Woke up at noon. Had lunch with Eujern where we discussed soccer. Attended BUDAYA's committee meeting to discuss the upcoming what the Malaysian Night which is going to be next fall. Had Korean dinner at Ginza (what an irony) with fellow freshies.



That's how this year's Valentine's day was for me. =)



Well, now the mood is setting in to blog. The Student Activities Board had screenings of Love Actually last night (fri night) and I watched the one at midnight. Although I had a copy of it in my hard drive, I was eager to watch it with friends and the cmu community actually. In fact, I prefer watching movies on campus than take a 20-minute ride to Waterfront to watch a movie at Lowe's. Not only I get to throw only a buck to watch a 3-month-old movie, watching it in a packed auditorium (McConomy is very much like a theatre) where we get to shout out jokes is pure fun.



Love Actually is just another awesome work of Richard Curtis who wrote Notting Hill, which is one of my favourite movies that I had watched for n times (where n approaches the conceptual infinity). What a good blend of love stories it has that made me realize its theme is about love that can exist in countless facets. There are stories about porn stars falling in love in a very innocent manner, a man cheated by his wife but to later find new love in a Portuguese maid, a young boy in love with his school's most popular girl and of course, the British Prime Minister who fell for the working-class tea girl in his office. Yeah, that Hugh Grant playing of the PM was my favorite part of the movie. Although it's unlikely that the British government will be led by a young, funny bachelor (Tony Blair is the nearest they could get) who seems uncertain with his words, but it protrayed how ordinary a PM can be. No wonder Grant was given a round of applause when he appeared in his first where he stepped out from his official Jaguar in front of 10 Downing Street. Aha, I don't think the part Grant, as the PM, screwed the US President with his very politically uplifiting speech, appealed to the American audience who watching it with me. No one cheered during it except for one or two.



I guess this movie will be added into my favorite movies list. My personal definition of a favorite movie disregards the movie's genre. Love Actually and Notting Hill makes me want to watch it again. Well, I guess it's that connection that I have with the characters - that I find these characters are not at all fictious and exist if I just walk across the screen. That's how Friends is. Love Actually has a good ending too. It didn't hang but ended very satisfyingly - ie. like having a complete 9-course meal that starts with soup and ends with sweet desert and coffee.



The movie has quite x-rated scenes as on the part of the porn stars. To me, there are not at all erotic but more surprisingly funny. Oh ya, it was quite a lot of ridicules in it. The British are indeed people with lots of wits in them. No wonder Apai Amin finds his days in Cam to be fun although how bad is Oxbridge's reputation of having a stuck-up society.