Sinema!

Yesterday evening I finally caught something at Sinema :P Bought tics for Jean Yeo's (director of The Leap Years) The Marriage Factor, starring Wong Li-Lin and Tay Ping Hui... Sinema is a tiny little place tucked away in an old MGS campus on a ulu little hill and despite it being a Sat evening, there were only about 10 ppl who came for the show... There were also hardly any ppl at the eateries/restaurants at Old Sch. So it was great, cos I hate crowded places!

The lil store where the spartan "box office" was located mainly sold various local movies, magazines and nostalgic snacks... I chanced upon the Monocle mag here and felt quite tempted to buy it, but decided in the end that I prob couldn't justify my forking out $19.90 just for one issue of a mag, given that I seldom read my mags cover to cover :P Another exciting discovery I made at the store were the nostalgic snacks on sale... eg. White Rabbit candy in packaging that had extremely dated look and the Hiro Choc Cake! (More on that later) So anyway, I was quite childishly thrilled to see those Hiro Choc Cakes after like what, 10 years, and asked for permission to take pics of them as well.

Turns out that the ppl at Sinema had bundled Marriage Factor with another Jean Yeo movie titled Ceciliation, as well as a director Q & A session. We didn't manage to finish watching Ceciliation due to unforeseen technical difficulties, but they were quite nice/apologetic about it and offered the audience another chance to go back to watch it. Marriage Factor was ok lah, though some dialogue bits were pretty witty. In the end, I think I enjoyed the impromptu director Q & A the most... 'cos it was quite interesting :) eg. how difficult it was to make commercially viable movies in sg, the Shanghainese audience's negative reaction towards casting Joan Chen in the Leap Years, among others. She also divulged that Tay Ping Hui was actually her schoolmate... And like in the movie she kinda gave him this geeky look, just to deflate his "I know I look good" ego a bit.. HAHA. Good one, cos with his terrible haircut and unflattering glasses, Tay Ping Hui did succeed in looking pretty nerdy :P

And now, I shall end this post with the star appearance of the HIRO choc cake....

Well, I dunno about you, but I used to see this all the time in my pri sch canteen, alongside the 20 cents red and yellow packaging animal biscuits, the 15 cents ladder-patterned yellow biscuit with peanut filling and what not :P And these used to cost 30 cents per piece, i think. I even had to paint this once (practice for still-life painting) for art class in RGS... I mean it was definitely not one of my favorite snacks, but hey... it kinda brings back fond memories of the good old carefree days ;)