Sunday, December 19, 2004

class gathering yesterday.. actually plus today.. coz went to watch a 12 midnight show..cool.. it is my first time going to watch a midnight movie.. hehe.. watched erm.. national treasure.. a nice show.. very smart.. very clever of the actor.. li hai leh.. i would never thought of those smart things to do.. perhaps i am just plain stupid and thank you for not rubbing it in..

anyway,we went to marina south there to eat ba.. the seafood restaurant.. haha.. we reached there pretty early as joseph send us there.. haha.. yeah.. haha.. er ge came to fetch me first.. then i sat behind.. he chao bu shuang.. haha.. coz he felt like he is erm.. taxi driver? haha.. so went to sit in the front loh.. haha.. then we went to fetch caryn .. almost lost our way while getting in.. haha.. caryn was so pretty.. as usual.. i am not surprised at all.. haha.. then we went to fetch kaijing.. haha.. forever so sweet looking.. haha..

and we headed to the marina south there to book a table.. and saw yongkang they all there.. anyway,there was ricky, mengwei, joseph, hongkang, jason, tianfa (kena pangsei by weilong), caryn, kaijing and me.. ate quite alot and had fun erm.. chatting and crapping as well.. then suddenly the aluminium foil caught fire and jason went tried to put out the fire by pouring his drink (ice lemon tea) into the foil thinking that it will help stop the fire..

but...

the lemon tea didnt help to stop the fire..

instead..

it caused the fire to become even bigger..

a great show that the camera cant catch.. we panicked.. but ming wei (meng wei) was zhen ding.. he just blew at the fire and.. the fire stopped.. hero of the night!!!haha... and jason was kena teased for the rest of the night.. seems that the lemon tea contained something that helped the fire to be even bigger.. hmm.. i dunnoe wad loh.. but anyway, yeah.. the fire stopped and we asked the person there to change the foil for us.. and the person expertly changed it for us.. as if he doesnt feel the heat.. pei fu..pei fu.. zhen shi li hai~~

then went to watch national treasure.. been watching a lot of movies recently.. but i dun mind as this is one of the movie i wanted to watch when we watched the sneak preview of these shows when we went to watch the incredibles that time.. haha.. or issit shutter that time?? hmm, pretty confused.. wahaha..



national treasure.. a cool movie...
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That the movie's hero, named Benjamin Franklin Gates and played by Nicolas Cage, is able to intuitively sense the occult meanings of ancient riddles and puzzles is less a tribute to his intelligence than to the screenplay supplying him with half a dozen bonus A-ha! Moments. An A-Ha! Moment, you will recall, is that moment at which a movie character suddenly understands something which, if he did not understand it, would bring the entire enterprise to a halt.

Benjamin Franklin Gates is named, of course, after the famous software millionaire. His family of historians has been scorned for generations because of its belief that a vast treasure was brought back from the Crusades by the Knights Templar and has been hidden by the Masons -- in this case, Masons who were the Founding Fathers of America. Benjamin's father, Patrick Henry Gates (played by Jon Voight and named after O. Henry), scoffs at the family legend, but his grandfather John Adams Gates (played by Christopher Plummer and named after the inventor of the toilet) gives Benjamin a clue handed down through the generations from Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.

This clue, which involves the word "Charlotte," seems baffling until Benjamin has an A-Ha! and leads an expedition north of the Arctic Circle in search of a 19th century sailing ship which, he calculates, must have frozen in the ice and then been shifted miles inland by the gradual movement of the floes. To say the expedition finds the ship without much trouble is putting it mildly; Benjamin digs about a foot down into the permafrost, and then bends over and wipes clean a brass nameplate that helpfully says "Charlotte."

Clues on the ship lead him to believe the map to the treasure may be written in invisible ink on the back of the Declaration of Independence -- a safe place for it, because such a document would be guarded down through the ages. Of course there is the problem of convincing the National Archives to allow you to remove the Declaration from its vacuum-sealed vault and molest it with lemon juice and a hair dryer. Luckily the National Archivist, Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger), named after her scenes in the movie, is convinced by Benjamin, and together they team up to steal the Declaration before the villain (Sean Bean) can steal it first.

After many chases and close calls and quick thinking and fast footwork and hanging from swinging doors and leaping chasms, etc., the heroes find themselves in a collapsing mine shaft beneath a church tomb -- a shaft that must have been created secretly, although it seems roughly the size of Boston's Big Dig. Whether they're on a wild goose chase or find the fortune of the ages, I will leave for you to discover. I understand why it is necessary, in The Da Vinci Code, to conceal information associated with the Holy Grail, but I am less convinced, in "National Treasure," that the treasure had to be hidden because it was so vast that if all that wealth came suddenly into the world it would, I dunno, capsize the economy or cause the brains of accountants to explode.

haha.. a great show that is not to be missed!!!!!go watch it!!!!!

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