Gut feeling

Its our anniversary again, time for picking up something for my love one.

In the past I tended not to go for the styles and fashion thing - you know girls, sometimes, went really unpredictable and intuitive on their tastes of fashion. I've tried few times when shopping with Landico, to make some boy-guessing on her pick on clothes, bags, boots, accessories; unfortunately the hits rate went low - really low.

This year I decided to make it a challenge.

Going into boutiques I turned pretty freaked out. How am I suppose to pick the best among all the dazzling girly stuff? Wandering within the strips, checkerbox, spots and plain patterns, my head started to swell. My mind rewinded back to every snapshot of her, back in my memory I saw all kinds of fashion style and seems there is no perfect formula for the pick.

Damn, I told myself.

At this very moment of confusion and frustration, the worse came, three salesladies started to spin around me, offering various advice and suggestions.

"What is your girl's skin tone?"
"Is she tall or small?"
"What's her favourite color?"
"This bag looks good and young, its our top sales!"
"How old is she, for girlfriend or for your wife (what?!)"

Alright I gave up, when I was about to step out the shop with white flags flying above me - the branch manager (I suppose) approached.

The middle-aged lady smiled at me, and said to me gently: "Having a headache picking for girl?"

I nodded.

She followed: "Just now, which is the first product you picked up on your hand?"

I peeped on the scarf aside.

"Trust your gut feeling, that is the one."




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Finally, I walked out with the scarf on hand.
Love, sometimes, is intuitive.

Happy anniversary, sweetheart.

Real steel x Transformer 3

Reel steel is indeed a wonderful masterpiece, much much outplayed the so called robot-classic Transformer series.

The chemistry between Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo is simply phenomenal. Though that the perfect musculine outlook of Jackman still possess a faint shadow of wolferine, he did play the pure yet complex father-and-son bonding so well, that for every robot battle they played - there is so much warmth in it, apart from the metallic crushes. Still, I believe that its Goyo's sincere, pure, cute, energetic play which seasoned the movie, pushing every fight to the very climax that made me palpitated so badly in the theatre!

The first time I saw Goyo on screen is perhaps the short snapshot in Thor, where he took the small role of the younger God - nothing special nothing stunning. But I guess every audience of Reel Steel would agree, Goyo 's play perhaps served the key of success throughout the entire film. Indeed, as some of us did in the theatre, I almost cheered out seeing him do the marching-robotdance right before the fight with the dazziling-red robot TwinCities. And for every punch Atom the underdog laid on Zeus the juggernaut, I just can't help shouting: BRAVO!



If we were to compare, I reckon the long-awaited Transformer 3 much inferior, at least in terms of its storyline.

For no doubt the CG and visual effects in Transformers went in so much details, the entire story was marching on a paper-thin plot. I don't see the tension between characters - not only the bond between Sam and Bee - but the romance between Sam and Carly also appeared weak and awkward (and where is my sexy Megan Fox!!). For all these I felt like watching piles of metals and flesh in fast-forward motion over an entire 150min, with serious lack of character among.

As far as the fights are concerned, they also appeared not as entertaining as that in Reel Steel. With the chaotic scene-setting and constantly-moving shooting angles, often was I distracted from the hit and kicks. That's a pity.

Anyhow, being back home, I can't help replaying each and every fight scenes of Atom's- trust me, with the pair of resilient bonded father and son directing backstage, under well-synthesized original soundtracks, each punch makes it tongue-bitingly exciting!