Inspired by a true Thai ritual of lying in coffins to get rid of bad luck and prolong life, THE COFFIN is a supernatural thriller about a young man and a young woman who decide to go through the ritual in Thailand.
Chris (Ananda Everingham - he is handsome! HAHA), a claustrophobic architect does it in the hope of saving his fiance who is dying of terminal cancer. Sue (Karen Mok), a nutritionist visiting Thailand from Hong Kong does it to save her own life after being diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor - one week before her wedding.
After the ritual, Chris and Sue experience what appear to be miracles in their respective lives. But soon, they find themselves confronted by a series of bizarre and terrifying incidents.
Though lying in the coffin to ward off bad luck has been commonly performed in thailand, but the concept of bringing it to movie theatre and coming up with a horror flick is rather a bright idea!
Too bad, it's just some standard horror fare, the scare is so tiny and mild la!
But well, there were genuine moments when you will feel claustrophobic with the cameras being up close to the actors and the things that happen to them in the coffins. This should have been further explored where the audience could constantly be kept in fear with little room to breathe, which should be the case for a horror movie.
In crafting the story around the characters and their respective loved ones, the movie attempts to make this horror flick a tearjerker at the end. This further confuses the direction the movie is going and the end result is a generally bland effort.
But some scenes sure look gorgeous! There's the symmetry of hundreds of coffins, arranged in concentric circles around a giant sitting Buddha, as well as a long closet, full of mirrors, all reflecting terror. Even the creepy old remote Buddhist temple has an idyllic charm.
Can you really change your luck? Escape bad karma? Or even cheat death?
I don't think so...
official webby: http://www.thecoffin-movie.com/en/
Next, dinner was at Sakae Sushi!
Haven't been there for a long time. Remembered the last time i went to CP Sakae was during Jie Ying's birthday when a few of us tried to piece jigsaw for her birthday! hehe. and i just love this mango prawn sushi lah! i will definitely order it when im in sakae!
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Spend my whole Saturday doing a tiny bit of studying and finishing my chinese lit essay. was late when i went to woodlands library and i couldnt find a seat, so in the end i just went home lor. i thought o levels have more or less ended and it wont be so crowded, damn, i forgot there are uni students! haha
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Sunday was spent doing the 1st interview shoot for FYP. we carried hell lots of stuffs, spot lights, camera, tripod, sound etc etc.
the shooting was held in lock road, a very nice place to chill out.
getting ready for the interview.
Cool isnt it?
so what exactly are they doing? they are actually doing reiki on the person on bed. what's reiki? it's energy healing. when u are trained, your hands generate energy which is believed to help heal a patient. doesn't it just looks like some old kongfu shows where the master pass power to the injured? haha, it's something like that!
dont believe it? next time when u are having headache or wadever pains, come to me, let mi heal u :)
got daddy to pick us up after our shoot at 9pm. if not for the super heavy spotlights, i wont have called him to come. it was a total mistake. he drove the girls back to hall. it was 930pm, so i thought great, i can rush home to complete my chinese lit essay due today.
THEN,
he told me that he sends his CPU for servicing and needs to go and pick it up. I told him i got to rush a report, so is it possible to pick it up another day? and he assures me and say: "very fast one, just pick and go!"
so the PICK N GO lasted for 1 hour. we went to his friend's hse in jurong west, they had two sibei HUGE dogs which scared mi off totally. and the family hired a maid, to take care of the dogs! they are filthy rich can!
oh thats beside the point.
we went to the house and nobody was at home. then i realise my dad didnt call the person to tell him that we are cuming, so it was sort of a surprise visit! -_-
so we waited 20 mins outside the door!
then when we went in, i sat in the sofa and waited for 30 mins, wondering why it takes so long. so i went in to take a look, my dad and the serviceman was sharing with each other which website is good for watching online shows! and the person was showing my dad the websites and my dad was showing him another website!
(*&^%^##%^#%^%#^#%&&
then my dad said:"soon soon, he havent finish transfering my stuff back to my cpu" and wth, his files are super big can!
so waited and waited. thank goodness i have finished writing most of the essay man and it's gona be handed in yesterday, i would have just walked off.
so in the end, i reached home at 11pm.
well, a leopard never change its spots la. time and again, he always does the wrong thing at the wrong time.
one chinese eve, he brought us to j8 and we sitted in one of the computer repair shop for 3 hours to get his computer fixed. and the serviceman kept telling my dad to come back after cny but he insisted on waiting and doing it on that day.
a few years later, on cny day 1, he drove all of us back home and ask my cousin to check on his bloody computer. or rather bring him to see why he cant burn dvds.
a few years more, on cny day 2, he felt his air con wasnt working strong enough so we drove us to a car factory. with us in high heels, make up and beautifully dressed, we sat in the car factory for 4 hours.
and EVERYTIME when he volunteered to send me home from school, he would drive to all construction sites around jurong to pay a visit or to pass some documents to the in charge, which he assures me 5 mins, when i sat in the car for 45 mins. so in the end, the car journey took longer than the mrt ride. -_-
it's always like that. not that im being picky or fussy or wads not. but dun assure me it's gona take a short time when obviously it doesnt. and dont do it at the wrong time la!
and i seriously donnoe what he did with his computer man. whenever he logs on to the internet, his whole stupid screen is filled with virus threats found window. -_-"
that just concludes one thing:
男人的话是不可以相信的。
today i will hand in my chinese lit essay,
tml i will go school early to do the sound editing and hand in my docu essay. afternoon theres gona be a big screening.
and that concludes the end of the everything, like finally!
friday will be the last lecture of my core module.
then i will have only one pathetic week to study for everything.
17 nov being the start of exams, and it's already the core module
18 nov: tcm module
and blah blah blah, it continues all the way till 24 nov.
the important papers will be 17 and 18 nov.
they seriously thinks that cs students are zai, cuz we can study everyting within a short period of time! and well, some have spoil the bell curve becuz they are real zai
and 15 nov is a SUPER IMPORTANT day! cuz:
1. i will be doing MC work for Renena Childcare Graduation Concert.
2. XIAOHEI IS COMING! OMG!
he is coming, he is coming, he is really coming!
uncle wants mi to help them apply visitor's pass but i aint have time.
i cant wait for everything to be over.
Lishan, want to watch play? let's catch this one!
If all the world is a stage, what scene would you offer as the LAST ENCORE?
Trapped in a limbo between existences, seven deceased Singaporeans are reading their own obituaries. A postman, a teacher, a grassroots leader, a businesswoman, an actress, a taxi-driver, and his wife, seven elderly stranger with little in common in life; now find themselves together as they face the greatest adventure of their lives - Death.
Before this wait is over, they must each revisit, relive,re-enact, the most significant moment in their life. Only then they can move on. At turns funny and profoundly-moving, FIRST LIGHT is a thought-provoking play that invites you to step beyond the veil to discover how sometimes, it is only after death that you really begin to live.
Click on the title First Light for navigations.
bitterstickgirl drew something lately which best represent how i felt now. well, take it as a consolation i gave myself, so here it is:
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