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Friday, December 22, 2006
happy feet
As part of the 'Keep in contact with Sandy' masterplan, we met up at Scarborough Town Centre today. Taiwanese Sandy studied in Singapore. She, together with a few others from BGYA01 lab, is the group of people who I really got to know in UTSC. 'Keep in contact' as she transferred to the downtown campus of UofT. Boo! Anyway, Sandy had to get a Christmas gift (but ended up buying something for herself at GAP), while I.. I needed to get out of the house and not be a video nerd.
We had lunch at the foodcourt and talked quite a bit. Before that, we got our tickets to see those oh-so lovable penguins sing and tap their way on the big screen in Happy Feet. We were one of the few people who actually were in the theatre, since the movie has been out for a few weeks and most people were busy doing some last-minute Christmas shopping (the mall was bustling with shoppers, people who actually carried bags of purchased items, not window-shoppers).
The movie was great. It had Aaw-shucks moments (oozing amounts of cuteness), it had Pow-wow moments (action-driven penguin escapes), it had La-la-tap-tap moments (singing and dancing mating rituals). Grooving cute penguins with a pinch of adventurism, can you imagine? Message to take home: Reduce overharvesting, conserve the environment and its inhabitants, protect good ole' Earth, and most importantly, human beings suck.
After the movie, Sandy met up with two friend who came from Kingston to spend the holidays in Toronto. Meryl and Yingying. We had a good chat, especially seeing how Yingying grew up in Singapore and studied in KL. They soon left, and I got home to continue my conquest of One Litre Of Tears.
PS Pamy sent me three Singapore Tourism Board postcards, like she constantly has over the past two years. Love them. They remind me of everything in Singapore. The funny thing was the two postcards I was supposed to read second and last came yesterday, while the postcard #1 came today. LOL! But thanks Pamster!
We had lunch at the foodcourt and talked quite a bit. Before that, we got our tickets to see those oh-so lovable penguins sing and tap their way on the big screen in Happy Feet. We were one of the few people who actually were in the theatre, since the movie has been out for a few weeks and most people were busy doing some last-minute Christmas shopping (the mall was bustling with shoppers, people who actually carried bags of purchased items, not window-shoppers).
The movie was great. It had Aaw-shucks moments (oozing amounts of cuteness), it had Pow-wow moments (action-driven penguin escapes), it had La-la-tap-tap moments (singing and dancing mating rituals). Grooving cute penguins with a pinch of adventurism, can you imagine? Message to take home: Reduce overharvesting, conserve the environment and its inhabitants, protect good ole' Earth, and most importantly, human beings suck.
After the movie, Sandy met up with two friend who came from Kingston to spend the holidays in Toronto. Meryl and Yingying. We had a good chat, especially seeing how Yingying grew up in Singapore and studied in KL. They soon left, and I got home to continue my conquest of One Litre Of Tears.
PS Pamy sent me three Singapore Tourism Board postcards, like she constantly has over the past two years. Love them. They remind me of everything in Singapore. The funny thing was the two postcards I was supposed to read second and last came yesterday, while the postcard #1 came today. LOL! But thanks Pamster!