Yi ran fan te xi
Haha I saw posts in Mindef Forums calling it "Hai shi fan te xi". OK lah, it still (pun intended) has the meaning of "Still Fantasy".
And then someone had to make it "Hai shi fan ke xi". What the heck?
Ben cao gang mu rocks.
Anyway, this week I watched Singapore Dreaming. Quite a good show lah, I would say. The beginning was quite ordinary... the usual Singaporean family... haha and the son's girlfriend, Irene, is the typical photo-blogger!
However, everything was not really going well. The son (Seng) didn't seem to be able to settle down after returning from an overseas study trip (in terms of career and relationship)... Dad favours son over daughter and gives unconditionally to the son (in terms of finance). The housekeeper Mum who loves to make herbal tea. And a former Guardsman (Wow!) who became an poor-performing insurance agent with low self-esteem.
Everything crashed down after the demise of the father. I won't give spoilers here but I just want to say that I find the ending quite appropriate. Not a "happy" ending, of course, but appropriate.
Something about this show... the funniest moments are at the saddest moments (read: Lim Yu Beng speaking Chinese).
Yesterday we had class dinner. Class 10/04 I mean. We had a seafood steamboat meal at Marina south... ate mostly the cooked food before venturing on to trying to cook the raw ones. The pork came in really large chunks! And Joel had to take my meat pieces after I flipped them over and over and over on the pan...
OK lah, since some of the meat were actually taken for Joel anyway...
Mussels were not bad. Really nice feeling, you know, taking them straight out of the hot pot and into the mouth. Hot hot hot!
Then Joe and Jee Shiang had to arrive when we're about to go!
OK lah, there was still K-box after the dinner... I knew Kaicheng and JY were there for sure, but I don't know if the other guys joined in, because I had to go off before they went into the KTV... due to the lateness of the hour.
Zannen da ne... what a pity!
Not wanting to go off so soon, however, I walked around Cineleisure after parting with them ("I wanted to sing!!!") and went into this collectibles shop (they actually sell the Hardgay sword-and-barrel toy, "Kuroi-Gay Kiki Ippatsu", whose name loosely translates as "Gay in Black, Sudden Danger"). I didn't buy it, though. I bought a $2 (haha cheapo!) handphone ornament (again?!) of this series, "Keroro Gonsou" (Sergeant Keroro).
It's actually a super random humour anime serial about a platoon of a froggish alien species led by this sergeant called Keroro (whose name is derived from the Japanese rendition of a frog's cry, "Kero Kero") which hails from a foreign planet and is bent on... erm, conquering our planet.
For which every attempt ends in hilarious failures. The aliens, however, developed friendships with the humans they ended up living with. Anyway, the figure I got was CPL (or "Gocho", as Japs call corporals) Giroro.
The froggish platoon, with SGT Keroro on the right
CPL Giroro
They looked really cute in those headgear haha. Even when it's a bit remeniscent of WW2. Some say this series is made to mock at the old imperialism idealogy which fueled Japanese participation in WW2.
