the•truth•shall•set•you•free

my students will definitely want to read this blog, looking at the title, coz some of them totally dig jay chou.

anyway, this entry isnt about jay chou, or even the movie. at least not entirely.

its not a totally fantastic movie, but its prolly worth a 7 or 8 dollars.

anyway, almost halfway into the movie, jay's character's father, anthony wong, reminisces about his heydays. he began mentioning about how he sent his kiddo to deliver toufu once, and dat waz how jay's character became so skilled in drifting (hence the 'd' in the title, fyi).

so here's jay's character's training programme (fr s3 branch, for those informed.. heheh):
basically, he kept driving along the unending and winding and traffic-light-LESS road until the time he clocked got faster and faster.

one night, he had a minor accident, and all except the toufu escaped unscathed - the toufu waz totally smashed. as a result, he got smashed by his dad as well. undaunted, however, being the former drifting champion dat he waz, jay chou's character's father decided to further train his son.

THIS TIME ROUND, HE PUT A CUP OF WATER IN THE CAR DAT JAY CHOU'S CHARACTER WAZ SUPPOSED TO DRIFT IN. CRITERIA: JAY CHOU'S CHARACTER TO COME BACK FROM HIS DELIVERY WITHOUT LETTING A SINGLE DROP OF WATER COME OUT OF THE CUP.

the first time round, jay chou's character took 2 hrs to get back. then as he got betta and betta, he began to get back in less than 1/2 hr.

reflection (the buzzword of the civil service these days):
(a) as you speed along the unending and winding and traffic-lightFULL road of life, have you gotten into enough on-the-road mishaps to get your DOUFU SMASHED? (your doufu cld read: family, personal life, friendships, spiritual/mental/emotional condition(s), etc... not in any order of importance)

(b) or worse, you've been speeding so happily and nonchalantly (like jay chou's character in the movie) dat you have even TOTALLY FORGOTTEN TO DELIVER YOUR DOUFU? (otherwise translated as: you've been so caught up in the rat/cat/dog/tiger/lion/fox/wolf/elephant race of life dat you've forgotten wat you actually set out to do)

(c) do you have A CUP OF WATER to keep you safe and straight on the road of life?

(d) if you do, WAT DOES YOUR CUP OF WATER CONTAIN? spirit or soda? does it contain the Spirit of God or does it contain only Soda, which fizzles out readily?

i should become a movie critic. i recently made my students watch wu jian dao and write a movie review. fun enuff.