It's Pup's Sweet Sixteenth!


I love my sister :) She's a very strong and sweet and special girl who will be a God-fearing and beautiful young woman soon. She's 5 years younger than me but sometimes she is the older and wiser sister in the family. And gives excellent advice that belies her young years :)



PS. I shall blog about school soon because it really suxOrs but I will not tarnish this post of Jo with such nonsense.

PPS. We played table soccer after dinner. Jo and I lost to Ow. Then my dad came and Jo teamed up with him while I teamed up with Ow. We won only because at the last sec, my dad went "I'VE GOT IT! I'VE GOT IT! DON'T WORRY!" and then he pushed the ball into his own goal. HAHA!

11:09 PM

Watched Atonement on Saturday. It's not out in the theatres yet but worth a watch. This is one of my favourite scene in the movie as the entire household waited to turn Robbie in for a crime he did not commit. It's a beautiful film, shot in gorgeous colours and this scene in particular, was really dark (as in lighting wise) but you could just make out the gorgeous dress that Keira Knightly as Cecilia was wearing and the accusing blue eyes of the actress playing her younger sister and the one with the fanciful imagination. Her actions eventually led to the demise of Robbie and Cecilia's relationship. That, to me, was the biggest triumph of the director and his team.

The war scenes were good too. No actual fighting. But the mass of injured soldiers and the shooting of the calvary at Normandy Beach (I think) while waiting to be sent back to England were wonderfully filmed. Also the broken down carnival juxtaposed with the war casualties were surreal. But just like real life, the shittiness is often laid side by side with faded glories. Suffice to say, (no spoilers here), but there was no happy ending. The younger sister had to bear the burden of her self-righteous and jealous behaviour. Atoning for it by self-denial for her whole life.

It got me thinking about what atoning really is. And the whole cause and effect thing. Like how Briony the younger sister was always seeing things that she should not be seeing lest she jumped to the wrong conclusions which she did. Also the soundtrack was made of soaring concertos (of course!) and interspersed with the click-clack of typewriters in the climax-building parts. So cool. Oh yes, because Briony was a young budding writer who kept trying to re-write the story she helped formed dishonestly. I felt that it was a great theme to build around on because really, who didn't write for an audience or cheated a little even when writing diary entries?

I have a whole list of movies coming out in 2008, thanks to Ow's incessant email forwarding at work. I hope the rest will be at least half of Atonement's standard. These days, films and books are really my only transport out of the dreariness of everyday life. Sigh!

6:43 PM

nothing like a little photo-op...

It's the primaries! And it's about the only political news I'm actually in touch with because being the pseudo-American I am (Mcdonald's, Starbucks, Old Navy, Abercrombie and Fitch, The O.C, Gossip Girl, NYC, Cali, West side, East side, Ghetto earrings, Celebshades, Target, Krispy Kreme, Def Jam, etc.), it's also the only one I'm genuinely interested in. The rest are for school and the occasional bleeding heart causes.

I think that Obama owns them all here. And he ought to get the Dem candidacy just because his name is just so fun to say. Obama. But also, less superficially, he looks like the most comfortable one here holding on to a baby.

7:43 PM

Happy 21st Chipmunk!

The first person I know from '87 to turn 21. I love you homegirl!

12:38 PM