i caught the movie 'The Break-Up' at the grand cathay yesterday. the movie was just alright(then again, most jennifer aniston's movies are like that), but the building was pretty cool... although, disappointingly empty. most shops weren't open yet so the entire place was really quiet. the interior of starbucks looked really grand though. it looked like some kind of posh restaurant. perhaps everything in the Grand Cathay was supposed to look grand?
inside the cinema? maaan.. i gotta give it up to the people who designed it! i've got to! it looked nothing, NOTHING, like your typical cinema. just how grand and posh was it? well let's just say...it felt like i was going to watch 'Phantom of the Opera' at some old english theatre. like i needed to put on a big dress that i cant breathe in and hold a pretty little fan. AND converse with a very strong english accent. yes. come on, there was a stage in it. what more can i say?
maybe it was just that particular cinema that i was in(Cinema 1) because my friend said that was the grandest out of all 6. but whatever it is, boy, was it grand. (how many times have i said that word already?)
later on, we were at orchard when this lady came up to us. she was a short, cute 50, 60 something year old japanese who wore a really cute hat on her head even though it was night time already (i told you she was japanese). i've decided to call her cutelady-san.
cutelady-san: "uh..excoos me.."
us: "yes?"
cutelady-san: "hjfajnbac hdfakueip jiriowi fpoiiow ndukejbmsdj nfsiue..."(<-japanese)
us: *stared at each other* "uh..."
cutelady-san: "jhfsaiej jdjceiw nsdiej ncjdkau niweuwenf..." (this time, with better hand gestures)
friend: "i think she's trying to ask us how to get across to the other side."
so we pointed her(with HUGE gestures) in the direction of the traffic light area where she could cross.
cutelady-san: "ah. ndajkswioef jahkdjue ndkajsher kjahadas jdiw?(which meant "oh..so i walk right and then go straight and i can cross? and wow, you girls are really pretty! you look like stars!" yea,i presume that was it. ...ok, the last 2 sentences were made up. but i'm pretty sure she understood our directions.)"
me: *does head-bowing thing* "hai, hai!"
cutelady-san: *amused* thank-you velimuch!
there. i always knew japanese was one of my stronger languages. *shines*
just wait till a french asks me for directions.
7 comments:
wooah phantom of the opera that grand eh..cool stuff..hahaha..
corset! i would like to see sweehoon in that..hahahahaahhaa..
see! even japanese woman says you're pretty! :P
*grin* only the first theatre is the Grand theatre. the rest look like your ordinary cathay cinema :)
LOL. I bet that jap woman'd think I can speak Jappy! I CAN OKAY! HAIK! ALIGATO GOIZAIMAS.
I can totally speak it.
ja> lol i made that up.
anna> really? the others are ordinary? man that sucks. but lucky i sat in the grand one. woohoo.
go back to britain, tamagotchi.
Hey, TengFei here...
just popping by to say hi...
cya around :)
lucky me i didnt go to watch that movie. from wad u wrote, it seems borin!! haha. anyway im downloading it. hahahahah!!!!
tengfei> :O what has it been, 20 years? nice to see you around! :)
fir> it was a pretty typical jennifer aniston movie. better than 'rumor has it' but it was just alright.
STILL, asked you to go but you didnt. now you're gonna download it. PIRATE! hick kiang mai.
yeah, i guess just more spacious perhaps. i like all the theatres until i first step foot in that grand theatre. i think it was superman returns. hmm. i can't remember. definitely lake house. then i was like WOH.
sorry, time to go home. *Zooms off to UK*
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