And I thought this kind of thing could only happen to a full-time slacker, e.g. me, a few months ago. After all, I'm a journalist now, ain't I? So time is - or should be - of the essence to me, and stuff...

Well anyway, words fail me. This is what happened:-

I went to BC to watch the Haneke TV film "Who was Edgar Allen?" at 2:10pm today. The ticket was bought weeks ago along with others of the Hanake screening programme, and this is the last film for me in this programme.

I arrived at the McDonald's outside BC at 2pm and quickly took a hamburger. Then I went to the cinema. The staff at the entrance checked my ticket as usual, and I walked into House 4 at 2:05pm.

I was surprised to see that the film was already about to start. The usher led me to my seat in the dark. I sat down, and was alarmed by the relatively cheery music accompanying the opening credits of the film. Then, with my limited knowledge of German, I started to sense that the credits were not of the language.

At that moment, a traumatic memory quickly flooded my mind: a few years back, I once went to see a Bergman film but ended up seeing a Godard film...

The film title then appeared on the screen. It was Menzel's film, "I Served the King of England". I wanted my Hanake back!

As I'm quite desperate to see the Hanake film, I instantly walked out and asked the usher (who just led me to my seat) whether I've come to the wrong place.

"Isn't the cinema supposed to be showing this film?" I showed her my ticket - again.

"Oh, this film," refering to my ticket, "was shown on the 19th."

It suffices to say that I'm confused.

"So what day is it today?"

"The 20th."

"But how come my seat is empty?" There were indeed people in my neighbouring seats.

"Actually, your seat wasn't..." She replied.

I started to understand.

"So what day is it again?"

"The 20th."

I knew I wasn't gonna get my 19th back.

"Alright then."

"Do you want the other half of your ticket back?" She asked, while going over the stack of tickets the staff tore out at the entrance.

"Um... no." I hesitated for a second, pondering what's the use of the other half of my ticket.

"Thanks anyway." I said, before taking the stairs.

弊。

唔知係咪早排寫得太多，呢期好似突然完全唔識寫咁。

我驚遲早冇得撈。

做film writer真係唔係咁好做，係咁睇睇睇寫寫寫。

緊仲要開始每期寫個column，我不如死俾你睇。

講完。

(note: I'm not in a bad mood... I'm just tired, and sick, and stuck with two reviews.)

Tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of the first day of my first job!

Um... actually it's been about 2-and-a-half years since I quit that job, too.

I just don't have much to say on my blog these days.

Went to watch 'The Dark Knight' at IMAX tonight! YEAH!! I've been waiting for this day for a very, very long time.

Allow me to sound like a fanboy for a moment: this movie is the best superhero movie - EVER. And Heath Ledger as the Joker is just so incredibly great! Forget Jack Nicholson. I doubt there'll be another actor playing Joker in the next 10 years' time.

Now... allow me to sound like me: while I feel totally overwhelmed by the film upon leaving the theatre, I feel as if the director has intended to put as many scenes into the 2 1/2 hours as possible, resulting in many implausible plot turns or underdeveloped moments. But then, the overall impression the film gives is so good that I just stopped complaining about the small details.

As for Edison Chen...... his 3-second cameo is so fucking lame that I laughed when he speaks his line. Nobody around me seemed to share the fun with me though - maybe they didn't even realize it's EC?

(This is not meant to be a film review at all.)

My ordeal is almost over! (I can finally have some sleep tonight!!)

To put things into perspective, I've basically done a one-man feature in the last 4 weeks...

"You've done a fucking awesome job!" my editor said to me tonight.

I know, actually.

No doubt this is gonna be one of the highlights in my unlikely career as a journalist.