1.02.2005

 

[i *heart* huckabees]

before you know it it's 2005 already! wanted to do a midnight post but was busy packing my bags for the 0900 flight back to cam - besides, posting on NYE is a bit sad. speaking of sad, though, the recent earthquake/tsunami disaster has really dampened the festive mood, plus the incessant rain over the past week or so meant that i had to cancel NYE plans. pity, though, considering that it might be the last NYE i spend in sgp for a while. was looking forward to catching electrico at the esplanade, and/or going to CHIJMES for their salsa / latin-house party. but nobody would really be in the mood, not after everything that's happened.

it IS interesting that the public healthcare conglomerates (i dont know what the correct term to use is, but neither do i want to mention their names!) only sent teams of 3-5 doctors to aid in the rescue/recovery, while the private healthcare groups have sent teams of 25 doctors (with a few more planned, i believe) - depending on your viewpoint that could either mean that public sector doctors are very harried taking care of the local population already and really can't spare much time to help, lest their caseloads explode, or simply that the private sector has a bigger heart. true that doctors who have gone private are at liberty to set their own schedules, but they too have patients and schedules to manage. yet why is there such a disproportionate response to the disaster?

still connected, in a really roundabout way - caught 75% of The Motorcycle Diaries on the plane - you know, the film about Che Guevara, who took a break in the last semester of medical schol to go on a road trip to the other side of South America with his buddy to visit a leper colony. the film stopped just at they arrived at the colony.. thus far it's a bit one-sided in its heroic, can-do-no-wrong depiction of Che Guevara, but then again, it's based on something he supposedly wrote (correct me if im wrong), so no big surprise there. don't get me wrong, it's not a bad film, it does raise questions, but it does seem a little preachy.

I *heart* Huckabees is an absolute TREAT. it's by the same director behind Three Kings, that Gulf War show that was really good but drew more attention for its depiction of violence (i still remember the scene about how a bullet goes through flesh) ; it's not a serious movie, though - it's more like Confessions of A Dangeous Mind in that it's really satirical, but it's more laugh out loud than Confessions. everything comes together really well, and believe it or not, it's a philosophical movie!

last review, because i spent most of the journey catching up on sleep. watched We Don't Live Here Anymore - loosely based on two short stories, We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery. it's one of those marraige-breaking-down movies, though it's quite well acted IMHO and clearly illustrates what's going through each character's heads. been thinking quite a bit about these things recently, ever since i blazed through The Unbearable Lightness of Being before my flight - PS it's a brilliant book; philosophical fiction - and i must admit the thought of being stuck in a loveless marraige with kids and not knowing what to do chills me to the core. (moot point, who wouldnt?)

the single biggest advantage of paying rent over the holidays is the fact that everything remains in your room, instead of being spread all over the place in various (locked, hopefully) cupboards, plus i have a ready stash of food in the room - an important consideration since i arrived on the evening of jan 1.

sadly, though, i realise that i can't really figure out how to use a can opener. to my credit, it's not a normal can opener - instead of inserting it horizontally and cutting the circumference of the lid, this one goes horizontal and slices the whole lid AND rim off. and if youre wondering, i eventually gave up and dug through all my boxes for the instruction manual. what fun..

ok that's it. evidently im not in a blogging mood; i'm just posting because quite a lot has happened. blogging for the sake of blogging, i'm afraid.

Sugababes - New Year

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Sitting here stressing at 2:30am
About how fast the year can go
I wonder where it went
If we start all over again, would it really work
I know that you could be, could be, coming back to me

Mesmorised, but of thoughts of fear
Traumatised, I'm so scared to feel
Wanna stop thinking gotta get to sleep
Gotta wake up fresh, get on my feet
Push the thought of you away
Do it today

I'm older than my years
Drowing in my tears
Surrounded by the fear
Since you went away, a year ago
At Christmas

You locked away your secrets
Kept them away from me
I only came to say goodbye, now you finally see
You wanna start all over again, make it work this time
But I don't wanna end up feeling far away from fine

I memorised, what you said to me
So surprised, it was hell to be
So frustrated with the way we were
Not a single word could make it work
Now look at us today
We blew it away

I'm older than my years
Drowing in my tears
Surrounded by the fear
Since you went away, a year ago
At Christmas

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PS just discovered through IMDB (the internet movie database) that there's a TON of i *heart* huckabees websites. try this questionnaire out.. would you believe i'm a solitary casanova? ^^;

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