Friday, May 06, 2005

Kingdom Of Heaven

Finally! A short respite from the hectic practises. Haha. Shall blog about yesterday..

Went down to church at 11.30am, n met up with the group before going to the main auditorium to practice. They modified some of the dance steps for all of the guys, because yesterday the people who viewed the performances said the guys look totally disgusting shaking their butts at the certain points in the dance routine. It was one of the dance steps ma. While the girls look fine gettin' jiggy with it -_-. So the guys had to relearn some steps, replacing the butt shakin' with some more 'manly' moves. Which took us a few hours to get it right. Think our dance quite zai lor.. We wrapped up soon and ended quite early, around 3.

All the people also had to go online to check their semestral exam results.. Anyway I heard that one must score mostly Dist, As or Bs for the various modules in that semester to get into spore unis. Hmm. Well, btw my School Of Design has no exams! ^.^ Which means all my grading comes from projects. Which can be both good or bad news.

Poly is like so cool la.. Some guys were telling stories about how their friends mostly drive cars. So they use the car until got very little petrol left, n wait till parents top up the fuel before using the car again so they dun have to pay for expensive petrol. Whoa. Smart.

Then most of us went down to Jurong Point for a movie, Kingdom Of Heaven. So funny la.. During the Star Wars advert before the movie, when it was showing Darth Vader, this guy suddenly burst out: Wa Si Ni Lao Beh!!. (I am your Father!) Then the whole group started laughing -_-" Worse. More came. During the start of the movie, there was this baron who went looking for his son, who was a blacksmith at a small village. N when he saw him he said: I AM YOUR FATHER! Then the son's shocked expression was exactly like that of Luke Skywalker's when Vader told him that. Wahahaha.. everyone burst into peals of laughter. Again.

The movie was quite awesome. Though it would be easier to understand if you already knew about history during the time of the Crusades. Battle scenes rival that of Lord Of The Rings, and without any gratuitous violence. Its eye-opening to see how bloody battles were in 1194 A.D., when everyone fought with swords and arrows, and the troops in front were certainly dead. Either got sliced to pieces, burned alive by oil from castle defenders, squashed by some falling siege tower or rocks or trebuchet (big wooden catapults) projectile, or impaled by arrows. OwW.

WARNING: Spoilers Ahead!

Also some amazing castle defence tactics.

1. Pour oil on those fools trying to break down your castle gate with their battering ram.
2. Latch arrows with ropes connected to huge weights onto siege towers, then drop the weights to make the towers lean to one side and topple. Also squashes surrounding enemy troops.
3. If any siege towers make it near, once they open, throw flaming balls at them to set them and troops inside alight so they cannot storm your castle walls.
4. Trebuchets are very effective when enemy army is near. Launch flaming balls to flatten troops and some of their flimsy trebuchets.

But alas, these days, such tactics are useless. Want something destroyed? Get a jet and a laser-guided bomb. Fly over and drop it. Accurate to within 2 meters. Ka Boooom. Target decimated.

By the way, I love the nokia 6680.

jOhn thought at 2:19 AM