It's 8.30pm and here i am blogging, which is mortally wrong because i usually leave this blogging business to Deep Time (ie disgusting hours of the night), when my brain has exhausted all its mental capabilities. But i figured that the penning of my personal thoughts and reflections should be given as high a priority as that damned chem focus that i intend to do. The more intelligent of you readers (ie. the ones that can tell date and time) would have realised that i'm blogging for the second time in two days, after blogging at a rate of two entries in two weeks during that period of self induced dearth of entries. I call it the diarrhoea after a constipation. I think this blogging business is kinda cool cause it allows me to pen down what i think in a place more secure than my absent minded mind. Sometimes i wish i had a laptop or PDA to carry around and record random thoughts as and when they surface. Some can be enlightening (for me, that is) but when i come home and type it, it just comes out like phlat, and does not make much sense.
And today is quite a momentous day considering it is the earliest i have gone home in a few hundred years beacuse there was no odac training today. Decided to finish watching whatever remains of The Chronicles of Narnia that i watched halfway the night before. Watching movies in the company of me, myself and I (as was the case the past few days) should be outlawed, because movies ought to be viewed with friends man. The most regrettable part of watching with me, myself and I is that when there are funny parts, i end up laughing to myself and seem like a great moron. Anyway, Narnia was quite a disappointment. It was very LOTR-ish in its setting and the war scenes and the gather-ye-men-for-a-great-war-against-evil theme. But its also quite cool how C.S. Lewis drew a (obvious) parallel with the crucifixion of Christ through the story. What's quite disappointing is perhaps how stupid the battle was (the children were how fei) and also what finally defeated the evil army was a reinforcement of troops who were "dead", and that is just so return.of.the.king-ish.
The lamest scene would have to be when Aslan finished off the witch (in ways unknown to the audience hmm) and all he said was "It is finished." And the parts where Aslan blows (as in expelling wind from the mouth and not anything else) at the creatures who have turned to stone, and causing them to become alive again is just stupid. But kudos to the producers for making such a touching lion that is Aslan, and also for their captivating trailer that got people so interested. Perhaps the movie would have been much better if it wasn't created to appeal mainly to kids but a more matured audience.
For the record, i've been having one of those we-, weird dreams again. This one happened like a week ago but i didn't bother to pen it down and now the details are so very sketchy. Anyway, I remember i was in this beachhouse (more like a beautiful timber mansion) that was by the sea. Like really next to the sea, with a flat structure made of planks that continually had waves sweeping upon it, damn cool. I can't exactly remember who was featured in this dream or what was the main gist of it (i keep having the nagging feeling that someone died in the dream), but i remember the last part where i knew i had two weeks vacation in this house and could engage in any watersport or sea activity as i so desired. I remember feeling awed by this nice guy who was the owner of the house and who was damn cool and could teach me anything i wanted to do, be it jetski-ing, steering a powerboat, kayaking, basically anything to do with the deep blue sea. And i remember feeling damn excited in the dream and as fate would have it, it turned out to be then that i awoke from my slumber.
And it was damn rare that i actually so wanted to go back to my dream, to try out all those watersports, and i really dreaded going to school that day. But anyhow, we all know you just can't enter dreamland at will like that. It's pretty much like THE CUPBOARD in Narnia, whereby it is pretty much a one way ticket out of it. No matter how stunning it was inside that dreamland, you just can't walk into the cupboard and enter Narnia again. Perhaps the magic of dreams is that (to quote the Professor in Narnia) "you will find it when you're not looking for it".
At this point, i must congratulate myself for having remembered all that i wanted to blog and also for almost finishing the book Freakonomics. It seems reading has somewhat caught on with me, and i seriously recommend this international bestseller that will challenge the most conventional wisdoms. But beyong international bestsellers, the best seller of all time, the book of books often throws up unexpected bits of wisdom.
Ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. - John 16:20 KJV
And this verse holds quite a lot of truth. Perhaps we are never meant to lead a "happily ever after" life, a life brimming with happiness. But maybe Man has been inbuilt with a unique mechanism, a mechanism to find happiness amidst sorrow, cheer beyond sadness. And perhaps we will never have a life of happiness but we can only learn to lead a happy life.
And today is quite a momentous day considering it is the earliest i have gone home in a few hundred years beacuse there was no odac training today. Decided to finish watching whatever remains of The Chronicles of Narnia that i watched halfway the night before. Watching movies in the company of me, myself and I (as was the case the past few days) should be outlawed, because movies ought to be viewed with friends man. The most regrettable part of watching with me, myself and I is that when there are funny parts, i end up laughing to myself and seem like a great moron. Anyway, Narnia was quite a disappointment. It was very LOTR-ish in its setting and the war scenes and the gather-ye-men-for-a-great-war-against-evil theme. But its also quite cool how C.S. Lewis drew a (obvious) parallel with the crucifixion of Christ through the story. What's quite disappointing is perhaps how stupid the battle was (the children were how fei) and also what finally defeated the evil army was a reinforcement of troops who were "dead", and that is just so return.of.the.king-ish.
The lamest scene would have to be when Aslan finished off the witch (in ways unknown to the audience hmm) and all he said was "It is finished." And the parts where Aslan blows (as in expelling wind from the mouth and not anything else) at the creatures who have turned to stone, and causing them to become alive again is just stupid. But kudos to the producers for making such a touching lion that is Aslan, and also for their captivating trailer that got people so interested. Perhaps the movie would have been much better if it wasn't created to appeal mainly to kids but a more matured audience.
For the record, i've been having one of those we-, weird dreams again. This one happened like a week ago but i didn't bother to pen it down and now the details are so very sketchy. Anyway, I remember i was in this beachhouse (more like a beautiful timber mansion) that was by the sea. Like really next to the sea, with a flat structure made of planks that continually had waves sweeping upon it, damn cool. I can't exactly remember who was featured in this dream or what was the main gist of it (i keep having the nagging feeling that someone died in the dream), but i remember the last part where i knew i had two weeks vacation in this house and could engage in any watersport or sea activity as i so desired. I remember feeling awed by this nice guy who was the owner of the house and who was damn cool and could teach me anything i wanted to do, be it jetski-ing, steering a powerboat, kayaking, basically anything to do with the deep blue sea. And i remember feeling damn excited in the dream and as fate would have it, it turned out to be then that i awoke from my slumber.
And it was damn rare that i actually so wanted to go back to my dream, to try out all those watersports, and i really dreaded going to school that day. But anyhow, we all know you just can't enter dreamland at will like that. It's pretty much like THE CUPBOARD in Narnia, whereby it is pretty much a one way ticket out of it. No matter how stunning it was inside that dreamland, you just can't walk into the cupboard and enter Narnia again. Perhaps the magic of dreams is that (to quote the Professor in Narnia) "you will find it when you're not looking for it".
At this point, i must congratulate myself for having remembered all that i wanted to blog and also for almost finishing the book Freakonomics. It seems reading has somewhat caught on with me, and i seriously recommend this international bestseller that will challenge the most conventional wisdoms. But beyong international bestsellers, the best seller of all time, the book of books often throws up unexpected bits of wisdom.
Ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. - John 16:20 KJV
And this verse holds quite a lot of truth. Perhaps we are never meant to lead a "happily ever after" life, a life brimming with happiness. But maybe Man has been inbuilt with a unique mechanism, a mechanism to find happiness amidst sorrow, cheer beyond sadness. And perhaps we will never have a life of happiness but we can only learn to lead a happy life.
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