It's funny...
how people can be so stupid sometimes. So cruel, evil and unsympathetic. Just because people have ill-treated you, does not mean that you should or have the right to mistreat others, or even the general populace of people who have done you wrong. I do understand, how such a desperate situation could arise. Years of repressed hatred, of being treated like dirt... Well I didn't say the perpetrators of such treatment aren't at fault either.
Haha okay I wrote that yesterday actually, right after watching Hotel Rwanda. In a much better mood now, but my thoughts on the movie haven't changed. It just further reinforces what a character in the show said, that people watch the news, the killings, the massacre, and they just say 'oh that's terrible', and go back to their dinner. But what's more terrible than the mindless, senseless killings, is the horrifying lack of sympathy or action on the part of the people who have the power to help and yet just stand by, watching. It's kind of disgusting, I'm even disgusted at myself, simply for being so lucky not to be there or that I don't live in such a place with that kind of strife, that I'm having such a good life compared to those people. But I still like that kind of movies, because of the good things that do come out of such situations (yes, there actually are), the bonding between people who otherwise would never have crossed paths, the strength and light of some people's characters, the kindness extended when it could hardly be afforded, and the happiness and relief and gratitute at surviving it, treasuring everything all the more. Sometimes I do wish there didn't have to be so much pain and hatred and all that though, because even the compensatory elements that arise from it are really not worth all the deaths and the hurt suffered. But then again, that's life, isn't it.
Watched as well, the sneak previews of Memoirs of a Geisha, last night. A pretty long movie, by the time it ended it was like 3am already. And went to Geylang for the first time in my life!... for frog porridge omg it's damn nice :) yes, also first time eating frog porridge (and YES I AM Singaporean -_-), and I think its damn nice! Why do they only sell it in Geylang?! Sniff. Okay nevermind that's besides the point haha... the movie was good! It's actually one of the book-turned-movies that, in my opinion, sufficiently does justice to the book. A lot of book-turned-movies are very untrue to the vision of the book, or cut so much that the plot becomes so thin and not adequately fleshed out. Read the book, but pretty long ago and could only remember bits of it, but the movie unfolded the story beautifully, making me remember the intricate story of the geishas. The only quibbles I have with the movie is the rather bad narrating and that it got kind of draggy at times, and that the main actresses were mostly chinese (?!). I do admit that the chinese actresses chosen have great acting skills, and speak fairly decent English; but Michelle Yeoh looks nothing like a Japanese la seriously -_- But other than that, it's really pretty good. Well maybe because I love the story, but well, you decide when you do watch it.
Haha. I can't believe I slept so much after that la. After eating, fell dead asleep in the car on the way back, and got home and promptly fell asleep again, and upon awaking went for lunch at my grandma's house, slept in the car on the way back, and once again promptly fell asleep when I reached home, awoke for dinner, and here I am now. Anyone see a trend there?! Terrible la hahahaa. But well I did spend most of my Saturday in school! Maybe going to early morning class on Saturday and listening to a bunch of brainless stuff was a big mistake. The only saving grace of the day part of Saturday was the movie la, seriously. And the company. Oh well... what a rather boring weekend, except for the good movies. Didn't even go to Union on Friday night la haha, HRC on Thurs was pretty good though! And so were the Tuesday classes :) Hopefully this week will be good too, but the amount of work lined up is so frightful!
"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves, until one day there are none. No hopes, none remain. It is not for a geisha to want, or to feel."
Shan'er cab over with chocolates now!! *whine*
:1:08 AM: :sugah~plum
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