we live in malaysia.. i live in KL to be exact...
ol' skool entertainment comes from the television no doubt... here, we have pay per view satellite network known as Astro... if you have the channels that start with 3xx installed, you'd get all the channels from HK, Taiwan & China... and if you have the channels that start with 7xx installed, you'd pretty much get all the CSIs, Samantha Browns, Oprahs, Biggest Losers, Ryan Seacrest, Channel [V], and of coz, MTV.
our counterparts in Johor (the southern tip of MY) enjoys different coverage entirely. i've came to know that malaysians there dont subsribe so much to astro. they tell me they cant even finish all the tv channels from our neighbour down south.
like, waht? no astro? i mean, you dont watch astro? like, this sortof constitutes a different generation entirely! but then again, i wouldnt know waht channels they have there anyways.. all i could think of was their local dramas like Little Nyonya .. :S (do enlighten me if im wrong!)
so, anyhow... back to my astro rendezvous tonite... it started at about 11pm... yep, the tv's all mine tonite.
first channel on my finger tips is always, celestial movies at 322.
great! they were having escape from huang shi again..! yes, ive watched it before some months ago, and i was as fascinated as i was that some-months-ago...
doesnt matter that it also starred our very own datuk michelle yeoh and famous HK actor chow yun-fat... the star of this one was a Mr. George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) and the 60 or so kids... for another production that was based on true events, well, this one really tugged at my sleeves...
the low down:
title:
The Children of Huang Shi aka The Bitter Sea aka Escape from Huang Shi aka The Children of Silk Road...
director: Roger Spottiswoode
released: apr 2008 (asia)
snippets:
and the delightful trivia? rhys-meyers turns out to be the guy from the hugo boss ads... Neat. :)
so well, as i was sayin'.... this post is all about mixed feelings. didnt mean to sound morbid, but this George Hogg guy ends up dead at the end of the show. he's the good guy. and suddenly it dawns upon me again the metaphor of 'good guys always die first'. why? want another example? hmm... the old white-beard headmaster guy from potter's dead right? you'd get my point...
and just as i was nursing my sniffles after watching hogg's grave and the credits roll, i got texted on the mobile that the Killers were on at MTV channel. darn... about 15 minutes left until their one hour slot on MTV world stage ends... :S
so now u get me when i say mixed feelings? was sortof like transported from ancient huang shi and shandan to modern day sydney... in just a flick of the remote! hahahar....
as for astro, yeah.. im pretty much satisfied with what they hav to offer to date.. too much choices cripple us rite? Noh... ^^
pretty confident taht they'd have a listing of the killers' repeat, i logged into their website.. and found to my horror of horrors that.... tonite's 1hour slot IS the repeat.. in fact it was the last repeat of all 3 slots........................ =.="
blessed indeed..........
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