Owwie
I'm miserable cause my damn wisdom tooth hurts.On a lighter note, the dinner on Saturday went really well and was a complete success. It was kind of tiring but it was well worth the effort.
We started cooking rather late and ended up having dinner at 9PM haha! Can imagine the faces of our starving guests then. Zila and I were the main chefs and the rest helped out with preparations which, was a lot of fun to do.
Hogs, Mei Yee and I went to get the groceries from Giant Hypermarket. Given any normal day, you wouldn't catch me going there by my own free will cause the environment kinda makes me uncomfortable for some strange reason.
Got home and started the necessary preparations. Oh by the way, the cuisine was supposed to be Western and so we had chicken. You know, the safest meat to have since making steaks isn't exactly our forte.
So the menu consisted of fried chicken chop with potato salad, scalded vegetables and garlic bread with a bowl of chicken soup (my recipe, of course. None of the canned soup stuff :P) and a glass of red wine to wash it all down. The joy of cooking comes from having your food appreciated which everyone did and it was most satisfying.
After dinner, we continued our wines while some had beers. It's good to have a cook out that didn't involve getting drunk.
The meal was rather heavy and so we adjourned to watch some TV before playing Taboo. For those who have played this game would agree that it IS a game of unspeakable fun. Add a dash of alcohol and the game morphs into a laughfest. Also, we got Hogs to buy us a horror movie. We initially wanted to get 'Jangan Pandang Belakang' (Don't Look Behind) which was supposedly a very scary Malay horror flick.
Well, Hogs did say that that show was out of stock and played with the idea of buying 'Colic' but decided against it because the storyline seemed lame. So he bought a Thai horror flick called 'Hunch' which none of us have ever heard of. Oh. My. God. What a big mistake! This is one movie that no human being should ever bother to watch! This movie really tested every threshold of emotions we could possibly muster. By that I mean we laughed so hard our sides hurt. The director of this show must've tried to include every possible movie element there is out there. Or, alternatively as Tiny theorised, it was probably some final year film student who had to make a movie as part of his / her project.
What was wrong with the show? Well, it started off like a Honda CRV ad with some cheesy music in the background. And this CRV was always shown as the focus of the shots. The actors were amateurs much like the director of the movie itself and throughout the entire show, there were only 7 people and the scenes were centered around ONE location. The movie is supposed to be about a bunch of people going to some remote resort / summerhouse (we don't know which it was because it was in Thai / Cantonese and the subtitles were extremely hilarious) which was supposedly haunted or some crap.
In an attempt to make the story remotely creepy, they play the ouija board and called some spirit which turned out to be the highlight of the movie. This ghost probably has the worst make-up artist ever who specialised solely in the usage of an eye liner. Yup, the ghost had eye liner lines on her face to suggest 'decomposition'. Like, ok whatever.
And then all of a sudden, there is an element of porn. At this point we were all O_O??? simply because the porno scenes were totally irrelevant to the storyline. No private parts were shown but it was more suggestive in the manner of which it was shot. Nevertheless, very very very bodoh.
The characters did not portray how normal people in real life in situations depicted in the movie would react. For example, their friend jumped into so pond and was at risk of drowning. They rush out to her aid. BUT stops halfway to explain the situation to their other friends elsewhere in the resort / summerhouse SLOWLY. Like AIYO she would've died twice already la. Oh also, they took their time to pakai selipar before running to save their friend.
Subtitles: Okay I know this isn't really the movie's doing (but then again, we wouldn't really know since it was hilarious from the very beginning). The subtitles were obviously done by people who were masters at using Google's online language translator. It was merely copying and pasting the Thai scripts and then hitting 'Translate' into Malay.
The result (what we think they were trying to say) - "Aww come on, don't chicken out" translated to "Jangan jadi seekor anak ayam"
[insert uncontrollable laughter here]
Another one - "What are we going to do next" translated to "Apakah kita akan buat sebelah". I'm coming to the conclusion that these were the same people that made the subtitles for Norbit - "I would like to propose a toast" that translated to "I ingin membuat sekeping roti bakar".
And so the movie came to an end (which was so stupid I won't even bother to say what it is) and the the credits were rolling. BUT GET THIS, at the end of the movie, they included BLOOPER SHOTS! HAHAHAH OMG! The ENTIRE movie was already a mistake to begin with!
Yeah I know it was a really stupid show but it was bloody entertaining. Good work out for our funny bones. To think Hogs thought 'Colic' had a lame storyline.
Apart from the corny movie we watched, we all had a great time. As for me, I woke up on Sunday with my legs all wobbly and my body all weak from the fatigue. Hehe, damn it's tiring to host a cook out :P
