Movies = no $$$

Saturday, woke up today looking for jobs in classified as usual. Called several companies before going out to meet jiekai and liyuan for Singapore International Film Festival's Festival Fringe at Goethe-Institut. The admission is free and anyone interested in this can go http://www.filmfest.org.sg/fp_ff-sche.php to check out the schedule. We headed to the sistic counter at specialist's centre first as we wanted to purchase movie tickets for the main festival films. We bought a total of 7 tickets for whisky, samaritan girl and tarnation. I'll be watching whisky and samaritan girl with jk and tarnation with ly. Spent $9.40 * 3 = $28.20 instantly at the counter. :(

Sometimes i wonder why i spend so much on movies. That's not all. Liyuan had helped me get 10 $7 movie vouchers which can be used during weekends as his sis had a lobang from her friend. Another $70 gone!
:( But must thank him for helping me get the cheap vouchers too.

At least the festival fringe is free. :) I thought that there will be a mini cinema or something more posh but the fringe is held in a projection room which is the size of a classroom. The 3 of us arrived at 2 pm sharp and we had to sit near the back as the front seats are already taken. We had to strain our necks as part of the screen was blocked by some heads in front of us. The screening began shortly and i was not really used to viewing animations after animations. Some of it were good, bad, funny, boring, interesting or totally incomprehensible. It required quite a lot of concentration as the animations were very different from each other and we have to absorb many different concepts and styles within a short period of time.

There were a total of 9 world animations screened and it was over in 90 minutes. We left Winsland House and went to grab a bite at a nearby food court. Headed to HMV and Sembawang music centre as jiekai was interested in listening to FIR's new album. He decided not to buy the cd as he felt that the album was not as good as he expected. I bought Nobody Knows DVD (my 2nd favourite film last year) for $19.95 in HMV and collected some free postcards in cine as well. Wallet getting lighter.

We headed to a shop selling chee qiong fan and porridge along Killney Road for dinner recommended by jk. The chee qiong fan is good but the porridge tastes quite normal. After our meal, we went back to Goethe-Institut as jk was interested to watch the short films showing at 7 pm. We arrived 15 mins earlier so that we can get the front row seats. The first short film is brutally shocking with an extremely realistic assault of a man by 2 carjackers which ended with the unconscious man being driven over by the criminals. They continue on their spat of criminal activities and subsequently attacked an old man in an atm booth. The old man ended up with his face chopped by a large knife after he tried to get his money back. It is really sadistic and they filmed the whole thing with security cameras or CCTV which made everything look as if it actually happened. The next short film is shot through a glass sphere as the director is trying to be innovative but it made the images more blurry and less colourful. The story is not very interesting either and i decided to spend some time smsing instead of watching it. The 3rd one is slightly better but the subtitles are really small and hard to read.

Jk and ly left for home and i arranged to meet up with weiming to catch Swing Girls at cine 9.10 pm. However, the tickets were sold out by the time i got there and wm was already on his way. We didn't have other movies in mind to watch and spent our time having supper and discussing the interesting movies in SIFF.

Took a picture of all the movie stuff (DVD, postcards, vouchers and tickets) i got today.

Have to work soon to earn money.