Finally the long-awaited controversial film, The Da Vinci Code is here and I watched it today with Ling, Weilun, Janice, Lesley, Cehao, Jul and her Kel. Among us, most of us have read the book before. Guess we all concluded that the movie was "so-so only".

The movie wasn't as exciting as we expected. I guess most people who have read the book would have agreed. As we cant expect the director to have all the details in the book squeezed into a 2.5 hours movie, the book was obviously more entertaining than the movie itself. The book goes into a lot more details on symbols and its significance which were the parts that interested me the most. Of cos, as mentioned, the movie cant have too much of explanation of the symbols, if not the movie will take ages to finish. But all those major and important parts were all in the movie, so it aint that bad at all. However, the ending of the movie is rather different from the book itself. The Sophie's family reunion.. was abit the eh.... v different. I thought i missed out some parts of the book but the other people who watched confirmed with me there was indeed some changes to the movie ending. The focus of the movie was rather different as well. Sophie Neveu was a crytologist and in the book, she helped Langdon solve some of those clues left behind by her grandpere, Jacques Sauniere using all those encryption methods taught since young. But in the movie, it seemed like Langdon solved everything without the help of Sophie when she was supposedly the expert here.

One good thing about this movie is that it helped me to understand how Langdon and Sophie managed to escape into the car when Teabing's plane touched down. I can never "visualise" this while reading the book. Sir Ian McKellen played his character, Leigh Teabing (according to Sotong, he is also known as teh peng.) very well. Although he doesnt fit the exact description of Teabing the the book, he portrayed his spirit and his humorous yet witty self excellently.


Before I go, here is a da vinci code spoof to share with u all... http://www.albinocode.com/

I have checked my IA application this afternoon. And yes, as expected, I was rejected by the company I applied to. I was feeling quite numb the whole day. Although I know it was expected and I shouldnt feel so terrible about it, I still cant help being upset and disappointed. Thanks everyone for their encouragement and comfort. But it makes me feel worse and end up crying. Silly me... recalled the time when i got an A2 for my Prelim Chemistry paper in sec school, I cried for the entire day and I must have looked damn ugly crying in front of my friends.

Since young, I always fear rejection. Hate rejection. I constantly remind myself to take rejection and failures in my stride but sometime I simply cant do it. I have learnt to take things a lot easier but now I cant do it. The application and the chance for interview is very important. Getting an opportunity for interview is as good as getting half of the battle won but well... it doesnt matter to me anymore. It's very tough for me to accept the fact I was rejected since I was so determined to get there. I know I shouldnt be so disheartened since it is still not the end. Remain hopeful and may some bloody miracle happen. Give me time and I will soon forget about these disappointments.