Boxing Day Outing

26/12/2008

I still remembered I was shopping all day long when I was still in Australia on Boxing Day. As every shop will be having big sale! Hard to resist that kind of discounts!
But there's no special sale during this day in Malaysia.
So my friends and I went for movie and makan instead of shopping.

We went to have our boxing day's lunch at Manhantan Fish market.
The food is okay, but fried muchrooms will be the best for me!
It similars to those in TGIF.


We went for YES MAN right after lunch.
It's a little boring during the start of the show.
But it's getting funny in the middle part.
I got the message of the movie:

Only saying YES from your heart instead of everything that comes into our life.

I'll rate this movie 7/10.

After the movie, Kiew and Seng kept on persuading me to go for the second movie which is IP MAN. They told me it's super nice and worth watching!
Since the others guys were fine with our decision to go for the second movie, so there we went and got the tickets for IP MAN.


I haven't watch any HK movies for quite sometimes due to the storyline and the quality of the films.
However IP MAN is really an impressive martial art kind of movie.
Donnie Yen really put in effort in learning the WING CHUN style of martial art.
But I was wondering how and where did WING CHUN originated from?
Jet told us WING CHUN is originated by a local Buddhist nun, Ng Mui.
I thought he was just simply answering our question.
So I went home and wiki-ed for more details.
Yeah, he was right!

According to the wiki info, Ng Mui took the lessons she learned from observing the fight between the snake and the crane and combined them with her own knowledge of Shaolin Kung Fu to create a new style.

Ng Mui often bought her bean curd at the tofu shop of Yim Yee (嚴二). Yim Yee had a daughter named Yim Wing Chun (嚴詠春) whom a local warlord was trying to force into marriage. Ng Mui taught her new fighting style to Wing-Chun, who used it to fend off the warlord once and for all. Wing-Chun eventually married a man she loved, Leung Bok-Chao (梁博儔), to whom she taught the fighting techniques that Ng Mui had passed on to her. Husband and wife in turn passed the new style on to others (from wikipedia).

Thus after watching this movie, it made me understanding more about the history of WING CHUN!
I'll rate this movie 9/10 for the excellent martial art scenes!