Serendipity

Ben Stiller ("Meet the Parents"), Chris Rock ("Chris Rock Never Scared"), David Schwimmer (TV’s "Friends") and Jada Pinkett Smith ("Collateral") star as the voices of four zoo animals who hang up when they hear the call of the wild.

Alex the Lion (Stiller) is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York’s Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends Marty the Zebra (Rock), Melman the Giraffe (Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (Pinkett Smith) have lived their entire lives in blissful captivity, with regular meals provided and an admiring public to adore them.

Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty allows his curiosity to get the better of him and, with the help of some prodigious penguins, makes his escape to explore the world he’s been missing. Alex, Melman and Gloria go after him, but before they can go wild in the streets, they are captured, crated and put on a ship to Africa… to be ultimately set free.

When those plotting penguins sabotage the ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria find themselves washed ashore on the exotic island of Madagascar. Now, these native New Yorkers have to figure out how to survive in the wild and discover the true meaning of the phrase "It’s a jungle out there."

*****

Two words to describe this funny Disney flick. "Damn hilarious" Again, it was a show that made us laugh over and over today.. I think my grammar’s getting poorer, all I describe of a comedy is "damn hilarious"…

Saw a lot of kids in the theatre, and heard many loud cackles and conversation, it was really a laughable [pun-intended] event with all its scenes.

The part about Alex [the Lion] getting hungry and hallucinating that everyone else was a piece of juicy, tender steak was so cliche, yet so brillant. So Mr Alex bit his zebra friend for more than once.

I think Disney is best at such shows that personify a person. I wish I could learn about animation! Hehe…

*****

On a more serious tone, let’s talk about stress, in my opinion.

People, from all walks of life and demographic, would feel stressed at a certain point in time. It is something very personal, yet we do feel it, like it or not.

Nevertheless, it is not what you are encountering that is making you stressed out. Not the exams you are taking, not the workload you are faced with, not the people standing in a toilet queue, while you have to settle something BIG, not the financials which you must pay etc.

What is the atom of stress? What is the lowest common factor of stress? What is the pixel when you are painted a picture of stressfulness?

It is just TIME.

Time restrains us, it prohibits us from getting all that we ever wanted or need by going through opportunity cost.

You coach your sibling in his or her studies for an upcoming exam, and you "lose" the time you spent on your own revision.

Your work is piling up, and there’s no way to clear them, unless you have, like 72 hours in a day. Given time, everyone can earn a million, even the people with the least salary. You would be a millionaire by the time you live to a thousand, or maybe older!

Yet this simple idea of time constraint drives people nuts, literally. You will never understand a person’s struggles for something he or she does not excel in, in the same way a friend who got straight A’s in her studies would not be able to console someone who just barely passed their exams.

I need to skive a little bit more so that I won’t be stressing myself out. Haha. Lately, I’ve discovered that 24 hours is 24 hours no matter how well you plan of it. If something takes up 2 hours, it is going to take up 2 hours no matter what. I know this is kinda pessimistic, but not to worry, I’m blogging to ease the tension. =)

Good night. But Madagascar really did cheer me up today, and I want the soundtrack of the cute rap by that "guinea pig" King in that show!! It’ll be cute, I supposed. =P

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