Dover Close East Adventures and Eastern Promises

I ended up making a visit to ACJC today. This came after I invited Mei out to watch a movie, which turned out to be Eastern Promises. She mentioned that a group of recently graduated students were making a trip back in order to attend a KI lecture (Mei, Charmaine and Deborah) and I decided to tag along.

Upon arrival, we were given a task by the great guru Mr Daniel Tan himself. Apparently, he was giving an introductory lecture on knowledge, and he thought it a good idea to do the whole Matrix red pill/blue pill thing. Having had our idea of using Panadol Menstrual tablets for the 'red pill' (apparently the pills had to be properly edible), Char managed to obtain breath mints that were pinkish and light bluish respectively. I couldn't help but note that the blue pills were very similar in colour to Viagra (thank you Rob Linham for this horrendously inappropriate and useless piece of knowledge).

The lecture went on well enough and I curbed my enthusiasm for heckling Mr Tan (why else would one go back to attend a KI lecture?) I instead managed some asides to Debs and Char instead while attempting not to be too much of a nuisance. It was also nice bumping into some of my former colleagues in the staff room, including Candida and Wendy, though I wish I could have spoken to many of the others. I did manage a few witty and sarcastic remarks (one hopes!) to Miss Ganga J in passing.

Then it was off to watch the movie. Eastern Promises was violent and shocking. That was hardly surprising given director David Croenenberg's B-grade horror background. I saw poor Mei cover her eyes with her sweater during some of the more realistic scenes, and I don't blame her. A full review of the movie will be put up at City Flickers.