.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :.

Sorry Streamyx has been down intermittently since last Thursday afternoon...it just came back up this evening and appears to be fairly stable...*fingers crossed*.

Anyway as it was my birthday last Friday I got a few presents which is always BEST!

Thanks to Tim and Wen Qi for the mug!

I also got some lovely bubble from my Mom!

Some very nice perfume from CK.

And a beautiful bouquet of flowers from Hannah Tan (lucky me eh!).

And a Diamond ticket to the Petronas Grand Prix F1 Malaysia 2008! Which I of course went to, the rain held off and there were record crowds of over 126,000 people! Insane, no wonder the traffic was so bad...the parking was sold out and it was generally nuts.

It was quite an experience indeed!

More on the Party, the F1 and Sabah later...let's hope StimX stays up! Anyone got some broadband viagra?

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

This is one hell of a weird film, trippy, twisted and dark.

JUST HOW I LIKE IT!

Gotta say this is a fantastic movie, I came to hear about it from someone who had read the book and after watching it I'll have to get the book as it seems quite a lot was skipped over or simplified in the movie to cater for the American audience.

One thing that struck me hard though, was they could have handled the accents better, seen as though it was set in 17th century France, the actors had very strong English/American accents through-out.

Apart from the lead, but then he hardly spoke.

The acting generally was great, although I feel Dustin Hoffman was a little mis-placed and someone else could have filled the parfumiers boots better.

Ben Whishaw was fantastic as Grenouille, although not as ugly as some people hoped he was suitably creepy as the psychopathic killer.

The period setting is maintained very well and the cinematography, direction and attention to detail is superb.

It's definitely worth watching, especially if you like different movies.

Don't except a typical slasher or fast paced action movie.

This is movie that takes you into someone's life, a dark and fucked up life, a life with a completely different outlook than everyone else.

I'd give it a gripping and twisted 8/10.