Monday - Driving Test Part 1

Chris and I went down to the city, with every intention of taking the driving theory test but when we took our ticket and waited our turn, the lady at the counter told us that they did not accept bank statements as proof of address. Alamak, what a hassle! Now we had to go back with nothing, go down to school and get them to write a letter confirming our addresses before we could come back and take the test. Mah fan, mah fan, mah fan!!! Since we were already in the city, we decided to catch a movie. Might as well right? So we walked to South Bank to watch House of Wax. Another lame show unfortunately. Having Paris Hilton in the show does not make it better. In fact, she is just a Barbie doll in it. Her most exciting scenes are when she strips down to a pair of red underwear for her boyfriend and when she gets killed. The bad guy throws a stake right through her forehead and then goes to pull out the stake. I was thinking that she looks exactly like a store mannequin in that scene. There were 2 other lame scenes. I'm sorry but I couldn't help laughing at the idiocy of the female lead. She was captured by 1 of the bad guys and he locked her up in the basement. She was tied up on a chair with her mouth sealed shut with superglue and her arms were bound with tape. She managed to pull 1 of her arms free at the same time her brother comes looking for her. Her arm still has a metal bar stuck on due to the tape. So her brother is confronting the bad guy upstairs and he doesn't know that he is bad. She hears her brother talking to the guy so she tries to get his attention. How does this do-do try to attract attention? She finds an opening and sticks her index finger out. She wiggles her finger like a worm hoping that her brother will notice a tiny part of it sticking out of the grate. Too bad for her, the bad guy sees it first and he promptly stands in front of the finger to block it. He manages to convince her brother that his sister wasn't there and when the brother turns away, he bends down, takes a pair of pliers out and cuts off her finger. Wahahaha....I was guessing that he would stomp on her finger but cutting it off was better. Come on, where's her common sense man?? Sticking out your finger especially when you know there's a sadistic killer up there is plain stupid. She could have banged the metal bar on the grate and made some noise instead. Or even better, she could have opened her lips before sticking out her finger and shouting for help (she opened her lips after her finger was cut off). Another stupid scene without a hint of common sense was when the girl's boyfriend got caught by the bad guy and he was turned into a wax statue. The boyfriend was obviously still alive because you could see his eyes moving. A friend comes into the room and realises that his friend has been waxified, hahhahaa....He wants to get his friend out of the wax so he tries pulling the wax off his face. Guess what? His skin comes off with the wax and you get to see the poor guy's muscles and teeth. The friend freaks out and goes on pulling even though it's obviously not helping him and the friend should be running for his life anyway instead of wasting time peeling wax + skin. I know I would. Oh well, maybe the director wanted it this way so that it would extend camera time on the guy's face falling off.

After the movie, we met the other guys outside the cinema and they were going for Sin City. Personally I thought that Sin City didn't seem too interesting. I didn't understand the trailer so I thought it was no big deal. I guess Jessica Alba is 1 of the few attractions the movie has to offer.

Dinner with him at Sizzler's. I gave him a treat. He is graduating already and leaving next week for good. I envy him. He gets to go home. I miss S'pore and M'sia, especially when my mum and dad called me when they were in M'sia in our new house and my dad was telling me about all the new plans he was going to do. He's going to get a pond in the garden just under his bedroom window. He did so many changes to the house, I think I'll probably won't be able to recognise it when I get back. It'll be about 1 year old by then. We're getting a dog too. A male german shepard about 1 plus years old. He's getting it from his friend who breeds german shepards and dobermans. At first the friend wanted to give us the doberman but it scares me and it's not friendly at all. At least the german shepards are more sociable and approachable. I still remember the male getting all excited seeing us come and he came right up to us to greet us. He also gave me a souvenir; a nice muddy paw-print on my white tennis show. Haha...he's sweet. I can't wait to go home to meet him. I love big dogs. Opps, I've digressed too much. Anyway, Sizzler was alright but I didn't enjoy the salad bar. There was nothing there that appealed to me. They didn't even have chicken or mushroom soup. Instead there was minestrone (yucks) and pumpkin (ewww). I only ate some potato, fruits and sticky date pudding. The pudding was superb!!! I've never tried this before and I loved it. I had 3 helpings, haha. My main course was ok; I had barramundi but it seemed a little tough. The mashed potatoes were nice though and I polished bit off even though I was really full. He had steak but medium rare. All the blood put me off. I only eat my steak well done. After dinner, we went back to my place where we chatted for a few hours and then he left. I enjoy talking to him (or is it more like listening to him?). He usually talks and I listen. Oh well, there are friends for talking and friends for listening. I guess, I'm his listening friend.