Pooh Talk

Everyone has their comfort food or favourite past time. I just have comfort movies and I am not crazy abt them or have to watch them over and over again but I just to have them around to play in the background even while I am doing other stuff. Not even crazy abt Brandon Fraser or Rachel Weiss or anyone in the movie and I probably know the darn thing begining to end. It is just one of those with just enuff action, special effects and swashbuckling style to make me grin and just watch it without using my brain. I kind of like the sand stuff :) and for the 2nd time in my life, I like the sequel. The first and only other movie I like which has a good sequel is Indiana Jones and The Mummy is similar to a certain degree although I prefer Harrison Ford any other day. Autumn is here in Bj and the air is cool. Really going to try to enjoy this short period of time before the cold winter sets in. Currently it is sunny, cool and just wonderful for strolls and walkabouts! Look out for more pictures to come for my last autumn in BJ :) 

Another one of those pessimistic views of the world. News nowadays are pretty depressing with coups and terrorism stuff. How the world has changed since 911 - almost like WW2.... indeed no place is perfectly safe anymore. As the media always tacitly agreed on: bad news is good news.... otherwise it will be boring. Sometimes I think if all the effort in the world to play politics is put into medical research and social develpment, what wonders will we have discovered by now. Yet we cannot avoid what is in our baser instincts. A lecturer once taught "politics is the struggle for influence in a human relationship" - it is not merely the stuff we watch on TV between politicians but it exists in all of us. Husband and wife, brother and brother, parents and children, friends and colleagues.... we all try to influence each other, subconcsciously or not, for good or or evil. Kind of makes you not want to get out of bed the next morning but it also makes life an interesting knot of dilemmas and choices. In the end, it still boils down to how you face yourself in the mirror each day - have you lived fully with the time God has blessed you on earth?

Cynic or just being realistic? But I like the way it strikes true and yet sounds somehow sad..... Was watching this HK drama series "布衣神相" which was recommended by the store helper who swore heaven and earth that it was good. Turned out to be kind of ala 'Indiana Jones' but this guy wears flowing robes and uses a bamboo stick than a whip. Story is HIGHLY predictable (I mean they even call the bad guys "黑道" and the good guys - you guessed it - "白道". How more obvious can you get?) and yes, the female lead IS the daughter of the BADDEST guy but she doesn't know it yet. BUT, the fight scenes are pretty good. I think my diet of "鹿鼎记" and "楚留香" has me shaking my head and fast forwarding all the so-called duels. This one however, uses pretty high tech but yet not overdone. Some of the scenes were a tad revolting (mother flinging herself in between her son dueling with guy who saved her) and SO simplistic (you can so tell who is the bad guy - he wears horns and yes I BET he will become good in the end and vice versa) that I wonder WHO is the target audience for this show. I need intrigue!! I need someone to hate!! But script has its moments in flowery speech (like the title)..... I have it on if HBO, Discovery, Nat Geo and AXN fails me and they often fail me these days.....

Or is it "Beast"?..... hmmm.... well the word 'savage' shld suffice a good enuff pic :) My friend S has just given me a music Cd which she has burned some songs she wanted to share and it was nice of her. I have no particular fav music genre and no special singer or group has me waiting at the airport for their arrival or pay half a month's salary to attend their concert. In fact, if friends do not tell me what is the song title or the name of the singer, I will have no clue as to some of the songs that I like. For the past 1 year, I have stopped listening to the radio - not that BJ's radio stations are totally terrible but I don't think I OWN a radio here. Used to listen in on the way to work or when I shared an office with colleagues and they really prefer FM93.3. That was the time I knew more chinese song titles and probably could even hum a tune or 2 (and prob knew more chinese words then). The most I would do here is to watch V Channel which is the chinese version of MTV and even then, I think I lose interest after 10 mins. Some MTVs are interesting but music to me, is something in the background, part of the subconscious. Not that it is unimportant.... I like listening to music when I do things and esp when I rollerbladed.... And what will movies be without a good soundtrack? I truly admire those who can play a music instrument well - really blessed!! Can you imagine that it is already not easy for humans to have language in the first place but to discover music?.... God is good to us :)

These days, the sun sure goes home REAL early. By 6:45 pm, BJ is almost in total night. Had dinner at Sommerset Apartments last night and was TRYING to flag down the small yellow bus after but somehow, none was in sight. Hence decided to walk a bit in the direction of home.... when someone approached me to ask where is the nearest ATM. Cool, I actually look like I KNOW where I am and better still, live there. Have I been entirely assimulated or is it what I wore..... or just maybe, it was the creeping darkness :) So have I suceeded in what I set out to do? Which is NOT to be a prime target for kidnapping and robbery :) hee hee..... Anyway, never DID find a yellow bus all my 20 min walk home. It was a nice cool stroll and I even managed to find a stall to buy some peaches. This seem to be PRIME time to buy peaches as they are everywhere. I have changed my fav fruit from apples to peaches..... MUST eat one at least once a day. As some of those who know me will say : better than let her snack on chips and cakes and GET fat.....

At least that is how I think they spelt it.... :) Do drop by Stuff in Albums (see left of blog) to view all the recent photos of the Thai Charity Food Fair today. Great food but the durian was a disappointment. Not that I eat durian.... I don't really eat unprocessed durian. Durian cake, ice cream, puff.... ok. Durian fruit.... nah.... the place was a tad sandy and all of us got our feet really dirty. Smoke from the satay BBQ and general cooking also filled the festive place and after 1 hr, most of us had sneezies . What is impressive is that they actually had quite a few dance performances and all in bright clouful costumes. Now NEXT week I hear will be Spore's turn to host a food fair. And THAT will be interesting considering there are at least a hundred Thai restaurants here to support the fair but only abt 5 Spore restaurants here in BJ.. and one of them is Bread Talk.....who sells bread in a food fair and that is our national food? I wonder if we can befriend M'sia and co-host the fair together..... I mean, there are quite a few M'sian restaurants here and their food is not bad mah....

An old woman was feeling pain and stiffness in all her joints one morn and she gritted out "Old age ain't for sissies!!". Barring the fact that no one knows when they will go off to meet God, what kind of old person do I want to be? For health, there are already stuff we all know like "you sow what you eat", "exercise goes a long way", etc. Just look at all the vegetarians out there and you almost admire them for their ability to eat for the future. I know i don't want to be one of those old, sickly, stuck in wheelchair types who need help to go to the toilet. Just WHAT IF I don't die before 70 like I hope to? And even if I do, I don't want a lingering sort of death - something fast and neat will be fine :) So can you be brave enuff to face a wrinkly self with parts broken down? What is there to get you to get out of bed the next morn? I so hope it won't be the TV :) Will you be filled with bitter regrets or sweet memories to light up your long days? I know some of my friends are still playing around with cigarettes and even that "I-want-to-try-at-least-once" dash of drugs. I just pray they will not regret it decades down th the road. A little step goes a long way to prepare yourself now - eat a little better, walk that extra traffic light and call that old pal of yours :) You never know who is going to hold your hand at the very end.