movie journal: friends with money +other misc stuff i wrote since my keyboard is comfy

well it's a few days after the hurried and harried hk trip and i finally have a few seconds to write a blog ( that i will copy and paste and stick it onto my blog tomorrow).i've been sick and the sick wave only kicked in on the way back when i was sick as a dog on the plane and had to ask for 2 panadol pills during the arduous 10 hour flight from tw. well what can i say i'm honest accustomed to healthy air and living that we all enjoy over here down south now it's hard enough to adjust to the time different (i'm still adjusting back) let alone the environment. i really wanted to write a few stuff on the hk trip but really there wasn't much to report. it's just another giant city with really tight real estate. normally i want to touch on a bit more human level stuff and culture phenomenons but i wasn't delving deep enought nor was i allowed the indulgence of time to. so meeehhhh. and for the record, hk island shouldn't be habitable (in other words it's inhabitable). i mean just look at the damn island, it's a freaking bloody fucking mountain for heaven's sake. how the british could make it the way it is today is truly some adventurous thinking. and kowloon area wasn't even british after some number of years after hk island was ceded, so technically and literally it's not even part of what we refer to as hongkong, it's part of the mainland you idiot.

now that i've vented my hatred, lets move on to more important agenda: the movie review. today i had a wonderful time skipping dinner and surviving on 6 dollar (SIX BLOODY DOLLARS!!! FUCK YOU BIRCH CINEMA CANDY STORE PEOPLE!!!) maltesers and 3 dollar BBQ flavoured chips. and since the competition is fierce birch finally had the good sense to lower their exorbitant movie fare to a more humanely level of 7 bucks for us poor student (AND CAN US AND RIP US OFF WITH 6 DOLLAR MALTESERS YOU FUCK HEADS!!!). how nice of them. ahem. back to the topic, the movie is called friends of money and it's an unoriginal story of a bunch of 30-40 year old white female and their semi-miserable lives. i say semi because they still live in a non-suicidal fashion with trivial nuisances such as insufficient sex and marrital huddles and hiccups, so those are no biggie. Jennifer aniston was in it and recently i had the strange sensation that my preference for her performance has grew over her recent films, in other words i started to like her. her role was a maid but a happy one at that (well her roles are always happy for some reason). anyway, the film now that i'm thinking of isn't about much more than people having issues of their own family and their friends. some are angry some are perceived gay and some are ugly, fair enough. but the title is decisively misleading. the only "money" related thing in this movie is so removed from anything to do with plot. so i suppose it meant married to money for Jennifer's character who out of sheer interest and desperation ( i dunno which one) agreed to a date with the fat (seemingly) unemployed and really untidy dude she's cleaning the house for. and viola who knows, they sorta worked out in a typical social outcast and weirdo way and supposedly fall in love over the course of 5 minutes movie time. and they attended this 1000 per head Bvlgary gift pack giving charity dinner. and the next shot they are driving home. then the next shot they are sitting on his bed talking, and that's it. end of the film. how fucking blaaand is this ending? so what is the point? she's married to a rich but useless dude for fuck's sake. so are we lead to believe that somehow her character would miraculously have a wonderful marriage while her other loaded mid-life crisis friends are suffering in their individual lives? so suddenly her passion is to be forever shared with this fat unemployed and untidy dude and they'll live happily ever after? oh this is jen and brad all over again isnt' it? we've just come out of the eerily real drama of "the break up" with her and Vince Vaugh or wotever his weird name is spelled (which incidently she is reportedly to be breaking up ((again?)) with?), and now headed into another stupid baseless foundationless relationship with some dude claiming to have some money? oh god hollywood has gone so low to entertain us it's not funny. or maybe it's just a result of me skipping dinner and had too much chips and 6 dollar maltesers. anyhow i'm officially sleepy and want to finish my shower upstairs. i hope my bittorrent download is all done when i wake up. the new keyboard is really comfy to type. maybe that's why i blah blah so much. it's just so comfy. yum yum ergonomics friendly keyboard.

and on another bombshell, let's dicuss recent updated cars. while in hk, it is obvious to me that they love big benz. s350 and s500 was on their top ten list for fuck's sake! and now we've had the camry update roll out worldwide. recent trend of car design has gone towards a leaner and angry trend and it's not a bad thing. you just have to look at civic and how it has grown into this sleek street machine now to appreciate the change of taste over time. now the last frontier of good old family car has updated and the result can't be more pronounced. gone is the previous previous generation of "huh?" looking face and previous generation's "huh? with a upstroke of eyebrow" look. now for the first time in camry's history the car has an expression! and it says "yeah! my eye may be unaethetic and small and narrow and square but i'm ruthless! i don't take orders from anybody! get out of my way little man! (oh sorry that's your line Mr. Rolls Royce) and you know what?! i'm still fuel efficient!!! beat that you fat bellied commodorrrre!" well that may be a bold, and long statement for a family car like camry to make, but that shows a step in the right direction, or the global direction, of car design. or maybe, just maybe, camry just trying too hard to copy lexus and get confused about its own identity.....