Memoirs of a Geisha ...

Geisha on steroids.

The day had come for the inaugural viewing of , my most long-awaited film. So after a long and hectic day at Paediatrics , after getting poked in the ribs by a father of a girl with Henoch Scholein purpura and worst being volunteered by the former to be a guinea pig for his daughter to play with ( goodness ), after a thankfully very beneficial but late interactive session with Dr. Quek , I quickly had dinner with our CG's very own two male geishas , Dien Rong and Gooanhao before speeding off to the MRT to pick up Kossie. At that time of the evening , the auntie always had only one or two chicken chops or fish and chips to offer. Haii .. but what to do , kossie had already eaten at home.

Two questions arose : which geisha would I like ? And the further question we asked was , was Cunli really like the geisha Sayuri , wilful and free-spirited ?

The show had splendid and colourful atmospheres and backdrops. It started off with a poignant introduction to Sayuri's past as a fisherman's daughter Chiko being sold to a geisha-house in Kyoto. Here there's this pervasive element of pathos as the directory elaborated quite a fair bit on the separation of Chiko aka Sayuri from her sister "Satsu". Then the sensualness and exotic tale of the geisha started : enters Queen Hatsumomo ( aka Hatsu-Yap Mo Mo ) , cunning , scheming , evil geisha . Unfortunately for her , she gets slapped by the geisha-house owner after developing a bleeding PV after having illicit sex with a hunky Japanese lover.



The highlight of the movie for me was to see Sayuri mature into a elegant and graceful geisha in her own right. The dance sequences and exotic performances by Sayuri was spectacular , and especially the particular dance sequence in which she was enshrounded in this blue eerie light in a theatre and was prancing around in a rain of rice like a case of untreated Tourette's syndrome. Frankly , it was testimony to the fact that it was not the dance itself that was fantastic but the whole get-up of the geisha , the lightings and the music that made the sequence spectacular. On a good day , some patients in sporadic locations of IMH on haloperidol withdrawal can pull off similar antics ....

The fan dances were also fantastic by Sayuri. What we found puzzling was why the act of passing a rice cake or an apple to a guy was a signal by the geisha to the man that she wanted "his eel to visit her unexplored cave". Goodness you got to be really careful who you pass food to nowadays.

The theory of Hatsu - Yap Mo Mo came from my recollection of a strange incident in Nepal when I remembered visiting the 4E bunk to look for my headmistress Miss Koe. When I entered the bunk, I was shocked to see everyone gathered solemnly like in prayer and the entire bunk was lit with the eerie glow of candles. There , I saw Yap Mo Mo lying still on a table surrounded by candles. I was instantly asked by the 4E guys to leave as Yap Mo Mo "needed rest". We were instantly jolted back to a recollection of this , when we saw a shrine lit with candles in the movie where Hatsu-Yap Mo Mo , Queen Geisha rests in peace.

To top it off , this MADTV spoof of
http://www.youtube.com/w/Memoirs-of-a-Geisha--Mad-TV?v=_AQvqsZFgDY&search=Memoirs%20Geisha%20MadTV
is simply hilarious with Connie Chung making a repeat performance. I totally dig the moment when 'she' aka Bobby Lee from MadTV ( aka Su Chin Park ) is asked to make a man stop with one look ... "IT HARD" ..