love is in the aiiiiirr...

Christmas is coming! yay!!!!!! i lurrrrrrve Christmas. Christmas is for friends, Chinese New Year is for family. heh heh... well at least in singapore. i'm sure ang mohs (or a BBC)will disagree with me... but yeah that's the way it is around here.

oh yeah and not forgetting, it's the wonderful day that our dear Lord Jesus was born. doesn't that just make christmas special?

the reason why love is in the air is because of "The Holiday". i have no life. all my posts are about movies these days... i don't think very much, do very much... or rather i have no need to write about whatever i do think or do. anyway, back to The Holiday. it's super romantic, not to mention the eye candy available in the show. well at least half of the main cast is good looking... Jude Law is soooooooo hot, soooooooo charming, i would fall in love with him in the movie. too bad he's not like that in real life... lying cheating stinking rat. Cameron Diaz is cute... she's so adorable! i like her. for some reason, i can totally identify with her character. well i wish i was as hot as her... and as rich and successful as her character, but other than that... somehow... she just feels... familiar.

arrrrrggghhhh! so irritating. i wanna fall in love NOW.

the christmas weekend starts on Wed next week!!! Department Party on wed (which i'm co-organising btw...), Zara sale (i wanna go in the morning) and Megalife musical-STRINGS on Thurs (which i'm helping to do makeup for), Noel Fiesta in church on Saturday (yeah i'm helping out there too), visiting City Harvest on Sunday with Ber (cos no service on sunday at riverlife) and party at home for family and the girlfriends, Christmas dinner on Monday (we're gonna dress up!!!!!! yay!!!!)

i'm looking forward to next week!!!! hehe!

then before you know it, it's gonna be New Year's Day. 2007 is coming. i feel myself growing old already...

OK. no melancholia allowed before Christmas. depression can set in later... i'm happy-happy!!!

war...

... Is a truly disturbing event.

the movie Flags of Our Fathers brought this into clear perspective all of a sudden. I don't think I could ever survive like that. And much as I wish that this is just a movie about a war in the past, the reality is that there are wars going on now. Just that in Singapore we are coocooned from all these harsh realities of life.

Flags of Our Fathers is not just a war movie, even though the movie is about a battle between the US marines and the Japanese Army during WWII. The movie centers around the iconic photo of the 5 marines and 1 navy corpsman raising the US flag on the hill of the island Iwo Jima. This photo became a symbol of victory for many Americans. The 6 men in the picture became national heroes, only 3 survived the battle.

heroes. What are they? And how do they get to become heroes?

people say seeing is believing. So photographs are often held up as evidence in court... But what is real? That photograph of the flag raising was actually the 2nd time they had raised the US flag. The 1st flag was raised by a different group of soldiers and was subsequently lowered cos of orders from one of the majors. The original photograph had evidence of the 1st flag being lowered in the corner, but of cos that side of the picture was conveniently cropped out.

too many things to think about in this movie....