Haha, crafty siew ling can read my mind. But then, its pretty easy for people to guess what's or rather who's on my mind these days, if they've been following up on my blog since late october. Anyway, siew ling passed me "love actually", a romance comedy in english. Don't worry, i'll come back to 2046. My initial reaction to the movie was distaste. The show was made up of multiple small stories being run concurrently and independently, and the screen kept switching between the stories. The show on the whole was confusing and disorientating.



But as the show went on, i quickly fell in love with the tiny stories embedded in the show. The tiny stories, by themselves, were very good. And the show began with a nice song. "~ I feel it in my fingers ~ I feel it in my toes ~" One of the stories had hugh grant in it. Despite me loving hugh grant, and his story, i'm not gonna talk much about it, coz it's just another boring love story with a happy ending.



Another story of notable mention was that of a man and a wife with two kids. The man was the boss of a hot and sexy secretary. And this secretary always flirted with him in the office. Then came christmas eve or sometime before it, i donno when people buy gifts. Anyway, the boss told his secretary he was going out to buy christmas present. And the secretary went in a coy voice, "Are u getting me anything?"



Outside the office, the boss gave his secretary a phone call asking her, "What do you need?". The secretary replied, "There's nothing i need, only something i want... something pretty". The boss then bought a necklace which he left in the pocket of his coat. When he took off his coat at home, his wife discovered the necklace and thought it was for her. When it turned out that she didn't get the necklace, but a cd instead (talk about metaphorical...) she secretly cried.



Later on, she asked her husband, "What would you do in my place? If you knew your husband bought a necklace which he didn't give to you?". I would say that was some nice pr (people relations). Very well handled.The husband became ashamed and the rest is yada yada.



There's one small story in the show that i particularly like. The story was about a group of friends, two guys and one girl. Let's call the guys, guy m and guy s. Guy m gets married with girl and guy s stays single. Since guy s was a friend of guy m and girl, he was asked to take video shots of them for the wedding. But after the wedding, guy s refused to give the video to them time after time.



Girl then decides to show up at guy s's house unexpectedly with a..... drum roll..... a bonofi pie!!! *nudge one of my cousins* Told ya there's such a thing as bonofi pie and that its an english dessert. For those who missed it, the recipe for banana bonofi pie is on my 9th Sep 2004 post. 0909, not bad number huh? 4d anyone?



Anyway, girl quickly fishes out the video tape from the shelf. But wasn't that guy using a digital cam earlier on?? Anyway, girl puts in the video tape and presses the play button then gushes all the "omg, i look so pretty." phrases. It wasn't before long that she realised something was wrong. While she was pretty in the video, the video only had her in it. The video captured her every expression in vivid detail, with nothing else, not the groom, not the wedding. It was then that the girl knew guy s actually liked her.



Girl turned around, looked at guy s then went like "......". Then she went like, "But you never talked to me...".Guy s muttered and mumbled something, and left quickly. Doh... he fled his own house... I guess girl was rather smitten to hear that someone other than her hubby likes her, but then since she was married already, it was kind of a little too late liao.



So on christmas day, guy s brought a christmas carol radio and a bunch of placards to visit girl. Using the placards, guy s told to girl, "Without hope or agenda, just because it is christmas - (And at christmas you tell the truth), to me you're perfect, and my wasted heart will love you, until you look like this" The next placard was one of a old ugly thing, which prompted a little giggle from girl. Next placard went, "Merry christmas."