~da greyscale world

Last night, just before I went to bed, I decided to make today my “movie day”. I spent a few hours trying to make a timetable based on a movie schedule. This is what I get.

I chose Paragon Cineplex cuz there are so many movies available. I do love Lido, but with very few movies left to see, I crossed over to the expensive side. I wanted to see at least 4 movies today, so I picked Paragon.

Thanks to “oh-so-fancy” cinema, I can only manage to see 3 films today. What seems to be the problem? Well, the price is the main issue. Normal seat cost 140 – 160 B while lido charge you 100-120 B plus a stamp card to redeem one free seat every 10 stamps.

Since Paragon is so fancy, they offer you a very special seating in a very special theatre. I’m trying to see the reaping at 13:00 but it would cost 600 B per seat … so I change my plan to 23 at 13:25 …. the theatre is even more fancy and it cost 3,000 B for 2 seats.

My plan was forced to change right in front of the box office staff. I don’t have much time to think so I took Hannibal Rising at 14:00, and that left me 1 free hour.

Another reason is because Paragon is sooooo commercial. Before the movie really starts, you have to watch 40 mins of coming attraction movie trailers and advertisements. [that’s less than 10 mins of trailers and ½ hour of ad.] While lido offers you 10 mins of trailers+ads. The less time you wasted, the more time you can spend on movies.

I wasted almost 4 hours on commercial and Paragon’s crappy schedule. I only managed to see 3 films which I’ll talk about later on.

in the middle of a very big city, surrounded by a concrete jungle

one panda was walking home ~ she got off the BTS and walk right back into her condo. she went into the elevator ~ pressed the button marked "24" and hold the door for 3 more people. each one pressed their floor and smile politely.then walked into their own corner, staring at the ground ~ creating the awkward silence in the normal elevator ride.

that's the way life is in a big city. u can live in a condo for five years and know less than 5 people [including the officers] in that building. u'll know the face but u'll never get acquainted with them.

but when that panda reached her door, she noticed something ~ some white-paper thingie on the floor. a white envelope.

after turned on the lights and locked all the 3 locks on the door that made her father feels safe enought to let his daughter lives out of sight, she opened the envelope and found this ...

it's a namecard, marked with the number of the room on her floor. what can it be? the pestimisc side starts to do its job. did someone scratch my door and leave his card for me?

when she flips the card, turns out that this is one heart-warming situation.

[i blurred the cell phone number for privacy reason]

he lives two doors away and i've never met him. stills, he's kind enough to offer me a lil' gift from his trip. i never claim that chocolate, but i did SMS him to say thanks.

i'm just blogging about this cuz it feels so nice. to know that in this big-concrete-city there's a lil' touch of kindness. something to reminds you of smalltown benevolence. to know that all the people u walk pass on the street ain't all mindless-robot.

it just feels so good ~

i got a new phone today ~ analog mobile phone. well, it ain't that analog, but it has black&white dot-screen with blue back light. no extra function but call-in, call-out, text-messaging, phonebook and a few board game.

the phone is motorola c113 and it costs me 990B. [around 30$] some clothings i own cost more than that!! at first i was gonna buy ericsson t10s since it was my very first phone~ but i couldn't find a "juicy blue" and a new one [only second hand avaliable]

colour-screens, why need them? unless u have a built-in camera in your phone, which is not as good as a digital camera itself. [by the way, i still fancy my film camera, Nikon F3] u need wap? with a 13.3" fujitsu laptop, u'll get a better vision with ADSL speed. MP3 player? what's ipod for? multi-tasking equipment seems like a dream, but each function can't compete with the real equipment. it's time to get back to its core ... phone is for calling and messaging!!