Tuesday, January 30, 2007
hullo duck.
oh i watched blood diamond and its reallly good! i havent watched a good movie in a long time before blood diamond.
and this is a non-exhaustive list of movies that i should watch.
babel
the good shepherd
king of scotland
the holiday
am i glad this is the land of cheap movie tickets and pirated DVDs. (and, like icing on the cake, i bought the tix yesterday and i got FREE darlie toothpaste! how good is that?)
anyways on a seperate note,
is it just me or that emotions dont come unadulterated. as in. one emotion is always admixed with something else. how the mixture is varies and in different proportions.
like, if you're sad, you're sad. and that's easy to deal with. (relatively)
but if you're sad and still a little hopeful and also somewhat relieved and somewhat happy that u were happy alot before you got sad, then where does that leave you?
confused? makes the two of us. :)
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8:50 pm
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
hullo duck.
this might be outdated to some of you but Oprah Winfrey just built this huge ass school in South Africa. The pictures came out of Newsweek seemed more of something out of The O.C but is actually meant for increadibly poor girls, who (based on what i thought of the article) just managed to tug at the fat black lady's heartstrings.
(there was this girl who was interviewed by O and at one point gave oprah a hug and said she was her new mother or smth like that and she got in. now, O isnt very discerning is she)
so she received alot of flak for doing things in a gargantuan way in a country which isnt used to her ways. that in the pretext of providing poor girls an education she is actually showing them a way of (somewhat extravagant) life. to which she responds, "its my money so i can practise charity however i please." well she didnt actually say that. but its wat she meant. i know.
at one point i wanted to be Oprah.
like. watch any episode and just look at the way she speaks. her style (of programming) has been copied by almost everyone but i really dont think anyone can do how she speaks. and that's probably why she is the most powerful black lady in Hollywood and only second to C.Rice in the whole country.
But then i realised that she is so. uhm, how should i put it. i think her motive is like this:
this is what i have done and this is what the world should know about me. hence i am going to give the poor person crying in this episode more that she(its mostly a she) could ever imgaine in front of the millions who are watching right now and who want to be me.
help and make sure ppl know about it. its a pretty good strategy. but kinda boring after an episode too many.
and then i realised that she is just like Mother Theresa except that the other lady wasnt half as rich as her. which, is quite clever.
so i still want to be Oprah. not in this world. cos that would be just too cruel. and wrong. as idealistic as it sounds i think charity is the last thing you should shout to the world about cos somehow that defeats the whole purpose of things.
but in some parallel universe where i wont feel bad for being beetchy i think i want to be Oprah Winfrey.
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1:57 am
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
hullo duck.
so this is the first post of the year.
yea so i went to india which is surprising in itself that it came as a huge surprise to alot of ppl. i got alot of reactions ranging from "oh my god. YOU are gg india." to "oh wow. so you're finally gg!"
and then when i reveal that i have been to india before its still surprising to see the reactions i get. just infer from above.
so india in a nutshell is
still the way it is 6 years ago.
and i got killer shoes.
and then there is bangkok.
which, forgive my lack of (more) thought in the following statement,
is a very livable place. its got nice places to shop, live, and die(yep. i mean the hospitals)
and that's exactly what i want out of an ideal city. having said that, i probably dont really know what i want since i havent seen much of anything else the world has to offer. maybe i'll change my mind if i end up on a vineyard in Provence.
on a similiar note, i cannot imagine staying anywhere else from where i stay in in singapore. i recognise that this prolly comes off as, uh, paris-hiltonish. but i really. i cannot.
and the thought that i might have to move sometime soon is just unsettling. i have tried imagining living somewhere else in singapore and the only place that i didnt find mentally revolting is East Coast cos there;s the beach and nice places to eat. but, since my brain works in a very linkish kind of way, i link east coast to vjc. 'nuff said.
but the possiibility of moving seems to be rearing its ugly head once in a few conversations i have with my father.
for the following reasons:
1. he (surprise!) never really liked River Valley area- the place he's been living with ALL HIS LIFE
2. he is bored of the area
3. he wouldnt need to live in an area near the CBD if he isnt gg to work in the CBD, eventually.
4. "wouldnt living near the beach be fun? you can go running there everyday." (that man uses guilt trips when all things fail)
i know. things are much worse. ppl dont have decent sheds over their heads and the country that i visited recently certainly doesnt have a dearth of those examples. but. i dont care. as far as i am concerned. there are ppl with no roofs. and there are those with gold roofs. i just want a district 9 roof.
ok. seriously.
i just dont want to move out of my comfort zone. its got nothing to do wit district 9. i think i would have the same sentiments if it were district 59.
honestly, the whole comfort zone thing is the crux of it all. really!
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10:36 pm
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