Monday blues

blues cos I woke up to the sound of pouring "rain". Yeah my aircon started leaking water in the middle of the night, creating a mess at my doorway. sibei sian. gotta call for repairs le.

Anyways, the US Open just concluded a few hours ago... I actually managed to stay up till 430 to watch the entire match. Federer, well, won again, in 4 sets. He is just amazing in that, when he is not on his best form, his average form can carry him along with the best of the game. And during parts of the match when he turns it on, well, its simply good luck to the opponent. But good job on Roddick too la, who has really improved of late. In any case, Federer does look rather beatable this few weeks too, often squandering break points and struggling to close out match points. It's really really hard to stay out on top man. Having said that, that bugger got into all FOUR grand slam finals, winning 3/4 of them. Magnificent la, the "struggling" Federer. heh.

Something interesting though. Tiger Woods and Federer met for the 1st times when Tiger came to watch the Swiss play in the finals. OK, they have admiration for each other blah blah. But ain't it interesting when the world's top golfer, who is American, is sitting in the VIP box in the Swiss corner rooting for Federer against his fellow American Andy Roddick? haha. I wonder what Roddick must be thinking. Either that he was pissed at Tiger or pissed at himself for not asking Tiger to support him. Although it doesn't matter to me la, with sports now being so international, with agents and companies ruling over nationalities (think the west ham issue; Tiger n Roger also same agent + Nike). But it's always nice to see a sporting legend cheering on another sporting legend, even though Tiger's earnings in half a year is easily more than Federer's career winnings. So much $$ in golf loh.

This week sees Agassi, Navratilova, Schumacher all announcing their retirements. While Tiger and Roger wrapped up their championships. transition loh.

ok .....

Movie post again ....

Caught 2 Brian de Palma films lately. This guy has a penchant for mob films. We can be good friends. heh

The Untouchables

The story of Al Capone, during Prohibition, and how he got brought down by a group of police officers who were nicknamed "the untouchables". They finally got Capone in tax fraud charges.

Yeah that's the whole storyline really. Frankly I wasn't very much impressed by the whole show, I mean it had a quite dull plot, not much memorable scenes. Granted, De Niro was wonderful as Capone BUT he had only like a few minutes of screentime !!!! What a waste of talent. He should be given more dialogue la seriously. Kevin Costner was really bland, and as lead I expected more leh. His style is really only for Dances With Wolves, which still is one of my fav movies all time.

Best Scene? Baseball bat. I knew he was gonna do something with that bat. heh typical mobster.

This one, can pass.






Carlito's Way

This film is wayyy better... Al Pacino acts as a Puerta Rican who got jailed after being busted as a drug peddler, tries to turn over a new leaf and go clean, but finds it hard to run away from the mob life. Quite a refreshing change, especially contrasting to Scarface where he went into Mob King status and degenerated later on.

Once again, I must say that listening to Pacino's dialogue is simply marvellous. Most actors they just read their lines but Pacino gets into his lines so much. There's so much emotion and thought when he delivers, and I think its really exceptional. Oh, and the director had quite a few long shots in the movie, meaning the shot was taken all in 1 take, which were crucial to the delivery of the movie. Props to that.

Most memorable scene ? ..... Hmm.. there was this handjob scene which was QUITE interesting. haha. I must say, lucky guy, heh

Al Pacino says this in the closing scene, on his death bed (ambulance stretcher). good stuff

Carlito: Sorry boys, all the stitches in the world can't sew me together again. Lay down... lay down. Gonna stretch me out in Fernandez funeral home on Hun and Ninth street. Always knew I'd make a stop there, but a lot later than a whole gang of people thought... Last of the Moh-Ricans... well maybe not the last. Gail's gonna be a good mom... New improved Carlito Brigante... Hope she uses the money to get out. No room in this city for big hearts like hers... Sorry baby, I tried the best I could, honest... Can't come with me on this trip, Loaf. Getting the shakes now, last call for drinks, bars closing down... Sun's out, where are we going for breakfast? Don't wanna go far. Rough night, tired baby... Tired...

Moh-ricans haha.
Go catch it if you can.

Oh I also watched Election (both 1 and 2), the HK mob show. not bad too la, though the 2 are quite similar. A bit lazy to blog about it haha.


Ok ... later going out to get the sony rechargeables. dammit sony, overpriced underperforming crap!!! the batteries better last longer this time. And a rice cooker too, and a webcam. seems like a good day for shopping hehe