My Valentines Day

It was Valentines Day and it started off with my mum yelling in military fashion, "Get out off your beds and help me clean the house!" So we did. Thank god I had been the sick the night before so she wasn't as picky with me as compared to the rest. Either way I had to get my butt out of bed at 9am, shower and join the rest of the troops. My first task....fold clothes. Then followed a list of other chores we had to do. Shanty left after awhile for her date, leaving the rest of us to face my mother's wrath. Praven soon left for a music meeting with the department leaving me and the youngest, Prateepan. I then abandoned that poor thing to go watch a movie at Bugis, Lido Cinema. We went to watch "My Name Is Khan". 

But before that, we ate at...

Good old Pastamania. Sammer insisted I take a good shot of him. This was after 4 different shots...

Then, I ignored the lot of them and ate my food. And by the way, the entire group of us, Sameer, Naathan, Prabs, Kanitha and Yoga were actually rather quiet the entire meal. Anywho, this was my side dish...potato waffles or something like that...

  Awesomely crispy.

And observe this...Yoga sitting rather innocently beside Yoga...  But it was all just an act! He in fact wanted to....

 
YES KISS SAMEER! I don't think Sameer's the same after that kiss...I'm actually gagging right now. Naathan and Ravin, at least the two of you'll don't have such an incriminating picture. 

 Kanitha and Naathan promoting Pastamania.

Oh by the way, there's this awfully cool passport promotion thing going on at Pastamania. Basically, everytime you spend $10, they stick a Pastamania stamp in your Pastamania passport. At 2 stamps, you can redeem a plate of garlic breads, at 4 you can redeem a drink, at 6 you can redeem a chocolate mousse and at 8 you can redeem a $5 Pastamania voucher. I've already gone through an entire passport and am now halfway through the 2nd one. You know what this means? This Writer should start expanding her choices in food outlets. BUT I LOVE PASTAMANIA...so it's gonna be a tad hard to pry me away from that place.

Anyways, here's the picture of the street we were walking down...

And Naathan and Sameer just wanted a picture of themselves...again...with Naathan making a funny face...again.

Then at 8.40pm, we entered the theatre which by the way is hilarious because 

1) I now know where all the North Indians hide on a weekend. 

2) The theater looks like the indoor stadium.

3) There was a freaking stage at the screen.

4) We thought it might be "My Name Is Khan" on Ice. (courtesy of Prabs)

But when the movie started no one could pry their eyes of the screen because it is an amazing tale. And for the first time, I know what I'll remember my Valentines Day for, racial harmony or maybe the better way of phrasing it, A Compassionate Humanity.

"My Name Is Khan" follows the life of a man with a disorder that prevents him from socializing very well, he hates the colour yellow and gets scared from loud noises. However, he is sharp and intelligent and because of his mother's love, grew up to know that there is only 2 types of people in the world: Good people who do good deeds and Bad people who do bad deeds. Race is not a difference. It is simply a way of life.

It is a compelling movie that prompts you to think about what is important in your life and if you would behave the same way the character did. You follow Khan as he travels to find the President of the United States simply to convey a simple message, "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist." All this because he lost a stepson who was killed for being a muslim, a result of the aftermath of the 9/11 attack.

Here in Singapore, the discrimination is there but I suppose the Muslims in America felt it worse. 

Here's the movie trailer...