The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
I can't remember all the meaningful lines that caught me, found some online.
Geal: “When I grow up I want to be like you.” Lucy: “When you grow up you want to be like you.”
Reepicheep: "Extraordinary things happen to extraordinary people with extraordinary destinies."
Copied from a review:
To envious Lucy, who literally steals a page from the Book of Incantations to become as pretty as her sister, Aslan asks, “What have you done, my child? … You have doubted who you are. Don’t run away from who you are.” But the other characters also utter inescapable truths such as the warning to beware of the tricks the mind plays on a person; and the message that “to defeat the darkness out there you must first defeat the darkness within yourself”
found other good quotes online too.
C. S. Lewis Quotes
If You Look for Truth
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth...
As a Child of God
The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.
different groups of friends are initiating gatherings (ky, tk, rainier, 2/2..) but i just feel so overwhelmed by fyp it partially marred today's gathering with the group of girls from band (that kind of formed about a year ago), marred cos i was "spacey" most of the time, in ron's words.. i should be more "present". forget everything else and be "here". yet i just failed to.
keep thinking that im a failure in this and that. like when i was walking home just now, i realised i forgot to put my BSA in the fridge. it's supposed to be stored at 4 deg C. And i was transferring it from one lab to another and then i forgot all about having to put it into the fridge and rushed off cos i was kind of late. and i didn't realise at all from 3+pm until 10+pm when i was walking home (if not i could have asked someone still doing lab to help me put it into the fridge)...now it's going to be out for like at least 19 hours oh my goodness i don't know if it's still viable. and having to test if it is means even more extra work for me. ARGHH.
By Glen Allsop of DumbLittleMan, via Divine Caroline
They say life is what we make of it. By the end of this post, I hope to have helped you decide whether that statement is true or not.
There is no doubt that life has its ups and downs. However, how we deal with them can sometimes make all the difference. I want to share eight harsh truths that I’ve come to learn from life. There’s also a message in each that I think we can all learn from, and when applied, will improve our lives infinitely.
Some of these lessons may be old-hat for you. If so, look for ways to refine the idea to ensure your getting the most out of it. On the other hand, you may completely disagree with an idea or two and that’s great! Let us know your thoughts so we can all learn from each other.
1. Friends Come and Go When I was in high school, I always imagined spending most of my life with the same people. Then when I realized I had to move to college, that all changed. Once again, I made some close college friends but left them all behind when I moved from the UK to South Africa.
Friends will always come and go in your life; even though I’m back in the UK now, all my friends are in university around the country and not exactly in meeting distance. It can be a hard thing to accept, but many of the friends you spend time with now, might not be around in the next few years.
Important Lesson: There are an abundance of amazing people out there for you to meet and build relationships with. If you don’t have many friends, don’t stress, there are literally billions of friendship possibilities.
2. You Won’t Always Get What You Want I remember one Christmas when the only thing I had asked for was some second hand turntables for DJ’ing. I didn’t ask for anything else so I was pretty sure I would get them. However, they didn’t come and I ended up having to save for ten months on my own in order to purchase them.
You won’t always get what you want in life: people are going to be late, people will let you down, items you want won’t always be available.
Important Lesson: Don’t look for happiness in material possessions and if things don’t go your way, learn to accept them. Life’s too short to stay miserable.
3. Many People Will Love You, but Many Will Not Whether you are a celebrity, a charity worker, or just a normal guy, there are going to be people that love you and what you do, but there’s also going to be plenty people that don’t like you. There are many possible reasons such as jealousy, similarities to them, or just not being someone’s “type.”
Important Lesson: Not everyone is always going to like you, and that’s fine. If people want to spend time talking about you then that is their problem. You are perfect as you are. You shouldn’t need everyone to like you to have some form of self-esteem.
4. Nobody Can Transform Your Life Like You Can Wouldn’t it be lovely if we didn’t have to go up on stage, but we could just read a paragraph of a blog post and become a perfect public speaker? Or, wouldn’t it be nice if our friends could do daring things and we would benefit from them as well?
The support and help of others can only take you so far, you’re going to have to do your own thing to make big changes in your life situation.
Important Lesson: Do things for yourself and learn to stand on your own two feet. People you rely on won’t be around forever, and you don’t want to have to use others as a crutch to get anywhere in life.
5. You Are Going to Fail I built more than seven Web sites before I created one that actually started making me any money. I even put hundreds of hours into my own company that I actually closed down last month. Whether it is exams, projects, companies, or even the odd pub quiz, there are times when you will fail to meet your goals.
As the saying goes, “Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.”
Important Lesson: You can learn a lot from others, but it is your own failures that are going to teach you the most valuable lessons in life. Learn from your failures, embrace them, and use them to drive you on to success.
6. Rain Will Sometimes Cancel Play On some occasions when you have your shorts on and you’re ready for the beach, it’s going to rain. Or, when you get to that first hole and you’re ready to tee off—the clouds will open. Things aren’t always going to go how you would like them to.
Important Lesson: Don’t stress about the things that you can’t control. Learn to live with things that happen. You can’t change the past, but you can change how you react to things.
7. There May Be No Tomorrow At least, not for you anyway. We never know what is around the corner, a car crash, a heart attack; heck … even the end of the world is possible. Let’s face it, although we would all like to live till we are seventy years old, that’s certainly not always the case. There will be one day that is our last.
Important Lesson: Make the most of each day. Make sure the people you care about actually know it, don’t worry about little matters, just make sure you spend time doing the things you love.
8. Someone Else Will Always Have More Whether it is money, partners, friends or even blog subscribers, there will always be areas where other people have more than you. That isn’t to say you can’t become abundant in whatever you want (i.e. someone always had more money than Warren Buffett until 2008 when he was noted to be the richest man in the world).
The wanting of more actually holds a very important lesson …
Important Lesson: Just because someone has “more,” that doesn’t mean they are happy. Read the biography of any celebrity and they will tell you they enjoy their process of earning money, rather than what money can do to make them happy. In other words, focus on what you love, not what the thing you love can get you.
Bonus Linking all the lessons here together is actually quite simple, and I can share the majority of what you need to know to enjoy life in a few simple bullet points:
• Live life for the moment • Accept what is, even if things don’t go your way • Happiness is here, right now if you stop resisting and start accepting
there's this big hoo-hah going on that isn't about me at all yet i was feeling as stressed probably as when i was supposed going to take my christianity in world history just minus the feeling like crying.
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okay. good. i tried to distant myself from it all and now after 45 minutes i don't feel so stressed about it anymore.
hello me. please be more confident. i went back to my IA company today (technically yest since it's already past midnight) and one key lesson that i learnt was that i've gotta be more confident and less timid and just speak up more! what can happen seriously. why am i so afraid of people? there's nothing really bad that can come out from people so just dare to speak up! don't disappear into nothingness and leave this world merely being a shadow.
be confident. dare to say hi first. dare to talk to everyone! they won't eat me up. they won't kill me. seriously dying isn't even that big a deal. so why be so scared. my longstanding fears are senseless and i've got to get rid of them.
had a wave of emotions run over me. i shouldn't be impatient or upset with my parents when they can't understand me or when they have "less intelligent" ideas. being who they are, they have already done the best they could for me, sending me to the schools i wanted to go to, giving me the complete support to do whatever i wanted to do, from going to maldives in jc1, to dropping out of ntu (tho with initial strong opposition from my dad), to coming to nus, to going for usa work and travel. seriously. what more can i ask for. this is who my parents are. they were not born into well-to-do families. they did what they could to work themselves a comfortable life out and supporting their children in whatever they wanted to do.
they may not have taught me to be an effective person. they may not have taught me to excel in life. but they have taught me to be good. to be honest. to be trustworthy.
it's entirely up to me to improve myself. to create the life i want.
i just went to a blog my friend told me when we were having a chat on the bus back from tuas on friday (it was a very long ride - one hour - seriously seems like we got out of singapore..) and she mentioned she likes to write and so i asked if she blogs not really expecting she does but she ended up telling me her blog address and even how to get through the password for it. so anyways, im blogging about this cos i read the entry i've copied part of it below that i found really meaningful and inspiring.
"these days, i'm learning to be more focused at work, and to understand and accept what works for me and what doesn't. you know how it is when you talk to someone and you just feel that it's right? it really isn't about the length of time that you spend with each other. it might not even be that you have to be on the same frequency. i think, sometimes all it takes is a sincere heart."
Okay I wanted to blog about the advent calendar eva sent me but I've spent too much time beyond my plans (like this afternoon helping out with painting a banner for a funfair next saturday took 3 hours instead of one) or having suddenly alot of things like chatting with eva via skype video call for 3.5 hours last night and baking cookies for 4 hours tonight plus preparing for it. So I shall just paste some of my fb message to eva heh. lol now that I re-read it, I find myself very childish in writing style for the message, but oh wells, maybe that's just how one is when one is happy and excited. haha.
oh my goodness my dearest jiejie!!! you are so wonderful!!! :D:D:D im so happy and excited!!! thank you so much!!! it's not too late it's still an extremely amazing surprise! :):):) don't be sad! you made my heart beat so fast i don't remember been so excited and happy like this before! haha :D you are so sweet!!! i just came home at like 11pm (it's 1135pm now) and i saw this box on my table (my mom received it in the afternoon she said she didn't sms me about it so that i'll have a nicer surprise when i come home, which i did ;D). and i was wondering and thought ooo so this is the surprise you mentioned! and kept wondering what's inside while taking photos of the box before opening it teehee. and when i finally opened it my heart started beating so happily fast because i didn't expect you to give me anything in return for the photo album! that time when i decided to make it i just felt that it would be nice for you have some photo collection to bring back as memories of the few months you had in singapore because i went to usa for work and travel for 3 months before that semester and had thought it would be nice to have photo memories to look back at but when i came back to singapore the semester was already about to start so i didn't have time to make it but after the exams there was time before you were leaving for home so i could make one for you! oh nos erms i forgot what i typed after this. hmmmmmmm. haha nevermind skip what i forgot in between =/ heh.
you are so thoughtful to have added the extra stuff to share! yupp i'll tell them you said hello! we're not having lessons now though and more than half the class have graduated so i won't be able to share with everyone, so only those whom i'll get to meet up with either in the lab or at outings will get to enjoy it hehe. oh my goodness so soon it has already been exactly a year since that good holiday we had in penang! and i remember you saying the weather is so cold that time when you just got back home. and now the cold weather is back again!
hear from you soon! love, fenella
haha i look at the box of little items again and i smiled to myself. it's a really brilliant idea, an advent calendar. im so touched! my december would be so stressful with fyp but now i have something every day to bring joy before i start on work, what a nice feeling to have a surprise to look forward to every day! thank you so so so much Eva!!!
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Today's present ("for you can feel the winter" - she made a complete list of hints for every day's surprise) was cushiony penguin stickers that are really adorable looking and it made me very happy cos a and i will be making xmas cards (we just went shopping for the materials on friday after a pharma visit and didn't exactly get to buy enough) and the stickers came right useful (: and 3dec's present was a paper pad that had this magnetic closure as if it were a cardholder and I think the printed design was really pretty (:
I was trying out using the UV-Vis Spectrophotometer at S3 today when the data file generated showed readings for wavelengths between 380 to 400nm and running no-readings up to 770nm but I had set it to take readings from 200 to 400 nm so in trying to find out the reason I came upon this function that said change of lamp from deuterium to tungsten at 340nm so I kept thinking the issue was with this and thought it seems so complicated. And thought I had to figure out if I could change this value to get my readings right and thought it's too complicated to figure out within like a few minutes and it was already past 6pm. So I went to the lab office and only Xiaohui was still around and she didn't know how to use the instrument but being the nice her she came to help me figure and she just randomly tried to look around and viola a few clicks and she managed to find out that it was just the display function that I had to tweek and not really a measurement issue.
And I was like wow.
And I came to realise. I have to think simpler sometimes. The problem sometimes isn't complicated at all. Just keep trying simpler solutions, figure around, and they could just work!
h gave me a new perspective today. i was saying that i've become worse than i used to be, excelling in nothing and not knowing what i want. but h said that's not considered worse. you see in the past you were trained to think that what's most important is just to study hard. mindless studying. and now you start to think. to question what you really want in life. that's considered an improvement.
but i don't know what i want!
many people don't know what they really want either, h replied. h wants to be happy doing things h enjoys. not money making. and to gain as much knowledge as h can, so h will die happy knowing how the tv works.
Shit I've been up for almost 3 hours and I still can't fall asleep. I feel super super tired but my mind just keeps running when I lie in bed. Just went to google what to do and some people have suggested writing down what's running in the mind.
- FYP: I just keep thinking shit I'm supposed to get enough rest and start on my FYP in the morning and now that I'm not getting the sleep I need my brain is so not going to be functional how to solve my screwed up FYP.
- my bad 5204 exam. but it's OVER. over. OVER. why still be so bothered by something that's already over and nothing I do now can change whatever's happened and I can only try to improve myself for future exams.
- two h's problems...first time I've experienced h being so angry, so upset..yea according to the first of the seven habits I shouldn't be wasting my energy on things that are in my "circle of concern" but not in my "circle of influence"...
and i think of confiding in friends that i can't sleep. but i haven't done so. i tried praying. reading verses i've copied out. reading my cell notebook. reading the bible. and now i've calming music on (that's the reason why i've switched on my comp for the second time - to play calming music...).
i keep hearing the on-off of light switch since about half hour ago, i think coming from my parent's room. don't know why.
and now i've even more awake. shit.
and i thought of the time in year1 sem1 mid-dec when i couldn't sleep for two nights and went to the psychiatrist to get sleeping pills cos I was really really exhausted but my mind just kept running on and on and I just couldn't sleep and I thought I really needed to knock myself out with drugs. I hope this time it's not like that. I hope this time I can resolve it without drugs.
I don't know why I couldn't sleep. Woke up at 3+ suddenly and checked my hp had a message and went to pee and went back to bed and like after 15 to 20 min when I was still awake I decided to get up and do something. And thought okay maybe do some fyp planning. But after I switched on my comp I started to do my accounts cos I saw my OCBC bank statement and cos I haven't done my acccounts for 2 months. Oh. Which reminds me. I hadn't checked my singnet email for 3 months until I suddenly remembered to check it on Sunday and found I hadn't been receiving new mails for like 2 months cos the mailbox was full.
Actually I'm super tired and sleepy now and should probably go back to bed. Oh I was hungry and went to get some breakfast cereal with milk before I had switched on my comp. And I still feel like of not full.
Seriously mans. I wonder my I couldn't sleep. I just had my last paper at 7 to 9pm after only realising yesterday morning that it wasn't 5 to 7 and had to postpone a dinner I arranged with some friends whom I had already previously pangsehed when I was trying to finish up a lab report due on a Friday of the week when I submitted a 20% research proposal on the Monday and did a 20% presentation on the Wednesday to a class of PhD students. And yea the paper at 7pm yesterday was this postgraduate module. It was bad. I couldn't remember a lot of things and felt really dissatisfied after the paper not like yay exams are finally over but like arggggghhh I need to shout this was such a bad exam I spent so many days trying to study (it was bad too each day I only did one to two lectures I was just super inefficient even though I sat there the whole day trying to studying) and I know I've learnt the stuff but when I try to recall my mind's just a blank.
Have Read
'04 year-end holidays (highest number of books read in a long time)
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (gd read)
-Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky by Meg Cabot (fun read)
-Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (must read - inspirational)
-Slab Rat by Ted Heller (full of office politics and R21 stuff - not for kids)
-The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (makes u want to finish it)
-A walk to remember by Nicholas Sparks (simple but meaningful)
-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (can identify with)
-The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (romantic love story with too much R21 stuff)
-Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (even more R21. ugh)
-The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
-Unstrung Heroes by Franz Lidz (autobiography about his four uncles and father)
-The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (very unique POV of an autistic boy)
-The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux (love the breadth of the plot, one of my favourites)
-Wild Orchids by Jude Deveraux (alternating between two first persons' view - unique, but don't like e plot)
-Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (philosophy tb in a story; gets abit dry though plot saved)
-forgot what i read...-
-Working Wonders by Jenny Colgan (story of an urban planner)
-Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (impressive intelligence with bits of great humour)
-Just between Us by Cathy Kelly (thickest bk i've ever read-600+pg, too long for me but not bad)
ha, started a few bks but didn't enjoy them enough to read more.
'06
-Life of Pi by Yann Martel (novel based on true story; a lot to learn from the book - animals, religions,
survival, appreciation of simplicity; marvelous descriptions of both the tangible and the intangible,
such that I could feel their realness; bits of very enjoyable humour; a must read)
-The Complete Analects of Confucius, Volume 1 - Asiapac Comic Series (some good teachings.
didn't read everything though)
-The Parable of the Pipeline by Burke Hedges (lent to me by Shujun; like she said, its a short version
of Rich Dad Poor Dad - good financial tips)
-The Alchemist by Paul Coelho (simple story with deep meaning)
-Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
(hai, doesn't seem to be working for me - cos im not applying..)
-haven't been updating from Jun'06 to Jul'07-
'07
-Take a Chance by Sarah Webb (very interesting twist towards the end)
'08
-A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer (very saddening. made me realise how significant family is in how a child behaves)
-Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite by Paul Arden (refreshing book with many pics)
-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Rui Zafon (amazing how people can think of so much plot to pack into one book, wld b a gd tv series)
-The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (the story is interesting but i think the ending cld hv been better written)
-This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes (a bit thought-provoking on relationships but i didnt like e abrupt ending)
-Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (gd knowledge but partly qte repetitive)
-For One More Day by Mitch Albom
-The C Words by Mark Mason (made me keep wanting to read on. light & funny)
'09
-Return to Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux (another good read from Deveraux)
-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (gosh such vivid descriptions! very well written book. i liked d theme of friendship and the realness of the story)
'10
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (a must-read!! i love the expressed thoughts of the protagonist, esp those about friendships, and the writing style - it seems like she's telling me her story specifically to me)
How to Save Your Own Life by Michael Gates Gill (an inspiring read, for emotional liberation and greater joy in life)
Reading
on hold
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Waiting for chance to get hold of
The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
Gotai Fumanzoku or An Unsatisfactory Body (Translated into English as No One's Perfect) by Hirotada Otatake
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Other Recommended Readings by Marc
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – Few books have had as significant an impact on the way society views the natural world and the genesis of humankind.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell – Gladwell looks at how a small idea, or product concept, can spread like a virus and spark global sociological changes. Specifically, he analyzes “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – This is a tale that lingers on the topic of attaining and maintaining a disciplined heart as it relates to one’s emotional and moral life. Dickens states that we must learn to go against “the first mistaken impulse of the undisciplined heart.”
Lolita – This is the kind of book that blows your mind wide open to conflicting feelings of life, love and corruption… and at times makes you deeply question your own perceptions of each. The story is as devious as it is beautiful.
Getting Things Done by David Allen – The quintessential guide to organizing your life and getting things done. Nuff said.
How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman – 900 pages of simple instructions on how to cook everything you could ever dream of eating. Pretty much the greatest cookbook ever written. Get through a few recipes each week, and you’ll be a master chef by the time you’re 30.
Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner – Franz Wisner had it all… a great job and a beautiful fiancée. Life was good. But then his fiancée dumped him days before their wedding, and his boss basically fired him. So he dragged his younger brother to Costa Rica for his already-scheduled honeymoon and they never turned back… around the world they went for two full years. This is a fun, heartfelt adventure story about life, relationships, and self discovery.
Self-note: Tip for my future business =D
give employees reasonably high pay to keep them- otherwise they are unlikely to stay loyal.
treat employees not according to how well they treat me but how conscientious they are at work
(of course, musn't expect them to only do work throughout the entire working hours -
give some breathing space too, we are humans, not machines) Movies watched(listing started on 6jan08)
in cinema from VCD/DVD
1Sep07: "Hairspray" w TK, GH & SH
14Sep07: "Ratatouille" w mom & extended family
28Dec07: "The Pianist" w Jus & Pam (heartbreaking but good lessons; i recommend!)
2Jan08: "I Am Legend" w Sherm (scary! but good acting; thought provoking; i recommend!)
5-6Jan08: "A Good Year" alone (excellent show! i like the acting; funny; good lessons; touches my heart; i recommend!)
11Jan08: "Le Grand Chef" w WLing, JT & Irene (good! funny, very touching, :) nice; watch if like humour+meaning+food)
7Feb08 (CNY 初一): "Ah Long Pte Ltd" w parents (pretty hilarious - but u gotta understand dialects, some teary parts. wells typical of jack neo movies but with diff content)
11Mar08: "The Leap Year" w Sherm (so sweet! :) and apart from couple relationship it touches the theme of mother-daughter and best friends too)
6Jun08: "P.S. I Love You" w Sherm (don't know if its coz we watched it on laptop, coz it didn't impress me as much as it did for him in cinema)
8Jun08: "The Forbidden Kingdom" w Lisa, Karen & Sandy (ums..guess i'm really not into kungfu)
8Jun08: "What Happens in Vegas" w Lisa, Karen & Sandy (simple,relaxing show)
7Jul08: "我和狗狗的10个约定" w Sherm, his ma & sisters (very simple,touching but actually not my type of show)
10Jul08: "Before Sunrise" w Sherm (hmm maybe watchg on laptop really affects appreciatn of movies..)
30Sep08: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" w Sherm (i didn't like it as much as i thought i wld when i saw the ads)
31Dec08: "Yes Man" w Mom (inspiring and funny)
11Feb08: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" w Mom (not as impressive as i thought it wld be)
1Jul09: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" w Yumei, YY & Matt (the best thing was the soundtrack. heh.)
14Aug09: "GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra" w Joyce (it was awesome! best action movie i've ever watched)
17Aug09: "Food, Inc." w SYL & RuiQ (learnt some stuff abt the American food industry but it was a bit boring and not worth the $10)
22Sep09: "The Time Traveller's Wife" w WB, VanD, WLing, CHL, Irene, VanQ, Mf, Pg (i liked it. having read the book really helps w udsg)
21Nov09: "Gokusen" w Mf, Eva, Tony, Sarah (funny inspirational movie)
24Dec09: "十月围城" w Tony, WLing, VanQ (action action and a bit funny? tony criticised the plot. my fav scene was the running n jumping through the crowd along the five-foot ways w/o cuts)
30Dec09: "Sherlock Holmes" w Irene, Tony, Sweetee (my favourite genre of books made into a movie - what else can be more cool? acting effects humour excitement suspense all in)
12Jan10: "Avatar 3D" w Mom (didn't appreciate the digital effects which everyone wowed about. content etc was so-so. cathay's 3D glasses were too heavy for me)
8Feb10: "The Truman Show" w Ky n sis n Yuhshin (a must-watch. very thought-provoking, funny. reminder to be spontaneous and create your life the way you want, instead of falling into a typical routine
14Feb10: "New York, I Love You" w Mom (I loved it! a good couple movie with meaningful pointers to keep it going. but i think some stories could be more developed)
16Feb10: rewatched "The Pianist" (still find it good, tho i still feel first viewings are the best)
17Feb10: "Valentine's Day" w CHL n WB (laughed throughout - a feel-good movie; liked the fact that the various stories binded tog so well with the little surprises here and there, vs NY ILU in which each story was separate)
20Feb10: "赤壁二" w Addy, Karen, Sharon, SJ (should have watched the first one first cos i ended up not knowing who's who and what's happening and had to keep asking :/ and couldn't pay attn.. if not i think it should be a pretty good movie..)
4Mar10: "Alice in Wonderland 3D" w Mf (i found the 3D effects of this @ CCK Shaw SO much better than Avatar @ The Cathay =/ and the movie was much more enjoyable too! - cheered a sad me up :)) favourite quote - the Mad Hatter: “You used to be much muchier before. ... You have lost your muchness.”)
18Mar10: "Nodame Cantabile" w Irene, Mf (i thoroughly enjoyed some of the orchestra pieces - SO impressive! the expressions of the actors were really amusing :D)
23Apr10: "Ice Kacang Puppy Love" w Mom (funny, touching and meaningful - about love between friends and family. i cried 3 tissues! cos some touching parts i could really understand the feelings of the characters involved)
Inception
Letters to God (very simple Christian movie)
22Nov10: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" w Ame, Irene (they loved it. pretty good, i guess the main problem i had was that im not familiar with HP :X)
13Dec10: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" w Sj (not bad, could follow the story unlike HP. like the meaningful teachings, too long - in a post)
2Mar11: "The King's Speech" w Ame (hilarious, inspirational, tho it doesn't impress me that much to understand why it's the Oscar winner)
Mar11: "10 Things I Hate About You" very funny. silly sweet high school romance. just right for having breaks in between doing homework
23May11: "Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides" w Wb Yl Ame Pg (pretty good - scenery, freakish parts, fighting scenes, dressing, humour, bits of Christianity like when the Spanish said "only God gives life")
6Jun11: "Xmen First Class" w Wb Ame Pg (i was very keen on watching it and it was really good! intellectual, makes sense, cool action, some humour)
9Jun11: "Legally Blonde 2" w Irene (seems like some dumb blonde movie but kind of meaningful too - speaking up for yourself and what you stand for)
17Jun11: "Something Borrowed" w Sandy Lisa (quite funny, somewhat meaningful wrt friendships. they didn't like the lack of sense for one part tho)
16Jul11: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" w Irene, Sweetee, Kw (not bad. i didn't understand some parts again but the humour and effects were pretty good)
Aug11 "Horrible Bosses" w Ma (she fell asleep! gosh. the movie was very crude i must say but there was the humour)
25Oct11: "The Three Musketeers" w H (i would rate it 3.5 for humour/intellectual language and 4 for action. it's by the same producer or director as Sherlock! but a bit less awesome albeit a good chill out movie)
5Nov11: "Real Steel" w Hl (action packed but not too hardcore for me. i liked that there was the father and son element and how the father eventually softened his heart and especially the part when charlie was having trouble telling max sth and max was so understanding saying "Don't worry. Your secret's safe with me." touching and demonstrates true fighting spirit)
12Dec11: "50/50" w L (adopting her words - a heavy topic put across in a lighthearted way, but not taking away d meaning. most of it was rather hollywood-ish trashiness but there were a couple of punch lines "u can't change ur parents, but u can change d way u respond to them.")
25Dec11: "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" w KY (ultimate action packed! super tense almost throughout the movie, and interesting Tom Cruise made it such that not everything happened smoothly - he would jump and misland and get all sorts of injuries..it's really the courage to jump without hesitation even though you are not sure you'll be alive after that. KY loved d movie and said she would watch it again!)
3Jan12: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" w KY (i love mystery (: and the witty sarcastic dialogues. good level of excitement with the action. didn't understand some parts as usual. i like Holmes and Watson they depict such a true pair of buddies ;D)
23Jan12: "You are the Apple of My Eye" w mom (now i understand why guys like this movie so much - the anxiety of chasing after a girl and the acts schoolboys do to get the girl's attention and hopefully affection. the initial fluttering and the subsequent quarrelling)
22Mar12: "The Iron Lady" w KY (really love Thatcher's sharp words. inspiring and thought-provoking, tho i was still left uncertain of what to do with my life, the movie is definitely an encouraging one)
29Mar12: "Barney's Version" w SJ (a funny movie of a screwed up life of a man who had 3 wives, smoked and drank but very heartwarming at the same time, the relationships with the dad and the 3th wife - quotable quotes!)
27Apr12: "The Hunger Games" w Mom
4May12" "Avengers" w MF n PS (funny, action-packed)
7Jul12: "The Amazing Spiderman"
21Jul12: "The Dark Knight Rises" (fantastic depth, loved the twists)
20Aug12: "ParaNorman" w Mom (simple funny animated movie, heartwarming support)
Performances watched (listing started on 25Apr10)
20Jan10: Patrick Marber's Closer by outoftheBLUE, NUS Science w Pam (
13Mar10: The Rain Came Down Like Pearls the Night I Died... The New Musical - Sing & Tell by Mark Chan w Addy & Jy
21Mar10: Quintessence by NUSCO w CHL