Election

Or more accurately Election 2. Nope, not the General Elections that everyone has been talking about but the Louis Koo/Simon Yam movie. One word, sucks. It really does. After the prequel was such a well directed effort by Johnny To, I had high expectations for it.
Needless to say I am totally disappointed in Election 2. Its such a slipshod effort with lacklustre performances from Simon Yam, Cheung Kar Fai and Cheng Hao Nam. Note that I didn't mention Louis Koo. Note that he put in a sterling performance, but I long ceased to have any expectation of his acting. He is one dimensional and his expressions are from the Keanu Reeves school of acting.
The most interesting thing about the show was the crowd. As expected from an 'ah beng' movie, the crowd (with the notable exception of yours truly) were predominantly ah bengs and ah lians. As expected, mobile phones ringing and loud talking were the order of the day. This group of ah bengs behind me kept making fun of the Richard Gere visa advertisement as one guy kept mocking the little girl in an Indian accent. It's kind of funny the first time, but not when he repeated "but there is only enough for one bird" like five times in less minutes than that.
As the movie ended, the same ah bengs started to say "CB la, waste my money. Stupid show....." not that I disagree with the content but still....... As we were walking out, an ah lian stepped on some split stuff that looked like vanila ice-cream to me and started swearing. She didn't look a day over sixteen to me and yet the movie was rated M-18.
Some of my friends think I am an ah beng too but doing a candid self-assessment, I am not qualified to be an ah beng as I lack the following qualities:
1) An immaculate command of Hokkien
2) Golden hair
3) Tattoos
4) The latest Nokia mobile phone models (beng lians exclusively use Nokia as Sony Ericsson is too complicated for them to handle, :p)
5) A loud high pitched voice
and most importantly
6) The ability to squat for hours

Thank God my ear holes have sealed up already else that would testify of my ah beng-ness.......