movies n books..

video marathoning's dying off.. haa. ran out of interesting movie or at least, interesting to me..... let's see wat Ive watched..

• Death Note 1+2 (good! Storyline's super...) ...
• U,Me n Dupree (okay lah..)...
• The Last Kiss (prove my pt bout men... =P)...
• Night @ The Museum (ok la..quite lame..but it's Ben Stiller..wadya expect? watched it for him..haa)
• Material Girls (SUPER chick flick..beet like Legally Blonde kinda stuff..)
• Babel (watched it for Brad Pitt... beet slow ..but story line's not too bad..n for guys..I guess they watch it for the naked jap girl..sheesh..do they really need to have tat in the show?)
  
• Curse of the Golden Flower (Boring...Slow..otherwise costumes n acting were pretty good..)
• Little Miss Sunshine (very cute..n heart-warming show ..for all.. male,female,family, couples..all)
• The Pursuit of Happiness (2nd time I watch..it's fantastic...)
• Akeelah n the Bee (good, simple story..but inspiring n interesting..)
• Band of Brothers (I LOVE IT!!!! Im looking to get Flags of Father, Rise of Hitler, Letters frm Iwo Jama..etc.. =) The courage..the determination..the sacrifice.. is more than admirable.. though im not a "war-fan" .(im more like anti-war).. but these shows really remind me how sad n silly wars are..a total waste of lives.. weapons.. time.. when these could be use for better purposes..aren't we all the same... seeking happiness...seeking a happy meaningful life.. does getting rid of enemies bring u eternal satisfaction? provided u dun get killed by them first...

some other movies Ive watched...but din finish cos I kept falling asleep on it.. either it's boring,to me...or it's too slow... or it's both.. (once again..personal opinion...)

• The Prestige (I know many say it's good..but slow la...)
• One Last Dance (another supposingly good show..but it's too dark..n the dvd quality sux..)

halfway tru the series Heroes...bit like X-men type.. not cartoon la. bout this group of ppl with indiv special powers.. kinda cool... only half-way tru the 1st season. =) still wanna get my Ally Mcbeal..ive got Seasons1-3 liao! ..gotta get 4 n up. =) must go JB soon. hee. been reading too, currently on a book bout Japan's biological warfare during the WW2...it's really sad..how they intentionally infect thousand of ppl held captive n hit villages with biological bombs..infecting them with viral disease, like plague, cholera, anthrax etc..tell u bout it when im done with it..

oh ya, read a book yest..been a long time since I finished 1 book in a day.. or rather a book tat was interesting n good enuff to keep me reading non-stop..( i haf super short attention span, remember?)
it's Siddharta by Herman Hesse.. dun mistake it for a "religious" book .it's alotta to do with how the author connects with Prince Siddharta's life..thinking... n all the dissatisfaction with wat he gets.. constantly seeking for things.. tryin to escape from himself.. infact, the novel's not the actual story behind Siddharta..some parts were altered by the author.. wat kept me glued to the book was all the "facts" the feelings we are feel constantly...the dissatisfaction with life.. the wanting to escape.. n how others neevr seem to understand us..
n there were so many observations n reflections tat pp seem to take for granted..

n if u think about it, everything teaches us something.. even difficult people, or ur so-called enemies, they are ur teachers too, they teach u patience, compassion, and forgiveness... it's a simple to read book..I strongly recommend it if u are interested.. it will make u re-think ur perpective of life... =) will leave u guys with some quotes from the book...

• Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters and falls to the ground..But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path, no wind reaches them. They have within themselves their guide and path.

• Learn from the river...the way it listens. ..learn how to listen, listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions..

• There is no time...time doesn't exist..the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source, at the mouth, at the waterfall....everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future....

• Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.

• When one seeks, he cannot find.......When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of what he is seeking...a goal...he is obsessed with the goal.... Seeking: to have a goal...but finding means: to be free, to be receptive , to have no goal.

• The world is not imperfect, it is also not slowly evolving along a path to perfection. It is perfect at every moment: every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men...
  

With metta.......