.Monday, March 12, 2007 Y
'tis another day..
i am so happy today.
haha i actualli watched a movie!! now dun laugh at me, but the last time i watched a movie before today was 1st of jan - death note 2. yeah. i mean, watch a movie as in really gg to the cinema theatre to watch a movie. instead of juz staying in hall all the time and watching it. which is cool, too, at times, if i dun fall aslp in bed first. haha. and staying in hall all the time is just so. not. healthy.
and i went out to haf dinner at this place called botak jones. it serves western food; it has two branches, one in ang mo kio and the other in clementi; the pricing's ok and the servings're kinda huge. haha but it's worth the money cos it reli tastes quite gd. i dun haf the no. with me, but if i ever rmb to get it, i'll put it up here. the queue can get pretty long, esp at dinner time (arnd 7pm) so u'll prob haf to wait 45 min to an hr for the food. but u can actualli pre-order it and collect it aftrwards. as in, call in and pre-order it. kinda like KFC and mac's, except tht they dun send it to ur doorstep. not bad for a place tht's situated in a kopitiam. all rite, demerit pts for the ambience, but hey, sometimes the food at nice lking places suck. so let's not give the place and ambience more credit than they deserve, shall we?
all righty, done with the food review and moving on to the movie review of the day.
the pursuit of happyness.
seriously. happYness. not happIness. and i juz realized it at the start of the movie, not even when i was paying for the tix at the counter. it's abt this guy (a true story btw) called chris gardner who worked his ass off at some stupid sales job selling some stupid bone density detector machine. and he has a whole bunch of them to sell. it's like an x-ray, just twice the price and a bit more convenient. he was behind in rent, bills, parking fines, taxes etc. whtever tht needs to be paid, he didn't pay them. so he was stuck in tht runt for more than a while. but then he got a chance. aftr hounding some guy from a stockbroker firm for a job, he got into the internship prog, which lasts for 6 mths. but no pay for tht 6 mths. u juz gotta work ur ass off for the company and hopes tht it hires u at the end of 6 mths. 1 out of possibly 25 interns to choose from. and he got the job in the end. he was so happy, he actualli teared. and will smith. wht more can i say? i'd say he's a pretty damn gd actor.
and his son wasn't bad either. tht's his real son acting in the show, btw. somehow i feel like i'm not doing the movie review enough justice. so bottom line is: hurry and go watch it. it's definitely worth the ticket and popcorn money. it'll even make u tear/cry. so girls grab ur tissue and guys, ask the girls out for this one instead of the scary movies that make her tear/cry/wail for the totally wrong reasons.
a few things i've learnt frm the movie tht i decided to take along with me tonight. tonight, cos i can onli hope i rmb them as time goes by. a lot of things went thru my head. but one stay stuck: happiness doesnt juz fall frm the sky and the way life works is: u juz may haf to give up so many other things, to sacrifice so many other things, to get tht one thing in life. and when u reli do get it, it may or may not be worth the sacrifice(s). but when it's not, u juz have to pick tht up and move on. and u can't tell urself tht u can't afford to sacrifice anymore. becos u can. and u must.
and mb one day, possibly one day, it'll all be worth it.
