Funny Boy

Let me tell you a story about a boy who gave a new meaning to the term nitwit. Aizuddin is his name and he cracked me up. He is funny and he makes me laugh - all the time. Especially this incident that i am about to relate. Him and i met before i flew off to Bali. He wanted to watch this movie pretty badly and as usual i succumbed to his demands. But there was a major problem. It was a Korean soap drama. Never had i ever witness such elaborate atrocity in human history. Not even on television. No offense to the legions of Korean fans. The title of the movie is Hero. Apparently the title appeared macho and dignifed to him but sounded off a little too cliche to me. He was telling me all about it - how good it was - plus the exaggeration.

He was enticing me with juicy details and spicy screenplays - such as this Japanese dude who can teleport to New York City when he is halfway around the world. Sounds interesting but ironically familiar. Like the serial HeroES on Mediacorp every Monday night that had been running for weeks already. I had watched the full season on cable. I did not inform him of the striking resemblance because he claimed that he had viewed the trailer of this movie on the internet about people performing amazing feats. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and went hunting for the tickets. It was shown only on Golden Village. Not even on Cathay. I thought it was unpopular but he said it was because the show had been out for awhile. I just rolled my eyes.

Him and i made all the way to Plaza Singapura only to watch a Korean crap about some lame court case that made us miss the last train home. I anticipated the movie to end nicely before midnight but sadly i painstakingly sat through the excruciating three hours which seemed to last an eternity. Aizuddin laughed at jokes i knew he understood nuts about - because he was feeling bad and he feared i might freak. It was so fake and i could tell he was dozing off. I tried to make best out of lousy situations and paid attention to the once in lifetime opportunity. He knew something was wrong the moment Hero started - but said nothing of it. Thank God there were the subtitles. We two were the only malays. Imagine the embarrassment.