Ah BENG to the rescue ok guess who i managed to drag with me out to dinner today. ok not exactly out but we went to rail mall to get some roti john and prata. yes my dearest ah beng. he has been a hermit for the past week because the lift at his block broke down and he is simply too lazy to climb 8 flights of stairs. "Think of the poor HDB flat people when their lift breaks down" that was my feeble attempt to trick the self proclaimed Human-Sloth into coming outta his house and then today, my lift broke down!! and then something about having someone share the bad luck made it worth his while to come out of his bat cave to have dinner with me. "wah we all damn suay hor maybe should try like those tv show walk over the pot of fire." *Denise stares*

We started talking about movies. Movie addicts thats what we both are..suckers for good movies. I told him i was getting sick and tired of the whole da vinci code saga.

You know what i think singaporeans lack? I think we lack sensitivity and in the case of the people who decided it would be okay to paste a poster for the davinci code movie with the image of Jesus on it, ON THE FLOOR for people to step on at orchard mrt.. for those people who decided that doing that would be okay, i think that they not only lacked sensitivity, they LACK BRAINS, COMMON SENSE and they lacked simple UNDERSTANDING. Would you paste a picture of your grandma, the president or even Mr Lee Kuan Yew on the floor for the hordes of people to step on even if it were for promotional purposes? You can argue all you want, you may even think we are over-reacting but i ask you, is that the only way you can go about promoting the movie?? cant you just paste it on the walls just so that we wouldn't even have the chance to over react?? Make better use of the grey matter in between your ears and then nobody will have to feel offended however sensitive they are.

The catholics aren't protesting in the streets with banners and posters and burning pictures of Dan Brown, not because we are cowards, not because we do not stand up for our faith. It is because we recognise that if people watch it as fiction, then really its ok. It is FICTION. In fact, after you watch the movie and read the book, QUESTION what you read! You live in Singapore! most of you are educated enough to realise the simple fact that just because there is enough controvesy surrounding it DOES NOT MEAN it is absolutely irrefutable!!! PLEASE LA i'm not asking you to take my side, I'm pleading for you to be fair, to make an educated decision, to question, to give us a chance to explain, I am asking you not to be naive enough to believe that one man and one book holds all the truth. If you think that just because you read the book, you have enough "FACTS" to discredit MY FAITH and the entire foundation it is built upon, then its only a reflection of how shallow you are as a human being and i feel so sorry for you.

I dont mean to be a bitch and blow up here, but i've been holding it in for a while and it irritates me when people watch it solely because of the controversy, not bothering to educate themselves first before buying all that dan brown has to say. Better still, talk about it in front of me, remarking aloud that the stuff in the show seems very believable, maybe its true, FORGET that I am catholic and that it is terribly insulting that you have made a conclusion about my entire religion being a LIE all based upon a 2hr MOVIE! I'm gonna watch Herbie reloaded and CONCLUDE THAT ALL CARS CAN TALK!!!! TSK.

At this point, i'm so pissed off i can hardly finish my roti john and Ah-beng is just laughing because he's seen me blow up so many times. " I think you should go be a politician like that Sylvia Lim man you so passionate when you bitch sia" we continue talking about things that are ABSOLUTELY LAUGHABLE like that silly NUS business school ad!! I think it is also rather insulting, because it seems to insinuate that a school is only credible when ang mohs think highly of it! even if that was not their wish to portray, the advert really sucks la, no creativity not nearly as impressive as the SMU ads, i must say they've really managed to boost their image with a very sucessful advertising and promotional campaign. NUS... why like that???

At this point, this cab passes by with the advert for Dog food.. guess what flavour - UNAGI AND SEAWEED. and ah beng remarks SO LOUDLY "wah dog like sushi MEH?" that the guys on the tables beside us start laughing tOo. *paisey*

then we head to videoezy for the movie and cold storage for the snacks. We saw my best friend's wedding on the shelf and ah-beng remarked that we should make a similar pact to marry each other if we;re still single by the time we are 40 i told him i'd be seriously short changing myself but agreed anyway :) LOL.

I love movie nights. I love laughing out loud so that the whole condo knows i'm watching comedy anyway, soon they will have no qualms about letting me know when someone scores a goal during the world cup. We are an interactive neighbourhood!!  ¶ 7:38 AM