It was quite the treat to have nothing on the go all
weekend. Pure recovery and enjoyment, especially after the long week I had.
This time was well spent catching up with friends, hitting the gym and going on
a much-needed grocery run. Sunday was much of the same as Saturday, except with
the plan to attend a stuntman class.
Damian, a fellow Canadian I met on shoot for the Megafon ad
invited myself and Kevin to join the class. We were both excited as it would be
adventure and of course a new experience for the both of us. As we scurried
down the block to flag down a cab, it happened what we didn’t expect. Well
actually a couple of things. We truly struggled to find a cab. Now usually
there is a bit of a challenge getting a cab to take you to your destination,
sometimes hailing down 2 or even 3 before one agrees to take you, but today
they had sticks shoved up their asses or something. Some refused to even
listen, others wave away saying too far, others couldn’t read the map, and it
was incredibly frustrating. After nearly 45 minutes of cab after cab, probably
20 in all, we gave up. We were already late for the class and it would be at
least a 45 min ride depending on traffic. Not cool. A lesson was learned in
that we should really take BTS (the sky train) to the closest possible
location. Many cab drivers will only drive within a certain area of town, so if
you want to go somewhere remotely distant you can be SOL.
After that entire shuffle we were already at the mall so
decided to check out what movies were playing. The choices became limited very
quickly when you decide you want to watch a movie in English, so we ended up
watching the Hunger Games. While I will admit I wasn’t completely interested in
seeing it, the story did intrigue me. Now for my review/synopsis, no spoilers I
promise.
The movie pretty well stunk, their were some cool parts to
it, but it was by no means worthy of being part of anyone’s regular DVD
collection (yes I know most of us don’t buy DVDs anymore). Have you noticed I
am not much of a reviewer; this is basically my opinion of the movie. And the
story: Basically it follows a similar idea to Condemned, you know the movie
with Stone Cold Steve Austin, and even to some extent Deathrace with Jason
Statham, except instead of prisoners fighting for freedom along with their
life, its kids between the ages of 12 and 18. Essentially this chick with crazy
eyes is in love with Sydney Crosby, her sister’s name gets drawn in a lottery
to basically die in a battle royale. She steps in for her sister and asks
Sydney Crosby to look after her family. The dude from her area that gets to
fight in the battle royale is Steven Stamkos. A love triangle ensues between
Crosby, Stamkos, and crazy eyes. As
planned people die in the battle royale, and the movie ends in terrible
fashion. The conclusion is basically non-existent and leaves more questions for
you and hopes that instead of creating another movie they just burn any
potential script for a sequel or heaven forbid a 3d prequel.
As for my life right now, it’s rounding in on midnight, I am
taking an impromptu ride in a van stuffed with other foreigners or farang to
Laos. It turns out that I need to go and get myself a Visa. I was quite
frustrated with this trip as I would much rather have spend a couple bills and
did this ordeal in Singapore while visiting friends, then be stuffed in a van
10 hours each direction, but c'est la vie. I have been saying that a lot
lately. I guess it comes to mind as just an acceptance of facts. With that
mindset also comes they lets make the best of this ideal. So rather than be
negative, which I am at the time for having to sit in a van (which really isn’t
that bad, it’s a touring van so big reclining seats and air conditioning), I am
going to take a positive outlook and think that I will have some time to view
the country of Laos. Laos has never
exactly been on my list of countries that would be cool to visit. Nonetheless
it will appear as a stamp on my passport and hopefully I can snap a few cool
photos while there.
Well all this talk about the hunger games has made me
hungry.
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