The Good, the Bad, and the Plain Old Lazy

We here at The Good, the Bad, and the Plain Old Lazy believe in charity, even though charity involved having later lunches on weekdays and leaving the nice cosy house in Seremban on Sunday to head back to the dingy slums of Mentari.

Ilham, our little charity initiative which was started out by Tash, organised a clothing donation drive all week last week, and we drove to The Shelter in PJ on Sunday to hand over the boxes of clothes.

Mission accomplished I must say =)

To say that season four of Skins was bad is an understatement; it was excruciatingly painful to watch, especially knowing how much potential this generation had following the finale of season three all those months ago.

Don’t worry cause there’ll be a new season you say. Well, unfortunately Skins isn’t like every other show on TV, the producers and writers replace the entire cast after two seasons, so there is no way back for the likes of Freddie, Effy, Cook, JJ, Naomi, Pandora, Emily, Katie, and Thomas.

*spoiler alert* I’m still very much in shock over Freddie’s very random and sudden death at the hands of Effy’s very demented therapist John Foster. This season’s story arcs and character development were awful; Naomi, the normally confident and independent young woman, was reduced to an insecure bystander; Effy is clinically crazy (I mean we knew she had issues, but still) and meets a psychopathic murderer; Cook goes to prison and escapes but still isn’t in custody; Thomas, who we have never seen doing athletics of any sorts, goes to Harvard on a runner’s scholarship whilst Pandora, the very same blur Pandora, ends up going to the same university as Thomas because she is suddenly a genius!

The season finale was cringe-worthy; for an award-winning and critically-acclaimed show, the writers really seemed to be rushed into developing an eight-episode season. Effy, the only Skins character to have been involved in all four seasons, was very much left on the sidelines with no apparent ending, oblivious to the fact that her boyfriend is in fact dead; scant consolation for one of the most colourful if messed-up ice queens on television.

My only hope for season five, which is months away, is that they at least link it with the previous season, at least giving the fans a glimpse of what happened after Cook confronted Foster for brutally murdering his best friend.

Well, at least Naomi and Emily ended up together =S

Michelle, Nina, and I headed off to Disney on Ice at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil on Saturday for their 4.30 p.m. showing. We were one of the only non-family groups at the ice-skating extravaganza, but hey, Disney is timeless right?

Right and wrong to a certain extent as the magical-ness of Disney was prominent throughout the near two-hour spectacular, but I was not as enchanted as I thought I would be. 

Does your inner Mickey fade away as you age? Well, I certainly hope not, but after a catalogue of characters falling down after failing to execute spins and a cramped ice rink, the cynicism in me can’t help but say that I should’ve watched Disney on Ice when I was a kid instead =P

I may have only just returned from blog-worthy trips to Bandung and Singapore, but the only thing on my lips is the Monopoly Deal card game, inspired by the Parker Brothers’ original board game.

Monopoly Deal is refreshing, exciting, titillatingly tantalising, and fun! I’ve not had this much fun playing cards since I learned how to play ‘chor tai ti’ all those years ago =)

whoisntgrace:

Hu Yi Zhen,

As your first assignment on your road to Geekdom, you shall watch the directorial debut of one Drew Barrymore - Whip It, about a rebellious small-town girl who finds solace in the all-girl roller derby in the city.

Ellen Page won our hearts as Juno, and she’ll do it all over again as Bliss Cavendar.

Enjoy!

Boon Ken