Unnecessarily long post about ice cream night

Wow... last night at the BSA Ice Cream night... GREAT atmosphere lol. I wanted to do up this blog last night but after I came home I was far too tired and the length of it is pretty unnecessary. The night started out relatively casually, saw a few friends, said hi to a few and scared a few lol. Pretty much all of the people there were notorious for going to the holt room. All we needed was for DSs to be there so we could have a massive Mario Kart battle!

The main reason for going apart from socialising and wanting to see people, was for the ice cream eating contest. After all the pleasantries of saying hello to everyone came the massive barrage of trash talk from my mouth and encouragement for people to join the eat-off. Sign up went relatively smoothly but I had to encourage my partner several times to join with me, but he gave in lol.

Hahah, what can I say about the first round? Seeing the cup, I thought it was gonna be pretty easy but I looked like a fool when I flicked a massive ball of ice cream onto the table, shrugged it off, picked it up with my hand and shoved it in my mouth. Jemmms and I ended up winning in the first round, getting good reactions from plenty of people, though I can be sure that sometimes it's not entirely a good thing lol. The next few rounds was when we got big scares, seeing two people about three times our size entering an eating contest... Jemmms and I got lucky when they didn't win, but that meant we had to face two people that could eat more than two big guys! Needless to say, Jemmms and I were thinking "OH SHIIIIIIIITTTT" (well, I was anyway).

Entering the final round, there were two other groups and since there were only 3 prizes, meant that all three teams got at least something. 3rd place got 4 VIP tickets to BSA's Bounce Dance party, 2nd place got a $50 voucher to Beard Papa's for cream puffs and 1st place got a hamper full of random soft drinks and several bottles of alcohol. Going into the final rounds were... Josh and his partner Allan, Kain and his partner and Jemmms and I. The finals started off CRAZY when we all saw the size of our ice cream cups, pretty much everyone had their jaws dropping and I had my eyes ready to fall from their sockets. What on earth did I get myself into?

What followed was the CRAZIEST 2 minutes of my life when Jemmms and I competed in the final round with everyone cheering for us. The clips were hilarious, especially when seeing people getting brain freeze and what happened during the fight for 2nd place lol. Basically, I can only describe the crowd as this... AWESOME! Loved it! You guys were the best support ever! Thanks to BSA for organising the event, Barboo for supplying the ice cream, Jemmms for being my teammate and everyone that cheered for us!

Biggest downfall though, was that after the event Josh, his partner, Jemms and I all started to experience toothaches lol. Cold water and cold food in general CAINED!

PS: If people would like to see the nasty ass clips, hit me up on msn and I'll forward an email to you lol.

Redefinition

As I sit here procrastinating instead of studying I'm looking through imdb.com for the next movies to look out for. Well well, it reminds me of the other night when BSA (Borneo students association - A students society that's great for social events) had organised a movie gathering to see Step up 2 the streets. Now I'm usually a fan of seeing anything with dance in it, but people that know me know that my movies have to have decent if not a good storyline and/or script. Upon seeing that the opening scene had bboying footage from "the freshest kids" (a documentary about breaking), I thought that it wouldn't be as bad as I thought it would. Important moral: NEVER, EVER judge a book from the first few pages, fuck the cover.

The acting itself wasn't that bad, but fucking shit, the script was probably the CHEESIEST thing I ever had to sit through. I was considering impaling myself after hearing the word "the streets" used like it was some holy beacon of all that is cool. I thought the dancing itself was pretty good, I saw some bboying and popping, which were all decent in terms of creativity and execution, but I didn't see much done to the music. The storyline itself I actually didn't mind too much, rather the script made me feel like covering my ears but it did have its moments such as "awwww he got da key!!!" and "I like you teeth! Thanks, I like your accent! What accent? I hevv no accent!".

Now, to those that tell me to watch these kind of movies (You got served, step up 1 + 2, stomp the yard etc.) just for its dancing, allow me to extrapolate the concept further for you. As Matt Damon once said on an interview for rove, he didn't want to be known as an "action star" but rather a star that could do action. His reasoning was because an "action star" will come on do a few takes of dialogue and proceed to do "action"... sounds very much like porn doesn't it? That's right people, he likened action to porn. As well as I can remember, this is how he worded it "you go up there, you talk for a few lines and then you do your "action" parts". So there you have it, action, dance and porn movies have a big thing in common: they're all designed to be aesthetically pleasing to their viewers, just their target viewers differ greatly.

Another thing I've noticed: 50 of the imdb bottom 100 (50%) were made in 2000 or after whereas 50 of the top 250 (20%) were made after 2000. So it's not just me, plenty of other people think that movies that have been made in the last few years are rather poor. Though, going to the cinemas isn't really just for the movie itself, but rather a social situation. Much like BSA movie night, the movie itself was average - mediocre at best and nothing extraordinary was shown but it was getting out and talking to people that was great.