Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

On Thursday night, met up with secondary schoolmates to catch Harry Potter. It's kinda like tradition that we watch the Harry Potter movies together.

Back in secondary school, the Harry Potter series of books were so hot! The teachers pushed for us to read Harry Potter, saying how fantastic Rowling manipulates the English language and all. But seriously, I think I only read the first book. It was quite early that I realised that reading novels weren't my kind of thing.

Anyways, presently, I think it's Harry Potter HIMSELF that's hot, not the books!

This Order of the Phoenix movie is so adult! They've all kinda grown up, and so did we. I guess that's something we all could probably relate to. When Harry Potter and gang got into Hogwarts, we too, just got into secondary school. And then we all just grew up from there.

I truly pity the kids that so want to watch Harry Potter! I believe they'll be bored stiff! I for one, was a little bored because watching Harry Potter makes me wanna become a kid once more. I'm lazy to have to understand the plot.

The first couple of movies were so easy and enjoyable. But I guess now that Harry and gang are all grown up, they need to exude a certain air of maturity.

Aiyoh! And that kiss between the Chinese chick and Harry Potter... NO TONGUE! Plus that mistletoe just appeared from nowhere! That was as hot as it gets, really. The two didn't really hook up after the kiss. But it was great to see Hermoine getting a little jealous.

And what's up with the movie being so dark? It's so dark and evil. The more I pity all the eagerly anticipating children. But I have to say that they were really effective in creating the mood.

Hui Yi says, "...they focus more on effects..."

Which is VERY true. All these Computer Graphics (CG) shit. The one thing that pisses me off is CG. And that one thing school focuses on IS CG! You know how agitated I get when I talk about Digital Media Design, so I'm not going to go there.

I'm also not going to express my flourishing distaste for CG too. I might get shot.

So we watched Harry Potter at Plaza Singapura. NOT the best cinema to catch a movie.

But we didn't really have a choice. My trusted Eng Wah-Suntec didn't have timings AT ALL. Cathay, too, didn't have timeslots. I told you there were a lot of corporate bookings already eh? So in the end no choice go GV lor.

I tried my first online booking transaction. See? I told you I'm getting the hang of getting things online. It was easy-peasy, if I may say. I booked at home, collected my 'tickets' from an AXS machine, went for the movie.

ZERO interaction with the unfriendly (or so I hear) staff.

Not the best place to catch your favourite flick because the cinema is so ill-designed. Whether you're sitting in front, middle or back, you still gotta crank your head up. Not too comfortable for full 2 hours, EXCLUDING THE FREAKING COMMERCIALS!!!

There was 30 freaking minutes of adverts, after which I was ready to fall asleep.

Plus, the sound system is so horrible. I'm not particularly learned in audio controls and all the frequencies mumbo-jumbo, but I can definitely tell what's good and what's NOT.

Kalis finally gave me my birthday present! My pageONE membership card! But now I'm too broke to buy books lah...

I was griping about her short message on the card, because since we're such good pals, I was kinda expecting an essay, maybe even a novel(!!!).

But as I've said, she's my good pal. She knows I don't like to read. So she kept it short, and really sweet (handwritten using her favourite blue-inked pen).

Aww!.........

Too bad Hairianto couldn't make it on that day.

Hairianto, you are sorely missed.

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