I spent my Christmas eve bawling my eyes out while watching King Kong with Catbury at Lido.
The movie was awesome but I like the second half of it most. The part where Kong spins around the frozen lake at Central park was a tad cheesy, but oh-so-touching. I felt that Adrien Brody’s character kinda got overshadowed by the others, such as the very hot looking captain. Nevertheless, he’s still my favourite actor.
I’m going to watch it again next week, by myself. =)
After the show, Catbury and I strolled squeezed along Orchard Road, from Borders to Taka and back (had to make a detour cos we can’t even cross over to Meritus Mandarin). We passby this bar/pub/whatever you call it, where there was this live band singing the uber loser love song, “You’re beautiful”. And all of the sudden, I began chanting “you’re beautiful” x2 like the scary looking people in King Kong.
We even bought two of those soapy-smelling foam sprays to join in the fun with the banglas, lians, bengs and random post-menopause aunties. As a result of those foams, the ground was semi sticky and rather slippery.
What irked me the most wasn’t the mobbing and ambushing of those can-welding peeps. What irked me was that families brought their little kids out on Xmas eve, fully knowing that it will be a massive crowd along Orchard.
Massive crowd = Dangerous
And if last night had rained all of the sudden, it would be
Massive crowd + unexpected downpour + soapy foams + cans littered on the ground= Possible stampede
Parents, use abit of common sense, can?
Foam or not, next year, please juse stay at home (or just, stay away from Orchard), have a nice dinner together, unwrap the pressies with the kids at the stroke of midnight.
Don’t be like the “protective” adult whom I saw right before my eyes last night, shoving/man-handling a little girl around and into a cab, going “hai zi jing xian!”(Kids in first!) nth times.
