One of the waitress in Glamor spilled 1/4 of the balance of our bottle of Wokka Saki and as a ‘punishment’ we got her to treat us to a steamboat dinner at 天下第一涮 in Geylang on Wednesday evening. (Wokka Saki is a wonderful drink… I ever downed half a bottle of that stuff in a night and no hangover the next day.)

After the dinner, we took her out to a movie at Orchard Cineleisure. She got to choose the show and she wanted to watch… Alvin and the Chipmunks.

For the sake of the ignorant, Alvin and the Chipmunks is based on a cartoon series about a music group of chipmunks comprised of mischievous group leader Alvin; tall and quiet Simon; and chubby, impressionable Theodore.

The story is about how the Chipmunks were uprooted from their natural home, end up in the company of songwriter Dave (whose songs ‘no people will sing’) and then rose to fame as a up-and-coming pop group.

It’s definitely a kids show and there were lots of laughter ringing in the cinema hall, and there were some parts that makes me wonder if it is a real reflection of the lives of pop stars. The part where the tired chipmunks were given ice blended coffee with whip cream and caramel makes me wonder if some pop singers are into drugs because their schedule so tires them out and their unscrupulous managers offered it to them to keep their tired bodies going. It also made me a little more forgiving to singers caught lip syncing, since well, what the hell can you do if your voice is blown to hell and you have a concert coming up that night? To cancel the show would mean losing a lot of money…

Thus, even though it is a kid movie, my thoughts wandered to who are ‘killing’ or ‘ruining’ these singers, treating them as the money tree and try to shake as much of it out of them before the soil get so loose that the tree collapsed as the roots could hold to the ground no more.

But hey, don’t make my usual wild thinking make you think the show is not funny. It’s still a kids show and it’s still pretty damn good animation with an acceptable storyline. Just don’t expect too much out of this of course, because it definitely isn’t going to be Oscar material.