Seven-Day Itch

We only ate Domino’s during last year Halloween dinner party, this year – (a bit of a last minute arrangement, but not as late as last year) – we had seafood in Klang instead :) We drove from M13 to the restaurant, after-work traffic was heavy and by the time we reach there, we were drop dead hungry. We wolf down whatever was being served to us. All the plates were polished clean, we devours everything like a little vacuum cleaner – except for the ‘Roast Pig Legs’. Yes, we are having seafood but I don’t know why pork was on the menu – I think Juan ordered it. So the whole night we gobble and chomp. Slurps and sucks. At everything to our tummy’s content :)

I’ve finished reading ‘One Shot’. Great book. How come Jack Reacher character was not adapted to the big screen?! Or a TV series. He’s a very intriguing character. He is an obsessive drifter. He doesn’t like to stay in one place for too long and it got me thinking on how Lee Child will end his character when he decides to stop the book series. Will Reacher dies & be buried with all the military pomp and grandeur, or will he retire and open up an espresso café? He loves coffee. Will he ever be in a permanent relationship? Another thing that I’m very curious about is his underwear :) Reacher owned nothing and carries nothing; he travels light (too light) and he always arranged the smallest details in his life so he could move at a split second’s notice. I’ll go and borrow the next book from Tommy tomorrow.

Movie: ‘The Prestige’. Story was predictable. I thought I will be seeing a lot of magic. But the only main trick was the disappearing-and-reappearing act. But what I love was the narrative style. I like the way Christopher Nolan tells the story. He moves backwards, starting from the ending to the beginning. Unlike some directors who make such an attempt that eventually leaves the audiences more confusing than ever on what happen next or who did what, Nolan masterly did it with so much clarity and conviction. The hardest narrative will be when the 2 lead actors were reading each other diaries – Nolan stylishly move back & forth in time, he interconnects those characters & flashbacks simultaneously. He re-fashioned it as an easy to grasp story. He make something complicated look easy. And the screenplay writer was good as well. It was misdirected, deceiving and delighting. Hugh Jackman was sexy, sensual and enigmatic as I thought it’d be. Christian Bale – I don’t like him in ‘Batman Begins’, but he was very refreshing on the eyes in this movie. This movie is not quirky, unique or arty enough, it’s just very stylish. And the narrative was original.