Inspired, since sometime.

I apologize for my previous post, if it somehow managed to lobotomize you and cause a few disruptions to your brain and nervous system. I don’t think you can sue me for it, but you can, of course, drop in a comment or 2. Flame, frame, blame or phlegm me all you like; I’m just glad I got feedback =)

Sorry for not updating consistently, despite my being in a holiday now. I have no excuse for it, apart from utter laziness. And Okami, which is turning out to be one of the best ps2 games ever (I’m clocking at least 3 to 4 hours on it daily). I’ll blog about it sometime, if possible. Though I guess it won’t become something of your interest anyways (as if this blog is, but I’m glad I have a couple of readers. Thanks).

I owe Rachel two tags, which I haven’t been getting around doing. I promise I’ll get it up sometime soon. Here’s my apology first, and a hopeful smiley =P

The holidays are faring better this few weeks, thanks to Okami and a few good hours of writing/typing. I have another to thank; Finding Neverland, the 2004 movie starring Johnny Depp about J.M Barrie and how he came to write the famous boy who never grew up. Hands down one of the best movies around, IMO, and well into my list of Inspirational Thingies (among Big Fish and Whisper of the Heart). The movie itself is beautiful, touching and warm, etc, but what got me most is the theme of Unlocking Your Imagination. Something Johnny Depp (as Barrie) said:

(Not in actual script. This is a vague reconstruction. Finding Neverland and script is copyright to the studio that published it).

J.M Barrie: (Johnny Depp in Scottish accent) Write about it, about flying the kite today with your brothers. Write about that talking whale.

Peter: (acted by Freddie Highmore, Charlie in Charlie and the Choc Factory and soon Arthur in Arthur and the Invisibles) Talking whale? What talking whale?

J.M Barrie: That talking whale that is bursting in your imagination. Write it down.

After the movie, I sat down in front of my laptop and got to work on the 2 junk you read below with a rekindled joy in writing.

I’ve been so often plagued by the dogmatic fear of messing anything I though out by writing it down that I’ve been afraid to write. But I guess I should take a step in writing it, make it my best and learn from it. I’ve been fearful of criticism, wanting to live in a cocoon that tells myself that my stories stay however I like it if none shall read it, and undermining the very basis of being a writer; What is a writer without a reader? What is communication without feedback, or an expression without an impression? (Pardon my immense corniness).

I’m set to improve, so bear with me =)

Goodnight people, and whoever that is reading this, I thank you.

And Mr. Barrie, thank you (though I’m aware that Finding Neverland is merely based on actual events and bears a probability to be untrue, I’m pretty sure you live by the same philosophy of imagination and you weren’t smoking weed when you wrote Peter Pan. But, I mean, a boy flying around in green leaves/tights? You leave me wondering…).

Word of the Day:

indomitable
Incapable of being subdued or overcome; unconquerable.

Song of the Day: End of the Innocence by Don Hedley.

Currently Reading: The Eldest.

Currently Playing: Okami

Movie of the Day: Finding Neverland (5 out of 5 stars. ‘Nuff said).