Smell of Rain screening at Sinema

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to...
April 18th- Imelda Teo, Grace Tye
April 19th- James Franco, Hayden Christensen

Whoa shoot, tomorrow is the big day!!!

Finally found that super-large 8 days issue which I thought I had lost... and I'm never ever gonna lose it again!! The issue containing Nat, Elvin, Jonathan, Jesseca, Fiona, Jade, etc...

And on a personal note, I like my blog the way it is... and I DON'T need people like YOU to suggest that I get a better template to become like Perez Hilton (whoever he is) or even Wendy Cheng, that is why I had to delete YOUR comment from the previous post. But thanks for the suggestion anyway... and I must remind YOU that I still dislike people who MIA from school frequently and behave like monkeys...

Anyway... right after knocking off from work at 1730 hrs, I went to PS to have dinner with Ryan and Karen... then we got a lift from a very nice lady named Cass to the Sinema Old School (located along Mount Sophia)... the moment we got to the ticketing booth located at the main Sinema store, I was mesmerized by a mei nu (cute and petite!) who works there... and later my knees got weakened upon seeing yet another mei nu... before us NATurals headed upstairs to watch "Smell of Rain" yesterday. And to think I actually shouted out "MEI NU" to that sweetie who works at Sinema!! :-X



My thoughts about the movie ah? I have to admit that it is quite dull... very slow-paced, not much dialogue, but there is an amazing range of scenery shots. Most of the time, the 3 main leads (Nat, Troy and Li Er) would be staring at each other and not saying much. Nat Ho (the main reson for watching this film) plays a hearing-impaired guy named Xiao Qu who, ironically, works in a guitar store. His best friend is a slacker named Kong Long who does nothing but lie on the chair and watch Korean shows all day long. Xiao Qu had been suffering from insomnia due to a childhood trauma he suffered (his mum abandoned him to be with her lover), a trauma which stunts his emotions and prevents him from opening his heart to a girl he likes, a very skinny gal named Li Er. who is often beaten up by her abusive boyfriend. Thus Xiao Qu relates to the smell of rain as recalling a painful childhood memory. There is an interesting twist towards the end of the film regarding one of the leads... watch the film to find out for yourself. I rate this film 3 out of 5 stars... it may be dull and slow in pace, but there is some hidden meaning behind the story.


There was a rather long QnA session right after the film ended, and Nat still isn't around!! The director explained to us what inspired her to write this film, the various setbacks she got during production, and other stuff. After all the questions had been answered, we found out that Nat finished filming very late (curse the producers!!) and thus couldnt make it to Sinema on time (arghhhh!!), but there came a better solution to make up for it... us Naturals get to go to Mediacorp to meet up with Nat and tell him about the movie.


Before we left the place, we took pictures with the lead actress Li Er (who looks a bit like Dawn Yeoh don't you think?), and I joked that she should eat more and gain some weight. Her figure really too much like Stefanie Sun, but this Li Er is a really sweet and gentle gal.


So the 16 of us reached RG at abt 2330 hrs... we chatted wif Nat (who apologized profusely for not appearing for the screening), got his autograph on our magazines, took individual pics wif him, and then gathered for a group photo. All ends well... at least we all got what we wanted, in a different way. :-)



Oh ya, do buy May's edition of Teens, Nat is on the cover!! :-)