zenn bites...

so yes, i watched harry potter. maybe it's the book that didn't enable me to suspend my disbelief all that freely, or maybe it's the fact that i had very high expectations, but it wasn't quite as good as i needed it to be.

for one, it cut out loads of possibly-wonderful scenes like the entire quidditch world cup match in the fantabulous stadium (including the veelas!!! i wanted to see the veelas!), and it put in ridiculous things like a smitten hermione, a very humsup moaning myrtle, a beefy unsullen krum, and a very stupid harry-chases-dragon-all-over-hogwarts scene.

they didn't even cringe at the word "voldemort". hrmph.

must say that the effects are magnificent though, and there're good, funny bits and i loved the twitching dark mark and fleur's dress (however much i could see of it)...oh well, nothing beats the book i guess haha

anyway, some pictures from lunch yesterday with feng, ian, lam and jon at the book cafe:

the twins ian-&-jon all decked out in starcom's new uniform. heh

gracie, deb and i checked out the balcony before we went for harry potter:

those chairs rock! literally! heh the ambience's nice, quite chill-out, quite a nice place to just sit back and relax. the food wasn't too bad either - my lamb kebab's so-so, but their cod's really good! they need to do something about the staff though - not-very-competent service can be the downfall of a place, no matter how nicely done up it is.