Sunday, July 12, 2009

Try to kill it all away but I remember everything

Watched Here, and wished the fictitious Island Hospital was for real. Looked like a wonderful sanctuary, and if I were there, I wouldn't wanna be out here. Some of the patients choose not to leave, citing reasons like they can't be "out here", or "amor fati", which translates to love of fate, not wanting to change a thing about the state they are in. The hospital also uses a form of video therapy to help patients revisit their breaking point to explore an alternative way to react. As my favourite character Valentino points out, life can only be understood backwards, yet it has to be lived forward. Great use of sound in the movie (George Chua), and a beautiful song by 刘文正, 我找到自己 (I've found myself) at the end.

Saturday, July 04, 2009

You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather

At a field, a white rabbit with orange patches caught my eye. It was so pretty! I'd not seen a rabbit like this before, and wanted to take a picture of it. But as I prepared my camera, the rabbit went into a hole. It soon reappeared but quickly made its way to the middle of the field, away from me. Not contented, I looked at the clouds above and tried to find an interesting spot to take a picture of, but it was not the same. Clouds are always above us, lovely as they are, but you only see a rabbit like this once.