Supposedly went for hiking tonite in TTDI since a couple of friends were training for their Mount KK climb. Traffic was horrendous and took me longer to reach TTDI when it’s such a breeze to go there on weekends. On a spur decided to go for a night hike since I’ve always gone on mornings. Psyched for a little adventure yet fearsome about the amount of mozzie bites that I’ll get, I packed my insect repellent and applied it while stuck in the traffic! Neighbouring cars must be wondering that I’m mad. *Guffaw* So now, my car smelled like a cross between durian puke and insect repellent. Hey, what a great way to deter people from sitting in my car! Muahahaaha….
I reached a tad late with SL calling me every 5 min to check on my status. I drove as fast as I could but was rendered moving at a snail pace mostly due to massive traffic jam along the Eastin stretch. What a bummer! Drat, Drat, Drat! When I reached, it was past sunset. I groped around looking for my friends. Gees, they are in the park after all and not on the hill as I had conjured. Shucks, I should have just gone to the gym instead and enjoy the air-cond and free drinks. What am I doing in a dimly-lit park being a live bait for the mozzies to tackle. Hmmmmpphhh…..I re-applied the insect repellent on the exposed areas of my skin after feeling some ‘attempted bites’ while the climber’s guide gave a demo on the type of exercises the wannabe climbers have to do to increase their fitness levels like walking like a duck. Hahahaha….that look kinda farnee…. 
We strolled along the park as warm-up and I continuously chat with SL while THY just walked on listening to our bitching. (as usual) Along the way, the guide made them do some funny movements to break the monotony. As I don’t see well in the dark, I feigned ignorance and continue my ‘pasar malam strolling’. Well, it’s not like I’m gearing to climb Mount KK anyhow so wasn’t really bothered. Midway, the guide taught us to sing the International Girl Guide Song which he said will be fun to sing along during the climb. I jested to SL that by the climb proper, I doubt they would have enough oxygen circulating inside their system let alone enough breath to sing a song? Wakakakaka……
Anyway, I used to be in girl guides as such was familiar with the song that was sung. Prob sung it so often in yonder years that it’s permanently ingrained inside my head liao. I had a whole book on songs sung during campfires and guides outings and we used to sing many of them but I’ve chucked the book to god knows where now. Anyway, the song goes something like this….(can’t provide the tune tho’)…no words or language to remember….anybody can just sing it….best sung with a guitar accompanied by clapping surrounded by a campfire for some bonding…..hehehehe
Lu la la, lu la la
Lu la, lu la lay
La la lu la, lu la
Lu la, lu la lay
Lu la la, lu la la
Lu la, lu la lay
La la lu la, lu la lay
Then the guide lead us to sing another familiar Malay folk song….”Chan Mari Chan”. Can’t really remember the lyrics except for the chorus which goes something like “Chan Mari Chan (clap) Hei, Hei, Chan Mari Chan (clap) Hei, Hei” something something di kampung….*CHuckle* Gosh, it’s fun to be singing these songs again…sure brings back memories of childhood.
The first time I went camping with the guides, it was a bit of a culture shock esp where toilet was concerned! We had to make do with ‘makeshift natural toilets’ in the bushes. Uggghhhh…..so gross. Then we had to take baths in the waterfall wearing some stoopid sarongs lar. Gees, luckily all were girls. At night, we took turns taking shifts to patrol the campsite. Mine was at the graveyard shift at 2am. Anyway, I couldn’t really sleep with mozzies humming around me the whole night even with the mozzie coil incense burning. And the sleeping on the uneven surface is not exactly comfortable so I was more or less awake.
After patrolling the campsite, we sat round the campfire and the others started telling ghost stories to keep all of us awake. Grrrrr….as if it’s not scary enough ensconced inside the jungle. I threw some potatoes into the fire and laced it with some butter while trying to shut my ears from hearing and the eerie feeling tickling my spine. The next day, we left camp and set off home. By the time I reached home, I looked like a zombie with both legs covered with mozzie bites and a pale face coupled with panda eyes staring at the ceiling due to extreme tiredness both from lack of sleep and lugging all the camping equipment. My parents were a tad worried and banned me from going to future camping trips after that. Well, that is after I self-banned myself. LOL…but of course, I went again after some donkey years when memories became somewhat hazy…
Back to the night walk. After the 1st round, the guide taught us more exercises to incorporate in out daily life in prep for the climb. Exercises like doing the ‘horse stance’ (martial art training), some tai chi strokes ie wiping the window, wiping the floor, waving the arms about….haahhahaa….hilarious….my mum would be pleased if I applied these in the house-keepingc chores…after that, more briefing followed by some Q and A. I threw in a few queries since everyone was so quiet so the guide asked me where I was from after the session. Must have sensed my enthusiasm but became gobsmacked when I said I wasn’t even participating in the climb!! I was just being kepoh. ROTFL
In a nutshell, this movie is about JOhn McClane (Bruce Willis) who saved the world (literally) from a group of high-tech hacker terrorists. Techies may appreciate the tech lingo spoken by the hackers otherwise to the rest of us, they just sound gibberish. Maggie Q served nothing more other than being a ‘vase’ (in Canto) and utter not more than 10 sentences in the entire movie. She didn’t look that attractive in the movie tho’ perhaps due to her limp hair which is like glued to her head. Gees, don’t they have an in-house stylist or something to blow their hair watnots?? On the bright side, she did manage to spar with Bruce Willis or I reckon more likely his stunt double and can’t seemed to just die no matter how badly she was thrown about! At one juncture, spotted a blooper. On one scene where she was fighting with Bruce, she got punched on the face which made it bloody but on the next scene, her hair was all smooth and face got all cleaned up oredi! Muahahahaa……the editors sure didn’t do a good job for a blunder like this to skim thru.
The enemy, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olymphant, whom FC says is in the series “Deadwood”) has only one aloof expression throughout the entire show, which made him seemed somewhat like a robot. Talk about bad acting. As for Bruce, well, it just seemed a tad implausible at times with the amount of injuries that he sustained, he just seemed unable to die hence the title I guess or perhaps it should be renamed as “Cannot Die”. Plot is like this; he received a call one night to bring a hacker, Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) back to DC for questioning but was stopped along the way by highly-skilled assasins who wanted the hacker dead cos the hacker helped designed some security breaching device for the terrorists.
What I’m not in favour of is Bruce’s character killing without hesitation (like gangsters), which seemed to contradict a police officer detective’s role. It’s trigger-happy “Wham” “Bang” “Shoot” all the way! I mean at one point, he even shot a bullet thru himself to put down the enemy. That’s like insane! And the other illogical point? Well, it’s somewhat hilarious to see him driving a car everywhere and just hobbling with a leg injury to the enemy’s hideout so quickly when it seemed to take ages for the FBI team in helicopters to arrive. Tsk tsk tsk…..
Suffice to say, it’s very much a guy’s action movie. Just loads of action disguised on a thin plot. Plenty of cars, airplanes, helicopters ramming into each other and guns blasting at almost every scene. I reckon “Shooter” was much better in terms of acting and storyline (same lone ranger story saving the world). Wait a minute, actually, come to think of it, the theme is oddly familiar. I think this is possibly every man’s dream, being able to boost their ego becoming the hero who single-handedly saved the world from terrorists/enemies/aliens. Eg. movies like Rambo, Terminator, Indiana Jones, Speed, Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies etc etc to name a few.
Best scene is when Bruce drives a car, jumps off and the car amazingly flew off a divider and hit the helicopter crashing it down!!! Amazingly, the person inside the helicopter didn’t die and even managed to go after Bruce. Now, you tell me whether that’s logical??
