Description of life events that are quite interesting. they will help you understand how to review a hotel or a movie.

1. Tsotsi the Movie
I have to admit that watching a movie is not my thing, instead of watching a movie, I would
rather spend my spare time playing video games. I like racing a lot, not on the road anyway, just
in the computer and in the playstation.
But in one occasion, we had to watch a movie in class. At first I did not like the idea, and as the
movie started, I felt I really wanted to get out of the class and go my way, it was proving quite
uneasy for me to follow the scenes because the movie is in a language I did not understand. Then
I realized there were subtitles, though made almost invisible so as not to kill the otherwise
spectacular movie style. After realizing this, my experience with the movie changed quite
drastically.
Tsotsi, a 2005 South African film directed by Gavin Hood, was the movie.
In the movie, there is a presentation of a complete change into a completely new person,
something whose possibility has completely diminished. I realized from the movie that lives can
be turned around; all it takes is someone to serve as a catalyst for the transformation.
The movie is set in Johannesburg, South Africa.
I was really not prepared for the extraordinary emotional experience but when it came, I allowed
myself to be immersed in the cruel capricious world of random violence and incredible poverty.
All the ideas I had about law and order were set aside, plus my knowledge about sociopaths and
the wide gap between those who have and those who do not have.
My concentration was captured by the main character as he descended into darkness, and I
started to feel the loneliness, anger, and alienation that his life revealed.
I also felt the great harm that he was able to bring into the lives of others by his cruel actions.
Tsotsi, also known as Presley Chweneyagae, is an angry young thief who takes passion in
gambling with his friends and stealing from people on the rough streets of Johannesburg.
One scene that completely capture my attention was when, he and some other three members of
his gang see a man with a roll of bills near the subway station, and they choose to board the
crowded train and surround this man. Then one member of the gang stabs the victim in the heart
and then the group flees the scene with money.
And another is when, a conscience-stricken Boston (Mothusi Magano) gets repulsed by the
violence and the robbery and goes to confront Tsotsi, wondering if he has any decency, but
instead of an answer, he gets beat up by Tsotsi till he becomes senseless. Then Tsotsi runs out
into the night an hijacks the car of a middle class African woman, Mothusi Magano. When she
tries tosto him, the young man shoots her. He later crashes the car after hearing a noise from the
back seat and discovers that there is a baby in the backseat. This incidence made me wonder
where his soul was.

2. He decides to put the infant in a paper bag and take the child back to his shantytown tin hut.
Then at this point, in a flashback, I learnt the reason why Tsotsi left home, his father ordered him
out of the room where his mother was lying, dying of AIDs, then broke the back of his dog with
two kicks. After this, Tsotsi fled to the community orphans and runaways who lived in empty
drainage pipes outside the city. Here he learns to look out for himself and to take advantage of
the weak and the distracted.
When he realized he could not take care of the baby, he spots a young woman with a child on her
back and follows her home. Miriam turns out to be a widow who makes meager living sewing
clothes and selling some mobiles she has created out of shards of glass. He forces her at gunpoint
to feed the infant. He then learns a little about her life and is touched by her tenderness with the
baby, and I was too.
And I could not believe my eyes when I watched him confront a crippled man on a wheelchair in
an isolated spot. He uses his gun and orders the man to hand over the money he had begged from
people at the subway station. He learns that the man had lost the use of his legs when he was
working in the mines when a beam fell and crushed them. He then shares the story about how he
lost his beloved dog and decides not to take the crippled man’s money after all. At this point,
something in him has already changed, and this marks the start of a miraculous turnaround in his
hard-pressed life. The change was just so moving that I found myself reflecting on my own life
and the changes that I really would love to make.
The movie was thrilling and moving, but for me, it was much more, it was informative and
served as a wakeup call.
Lunch at a Chinese Restaurant
Sunday afternoon last weekend, I was feeling too lazy to make my own lunch, so I decided to
look for a good restaurant and have some treat. On my way to my favorite restaurant which is
more than a mile from my house, I noticed a Chinese restaurant, one that am amazed how comes
I had never noticed there before. It was Sang Ho Seafood Restaurant in Toronto, Ontario. Out of
curiosity, I went in and asked for a menu, which I was promptly given by an enthusiastic young
Chinese lady, with a broad smile on her face. I ordered chicken and sweet corn soup.
I had eaten chicken quite often, since it is my favorite dish, but on this occasion, it was as if it
was my first time tasting chicken! I couldn’t keep the excitement, so I called my friend Tim and
asked him to join me in the restaurant. Quite fortunately, he was just around, so in less than five
minutes, he was already with me, chicken and sweet corn soup in front of him.
It was my first time to attempt to use a chopstick for eating, and Tim was also struggling to use
his, so I figured it was his first time too. After minutes of struggle, we had to drop the chopsticks
and ask for spoons. The attendants hurried to attend to our request and the lady who had served
me even volunteered to give us a short lesson on how to use a chopstick. She was quite good at
the technique, and her explanation and illustrations were quite easy to follow.
After this, I gave it a try, supervised by her, and after four failed trials at which she was patient to
show me again, I was able to successfully put a piece of chicken meat into my mouth. The

3. feeling was quite exciting, further intensified by the fact that even after being shown multiple
times, Tim could not manage to get it right.
In order not to spoil the sweetness of the meal, he gave up and took up a spoon. This was a
mistake, because the moment he started doing this, everyone in the restaurant started looking at
him with wide eyes, it was as though he was trying to drink a soda using the bottle-top. No one
laughed though, they were just surprised. Most of the visitors being Chinese, they could not
understand how someone could use a spoon in a Chinese restaurant. This incident reminded me
of my primary school where our English teacher once asked us to write a composition on the
topic, “A bull in a Chinese shop.”
Anyway, at the end of it all, we had great fun.