the home song stories

the home song stories what a brilliant australian film.
for me, it was comparable to romulus my father which was a book i heavily enjoyed (not so much the movie)

it follows, the events of a hongkong night club singer named rose and her two children.
she meets an australian sailor(bill) and follows him to melbourne. she leaves him after 1 week and travels to sydney going from job to job and boyfriend to boyfriend. soon however, she has no choice but to move back into bill's home back in melbourne. he however has to serve and leaves for 3 months. meanwhile she has an affair with a much younger male named joe, who is an illegal immgrant from hong kong, things get even more complicated when joe and rose's daughter begin feelings for eachother.

this is based on a true story.

the ending came close to making me shed a tear, which is pretty uncommon. the story's protagonist is rose's young son, tony or "di di". i guess i really liked the story because i could really relate to tony on certain levels but of course my life was certainly not as half as tragic.

i think all of the mhs dudes who had read romulous my father and enjoyed it, should really look into this film or the book.

for those who have read the book, its almost like seeing it from christine's perspective.



worth a look.

kick of an angel

last night i could not believe what i was seeing. i had to say it was the most funniest moment of the olympics i had ever witnessed.

in the video is angel matos from cuba, he is the gold medalist from the 2000 games.
so you get 60 seconds of injury time, if its not enough your coach or you may step into the middle of the ring and ask the ref for more time. however, angel matos and his coach probably forgot, the ref gave them a warning at about 40 seconds, and well angel matos lost the match by default because he didnt get up to ask for more time, which is fair enough.

BUT the humour as you just witnessed happened when angel matos lost his temper and kicked the ref in the face and punched an official that ran in. hes got a life ban from competing in taekwondo comps now, which is good game haha.

not so fresh (off boat) united

NSF united

top: pav, dam, sagar, alex, dolm
middle: andrea
bottom: kate, nysh, stella, ken


that was my team for sports last sunday, took a week to get the photo.
we got robbed in the netball. so heres the story

so the game the game is meant to be 14 minutes, but the ref tells us for this game its only going to be 7 minutes without half time and no substitutes, which turned out to be bullshit. we started about 3 minutes into the game. towards the end damilola injures himself and needs to be subbed off, but for some odd reason the ref ignores him, meanwhile the opposite team gets a 1 point lead and the game finishes.

so we're pissed off, and then one of the organizers tell us that we have a second half, by the time we got started again we only had about 3-4 minutes left on the clock already, and after some rest damilola could play again. we quickly evened the scores until the end where dam again tells us his leg is too screwed up for him to run so we're one player down whilst the ref watches damilola limp around and begging to be subbed. and then in the last 10 seconds they score the final point and won by a point, and that team took the finals too, so in turn we were absolutely robbed.


anyway so ive been sore for a whole week after playing that shit.

team sports are extremely fun and i plead to anyone who is apart of some sort of student or otherwise organization to organize more team sports days rather than shitty poker nights and shitty clubbing events.


peace

rivington club

beijing 2008

so i stayed up til like 2 last night to finish watching the entire opening ceremony.
thats right i watched all 203 countries walk around that track too.

i loved the idea of using the "great inventions" in the ceremony. but was it me or did i miss the gun powder? or was the gajillion dollars worth of fireworks enough to celebrate gunpowder?

i loved it, i thought it could have been longer. it was funny though right at the beginning of the ceremony there was a little girl lip syncing, she look like she was gonna pass out.

good stuff china.

ps: what was retarded was that every time someone spoke Chinese, the subtitles slowly displayed:

speaks in...



asian language.



i think anyone could have guessed they were speaking in chinese.

planet bboy

i watched the documentary: planet bboy today at the melbourne international film festival.

now prior to watching this docco i had seen a lot of trailers and really wanted to watch it, unfortunately it didnt come to melbourne when it was first released, however since then i had heard some negative things about the film according to other bboys, saying that it gives BOTY too much credit and too much importance as the "world cup" of bboying.


for people who have no idea what this film is. it is a docco about a couple of crews and their journey to the "biggest breaking competition" in the world, the battle of the year in hamburg germany. each crew represented their country, the documented ones were gamblerz: the defending champions from korea. Knuckle head zoo from usa. Ichigeki from japan and last4one the underdog crew. now other than potray their journey to this competition, it also gives an insight to the mentality of a bboy all across the world. why they dance, how they got into dance and how it affects the people around them. of course the results vary across the world. but it demonstrates that, even though we are very very far apart in language and our own ethnic culture, bboys still manage to communicate through hiphop.

i missed the first half hour of the docco, which i assume had an explanation of what bboying is from ken swift and a history of the dance from both him and trac2. also the segement on knuckle head zoo i missed too.

i came in just on time to watch last4one's segment, and having seen it, i have gained a lot more respect for last 4 one as bboys.

it was a bit of a biased docco, but still good none the less.

alot of things we can all relate to, and especially for me as a dancer.

i was really impressed by katsu's (ichigeki) mother, saying that he must not dance to win, but dance to dance, if winning is the only thing on his mind, it will show through his dance.

another great quote from the docco i cant remember who it was said by, but i think it was joe-t
he says

"i dance not to make money, i make money to continue dancing"



i encourage everyone who wants to learn more about hiphop culture, breakin/bboying as a dance, to go watch this film somehow.

8/10 for me

Eazy Eee

after many months of consideration i have finally purchased a laptop.

asus eee 1000

1.6 ghz
80 gb HDD
1gb Ram
10 inch monitor

not a bad price, the logo was hell ugly so i had to cover it haha.



a heads up though, if anyone plans on buying a laptop or screen of anysort, make sure to check at the store if there are any dead pixels/frozen pixels. because a lot of stores actually dont handle the warranty in store and tells you to refer to the warranty card/manufacturer. asus doesnt give you warranty unless you have more than 4 pixels malfunctioning. so could potentially mean, you buy a comp, go home turn it on discover it has a dead pixel within 30 minutes of purchase and having to send it to the manufacturer for repairs for a weeks.

watch out