yesterday was an 'okay Monday'. bascially it's a great Monday, but since Mondays are supposed to suck, i've reduced the superlatives to 'okay'.

school passed by really quickly, unlike the eternal stuck-in-a-time-warp feeling i usually feel. PE was fun. we didn't have our usual PE teacher so we had this other teacher who was teaching us how to play Frisbee. he made it his main point that the importance of learning how to play Frisbee was for the chicks. he asked us, "Gentlemen, do you know why it is so important to learn how to play Frisbee?" someone blurted out "hand-eye coordination" and the teacher went, "Bah. who needs that? gentlemen, this [holds up Frisbee] is a babe-magnet." then he went on about how every female at the beach would notice you if you were playing with a Frisbee and made another few satirical points about why the Frisbee was good. i guess all he was trying to do was to make the Frisbee sound like the ultimate sport and not the mundane disc, which was inspired by a pie tin, that you toss around. something else amusing happened in the Biology lecture. we were being taught about steroids and sterols and the lecturer gave us testosterone as an example of a steroid. then he asked us, "can anyone tell me where is testosterone produced?" the entire LT responded in the kind of unison that would shame any choir, "BALLSSSSsss" you could hear the "ssss" resound as if you were in the Grand Canyon.

i headed to Cine to meet up with Seth, Liz, who suddenly came back from China and Jas after school. we ended up watching Elektra which is a horrible movie.

with all due respect to die-hard Elektra fans, i'm sure she's a great character and super heroine in her own right but the movie sucked. it's the kind that makes you feel that you were cheated of your $8.50 [thank goodness i watched it on a Monday and only paid $6.50]. i'm no movie expert but it doesn't take one to know that it's a fluke.

first of all, i think the movie was too short. they tried to squeeze in everything about Elektra's story into a 1 and a 1/2 hour flick. as a result, it all just flashes by you and you don't understand anything at all. lots of sad points in the movie. not sad as in it makes you cry, well actually it does but not because the story is sad. well actually the story is sad but not sad as in sad movie sad but argh! you know wad i mean. i think it's quite ridiculous to fight in a bright red corset and shoes with heels as tall as mountains. but hey, comic book character, that's what they're good for. but kudos to Jennifer Garner for working so hard to get into shape for the movie. she was doing one handed pull ups for real in one part. it doesn't take a genius to know that she has one hot mamajama bod. what was dumb was how she ended up kissing the father of Abby [don't know what's his name] after a combined total of 5 sentences worth of conversation. real bullsh*t. another sad thing was the lack of creativity of the names of the villains. i guess it's the fault of Marvel this time. it's like, the big guy who swipes off the shot gun pellets blasted at him is called 'Stone'. ooohhh.. then, the lady who is literally a walking disease is called 'Typhoid'. aaahhh... and the guy with lots of tattoos is called...'TATTOO' wowwww! what makes them sadder is the way they die. after seeing them with all their fantastic powers you'd expect epic battles that would add many climaxes to the show. but no. they die in the most dumb ways.

Stone dies after a tree falls down on him. Elektra uses Kimura or whatever [the ability to see the future and raise the dead], to pin-point Typhoid in the hedge maze. then she throws her funny knife thing, that one of the Ninja Turtles use, through the many maze walls and wham! hits Typhoid in the face. and let's not forget Tattoo. he was just sitting in the garden in some weird yoga position with his snakes slithering all over him. then, Elektra once again uses Kimura to find him. she walks up to him cause he's in a trance and breaks his neck. and the sh*ttiest thing is that when they die, they all explode into a green puff of smoke. like what the hell? is that necessary? even the big baddie who wields 2 giant katanas and has the ability of the Flash as well dies in a dumb way. he and Elektra clash in the garden and Elektra takes a couple of hits, you know, to make her seem human [and is supposed to make you feel for her too by the way]. then, he says some lame-ass line and charges at her for the finishing move but oh, what's this? Elektra sticks her Ninja Turtle knife thingie in his chess and tosses him into the well in the middle of the garden, where he, you guessed it, explodes into a green puff of smoke. did i mention that the movie is also somewhat a rip-off of Star Wars. the way Stick, the sensei, preaches about 'the way' is just like how the great Master Yoda teaches the young Jedi about staying on the Light Side of the Force.

anyway, so we finished the bad movie and walked to Taka where we visited dom in Best Denki. he was at the discman and mp3 players section, with his burned CD blasting in the background. Liz considered buying an mp3 player but after seeing the 'made in china' words imprinted on the back, she quickly declined. dom looked weird in his Best Denki jacket which makes the employees look like Japanese sushi chefs.

Chinese New Year celebrations in (s)RJC were okay. it was Ben's debut performance for MCS. it was almost as if he was born for dikir barat. it was quite funny and the lead guy was making some funny quips about the lunar new year and they had the dikir barat equivalent of a punch-line drum beat that played everytime he said something funny. he then, went on to declare Ben to the entire school as the only Chinese in MCS, to which Ben received a really loud round of applause and cheers. i swear i heard his CFC [Cedarian Fan Club] scream.

anyways, Chinese New Year is here. not really that excited about it. i don't know why. more anxious about the gig i guess. it's off to kelvin's place now.

"the singer had to take take take take take take take it away.."