Movie Treat

After my mother had happily redeemed 400 points from M1 for me, I was given the task of finding people to accompany me for a movie treat! Yah! Like true blue Sporeans, we decided to maximise the $150 off from all M1 phones by buying the most value for money phone, which, unfortunately, is not Nokia this time. Ended up with a baby which has a sleek black cover that is going to last me 2 years.

Feeling unusually rarely magnanimous, I decided to let Ivan experience the joy of a free movie ticket. Even if there is no free lunch, there is always a free movie ticket.

"..hmm...some gay sounding movie...what Last Kiss....M18 somemore...Orchard..." as I thought to myself. Without taking a second look, I decided to meet Ivan at Orchard at 630pm for a fine dinner.

Everything proceeded as planned. Ate Taco Bell for a quick bite. Singapore should have more Taco Bell outlets. Their quazilla watever pie is quite unusual and a change from the usual burgers and fries fare offered by the rest.

5 min before the show started, we went to the toilet for a quick wash. "Probably is a movie premiere, since the movie timing of the show is not even on the screen", remarked Ivan.

Striding confidently towards the movie ticket uncle, I brandished my two free movie tickets like a king of the hill. Unexpectedly, the old man peered at the ticket and gave me an instant answer...."chuo de di fang ah, xiao di".."What?! Say again" "Bu shi zhe bian de".

I squinted carefully at the movie tickets. Cathay Orchard. "?!". We are currently 800m away from the correct place, since......we are at Lido ! -.-''''

My stance had changed instantly, instead of the confidant young man showing off his tickets, I became a meek mouse retrieving back. Puffed myself and maintained (pretended) to have a bit of dignity left as I walked out of the theatre. Can swear I can hear silent laughter.

Meanwhile, Ivan was happily laughing his toes off. If it was Ginway, it would be the end of me. Literally. Can almost imagine him saying "Eh @#$@#%#@ you lah, what the @#$@#$@#4, @#$@#@#$@$, @#$@#$@3" So, thankfully, I got the right person for the screw up. Sigh. To think that I confused Lido and Cathay. In a feeble pathetic attempt to explain my noobness, I can only say that I am not as wellversed in the Orchard area as any RG girl. If I had tried to explain it on MSN, I can roughly imagine it appearing: Lol, wtf! ROFLMAO! ROFLOL! L3Et.
Yeah. Go ahead and roll on the floor man, though don't roll too much, if not people will think you have fits.

As if Heaven was also laughing with Ivan, the weather decided to pour cats and dogs over our heads as we were contemplating whether to rush to Lido Shaw. So we took a break at some CD shop, after buying tickets for another movie. "You know ah, TeckBeng, this place, say they only recruit beautiful women as their sales personnel." "Sure or not?Got such thing meh" "Yah, don't believe take a look" Ivan was right after all. God had indeed created one of his finest handiwork. So we happily loitered in the cd shop for an hour (while Ivan happily tested my phone) before going back to Lido. Meanwhile, the free movie tickets were already in the bin, awaiting the fate the rose had been ages ago.

Hence, there is also no free movie tickets in the world.

Lido Shaw=Orchard. Cathay Orchard=Somerset. Cathay=Dhoby Ghaut. I shall chant these words whenever I go movies in the future.