the village

my mum closed my blogger window and switched off the comp when i was on the phone just now. [admittedly i was on the phone for a rather long time, hence her decision to switch off her comp. dots.] oh wells.



wasnt feeling extremely happy just now cos i was conveniently stood up for tmr for some small but significant event in my opinion. i mean, the plans were nicely fitted out and yeah, if i hadnt msged to confirm, i wont even have known that the event had been cancelled. how wonderful. then i would have made a wasted trip down to nus. somehow i seem rather insignificant now. oh wells. the problems with growing up and moving to different schools. everybody has been moving along and i havent. hopefully all that will change when i meet my OG tmr. finally. 4pm @ millenia walk tcc [i had ask him twice before it finally hit me that he was refering to tcc. yeah. i hope not something else cos that was what i vaguely heard. my facil is a guy. again. not that i have a thing against guy facils, but somehow i think female facils work more efficiently, as of what i saw during retreat? yeah. ]. i hope i have nice og mates *prays hard* heard that they would be my classmates for the next one year. ahhh. and i havent found a single soul who's in group 75. freaking hell, there's like soo many orientation groups such that nobody seems to be able to find someone in the same group before they meet. except i think when faye mentioned her finding one person, but that's only one i've heard of so far. acks.


anyway. go watch the village!!! i give 10 stars for the movie. the acting was perfect. the storyline was amazing. but before i launch into the story [yes im going to be a spoiler but only at the end of the entry so i'll inform when i decide to blab so that people who dont wish to know the story can just close the window], lemme wish my daddy a happy birthday. speaking of which, also wilber pan's and wenhui's birthdays so.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! yeaps. very easy to remember. lalala. and wenhui happily ponned everything cos he's currently at tioman with his girlfriend's family and her. wahaha. speaking of which, he's in the same og as him. yeah. soo coincidental. only realised that on monday when he woke me up with his msg. blearh. i think it was monday. and i did mention that lenith is there too right? speak of a small world. yeah. went to plaza sing to catch early movie today and saw zhenni with her bf [i presume.] at burger king doing work [as usual, mugging for prelims.] she's still as nice as ever.. yeah. caught the movie with a full house and there were idiots screaming at the non scary parts. it sounded almost as though it was a competition to see who could scream more during the movie. i soo wanted to wrangle their necks off but never mind. yeah. and i should never step into kino [or borders. or times.] cos i would be obliged to bring books out with me when i step out of the shop knowing fully that i cant pay for the tens of books in my hands and i cant borrow them as well simply because they are bookshops and not libraries. darn. dammit. wahaha. then bought durian rolls from angie d choice [which was damn bloody good according to my dad] for my daddy's birthday celebrations.. and yeah, spent the night at home watching tv, online and on the phone. my usual nightly activities. wahaha.






for people who dont wanna read the storyline of the village, please close the window now. for those who have watched but dint quite understand, or those who want to know the plot before watching the movie, read on.






basically the village is known to be a horror story. like all M.night movies. rememeber signs? yeah i known that wasnt much of a horror show [with the aliens dying from attack under water] but yeah. something along the lines. so in the trailer they mentioned something of a monster that lives across the borders of the village in the woods. well, look out for a red hooded porcupine that looks vaguely like the new year creature 'nian'. yeah. quite a funny looking creature which had a back of a porcupine, and without screaming adolescents maybe you might find the outlook of the creature funny. that thing is fake. made up by the elders [the main committee of the village] in the village. they dont want people to step out into the town across the woods [first of all, there aint any town in the first place.] for they have lost loves ones in the town due to money. hence, the main man, mr walker, set up a utopia like place [which was the village] with the rest of the elders and had a security system guarding the place, to prevent any intruders of sorts and that particular utopia had money eliminated from it. they thought that by doing this, they would be able to keep their loved ones safe and sound and nobody would be hurt and yeah, peace and harmony would reign. it did work for a while. whenever people attempted to cross into the borders, one of the elders would put on the creature costume and pretend to be attracted to the colour red and 'haunt' the houses so to speak. so though the villagers were living peacefully, they lived in fear, fear of the thing they do not speak of. they refer to the creature that way, like how people refer to lord voldermort in harry potter. all went well until wedding bells started ringing. hence we have our main male and female characters. lucius, who's a soft spoken person who doesnt speak unless he's required to and ivy, a blind but independent and sweet girl. in between we have noel who obviously has a crush on ivy for a long time but he's a hyperactive adult and acts weirdly sometimes. fast forward the romantic things [which wasnt that romantic actually] and lucius and ivy announce their wedding plans. as usual, noel acts as the jealous one and stabs lucius not once but twice. this part is actually quite morbid and bloody but fun to watch. yeaps. hence lucius was hanging on to his life by a thread. here, ivy requests to go across the woods into the town to get medical supplies from mr walker, her father, and before she left, mr walked told her about the creature being fake. but only she knew and i suspect that she dint quite believe her father. apparently at that point in time noel was being kept in the safe house and he found the creature costume under the planks and he escaped and 'haunted' ivy in the woods, making her think that such a creature really existed. but a twist appears and ivy killed noel incidentally by using an old trap in the woods which she fell in but climbed out before. and noel died. when ivy reached the other side and thought she reached the towns [she cant see hence she doesnt know] she bumps into a young quite cute security guard who was making his rounds and he agreed to bring her the medicine which could be stolen from the first aid cabinet at the guard station so that was what he did. and then she brought the medicine back and the movie ended there. the last part when she spoke with the guard and got her medicine may seem small and insignificant, but thats the part which conveys to you most of the story. at least that was what happened to him. he only understood the story when he saw the guard with the vehicle named walker security [or something like that i cant quite remember..]. i picked up hints here and there and more or less got the storyline but the final twist was damn good. how on earth did mr walker manage to set up a utopia like village without govt intevention? backtrack into history. mr walker's father was a billionaire. he was killed, shot to death because of money problems. hence mr walker inherited the money. he invested the money into this patch of woods, created a utopia like village and led the outside people to think that this was a conservation area that nobody was to disturb. and there were no animals in the woods cordoned off. and he managed to bribe the govt not to have airplanes fly over the area for fear of being found out. cool right? yeah. the whole story is full of twists and turns that you need to think and talk about it before you get the entire picture.

this movie, has got to be my favourite movie. it's in a different league of its own. in fact, it feels like a classic. maybe because of the amazing storyline. yeah. go watch it if you can, it's worth a $8.50 ticket. definitely.