, I just kind of threw them all together based on what I heard. Haha.
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| My so-called lucky charms |
Happy Chinese New Year anyway! The dog (my sign) is supposed to have a relatively good year this year. At least better than the last one anyway, which was a total dud for me.
I spent my CNY eve at Arlyn’s place because her roommate was off in a vacation and she asked me to have a sleepover. So we met up at Nexx, our favorite mall to visit because it’s so big and near to both our places, where we had lunch. We ended up in Din Tai Fung where we ordered fried rice with pork chop, xiao long bao and steamed yam buns. It was my first time to try the last, a dessert dish.
Then we took the train to Bishan and went into another mall, Junction 8, so we could rent some DVDs of movies. We picked I am Number 4, The Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas and Gangs of New York.
Upon walking outside, we were stunned to see that it was raining so hard, literally buckets. I mean just a few hours ago when I left home I was admiring the beautiful sky which showed no hint of rain at all! Singapore weather is so weird.
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| How the sky looked like when I left my place |
Luckily we had umbrellas and we could take a bus instead of walking, so we managed.
When we got to her place, Arlyn was all hostessy and made sure I was comfortably seated on a lazyboy chair (yes, the one that eventually hit me) and well fed as we watched the movies we had borrowed on their huge flatscreen TV. For a moment I felt like Joey and Chandler in the TV show Friends. (They had lazyboys.)
I didn’t like I am Number Four all that much. But then again I had read the book and found the story to be a bit ridiculous too. And the acting and directing was not too effective either. Hate it when that happens.
Goodfellas was high up on the list of IMDB’s best movies of all time, so I picked it. We knew it was a gangster movie so we expected it to be violent, but what we didn’t expect was that it was going to be so funny. I loved it! I also loved how they aged the characters throughout the movie, especially Robert De Niro.
The Shawshank Redemption is IMDB’s #1 movie of all time. I had recently watched it as recommended by Dred, who says it’s her favorite movie, but Arlyn wanted to watch it and I didn’t mind seeing it again. It’s a really nice movie about redemption (as the title states) and hope. It is a serious movie with some humorous parts and some scenes that made me tear up. I really loved it too. And like in Goodfellas, they did a great job in aging the characters.
We didn’t have time to watch Gangs of New York. Oh well, Leo. Next time.
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