movie book
everytime i finish a series, a gd movie or a book, i'd always have some revelations. today, i simultaneously finished a drama series and a thick book. i'm filled with so much to off load i dont know how to. feel so stressed just to type it out. i finished 'overtime', a jap drama tt was pretty hot in singapore 10 yrs ago. i started to watch it again in the name of improving jap. and it was in a way disastrous. but i guess its normal soap opera. guys likes girl. heard fr someone tt she loves him but feels tt she will want to live with another guy who she also likes and is more dependable. in her dilemma, he became a bastard, and made her leave him just to help her decide on her xing fu. in the end, the girl left with the dependable doctor, leaving him behind. he was a photographer and published a series of photo albums with backviews as theme. last page of it was her back view when she left on tt fateful day, and saying: dedicated to the most impt fren in my life, Natsuki.
i actually teared in that final scene. even tho i know wat was to come since i've watched it so long ago.
sometimes i think we like to dramatice our lives. its a self reinforcing... its like we watch drama, we dramatice, our lives become like the dramas... so dramas become these little realities in life.
the other huge revelation, in contrast to this lovey dovey soap opera is actually LKY's memoirs. i am secretly amazed that i could be so geeky as to finish it in the 2 weeks i am here in japan. its like almost 800 pages... i dont think i 've ever read such a thick book cover to cover in my entire life.
in it, i got a deep understanding of so many things that was relevant to me that was a result of this man's doing!
from army training areas in ROC and Brunei to our CEP in the army and civil service, to Shell's 'helicopter' framework of assessing pple in the civil service and etc.
I feel like I have heard all of this from him, since its written in the 1st person's narrative. its like watching a Forest Gump kind of show. in it, its all abt his dealings with all the leaders of the different countries and he would go down to describign in detail whether they were forthcomign etc. sometimes i found it rather sensitive but this is LKY for you. straightforward, but always able to backup his opinions. I like this style. and anyway, so its abt describing them and his experiences in detail, detailing his dealings with different countries tt was of impt to sg, like malaysia, indonesia, japan, china etc. and each time he is done with an era of a country he moved on to the next, since he was in office as prime minister for some 20 over yrs.. he often dealt with 2 or 3 generations of a countrie's leaders, and with each, ever often you hear of someone he dealt with being in exile, being in jail coz of corruption, or simply assasinated. its like in one of those benjamin button movie, where pple come and go in your life, with life and death just ever tt routine. i wonder whats on his mind in one of the many funerals he attends.
ok. enough of the amazement at him thing. i'm sure u get my drift.
humbling. kinda wana make me stand up and be involved in the country in a generation that takes this stability for granted.
a little abt today, coz todays' pretty special. i stayed at home the whole time today. in between i went down for my meals, but realised tt today is like rest day for the canteen, which means i gotta get out and buy stuff myself. i went to a supermarket, and bought some bento and decided to go to the park coz the weather was great! with lots of sun and i think i needed a little tan. so i did just tt, bringing my LKY book with me, a yoga mat, bicycle, food, drinks and sat down and read and slept on the mat. pictures will be on FB soon. its was fun!
i even bought kimchi! and at night, i had oden, and i had them in my rm with my Belachan! its my first time on belachan since here and it was a major orgasm. haha. with kimchi, an onigiri. it was just great.
i actually teared in that final scene. even tho i know wat was to come since i've watched it so long ago.
sometimes i think we like to dramatice our lives. its a self reinforcing... its like we watch drama, we dramatice, our lives become like the dramas... so dramas become these little realities in life.
the other huge revelation, in contrast to this lovey dovey soap opera is actually LKY's memoirs. i am secretly amazed that i could be so geeky as to finish it in the 2 weeks i am here in japan. its like almost 800 pages... i dont think i 've ever read such a thick book cover to cover in my entire life.
in it, i got a deep understanding of so many things that was relevant to me that was a result of this man's doing!
from army training areas in ROC and Brunei to our CEP in the army and civil service, to Shell's 'helicopter' framework of assessing pple in the civil service and etc.
I feel like I have heard all of this from him, since its written in the 1st person's narrative. its like watching a Forest Gump kind of show. in it, its all abt his dealings with all the leaders of the different countries and he would go down to describign in detail whether they were forthcomign etc. sometimes i found it rather sensitive but this is LKY for you. straightforward, but always able to backup his opinions. I like this style. and anyway, so its abt describing them and his experiences in detail, detailing his dealings with different countries tt was of impt to sg, like malaysia, indonesia, japan, china etc. and each time he is done with an era of a country he moved on to the next, since he was in office as prime minister for some 20 over yrs.. he often dealt with 2 or 3 generations of a countrie's leaders, and with each, ever often you hear of someone he dealt with being in exile, being in jail coz of corruption, or simply assasinated. its like in one of those benjamin button movie, where pple come and go in your life, with life and death just ever tt routine. i wonder whats on his mind in one of the many funerals he attends.
ok. enough of the amazement at him thing. i'm sure u get my drift.
humbling. kinda wana make me stand up and be involved in the country in a generation that takes this stability for granted.
a little abt today, coz todays' pretty special. i stayed at home the whole time today. in between i went down for my meals, but realised tt today is like rest day for the canteen, which means i gotta get out and buy stuff myself. i went to a supermarket, and bought some bento and decided to go to the park coz the weather was great! with lots of sun and i think i needed a little tan. so i did just tt, bringing my LKY book with me, a yoga mat, bicycle, food, drinks and sat down and read and slept on the mat. pictures will be on FB soon. its was fun!
i even bought kimchi! and at night, i had oden, and i had them in my rm with my Belachan! its my first time on belachan since here and it was a major orgasm. haha. with kimchi, an onigiri. it was just great.
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