Tuesday, October 18, 2005
there're some characters from movies and books that just stay stuck in my head, especially if the story is character-driven.
here's one of them
Bridget Vreeland from Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
she's blonde, hot, sporty and fulla attitude. and this book's made into a movie, i want to watch it to see if the girls match up to the book's ones. i think i like her because she's someone i'm only hmm..like 1/8 of? she doesnt care at all abt what others think abt her, doesnt think but rushes headfirst into things. i mean i do shades of myself in her, like how i can let go of myself quite easily but she does it without a single shred of rationale holding onto her. amazing. i cant find anyone i know who's like her, all of us are still very much governed by our sanity. the book describes her as having the trick of moving at a pace so fast that is was thrilling and reckless. i guess on one hand, it's good because she shows decisiveness(which i once used to have loads of) but on the flipside, she's a hazard to herself. the cool thing is that in the second book she mellowed down but still retained her very endearing characteristics. that's why she's my favourite girl out of the 4.
another femme fatale(haha)...
kat from Ten Things I Hate about You
played by julia stiles! another reason to love this character. i really love her in Save the Last Dance..hiphop+ballet! jaw dropping. she's incredibly funny and she goes BRALESS! wow..confidence siah. she's the titular shrew for this modern remake of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. very cool. spouts the bitchiest lines but u cant hate her. haha. but the movie's kinda crap actually, i just really really really really like julia stiles and heath ledger. OH YES. heath.ledger. i wanna watch Brokeback Mountain! i saw the trailer, the music and the scenery are pretty..and the story sounds good too but very very sad. ok those who are of age(prob will be m18 or r21) when it comes out next year, GO WATCH! now back to why i like this girl..aiya she just has loads of spunk and doesnt let the high school crowd dictate her life. respect.
and now, i'm gonna check out save the last dance again and sisterhood. to my sisters!
11:03 AM
Sunday, October 09, 2005
today's jrs, sunday school and sermon were all linked. i think God is telling me something.
jrs: sermon on the mount
turning the other cheek when someone slaps u. ben said that it's not exactly literally that but to love your enemy as u love your neighbour. let God judge and resolve the situation. the world calls for us to take justice into our own hands but that's simply not the way of Jesus.
sunday school: 1john4
i think the questions that melissa asked from here to help us better understand this passage is a succint summary abt our Christian faith. this spiritual life we possessed is determined not by how good we are but how we show love to others. to know God and to love Him who is not seen, is to love those who we can see.
sermon: The burden of love (Malachi1:1-2)
here, i learnt more abt God's love towards us(which was nicely put in sunday school too that His love had to be be manifested in God incarnate, Christ and the final concluding all-power atonement he made for us sinners). It is a burden to Him because like the Israelites who robbed Him of His rightful honour and breaking faith with others, we in all our modernity(is there such a word?) are doing the exact same thing. i think what stood out from the sermon is the word "burden". how can love be a burden? but it is when it comes to loving ppl who are hard to love, the outcasts, the insenstive, rude ones. and then i thought abt jrs and what ben said abt loving even those who hurt us. and then it just all came together. that is true love.
have a great week ahead everybody. take time to talk to someone who u dont usually give a hoot abt. forgive that person who has cut a deep wound into your heart. spend a few moments to thank your parents for driving u to school, for making dinner, for staying up with u when u mug. as for me, i think i know what it is that God wants me to do.
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