Sunday With 300 Spartans

behind a twisted ankle is a silver lining. you can totally skip the botanic gardens routine and stay in till late night watching countless of dvds. perfect excuse not to exercise.

saturday was a totally sedentary stay-home saturday watching japanese animes, french & saunders and almodovar's spanish horror flick; and stuffing our faces with da paolo's vahlrona chocolate scones with sam and kennedy who came to the village for a visit.

i figured out i needed to have a bit of sun on sun-day (no pun intended). that means, having to walk for a minute to the bus stop under the sun, board the air-conditioned bus to vivocity, and go through the sheltered walkway into vivocity. that's pretty much having a bit of sun.

but i have both dora and david to thank for asking along to watch the movie, 300. watching the whole sparta thingy about fighting the persians was like a trip down memory lane - A level history paper 14; ancient history - the whole spiel on a group of fiercely independent group of citizen-warrior greeks from sparta who had no sense for aesthetics like their athenian counterpart had. the athenians may have their corinthian columns, doric columns and the ionic columns. and the spartans have...well, just plain functional boring looking columns to hold their roofs up.

but here are a few top reasons why you should go watch 300:

1. durian seeds-like abs were all over the screen (god bless golden village's huge-ass max screen)
2. leonidas' bubble butt tight ass (yesh! buck naked ass)
3. spartan chicks' saucy costumes (SPGs here prolly would start wearing the same while being seen at cafe del mar)
4. leonidas and his 300 men in red capes and leather briefs
5. a totally unrepentant super ultra campy and poofy xerxes, the persian king with a "i am the queen and i am gorgeous" complex (i swear he looked like a skin-headed naomi campbell)

dora and i agreed on one other thing we saw in the movie: we both saw "lord voldemort" in xerxes' character... how bleddy uncanny! buwahaha!

and we rounded off the afternoon with coffee and sugar-frosted donut and cheesecake, and conversations on "gargoyle" and "lord voldemort".