Friday, March 19, 2004

Today, I caught a movie that will be deeply etched in my memory for many years to come. Our original plan was to watch the romance comedy My Girl, but somehow, it morphed into a “for-kids-only-unless-you-have-too-much-$$-to-spare” film Cat in the Hat. Heys to all you kids out there, no offense! (for ur info my idea of kids are ppl less than 8 yrs old).

But seriously, I find the film with a paucity(a new word I learnt recently from the compulsory english material my sch made us buy : 1100 Words You Need to Know) of intelligence. Throughout the 1 hour (a movie that’s only 1 hour?! You call that a movie?!) film, I won’t deny the fact that I was actually laughing. But at the wrong things, at the wrong time. I was laughing at myself, how in the world did I end up paying a full-price tix for a show like this?! I was staring mindlessly at the brightly coloured moving pictures (the plum and old baby sitter’s hair was bright purple for goodness sake) and hearing laughter of grandparents and kids erupting in unity(family outing, no doubt).

Frankly, this wasn’t my idea of enjoying a movie. I was stuck in the middle of a cinema, in a sea of obviously delighted kids, eating my shrunken KFC Schroom burger and drinking iced milo without a straw(in our haste we forgot all about straws), staring at a giant black and white cat with an absurd tall hat prancing about, reciting the typical Dr Seuss type of rhymes. Sigh.

But who can we blame but ourselves for lack of time coordination. We planned to catch the 7pm slot of My Girl, at 6.35pm we happily strolled into the cinema only to find out tickets were sold out! Thus began our frantic search for another cinema screening the show. However to our greatest dismay we found out that none of the other 2 cinemas in orchard has it. After being tossed about by the 3 cinemas (we ran from one end to the other – PS to lido) we found ourselves washed upon the shores of Cathay at Cineleisure. Alas, we found out that showings for other movies were either
1) too late at night
2) one of us watched it before
3) NC-16 or
4) R(A)
It was already 7.17pm after all the scurrying about, and some of us has a curfew of 10.30pm, so we had to catch a movie that starts before 8pm so that it’d end before 10pm. The only eligible film was, as you’ve already guessed, Cat in the Hat, which starts at 7.20pm! We were desperate(actually because we were reluctant to go home empty handed without a movie), with only 3 minutes to the film, we hastily bought the tickets, hastily ran to da bao dinner from KFC, and hastily ran back to the cinema. Finally, we settled in on the comfortable seats for what we thought would be a good laugh. Yea, more like a good laugh at ourselves.

Conclusion: time management and planning are important skills we should all learn to master.

writing at 4:11 PM

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