weekend started early for me with a handful of us heading to bk's house for a mini gathering yesterday after work!
some of us left work slightly before 6 to grab tibits and what's not and reached his house well before 6.30pm. :P
the last of the group reached the function room booked by 7+pm and we were all ready to start the party with pizzas from spizza, bah kwas and home-cooked bee hoon. oh and not forgetting all the cocktails concocted by HW!
just recovered from sore throat and losing of my voice, I refrained from drinking too much and stuck to safe old cranberry & lime juices. :P
we were talking and laughing hard for the 3 hours we were at the function room. and after 10pm, we adjourned to his house for more chatting, drinking and cards playing. LOL.
this network of friends at work is really one of the reasons why I sometimes head to work with a smile on my face!
let's hope our bintan/batam getaway in jan will really materialize!
though I only manage to sleep after 2am yesterday due to the gathering, I was up awake and ready for the day by 8+am!
the ng family is heading out to town today to catch a movie! finally, both boys' enrichment classes have ended for the year so there will be no classes for these 2 weekends - leaving our mornings free - yeah!
so we moved out of the house to catch hobbit 3 at shaw lido at 10.45am! and it was such a great great show.
I started the trilogy not impressed with hobbit 1 & 2 at all. they were at best entertaining and from time to time I wonder if peter Jackson has lose the touch that he had with LOTR.
but he brings everything that I love so much about LOTR back in this last installment.
without giving away too many details (I try..), there are so many touching parts in this installment that it took all I have to not sob out loud towards the end. :(
while he may or may not did it right with Frodo and sam's friendship in the LOTR trilogy, he nailed it this time round for thorin and Bilbo.
and martin freeman is such a wonderful actor - he breathed life into Bilbo baggins.
don't read any further if you have not watch the show!
I started tearing at the part when thorin struggled with himself and finally surfacing triumphing over himself. and all the moments between Bilbo and him. so sad.
now I think I might start to understand a little at why Bilbo ended up the way he was at the start of LOTR 1. after the journey with the dwarves, after this great adventure that taught him about life more than he ever will know if he never leave bag end, after seeing the deaths of those he came to hold dear to him...
and thranduil, king of elves from mirkwood and father of legolas, was especially moving when he talked to tauriel about love.
as I mentioned to the husband, the part that I loved most about LOTR series is that evil can never conquer goodness. if you have that last streak of good in you, you will always come back to your senses. they always come back - thorin, boromir, Bilbo, Frodo etc
seriously the only pure soul in the whole installments has to be samwise gamgee!
and the song at the end when the credits were rolling is awesome. i feel like tearing when i heard it.
it's called the last goodbye and aptly sang by pippin (if you still remember who's who in LOTR)!
here it is!
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