Today, today
A most interesting day today at the Science Center, which by the way has an impressive selection of the most useless exhibits possibly in existence. Science center, my arse. It's a dingy little hole with nothing to do but press buttons, pick up telephones and...use socks in most intriguing ways. That is all I will say. That, and Singapore's Science Center puts Malaysia's Science Center to shame, and then some. I'm embarrassed for my country.
What is it with Malaysians and cheap, tacky and substandard, anyway? Those three words practically epitomize the Malaysian culture (except, I must concede, our food culture, which is nothing but 100% first class). Our Science Center's most interesting exhibit is a wooden checkerboard (I kid you not). People fall from rollercoasters into tiger pits and get eaten by tigers at our national water park. Organizing an archaeological dig in your own backyard would probably yield more interest than going to our National Museum. The twin towers are great, sure, but because they are such a tourist attraction, it would make so much sense to only allow tourists to go up to the skybridge for 10 minutes, and then turn the rest of the towers into offices. Yes, what a marketing mind our government has. Local Malaysian bands are an absolute joke. And our national car can't survive without the government slapping 300% import taxes on it - otherwise, a Mercedes Benz would be cheaper than a Proton Wira. Malaysia is just crap. That's just all there is to it.
I watched Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. It was quite possibly more mindless and more insipid than I could ever have imagined. I actually physically cringed during parts of the movie. And I am ashamed that I did actually laugh at some of the scenes (although to be fair it was probably out of sympathy or just resigned horror at the sheer dumbness of the show). Speaking of dumbness, I may deign to watch American Pie 2 at some point tonight, out of sheer morbid curiosity. There's no such thing as "addling your brains slightly". Addle them 100%. Charlie's Angels, American Pie 2 and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back should do it. I'll try and get a photograph of my brains leaking out my ears, if I can muster the mental facilities to operate my digital camera by the end of the movie moronathon.