Movie at Golden Screen Cinema, 1 Borneo

Contrary to most people's belief, I do enjoy going to the movies. This may come as a shock to some of you since I hardly do that anymore.

During my study days in Down Under, my good friend David Tan who is from KL and I liked to hire videos and watched them in his room. We can easily go on a marathon in watching movies on videos. In those days, it only cost RM1 per video and if a video was faulty, we can return it to the video shop and exchange for a better one. We watched all sorts of movies including action, adventure, comedy, drama, epic, horror, romance, thriller, etc.

The last movie I watched at the cinema in Down Under in 1993 was ‘The Beauty and The Beast’. I enjoyed the movie very much.

When I first came back to Malaysia, I still went to the cinema with now my ex-colleagues. As the years passed by, patronizing the cinema became non-existent for me. I also gave up watching any movies on the television as well.

My younger brother has quite a lot of VCDs in his collection but I have not seen much of them as well. I only remembered watching ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and a few others.

Last December when I was spending Christmas in KL, Tracy and I managed to go to watch ‘Australia’. Previous to this occasion was a movie at Centre Point Sabah more than five years ago.

Now that I am working in a busy job, I guess I cannot afford to spend much time in watching movies. Moreover by the time I arrive home after a hard day’s work, watching movies would be the last thing on my mind. I may end up falling asleep in the cinema and waste the money.

This morning as I was having breakfast and rummaging through the newspapers at the same time, I came across the movies section and saw all the movies on show today. The only one that caught my attention was ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’. I was wondering if I had to wait until my upcoming trip to KL to watch it.

After Canaanland Celebration today, Elizabeth Chung and I were chatting about our previous night dining at Café TATU. We did not bump into each other. She and her family had ala carte while Sophia and I had buffet. While we were still chatting away, Monica Leong came over and asked Eliz whether she wanted to go to watch movie. When I heard ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ being mentioned, i told them I wanted to join them if they were going. Monica could not believe her ears, for she thought that I do not watch movies at the cinema.

So after lunch at Michi Japanese Restaurant, we went straight to Golden Screen Cinema (GSC). Eliz’s twin Jacelyn had bought the ticket for four of us including Sharon Lai. Jacelyn, her elder sister and mum also joined us.

Since there were seven of us altogether, Jacelyn chose the fourth row from the front when she bought the tickets. As we sat down on those seats, we did not feel comfortable because we had to put our head up. We decided to split into two groups and sat three rows behind our original row. We felt so much better and continued sitting there until the end of the movie.

What’s my verdict on the movie? I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I had not laughed so much in recent times. During some stages of the movie, I could hear myself laughing only. Probably the rest of the audience did not get the jokes.