To Be Jolly

Two days ago, we went out for Christmas. What did we do on Christmas? Loads of stuff. It was fun. Here's what happened:

- Lunch
I had lasagna for lunch. I don't know how Americans actually like that. It's practically just mashed chicken. Mashed chicken! Mashed! Mashed! But I had this caramel pudding thing which totally made up for it.
- We watched a movie.
Well, this part was actually pretty good. We went to this cinema (I think it was Lido, I can't remember) and the queue was freaking long. The queue for people paying by card had only about five people, and for cash, there was like...fifty. But my dad told my brother and me to sit in McDonald's and wait while he got the tickets. Nice man. Then we got in just in time for the trailers to start. I saw the trailer for The Fourth Kind, which sounded really freaky so I didn't watch it, then I saw the trailer for Percy Jackson and The Olympians : The Lightning Thief, it's a long title, a lot of people just refer to it as The Lightning Thief. Logan Learman (I can't remember how to spell his last name. He's the guy who acts as Percy Jackson) is really hot, he looks like a younger version of Zac Efron. Really. We were watching the trailer and my Dad leant to me and asked, "Is this Zac?" I actually felt kinda happy that my dad actually knew Zac Efron's name - he didn't have to know his full name, Zac was just fine. And I answered him, "No, but looks a lot like him." Anyway, then we saw the trailer for How To Train You Dragon and it sounded interesting. Then finally the movie started. We actually watched Avatar, the movie about the blue aliens and all. Sam Worthington (the guy who acts as Jake Sully, the main guy) looked nice - but only when he was shaved. :/ But on other terms, Avatar was a really good movie. And I mean, REALLY GOOD movie.
- Dinner
It was okay, except for the fact that I realised I got my period, so I was really uncomfortable and couldn't wait to get home. And my brother kept saying I didn't understand Avatar. But I DID! I actually understood Avatar! It's about this guy, Jake, whose scientist brother Sam died, so Jake has to take his place. They're going to Pandora to get a priceless rock, so Jake transforms into a Na'vi avatar to gain the community's trust so they'll allow him to get back the rocks. (Jake's paralysed, he's an ex Marine - an army guy) The army has teamed up with the scientists, and they couldn't wait for this whole trust gaining thing so they just attack the planet to try and get that damned rock. But Jake feels connected to the Na'vi more than to the humans, so he helps them recover their land. There's also this intertwined romance with Jake and Neytiri, the princess in the Na'vi. The guy called Parker (he's an antagonist in the movie) is portrayed by Giovanni Ribisi, which is really cool because he's acted in Friends before as Phoebe's half brother. COOL.

And finally, the one you haven't been waiting for because you didn't know I'd talk about it...

- The Miracle

We were in Orchard. We were about to cross the road, waiting for the traffic light to turn green. It had just stopped raining, but there was still lightning and thunder. My mom and sister were standing slightly further away from my brother, dad and me. All of a sudden, there was loud thunder. It was loud - really loud. Could've been heard in Penang. And later on, my brother told me that right before the thunder had sounded, he had seen this flash of light barely a centimetre away from him.

Meaning that my father, brother and me had been this close to being struck by lightning.

Talk about a Christmas Miracle.