Devil's on the last day of a work week, shanghai baby in the middle, and 2046 for wrapups

manage to catch this biazaare of a movie over the weekends. i have to say that the cinematics to it was wonderfully crafted. the angle the shots taken from were fantastic - i love the way faye wong ponders on her cigarette and lifted it mid way. i thought it was an interesting way of showing one's futile quest in situations in life. Its almost like she's deliberately trying to essentiate the strength she tries so hard to hide in the made-believe fragile facade built. The air of determination taking shape in reality, making itself known to the adversities she face.

the movie depicted alot of sadness in the female characters - and it was sad to watch. too much emotions involved. too much hidden emotions involved. it was quite a pain to watch them beating about the bush, trying to get what they want out of the people they meet.

coincidentally, i was reading this book called shanghai baby - it seems that the moral and the objective of the book was similar to 2046. about a women's life - complex, yet frivolous. seeming too much sleaze at the surface, but, the inner emotions are so much more profound to be scaled and measured only in canal ways.

naturally, i took to the perspective of the female characters in 2046, rather then the main character - a journalist. i view him as an assaliant, the root of the problem during those 3 hours spent in front of the big screen. however, right now, as i write, i find that i shld try to look into his side of the story, which i've yet to do. or probably, i shld have watched the prequel before this one and understand the background history of this particular character.

a little more abt shanghai baby -this book chanced upon me, courtesy of a girlfren. :) thanks gal, i'll take good care of it. Have finished reading it, and its still in excellent condition. I'll wrap it up in a plastic bag so it wouldn't get scratched or dog-earred.

Alight, about the book - its interesting how anyone or anybody can fall into the trap of being a married person's girlfren, or boyfren, whichever. The character depicted, was intelligent, quick witted, from an excellent family, and had wonderful parents. It brought to mind, that "kept mistresses/lovers" of modern days seems to be a far cry from the money grabbers of ancient times. That brings us down to moral values these days. So, how should we educate our young ones to understand the sanctity of marriage, of relationships ? Of faithfulness ( be it for the men or the ladies) to the one we commit our hearts to ? is there a way we can teach our children? or even ourselves right now ? is there any way of resolving such a problem, or, do men and women have to learn to live with such practices ?


somehow, the combination of the book and movie made love reared its ugly head.. yikes! or.. maybe not ?

i caught the DVD Love Actually - it was adorably, sugar sweet romance stories abt 4 couples. it was hillarious, yet some scenes were downright sad. a contrasting flavour from those two. but, i love that movie on the whole. was at a fren's place on saturday nite itself, after torturing our legs and bodies for hours on end and battling with the weekend shopping crowd. yeah i know - sounds nasty isn't it. So, it was a relief for the 3 of us girls to run off to a pal's place to hide for the remainder of the evening. :) it was good, and relaxing. . .

have you realise that i'm going backward in sequence? pardon me for that. :) its the Last In First Out concept for me today. LIFO.

anyway, devil's on friday nite was not too bad - i don't exactly fancy that place much. but, alas, a colleague of mine took to that place, and has knighted it her second home. it was her b-day that day, so, we were at her mercy... so to speak. :) but it wasn't all that bad - the company we kept,
was fortunately, good. it was a hard week for all of us, and we were glad that it was the weekends, and our boss will be away for 2 weeks - its a good riddance party i suppose. :P

freedom of spirit

its friday at last - i've been looking forward to this day since monday. its no new anticipation to you guys, i'm sure. :) but really, i do catch myself secrectly hoping that it'll be the weekends soon. Honestly, i have never felt that before in my previous firm. There maybe 2 possible reasons to that.

1) i haven't been working hard enough in my previous firm
2) i have been working way too hard at my current place.

makes sense i suppose. :)

its past the 1st half of the day - and, it wasn't that bad. i'm glad. now, for the 2nd half of the day, i do hope things will be quiet, and peaceful. :)

All about Jeankins and E600s and updates.

i have just told jeanie off - for the millionth time to lay off those newspapers... but no - she just have to lie on them, roll over them and do every single thing on top of those newspapers. WHY, OH WHY ???!!! she just loves to do that - i can substitute it with a cloth.... and no - she still prefers the newspapers.. Gawd!

jeanie's a maltese - my darling. =) sure. she looks adorable. . . my girlfrens simply go ga-ga over her when they see her. but, be forewarn, she's no kind, demure, docile little puppy. she hates. wait let me put this right - she HATES any stranger fussing over her. She growls at anyone who dares to attempt to steal a glance in her direction. Talk about pit-bull type of fierceness. I wonder what kind of bull terrier she'll be, instead of being a maltese. She's probably have more fun being a white, cute-looking toy dog though - preying on unsuspecting humans... hmmm...


hi everyone - its been awhile since i've updated my blog. have been desperately trying to race with time for the past couple of weeks. I'm not about to whine though. :) but seriously, it seems that i live, breathe, sleep nothing but work - which is sad. I haven't have much time to do really much except to think, and work on my paper. Yes, its that bad - zilch, zero, nothing at all... no time to think about other problems. life's issues, what-to-do-this-weekend issue, what-the-f**-does-that-person-mean/want/doing, and whatever there is to be worried over being a human being living in the millenium.

oh well, not about to turn this into an angry blog entry really.

okie. let me recap a little for the things i've done before the past couple of weeks that leaves me with nothing but with work-work-and more work. hmmm... i remembered vaguely that i caught Mamamiaa, hmmm... I bought myself a new mobile phone. . . hmmm... my dad crashed the car wind shield.. hmm.. what else.. i think that's as much as my memory can come up with right now.

Mamamiaa - was good - wished i had more time to give it an exclusive here in my blog - but, i don't think i was in that frame of mind to do that, not even looking at the time that's available. But, i have to say in 1 liner. . . Mamamiaa was good. It put a smile on everyone's face when the curtains fell. A feel goodd kind of play. . . Makes everyone's day, i suppose. :)

Mobile - yes, that's my new toy - E600 samsung. Til today, which is more then 3 weeks old, i'm still going - oooh.... look at my new mobile isn't she pretty. :) yes, i'm so proud of it, and i think its absoluately cool stuff. Though, you may beg to differ - i know some frens who swear by Finland's Nokia. But really - its a good change. I've been thinking of clamp phones for awhile, and i've managed to get one now. Pretty durn glad that i did. And guess what!! my phone can take pictures too..

I was telling s the other day - "Look, my camera has night vision too. Coool eh!" continues looking forward, driving. "That's nice - so now, you can use that to spy on EVERYTHING else i suppose. "

I was taken by surprise when i heard that, and, for that spilt of a nano sec, i realise that - opps, its not night-vision. that shld be night shots. :P night vision is where you can actually see things moving around in the dark... not quite what my E600 can do. She's good - but, not THAT good - she's, well, still a mobile phone. :)

I went.. "Oh.. yeah!" S just flashed me a grin............ he loves it when that happens. . . Arggh - don't you just hate it.

Silly me...