Tale of the Fried Mobo

Yes.. my precious limited edition translucent red motherboard decided to FRY on me.. first time I saw smoke coming out from my PC's casing. Hell, that gave me one heck of a shock. Damn damn damn. All my precious files in My Documents all erased when I had to re-install the OS.

Anyway got myself a spanking new motherboard from Gigabyte and a superb graphics card from Sapphire. I'd say with the 512 MB of DDR RAM on my mobo.. hell yeah! Played some graphics intensive games and I'm pretty impressed with the results. :)

So back to my daily life. Let's see, what did I do yesterday. Oh yes, finally caught March of the Penguins at Cathay Cineleisure Orchard. It was a nifty piece of movie-making.. bar the dumb-ass lyrics on the lame songs in the soundtrack. I love those cute lil' penguin chicks.

Apart from that, please go catch the latest Korean movie in the cinemas now - Innocent Steps. About two very different souls coming together through ballroom dancing. The male protagonist, Young-Sae, was a promising dancer and one of the best in Korea too (according to the movie that is) but he was sabo-ed (in local SG lingo) by a rival named Hyun-Soo, the son of the national dance director I think.

The female protagonist is a North Korean? Chinese? girl called Chae-Ryn, from a place called Yongbyon, who impersonated her sister, Chae-Min, who was the true dancer that some guys had brought in to pair up with Young-Sae. Chae-Ryn is a cute little character who loves fireflies and has that childish innocence in her that touches my heart. She's just 19 but still so pure and innocent.

Anyway, I don't know where her accent comes from but she pulls off the role of the country bumpkin with great efficiency. I'd say she did a SUPER job on that role. I'll never forget the term she used to called Young-Sae ... Ah-zi-bai.. or something like that. Supposed to mean Mister but the term sounds different in the South.

Go catch it if you must. Its a touching movie and I just love the dance moves. Puts J.Lo's performance in Shall We Dance to shame!

My rating? --> 5 out of 5