Saturday, September 10, 2005

the morning after Night Watch

Night Watch is certainly one head-scratcher of a movie. Maybe the translations weren't done well, which would explain why certain scenes of the movie left us with question marks above our heads.

Some people left the cinema even before half the show was over. Jeremy Ratnam was one of them. I guess they were all tired. After all, Maggie from the "Morning Jam" show on Power 98 did mention that she's been up for 24 hours.

The games held before the movie screening was fairly simple. Two objectives: One, we were given cards to determine whether we were "light" or "dark" and we were supposed to "convert" other teams by winning them at Scissors-paper-stone. Heh heh. Two, while the conversion was going on, we were to search levels 4 to 6 of Orchard Cineleisure for $5 prints. The prints would be exchanged for CASH after the game.

So from 1.30am to 2am, there were at least 20 teams of 2 people per team wearing Power 98 T-shirts, seeking high and low for their 5 dollars, and at the same time asking other passing teams "Are you light or dark?", followed by a simple 2-rounds of sticking fists out in representations of scissors, paper, or stone.

Eventually EVERYONE was converted to "light", we all believe there was a conspiracy going on. Someone shouted "KELONG!" when it was announced that all teams were actually "light" at the end of the game. Hmmm...

Hubs and I got lucky and found one $5 print stuck onto an ad poster on level 5. Heh heh. We of course got it converted to a REAL $5 note. Lucky us.

Some teams found four $5 prints. Some none. So I guess we were quite fortunate.

Every team got to walk away with a Power 98 goodie bag, so everyone's a winner afterall. The goodie bag consists of a "Spider baby" (a character from the movie), a $20 Eski Bar voucher, complimentary tickets to Nokia Starlight Cinema and a CD. Ours was the OST to "XXX²". Everyone got a different CD, and some were exchanging it with other teams. I was quite happy with mine.

I'll be keeping an eye out for photos to be posted on the Power 98 website as quite a number of photos were taken by the organisers. Maybe I'll spot myself! =)