Classics...

This is what I call classics... From the golden era of Hong Kong music and movies espcially those from Sam Hui whose works reflects the Hong Kong society in those days in a funny way but very true. Gone are the days...

半斤八兩



賣身契

打雀英雄傳

天才白痴錢錢錢

天才與白痴

My Sister's Keeper

Went to watch "My Sister's Keeper" today and the long lost sense of satisfaction of watching a really good movie was finally back. This is one movie that really touches your heart.

I will briefly touch on its plot. This story is about a family with one of its members, the older sister in the family, Kate, having Leukemia since young, to save her, her parents decided to give birth to a test tube baby which will have genes that matches her sister as both the parents's doesn't match with her genetically. So from young, this younger sister of Kate, Anna has been donating blood, bone marrow and stuff in order to save her older sister who eventually recovered. Unfortunately, Kate had a relapse of Leukemia when she was 15 and her kidney eventually shut down completely, so in order to save Kate, Anna would have to donate her kidney to save her sister, but she "was not willing" and decided to sue her parents for using her body against her will. The story developes from here about the burden of a Leukemia patient in the family and with a twist in the end that breaks your heart.

Kate, the main character in the movie was really human. This movie is different from the other "terminal illness" movies out there. Instead of the usual strong willed character, Kate was weak, she was vulnerable emotionally, that was why we can relate more to Kate. Kate has been suffering since young, when her cancer relapsed, she was really tired of it and wanted to let go as she knows she will not make it this time and she does not want to continue to become a burden of the family, however in order not to upset her mother Sara, she keeps mum about her will. Her mother on the other hand was obssessed to fight her way through to make sure that she gets treatment which in the end made her fail to notice her daughter's plea of letting go (which other family members knows or feels it). Actress, Sofia Vassilieva (Kate) delivers splendid acting and together with the convincing make up of a dying cancer patient, you will definitely feel for her.

Another character in the movie you will feel for is Sara, the mother (Cameron Diaz), if you know what is D.I.S.C personalilty test, this mother is definitely a D. She has been working so hard to make sure her daughter Kate stays alive all these years that she became unwilling to listen to other's opinions and insist doing things her own way. This made her became ignorant or unaware of the emotionally changes or problems that her family members including Kate is experiencing. Her world was so constricted and narrow on saving Kate's life that she became cut off from anybody and everything else. She was a stubborn fighter in life and she makes sure she does not lose and that makes her character seems so pitiful because she was unwilling to move on. Cameron Diaz here was amazing, I am now convinced that other than playing Charlie's Angel and other comedic roles, she can handle a serious role like this.

The understanding between Anna (Abigail Breslin from "Little Miss Sunshine") and Kate was also very heart warming and touching. Anna was so much matured than kids at her age and this was due to what her family has been going through all these years. Their relationship will definitely make your tears drop.

The breaking point of this movie is when Sara finally understood how Kate feels. The scene where she broke down (she did not cry almost throughout the whole movie given her strong personality) and it was Kate who was consoling her was just heart breaking. Before that I was just tearing, at this scene, I was sobbing, Haha... I tried so hard to control but no, it just went all out and it was embarrassing because I watched with two male friends... But luckily I was not the only one crying, bascially the whole cinema was filled with sobs. Haha...

The morale of the story is sometimes letting go of your burden might not be a bad thing, even though its sorrowful to let go, moving on is also just as important.

So if you are intending to watch this movie, please prepare lots of tissue before entering the cinema especially for the females, I highly recommend this movie and I think you will too find it worth the money.

Movie rating: 4/5

神确确实实是有听祷告的

我会永远记得 2008 跟 2009 年，因为这两年是我最难熬的时期，也是我的成长期。这段时间发生太多不顺利的事了，但件件事都是一堂课，都有让我醒悟的作用。而在今年下半年的时候，当我决意要回到神那里时，我发现路原来没有因此变顺利了，我立刻受到考验。本想在这篇文章细细诉说发生的事情和我从中领悟到的功课，但我觉得这些可以留给年尾时，当我在这里做一个整年的回顾与反思的时候才写会比较恰当。那我就只说最近所发生的一件大事吧，因为我觉得不说好像亏欠了神的荣耀。

认识我的人因该会知道这件事的来龙去脉，所以我不会具体地说，这件事就是发生在我在机场执勤时所发生的事。这也是我以上所说的其中之一的考验。事发当天，当我知道“东西”不见了，当时很慌，知道大祸临头了，（大家因该知道这件事会带来的严重后果），我就祷告说如果那时神的旨意，那我就看他怎么带领，很神奇的，我突然感觉很平安，也突然记起之前在灵修时学到的功课。到后来，当那“东西”好像是没机会找到的时候，我脑里只浮现这句话，“人的尽头，神的开始”，就在最后一刹那，当所有希望都没了，“东西”找到了！“东西”是找到了，但担忧又浮现了，现在那严重后果是没可能发生了，但可能我必须面对一些纪律性的处罚，后续发展我就不说了，大家因该懂，但在上头调查这件事件期间，我其实还蛮焦虑的，因为有太多未知数，我有埋怨神，但往往还是回到神面前祷告，这个礼拜，终于有了答案，上头决定让这件事不了了之，所以我只能说若不是神的带领，若不是神听祷告，这一切不可能发生。

从这件事我发现神又在我的旧毛病上动工，我的旧毛病？小信，爱抱怨，我是个信心非常非常弱的人，但这次我每每觉得很不平安时，就会回到神那里，而每每祷告完后，心里是说不出来的平静。如果从圣经或周围的信徒的身上看看，不难发现“等候” 这个功课是神给他儿女最常见的功课，我还在学，因为好难学啊。。。我也了解是我没有完全托付给神也没有愿意接受神的安排和旨意，而这常常带个我不安和焦虑。我要学习放手让神完完全全的带领。我知道接下来还有同样的功课要我学，甚至现在当我在写这篇文章时，也没有很开心，因为又有不如意的事了，又要上课喽，大家为我祷告吧。。。

FOOD, FOOD and FOOD!!!

Its been long since my blog was so colourfully filled with photos right? Well, I just want to use this post to declare MY LOVE FOR FOOD!!! Even though that means I have to spent more time exercising. Good food can do wonders like making my day! I even had this bizzare desire of hoping that there will be good food in Heaven. Haha... So this photos bascially makes me happy and I want to share it with you... As you see, alot of them are Japanese food rite? Because I am CRAZILY IN LOVE WITH JAPANESE CUSINE! All these photos of food look delicious and yes, they taste delicious coz the photos I take one mar. Ahaha... Jealous rite?

Watami @ ION Orchard







Azabu Sabo @ Central


Japanese Foodcourt @ Liang Court (Mind you, this is a food court selling AUTHENTIC Japanese food, not some lousy local foodcourt)


Mr Curry @ Central


Aston @ The Grand Cathay



Pasta De Waraku @ Illuma


Sushi Tei @ Tampines 1




Nan Xiang Yuan @ Bugis Junction (Besides this dish, the food there is not very good, not recommended)

Joe Hisaishi Concert

800 people choir singing to "天空之城" or "Laputa" theme song. Seen here in Joe Hisaishi's (Composer of the music to most of Studio Ghibli's works) concert.



AMAZING!!! Almost teared watching this, so grand and touching! Joe Hisaishi is a genius!

看到旧时候的我们，莫名的伤心。。。

还好，平日的我已不再那么伤感了，看来我已习惯寂寞了。

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

The 6th movie Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince didn't fail like the previous movie, Order of the Phoenix (which was really a messy one), infact it is the best Harry Potter film yet! I heard a lot of people saying that movie 6 is boring, I have two guesses, 1, either they didn't read the books and all the wanted to see an action packed movie or 2, they expect every little gritty details to be included in the film.

Book 6 is one of my favourite books in the series, not because its filled with action but its very tasteful story telling leaving you with a lot of question marks that will be revealed in Book 7. And I think the movie did actually successfully captured the main plots of the book and actually TOOK TIME to tell the story, the slow story telling was long gone after the Chamber of Secrets movie. The film was filmed tastefully with the superb CGI, I like the tone set here in movie 6, long gone were the days that Hogwarts has this warm glow filled with magic, this time, Hogwarts is filled with this gloomy atmosphere that tells that doom is coming (Doom did came at the end of the movie, won't be a spoiler in case you haven't read the books or watched the movie). The characters have more soul in this film, (e.g. Hermione, Snape, Dumbledore and Draco Malfoy's emotional turmoil). All these made the film to be the most matured one out of all the movies. Credits must be given to director David Yates that he did not spoil the story like the one he previously did, but made it into one the best Harry Potter film yet.

So if you are just only following the movies and not the books and expect the "WOW" factor from all the actions, that forget it, don't watch (I mean, Harry Potter's phenomenon was always because of its story, not its actions, there are so many fantasy gig out there nowadays, go on and watch those if you like action packed movies), go read the books if you must, I bet you will be hooked. But do come back when movie 7, part 1 and 2 is out, because action is guarrantined as it is the final showdown of the world of good and evil. Anyway, I might watch movie 6 again in the cinemas, who knows?

Anyway 溏心风暴 airing in Channel U soon! One of my favourite TVB classics. Haha...

Movie rating: 4/5