One new thing today

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In the hope to live a slightly more interesting life and to experience new things in my life, I decided to consciously make time to do new things. Many thanks to dear JY for her suggestion, I watched a movie which was screened in conjunction with the Korean Festival 2010 earlier this afternoon.

It was a new thing since it was my first time watching a movie that was held in conjunction with the Korean Film Festival. The movie was in Korean language. Furthermore, I hardly watched movie. The last that I had watched was "Precious". That movie was pretty heavy given its storyline and themes.

Back to the movie that I had watched this afternoon, it was titled Jeon Woo Chi: The Taoist Wizard. The synopsis is as follow:

500 Years Ago in the Chosun Dynasty. The Pipe of the prophecy has fallen into the evil hands of the goblins, propelling the world into a whirlwind of disorder. The ancient Taoist wizards turn to the greatest ascetics of their time, the Master and Hwadam for help in vanquishing the goblins and trust each wizard with one half of the Pipe.

Meanwhile, the Master’s rascal student Woochi tricks the king with the art of transformation and creates a fiasco, which makes the three Taoist wizards and Hwadam visit the Master. But the Master has been murdered and his half of the Pipe is missing! By taking his master’s pipe out to the market streets, Woochi has been pushed into a corner, ultimately getting sealed into a painting along with his trusty dog, Chorangyi. (Click here to view source.)

 

I like the pretty imaginative twists in the movie. The movie gave me the chance to have a sense of the Korean's sense of humour and imagination. An action-based fantasy movie indeed. Many thanks to dear JY for her thoughtful company and for getting the tickets.

Go with the flow

Have you experience times when you wish to be out of the home, but your energy level keeps reminding you to slow down and not push your limits?

That happened to me yesterday. I had wanted to visit the Singapore Art Museum for its Christmas Day Open Day activities in the morning, but was not feeling at my best to do so. In the end, after take to rest and relax at home in the morning, I went out of home to catch the movie, King Kong in the early morning.

So, as Mystic often says: "Go with the flow". It sums up what I did.

I am not a movie fanatic, but I must say King Kong is a good movie. There have been many positive reviews about it that I decided to watch it. The pace of the movie is just right, even though the movie is about three hours long. The storyline, while a fantasy in itself, is coherent and well-delivered. The personalities and characters of the various roles are well depicted too, making the characters come alive.

My favourite characters in this movie are: Ann, Jack and King Kong.

If you still aren't decided on whether to catch this movie, maybe you would like to check out about this movie from: http://www.kingkongmovie.com/home.html

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And for the history fanatic, maybe this URL containing an in-depth review of the 1933 version of King Kong may interest you: http://www.filmsite.org/kingk.html