spent good quality time with the one thing which i had not been really spending time with for the past few... god knows how long... i would say i do miss those times where i would just sit and spend time with it.. i think i miss it a lot... used to spend the whole day with it.. MY SCV!

initially... there was no particularly good shows or movie on it.. i keep on changing the channels.. until i saw this show on star movies... a movie that i had not watched a long time.. i nearly forgot about its existance... im sure im gonna be glued infront of the TV to catch this almost forgettable movie..

BROWN SUGAR (2002)


Brown Sugar
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Quote from the movie: "I'm getting married, you are already married and we just got busy...."

It stories about 2 good friends, Dre and Sidney, who have known each other ever since they were still kids... it was the love for hip hop that brought both friends together... Now, all grown up and back together, they should be perfect for each other... EXCEPT Dre is married to a lawyer, Reese, after Sidney claims not to be interested in Dre romantically....

Dre works at a hip-hop label which has been his interest since childhood.. However, the hip hop label he worked for does not bring out more of the hiphop that was Dre wants to convey to the listeners.. he then resigned his job without consulting his wife.. he confided with Sidney knowing that she is a hiphop lover like himself... Dre decided to start his own record label... Sidney, knowing of Dre's potential and believing in him, supports him financially... Reese got to know about it and of coz.. wasnt happy over the whole thing.. she started to feel suspicious about their friendship...

Reese was not a hiphop lover like Dre and Sidney... due to that fact, she felt she could not see Dre's dreams of setting up a record label a success...

Subsequently, Sidney starts being wooed by a basketball player... during the launch of Dre's record label... Sidney was proposed by basketball player... that made Dre felt jealous.. he still kept this love he had for Sidney... they started to drift apart to safeguard Dre's marriage and Sidney's upcoming marriage...

it was only later that Sidney felt that Dre was the one she had always wanted... the basketball player didnt share the same love she had for hiphop... she was scared that it would jeoperdize the friendship... and due to that it had prevented her from telling Dre...

however, things took a change during a conversation made to a radio station by Dre which Sidney was on for an interview... Dre asked, "When was the first time she loved hiphop?"... and it was only then that hiphop brought the two together again...

surprisingly, after this movie.. another great movie was aired.. wats up wit star movies!!.. 2 movies back to back with each other and having something in common... HipHop and the Black Community..

DRUMLINE (2002)


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Quote from the movie: "I've had it with your no talent, wannabe gangster ass! You wanna prove once and for all that I'm better than you? Strap up! "

This show has not much content thou.. It stories about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its military band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.

However, it was very entertaining.. for someone who had the interest in drums, bands and hiphop... The military bands in the movie had a different flavour in the music that they played... and that is hiphop.. hiphop was collaborated into their music... popular hiphop tunes were played...

Seeing the drummers on the line performing their stunts on the drums reminds me off the old days when i was a drummer in my school band.... i missed the team work between us ... being an important part of a band.. the pulse of the band... we were a crutial role i supposed.. but that was all in the past... ive not touched one for about 4 years now... tried going jammin some time back.. but my legs and hands can no longer coordinate with each other.. hahah... the drumset which used to be something that i love to sit and play on.. became something which is alien to me now..

after watching the 2 shows about hiphop and the blacks... it just reminds me of another movie that had the same thing in common.. my all time favourite... i will never forget this movie..

Save the Last Dance (2001)


Save the Last Dance
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Quote from the movie: "We spend more time defending our relationship than actually having one.."

It stories about this girl, Sara, who wants to be a professional ballerina, but her dreams are cut short by the sudden death of her mother. Thus she is forced to move in with her father, who she has not seen for a long time, in Chicago, mainly the ghetto. She gets transferred to a new school where she is the minorites as she is white. Her life takes a turn for the better when she is friends with a black girl, Chenille. Later, she falls in love with Chenille's brother, Derek.

Derek is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past. Their relationship wasnt something that was simple... they faced scrutiny's from their peers who objects to their multi racial love... being the fact that Derek is not any other black guy who would destroy his life away... he is one of the few in the black community who would make something out of himself...

But when she meets Derek a popular black student with a passion for hip hop and a future brighter than his troubled friends, Sara began having interest in hiphop dance and music...

Derek helped Sara get back on her feet to be a professional ballerina... Sara had been blaming her ballet to be the caused of her mum's death... Derek changed all that... he brought back sara's interest... and Sara went to the auditions to get into a professional arts school... and hiphop dance was incorporated into ballet to give it a new flavour... and that made her outstanding from the rest...

The movie had contents and also entertainment, unlike drumline... seeing the club scenes in the movie, just reminds me of my past again when i frequent clubs... it is both a great and bad experience... depending on how u look at it...

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