Anniversary with Tarzan

Good evening!

This weekend we almost and kind of smallish celebrated our three year anniversary. Saying that I also have to tell you there is no ring, so not the assumed anniversary. Just three years from the day we said I would like to call you my girlfriend/boyfriend.

On the day, which was the 14th, John called me from work and tried to surprise me with a diving license as a gift. Tried because he had already spoiled it a few days earlier. Never the less was I happy to receive this gift. Now we wait for John's certificate to arrive in the mail before booking a date.

I gave him a heart-shaped M&M, luckily the colour orange, his favourite.

Today we travelled to VivoCity and walked over to Sentosa Island. Having been to a very pleasant restaurant with Heidi once, Din Tai Fung, we wanted to go to the same franchise at a different location. Stepping onto Sentosa we immediately notice the touristy look of it all. Gleaming structures, big letters in your face so you know what you want, fountains and pretty trees. We came to the large square with the entrance to Universal Studios and found the restaurant on the opposite side. There was a line but since it was not too terrifyingly long we hoped for a quick table with fast delivered food... but not fast food. While I trailed of for some pictures John talked to the lady giving out table numbers. He came over to me and said that when we eventually would get a table it would be fifty minutes until the food arrived. So we left.

Walked back the same way we literally just went and slightly complained about wearing long trousers both of us. This was by choice of course since we were going to the movies in about two hours and it is always too cold in there. Before we went there we needed a new place to eat! The reason why we wanted to go back to the really good restaurant was because we both wanted those really good dumplings. John suggested a restaurant we have been to once before inside Vivo. Good price and gyoza (but not like the really good dumplings).

John ordered pork Ramen and even though he looked at the photo and hoped there was none - there were a lot of bean sprouts in there. While we waited for my terriyaki salmon he put them all in a pile on top of the egg in his soup. When my food arrived we put them on a little plate which a few seconds earlier had had three gyoza.

My food was really good. I am a sucker for terriyaki and I really like salmon. They make those really well together in this country. Of course it depends on where - the one I ate in a food court was less good than this tender fish. Apart from John's picking patience his food was good as well. We also ordered twelve gyoza apart from the three that 'disappeared'. Ate every single one of them... except for one.

Then we had half an hour until the movie started. We walked very slowly, not because of the time, but because of the overly full stomachs we carried. Got our tickets, walked upstairs, browsed movie posters and picked which ones to see and which to avoid. Ignored the spoiling trailers of Alice Through the Looking Glass and Star Trek Beyond. Entered the cinema and enjoyed the strange waiting music while loosing ourselves into our phones. (I was starting this post and John scrolled through reddit). Eventually the movie started.

Spoilers of The Legendary Tarzan!

Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård plays the more adapted and grown up Tarzan that has a lordship life in London with Jane. He then needs to go to Africa after receiving an invitation from a hat-wearing guy working for the Belgian king. He declines but a few seconds later decides to to because another man named George (Samuel L Jackson) tells him he needs to check up on a few things. The rudely dismissed man who sent the invitation finds out his guest (and the not so welcomed Jane and George) went to their old village to meet and greet some old friends instead of meeting him at his chosen location. He follows them to the village, shows his disappointment and wrecks it. Killing, capturing and then leaves.

Not to spoil the whole movie, but it follows this lead. We all know Tarzan and even though he is older, he is cleaner, he is Swedish - he is still the same old Tarzan with the gorilla-like hands, the swinging in the trees, the impressively echoing sort of war cry through the jungle and he even found his old loincloth in the end!

The idea of this movie was great, but it had too much story and very little focus. There is this tribe that wants to kill him, this man that wants to catch him, this gorilla that wants to fight him, the same gorilla that wants to defend him, these guys fighting those guys and a black sidekick that has no meaning to the adventure more than two lines that go with a close up on his serious eyes. Yes, that man really did a lot of great things, he told us so, but we never got to see any of it. Just got to believe what he tells us.

Suddenly another twist in the end. They mention a hint about it when they first arrive in Africa, but I never thought they were actually making a happy family ending to this rather tragic and victorious movie! It could have been done without it.

All in all I understand the 6.8 score on IMDb. Last word: Skarsgård, I think you need to spend some more time in your homeland, you are starting to pronounce you own last name wrong.

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I think this is art, but not sure.

Halfway pile.