*yawns* well, it’s 11:13pm now, plenty of time to reflect on the year that is just about to leave us!
• Uni-wise: again, this has been another year where I haven’t been able to further continue my tertiary studies. Will I ever complete my bachelor’s degree? Only god knows. However, this year, mother did force me to take a volunteer tutor course for English. Like I’ve told her time and time again, I’m only interested in finding a PAID job, but she’s adamant I take it. Fair enough, I’ll do the course for six months, because mother believes that the only way I can get a paid job is by volunteering first. However, if by the end of six months, no one’s offered me a paid job, I’m IMMEDIATELY quitting and focusing my efforts more towards finding a paid job. Like I’ve said, I’ll do anything, as long as I can do it sitting down. Even wash toilets. XD
• Sporting-wise: luckily, the parents have dropped the idea of gleefully forcing me to go play badminton with them, so my year of sport has been entirely limited to enthusiastically waving the wii remote around during wii sports resort. XD but ‘twas a great year, what with the maroons taking out the origin shield (thus giving locky the farewell he deserves), the roar winning the a-league (dad went to watch that game live!) and the aussies squishing the kiwis at least once when they played sometime earlier this year. XD
• Politically-wise: well, Julia gillard’s still our prime minister … but wasn’t can-do Campbell trying for a tilt at the top job? On another note, after months of reading, I finally finished john howard’s autobiography! Wonder if Kevin rudd will put out one. :P
• Spiritually-wise: well, come feb the 3rd, 2012, it will have been five years since the unfaithful god so wantonly destroyed my life with the brain tumour and left me the useless blob that I currently am. I’m still left without answers why he decided to destroy my life; I mean, what was it that I did/didn’t do that made god hate me so badly that he totally destroyed my life? Was it that I didn’t pray enough, didn’t sing songs of praise loud enough, didn’t read the bible enough, didn’t give enough offering? God’s never given me an answer. I remember back in 2007, when I was still hospitalised, I’d cry out to god nightly and ask him, “god, how long will you hate me for? Will five years be enough? After five years, will you turn your hatred away from me and onto one of the squillions of other people in the world? I mean, surely, there are so many people, surely, surely I can’t be the most hateful one there is! But come February the 3rd, 2012, five years will have passed since god so wantonly destroyed my life, and I seriously doubt that god will have healed me by then. I mean, I know he has the power to, but I also know he won’t bother. *sigh* but for my part, I’m going to try stop singing how much I hate him out aloud. Yes, I’ll still sing of my utter and total hatred of him inside my heart, but I’ll do so silently, unless I’ve had a crappy day.
• Work-wise: *sigh* I’ve had several job interviews this year, but still without success. >< but I’ll keep looking! Remember, I’ll do anything, as long as I can do it sitting down, even washing toilets. XD
• Everything else-wise: sadly, physio still consumes a huge portion of my life; I think way too much of my disability pension goes to Vincent the physio. XD but I’m super-duper excited, coz come 20th January, 2012, the parents and I are boarding a plane and returning to hong kong to visit all our family and friends! I’m incredibly excited!! :D moreover, little mickey’s already promised to play with me, if he doesn’t, I’ll sulk at him something awesome until he does. XD
Am I supposed to make my new year’s resolutions, too? Well, my main one is always to improve my mobility, to improve the functional use of my affected left side. Actually, same with the year that’s just about to end: I shall try my hardest not to fall over more than ten times this year! This year was a surprise success, me only crashing to the ground seven times this year. Will aim for seven or less next year, then.
Well, I probably should have more new year’s resolutions than what I’ve put up, but mother says 2012 will arrive in like ten minutes! So my apologies for any errors here, I haven’t the time to proofread!
Righteo, wishing everyone a safe and prosperous new year! All the best for 2012!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
christmas post (2011)
Does everyone remember the naughty Christmas carols they learnt back in primary school? I can only remember two:
The first one goes to the tune of jingle bells: jingle bells, jingle bells, Santa Claus is dead. Teddy bear, teddy bear, shot him in the head. Barbie doll, Barbie (hey, I just realised that ‘Barbie’s a proper noun and needs to be capitalised XD) doll tried to save his life, but GI Joe from Mexico STABBED him with a knife! XD
The second one I only learnt last year, and goes to the tune of Joy to the World: joy to the world, the teacher’s dead. We barbecued her head! We flushed it down the dunny, it was so very funny, and round and round it goes, and round and round it goes, and round, and round and round it goes! XD
Like we do every year, we attended church. At first, I wasn’t planning to sing any of the songs out aloud, coz I was still mega-grumpy that the parents hadn’t lemme attend the SHINE fellowship Christmas party last night, but this morning, I decided not to be petty and sing everything. It’s not like the words hold any meaning for me, anyway. I’m just singing random words.
Anyways, this morning, when mother came to dig me up, Oem, Voem and John Doe2 all flew at her to wish her a very merry Christmas (read, I threw them at herXD) only, I got too excited, and almost threw poor voem into the commode chair! Luckily, mother caught him. “Don’t do that again!” she scolded me. If poor Voem actually landed into the potty, I’d have to throw him out!”
Poor Voem was terrified and wailed his eye :P out, but Oem eye-kissed him, then John Doe2 cuddled him, and finally, mother soothed him, so everything was okay.
For breakfast this morning, mother gave me half a mini croissant and I drank one mug of cold Horlicks. Mother also forced me to drink one entire large mug of water.
After breakfast, dad tootled us off to church.
I did sing everything during service today. Worship was led by aunty Amy Cham; the choir sang also.
After aunty Melody Choi did the bible reading, Reverend Lam delivered a Christmas sermon. Smoky jie jie was his interpreter. Both mother and I snuck out to the toilet once.
When the sermon was over, we all headed downstairs for the luncheon!
Now, I’m slightly confused about the food restrictions for these luncheons, coz for the previous luncheon, the parents told me that each person was entitled to one plate, but then only lemme eat two-thirds a plateful! This time around, I fared slightly better, with ¾ a plateful. But I was slightly curious as to why uncle Ching and aunty Shuk Lai each got at least TWO platefuls. Personally, I reckon that it’s something to do with the fact that the parents don’t want me to gain any weight and so, always heavily restrict anything I try to shove into my mouth. XD
Anyways, after one more loo trip, dad tootles us home, I plop online and mother heads upstairs into pigland.
Around two hours later, dad forces me off, saying that I’m not allowed to stare at the computer screen for too long and must watch television for one hour before returning online. Fair enough. So I use the loo once for two tinkles, then sit down and watch this movie on channel nine about dog sledding! It’s got real dogs, with voices! XD
Mother comes down to feed me one chunk of juicy seedless watermelon and to smear my face with aloe vera. Looking at the clock, I realise one hour has already passed, and ask for permission to return online. It’s granted, but not for long, coz mother soon demands that I shower. *sigh* poor ela gets forced to scrub various body parts at least forty times, and I also wash my hair.
Afterwards, I dry and rekit myself. Mother finishes with my footwear then I return online, just as Uncle Slam arrives for dinner, soon followed by Ronnie jie jie, uncle Cyras and Aunty Mel.
Dad calls dinner. We have rice tonight, but also smoked salmon, ham and lettuce. I passed on the prawns and white wine.
After dinner, I use the bathroom once before returning online.
Only suddenly, something short circuits and everything flicks off! >< luckily, I have already published my blog post and do not lose any information.
Around 9pm, I use the bathroom once more.
Gosh, the adults are really ‘cheung hei’! (say ‘long air’ in canto) it’s almost 10pm, but they’re still yakking! XD
As for me, I’m looking forward to tomorrow, because (1) it’s the Boxing Day sales, but even more importantly, it’s (2) mother’s birthday, which also means (3) I’ll get to see what Santa brought me this year! XD
Meaning I probably won’t have the time to come blog toms, but I’ll try putting my Boxing Day post up on the 27th, okies? Until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
The first one goes to the tune of jingle bells: jingle bells, jingle bells, Santa Claus is dead. Teddy bear, teddy bear, shot him in the head. Barbie doll, Barbie (hey, I just realised that ‘Barbie’s a proper noun and needs to be capitalised XD) doll tried to save his life, but GI Joe from Mexico STABBED him with a knife! XD
The second one I only learnt last year, and goes to the tune of Joy to the World: joy to the world, the teacher’s dead. We barbecued her head! We flushed it down the dunny, it was so very funny, and round and round it goes, and round and round it goes, and round, and round and round it goes! XD
Like we do every year, we attended church. At first, I wasn’t planning to sing any of the songs out aloud, coz I was still mega-grumpy that the parents hadn’t lemme attend the SHINE fellowship Christmas party last night, but this morning, I decided not to be petty and sing everything. It’s not like the words hold any meaning for me, anyway. I’m just singing random words.
Anyways, this morning, when mother came to dig me up, Oem, Voem and John Doe2 all flew at her to wish her a very merry Christmas (read, I threw them at herXD) only, I got too excited, and almost threw poor voem into the commode chair! Luckily, mother caught him. “Don’t do that again!” she scolded me. If poor Voem actually landed into the potty, I’d have to throw him out!”
Poor Voem was terrified and wailed his eye :P out, but Oem eye-kissed him, then John Doe2 cuddled him, and finally, mother soothed him, so everything was okay.
For breakfast this morning, mother gave me half a mini croissant and I drank one mug of cold Horlicks. Mother also forced me to drink one entire large mug of water.
After breakfast, dad tootled us off to church.
I did sing everything during service today. Worship was led by aunty Amy Cham; the choir sang also.
After aunty Melody Choi did the bible reading, Reverend Lam delivered a Christmas sermon. Smoky jie jie was his interpreter. Both mother and I snuck out to the toilet once.
When the sermon was over, we all headed downstairs for the luncheon!
Now, I’m slightly confused about the food restrictions for these luncheons, coz for the previous luncheon, the parents told me that each person was entitled to one plate, but then only lemme eat two-thirds a plateful! This time around, I fared slightly better, with ¾ a plateful. But I was slightly curious as to why uncle Ching and aunty Shuk Lai each got at least TWO platefuls. Personally, I reckon that it’s something to do with the fact that the parents don’t want me to gain any weight and so, always heavily restrict anything I try to shove into my mouth. XD
Anyways, after one more loo trip, dad tootles us home, I plop online and mother heads upstairs into pigland.
Around two hours later, dad forces me off, saying that I’m not allowed to stare at the computer screen for too long and must watch television for one hour before returning online. Fair enough. So I use the loo once for two tinkles, then sit down and watch this movie on channel nine about dog sledding! It’s got real dogs, with voices! XD
Mother comes down to feed me one chunk of juicy seedless watermelon and to smear my face with aloe vera. Looking at the clock, I realise one hour has already passed, and ask for permission to return online. It’s granted, but not for long, coz mother soon demands that I shower. *sigh* poor ela gets forced to scrub various body parts at least forty times, and I also wash my hair.
Afterwards, I dry and rekit myself. Mother finishes with my footwear then I return online, just as Uncle Slam arrives for dinner, soon followed by Ronnie jie jie, uncle Cyras and Aunty Mel.
Dad calls dinner. We have rice tonight, but also smoked salmon, ham and lettuce. I passed on the prawns and white wine.
After dinner, I use the bathroom once before returning online.
Only suddenly, something short circuits and everything flicks off! >< luckily, I have already published my blog post and do not lose any information.
Around 9pm, I use the bathroom once more.
Gosh, the adults are really ‘cheung hei’! (say ‘long air’ in canto) it’s almost 10pm, but they’re still yakking! XD
As for me, I’m looking forward to tomorrow, because (1) it’s the Boxing Day sales, but even more importantly, it’s (2) mother’s birthday, which also means (3) I’ll get to see what Santa brought me this year! XD
Meaning I probably won’t have the time to come blog toms, but I’ll try putting my Boxing Day post up on the 27th, okies? Until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Sunday, December 18, 2011
xmas greetings 2011
Heylo! How’s 2011, the first year of the new decade, been for you? Hope you’ve worked hard, studied hard, and most importantly, partied hard! :P
Firstly, an apology from me: I’d intended to send this greeting out to you on the 11th, which would give you two weeks to read and respond to it before Christmas, but yeah, unorganised me kept putting it off, and putting it off, and then suddenly, it’s like, “hey, Christmas is THIS SUNDAY! And I haven’t written anything yet! XD
But yeah … this year has been slightly steadier for me … there wasn’t the high of returning to hong kong of seeing all my beloved family for the first time since god so wantonly destroyed my life with the brain injury, nor was there the devastatingly low of rushing back to Hong Kong when my most beloved grandmother so suddenly passed away from lung cancer. Sometimes I really do wonder at the saying “it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.” I mean, is it really worth to experience such joys, only then to go through such agony?
However, that isn’t something I’ll need to dwell on, because come 20th January, 2012, my parents and I will be flying back to Hong Kong to visit all our beloved friends and family! I’m incredibly excited, especially to see my paternal grandmother, who’ll be NINETY-TWO! She had a fall recently, the poor thing, and went off her appetite, refused to eat and everything, but I said to her, “come on, grandma, you haveta eat your head off! I’m coming back to see you next year, and I’ll join you in eating till we’re big, fat happy penguins, but you start first and I’m sure I’ll catch up to you in no time at all when I come back to see you next year!” And my little cousin Mickey, who’ll almost be 4.5. He’s already promised to play with me when I get back to Hong Kong, so if he doesn’t, I’m going to sulk at him something major until he does. :P
But I’d just like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year. All the best for whatever new endeavours you may be undertaking, and hopefully whatever you’re already doing will continue to go well for you.
Take care, and all the best for 2012!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Firstly, an apology from me: I’d intended to send this greeting out to you on the 11th, which would give you two weeks to read and respond to it before Christmas, but yeah, unorganised me kept putting it off, and putting it off, and then suddenly, it’s like, “hey, Christmas is THIS SUNDAY! And I haven’t written anything yet! XD
But yeah … this year has been slightly steadier for me … there wasn’t the high of returning to hong kong of seeing all my beloved family for the first time since god so wantonly destroyed my life with the brain injury, nor was there the devastatingly low of rushing back to Hong Kong when my most beloved grandmother so suddenly passed away from lung cancer. Sometimes I really do wonder at the saying “it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.” I mean, is it really worth to experience such joys, only then to go through such agony?
However, that isn’t something I’ll need to dwell on, because come 20th January, 2012, my parents and I will be flying back to Hong Kong to visit all our beloved friends and family! I’m incredibly excited, especially to see my paternal grandmother, who’ll be NINETY-TWO! She had a fall recently, the poor thing, and went off her appetite, refused to eat and everything, but I said to her, “come on, grandma, you haveta eat your head off! I’m coming back to see you next year, and I’ll join you in eating till we’re big, fat happy penguins, but you start first and I’m sure I’ll catch up to you in no time at all when I come back to see you next year!” And my little cousin Mickey, who’ll almost be 4.5. He’s already promised to play with me when I get back to Hong Kong, so if he doesn’t, I’m going to sulk at him something major until he does. :P
But I’d just like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year. All the best for whatever new endeavours you may be undertaking, and hopefully whatever you’re already doing will continue to go well for you.
Take care, and all the best for 2012!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Sunday, December 11, 2011
funny forward3
Heylo! This one's another funny forward I recently received! XD Enjoy~
THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION
ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME
WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE,
AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:
1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.
2. I see your face when I am dreaming.
That's why I always wake up screaming.
3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.
4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you 'cause I was pissed.
5. I thought that I could love no other
-- that is until I met your brother...
6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's
empty and so is your head.
7. I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But don't take that paper bag off your face.
8.. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
9. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?
10. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.
WHO SAID POETRY IS BORING
Lol ... too bad I was never any good at poetry ... XD
Next post here ... my apologies for being so slack! I've forgotten to blog about:
(1) that movie I saw with mother ages back;
(2) the lunch mother and I had with Kim and Cass several weeks back;
(3) December's book club!
But my next post here will probably be my Christmas message to everyone ... XD righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION
ASKING FOR A TWO-LINE RHYME
WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE,
AND THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE:
1. My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife:
Marrying you has screwed up my life.
2. I see your face when I am dreaming.
That's why I always wake up screaming.
3. Kind, intelligent, loving and hot;
This describes everything you are not.
4. Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss,
But I only slept with you 'cause I was pissed.
5. I thought that I could love no other
-- that is until I met your brother...
6. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's
empty and so is your head.
7. I want to feel your sweet embrace;
But don't take that paper bag off your face.
8.. I love your smile, your face, and your eyes
Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
9. My love, you take my breath away.
What have you stepped in to smell this way?
10. What inspired this amorous rhyme?
Two parts vodka, one part lime.
WHO SAID POETRY IS BORING
Lol ... too bad I was never any good at poetry ... XD
Next post here ... my apologies for being so slack! I've forgotten to blog about:
(1) that movie I saw with mother ages back;
(2) the lunch mother and I had with Kim and Cass several weeks back;
(3) December's book club!
But my next post here will probably be my Christmas message to everyone ... XD righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Sunday, December 4, 2011
funny forward2
Here's another funny forward I just received that I had to share with everyone! XD
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Daddy, how was I born?
A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy,
how was I born ?'
The father answers,
'Well, son, I guess one day
you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and
I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.
Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom
and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into
a secluded room, and googled each other.
There your mother agreed to a download from
my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload,
we discovered that neither one of us had used a
firewall, and since it was too late to hit the
delete button , nine months later a little
Pop-Up appeared that said:
You got male! XD
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Daddy, how was I born?
A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy,
how was I born ?'
The father answers,
'Well, son, I guess one day
you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and
I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.
Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom
and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into
a secluded room, and googled each other.
There your mother agreed to a download from
my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload,
we discovered that neither one of us had used a
firewall, and since it was too late to hit the
delete button , nine months later a little
Pop-Up appeared that said:
You got male! XD
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
xmas wishlist 2011
Well, hello, hello, hello! And a pinch and a punch to you all for the 1st of December! But the start of the silly/festive season also brings the publication of something super-important: my Christmas wish list! XD
Even from a young age, I’d put together a list of things I wanted each year for Christmas. Back when I was still in primary school, they were small things, like a small torch for my room, or a bag of marbles to play with, etc. but me being almost 2.5 decades old now, my list has grown fancier, too. XD anyways, here’s what I want for Christmas this year, Santa! (and I reckon I’ve been fairly well behaved this year, so I’m at least expecting some of the items I’m requesting! :P)
(1) A Kngdom Besieged by Raymond E Feist – this guy’s my favouritest fantasy author of all time, so when I received the Borders online catalogue advertising his newest book, it was the first to go on my wish list! XD
(2) My Blue Nose Friends keyring – there’s just something adorable about this teddy who got left out in the snow and got so cold his fur turned grey and his nose turned blue!
(3) Darren Lockeyer’s autobiography – I think my Australian godmother said she’d get me this for Christmas!
(4) Kelly Clarkson CD and Linkin Park CD – yup, Westlife is, undoubtedly, my favouritest band ever (hence why I’m devastated that they’re calling it quits *wails* ><) but I’ve always enjoyed the music by Kelly Clarkson and Linkin Park, too. Hey, allow me to be angsty every so often! XD
(5) Heaven’s Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn – I own the first three books all combined as one massive hardcover, and I love how she’s combined Japanese historical fiction and magic all into one enthralling series.
(6) Scattergories board game – actually, I don’t even know if this comes as a board game! XD but I played it for the first time at the WAUFAKAP social, and fell in love with it! It’s available online too, but with only a three minute time limit.
(7) Walking stick – sorry, this one will feature in all my wish lists to come. See, the problem is that when I walk, I don’t really trust my own two legs, and desperately need to hold onto sth that touches the ground, whether that be a walking stick, or somebody else’s hand. See, if I’m holding onto someone’s hand, they touch the ground when they walk, and I therefore touch the ground through them. Sadly, my mother has decided that I’m not to hold onto anyone while I w alk, nor am I allowed to use a walking stick, hence my desperate craving for one. Besides, the physios have taught me that if I’m to walk well, my right leg must pass my left leg. I can manage that just fine when I’m holding onto something that touches the ground, but, when denied that, am simply too fearful to take a big right step over my left foot, for fear I will go hurtling to the ground. It’s happened before.><
(8) X-men: First Class DVD – mother and I went to see this movie together, and it’s simply an awesome movie!
(9) Shatner Rules (William Shatner’s autobiography) this man played James T. Kirk in Star Trek! Of course I want his autobiography; I’m a diehard Trekkie! XD
(10) Kobo touch e-reader – okay, this is something I saw from the Borders e-catalogue that looks vaguely interesting … I’ve always just bought the book itself to read, I’ve never tried using an e-reader before! But it sounds interesting (and I’m sure it’d be tons lighter, too! XD)
(11) Farts: A Spotter’s Guide – okay, this book borders on the … well, insane! XD but it sounds intriguing; worth a good read, surely! XD
(12) Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell – this one’s prolly just some random book I found while reading the Border’s e-catalogue! XD
(13) Teddy bear – another thing I always have on my wish lists. I wuv teddies. ^^
(14) Two more goldfish – this is to replace poor Silver and Bronze, who passed away in the Winter of 2008.
(15) A new computer mouse and mouse pad. See, we’ve been using the current optical mouse and mouse pad for at least three years, and I think it’s starting to age. I play speed-related games, and it’s awfully annoying when you’re trying to move the mouse in a certain direction, but it’s not responding! >< (A/N: uncle yuk tai was awesome and brought me over a new mouse! the only thing is, the button you click is very small, not like the standard half-half size shared by the left and right mouse buttons. now, god's left poor ela more or less useless, but he's left my right hand pretty shoddy with fine motor skills; the mouse responds totally accurately now, but after i move the pointer to where i want it, it takes time for me to find the clicky part to click it! ><
(16) electric toothbrush – I remember the Chow sisters gave me one for last Christmas/the Christmas before, but sorry, it passed away recently. Well, technically, it didn’t pass away, but it’d just automatically turn itself on during the middle of the night, and refuse to turn itself back off! In the end, mother ripped the battery from it, and it finally shut up. XD but I’d like a new one, please!
(17) a box of frosties – yup, I know, it’s unhealthy cereal, but it’s my favourite! The last box I ate was tipped out coz it was invaded by ants … >< if I get a new box this Christmas, must come up with a better way of keeping it ant proof!
(18) one of those plastic cups with my name on it – I used to have a yellow one that read ‘Emily’, and my dad had a blue one that read ‘Michael’. I used it to brush my teeth every night, until the mug grew so old, it’s handle fell off! XD I’d like a new one, please! Think you can get them from Granny Mays.
(19) Me To You At Christmas CD - I wuv Me To You teddies! Bet his CD's worth getting! XD
(20) A new manual wheelchair - see, my current one I got back in 2007, when God first ruined my life, but it's getting old and worn. Besides, it's not very light weight, and I'm certain that every carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P has heard mother gripe on and on about how heavy it is for her to get from the boot and put back in. And, seeing that we're returning to Hong Kong early next year, I'll like a lightweight one so that mother won't put out her back putting the manual wheelchair in the taxi boot, like she somehow did when we returned to Hong Kong last year.
Righteo, that’s the last from me, Santa. Cheers to you. ~
Cheerws,
Em. ^^
Even from a young age, I’d put together a list of things I wanted each year for Christmas. Back when I was still in primary school, they were small things, like a small torch for my room, or a bag of marbles to play with, etc. but me being almost 2.5 decades old now, my list has grown fancier, too. XD anyways, here’s what I want for Christmas this year, Santa! (and I reckon I’ve been fairly well behaved this year, so I’m at least expecting some of the items I’m requesting! :P)
(1) A Kngdom Besieged by Raymond E Feist – this guy’s my favouritest fantasy author of all time, so when I received the Borders online catalogue advertising his newest book, it was the first to go on my wish list! XD
(2) My Blue Nose Friends keyring – there’s just something adorable about this teddy who got left out in the snow and got so cold his fur turned grey and his nose turned blue!
(3) Darren Lockeyer’s autobiography – I think my Australian godmother said she’d get me this for Christmas!
(4) Kelly Clarkson CD and Linkin Park CD – yup, Westlife is, undoubtedly, my favouritest band ever (hence why I’m devastated that they’re calling it quits *wails* ><) but I’ve always enjoyed the music by Kelly Clarkson and Linkin Park, too. Hey, allow me to be angsty every so often! XD
(5) Heaven’s Net Is Wide by Lian Hearn – I own the first three books all combined as one massive hardcover, and I love how she’s combined Japanese historical fiction and magic all into one enthralling series.
(6) Scattergories board game – actually, I don’t even know if this comes as a board game! XD but I played it for the first time at the WAUFAKAP social, and fell in love with it! It’s available online too, but with only a three minute time limit.
(7) Walking stick – sorry, this one will feature in all my wish lists to come. See, the problem is that when I walk, I don’t really trust my own two legs, and desperately need to hold onto sth that touches the ground, whether that be a walking stick, or somebody else’s hand. See, if I’m holding onto someone’s hand, they touch the ground when they walk, and I therefore touch the ground through them. Sadly, my mother has decided that I’m not to hold onto anyone while I w alk, nor am I allowed to use a walking stick, hence my desperate craving for one. Besides, the physios have taught me that if I’m to walk well, my right leg must pass my left leg. I can manage that just fine when I’m holding onto something that touches the ground, but, when denied that, am simply too fearful to take a big right step over my left foot, for fear I will go hurtling to the ground. It’s happened before.><
(8) X-men: First Class DVD – mother and I went to see this movie together, and it’s simply an awesome movie!
(9) Shatner Rules (William Shatner’s autobiography) this man played James T. Kirk in Star Trek! Of course I want his autobiography; I’m a diehard Trekkie! XD
(10) Kobo touch e-reader – okay, this is something I saw from the Borders e-catalogue that looks vaguely interesting … I’ve always just bought the book itself to read, I’ve never tried using an e-reader before! But it sounds interesting (and I’m sure it’d be tons lighter, too! XD)
(11) Farts: A Spotter’s Guide – okay, this book borders on the … well, insane! XD but it sounds intriguing; worth a good read, surely! XD
(12) Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell – this one’s prolly just some random book I found while reading the Border’s e-catalogue! XD
(13) Teddy bear – another thing I always have on my wish lists. I wuv teddies. ^^
(14) Two more goldfish – this is to replace poor Silver and Bronze, who passed away in the Winter of 2008.
(15) A new computer mouse and mouse pad. See, we’ve been using the current optical mouse and mouse pad for at least three years, and I think it’s starting to age. I play speed-related games, and it’s awfully annoying when you’re trying to move the mouse in a certain direction, but it’s not responding! >< (A/N: uncle yuk tai was awesome and brought me over a new mouse! the only thing is, the button you click is very small, not like the standard half-half size shared by the left and right mouse buttons. now, god's left poor ela more or less useless, but he's left my right hand pretty shoddy with fine motor skills; the mouse responds totally accurately now, but after i move the pointer to where i want it, it takes time for me to find the clicky part to click it! ><
(16) electric toothbrush – I remember the Chow sisters gave me one for last Christmas/the Christmas before, but sorry, it passed away recently. Well, technically, it didn’t pass away, but it’d just automatically turn itself on during the middle of the night, and refuse to turn itself back off! In the end, mother ripped the battery from it, and it finally shut up. XD but I’d like a new one, please!
(17) a box of frosties – yup, I know, it’s unhealthy cereal, but it’s my favourite! The last box I ate was tipped out coz it was invaded by ants … >< if I get a new box this Christmas, must come up with a better way of keeping it ant proof!
(18) one of those plastic cups with my name on it – I used to have a yellow one that read ‘Emily’, and my dad had a blue one that read ‘Michael’. I used it to brush my teeth every night, until the mug grew so old, it’s handle fell off! XD I’d like a new one, please! Think you can get them from Granny Mays.
(19) Me To You At Christmas CD - I wuv Me To You teddies! Bet his CD's worth getting! XD
(20) A new manual wheelchair - see, my current one I got back in 2007, when God first ruined my life, but it's getting old and worn. Besides, it's not very light weight, and I'm certain that every carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they're called now :P has heard mother gripe on and on about how heavy it is for her to get from the boot and put back in. And, seeing that we're returning to Hong Kong early next year, I'll like a lightweight one so that mother won't put out her back putting the manual wheelchair in the taxi boot, like she somehow did when we returned to Hong Kong last year.
Righteo, that’s the last from me, Santa. Cheers to you. ~
Cheerws,
Em. ^^
Friday, November 18, 2011
literacy
I’ve always been a dunce at maths. Well, not really a dunce. I graduated high school maths B with a high credit, and can still recite pi to five decimal places. But maths isn’t my forte.
Rather, the English language is. I’m fine with reading and writing, have a fairly extensive vocab, etc.
Back in 2007, when God destroyed my life, I was hoping/thinking that he’d only left me with a physical disability. More than one carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they’re called now :P has told me the same thing. “I see you as a young woman with only a physical disability.”
So I was considerably upset to discover that my English skills have deteriorated considerably post-brain injury.
I’m a writer and reader of fanfiction. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, fanfiction is when you write your own story borrowing characters from someone else’s book. Say, if you were reading Harry Potter, but decided that Harry shouldn’t have gone out with Ginny, but rather Hermione and you wrote out a story along those lines. That’d be fanfiction. I used to write several stories too. You can find them at www.fanfiction.net. My username is ‘pactumserva’.
But I was re-reading some stories I’d written before my brain injury, and I was very distressed to discover that I didn’t understand some of the words that I’d written myself.
I mean, I know that God has left me very physically disabled, but I truly thought that at the very least, my grasp of the English language hadn’t deteriorated!
I honestly was shattered that I had to look up two of the words I’d written up in the dictionary. Like, I often do have to look up words I come across when reading Lillian’s blog (but you’re just awesome, Lillian, so it’s really no surprise, see? :P) but I honestly hadn’t expected that I wouldn’t be able to comprehend MY OWN WRITING! ><
That brought me back to this Bible passage we’d recently studied during bible study at SHINE fellowship. Coming from first Corinthians 1:9, it reads, “God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Now, either I have found a mistake in the Bible, or else I’m just a very immature Christian who has gotten everything all muddled up. Probably the latter.
The dictionary defines ‘faithful’ as “true to one’s words, promises, vows, etc.”
Now, if god really was faithful, would he really have wantonly destroyed my life like he has done?
Every night, in bed, I ask myself what did I do/didn’t do that made God hate me so much that he totally destroyed my life almost five years ago. I mean, was it that I didn’t pray enough? Read the Bible enough? Give enough offering? Sing songs of praises to him loud enough? God’s never given me an answer. I remember back in 2007 and 2008, lying in my hospital bed, crying out to God, asking him how long he would hate me for? Would five years be enough? I asked him. After five years, will you turn your hatred onto someone else and let me try to recover the shattered shards of my life? I mean, there are at least 6 840 507 000 other people in the world. Surely, surely, one of them must be more hateful than I am to God!
But come February, 2011, five years will have passed since God looked down from heaven, decided that I really pissed him off and so destroyed my life. It’s looking increasingly unlikely that after five years, God will leave me alone to recover the shattered shards of my life and turn his hatred onto one of the numerous number of people on the world. That’s okay. I’ll keep struggling, I’ll keep persevering. Maybe after ten years, he’ll finally have decided to hate someone more than me. I just pray that it’ll be soon. I mean, I’m 24.5 years old. These should be the best days of my life! I should be getting a job, earning money, looking for a boyfriend and thinking of starting a family. Instead, God’s just left me discarded by the roadside, too disabled to be of any use to society.
*sigh* life sucks, I know that. I’m used to it.
Next post here … well, I still haven’t posted about WAUFAKAP, nor the movie review of the movie mother and I went to see awhile back! Lol, I’m falling behind. XD anyways, cya when I cya!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Rather, the English language is. I’m fine with reading and writing, have a fairly extensive vocab, etc.
Back in 2007, when God destroyed my life, I was hoping/thinking that he’d only left me with a physical disability. More than one carer/life coach/support worker/whatever they’re called now :P has told me the same thing. “I see you as a young woman with only a physical disability.”
So I was considerably upset to discover that my English skills have deteriorated considerably post-brain injury.
I’m a writer and reader of fanfiction. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, fanfiction is when you write your own story borrowing characters from someone else’s book. Say, if you were reading Harry Potter, but decided that Harry shouldn’t have gone out with Ginny, but rather Hermione and you wrote out a story along those lines. That’d be fanfiction. I used to write several stories too. You can find them at www.fanfiction.net. My username is ‘pactumserva’.
But I was re-reading some stories I’d written before my brain injury, and I was very distressed to discover that I didn’t understand some of the words that I’d written myself.
I mean, I know that God has left me very physically disabled, but I truly thought that at the very least, my grasp of the English language hadn’t deteriorated!
I honestly was shattered that I had to look up two of the words I’d written up in the dictionary. Like, I often do have to look up words I come across when reading Lillian’s blog (but you’re just awesome, Lillian, so it’s really no surprise, see? :P) but I honestly hadn’t expected that I wouldn’t be able to comprehend MY OWN WRITING! ><
That brought me back to this Bible passage we’d recently studied during bible study at SHINE fellowship. Coming from first Corinthians 1:9, it reads, “God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Now, either I have found a mistake in the Bible, or else I’m just a very immature Christian who has gotten everything all muddled up. Probably the latter.
The dictionary defines ‘faithful’ as “true to one’s words, promises, vows, etc.”
Now, if god really was faithful, would he really have wantonly destroyed my life like he has done?
Every night, in bed, I ask myself what did I do/didn’t do that made God hate me so much that he totally destroyed my life almost five years ago. I mean, was it that I didn’t pray enough? Read the Bible enough? Give enough offering? Sing songs of praises to him loud enough? God’s never given me an answer. I remember back in 2007 and 2008, lying in my hospital bed, crying out to God, asking him how long he would hate me for? Would five years be enough? I asked him. After five years, will you turn your hatred onto someone else and let me try to recover the shattered shards of my life? I mean, there are at least 6 840 507 000 other people in the world. Surely, surely, one of them must be more hateful than I am to God!
But come February, 2011, five years will have passed since God looked down from heaven, decided that I really pissed him off and so destroyed my life. It’s looking increasingly unlikely that after five years, God will leave me alone to recover the shattered shards of my life and turn his hatred onto one of the numerous number of people on the world. That’s okay. I’ll keep struggling, I’ll keep persevering. Maybe after ten years, he’ll finally have decided to hate someone more than me. I just pray that it’ll be soon. I mean, I’m 24.5 years old. These should be the best days of my life! I should be getting a job, earning money, looking for a boyfriend and thinking of starting a family. Instead, God’s just left me discarded by the roadside, too disabled to be of any use to society.
*sigh* life sucks, I know that. I’m used to it.
Next post here … well, I still haven’t posted about WAUFAKAP, nor the movie review of the movie mother and I went to see awhile back! Lol, I’m falling behind. XD anyways, cya when I cya!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
meaningful forward
Heylo! This is a very meangingful forward Aunty Shirley sent to me recently; I thought I'd share it with everyone. :) Enjoy!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
A Christian
Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston , Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change.. As he considered what to do, he thought to himself, 'You'd better give the quarter back. It would be wrong to keep it.' Then he thought, 'Oh, forget it, it's only a quarter. Who would worry about this little amount? Anyway, the bus company gets too much fare; they will never miss it. Accept it as a 'gift from God' and keep quiet.'
When his stop came, he paused momentarily at the door, and then he handed the quarter to the driver and said, 'Here, you gave me too much change ...'
The driver, with a smile, replied, 'Aren't you the new preacher in town?'
'Yes' he replied.
'Well, I have been thinking a lot lately about going somewhere to worship. I just wanted to see what you would do if I gave you too much change. I'll see you at church on Sunday.'
When the preacher stepped off of the bus, he literally grabbed the nearest light pole, held on, and said, 'Oh God, I almost sold your Son for a quarter.'
Our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. This is a really scary example of how much people watch us as Christians, and will put us to the test! Always be on guard -- and remember -- You carry the name of Christ on your shoulders when you call yourself 'Christian.'
Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits..
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Cheers,
Em. ^^
A Christian
Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston , Texas . Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to ride the bus from his home to the downtown area. When he sat down, he discovered that the driver had accidentally given him a quarter too much change.. As he considered what to do, he thought to himself, 'You'd better give the quarter back. It would be wrong to keep it.' Then he thought, 'Oh, forget it, it's only a quarter. Who would worry about this little amount? Anyway, the bus company gets too much fare; they will never miss it. Accept it as a 'gift from God' and keep quiet.'
When his stop came, he paused momentarily at the door, and then he handed the quarter to the driver and said, 'Here, you gave me too much change ...'
The driver, with a smile, replied, 'Aren't you the new preacher in town?'
'Yes' he replied.
'Well, I have been thinking a lot lately about going somewhere to worship. I just wanted to see what you would do if I gave you too much change. I'll see you at church on Sunday.'
When the preacher stepped off of the bus, he literally grabbed the nearest light pole, held on, and said, 'Oh God, I almost sold your Son for a quarter.'
Our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. This is a really scary example of how much people watch us as Christians, and will put us to the test! Always be on guard -- and remember -- You carry the name of Christ on your shoulders when you call yourself 'Christian.'
Watch your thoughts ; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits..
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
the lion king (3D)
My absolute, most favouritest movie of all time has to be the lion king. I LOVE that movie, have seen it dozens of times. Lol, at first, mother laughed at me coz I sang along to all the songs in the movie, but soon, she was saying stuff like, “for goodness sakes, em, it’s one thing for you to be singing along to all the songs, but it’s an entirely different matter when you’re even SPEAKING along with them!” XD anyways, when I saw in the junk mail that the movie was coming out in 3D, I HAD to see it!
So mother takes me along to the hoyts cinema at sunnybank about one month ago come a Monday morning to watch what is, without a doubt, the bestest movie ever. XD
At first, when she goes to buy the tickets, she’s not keen on buying us a popcorn to share, but after she comes back with the tickets in hand, I try pleading my case again, explaining to her how the lion king’s my favouritest movie ever, and I really believe it’s popcorn worthy. In the end, I only persuade mother to buy us a small popcorn to share after I promise her I won’t ask her for popcorn come the next movie we see together.
Thankfully, our cinema room isn’t too far from the entrance, because as expected, mother gleefully forces me to hike up two steps to sit in the second row. But that was okay; I was just excited to be seeing my favouritest movie of all time!
Anyways, here are all the quotes, trivia and bloopers I liked, courtesy of imdb:
First of all, I didn’t know it came out in 1994! The 25th august, if you wanna be exact. And it’s only eighty-odd minutes long; just short of 1.5 hours.
Also, Jeremy irons and whoopi golberg all play a part in the movie!
Righteo, trivia first:
-The original opening to the film was supposed to have been a quiet dialogue-heavy sequence. When composer Hans Zimmer prepared his interpretation of Circle of Life, he made an extended version so he would have some flexibility as to what to cut for the film. The animators were so impressed with the work that they decided to change the beginning into the currently seen sequence so they could use the entire work that Zimmer prepared.
-One of the bugs that Timon pulls out of a knothole during Hakuna Matata is wearing Mickey Mouse ears. A/N: hey, I didn’t know that! Must watch out for it next time I watch the movie!
-here have been rumors that when Simba collapses on the cliff after talking with Timon and Pumbaa about stars, the dust that flies off the cliff forms the letters SEX. In fact it forms the letters SFX, the abbreviation of the special-effects team that worked on that portion of the film. This scene was deleted in the 2011 release.
-Originally titled "King of the Jungle", it was supposed to be about African lions living in the jungle until the production team realized that lions don't live in the jungle. Interestingly enough, the phrase "King of the Jungle" is still used on certain T-shirts sold at the Disney Store.
-Several Disney animators went to Africa to study animal behavior and interaction in the wild. A grown lion and a cub were also brought into the animation studio as models for anatomy and musculature.
-The wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department approximately three years to animate.
-Elton John and Tim Rice were a little shocked when they saw that the producers originally intended to have their (eventual) Oscar-winning love ballad "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" as a duet between Timon and Pumbaa.
-The first Disney cartoon to be dubbed into Zulu for its African release. (A/N: hey, wonder what ‘simba’ and ‘scar’ would’ve been called in zulu? XD)
-When writer Irene Mecchi came on board, she was told that the story pitch was "Bambi in Africa meets Hamlet", or "Bamlet", as she termed it.
-A new computer program had to be written for the CG wildebeest stampede that allowed hundreds of computer generated animals to run but without colliding into each other.
-German-born Hans Zimmer called in the services of his South African friend, Lebo M., to help provide some authenticity to the film's musical soundtrack. The two had previously collaborated on John G. Avildsen's The Power of One. It is Lebo M.'s call that you hear on the opening bars of "Circle of Life". He also wrote the African chant that underpins this stirring version of the song. (A/N: I love hans zimmer, because he’s the guy that wrote the soundtrack for the lion king, which is my favourite non-animated television program!)
-Disney's 32nd animated feature.
-The best selling home video of all time, with more than 55 million copies sold to date.
-The plot-line is loosely based upon William Shakespeare's Hamlet; a story of a young prince whose uncle takes over the kingdom and marries the queen after killing the king/prince's father. After being away from home for a period of time, these events lead to the prince's plans for revenge. The prince receives some advice from his father's ghost. Also, during the scene where Zazu sings I've got a lovely bunch of Coconuts, Scar Has a skull in his hand.
-Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella were originally cast as the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi (played by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin in the film). The crew loved their performance and thought the duo would be even better as Timon and Pumbaa.
-Mufasa was to sing a song titled To Be King, but it didn't suit James Earl Jones' singing voice. (A/N: too bad; I would’ve loved to hear mufasa sing!
-Pumbaa the Warthog was the first character in Disney films to exhibit flatulence. (A/N: you mean there’s been more? XD)
-When Mufasa tells Simba about the Great Kings of the Past if you look at the stars in the wide shot you can see Mickey Mouse. (A/N: that’s sth I’m gonna haveta watch out for next time!)
-An alternate version of Can You Feel the Love Tonight, a comic version to be sung by Timon and Pumbaa was storyboarded and even recorded but never used.
-If you look closely at Zazu as Simba comes down to greet his subjects after the defeat of Scar, you can see his beak move, but no sound comes out. Originally he says "Your Majesty".
-Originally, the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi were supposed to be voiced by Tommy Chong andCheech Marin. But the directors couldn't get hold of Chong, so they cast Whoopi Goldbergas Shenzi instead.
In the end of the scene where Mufasa explains to Simba that the stars are old kings, we can see the constellation of Leo (the lion) in the sky.
Unlike the other lions, Scar's claws are always displayed throughout the movie.
Several character names are based on Swahili words:
• Shenzi: Barbarous/Uncouth/Uncivilized/Savage
• Pumbaa: Ignorant/Lazy/Careless
• Sarabi: Mirage
• Rafiki: Comrade/Friend
• Simba: Lion/Courageous Warrior
• Mufasa: reportedly the name of the last king of the Bagada people, who were dispersed during the English colonization of Kenya.
• Nala: gift
-One of the original villain groups being considered was a pack of jackals.
-The groundhog that pops up after Simba's pouncing lesson (the song "Morning Report" in the special edition) was originally going to be a naked mole rat, but the animators couldn't get him to look right. One of the directors said, "We would've lost our G rating!" (A/N: I thought the lyrics for zazu’s morning report was very clever, BTW!)
-In the dubbed Dutch version of the film, Timon and Pumbaa's voices are spoken in Flemish, a dialect of Dutch spoken in Belgium. The accent given to Rafiki and Simba's mother comes from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The rest of the characters speak with standard Dutch dialects found in the Netherlands.
-Besides inspirations from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the story also has elements of the Osirian family myths of Ancient Egyptian mythology. In the Osirian myths, the king (Mufasa/Osiris) is killed by his jealous brother (Scar/Seth) and the rightful heir (Simba/Horus) is sent into exile as a boy. The murdered king visits and mentors his son in ghostly visits and when the heir comes of age, he returns to exact revenge on his father's murderer.
-The song that Rafiki sings, 'Asante sana Squash banana, Wewe nugu mimi hapana' is Swahili for "Thank you very much, Squash banana, You're a baboon and I'm not." Simba asks, "What does that mean?" and Rafiki says, "It means you're a baboon and I'm not." This is a popular children's song similar to "Cinderella, dressed in yella" for example.
-The last Disney movie to be supervised by Jeffrey Katzenberg before he left to form DreamWorks.
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A few weeks before the film opened, Elton John was given a special screening. Noticing that the film's love song had been left out, he successfully lobbied to have the song put back in. Later, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
-The scenes of the hyenas chasing Simba out of the Pridelands and into the desert originally went screen right to screen left. The filmmakers flipped all the shots so that the chase now went screen left to screen right, so as to match the shot of Simba running back home to face Scar (he runs from screen right to screen left).
-oted number 6 in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films" (A/N: it should’ve been number one! XD)
-The music of the little song Timon performs for the hyenas ("LUAU!") is a fast-paced parody of the Aloha Chant, which can be heard in Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room in Disneyland.
-The lyric for the opening chant of "The Circle of Life" is: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama / Nants ingonyama bagithi baba / Sithi uhhmm ingonyama / Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba / Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw enamabala". This translates as: "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / A lion We're going to conquer / A lion A lion and a leopard come to this open place". (A/N: what leopard? XD)
-John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Patrick Stewart were all considered for the role of Zazu. The role was finally given to Rowan Atkinson after the animators watched some episodes of Mr. Bean. They even modeled Zazu's appearance after Atkinson. According to producer Don Hahn, every English comedian (as well as Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow, both of whom are classically trained Shakespearean actors) who performed from 1960-1991 and were still active in acting were either seriously considered, turned down or auditioned for the role.
-Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell were both considered for the role of Scar. (A/N: well, I’ve never noticed that Jeremy irons is super-ugly … what about you? XD)
-Originally, Scar was going to send adult Nala away from Pride Rock because she ignored his romantic approaches, after which she finds Simba alive and well with Timon and Pumbaa. This idea was ultimately abandoned, as sexual harassment was considered improper in a family movie. However, the stage musical adaptation includes this plot development as part of director Julie Taymor's efforts to expand the female characters' presence in the story. (A/N: I’ve always wanted to see the musical production! Anyone gonna gimme a ticket as a Christmas present this year? XD)
-The first Disney animation movie to be dubbed into Portuguese in Portugal rather than Brazil.
-The Italian pop version of the song "The Circle of Life", sung in Italian by Ivana Spagna, was a major hit in Italy in 1994/95, alongside the original version by Elton John.
-June 2008 Ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation". (A/N: I wondered who the top three were?)
-Nearly twenty minutes of the film were animated at the Disney-MGM Studios. Ultimately, more than 600 artists, animators and technicians contributed to The Lion King over its lengthy production schedule. More than one million drawings were created for the film, including 1,197 hand-painted backgrounds and 119,058 individually colored frames of film.
-The main locations for the film, including Pride Rock and the Gorge, are modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya.
-The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997. The musical garnered 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and is produced by Disney Theatrical.
The highest grossing movie of 1994 worldwide and the second highest in the US behindForrest Gump.
To date this movie still holds the record for being the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history. (A/N: yeah, the lion king 4EVA!! XD)
-One of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two areBeauty and the Beast and Toy Story 2 (all three were in the category "Comedy or Musical").
-The Broadway production of "The Lion King" opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on October 15, 1997, has run for 5240 performances and is currently the ninth longest-running show on Broadway (as of July 2010). "The Lion King" won the 1998 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical and received nominations for Best Score and Best Book.
-Jim Cummings had to fill in for Jeremy Irons during the song "Be Prepared". Jeremy threw out his voice after singing, "You won't get a sniff without me!".
-Although all of the animals are obviously anthropomorphic in the film, hyenas (as the villainous characters) were most given the short end of the stick from the reality. In fact, Spotted Hyenas are considered the equal of lions in terms of intelligence and ferocity. They have an equally intricate social structure and are less likely to kill their own kind than lions (hyena clan matriarchs allow very little intra-species aggression). Also, while portrayed as nearly full scavengers, in reality lions scavenge the kills of hyenas as much as (if not more so) than hyenas scavenge lion kills.
-There is a lost verse of "Hakuna Matata" that was storyboarded which explained Timon's situation. It was later used in The Lion King 1½. (A/N: I wanna watch that, then! :D)
-Premiered at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Despite repeated allegations of plagiarism of the Tezuka Productions' TV series Janguru taitei, first shown in the 1960s, Disney maintain that all the similarities are coincidental.
When Simba calls the hyenas 'stupid', a very nervous Zazu mutters 'Ixnay on the Upid-stay'. This is Pig Latin, roughly translated it means 'Don't say stupid'.
-Nala's mother is named Sarafina. The name is never used in the film, however it does appear in the credits and on pieces of merchandise based on the film, including the trading cards issued at Burger King for a Lion King-based promotion. (A/N: I wonder if all the lionesses had names starting with ‘sa’? coz simba’s mum’s name was sarabi!)
-'The Lion King' is very similar to a story almost unknown to Western culture but one of the most beloved historical stories of the Niger Congo language family (western Africa). It is a story about one of their greatest kings - 'Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali'. The main character Sundiata (which, directly translated, means "the lion king") is a young prince banished from his homeland by his family after his father dies. The story tracks his overcoming of emotional and physical ailments to later return to his kingdom and battle the evil sorcerer king who has overtaken it in his absence. This is a true story (with some magical elements added) and is still told by griots (history keepers for upper-class families, aka Rafiki in the film).
-At the end of the movie when Simba looks up to the stars and hears "remember", you can make out a lion standing from the stars, representing Mufasa's star-sign.
- is the second movie in which James Earl Jones (Mufasa) and Madge Sinclair (Serabi) perform together as an African King and Queen. Jones and Sinclair were also King and Queen of a fictional African nation in Coming to America.
-Originally the Hula dance with Timon was going to be a Saturday Night Fever like disco dance.
-Originally the film was going to be about a conflict between lions and baboons, and Scar was going to be the baboon leader. Rafiki, the only baboon in the film, was instead going to be a cheetah. (A/N: lol, I can’t imagine scar as a silly baboon! XD)
-When he signed onto the film, 'Mathew Broderick (I)' (Adult Simba) thought this was an American version of the anime/manga "Kimba the White Lion" (1965) which followed a similar plot line.
-Script writers envisioned Sean Connery as the voice of Mufasa.
-In the special edition release, crew had to hire a new actor to voice Young Simba singing for the "Morning Report" since the original singing voice is now an adult. They hired Evan Saucedo, making him the 4th actor to voice young Simba.
-- The original script included several characters which were cut. There was another lion cub named Mee-Too, a bat-eared fox, and a rhino with a tickbird on his back. In fact the tickbird was kept and evolved into Zazu.
- In early drafts, Scar was a rogue lion with no relation to Mufasa. Eventually, however, the story writers thought relating him to Mufasa would be more interesting; a threat within. This is why Scar and Mufasa differ so much; They weren't originally designed to be related.
- Mufasa was to never appear after his death, but producers felt Simba needed a reason to go back to pride rock so the spirit scene was made.
Righteo, goofs next!
- Before assuming the throne Simba walks down Pride Rock. Zazu bows to Simba and although his mouth is moving no words are spoken. This is because Zazu was supposed to say "your majesty".
- You hear Banzai's voice say "Here kitty kitty kitty" but nobody's mouth moves.
- When Simba and Mufasa view the sunrise, they refer to the "shadowy place" as being on their right. As they were facing the sunrise (east) that would mean that anything on the right side would be south. And yet, Scar refers to it later as the place "beyond the northern border."
When the young Simba and Nala are walking towards the "water hole" with Zazu flying above his shadow does not flap its wings as often as Zazu does. Share this
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- The number of stripes on Timon's back alternate between shot from five to six.
- We see Simba scratch Shenzi's cheek, leaving visible cuts, but shortly after, Shenzi is healed.
- As Simba climbs a dead tree to escape the wildebeest stampede, he leaves scratches on the bark. In all later shots the tree is intact.
- When Simba finds Mufasa's dead body, his tears leave stains running down both cheeks. When Scar appears, Simba's face alternates between having tear stains on both cheeks in medium shots and only on his right cheek in close-ups. Once Scar tells Simba to run away, the stains disappear altogether.
Near the end of the film when Scar has Simba hanging on the edge of Pride Rock, the camera moves out and the lightning crashes, and we can see Simba is holding on to the rock up to his elbows, yet in the next scene we can see he is only holding on by his paws.
- n one of the final scenes where Simba walks up Pride Rock to roar, it is raining. When we see Timon and Pumbaa briefly, they are dry while the other characters all have signs of being wet.
The number of Simba's whiskers on each side of his cheek changes from 4 to 5 and back again in some scenes. S
- When Banzai the hyena says, "Man, that lousy Mufasa - I won't be able tosit for a week," he has visible cuts near his behind, but in the shot when he wrestles with Ed, they are gone.
- The hyenas are seen throughout the entire film with three toes on all their paws. But when the hyenas are chasing Simba, Banzai claws at him after he squeezes through a rock, and his paw has four toes. (A/N: yeah? Well, I’ve got FIVE toes on each foot! XD)
- Thorns that are all over Banzai's body disappear completely between shots with no time for him to remove them all.
- When Nala is crouched in the grass right before she pounces at Pumba her eyes are green. When she's fighting with Simba her eyes are blue.
- Grown-up Simba's eyes switch from white to yellow during the movie.
- When Rafiki smells the dust on the wind and realizes Simba is alive, he dips the tips of his fingers into the red paint in order to adapt his picture. In the next shot, his thumb is red too
- When Simba and Nala are trying to escape the hyenas and fall through the rotten piece of wood, there is debris on the ground. In the next shot when Simba 'roars', the ground is clean.
- When Mufasa and Simba are talking at the top of Pride Rock, facing the sun, their shadows stream out behind them, which is correct. However, as Simba says "Everything the light touches", his shadow is in front of him, which is wrong. It should be cast on his right. Also, in the next shot, when Simba and Mufasa are facing south towards the 'shadowy place', their right sides are in shadow, with the light shining from the left. But it is sunrise, the sun, and therefore the light, should be on their right.
- In the scene where Pumbaa is grovelling before Simba, Timon walks up to him and places his hands on the center of Pumbaa's nose, between his nostrils. In the next shot, his hands are more towards the top.
The number of whiskers each male lion has changes from scene to scene, and sometimes the whiskers disappear altogether. None of the lionesses in the film have whiskers, though obviously in reality females do have whiskers.
- In her first appearance, Nala's mother Sarafina's toes are the same color as the rest of her body. However, when Scar is informing the Pride of the accident, her toes are lighter. A second later, during Nala's close-up, Sarafina's toes are once again the same as her body. (A/N: woah, that’s really attention to detail gone overboard. I mean, toe colour?! XD)
- When Scar first begins his speech after Mufasa's death, nine adult lionesses can be made out. However, when the hyenas begin to appear, there are suddenly only eight. The same thing happens when Simba returns to Pride Rock. At first there are six lionesses, then seven, then six again, then only five, then six.
- - When Timon starts his Hula dance, when is back is to the camera, he is not wearing his lei (flower necklace). It suddenly appears a few frames later.
- When Nala is chasing Pumbaa and he is trapped under the root, he begins digging frantically as Timon runs up. However, by the time Timon has jumped onto his head, the ground is smooth again.
- - Part of the lyrics song in "The Circle of Life" are "there's a lion and a tiger", yet no tigers live in Africa.
During the "sunrise" scene the river is seen on the "south" side of Pride Rock. Later during Simba's "circle of life" lesson the river is on the "north" side of Pride Rock.
- The elephant skeletons would have to come from freakishly large elephants. Hyenas could not pass through the trunk socket of an elephant's skull.
- Rafiki the monkey appears to be some sort of bizarre mandrill-baboon hybrid. He has the colorful face of a mandrill, but the long, kinked tail of a baboon (mandrills have very short tails).
Scar is younger than Mufasa, yet Scar has a darker mane. As a lion's mane darkens as it ages, Mufasa's mane would have to be darker than Scar's.
- At the end of the elephant graveyard scene, Scar's shadow on the wall does not match his pose.
If you look close, when Simba is sitting on the rock during the "Hakuna-Matata" song, the pads on his right paw are bigger then the paw itself.
- Rafiki's Swahili message "Asante sana, squash banana, We we nugu mi mi apana" Does not mean "You are a baboon, and I'm not." It really mean "Thank you very much, Squash Banana, You are a Dog, and I'm not!"
And finally, here are all my favourite quotes!
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar, guess what?
Scar: I despise guessing games.
Young Simba: I'm gonna be King of Pride Rock.
Scar: Oh, goody.
Young Simba: My dad just showed me the whole kingdom. And I'm gonna rule it all. Heheh.
Scar: Yes. Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.
[flops on his side]
Young Simba: Hey Uncle Scar, when I'm King, what'll that make you?
Scar: A monkey's uncle.
Young Simba: [laughs] You're so weird.
Scar: You have no idea.
- Zazu: [singing] Nooooobody knows the trouble I've seen. / Nooooobody knows my sorrow.
Scar: Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little *bounce* in it.
Zazu: [singing] It's a small world after all...
Scar: NO! No. *Anything* but that!
Zazu: [singing] I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. / There they are just standing in a row.
Zazu, Scar: [Scar joins in] Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...
Zazu: [whispering] Oh, I never had to do this with Mufasa.
- - Pumbaa: [about "Hakuna Matata"] It's our motto.
Young Simba: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
[laughs]
- - Timon: Let me get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's okay with this?
[jumps up suddenly]
Timon: [yells] Did I miss something?
- Zazu: [caged while the battle rages around him] Let me out! Let me out!
Timon: [fleeing the hyenas] Lemme in! Lemme in!
- Nala: Have you guys seen Simba?
Timon: I thought he was with you.
Nala: He was but now I can't find him. Where is he?
Rafiki: [chuckles] You won't find him here. The King has returned.
Nala: I don't believe it. He's gone back.
Timon: What?
[looks up and sees Rafiki has disappeared]
Timon: Hey, what's going on here? Who's the monkey?
Nala: Simba's gone back to challenge Scar.
Timon: Who?
Nala: Scar.
Pumbaa: Who's got a scar?
Nala: No, no, no. It's his uncle.
Timon: The monkey's his uncle?
Nala: *No!* Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king.
Timon, Pumbaa: Ohhh.
- [Timon and Zazu are cornered by hyenas]
Timon: Please don't eat me.
Pumbaa: Drop 'em!
Banzai: Hey! Who's the pig?
Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
Timon: Uh-oh, they called him a pig.
Pumbaa: Are you talking to *me*?
Timon: Ya shouldn't have done that.
Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
Timon: Now they're in for it.
Pumbaa: THEY CALL ME MR. PIG! AHHHH!
- Timon: [of the decimated Pride Rock] We're gonna fight your uncle... for this?
Adult Simba: Yes, Timon. This is my home.
Timon: Whoa. Talk about your fixer-upper.
- Rafiki: [after guiding Simba to a spot where he says will show him Mufasa] Look down there.
Adult Simba: [looks into a pool of water] That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
Rafiki: No, look harder.
[touches the water, as it ripples Simba's reflection changes to that of his father]
Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.
Mufasa's ghost: [from above] Simba.
Adult Simba: Father?
Mufasa's ghost: [apears among the stars] Simba, you have forgotten me.
Adult Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa's ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.
Adult Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.
Mufasa's ghost: Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king. Remember...
- Adult Simba: [in a huff] She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyhow? It won't change a thing. You can't change the past.
[calling to the sky]
Adult Simba: You said you'd always be there for me! But you're not. It's because of me. It's my fault.
- Scar: Ahh, so you haven't told them your little secret. Well, Simba, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Mufasa's death.
Adult Simba: [pause] I am.
Sarabi: [whispering] It's not true. Tell me it's not true.
Adult Simba: It's true.
Scar: You see? He admits it. Murderer!
Adult Simba: No! It was an accident!
Scar: If it weren't for you Mufasa would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead. Do you deny it?
Adult Simba: No.
Scar: Then you're *guilty*.
Adult Simba: No, I'm *not* a murderer!
- Scar: No, Simba, you're in trouble again. But this time, Daddy isn't here to save you. And now everyone knows *why*!
- Adult Simba: Tell them the truth!
Scar: But Simba truth is in the eye of the behold...
Scar: [Simba chokes him, he whispers] All right. All right. I did it.
Adult Simba: So they can hear you!
Scar: I killed Mufasa!
- - singing]
Timon: And if he falls in love tonight / It can be assumed...
Pumbaa: His carefree days with us are history.
Timon, Pumbaa: In short, our pal is doomed!
- Young Simba: Dad?
Mufasa: Hmm?
Young Simba: We're pals, right?
Mufasa: Right.
Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
Young Simba: Really?
Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.
- Sarabi: Your son's awake.
Mufasa: Before sunrise, he's *your* son. (A/N:I like this quote! XD)
- Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
- Timon : Gee. He looks blue. Pumbaa : I'd say brownish-gold. HELM : No, no, no. I mean he's depressed. Pumbaa : Oh. (A/N: glad to know they’re not colour-blind! XD)
- Zazu: Checking in with the morning report.
Mufasa: Fire away.
Zazu: Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot. And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all... The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't. The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper... (A/N: lol, zazu’s so clever! XD)
Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Young Simba: Wow.
Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king.
Young Simba: And this'll all be mine?
Mufasa: Everything.
Young Simba: Everything the light touches...
- Nala: What's happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
Adult Simba: You're right, I'm not. Now are you satisfied?
Nala: No, just disappointed.
Adult Simba: You know you're starting to sound like my father.
Nala: Good. At least one of us does.
- Zazu: [leading Simba and Nala to the waterhole] Step lively. The sooner we get to the waterhole, the sooner we can leave.
Young Nala: [whispering to Simba] So where are we really going?
Young Simba: An elephant graveyard.
Young Nala: Wow!
Young Simba: Shhhh! Zazu.
Young Nala: Right. So how are we going to ditch the dodo?
[Simba starts whispering to her]
Zazu: So just look at you two. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah. Your parents will be *thrilled*, what with your being betrothed and all.
Young Simba: Be-what?
Zazu: Betrothed. Intended. Affianced.
Young Nala: Meaning...?
Zazu: One day, you two are going to be married.
Young Simba: Yuck.
Young Nala: Ewww.
Young Simba: I can't marry her. She's my friend.
Young Nala: Yeah. It'd be so weird.
Zazu: Well, sorry to bust the old bubble, but you two turtledoves have no choice. It's a tradition that goes back generations.
Young Simba: Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go.
Zazu: Not so long as I'm around.
Young Simba: Well, in that case, you're fired.
Zazu: Hmmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that.
Young Nala: Well, he's the future king.
Young Simba: Yeah. So you have to do what I tell you.
Zazu: Not yet I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.
Young Simba: Hmph. Not the way I see it.
- Pumbaa: Your Majesty. I gravel at your feet.
[starts kissing Simba's feet]
Adult Simba: Stop that.
Timon: It's not gravel, it's grovel.
- Adult Simba: I know what I have to do. But going back will mean facing my past. I've been running from it for so long.
[Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick]
Adult Simba: Ow! Jeez, what was that for?
Rafiki: It doesn't matter. It's in the past.
[laughs]
Adult Simba: Yeah, but it still hurts.
Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.
[swings his stick at Simba again who ducks out of the way]
Rafiki: Ha. You see? So what are you going to do?
Adult Simba: First, I'm gonna take your stick.
[Simba snatches Rafiki's stick and throws it and Rafiki runs to grab it]
Rafiki: No,no, not the stick! Hey, where you going?
Adult Simba: I'm going back!
Rafiki: Good! Go on! Get out of here!
[Rafiki begins laughing and screeching loudly]
- Adult Simba: You knew my father?
Rafiki: Correction: I *know* your father.
Zazu: I'm here to announce that King Mufasa is on his way. So you'd better have a good excuse for missing the ceremony this morning.
Scar: [sees the mouse scampering off] Oh, now look, Zazu, yu made me lose my lunch.
Zazu: Ha! You'll lose more than that when the King gets through with you. He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia...
Scar: [approaches him menacingly] Oooh... I quiver with *fear*...
- Mufasa: Don't turn your back on me, Scar!
Scar: Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps *you* shouldn't turn your back on *me*.
Mufasa: [roars, runs to stand before him] Is that a challenge?
Scar: Temper, temper. I wouldn't *dream* of challenging you.
Zazu: Pity! Why not?
Scar: Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength... I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool.
- Zazu: [about Scar] There's one in every family sire. Two in mine, actually. And they always manage to ruin special occasions.
Mufasa: What am I going to do with him?
Zazu: He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa: [Surprised] Zazu!
Zazu: And just think, Whenever he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him. (A/N: lol, zazu’s got a mean streak about him! XD)
- Zazu: What's going on?
Mufasa: A pouncing lesson.
Zazu: Oh, very good. Pouncing. *Pouncing*? Oh, no, Sire, you can't be serious...
[Mufasa signs for "turn around"]
Zazu: This is so humiliating. (A/N: lol, the poor birdbrain. XD)
- Scar: So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?
Young Simba: Everything.
Scar: He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?
Young Simba: Well, no. He says I can't go there.
Scar: And he's absolutely right! It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there.
Young Simba: Well, I'm brave. What's out there?
Scar: No, I'm sorry, Simba, I just *can't* tell you.
Young Simba: Why not?
Scar: Simba, Simba, I'm only looking out for the well-being of my favorite nephew.
Young Simba: Yeah, right. I'm your only nephew.
Scar: All the more reason for me to be protective.
- Young Simba: Hey, look, Banana Beak is scared.
Zazu: That's *Mr.* Banana Beak to you, Fuzzy! And right now, we are all in very real danger.
Young Simba: Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha!
- Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Young Simba: Puh. You can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uhh... technically, they can. We are on their land.
Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers.
Zazu: Ix-nay on the oopid-stay...
Banzai: Who're you callin' "oopid-stay?"
Zazu: Oh, my, my, my. Look at the sun. It's time to go! (A/N: I’ve never learnt how to speak pig latin; can anyone tell me what zazu’s saying?
- Young Simba: Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
Shenzi: Like... you?
Young Simba: Oops.
- Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
Young Simba: I know.
Mufasa: You could have been killed! You deliberately disobeyed me! And what's worse: you put Nala in danger!
Young Simba: I was just trying to be brave like you.
Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
Young Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
Mufasa: I was today.
Young Simba: You were?
Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
Young Simba: Yeah. I guess even kings get scared, huh?
Mufasa: Mmm-hmm.
Young Simba: But you know what?
Mufasa: What?
Young Simba: I think those hyenas were even scareder.
Mufasa: [laughs] 'Cause nobody messes with your dad!
- Banzai: Oh, Scar, it's just you.
Shenzi: We were afraid it was somebody important.
Banzai: Yeah, you know, like Mufasa.
Scar: I see.
Banzai: Now that's power.
Shenzi: Tell me about it. I just hear that name and I shudder.
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh! Do it again!
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
Banzai: Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
[breaks into laughter]
Shenzi: And it tingles me!
Scar: I'm *surrounded* by idiots.
- Banzai: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared... for what?
Scar: For the death of the king!
Banzai: Why? Is he sick?
Scar: No, fool, we're going to kill him. And Simba, too.
Shenzi: Hey, big deal! Who needs a king?
Banzai, Shenzi: [singing and dancing around Ed] No king, no king, la la la la la la...
Scar: Idiots! There will *be* a king!
Banzai: Yeah, but you said...
Scar: *I* will be king. Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!
- Scar: Now you wait here. Your father has a *marvelous* surprise for you.
Young Simba: Oooh. What is it?
Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't *be* a surprise, now would it?
Young Simba: If you tell me, I'll still *act* surprised.
Scar: Ho ho ho. You are such a naughty boy!
Young Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of... father-son... thing. Well! I'd better go get him.
Young Simba: I'll go with you.
Scar: No!
[regaining composure]
Scar: Heh heh heh. No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
Young Simba: You know about that?
Scar: Simba, everybody knows about that.
Young Simba: Really?
Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? Oh, and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?
Young Simba: Oh, okay. Hey, Uncle Scar, will I like this surprise?
Scar: Simba, it's to *die* for!
- Banzai: But we gotta finish the job.
Shenzi: Well, he's as good as dead out there anyway. And *if* he comes back, we'll kill him.
Banzai: [calling out to Simba] Yeah! You hear that? If you ever come back, we'll kill ya!
- Scar: Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era... in which lion and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future!
- Timon: Geez! It's a lion! Run, Pumbaa! Move it!
Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, it's just a *little* lion. Look at him. He's so cute and all alone! Can we keep him?
Timon: Pumbaa, are you nuts? We're talking about a lion; Lions eat guys like us!
Pumbaa: But he's so little.
Timon: He's gonna get bigger.
Pumbaa: Maybe he'll be on our side.
Timon: A - huh! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Maybe he'll b-... Hey, I got it! What if he's on our side? You know, having a lion around might not be such a bad idea.
- Timon: Who's the brains in this outfit?
Pumbaa: Uh...
Timon: My point exactly.
Timon: I saved you.
[Pumbaa snorts]
Timon: Pumbaa helped... a little.
Timon: So where you from?
- Young Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
Timon: Ah, you're an outcast! That's great. So are we.
- Timon: I'm telling you, kid: this is the great life. No rules, no responsibilities...
[he reaches into a hole in a log and various insects skitter out, with him holding a blue bug; he points to the rest of the insects]
Timon: Ooh! The little cream-filled kind!
- Banzai: Hey, Boss!
Scar: Oh, what is it this time?
Banzai: We've got a bone to pick with you!
Shenzi: I'll handle this. Scar, there's no food, no water...
Banzai: Yeah, it's dinner time, and we ain't got no stinkin' entrees.
Scar: It's the lionesses' job to do the hunting.
Banzai: Yeah, but they won't go hunt.
Scar: Oh... eat Zazu.
Zazu: Oh, you wouldn't want me. I'd be so tough and gamey and... eeww...
Scar: Oh, Zazu, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little garnish.
- Adult Simba: Well, somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us.
Pumbaa: Really?
Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us?
- Young Simba: [Nala's mother, Sarafina is giving Nala a bath] Hey, Nala.
Young Nala: Hi, Simba.
Young Simba: Come on, I just heard about this great place.
Young Nala: Simba, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath.
Sarabi: And it's time for yours.
[grabs Simba and starts licking him]
Young Simba: Mom! Mom, you're messing up my mane!
[Sarabi smiles]
Young Simba: Ok, ok. I'm clean. Can we go now?
Young Nala: So where are we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
Young Simba: No, it's really cool.
Sarabi: So where is this really cool place?
Young Simba: Oh... around the waterhole.
Young Nala: The waterhole? What's so great about the waterhole?
Young Simba: [muttering] I'll *show* you when we *get* there.
Young Nala: Oh... Mom, can I go with Simba?
Sarafina - Nala's Mother: Hmm, what do you think Sarabi?
Sarabi: Well...
Young Simba, Young Nala: [with forced grins] Please!
Sarabi: It's alright with me.
Young Simba: Yeah!
Young Nala: All right!
Sarabi: As long as Zazu goes with you.
- Adult Simba: Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
Nala: I would if you just tell me!
Adult Simba: Forget it!
Nala: Fine!
- Rafiki: What was *that*?
[laughs]
Rafiki: The weather - Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Adult Simba: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki: Ahhh. Change is good.
- Nala: What made you come back?
Adult Simba: I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it.
- Scar: Simba, Simba, please. Please have mercy, I beg you.
Adult Simba: You don't deserve to live.
Scar: But, Simba, I... am... family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea!
Adult Simba: Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
Scar: What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your *old* uncle...?
Adult Simba: No, Scar. I'm not like you.
Scar: Oh, Simba, thank you. You are truly noble. I'll make it up to you, I promise. How can I, ah, prove myself to you? Tell me. I mean, anything.
Adult Simba: Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.
- Young Simba: What am I gonna do?
Scar: Run. Run, Simba. Run away, and never return.
[Simba leaves and hyenas come out of the mist]
Scar: Kill him.
- Timon: This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.
Young Simba: What's that?
Timon: A grub. What's it look like?
[Timon eats the grub]
Young Simba: Ewwwww, gross.
Timon: Tastes like chicken.
- Adult Simba: Man, I'm stuffed.
Pumbaa: Me, too. I ate like a pig.
Adult Simba: Pumbaa, you *are* a pig.
- Pumbaa: It's like my buddy Timon always says: you got to put your behind in your past.
Timon: No, no, no. Amateur. Sit down before you hurt yourself. It's "You got to put your past behind you."
- Pumbaa: [singing] And I got down-hearted.
Timon: How did you feel?
Pumbaa: Everytime that I...
Timon: [clapping his hand over Pumbaa's mouth] Pumbaa, not in front of the kids.
[Faces the camera]
Pumbaa: Oh. Sorry.
- Shenzi: What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner.
Banzai: Yeah. We could have whatever's "lion" around.
Shenzi: Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?
[all laugh]
Shenzi: [Ed points]
Shenzi: What, Ed?
Banzai: Hey, did we order this dinner to go?
Shenzi: No, why?
Banzai: 'Cause THERE IT GOES! (A/N: those stupid hyenas think they’re so smart! :P)
- Zazu: Well, as slippery as your mind is, as the King's brother *you* should've been first in line.
[Scar threatens to bite, he retreats toward Mufasa]
Scar: I was first in line, until the little hair ball was born.
Mufasa: That hair ball is my son. And *your* future king.
Scar: Oh, I shall have to practice my curtsy.
- Pumbaa: What'd ya do, kid?
Young Simba: Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.
- [first lines]
[Scar catches a mouse]
Scar: Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu.
Zazu: Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?
- Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Young Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
- Timon: Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it. Right?
Young Simba: Right.
Timon: Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world. (A/N: if only ‘twas that easy … *sigh*)
- Young Simba: Everything the light touches... But what about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Young Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa: There's more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Young Simba: There's more?
Mufasa: [laughing] Simba.
- Young Simba: I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra.
Timon: Ah-ha, we're fresh out of zebra.
Young Simba: Any antelope?
Timon: Nah-ah.
Young Simba: Hippo?
Timon: Nope. Listen kid: if you live with us, you'll have to eat like us.
- Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana.
Adult Simba: Come on, will you cut it out?
Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It will grow right back. Hehehe.
Adult Simba: Creepy little monkey. Would you stop following me! Who are you?
Rafiki: The question is, who... are you?
Adult Simba: [sighs] I thought I knew, but now I'm not so sure.
Rafiki: Well, I know who you are! Shh. Come here, it's a secret.
[Whispers, then grows louder]
Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana!
Adult Simba: Enough already! What's that supposed to mean, anyway?
Rafiki: It means you're a baboon... and I'm not.
Adult Simba: I think you're a little confused.
Rafiki: Wrong! I'm not the one who's confused. You don't even know who you are!
Adult Simba: Oh, and I suppose you know?
Rafiki: Sure do. You're Mufasa's boy!
[Simba turns around to look at him, shocked]
Rafiki: Bye!
- [Watching Simba and Nala]
Timon: I tell ya, Pumbaa, this stinks!
Pumbaa: Oh, sorry.
Timon: Not you, THEM! Him... Her... alone.
- Pumbaa: Kid, what's eatin' ya?
Timon: Nothing, he's at the top of the food chain!
[laughs]
Timon: The food chain!
[chuckles nervously]
- [above the stampeding wildebeasts]
Mufasa: Scar! Brother, help me!
[Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws]
Scar: Long live the King.
[throws him into the stampede]
- Adult Simba: Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip you apart.
Scar: Oh, Simba, you must understand. The pressures of ruling a kingdom...
Adult Simba: Are no longer yours. Step down, Scar.
- Scar: I'm surrounded by idiots.
-Scar: [singing] I know that your powers of retention, are as wet as a warthog's backside / But thick as you are, pay attention! / My words are a matter of pride / It's clear from vacant expressions / The lights are not all on upstairs / But we're talking kings and successions / Even *you* can't be caught unawares!
- Timon: [singing] I can see what's happening.
Pumbaa: What?
Timon: [singing] And they don't have a clue.
Pumbaa: Who?
Timon: [singing] They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line: Our trio's down to two.
Pumbaa: Oh.
Timon: [singing]
[sarcastic, with French accent]
Timon: The sweet caress of twilight.
[normal voice, but still sarcastic]
Timon: There's magic everywhere. And with all this romantic atmosphere, disaster's in the aiiiiiiir!
- Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. So what's the plan for getting past those guys?
Adult Simba: Live bait.
Timon: Good idea.
[realizes what he means]
Timon: HEY!
- Scar: [singing] Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected / To take certain duties on board / The future is littered with prizes / And though I'm the main addressee / The point that I must emphasize is...
[Leaps in front of a hyena]
Scar: [shouting] You won't get a sniff without me!
[hyena falls into a volcano]
- Banzai: [In the hyenas' lair, Banzai slouches with claw marks on his rear] Man, that lousy Mufasa... I won't be able to sit for a *week!*
Ed the Hyena: [laughs, but also tries his best to conceal it from time to time] Eh-hee-hee-hee. Heh-heheheheheheheheheh...
Banzai: [Glares at Ed and bares his teeth with impatience] It's not funny, Ed.
Ed the Hyena: [Cups his paws over his mouth then bursts into hysterical laughter, spitting as his tongue lofts out of his mouth] BA-HA-HA-HAAAA! HA-AH-AH-AH-AH!
[Inhales deeply]
Banzai: Hey, shut up!
Ed the Hyena: AH-HA-HO! HO-HO-HO-HO!
Banzai: [Bares his teeth] Grrrrrr...
[as Ed continues to laugh, Banzai barks and pounces on Ed, abruptly ending his laughing. The two commence a brief fight]
Shenzi: [Rolls her eyes and turns to the two yelping and rolling atop each other aggressively] Will you knock it off?
Banzai: [ed appears to be chewing on Banzai's leg; Banzai sits up] Well, he started it!
[It is now obvious that Ed is chewing his own leg repeatedly]
Shenzi: Look at you guys! No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!
Banzai: [a string of drool dangles from his chin] Man, I hate dangling...
Shenzi: [Scoffs] Yeah? You know, if it weren't for those lions, we'd be *runnin'* the joint.
[Ed nods idiotically]
Banzai: Man, I *hate* lions!
Shenzi: [Grumbles] So pushy...
Banzai: And hairy...
Shenzi: [Smiles] Stinky...
Banzai: [Grins] And man are they...
Banzai, Shenzi: [Elongated use of the 'u'] U-GLY!
[both laugh hysterically]
- Scar: [bellowing] Sarabiiiii!
[echoes and reechoes; we soon see Sarabi walking through the pack of hyenas, trying to snap at her; Simba looks on as Sarabi approaches]
Sarabi: Yes, Scar?
Scar: Where's your hunting party? They're not doing their job.
Sarabi: Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
Scar: No! You're just not looking hard enough.
Sarabi: It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We *must* leave Pride Rock.
Scar: We're not going anywhere!
Sarabi: Then you have sentenced us to death!
Scar: Then so be it!
Sarabi: You can't do that!
Scar: I'm the king! I can do whatever I want!
Sarabi: If you were half the king Mufasa was...
Scar: [knocks Sarabi unconscious] I'm *ten* times the king Mufasa was!
[Simba jumps in and roars at Scar]
Scar: Mufasa! No! You're dead!
Sarabi: Mufasa?
Adult Simba: No. It's me.
Sarabi: Simba? But how...?
Adult Simba: It doesn't matter. I'm home.
Scar: Simba? Simba! Well, it sure is a surprise to see you...
[turns to the hyenas]
Scar: ... *alive*!
[the hyenas gulp and back away]
- Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?
Banzai: Hmm, I don't know Shenzi uh, what do you think Ed?
Ed the Hyena: Oo ehehe, oh hahahaha
Banzai: Yaa, just what I was thinking, a trio of trespassers.
Zazu: And quite by accident let me assure you...
Shenzi: Woah, wait wait. I know you, you're Mufasa's little stooge.
Zazu: I madame, am the king's major dobo.
Banzai: And that would make you...?
Young Simba: Future King.
Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Young Simba: Puh, you can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uhh, technically they can, we are on their land.
Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they are nothing but slobbery, mangery stupid vulchers.
Zazu: X-nay on the upidstay...
Banzai: Who you callin upidstay?
Scar: Why! If it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.
Mufasa: Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba.
Scar: That was today? Oh, I feel simply awful.
- Timon: [seeing a red beetle] These are rare delicacies.
[takes it and eats it]
Timon: He comes with a very pleasant crunch.
like I said earlier, the lion king’s without a doubt, my favouritest movie ever!! At the beginning, I’d mentioned that my mum had told me off for not only singing along to the songs, but even reciting along with the words! XD before the movie had started, I’d leaned over and asked her, “mother, are you really serious that I can’t sing along with any of the songs/speak along with the lyrics? Coz I’m not sure I’ll be able to control myself from doing that!” mother considered for awhile, then said, ‘hmm, okay. But only softly. I’ll tell you if you get too loud/excited.” And she only caught me out twice! The first time was for scar’s song ‘be prepared’ and the second was the classic ‘can you feel the love tonight’. for those, I received a quick jab in the ribs and a ‘shh!’ XD
it’s hard to believe, but this movie’s been around for near twenty years! And still, the final scene where simba is finally ascending pride rock to roar out his position as king never fails to send a shiver up my back. XD
like I said, personally, I believe the lion king is the bestest. Movie. Ever!!
Next post here … well, I never got around to posting up my thoughts from that bible passage from first Corinthians … but book club is next Thursday! And we’re all going out for dinner afterwards! :D
Well, whichever one comes first, until then …
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. sorry, just reading through it, i realise how long it turned out to be! XD
So mother takes me along to the hoyts cinema at sunnybank about one month ago come a Monday morning to watch what is, without a doubt, the bestest movie ever. XD
At first, when she goes to buy the tickets, she’s not keen on buying us a popcorn to share, but after she comes back with the tickets in hand, I try pleading my case again, explaining to her how the lion king’s my favouritest movie ever, and I really believe it’s popcorn worthy. In the end, I only persuade mother to buy us a small popcorn to share after I promise her I won’t ask her for popcorn come the next movie we see together.
Thankfully, our cinema room isn’t too far from the entrance, because as expected, mother gleefully forces me to hike up two steps to sit in the second row. But that was okay; I was just excited to be seeing my favouritest movie of all time!
Anyways, here are all the quotes, trivia and bloopers I liked, courtesy of imdb:
First of all, I didn’t know it came out in 1994! The 25th august, if you wanna be exact. And it’s only eighty-odd minutes long; just short of 1.5 hours.
Also, Jeremy irons and whoopi golberg all play a part in the movie!
Righteo, trivia first:
-The original opening to the film was supposed to have been a quiet dialogue-heavy sequence. When composer Hans Zimmer prepared his interpretation of Circle of Life, he made an extended version so he would have some flexibility as to what to cut for the film. The animators were so impressed with the work that they decided to change the beginning into the currently seen sequence so they could use the entire work that Zimmer prepared.
-One of the bugs that Timon pulls out of a knothole during Hakuna Matata is wearing Mickey Mouse ears. A/N: hey, I didn’t know that! Must watch out for it next time I watch the movie!
-here have been rumors that when Simba collapses on the cliff after talking with Timon and Pumbaa about stars, the dust that flies off the cliff forms the letters SEX. In fact it forms the letters SFX, the abbreviation of the special-effects team that worked on that portion of the film. This scene was deleted in the 2011 release.
-Originally titled "King of the Jungle", it was supposed to be about African lions living in the jungle until the production team realized that lions don't live in the jungle. Interestingly enough, the phrase "King of the Jungle" is still used on certain T-shirts sold at the Disney Store.
-Several Disney animators went to Africa to study animal behavior and interaction in the wild. A grown lion and a cub were also brought into the animation studio as models for anatomy and musculature.
-The wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department approximately three years to animate.
-Elton John and Tim Rice were a little shocked when they saw that the producers originally intended to have their (eventual) Oscar-winning love ballad "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" as a duet between Timon and Pumbaa.
-The first Disney cartoon to be dubbed into Zulu for its African release. (A/N: hey, wonder what ‘simba’ and ‘scar’ would’ve been called in zulu? XD)
-When writer Irene Mecchi came on board, she was told that the story pitch was "Bambi in Africa meets Hamlet", or "Bamlet", as she termed it.
-A new computer program had to be written for the CG wildebeest stampede that allowed hundreds of computer generated animals to run but without colliding into each other.
-German-born Hans Zimmer called in the services of his South African friend, Lebo M., to help provide some authenticity to the film's musical soundtrack. The two had previously collaborated on John G. Avildsen's The Power of One. It is Lebo M.'s call that you hear on the opening bars of "Circle of Life". He also wrote the African chant that underpins this stirring version of the song. (A/N: I love hans zimmer, because he’s the guy that wrote the soundtrack for the lion king, which is my favourite non-animated television program!)
-Disney's 32nd animated feature.
-The best selling home video of all time, with more than 55 million copies sold to date.
-The plot-line is loosely based upon William Shakespeare's Hamlet; a story of a young prince whose uncle takes over the kingdom and marries the queen after killing the king/prince's father. After being away from home for a period of time, these events lead to the prince's plans for revenge. The prince receives some advice from his father's ghost. Also, during the scene where Zazu sings I've got a lovely bunch of Coconuts, Scar Has a skull in his hand.
-Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella were originally cast as the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi (played by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin in the film). The crew loved their performance and thought the duo would be even better as Timon and Pumbaa.
-Mufasa was to sing a song titled To Be King, but it didn't suit James Earl Jones' singing voice. (A/N: too bad; I would’ve loved to hear mufasa sing!
-Pumbaa the Warthog was the first character in Disney films to exhibit flatulence. (A/N: you mean there’s been more? XD)
-When Mufasa tells Simba about the Great Kings of the Past if you look at the stars in the wide shot you can see Mickey Mouse. (A/N: that’s sth I’m gonna haveta watch out for next time!)
-An alternate version of Can You Feel the Love Tonight, a comic version to be sung by Timon and Pumbaa was storyboarded and even recorded but never used.
-If you look closely at Zazu as Simba comes down to greet his subjects after the defeat of Scar, you can see his beak move, but no sound comes out. Originally he says "Your Majesty".
-Originally, the hyenas Banzai and Shenzi were supposed to be voiced by Tommy Chong andCheech Marin. But the directors couldn't get hold of Chong, so they cast Whoopi Goldbergas Shenzi instead.
In the end of the scene where Mufasa explains to Simba that the stars are old kings, we can see the constellation of Leo (the lion) in the sky.
Unlike the other lions, Scar's claws are always displayed throughout the movie.
Several character names are based on Swahili words:
• Shenzi: Barbarous/Uncouth/Uncivilized/Savage
• Pumbaa: Ignorant/Lazy/Careless
• Sarabi: Mirage
• Rafiki: Comrade/Friend
• Simba: Lion/Courageous Warrior
• Mufasa: reportedly the name of the last king of the Bagada people, who were dispersed during the English colonization of Kenya.
• Nala: gift
-One of the original villain groups being considered was a pack of jackals.
-The groundhog that pops up after Simba's pouncing lesson (the song "Morning Report" in the special edition) was originally going to be a naked mole rat, but the animators couldn't get him to look right. One of the directors said, "We would've lost our G rating!" (A/N: I thought the lyrics for zazu’s morning report was very clever, BTW!)
-In the dubbed Dutch version of the film, Timon and Pumbaa's voices are spoken in Flemish, a dialect of Dutch spoken in Belgium. The accent given to Rafiki and Simba's mother comes from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America. The rest of the characters speak with standard Dutch dialects found in the Netherlands.
-Besides inspirations from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the story also has elements of the Osirian family myths of Ancient Egyptian mythology. In the Osirian myths, the king (Mufasa/Osiris) is killed by his jealous brother (Scar/Seth) and the rightful heir (Simba/Horus) is sent into exile as a boy. The murdered king visits and mentors his son in ghostly visits and when the heir comes of age, he returns to exact revenge on his father's murderer.
-The song that Rafiki sings, 'Asante sana Squash banana, Wewe nugu mimi hapana' is Swahili for "Thank you very much, Squash banana, You're a baboon and I'm not." Simba asks, "What does that mean?" and Rafiki says, "It means you're a baboon and I'm not." This is a popular children's song similar to "Cinderella, dressed in yella" for example.
-The last Disney movie to be supervised by Jeffrey Katzenberg before he left to form DreamWorks.
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A few weeks before the film opened, Elton John was given a special screening. Noticing that the film's love song had been left out, he successfully lobbied to have the song put back in. Later, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
-The scenes of the hyenas chasing Simba out of the Pridelands and into the desert originally went screen right to screen left. The filmmakers flipped all the shots so that the chase now went screen left to screen right, so as to match the shot of Simba running back home to face Scar (he runs from screen right to screen left).
-oted number 6 in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films" (A/N: it should’ve been number one! XD)
-The music of the little song Timon performs for the hyenas ("LUAU!") is a fast-paced parody of the Aloha Chant, which can be heard in Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room in Disneyland.
-The lyric for the opening chant of "The Circle of Life" is: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama / Nants ingonyama bagithi baba / Sithi uhhmm ingonyama / Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba / Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw enamabala". This translates as: "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion / A lion We're going to conquer / A lion A lion and a leopard come to this open place". (A/N: what leopard? XD)
-John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Patrick Stewart were all considered for the role of Zazu. The role was finally given to Rowan Atkinson after the animators watched some episodes of Mr. Bean. They even modeled Zazu's appearance after Atkinson. According to producer Don Hahn, every English comedian (as well as Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow, both of whom are classically trained Shakespearean actors) who performed from 1960-1991 and were still active in acting were either seriously considered, turned down or auditioned for the role.
-Tim Curry and Malcolm McDowell were both considered for the role of Scar. (A/N: well, I’ve never noticed that Jeremy irons is super-ugly … what about you? XD)
-Originally, Scar was going to send adult Nala away from Pride Rock because she ignored his romantic approaches, after which she finds Simba alive and well with Timon and Pumbaa. This idea was ultimately abandoned, as sexual harassment was considered improper in a family movie. However, the stage musical adaptation includes this plot development as part of director Julie Taymor's efforts to expand the female characters' presence in the story. (A/N: I’ve always wanted to see the musical production! Anyone gonna gimme a ticket as a Christmas present this year? XD)
-The first Disney animation movie to be dubbed into Portuguese in Portugal rather than Brazil.
-The Italian pop version of the song "The Circle of Life", sung in Italian by Ivana Spagna, was a major hit in Italy in 1994/95, alongside the original version by Elton John.
-June 2008 Ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation". (A/N: I wondered who the top three were?)
-Nearly twenty minutes of the film were animated at the Disney-MGM Studios. Ultimately, more than 600 artists, animators and technicians contributed to The Lion King over its lengthy production schedule. More than one million drawings were created for the film, including 1,197 hand-painted backgrounds and 119,058 individually colored frames of film.
-The main locations for the film, including Pride Rock and the Gorge, are modeled after Hell's Gate National Park in Kenya.
-The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997. The musical garnered 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and is produced by Disney Theatrical.
The highest grossing movie of 1994 worldwide and the second highest in the US behindForrest Gump.
To date this movie still holds the record for being the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history. (A/N: yeah, the lion king 4EVA!! XD)
-One of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two areBeauty and the Beast and Toy Story 2 (all three were in the category "Comedy or Musical").
-The Broadway production of "The Lion King" opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on October 15, 1997, has run for 5240 performances and is currently the ninth longest-running show on Broadway (as of July 2010). "The Lion King" won the 1998 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical and received nominations for Best Score and Best Book.
-Jim Cummings had to fill in for Jeremy Irons during the song "Be Prepared". Jeremy threw out his voice after singing, "You won't get a sniff without me!".
-Although all of the animals are obviously anthropomorphic in the film, hyenas (as the villainous characters) were most given the short end of the stick from the reality. In fact, Spotted Hyenas are considered the equal of lions in terms of intelligence and ferocity. They have an equally intricate social structure and are less likely to kill their own kind than lions (hyena clan matriarchs allow very little intra-species aggression). Also, while portrayed as nearly full scavengers, in reality lions scavenge the kills of hyenas as much as (if not more so) than hyenas scavenge lion kills.
-There is a lost verse of "Hakuna Matata" that was storyboarded which explained Timon's situation. It was later used in The Lion King 1½. (A/N: I wanna watch that, then! :D)
-Premiered at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Despite repeated allegations of plagiarism of the Tezuka Productions' TV series Janguru taitei, first shown in the 1960s, Disney maintain that all the similarities are coincidental.
When Simba calls the hyenas 'stupid', a very nervous Zazu mutters 'Ixnay on the Upid-stay'. This is Pig Latin, roughly translated it means 'Don't say stupid'.
-Nala's mother is named Sarafina. The name is never used in the film, however it does appear in the credits and on pieces of merchandise based on the film, including the trading cards issued at Burger King for a Lion King-based promotion. (A/N: I wonder if all the lionesses had names starting with ‘sa’? coz simba’s mum’s name was sarabi!)
-'The Lion King' is very similar to a story almost unknown to Western culture but one of the most beloved historical stories of the Niger Congo language family (western Africa). It is a story about one of their greatest kings - 'Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali'. The main character Sundiata (which, directly translated, means "the lion king") is a young prince banished from his homeland by his family after his father dies. The story tracks his overcoming of emotional and physical ailments to later return to his kingdom and battle the evil sorcerer king who has overtaken it in his absence. This is a true story (with some magical elements added) and is still told by griots (history keepers for upper-class families, aka Rafiki in the film).
-At the end of the movie when Simba looks up to the stars and hears "remember", you can make out a lion standing from the stars, representing Mufasa's star-sign.
- is the second movie in which James Earl Jones (Mufasa) and Madge Sinclair (Serabi) perform together as an African King and Queen. Jones and Sinclair were also King and Queen of a fictional African nation in Coming to America.
-Originally the Hula dance with Timon was going to be a Saturday Night Fever like disco dance.
-Originally the film was going to be about a conflict between lions and baboons, and Scar was going to be the baboon leader. Rafiki, the only baboon in the film, was instead going to be a cheetah. (A/N: lol, I can’t imagine scar as a silly baboon! XD)
-When he signed onto the film, 'Mathew Broderick (I)' (Adult Simba) thought this was an American version of the anime/manga "Kimba the White Lion" (1965) which followed a similar plot line.
-Script writers envisioned Sean Connery as the voice of Mufasa.
-In the special edition release, crew had to hire a new actor to voice Young Simba singing for the "Morning Report" since the original singing voice is now an adult. They hired Evan Saucedo, making him the 4th actor to voice young Simba.
-- The original script included several characters which were cut. There was another lion cub named Mee-Too, a bat-eared fox, and a rhino with a tickbird on his back. In fact the tickbird was kept and evolved into Zazu.
- In early drafts, Scar was a rogue lion with no relation to Mufasa. Eventually, however, the story writers thought relating him to Mufasa would be more interesting; a threat within. This is why Scar and Mufasa differ so much; They weren't originally designed to be related.
- Mufasa was to never appear after his death, but producers felt Simba needed a reason to go back to pride rock so the spirit scene was made.
Righteo, goofs next!
- Before assuming the throne Simba walks down Pride Rock. Zazu bows to Simba and although his mouth is moving no words are spoken. This is because Zazu was supposed to say "your majesty".
- You hear Banzai's voice say "Here kitty kitty kitty" but nobody's mouth moves.
- When Simba and Mufasa view the sunrise, they refer to the "shadowy place" as being on their right. As they were facing the sunrise (east) that would mean that anything on the right side would be south. And yet, Scar refers to it later as the place "beyond the northern border."
When the young Simba and Nala are walking towards the "water hole" with Zazu flying above his shadow does not flap its wings as often as Zazu does. Share this
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- The number of stripes on Timon's back alternate between shot from five to six.
- We see Simba scratch Shenzi's cheek, leaving visible cuts, but shortly after, Shenzi is healed.
- As Simba climbs a dead tree to escape the wildebeest stampede, he leaves scratches on the bark. In all later shots the tree is intact.
- When Simba finds Mufasa's dead body, his tears leave stains running down both cheeks. When Scar appears, Simba's face alternates between having tear stains on both cheeks in medium shots and only on his right cheek in close-ups. Once Scar tells Simba to run away, the stains disappear altogether.
Near the end of the film when Scar has Simba hanging on the edge of Pride Rock, the camera moves out and the lightning crashes, and we can see Simba is holding on to the rock up to his elbows, yet in the next scene we can see he is only holding on by his paws.
- n one of the final scenes where Simba walks up Pride Rock to roar, it is raining. When we see Timon and Pumbaa briefly, they are dry while the other characters all have signs of being wet.
The number of Simba's whiskers on each side of his cheek changes from 4 to 5 and back again in some scenes. S
- When Banzai the hyena says, "Man, that lousy Mufasa - I won't be able tosit for a week," he has visible cuts near his behind, but in the shot when he wrestles with Ed, they are gone.
- The hyenas are seen throughout the entire film with three toes on all their paws. But when the hyenas are chasing Simba, Banzai claws at him after he squeezes through a rock, and his paw has four toes. (A/N: yeah? Well, I’ve got FIVE toes on each foot! XD)
- Thorns that are all over Banzai's body disappear completely between shots with no time for him to remove them all.
- When Nala is crouched in the grass right before she pounces at Pumba her eyes are green. When she's fighting with Simba her eyes are blue.
- Grown-up Simba's eyes switch from white to yellow during the movie.
- When Rafiki smells the dust on the wind and realizes Simba is alive, he dips the tips of his fingers into the red paint in order to adapt his picture. In the next shot, his thumb is red too
- When Simba and Nala are trying to escape the hyenas and fall through the rotten piece of wood, there is debris on the ground. In the next shot when Simba 'roars', the ground is clean.
- When Mufasa and Simba are talking at the top of Pride Rock, facing the sun, their shadows stream out behind them, which is correct. However, as Simba says "Everything the light touches", his shadow is in front of him, which is wrong. It should be cast on his right. Also, in the next shot, when Simba and Mufasa are facing south towards the 'shadowy place', their right sides are in shadow, with the light shining from the left. But it is sunrise, the sun, and therefore the light, should be on their right.
- In the scene where Pumbaa is grovelling before Simba, Timon walks up to him and places his hands on the center of Pumbaa's nose, between his nostrils. In the next shot, his hands are more towards the top.
The number of whiskers each male lion has changes from scene to scene, and sometimes the whiskers disappear altogether. None of the lionesses in the film have whiskers, though obviously in reality females do have whiskers.
- In her first appearance, Nala's mother Sarafina's toes are the same color as the rest of her body. However, when Scar is informing the Pride of the accident, her toes are lighter. A second later, during Nala's close-up, Sarafina's toes are once again the same as her body. (A/N: woah, that’s really attention to detail gone overboard. I mean, toe colour?! XD)
- When Scar first begins his speech after Mufasa's death, nine adult lionesses can be made out. However, when the hyenas begin to appear, there are suddenly only eight. The same thing happens when Simba returns to Pride Rock. At first there are six lionesses, then seven, then six again, then only five, then six.
- - When Timon starts his Hula dance, when is back is to the camera, he is not wearing his lei (flower necklace). It suddenly appears a few frames later.
- When Nala is chasing Pumbaa and he is trapped under the root, he begins digging frantically as Timon runs up. However, by the time Timon has jumped onto his head, the ground is smooth again.
- - Part of the lyrics song in "The Circle of Life" are "there's a lion and a tiger", yet no tigers live in Africa.
During the "sunrise" scene the river is seen on the "south" side of Pride Rock. Later during Simba's "circle of life" lesson the river is on the "north" side of Pride Rock.
- The elephant skeletons would have to come from freakishly large elephants. Hyenas could not pass through the trunk socket of an elephant's skull.
- Rafiki the monkey appears to be some sort of bizarre mandrill-baboon hybrid. He has the colorful face of a mandrill, but the long, kinked tail of a baboon (mandrills have very short tails).
Scar is younger than Mufasa, yet Scar has a darker mane. As a lion's mane darkens as it ages, Mufasa's mane would have to be darker than Scar's.
- At the end of the elephant graveyard scene, Scar's shadow on the wall does not match his pose.
If you look close, when Simba is sitting on the rock during the "Hakuna-Matata" song, the pads on his right paw are bigger then the paw itself.
- Rafiki's Swahili message "Asante sana, squash banana, We we nugu mi mi apana" Does not mean "You are a baboon, and I'm not." It really mean "Thank you very much, Squash Banana, You are a Dog, and I'm not!"
And finally, here are all my favourite quotes!
- Young Simba: Hey, Uncle Scar, guess what?
Scar: I despise guessing games.
Young Simba: I'm gonna be King of Pride Rock.
Scar: Oh, goody.
Young Simba: My dad just showed me the whole kingdom. And I'm gonna rule it all. Heheh.
Scar: Yes. Well, forgive me for not leaping for joy. Bad back, you know.
[flops on his side]
Young Simba: Hey Uncle Scar, when I'm King, what'll that make you?
Scar: A monkey's uncle.
Young Simba: [laughs] You're so weird.
Scar: You have no idea.
- Zazu: [singing] Nooooobody knows the trouble I've seen. / Nooooobody knows my sorrow.
Scar: Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little *bounce* in it.
Zazu: [singing] It's a small world after all...
Scar: NO! No. *Anything* but that!
Zazu: [singing] I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. / There they are just standing in a row.
Zazu, Scar: [Scar joins in] Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head...
Zazu: [whispering] Oh, I never had to do this with Mufasa.
- - Pumbaa: [about "Hakuna Matata"] It's our motto.
Young Simba: What's a motto?
Timon: Nothing. What's a motto with you?
[laughs]
- - Timon: Let me get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's okay with this?
[jumps up suddenly]
Timon: [yells] Did I miss something?
- Zazu: [caged while the battle rages around him] Let me out! Let me out!
Timon: [fleeing the hyenas] Lemme in! Lemme in!
- Nala: Have you guys seen Simba?
Timon: I thought he was with you.
Nala: He was but now I can't find him. Where is he?
Rafiki: [chuckles] You won't find him here. The King has returned.
Nala: I don't believe it. He's gone back.
Timon: What?
[looks up and sees Rafiki has disappeared]
Timon: Hey, what's going on here? Who's the monkey?
Nala: Simba's gone back to challenge Scar.
Timon: Who?
Nala: Scar.
Pumbaa: Who's got a scar?
Nala: No, no, no. It's his uncle.
Timon: The monkey's his uncle?
Nala: *No!* Simba's gone back to challenge his uncle to take his place as king.
Timon, Pumbaa: Ohhh.
- [Timon and Zazu are cornered by hyenas]
Timon: Please don't eat me.
Pumbaa: Drop 'em!
Banzai: Hey! Who's the pig?
Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
Timon: Uh-oh, they called him a pig.
Pumbaa: Are you talking to *me*?
Timon: Ya shouldn't have done that.
Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?
Timon: Now they're in for it.
Pumbaa: THEY CALL ME MR. PIG! AHHHH!
- Timon: [of the decimated Pride Rock] We're gonna fight your uncle... for this?
Adult Simba: Yes, Timon. This is my home.
Timon: Whoa. Talk about your fixer-upper.
- Rafiki: [after guiding Simba to a spot where he says will show him Mufasa] Look down there.
Adult Simba: [looks into a pool of water] That's not my father. That's just my reflection.
Rafiki: No, look harder.
[touches the water, as it ripples Simba's reflection changes to that of his father]
Rafiki: You see? He lives in you.
Mufasa's ghost: [from above] Simba.
Adult Simba: Father?
Mufasa's ghost: [apears among the stars] Simba, you have forgotten me.
Adult Simba: No. How could I?
Mufasa's ghost: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life.
Adult Simba: How can I go back? I'm not who I used to be.
Mufasa's ghost: Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king. Remember...
- Adult Simba: [in a huff] She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyhow? It won't change a thing. You can't change the past.
[calling to the sky]
Adult Simba: You said you'd always be there for me! But you're not. It's because of me. It's my fault.
- Scar: Ahh, so you haven't told them your little secret. Well, Simba, now's your chance to tell them. Tell them who is responsible for Mufasa's death.
Adult Simba: [pause] I am.
Sarabi: [whispering] It's not true. Tell me it's not true.
Adult Simba: It's true.
Scar: You see? He admits it. Murderer!
Adult Simba: No! It was an accident!
Scar: If it weren't for you Mufasa would still be alive. It's your fault he's dead. Do you deny it?
Adult Simba: No.
Scar: Then you're *guilty*.
Adult Simba: No, I'm *not* a murderer!
- Scar: No, Simba, you're in trouble again. But this time, Daddy isn't here to save you. And now everyone knows *why*!
- Adult Simba: Tell them the truth!
Scar: But Simba truth is in the eye of the behold...
Scar: [Simba chokes him, he whispers] All right. All right. I did it.
Adult Simba: So they can hear you!
Scar: I killed Mufasa!
- - singing]
Timon: And if he falls in love tonight / It can be assumed...
Pumbaa: His carefree days with us are history.
Timon, Pumbaa: In short, our pal is doomed!
- Young Simba: Dad?
Mufasa: Hmm?
Young Simba: We're pals, right?
Mufasa: Right.
Young Simba: And we'll always be together, right?
Mufasa: Simba, let me tell you something my father told me. Look at the stars. The great kings of the past look down on us from those stars.
Young Simba: Really?
Mufasa: Yes. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.
- Sarabi: Your son's awake.
Mufasa: Before sunrise, he's *your* son. (A/N:I like this quote! XD)
- Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?
Timon: Pumbaa, I don't wonder; I know.
Pumbaa: Oh. What are they?
Timon: They're fireflies. Fireflies that, uh... got stuck up on that big bluish-black thing.
Pumbaa: Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
Timon: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
- Timon : Gee. He looks blue. Pumbaa : I'd say brownish-gold. HELM : No, no, no. I mean he's depressed. Pumbaa : Oh. (A/N: glad to know they’re not colour-blind! XD)
- Zazu: Checking in with the morning report.
Mufasa: Fire away.
Zazu: Well the buzz from the bees is that the leopards are in a bit of a spot. And the baboons are going ape over this. Of course, the giraffes are acting like they're above it all... The tick birds are pecking on the elephants. I told the elephants to forget it, but they can't. The cheetahs are hard up, but I always say, cheetahs never prosper... (A/N: lol, zazu’s so clever! XD)
Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Young Simba: Wow.
Mufasa: A king's time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here, and will rise with you as the new king.
Young Simba: And this'll all be mine?
Mufasa: Everything.
Young Simba: Everything the light touches...
- Nala: What's happened to you? You're not the Simba I remember.
Adult Simba: You're right, I'm not. Now are you satisfied?
Nala: No, just disappointed.
Adult Simba: You know you're starting to sound like my father.
Nala: Good. At least one of us does.
- Zazu: [leading Simba and Nala to the waterhole] Step lively. The sooner we get to the waterhole, the sooner we can leave.
Young Nala: [whispering to Simba] So where are we really going?
Young Simba: An elephant graveyard.
Young Nala: Wow!
Young Simba: Shhhh! Zazu.
Young Nala: Right. So how are we going to ditch the dodo?
[Simba starts whispering to her]
Zazu: So just look at you two. Little seeds of romance blossoming in the savannah. Your parents will be *thrilled*, what with your being betrothed and all.
Young Simba: Be-what?
Zazu: Betrothed. Intended. Affianced.
Young Nala: Meaning...?
Zazu: One day, you two are going to be married.
Young Simba: Yuck.
Young Nala: Ewww.
Young Simba: I can't marry her. She's my friend.
Young Nala: Yeah. It'd be so weird.
Zazu: Well, sorry to bust the old bubble, but you two turtledoves have no choice. It's a tradition that goes back generations.
Young Simba: Well, when I'm king, that'll be the first thing to go.
Zazu: Not so long as I'm around.
Young Simba: Well, in that case, you're fired.
Zazu: Hmmm... Nice try, but only the king can do that.
Young Nala: Well, he's the future king.
Young Simba: Yeah. So you have to do what I tell you.
Zazu: Not yet I don't. And with an attitude like that, I'm afraid you're shaping up to be a pretty pathetic king indeed.
Young Simba: Hmph. Not the way I see it.
- Pumbaa: Your Majesty. I gravel at your feet.
[starts kissing Simba's feet]
Adult Simba: Stop that.
Timon: It's not gravel, it's grovel.
- Adult Simba: I know what I have to do. But going back will mean facing my past. I've been running from it for so long.
[Rafiki hits Simba on the head with his stick]
Adult Simba: Ow! Jeez, what was that for?
Rafiki: It doesn't matter. It's in the past.
[laughs]
Adult Simba: Yeah, but it still hurts.
Rafiki: Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the from way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.
[swings his stick at Simba again who ducks out of the way]
Rafiki: Ha. You see? So what are you going to do?
Adult Simba: First, I'm gonna take your stick.
[Simba snatches Rafiki's stick and throws it and Rafiki runs to grab it]
Rafiki: No,no, not the stick! Hey, where you going?
Adult Simba: I'm going back!
Rafiki: Good! Go on! Get out of here!
[Rafiki begins laughing and screeching loudly]
- Adult Simba: You knew my father?
Rafiki: Correction: I *know* your father.
Zazu: I'm here to announce that King Mufasa is on his way. So you'd better have a good excuse for missing the ceremony this morning.
Scar: [sees the mouse scampering off] Oh, now look, Zazu, yu made me lose my lunch.
Zazu: Ha! You'll lose more than that when the King gets through with you. He's as mad as a hippo with a hernia...
Scar: [approaches him menacingly] Oooh... I quiver with *fear*...
- Mufasa: Don't turn your back on me, Scar!
Scar: Oh, no, Mufasa. Perhaps *you* shouldn't turn your back on *me*.
Mufasa: [roars, runs to stand before him] Is that a challenge?
Scar: Temper, temper. I wouldn't *dream* of challenging you.
Zazu: Pity! Why not?
Scar: Well, as far as brains go, I got the lion's share. But, when it comes to brute strength... I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool.
- Zazu: [about Scar] There's one in every family sire. Two in mine, actually. And they always manage to ruin special occasions.
Mufasa: What am I going to do with him?
Zazu: He'd make a very handsome throw rug.
Mufasa: [Surprised] Zazu!
Zazu: And just think, Whenever he gets dirty you can take him out and beat him. (A/N: lol, zazu’s got a mean streak about him! XD)
- Zazu: What's going on?
Mufasa: A pouncing lesson.
Zazu: Oh, very good. Pouncing. *Pouncing*? Oh, no, Sire, you can't be serious...
[Mufasa signs for "turn around"]
Zazu: This is so humiliating. (A/N: lol, the poor birdbrain. XD)
- Scar: So, your father showed you the whole kingdom, did he?
Young Simba: Everything.
Scar: He didn't show you what's beyond that rise at the northern border?
Young Simba: Well, no. He says I can't go there.
Scar: And he's absolutely right! It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there.
Young Simba: Well, I'm brave. What's out there?
Scar: No, I'm sorry, Simba, I just *can't* tell you.
Young Simba: Why not?
Scar: Simba, Simba, I'm only looking out for the well-being of my favorite nephew.
Young Simba: Yeah, right. I'm your only nephew.
Scar: All the more reason for me to be protective.
- Young Simba: Hey, look, Banana Beak is scared.
Zazu: That's *Mr.* Banana Beak to you, Fuzzy! And right now, we are all in very real danger.
Young Simba: Danger? Hah! I walk on the wild side. I laugh in the face of danger. Ha ha ha ha!
- Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Young Simba: Puh. You can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uhh... technically, they can. We are on their land.
Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers.
Zazu: Ix-nay on the oopid-stay...
Banzai: Who're you callin' "oopid-stay?"
Zazu: Oh, my, my, my. Look at the sun. It's time to go! (A/N: I’ve never learnt how to speak pig latin; can anyone tell me what zazu’s saying?
- Young Simba: Hey! Why don't you pick on somebody your own size?
Shenzi: Like... you?
Young Simba: Oops.
- Mufasa: Simba, I'm very disappointed in you.
Young Simba: I know.
Mufasa: You could have been killed! You deliberately disobeyed me! And what's worse: you put Nala in danger!
Young Simba: I was just trying to be brave like you.
Mufasa: I'm only brave when I have to be. Simba, being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.
Young Simba: But you're not scared of anything.
Mufasa: I was today.
Young Simba: You were?
Mufasa: Yes. I thought I might lose you.
Young Simba: Yeah. I guess even kings get scared, huh?
Mufasa: Mmm-hmm.
Young Simba: But you know what?
Mufasa: What?
Young Simba: I think those hyenas were even scareder.
Mufasa: [laughs] 'Cause nobody messes with your dad!
- Banzai: Oh, Scar, it's just you.
Shenzi: We were afraid it was somebody important.
Banzai: Yeah, you know, like Mufasa.
Scar: I see.
Banzai: Now that's power.
Shenzi: Tell me about it. I just hear that name and I shudder.
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh! Do it again!
Banzai: Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
Banzai: Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa!
Shenzi: Ooooh!
[breaks into laughter]
Shenzi: And it tingles me!
Scar: I'm *surrounded* by idiots.
- Banzai: Yeah, be prepared! We'll be prepared... for what?
Scar: For the death of the king!
Banzai: Why? Is he sick?
Scar: No, fool, we're going to kill him. And Simba, too.
Shenzi: Hey, big deal! Who needs a king?
Banzai, Shenzi: [singing and dancing around Ed] No king, no king, la la la la la la...
Scar: Idiots! There will *be* a king!
Banzai: Yeah, but you said...
Scar: *I* will be king. Stick with me, and you'll never go hungry again!
- Scar: Now you wait here. Your father has a *marvelous* surprise for you.
Young Simba: Oooh. What is it?
Scar: If I told you, it wouldn't *be* a surprise, now would it?
Young Simba: If you tell me, I'll still *act* surprised.
Scar: Ho ho ho. You are such a naughty boy!
Young Simba: Come on, Uncle Scar.
Scar: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is just for you and your daddy. You know, a sort of... father-son... thing. Well! I'd better go get him.
Young Simba: I'll go with you.
Scar: No!
[regaining composure]
Scar: Heh heh heh. No. Just stay on this rock. You wouldn't want to end up in another mess like you did with the hyenas.
Young Simba: You know about that?
Scar: Simba, everybody knows about that.
Young Simba: Really?
Scar: Oh, yes. Lucky Daddy was there to save you, eh? Oh, and just between us, you might want to work on that little roar of yours. Hmm?
Young Simba: Oh, okay. Hey, Uncle Scar, will I like this surprise?
Scar: Simba, it's to *die* for!
- Banzai: But we gotta finish the job.
Shenzi: Well, he's as good as dead out there anyway. And *if* he comes back, we'll kill him.
Banzai: [calling out to Simba] Yeah! You hear that? If you ever come back, we'll kill ya!
- Scar: Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy; but to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era... in which lion and hyena come together, in a great and glorious future!
- Timon: Geez! It's a lion! Run, Pumbaa! Move it!
Pumbaa: Hey, Timon, it's just a *little* lion. Look at him. He's so cute and all alone! Can we keep him?
Timon: Pumbaa, are you nuts? We're talking about a lion; Lions eat guys like us!
Pumbaa: But he's so little.
Timon: He's gonna get bigger.
Pumbaa: Maybe he'll be on our side.
Timon: A - huh! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Maybe he'll b-... Hey, I got it! What if he's on our side? You know, having a lion around might not be such a bad idea.
- Timon: Who's the brains in this outfit?
Pumbaa: Uh...
Timon: My point exactly.
Timon: I saved you.
[Pumbaa snorts]
Timon: Pumbaa helped... a little.
Timon: So where you from?
- Young Simba: Who cares? I can't go back.
Timon: Ah, you're an outcast! That's great. So are we.
- Timon: I'm telling you, kid: this is the great life. No rules, no responsibilities...
[he reaches into a hole in a log and various insects skitter out, with him holding a blue bug; he points to the rest of the insects]
Timon: Ooh! The little cream-filled kind!
- Banzai: Hey, Boss!
Scar: Oh, what is it this time?
Banzai: We've got a bone to pick with you!
Shenzi: I'll handle this. Scar, there's no food, no water...
Banzai: Yeah, it's dinner time, and we ain't got no stinkin' entrees.
Scar: It's the lionesses' job to do the hunting.
Banzai: Yeah, but they won't go hunt.
Scar: Oh... eat Zazu.
Zazu: Oh, you wouldn't want me. I'd be so tough and gamey and... eeww...
Scar: Oh, Zazu, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little garnish.
- Adult Simba: Well, somebody once told me that the great kings of the past are up there, watching over us.
Pumbaa: Really?
Timon: You mean a bunch of royal dead guys are watching us?
- Young Simba: [Nala's mother, Sarafina is giving Nala a bath] Hey, Nala.
Young Nala: Hi, Simba.
Young Simba: Come on, I just heard about this great place.
Young Nala: Simba, I'm kinda in the middle of a bath.
Sarabi: And it's time for yours.
[grabs Simba and starts licking him]
Young Simba: Mom! Mom, you're messing up my mane!
[Sarabi smiles]
Young Simba: Ok, ok. I'm clean. Can we go now?
Young Nala: So where are we going? It better not be anyplace dumb.
Young Simba: No, it's really cool.
Sarabi: So where is this really cool place?
Young Simba: Oh... around the waterhole.
Young Nala: The waterhole? What's so great about the waterhole?
Young Simba: [muttering] I'll *show* you when we *get* there.
Young Nala: Oh... Mom, can I go with Simba?
Sarafina - Nala's Mother: Hmm, what do you think Sarabi?
Sarabi: Well...
Young Simba, Young Nala: [with forced grins] Please!
Sarabi: It's alright with me.
Young Simba: Yeah!
Young Nala: All right!
Sarabi: As long as Zazu goes with you.
- Adult Simba: Listen, you think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don't even know what I've been through!
Nala: I would if you just tell me!
Adult Simba: Forget it!
Nala: Fine!
- Rafiki: What was *that*?
[laughs]
Rafiki: The weather - Pbbbah! Very peculiar. Don't you think?
Adult Simba: Yeah. Looks like the winds are changing.
Rafiki: Ahhh. Change is good.
- Nala: What made you come back?
Adult Simba: I finally got some sense knocked into me. And I've got the bump to prove it.
- Scar: Simba, Simba, please. Please have mercy, I beg you.
Adult Simba: You don't deserve to live.
Scar: But, Simba, I... am... family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea!
Adult Simba: Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie.
Scar: What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your *old* uncle...?
Adult Simba: No, Scar. I'm not like you.
Scar: Oh, Simba, thank you. You are truly noble. I'll make it up to you, I promise. How can I, ah, prove myself to you? Tell me. I mean, anything.
Adult Simba: Run. Run away, Scar. And never return.
- Young Simba: What am I gonna do?
Scar: Run. Run, Simba. Run away, and never return.
[Simba leaves and hyenas come out of the mist]
Scar: Kill him.
- Timon: This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub.
Young Simba: What's that?
Timon: A grub. What's it look like?
[Timon eats the grub]
Young Simba: Ewwwww, gross.
Timon: Tastes like chicken.
- Adult Simba: Man, I'm stuffed.
Pumbaa: Me, too. I ate like a pig.
Adult Simba: Pumbaa, you *are* a pig.
- Pumbaa: It's like my buddy Timon always says: you got to put your behind in your past.
Timon: No, no, no. Amateur. Sit down before you hurt yourself. It's "You got to put your past behind you."
- Pumbaa: [singing] And I got down-hearted.
Timon: How did you feel?
Pumbaa: Everytime that I...
Timon: [clapping his hand over Pumbaa's mouth] Pumbaa, not in front of the kids.
[Faces the camera]
Pumbaa: Oh. Sorry.
- Shenzi: What's the hurry? We'd love you to stick around for dinner.
Banzai: Yeah. We could have whatever's "lion" around.
Shenzi: Oh wait, wait, wait. I got one, I got one. Make mine a "cub" sandwich. Whatcha think?
[all laugh]
Shenzi: [Ed points]
Shenzi: What, Ed?
Banzai: Hey, did we order this dinner to go?
Shenzi: No, why?
Banzai: 'Cause THERE IT GOES! (A/N: those stupid hyenas think they’re so smart! :P)
- Zazu: Well, as slippery as your mind is, as the King's brother *you* should've been first in line.
[Scar threatens to bite, he retreats toward Mufasa]
Scar: I was first in line, until the little hair ball was born.
Mufasa: That hair ball is my son. And *your* future king.
Scar: Oh, I shall have to practice my curtsy.
- Pumbaa: What'd ya do, kid?
Young Simba: Something terrible. But I don't wanna talk about it.
Timon: Good. We don't wanna hear about it.
- [first lines]
[Scar catches a mouse]
Scar: Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu.
Zazu: Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?
- Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
Young Simba: But, Dad, don't we eat the antelope?
Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life.
- Timon: Look, kid. Bad things happen, and you can't do anything about it. Right?
Young Simba: Right.
Timon: Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world. (A/N: if only ‘twas that easy … *sigh*)
- Young Simba: Everything the light touches... But what about that shadowy place?
Mufasa: That's beyond our borders. You must never go there, Simba.
Young Simba: But I thought a king can do whatever he wants.
Mufasa: There's more to being a king than getting your way all the time.
Young Simba: There's more?
Mufasa: [laughing] Simba.
- Young Simba: I'm so hungry I could eat a whole zebra.
Timon: Ah-ha, we're fresh out of zebra.
Young Simba: Any antelope?
Timon: Nah-ah.
Young Simba: Hippo?
Timon: Nope. Listen kid: if you live with us, you'll have to eat like us.
- Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana.
Adult Simba: Come on, will you cut it out?
Rafiki: Can't cut it out. It will grow right back. Hehehe.
Adult Simba: Creepy little monkey. Would you stop following me! Who are you?
Rafiki: The question is, who... are you?
Adult Simba: [sighs] I thought I knew, but now I'm not so sure.
Rafiki: Well, I know who you are! Shh. Come here, it's a secret.
[Whispers, then grows louder]
Rafiki: Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana!
Adult Simba: Enough already! What's that supposed to mean, anyway?
Rafiki: It means you're a baboon... and I'm not.
Adult Simba: I think you're a little confused.
Rafiki: Wrong! I'm not the one who's confused. You don't even know who you are!
Adult Simba: Oh, and I suppose you know?
Rafiki: Sure do. You're Mufasa's boy!
[Simba turns around to look at him, shocked]
Rafiki: Bye!
- [Watching Simba and Nala]
Timon: I tell ya, Pumbaa, this stinks!
Pumbaa: Oh, sorry.
Timon: Not you, THEM! Him... Her... alone.
- Pumbaa: Kid, what's eatin' ya?
Timon: Nothing, he's at the top of the food chain!
[laughs]
Timon: The food chain!
[chuckles nervously]
- [above the stampeding wildebeasts]
Mufasa: Scar! Brother, help me!
[Scar puts his claws into Mufasa's paws]
Scar: Long live the King.
[throws him into the stampede]
- Adult Simba: Give me one good reason why I shouldn't rip you apart.
Scar: Oh, Simba, you must understand. The pressures of ruling a kingdom...
Adult Simba: Are no longer yours. Step down, Scar.
- Scar: I'm surrounded by idiots.
-Scar: [singing] I know that your powers of retention, are as wet as a warthog's backside / But thick as you are, pay attention! / My words are a matter of pride / It's clear from vacant expressions / The lights are not all on upstairs / But we're talking kings and successions / Even *you* can't be caught unawares!
- Timon: [singing] I can see what's happening.
Pumbaa: What?
Timon: [singing] And they don't have a clue.
Pumbaa: Who?
Timon: [singing] They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line: Our trio's down to two.
Pumbaa: Oh.
Timon: [singing]
[sarcastic, with French accent]
Timon: The sweet caress of twilight.
[normal voice, but still sarcastic]
Timon: There's magic everywhere. And with all this romantic atmosphere, disaster's in the aiiiiiiir!
- Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. So what's the plan for getting past those guys?
Adult Simba: Live bait.
Timon: Good idea.
[realizes what he means]
Timon: HEY!
- Scar: [singing] Of course, quid pro quo, you're expected / To take certain duties on board / The future is littered with prizes / And though I'm the main addressee / The point that I must emphasize is...
[Leaps in front of a hyena]
Scar: [shouting] You won't get a sniff without me!
[hyena falls into a volcano]
- Banzai: [In the hyenas' lair, Banzai slouches with claw marks on his rear] Man, that lousy Mufasa... I won't be able to sit for a *week!*
Ed the Hyena: [laughs, but also tries his best to conceal it from time to time] Eh-hee-hee-hee. Heh-heheheheheheheheheh...
Banzai: [Glares at Ed and bares his teeth with impatience] It's not funny, Ed.
Ed the Hyena: [Cups his paws over his mouth then bursts into hysterical laughter, spitting as his tongue lofts out of his mouth] BA-HA-HA-HAAAA! HA-AH-AH-AH-AH!
[Inhales deeply]
Banzai: Hey, shut up!
Ed the Hyena: AH-HA-HO! HO-HO-HO-HO!
Banzai: [Bares his teeth] Grrrrrr...
[as Ed continues to laugh, Banzai barks and pounces on Ed, abruptly ending his laughing. The two commence a brief fight]
Shenzi: [Rolls her eyes and turns to the two yelping and rolling atop each other aggressively] Will you knock it off?
Banzai: [ed appears to be chewing on Banzai's leg; Banzai sits up] Well, he started it!
[It is now obvious that Ed is chewing his own leg repeatedly]
Shenzi: Look at you guys! No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain!
Banzai: [a string of drool dangles from his chin] Man, I hate dangling...
Shenzi: [Scoffs] Yeah? You know, if it weren't for those lions, we'd be *runnin'* the joint.
[Ed nods idiotically]
Banzai: Man, I *hate* lions!
Shenzi: [Grumbles] So pushy...
Banzai: And hairy...
Shenzi: [Smiles] Stinky...
Banzai: [Grins] And man are they...
Banzai, Shenzi: [Elongated use of the 'u'] U-GLY!
[both laugh hysterically]
- Scar: [bellowing] Sarabiiiii!
[echoes and reechoes; we soon see Sarabi walking through the pack of hyenas, trying to snap at her; Simba looks on as Sarabi approaches]
Sarabi: Yes, Scar?
Scar: Where's your hunting party? They're not doing their job.
Sarabi: Scar, there is no food. The herds have moved on.
Scar: No! You're just not looking hard enough.
Sarabi: It's over. There is nothing left. We have only one choice. We *must* leave Pride Rock.
Scar: We're not going anywhere!
Sarabi: Then you have sentenced us to death!
Scar: Then so be it!
Sarabi: You can't do that!
Scar: I'm the king! I can do whatever I want!
Sarabi: If you were half the king Mufasa was...
Scar: [knocks Sarabi unconscious] I'm *ten* times the king Mufasa was!
[Simba jumps in and roars at Scar]
Scar: Mufasa! No! You're dead!
Sarabi: Mufasa?
Adult Simba: No. It's me.
Sarabi: Simba? But how...?
Adult Simba: It doesn't matter. I'm home.
Scar: Simba? Simba! Well, it sure is a surprise to see you...
[turns to the hyenas]
Scar: ... *alive*!
[the hyenas gulp and back away]
- Shenzi: Well, well, well, Banzai, what have we got here?
Banzai: Hmm, I don't know Shenzi uh, what do you think Ed?
Ed the Hyena: Oo ehehe, oh hahahaha
Banzai: Yaa, just what I was thinking, a trio of trespassers.
Zazu: And quite by accident let me assure you...
Shenzi: Woah, wait wait. I know you, you're Mufasa's little stooge.
Zazu: I madame, am the king's major dobo.
Banzai: And that would make you...?
Young Simba: Future King.
Shenzi: Do you know what we do to kings who step out of their kingdom?
Young Simba: Puh, you can't do anything to me.
Zazu: Uhh, technically they can, we are on their land.
Young Simba: But Zazu, you told me they are nothing but slobbery, mangery stupid vulchers.
Zazu: X-nay on the upidstay...
Banzai: Who you callin upidstay?
Scar: Why! If it isn't my big brother descending from on high to mingle with the commoners.
Mufasa: Sarabi and I didn't see you at the presentation of Simba.
Scar: That was today? Oh, I feel simply awful.
- Timon: [seeing a red beetle] These are rare delicacies.
[takes it and eats it]
Timon: He comes with a very pleasant crunch.
like I said earlier, the lion king’s without a doubt, my favouritest movie ever!! At the beginning, I’d mentioned that my mum had told me off for not only singing along to the songs, but even reciting along with the words! XD before the movie had started, I’d leaned over and asked her, “mother, are you really serious that I can’t sing along with any of the songs/speak along with the lyrics? Coz I’m not sure I’ll be able to control myself from doing that!” mother considered for awhile, then said, ‘hmm, okay. But only softly. I’ll tell you if you get too loud/excited.” And she only caught me out twice! The first time was for scar’s song ‘be prepared’ and the second was the classic ‘can you feel the love tonight’. for those, I received a quick jab in the ribs and a ‘shh!’ XD
it’s hard to believe, but this movie’s been around for near twenty years! And still, the final scene where simba is finally ascending pride rock to roar out his position as king never fails to send a shiver up my back. XD
like I said, personally, I believe the lion king is the bestest. Movie. Ever!!
Next post here … well, I never got around to posting up my thoughts from that bible passage from first Corinthians … but book club is next Thursday! And we’re all going out for dinner afterwards! :D
Well, whichever one comes first, until then …
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. sorry, just reading through it, i realise how long it turned out to be! XD
Saturday, October 15, 2011
paatoral visit2
Well, last night, the parents and I went down to varsity lakes to have dinner with reverend lam and his wife! They’d told us to come down early, like 5:30pm, so PIG mum had already cancelled my Saturday afternoon carer’s shift and told the Saturday morning carer to please shower me.
But as we set off, the skies darkened, and soon, there was a tremendous storm exploding around us!
I’ve been down once to varsity lakes to visit the pastor and his wife; that was earlier in the year, when I joined SHINE fellowship on a visit to reverend lam’s house. That time, the weather had been calm and the trip only took around forty-five minutes, but this time, with the storm exploding all around us, it took a good sixty-five minutes to arrive!
When we arrived, I presumed that dad would just park on the driveway, but instead, reverend lam opened the garage door and beckoned dad to park inside. And wow – his garage’s CARPETED! XD
I apologised to reverend lam for not being able to take off my shoes before I went inside (in Cantonese culture, you remove yours shoes at the door before entering) and once inside, used his bathroom once. Back outside, I saw a funky, comfy looking blue armchair and made a beeline for it.
‘that’s the pastor’s chair!” reverend lam laughed, seeing me tug the lever that enabled me to prop both feet up, ‘even my wife isn’t allowed to sit in it! But since you are now, you’re gonna haveta become a pastor when you grow up!” (A/N: I’m already 24.5 years old; isn’t that already considered ‘grown up?’ XD)
I innocently asked him back, “but, reverend lam, aren’t only guys allowed to become pastors! I’m female!
He considered this, then laughed again. “no problem. You can become a missionary, then!” XD
Reverend lam also kindly flicked on the television for me, so I could watch ten’s news. Mrs. Lam kindly took mother out for a stroll, while dad helped out reverend lam in the kitchen.
At 6pm, I switched over to seven’s news, which was read out by sharyn ghidella. The most interesting surname I found was ‘yabsley’.
When mother and mrs. Lam came back, mother took me once more to the toilet, then dinner was served!
Mother gave me about half a bowl of rice. I also ate some cucumber, some beef, some pineapple, some chicken and one slice of tomato. Mother was happy, because reverend and mrs. Lam don’t just eat plain white rice, they eat white rice mixed with red rice, purple rice and all different other sorts of rice, and she finds it yummy. Unluckily for her, though, both dad and I detest that. Just plain white rice is good enough for us. XD
While we ate, we just chatted. Reverend lam explained to me that you only become a reverend after you’ve been ordained; before that, you’re just a pastor. Mrs. Lam told me that her son works interstate somewhere, while her daughter works in HK.
And I finally got the chance to ask reverend lam the question I’ve been curious about for so long! Does the pastor’s wife have a title? You know, actor-actress, singer-songstress, pastor-pastoress? Reverend lam just laughed, then clarified, “nope, she’s just the pastor’s wifr.” XD
After dinner, mother took me once again to the loo then fruit was served! I ate two slices each of apple and kiwi. Then mother said, “em, you’ve missed the pear!” see, my favourite fruit is pear! Nashi pear, normal pear, ya pear. I don’t care: pear=pear=pear! So I gobbled four little bits of yummy pear.
Then reverend lam even boiled tea for us! The tea was served in these tiny little cups that were literally only thimble-sized! (A/N: okay, I have no idea how small thimbles are, but they were teensy little cups, okay? XD) reverend lam continued to top up the little cups every time I finished drinking; I think eventually, I drank like four!
When we finished drinking, mother took a look at the clock on the wall and said, “it’s about time we left. Long drive home, remember.” So I asked her please to help me once more to the bathroom. On the way, I stopped to admire mrs. Lam’s nicely furnished kitchen. She’s even got some sort of special water filter that lets her wash and cook with the good water while the bad water’s filtered into another bottle, which she then uses for watering the garden!
Oh, and I almost forgot! Reverend lam even baked a chocolate-coloured cake for us! “my kids love this cake,” he told us proudly. “I bake it for them everytime they come to visit me.” Only for me … no offence to you, reverend lam, but the cake wasn’t yummy; it wasn’t even chocolate! Just chocolate-coloured XD Personally, I thought I showed admirable restraint, not commenting on how disgusting the cake was, but as soon as we were safely back inside our car, with the doors and windows closed, I literally exploded with, "That chocolate-coloured cake was DISGUSTING!! where was the chocolate taste?!" XD
Before we left, reverend lam gave dad instructions how to get out of varsity lakes and back on the highway. “umm … should we write this down?” I asked mother. ‘coz if we get lost, we’re going to be driving circles around here all night.” Dad laughed. “don’t worry, em,” he reassured me, “it’s all in my head.”
Mrs. Lam waved bye to us from the door, but reverend lam just stood in the garage as dad slowly reversed the camry out. “please don’t run over and squash reverend lam, dad!” I squeaked, causing both the parents to laugh.
But we left without any mishap, and the drive home was much quicker, now that the storm had passed. I was back inside our house and brushing my teeth, ready for bed, in about forty minutes time.
All in all, ‘twas a great night out visiting the pastor and his wife. I just feel for him, considering the amount of time he’s gotta spend driving to and from church, several times each week!
Next post here … I’ve really gotta hurry up with my lion king (3D) review, don’t i? it’s been like one month since mother took me to see it! XD Well, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
But as we set off, the skies darkened, and soon, there was a tremendous storm exploding around us!
I’ve been down once to varsity lakes to visit the pastor and his wife; that was earlier in the year, when I joined SHINE fellowship on a visit to reverend lam’s house. That time, the weather had been calm and the trip only took around forty-five minutes, but this time, with the storm exploding all around us, it took a good sixty-five minutes to arrive!
When we arrived, I presumed that dad would just park on the driveway, but instead, reverend lam opened the garage door and beckoned dad to park inside. And wow – his garage’s CARPETED! XD
I apologised to reverend lam for not being able to take off my shoes before I went inside (in Cantonese culture, you remove yours shoes at the door before entering) and once inside, used his bathroom once. Back outside, I saw a funky, comfy looking blue armchair and made a beeline for it.
‘that’s the pastor’s chair!” reverend lam laughed, seeing me tug the lever that enabled me to prop both feet up, ‘even my wife isn’t allowed to sit in it! But since you are now, you’re gonna haveta become a pastor when you grow up!” (A/N: I’m already 24.5 years old; isn’t that already considered ‘grown up?’ XD)
I innocently asked him back, “but, reverend lam, aren’t only guys allowed to become pastors! I’m female!
He considered this, then laughed again. “no problem. You can become a missionary, then!” XD
Reverend lam also kindly flicked on the television for me, so I could watch ten’s news. Mrs. Lam kindly took mother out for a stroll, while dad helped out reverend lam in the kitchen.
At 6pm, I switched over to seven’s news, which was read out by sharyn ghidella. The most interesting surname I found was ‘yabsley’.
When mother and mrs. Lam came back, mother took me once more to the toilet, then dinner was served!
Mother gave me about half a bowl of rice. I also ate some cucumber, some beef, some pineapple, some chicken and one slice of tomato. Mother was happy, because reverend and mrs. Lam don’t just eat plain white rice, they eat white rice mixed with red rice, purple rice and all different other sorts of rice, and she finds it yummy. Unluckily for her, though, both dad and I detest that. Just plain white rice is good enough for us. XD
While we ate, we just chatted. Reverend lam explained to me that you only become a reverend after you’ve been ordained; before that, you’re just a pastor. Mrs. Lam told me that her son works interstate somewhere, while her daughter works in HK.
And I finally got the chance to ask reverend lam the question I’ve been curious about for so long! Does the pastor’s wife have a title? You know, actor-actress, singer-songstress, pastor-pastoress? Reverend lam just laughed, then clarified, “nope, she’s just the pastor’s wifr.” XD
After dinner, mother took me once again to the loo then fruit was served! I ate two slices each of apple and kiwi. Then mother said, “em, you’ve missed the pear!” see, my favourite fruit is pear! Nashi pear, normal pear, ya pear. I don’t care: pear=pear=pear! So I gobbled four little bits of yummy pear.
Then reverend lam even boiled tea for us! The tea was served in these tiny little cups that were literally only thimble-sized! (A/N: okay, I have no idea how small thimbles are, but they were teensy little cups, okay? XD) reverend lam continued to top up the little cups every time I finished drinking; I think eventually, I drank like four!
When we finished drinking, mother took a look at the clock on the wall and said, “it’s about time we left. Long drive home, remember.” So I asked her please to help me once more to the bathroom. On the way, I stopped to admire mrs. Lam’s nicely furnished kitchen. She’s even got some sort of special water filter that lets her wash and cook with the good water while the bad water’s filtered into another bottle, which she then uses for watering the garden!
Oh, and I almost forgot! Reverend lam even baked a chocolate-coloured cake for us! “my kids love this cake,” he told us proudly. “I bake it for them everytime they come to visit me.” Only for me … no offence to you, reverend lam, but the cake wasn’t yummy; it wasn’t even chocolate! Just chocolate-coloured XD Personally, I thought I showed admirable restraint, not commenting on how disgusting the cake was, but as soon as we were safely back inside our car, with the doors and windows closed, I literally exploded with, "That chocolate-coloured cake was DISGUSTING!! where was the chocolate taste?!" XD
Before we left, reverend lam gave dad instructions how to get out of varsity lakes and back on the highway. “umm … should we write this down?” I asked mother. ‘coz if we get lost, we’re going to be driving circles around here all night.” Dad laughed. “don’t worry, em,” he reassured me, “it’s all in my head.”
Mrs. Lam waved bye to us from the door, but reverend lam just stood in the garage as dad slowly reversed the camry out. “please don’t run over and squash reverend lam, dad!” I squeaked, causing both the parents to laugh.
But we left without any mishap, and the drive home was much quicker, now that the storm had passed. I was back inside our house and brushing my teeth, ready for bed, in about forty minutes time.
All in all, ‘twas a great night out visiting the pastor and his wife. I just feel for him, considering the amount of time he’s gotta spend driving to and from church, several times each week!
Next post here … I’ve really gotta hurry up with my lion king (3D) review, don’t i? it’s been like one month since mother took me to see it! XD Well, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Thursday, October 13, 2011
funny forward
Heylo all! This isn’t my movie review of the lion king (3D) review that I was intending to post up today; rather, it’s just a funny e-mail mother forwarded to me! (and sorry, English speaking peoples, you haveta speak canto to understand it! XD) this is wisdom from Confucius, BTW;
Two things in life that are difficult to achieve:-
1. to plant your idea in someone's head
2. to plant someone's money in your own pocket.
o He who succeeds in planting his idea in someone's head - we call Lao Shi (teacher)
o He who succeeds planting someone's money in his own pocket - we call Lao Ban (boss)
o The one who succeeds in both - we call Lao Po (wife) orLao Qian (trickster)
o The one who fails in both - we call Lao Gong (husband)
Lol, it’s so mean to the poor hubbys! XD
Anyways, I’ll really try to post up my movie review of the Lion King (3D) ASAP, okies?
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Two things in life that are difficult to achieve:-
1. to plant your idea in someone's head
2. to plant someone's money in your own pocket.
o He who succeeds in planting his idea in someone's head - we call Lao Shi (teacher)
o He who succeeds planting someone's money in his own pocket - we call Lao Ban (boss)
o The one who succeeds in both - we call Lao Po (wife) orLao Qian (trickster)
o The one who fails in both - we call Lao Gong (husband)
Lol, it’s so mean to the poor hubbys! XD
Anyways, I’ll really try to post up my movie review of the Lion King (3D) ASAP, okies?
Cheers,
Em. ^^
bookclub! (oct)
For October’s book club, we did a novel called ‘the Book Thief’ by Marcus Zuzak (sp?). It’s about an orphan German girl who steals books from the Germans during World War Two.
The usual librarian who usually takes our monthly book club meeting, Amanda, was away. Instead, another librarian called Phil did instead. Lol, I remembered him this time; the first time he covered for Amanda, I walked into the meeting room, held out my hand and said. “hi, I’m Emily. Are you the librarian who’s taking our book club tonight instead of Amanda?” he shook my hand, laughed, then said in a mock-hurt voice, “Have you forgotten me already? I’m Phil; I’m the guy that first signed you up into this book club when you first joined last year!” XD
For some odd reason, mother had spitefully restricted me to only just one bikkie at the book club; usually, I take eight! But I’ll admit I couldn’t resist and grabbed two: one choc chip cookie and one scotch finger. XD actually, I was highly tempted to grab more, but hey … maybe next month.
Anyways, Phil said he hadn’t read the book before and just opened the floor up for us to discuss the book.
Phew, unlike last month’s disaster of a book, Anna Karenina which everyone disliked and I myself only read seventy-five pages before giving up, everyone enjoyed reading the Book Thief. I shared my favourite line, said by the Jewish boy the Meminger family hides in their attic. During bomb threats, the entire family must run for the protection of a bomb shelter, but of course, Max, being a Jew, can’t run with them. During one such scare, he cannot resist, and steals a peek out at the night sky. The result? “The stars,” Max says, “the stars … they burned my eyes.”
The only thing I didn’t like about the book was it’s particularly gruesome ending, coz everyone, bar the main female lead, the book thief herself, dies! >< I prefer happily ever after endings, thank-you very much!
I also learnt how to say ‘pig’ and ‘arsehole’ in German, BTW. Ask me next time you see me, and I’ll teach you how to say them too! XD
The book we’re doing for November’s book club is something about a hog farmer … sounds weird, but I grabbed the large print edition, which will make it much easier for me to read … hope it’s a good one!
Next post here … well, I’ve been kinda slack with posts lately, sorry. I’ve still got my movie review of the Lion King (3D) and a lunch with my Australian godmother to put up!
Cya when I cya!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
The usual librarian who usually takes our monthly book club meeting, Amanda, was away. Instead, another librarian called Phil did instead. Lol, I remembered him this time; the first time he covered for Amanda, I walked into the meeting room, held out my hand and said. “hi, I’m Emily. Are you the librarian who’s taking our book club tonight instead of Amanda?” he shook my hand, laughed, then said in a mock-hurt voice, “Have you forgotten me already? I’m Phil; I’m the guy that first signed you up into this book club when you first joined last year!” XD
For some odd reason, mother had spitefully restricted me to only just one bikkie at the book club; usually, I take eight! But I’ll admit I couldn’t resist and grabbed two: one choc chip cookie and one scotch finger. XD actually, I was highly tempted to grab more, but hey … maybe next month.
Anyways, Phil said he hadn’t read the book before and just opened the floor up for us to discuss the book.
Phew, unlike last month’s disaster of a book, Anna Karenina which everyone disliked and I myself only read seventy-five pages before giving up, everyone enjoyed reading the Book Thief. I shared my favourite line, said by the Jewish boy the Meminger family hides in their attic. During bomb threats, the entire family must run for the protection of a bomb shelter, but of course, Max, being a Jew, can’t run with them. During one such scare, he cannot resist, and steals a peek out at the night sky. The result? “The stars,” Max says, “the stars … they burned my eyes.”
The only thing I didn’t like about the book was it’s particularly gruesome ending, coz everyone, bar the main female lead, the book thief herself, dies! >< I prefer happily ever after endings, thank-you very much!
I also learnt how to say ‘pig’ and ‘arsehole’ in German, BTW. Ask me next time you see me, and I’ll teach you how to say them too! XD
The book we’re doing for November’s book club is something about a hog farmer … sounds weird, but I grabbed the large print edition, which will make it much easier for me to read … hope it’s a good one!
Next post here … well, I’ve been kinda slack with posts lately, sorry. I’ve still got my movie review of the Lion King (3D) and a lunch with my Australian godmother to put up!
Cya when I cya!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Sunday, October 2, 2011
sushi train
Last Monday, I had lunch at Warrigal Square’s Sushi Train with Mel, kylie and her two younger sisters!
Mel and Kylie were in the same year level as me back at Canterbury; they’ve kept in touch with me after my brain injury. Mel’s now a registered nurse working in the Spinal Injuries Rehab Unit at the Princess Alexandra hospital, while Kylie’s become a music teacher! Well, we did music extension together back during high school; she’s an awesome piano player. ^^
I arrived first, soon followed by kylie – who’d brought her two younger sisters along! Mel arrived last; we all hugged, then looked @ the menu and ordered. Mel went for the chicken katsudon (my favourite), I had the chicken udon, while Kylie and her sisters just picked stuff from the train. Hey, did you know, sushi train even sells CHOCOLATE BROWNIES? XD
While we ate, we just chatted. Huge apologies to Kylie’s sisters, but I’ve forgotten both their names! XD one graduated in 2007 and the other in 2009, I think. One’s doing some art degree @ uni and the other some childcare course @ TAFE. I told them my funny 21st birthday story; that got a few laughs. XD I think the youngest DeCalmer child graduates from high school this year? Huge respect goes to mrs. DeCalmer, coz Kylie tells me her mum’s been taking kids to/from school for like the past twenty years!
The last time I talked to Mel, she told me she was working at the Spinal Injuries Outpatient department, but now, she’s been transferred back inside the ward. I just find it incredible to believe that there are spinal injury patients inside the hospital that are actually walking around; I mean, I would’ve expected all spinal injury patients to be flat out in bed, or inside a wheelchair, at the very least!
Lol, and here’s proof that I really do eat super-slowly: the crispy chicken in udon I ordered … well, I’ve somehow gained the habit for saving the best for last. In this case, the crispy chicken should’ve been the last thing I ate, after the udon. I ate all the udon first, yes. But, remember how my bowl of udon was in soup? Well, the crispy chicken sat inside the soup patiently while I inhaled all the udon, and finally, when it was the crispy chicken’s turn to be eaten, it wasn’t crispy anymore, but SOGGY! That’ll teach me to eat quicker in the future. XD
Anyways, ‘twas wonderful to catch up with Kylie and Mel, and to meet her sisters. Lol, I blame my appalling memory, but I can never remember Kylie and Russell’s birthday! It’s the 28th, I’m sure, but October or November? Think Kylie told me that it was November, oh well, guess I’ll write her a happy birthday message on her Facebook wall come November, but if I get a reply saying something like, “Em, you nit, my birthday was LAST month”, I’m gonna be super-embarrassed! XD
Next post here … well, if I’m super-organised, it should come tomorrow! See, mother took me to see the lion king in 3D last last Monday, and I haveta post my movie review of what is, surely and without a doubt, the bestest. Movie. Ever!! XD righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Mel and Kylie were in the same year level as me back at Canterbury; they’ve kept in touch with me after my brain injury. Mel’s now a registered nurse working in the Spinal Injuries Rehab Unit at the Princess Alexandra hospital, while Kylie’s become a music teacher! Well, we did music extension together back during high school; she’s an awesome piano player. ^^
I arrived first, soon followed by kylie – who’d brought her two younger sisters along! Mel arrived last; we all hugged, then looked @ the menu and ordered. Mel went for the chicken katsudon (my favourite), I had the chicken udon, while Kylie and her sisters just picked stuff from the train. Hey, did you know, sushi train even sells CHOCOLATE BROWNIES? XD
While we ate, we just chatted. Huge apologies to Kylie’s sisters, but I’ve forgotten both their names! XD one graduated in 2007 and the other in 2009, I think. One’s doing some art degree @ uni and the other some childcare course @ TAFE. I told them my funny 21st birthday story; that got a few laughs. XD I think the youngest DeCalmer child graduates from high school this year? Huge respect goes to mrs. DeCalmer, coz Kylie tells me her mum’s been taking kids to/from school for like the past twenty years!
The last time I talked to Mel, she told me she was working at the Spinal Injuries Outpatient department, but now, she’s been transferred back inside the ward. I just find it incredible to believe that there are spinal injury patients inside the hospital that are actually walking around; I mean, I would’ve expected all spinal injury patients to be flat out in bed, or inside a wheelchair, at the very least!
Lol, and here’s proof that I really do eat super-slowly: the crispy chicken in udon I ordered … well, I’ve somehow gained the habit for saving the best for last. In this case, the crispy chicken should’ve been the last thing I ate, after the udon. I ate all the udon first, yes. But, remember how my bowl of udon was in soup? Well, the crispy chicken sat inside the soup patiently while I inhaled all the udon, and finally, when it was the crispy chicken’s turn to be eaten, it wasn’t crispy anymore, but SOGGY! That’ll teach me to eat quicker in the future. XD
Anyways, ‘twas wonderful to catch up with Kylie and Mel, and to meet her sisters. Lol, I blame my appalling memory, but I can never remember Kylie and Russell’s birthday! It’s the 28th, I’m sure, but October or November? Think Kylie told me that it was November, oh well, guess I’ll write her a happy birthday message on her Facebook wall come November, but if I get a reply saying something like, “Em, you nit, my birthday was LAST month”, I’m gonna be super-embarrassed! XD
Next post here … well, if I’m super-organised, it should come tomorrow! See, mother took me to see the lion king in 3D last last Monday, and I haveta post my movie review of what is, surely and without a doubt, the bestest. Movie. Ever!! XD righteo, until then!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
Monday, September 12, 2011
bridge to brisbane
Awhile back, I posted this one about Greg Hall, my former high school maths teacher. And yesterdayday, I went and did the Bridge to Brisbane with him!
Last month, he came knocking on our door and said, “hey, Em, a bunch of maths teachers and I are doing the Bridge to Brisbane this year, and we want you to join us.”
I said to him sadly, “Sir, I’d love to, but with my current level of physical abilities, I doubt I can even walk 1km, let alone 10km.”
‘Bah!” he said, waving his hand, “you’d go in your manual wheelchair, of course. We’ll push you. Look on the bright side; you can finally attempt something you’ve never been able to before: boss your teachers around. Push faster! Push slower!” XD
That sounded fairly fun, so I agreed. But I soon regretted my decision, coz he said he’d come pick me up @ 4:30AM IN THE MORNING!!o_O XD
Meaning the night before, the parents gleefully forced poor Em off to bed at some ungodly hour of the night, like 8pm! But there was no point in complaining, coz I did need a good night’s rest for the big day ahead, so I obediently went. Actually, I awoke around 1:30am to use the pot :P once, then, suddenly … ‘twas 4am and dad was poking me with “fifteen more minutes.”!
Although, mother tried cheating, and came to order me up when I still had two minutes remaining! “Go away,” I mumbled, clutching tightly to Bear Bear, “I’ve still got two minutes.”
When I finally did get up, mother fed me one mug of warm Horlicks and I went to the bathroom once, before sitting in the garage and waited for Mr. Hall to arrive.
When he did, I groused at him, “Which insane teacher first came up with the hare-brained idea of dragging me along to some crazy race in the middle of the night? He just laughed and replied, “It’s 4:30am.”
“No it’s not.” I answered him. “The sun’s not up yet; therefore it’s still the middle of the night.” He laughed again. “Get in the car, you.”
The sky started lightening as he drew us to his place.
“Why are we going there?” I asked him.
“My sister Carmel’s kindly offered to drive us to the race start.”
Mr. Hall’s got three younger sisters; only Carmel isn’t a teacher. Think she works in the admin sector.
Lol, funny this was that originally, I thought her name was CARAMEL! XD
Anyways, when she entered the car, we shook hands and I introduced myself to her. Then I told her the story of how Mr. Hall had scared the living daylights out of me back in year ten, when he’d rung to tell me of my maths mark, and she laughed uproariously.
Anyways, Carmel drove us near the entrance; she and Mr. Hall got out Sparkless for me, then we said our thanks and byes to her. “Ring me once you’re done; I’ll come and pick you guys up.” She waved goodbye.
Mr. hall and I started pushing me to the entrance line, which was quite a distance in itself! We eventually stopped at a wall of people, and Mr. Hall got his mobile out and started ringing up the others that were joining us.
“Ah, found you!” a voice suddenly sounded behind us. ‘Twas Bill! I gave him a big hug; he shook hands with Mr. hall, then left to find and bring back Mrs. Perkins.
Suddenly, I heard over someone’s megaphone, “Wheelchair start up the front, please.”
“Umm … is that me?” I asked Mr. Hall, who laughed.
“Nope, you’re with us walkers.”
Suddenly, a couple greeted Mr. Hall, who turned to me and introduced, “Em, this is Mrs. Powell, she took over Mrs. Cook’s job when Mrs. Cook retired.”
I shook her hand and told her how Mrs. Cook had written in my graduation book, “Em, I loved getting your little comments on the maths paper, especially when all was not going well.” See, Mrs. Cook was my year twelve maths teacher, and me, being particularly stupid at maths, would draw poos and angry faces and more poos and crying faces all over my maths exam paper, with comments like, “how can you write any question THIS hard on our maths exam paper, Mrs. Cook? That’s IMPOSSIBLE for us to do!” Mrs. Powell had a good laugh at this, as did the man behind her. I held out my hand to him. “You’d be … Mr. Powell, right, sir? How should I call you?” the man laughed. “’Sir’ sounds great.” Alright, ‘sir’ he was. XD The race finally started, and Mr. Hall and I started wheeling me towards the starting line. As we passed the cameraman taking snaps of all the participants, I gave him a peace sign. XD
Mr. Hall and I started wheeling me up this bridge. Lol, stupid me thought that ‘Bridge to Brisbane’ meant STOREY bridge to Brisbane, but Mr. Hall explained to me, it’s actually the GATEWAY bridge to Brisbane! XD
Mrs. Perkins joined us mid-way, puffing slightly. “Two-thirds of my lungs don’t work when I’m going uphill,” she explained. Poor Perky.
Then suddenly, a former classmate of mine appeared alongside us, Kate Rasmussen! I haven’t seen her since we graduated high school back in 2004; ‘twas great to see her! I told her what had befallen me, and she told me how she was currently doing some uni degree.
Mr. Powell came and took over pushing with me from Mr. Hall, and kindly stayed with me right till the very end. Basically, we just chatted away. He told me that him and his wife lives at Mt. Gravatt, and that he’s an industrial relations lecturer at Griffith University. The funny thing was that he just called me ‘Sonic’, coz I was wearing my Sonic the Hedgehog cap that I’d gotten from my Ekka showbag! Honestly, I have no idea if he knew my real name was Emily or not. XD
But I kept with calling him ‘sir’, like he’d first instructed me, until at some stage during the race, he laughed and said, “It’s just Ben. Cut the ‘sir’ crap” XD
I think some people entered the race just to dress up silly and stand out! I saw a Star Wars storm trooper, the Cookie Monster and his cookie and a few other silly costumes! Ben was awesome; he’d say, “hey, Sonic, wanna get your photo with (insert character)?” then he’d grab my mobile and take the pic for me! :D
There were also several stations along the way where hundreds of plastic cups were set out with water for us competitors to just take and drink. After swigging a cup, I asked the guy behind the table, “Where’s the bin?”
“Oh, just dump it on the ground,” he said. “Someone will pick them up.” Lol, that’s the first time I’ve ever deliberately just thrown my trash onto the ground! XD
One of the really cool things was that there were even official cheerleaders! We’d go past a stand, there’d be music blaring from a radio/CD player somewhere, and there’d be people clapping and cheering and going, “yeah, you’re doing a great job! Keep it up!” I wonder if they were all volunteers or actually specifically paid to do that?
Last thing to mention: the bathrooms. Lol, there were actually entire ROWS of porta loos dotted along the racecourse! I’d wheel myself up to one, hop out of sparkles, ask Ben/Bill/Mr. Hall to please close the door, then I’d carefully manoeuvre myself around to the toilet. Somehow, I couldn’t fine where they flushed? And, being portaloos, there obviously weren’t any taps to wash your hands in afterwards, but hey, I managed.
At the end of the race, there was an actual bathroom, and I made sure I gave era a good thorough cleaning with that.
And, after the race, you were given a free Bridge to Brisbane tee and a copy of the Sunday Mail! Nice~
And Kylie somehow managed to find me at the end of the race! ‘Twas great to see her, we had a bit of a yak, whilst waiting for Mr. Hall and the others.
When everyone had finally finished, we all posed for a few photos with my mobile. Afterwards, Ben tried finding them from my mobile, but in the end, ‘twas Mrs. Powell who came up to me and said, “Emily, could you please find the photos for us? Ben’s useless with mobiles.” XD
Before we left, I shook Ben’s hand and sincerely thanked him for accompanying me for most of the race. Then I added,” oh, if you’re really curious, my real name’s Emily. Sonic’s just a fictional blue hedgehog.” XD Ben just laughed.
Anyways, Mr. Hall and I wheeled me to this side street, where I handed him two pages of my Sunday Mail and read it myself until Carmel arrived to pick us up. She drove us back to her house, then before Mr. hall drove us away, brought her dog out to meet us! He’ll be a big one when he’s fully grown, but for now, the Rottweiler’s just a big, friendly, sniffily puppy mass.
Mr. Hall tootled us, not back to his house, but to Maccas! “I remember you whining about how 4:30 was too early and that you wanted breakfast at Maccas.” He laughed. “Well, we’re past 10:30 now, but I’ll buy you Maccas for lunch instead, how’s that?” First, though, he stopped at the nearby Subway to buy us drinks first! Lol, I would’ve thought that buying a meal at Maccas (i.e. with the chips and drinks) would be cheaper than buying drinks at Subway, then buying the chips and burgers (well, wrap, in my case) at Maccas, but hey, no biggie. I just had the chicken Caesar wrap with medium chips, while Mr. Hall had six nuggets (without sauce) and medium chips.
Back at his place, I used his bathroom once first. But lol, him being a single man, no-one else would ever use his bathroom apart from him – there was no toilet paper in the rack! But hey, a well-prepared girl’s never without a packet of tissues; I just grabbed my own packet out from my bag. XD
Afterwards, we both sat down to eat, and he flicked his widescreen television on. Cool, he’s got Foxtel! We watched some tennis replays of the game Sam Stosur played for her semi-finals. “What’s an off forehand, sir?” I asked, after hearing the commentator mention one during the match.
Mr. Hall explained that a normal forehand, you’d swing the racquet across your body and the ball would head left (for right-handed people) but an off-forehand’s when you swing kinda awkwardly and the ball just goes straight.
And just curious, but do I eat super-slowly, or do all Australians just eat super-quickly? Coz I remember, every time mother and I have lunch with Mrs. Dent (my Australian godmother), she always finishes eating ages before we do; and on Sunday, Mr. Hall gobbled his meal in a jiffy then just sat and watched me eat. After I’d finally munched the last chip, he remarked, “Well, it took you thirty minutes longer to eat a medium meal than me.” XD
Another awesome thing’s that he’s got an armchair, and after rocking in it happily while watching Cartoon Network (back when we had Foxtel, Cartoon Network was channel twenty-one, but now it’s sth like 702!) I’ve decided that I now want a ROCKING ARMCHAIR for Christmas! :D hope you’re listening, Santa! XD
All too soon, ‘twas time to go. After visiting his bathroom once more (and this time, I asked for some toilet paper, please XD) I walked back to his car and Mr. Hall tootled me home.
The parents met us at the door, and I gave Mr. Hall a big hug and thanked him for taking me out to such an awesome event and even shouting me Maccas afterwards!
Epilogue: but the fun wasn’t over yet! In the arvo, Kwany and Letty both came to visit me, and we had heaps of fun playing this charades Wii game with the Umbilical Brothers. Then, at night, I went out to church for the mid-autumn festival celebration for JUST and SHINE fellowships combined! Meaning, by the time I got home and hit the sack, I was well and truly, absolutely, buggered. Thus I slept. And slept. Dad left for work and I slept some more. Mum came into my room to feed me two antibiotics (forgot to mention, I went to see the doctor in the arvo before Letty and Kwany came to visit me) then I continued sleeping. And I SLEPT! In fact, I didn’t feel well and truly well caught up on sleep until almost 3pm! XD
Huge thanks to dad who went and bought me the courier mail today, so I could check out my time for the race. Carol found my name for me, while I was munching half a pork salad roll for afternoon tea. Turns out I completed the course in 00:58:57. Lol, had I been slightly slower using the toilet, I’d have passed one hour! XD
Anyways, all in all, ‘twas an amazing experience. Huge thanks to Mr. Hall who invited me along, then to him, Ben and Bill, who all pushed Sparkless with me. This has been quite an adventure which I’ll treasure for a very, very long time!
Next post here … hopefully a movie review! See, the Smurfs movie’s due out soon, and also the Lion King in 3D! I HAVE to see that; the Lion King’s my favouritest movie ever! Anyways, thanks for reading this slightly longer post!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. I’ve got several photos from the race that I wanna upload onto Facebook; must wait for dad to please find me that cable that attaches the phone to the computer, first. XD
Last month, he came knocking on our door and said, “hey, Em, a bunch of maths teachers and I are doing the Bridge to Brisbane this year, and we want you to join us.”
I said to him sadly, “Sir, I’d love to, but with my current level of physical abilities, I doubt I can even walk 1km, let alone 10km.”
‘Bah!” he said, waving his hand, “you’d go in your manual wheelchair, of course. We’ll push you. Look on the bright side; you can finally attempt something you’ve never been able to before: boss your teachers around. Push faster! Push slower!” XD
That sounded fairly fun, so I agreed. But I soon regretted my decision, coz he said he’d come pick me up @ 4:30AM IN THE MORNING!!o_O XD
Meaning the night before, the parents gleefully forced poor Em off to bed at some ungodly hour of the night, like 8pm! But there was no point in complaining, coz I did need a good night’s rest for the big day ahead, so I obediently went. Actually, I awoke around 1:30am to use the pot :P once, then, suddenly … ‘twas 4am and dad was poking me with “fifteen more minutes.”!
Although, mother tried cheating, and came to order me up when I still had two minutes remaining! “Go away,” I mumbled, clutching tightly to Bear Bear, “I’ve still got two minutes.”
When I finally did get up, mother fed me one mug of warm Horlicks and I went to the bathroom once, before sitting in the garage and waited for Mr. Hall to arrive.
When he did, I groused at him, “Which insane teacher first came up with the hare-brained idea of dragging me along to some crazy race in the middle of the night? He just laughed and replied, “It’s 4:30am.”
“No it’s not.” I answered him. “The sun’s not up yet; therefore it’s still the middle of the night.” He laughed again. “Get in the car, you.”
The sky started lightening as he drew us to his place.
“Why are we going there?” I asked him.
“My sister Carmel’s kindly offered to drive us to the race start.”
Mr. Hall’s got three younger sisters; only Carmel isn’t a teacher. Think she works in the admin sector.
Lol, funny this was that originally, I thought her name was CARAMEL! XD
Anyways, when she entered the car, we shook hands and I introduced myself to her. Then I told her the story of how Mr. Hall had scared the living daylights out of me back in year ten, when he’d rung to tell me of my maths mark, and she laughed uproariously.
Anyways, Carmel drove us near the entrance; she and Mr. Hall got out Sparkless for me, then we said our thanks and byes to her. “Ring me once you’re done; I’ll come and pick you guys up.” She waved goodbye.
Mr. hall and I started pushing me to the entrance line, which was quite a distance in itself! We eventually stopped at a wall of people, and Mr. Hall got his mobile out and started ringing up the others that were joining us.
“Ah, found you!” a voice suddenly sounded behind us. ‘Twas Bill! I gave him a big hug; he shook hands with Mr. hall, then left to find and bring back Mrs. Perkins.
Suddenly, I heard over someone’s megaphone, “Wheelchair start up the front, please.”
“Umm … is that me?” I asked Mr. Hall, who laughed.
“Nope, you’re with us walkers.”
Suddenly, a couple greeted Mr. Hall, who turned to me and introduced, “Em, this is Mrs. Powell, she took over Mrs. Cook’s job when Mrs. Cook retired.”
I shook her hand and told her how Mrs. Cook had written in my graduation book, “Em, I loved getting your little comments on the maths paper, especially when all was not going well.” See, Mrs. Cook was my year twelve maths teacher, and me, being particularly stupid at maths, would draw poos and angry faces and more poos and crying faces all over my maths exam paper, with comments like, “how can you write any question THIS hard on our maths exam paper, Mrs. Cook? That’s IMPOSSIBLE for us to do!” Mrs. Powell had a good laugh at this, as did the man behind her. I held out my hand to him. “You’d be … Mr. Powell, right, sir? How should I call you?” the man laughed. “’Sir’ sounds great.” Alright, ‘sir’ he was. XD The race finally started, and Mr. Hall and I started wheeling me towards the starting line. As we passed the cameraman taking snaps of all the participants, I gave him a peace sign. XD
Mr. Hall and I started wheeling me up this bridge. Lol, stupid me thought that ‘Bridge to Brisbane’ meant STOREY bridge to Brisbane, but Mr. Hall explained to me, it’s actually the GATEWAY bridge to Brisbane! XD
Mrs. Perkins joined us mid-way, puffing slightly. “Two-thirds of my lungs don’t work when I’m going uphill,” she explained. Poor Perky.
Then suddenly, a former classmate of mine appeared alongside us, Kate Rasmussen! I haven’t seen her since we graduated high school back in 2004; ‘twas great to see her! I told her what had befallen me, and she told me how she was currently doing some uni degree.
Mr. Powell came and took over pushing with me from Mr. Hall, and kindly stayed with me right till the very end. Basically, we just chatted away. He told me that him and his wife lives at Mt. Gravatt, and that he’s an industrial relations lecturer at Griffith University. The funny thing was that he just called me ‘Sonic’, coz I was wearing my Sonic the Hedgehog cap that I’d gotten from my Ekka showbag! Honestly, I have no idea if he knew my real name was Emily or not. XD
But I kept with calling him ‘sir’, like he’d first instructed me, until at some stage during the race, he laughed and said, “It’s just Ben. Cut the ‘sir’ crap” XD
I think some people entered the race just to dress up silly and stand out! I saw a Star Wars storm trooper, the Cookie Monster and his cookie and a few other silly costumes! Ben was awesome; he’d say, “hey, Sonic, wanna get your photo with (insert character)?” then he’d grab my mobile and take the pic for me! :D
There were also several stations along the way where hundreds of plastic cups were set out with water for us competitors to just take and drink. After swigging a cup, I asked the guy behind the table, “Where’s the bin?”
“Oh, just dump it on the ground,” he said. “Someone will pick them up.” Lol, that’s the first time I’ve ever deliberately just thrown my trash onto the ground! XD
One of the really cool things was that there were even official cheerleaders! We’d go past a stand, there’d be music blaring from a radio/CD player somewhere, and there’d be people clapping and cheering and going, “yeah, you’re doing a great job! Keep it up!” I wonder if they were all volunteers or actually specifically paid to do that?
Last thing to mention: the bathrooms. Lol, there were actually entire ROWS of porta loos dotted along the racecourse! I’d wheel myself up to one, hop out of sparkles, ask Ben/Bill/Mr. Hall to please close the door, then I’d carefully manoeuvre myself around to the toilet. Somehow, I couldn’t fine where they flushed? And, being portaloos, there obviously weren’t any taps to wash your hands in afterwards, but hey, I managed.
At the end of the race, there was an actual bathroom, and I made sure I gave era a good thorough cleaning with that.
And, after the race, you were given a free Bridge to Brisbane tee and a copy of the Sunday Mail! Nice~
And Kylie somehow managed to find me at the end of the race! ‘Twas great to see her, we had a bit of a yak, whilst waiting for Mr. Hall and the others.
When everyone had finally finished, we all posed for a few photos with my mobile. Afterwards, Ben tried finding them from my mobile, but in the end, ‘twas Mrs. Powell who came up to me and said, “Emily, could you please find the photos for us? Ben’s useless with mobiles.” XD
Before we left, I shook Ben’s hand and sincerely thanked him for accompanying me for most of the race. Then I added,” oh, if you’re really curious, my real name’s Emily. Sonic’s just a fictional blue hedgehog.” XD Ben just laughed.
Anyways, Mr. Hall and I wheeled me to this side street, where I handed him two pages of my Sunday Mail and read it myself until Carmel arrived to pick us up. She drove us back to her house, then before Mr. hall drove us away, brought her dog out to meet us! He’ll be a big one when he’s fully grown, but for now, the Rottweiler’s just a big, friendly, sniffily puppy mass.
Mr. Hall tootled us, not back to his house, but to Maccas! “I remember you whining about how 4:30 was too early and that you wanted breakfast at Maccas.” He laughed. “Well, we’re past 10:30 now, but I’ll buy you Maccas for lunch instead, how’s that?” First, though, he stopped at the nearby Subway to buy us drinks first! Lol, I would’ve thought that buying a meal at Maccas (i.e. with the chips and drinks) would be cheaper than buying drinks at Subway, then buying the chips and burgers (well, wrap, in my case) at Maccas, but hey, no biggie. I just had the chicken Caesar wrap with medium chips, while Mr. Hall had six nuggets (without sauce) and medium chips.
Back at his place, I used his bathroom once first. But lol, him being a single man, no-one else would ever use his bathroom apart from him – there was no toilet paper in the rack! But hey, a well-prepared girl’s never without a packet of tissues; I just grabbed my own packet out from my bag. XD
Afterwards, we both sat down to eat, and he flicked his widescreen television on. Cool, he’s got Foxtel! We watched some tennis replays of the game Sam Stosur played for her semi-finals. “What’s an off forehand, sir?” I asked, after hearing the commentator mention one during the match.
Mr. Hall explained that a normal forehand, you’d swing the racquet across your body and the ball would head left (for right-handed people) but an off-forehand’s when you swing kinda awkwardly and the ball just goes straight.
And just curious, but do I eat super-slowly, or do all Australians just eat super-quickly? Coz I remember, every time mother and I have lunch with Mrs. Dent (my Australian godmother), she always finishes eating ages before we do; and on Sunday, Mr. Hall gobbled his meal in a jiffy then just sat and watched me eat. After I’d finally munched the last chip, he remarked, “Well, it took you thirty minutes longer to eat a medium meal than me.” XD
Another awesome thing’s that he’s got an armchair, and after rocking in it happily while watching Cartoon Network (back when we had Foxtel, Cartoon Network was channel twenty-one, but now it’s sth like 702!) I’ve decided that I now want a ROCKING ARMCHAIR for Christmas! :D hope you’re listening, Santa! XD
All too soon, ‘twas time to go. After visiting his bathroom once more (and this time, I asked for some toilet paper, please XD) I walked back to his car and Mr. Hall tootled me home.
The parents met us at the door, and I gave Mr. Hall a big hug and thanked him for taking me out to such an awesome event and even shouting me Maccas afterwards!
Epilogue: but the fun wasn’t over yet! In the arvo, Kwany and Letty both came to visit me, and we had heaps of fun playing this charades Wii game with the Umbilical Brothers. Then, at night, I went out to church for the mid-autumn festival celebration for JUST and SHINE fellowships combined! Meaning, by the time I got home and hit the sack, I was well and truly, absolutely, buggered. Thus I slept. And slept. Dad left for work and I slept some more. Mum came into my room to feed me two antibiotics (forgot to mention, I went to see the doctor in the arvo before Letty and Kwany came to visit me) then I continued sleeping. And I SLEPT! In fact, I didn’t feel well and truly well caught up on sleep until almost 3pm! XD
Huge thanks to dad who went and bought me the courier mail today, so I could check out my time for the race. Carol found my name for me, while I was munching half a pork salad roll for afternoon tea. Turns out I completed the course in 00:58:57. Lol, had I been slightly slower using the toilet, I’d have passed one hour! XD
Anyways, all in all, ‘twas an amazing experience. Huge thanks to Mr. Hall who invited me along, then to him, Ben and Bill, who all pushed Sparkless with me. This has been quite an adventure which I’ll treasure for a very, very long time!
Next post here … hopefully a movie review! See, the Smurfs movie’s due out soon, and also the Lion King in 3D! I HAVE to see that; the Lion King’s my favouritest movie ever! Anyways, thanks for reading this slightly longer post!
Cheers,
Em. ^^
P.S. I’ve got several photos from the race that I wanna upload onto Facebook; must wait for dad to please find me that cable that attaches the phone to the computer, first. XD
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