(It’s ironic when a self-proclaimed holiday starts with you having a the-world’s-a-swirl headache, which pretty much renders you a groaning, moaning zombie, but it is slavery when an actual holiday begin with chores and moves into chores and almost, quite almost, ends with chores.)

Insensate

Perhaps it’s due to the headache, or the subsequent stretch of wooziness, but I’m in such an insensate state today that everything I did practically ended up with a good nag from the dad or a disdainful omg-what’re-you-thinking sigh from the brother. And like walking with a girlfriend in the annual mega-sale, it piles high and heavy and eventually it falls, and the nags and sighs come in tirades.

I’m so blur today I didn’t know what to do with a packet of coffee I was supposed to make for the dad. I stood there wondering why I had the packet in hand and why I would think of drinking coffee, when I realised that the dad wanted a glass of it, iced. Then I almost forgot the ice.

I smacked my forehead so many times now it’s actually red.


Lux Aeterna



Or its re-arranged number by the people who did it for the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers trailer track (re-titled as Requiem for the Tower). Composed by Clint Mansell for the movie Requiem of a Dream.

You’ll agree that it makes everything epic. You will.



The Dark Knight

Hmm.

I don’t know how to put it.

Like Batman Begins before it, I can never understand why I find it so awesome.

It’s awesome.

It’s a good example of how to have a lot in a movie but not make it clogged up or dumb down.

It’s a class of it own.

I’m not going to attempt to review it, because I know I can’t.

I just know that I sat through the 2 hours and a half run time glued, interested, kept guessing and at the end of it, impressed and wowed.

Despite all the hype I got, I’m still amazed. It’s a truly awesome movie.

(Right, I’ve repeated ‘awesome’ so many times now I figure I’ll stop and leave this section of the post alone).


There was once…

Upon a time when a fight among friends was resolved by simply dragging oneself to face each other and saying sorry. Hands will be shaken and smiles will be exchanged and the next second it was as though nothing ever happened, and the end of school will be accompanied by hands on each other’s shoulder, with jokes and laughs and the packet of sweets from the roadside peddler.

That was once upon a time, and as it goes, today is a different matter. Today things are overcomplicated and no one would leave enough room for pride and ego and recklessness to move aside from judgement. Today, we always justify the grim state of things with it’s complicated.

I won’t deny that it is. What I’m just trying to point out is that we forgot how easy it used to to come face to face and settle things, and how tumultuously horrid the thought of not apologising used to sound; as though the grimmest state of things is an apology not said.

Once upon a time, things were simple.

Never forget that.