Memoirs of a geisha~

"I certainly wasn't born to the life of a geisha..."

All because of this movie i have to force myself to finish reading the Memoirs of a geisha by Author Golden...the book is reall good. it explains in detail how a life of geisha is. this book sounds like a biography, but the true fact is that the main character and the rest of the characters never exist. Interesting? thought there is such times as world war one and world war two...

Set in a mysterious exotic world, which still casts a potent spell today, Nitta Sayuri (Zhang Ziyi) tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. Despite the treacherous Hatsumomo (Gong Li) who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into a legendary geisha under the guidance of her mentor Mameha (Michelle Yeoh). Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man who is out of her reach, the mysterious Chairman (Ken Watanabe)

Well, the book is marvelous...describing every single part of the geisha story well and is truly a gripping book. Well, after 2 consecutive nights reading the book (with some sleep) i manage to finish the book before going for the movies with some people...

I was really expecting this movie to be a really good one, based on the fact that it is directed by the director of Chicago, Rob Marshall, and a very strong cast and crew-- Steven Speilberg as the film producer, actresses such as Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh(she is buatan Malaysia you know!! Hail Malaysians!! B proud of her!!), Ken Watanabe and some others...

And after some time waiting u will hear a very familiar voice which indicates the start of the movie...

"A story like mine has never been told"

Well i just sit there watching the movie for 2 hrs i guess..not sure thou but if u dont want to be lost in the movie my advise is to read the book before u enter the cinema...or else u will never know what the heck is this movie all about.

Actresses are pretty la...the acting is erm...so so... It muz be because of all the very crappy english from Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li. FYI, Michelle Yeoh speaks perfect english. Hey she is once a Bond girl you know =) But i like the way they make those actress plays the role. In the book, Hatsumomo is supposed to be the evil one to torture and bully our innocent-looking-grey-eyed main character Sakamoto Chiyo. And i think Gong Li plays well as Hatsumomo and so is Zhang Ziyi. 'Bout Mameha...erm not bad la...based on the fact that she is Sayuri's mentor so she is a geisha who has to look more like a mother of Sayuri and i think she did well.

Bout the selection of scenes....hmmm..they did good. I like the part where Sayuri stands at the top of a mountain that one...damn nice...but the problem is right i cannot find that part in the book...lol.

After the book and the movie i think i have seen more of a japanese culture than before. Well the critics dont think so. but this is my personal thinking~~

But i think the part where Sayuri is dancing looks a little too exaggerating ald. She dances well, but the way she dance is damn scary though i have to say it really catch your attention. What i think is that it is suppose to look sweet so that you will see the beauty of a geisha. but in the book, as sayui is mentioned as a geisha who can express sadness and those type of feelings in the heart so i guess that's why the dance is like that. But i have to say, when u watch her dance, u can actually feel the sadness she is expressing. Good dancer~~

Anyway the book is great, the movie is good too...so if you have the time this is a movie which is worth watching. I will ensure you the money u pay to watch this is worth as long as you have read the book, or else you will have no idea what is that Zhang Ziyi talking(oops a little too exaggerating) But if u read the book before you watch the movie i think it is more worth it.

Kudos to the cast and crew for making this movie such a good movie!!!!

Not-so-Interesting Facts =P

有一種朋友
有一種朋友,叫做損友
是常在你心愛人面前挖苦你,虧你,吐槽你
是常常扯你後腿,
但他卻是個從不真正傷害過你的人
有一種朋友,叫做開心果
是吊兒啷當時多,正經八百時少,
是常常惹的你火冒三丈,逗的周圍的人捧肚大笑,
但他卻是個從不做出令你無法原諒他的人
又有一種朋友,叫做真心朋友
他或許不常陪你歡笑,但他卻是個能與你相擁而泣的人
你或許常常忽略他,不常找他,但他卻是個願花時間陪伴你的人
他或許不是詼諧逗趣,
但他卻是個曾叫你感動莫名的人
真心朋友,他是個呆子,
他不會讓你 露宿街頭,他會為了你的棲身之處而到處奔波;
他把你的事當作他的事;
他不會讓你感到無助;他不會丟你獨自一人孤單
真心朋友,是個呆子
卻是你無法捨棄,一個你最愛的呆子!!

您幸福嗎？

幸福是睡得好......
幸福是您喜歡的人也喜歡您
幸福是隨便走走沒目的什麼也不想
幸福是冬天等巴士時喝熱維他奶
幸福是看一本精采的好書
幸福是想起心上人而偷笑
幸福是情人用體溫為你送暖
幸福是生活簡單
幸福是和心愛的人一起看星
每個人都需要幸福
您幸福嗎？

Not my thing~~

Blogging has not been that appealing to me these few days coz i am real busy...with sumthing la...no point telling coz no one understands LoL

And the 2nd reason is that now that everything is over i dont have the mood to study as i am really really drained after so many thing to do

and the 3rd reason is that nothing really interesting is happening around me these few weeks. Even Chinese new year is not as interesting as it is at the past few years; I guess it muz b because i am getting OLD....sobz...

CNY used to be really interesting until when u hit an age where u are about to be an adult...u just realise u cannot shout like the kids...cannot go begging ang paus from elder ppl like wat u did when u are little, cannot run about like a kid and u have to sit down prim-and-proper so that u wont throw ur parent's face away when u meet ur uncles and aunts...

CNY has never been that bad until recently...dunno y...muz b bcoz i didnt celebrate CNy with my family ald la...every year there muz b some ppl missing fro the CNY dining table since my bro go UK ald...never complete...so tts y i guess i start not to like CNY ald...

when the whole family cannot get together and eat a proper reunion dinner during CNY then what's da point of having a reunion dinner at new years eve when the whole family is not reunion at all....with ppl missing from the dining table~

back to my topic...

i am so so so tired...mentally..no mood saja...some really unhappy things happen though so of them i am not directly involved...my frens are involved la...but still...

How to be happy when u have so many troubles in ur mind??
How to be in a festive mood when some of da family members are at somewhere else of da world?
how to celebrate when ur mind is worrying about something else more important...


haiyo~~~

Sigh...

虫儿飞

虫儿飞
黑黑的天空低垂
亮亮的繁星相随
虫儿飞虫儿飞
你在思念谁

天上的星星流泪
地上的玫瑰枯萎
冷风吹冷风吹
只要有你陪

虫儿飞花儿睡
一双又一对才美
不怕天黑只怕心碎
不管累不累
也不管东南西北

A song sang by a group of kids. This is one of the song in da movie “ 风云 ” starring Ekin 郑伊建 and Aaron 郭富城。。。

this is kinda and old song, but it kinda soothing u know....a simple song , simple lyrics yet it is full of feeling and the lyrics is meaningful. If u listen it when u are sad i can bet that u will cry...those kids...aarrgghhh!!!! their voices kinda calm u down....makes u reminisce about the past years...

after JJ 一千年以后 this is sort of my new favourite song....this is written while i was online with my fren...haha we are kinda trading songs online during new year so as i wait i write this post.

Happy New Year!!!!

haha so its a new year ald..this is da 1st post of the year...a new start apparently

It kinda portray my feeling..the mood...lonely sad bored to the max....

and I bet that person will never know wat i mean in this song...haha since that person never read this blog so...oh well....never mind

haha better stop complaining

New year resolution??

haha i think is to accomplish my 2005 year resolution, since i have not achieve anything last year(which is like 2 hrs ago when i was typing out this post) haiyoyo havent done anything at the whole 2005......but 2005 has been a really interesting year coz

ppl thought i was missing

ppl thought i was avoiding them

haha i know it sounds kinda mean and kinda bad...yea yea i am so so sorry....haha especially to jiah ling...sorry ar i go missing for so long....

2005 has been real interesting i meet new people, i pick up a pet-brother, i have work experiences in da hospital, spend a good summer though not many ppl went out with me...

and here is to thank some people that i never have the chance to say thanks to:

Cheers to my best mate Jiah Ling...haha u dont know wat those things u have done means to me =) yea yea i know i wasnt a real happy kid at 2005 but at least meeting up with u makes me happier and thats the time where i can really be me...although i cannot see you that often(haha u know what absence makes the heart grow fonder...woo...love me??), but we really have a chat, sit down at a coffee bar chat like old frens, talking about almost everything that as happen to us at the past year where we seldom meet, went playing pool, game arcades and spend loads on the cars(yea i still suck big time on that =P)...sharing my biggest secrets with u, being lame and act dumb around you, going red box (haha FYI i only sing in front of people that i am close to...XP) Yea i am sorry i didnt go to KL and visit u...(haha tts one of my 2005 resolution which is never accomplish) hope that we have more time to hang around, chill out (coz it's cool and cold during winter...haha i'm trying to be lame ler), talk nonsence like we usually do during high school times.... i miss those times, and i think u probably do too...wit sia vin yii...haiyo dunno when will be the next time where 3 of us can sit down and talk nonsence again...

And to Huey Sian (who will never read this blog) yea i am glad i pick up a great friend like u, we aren't just normal friends right now, not normal KDU classmates...we are colleagues...lol and yea, great to hang out with u coz again, i can be myself when i was with you. and i am glad that u have spent half o ur summer to accompany me, going out, having lunch (Our unforgetable garlic bread and Nando's), movies and lepaking in front of my house, near the fence where we spend time talking for hours at those last few days...although it's always Gurney but still i appreciate it coz having spend time with u is fun!!(and i believe that u are the person who spent da most time with me in Gurney and during the summer break)NOt to forget we actually spend time making Nisha's Bday presents and preparing our bday present for da future!!!! Haha the keychain remember? it's still with me =) And we have a real wicked time in da hospital, chatting with that real lame joker si-safri...talk rubbish while settling da computer stuffs in jenny's room, crashing into each departments while visiting each other, going out after work (and make me abandon my job to fetch my brother from school...) short time that might be, but it is memorable...and i have no idea when will be the next time where both of us cn do da same thing again...

My 2005 is filled with surprise, sorrow, joy....and i manage to make some real good friends get to know new friends, manage to go some places, new environment...And i have learn to appreciate my family more, learn to treasure friends more....thanks for u guys or else i have no idea how i will survive this 2005.

2005 has been rather amazing,there are a lot of 1st times happenning, eg 1st time i go UK to see my bro alone, 1st time i see snow in UK, 1st time going in an OT with a doctor to see an operation, 1st time working in ward helping out da patients, 1st time going to gurney almost everyday with huey sian, 1st time play in a game arcade(FYI, i normally watch i dont play), 1st time go to a coffee bar in M'sia, 1st time drink, 1st time nearly get drunk, 1st time play pool and tennis, 1st time hang around with guys n gals together after 6 yrs (fyi i was in an all girls school during sec year), 1st time need to do make up to attend dinner (which i kinda enjoy it but it is expensive to let ppl do make-ups for u)....

Memorable 2005 is gone and i haven accomplish anything...lets hope that 2006 will be a better year for me