祈求一点雨

天气实在是热到不行

没有一点雨

我像那朵黄花一样

皱皱了

老天爷

求求你吧

来一场清爽的大雨

What is Love?

My friend asked me what is love.

I have no definition to love, but I know I can differentiate love from like.

When you love someone,

You go extra miles for the person

You are happy when the person did a little things for you

You miss the person when him/her is not around

You want the togetherness

You long for a hug

You feel close

You are happy when the person is happy

You are sad when the person is sad

You are even paranoid sometimes

...

You can have these feelings to lots of people, because you can exert love to many people. Different types of love. To your lover, your family, your closed friends.

Love is always a broad term.

To love your family that you're born with, it just comes so naturally.

To love your friends who stand by your side when you're in trouble, but doesn't require you to stay with him/her/them forever and ever, it requires lesser decision making.

To love your lover, whom "Till death do us apart", it requires tonnes of courage and a lot of decision making. Because that, is a gamble of your life.

Knowing love doesn't guarantee one to find love. There's a scenario that love stories like to paint, is when a girl married to a guy who loves her more than she loves him. The girl's heart is with someone who left her. I always thought that is some stupid love stories that was trying too hard to sell. But I have been so naive, I had just recently found out that these can happen in real life.

My friend told me the strongest reason for a girl to married a guy that she likes but doesn't love, is age. Society, especially in Asia, still hold the "belief" that girls should be married before reaching age of 30. Under such tremendous pressure, a lot of people had made decision as this.

So, I guess it depends on how you want your life to be. To married a person you like but not love, and gamble for your marriage and whole life? Or to search for the perfect one, have no fear to love, even when you're age of 40, 50 or even older...

I still, hold strong belief that everyone has a true love. You can only piece the puzzles that are matched. If you forced the puzzles to match, they're never a picture, nor they're happy.

Have you found your puzzle?

Don't give up hope, because I believe, everybody has a piece of true match, waiting at the corner. And because I love my friends, I don't wish any of my friends would ever fall into this.

Let's not give up, for love.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

*Disclaimer: If you intend to watch this movie, you might consider not reading this post!

Ever since I know this movie is releasing, I know I shall never missed this! How could one resist to watch Heath Ledger for the last time in cinema? Moreover, Johnny Depp and Jude Law were both playing a part as well. I can't resist, for sure.

My personal thoughts after watching the movie, I thought the show was very Buddhism. It was how a human deal with temptations and choices in life.

When the characters of the movie moved into the mirror, they're actually in Doctor Parnassus's mind. In this imaginative world, you will see the things you wanted the most. There will be two paths. One lead to temptations, one lead to reality. If you chose temptations, you'll die in Doctor Parnassus's mind, and hence, disappear from the real world, forever.

Doctor Parnassus himself had temptations too. Immortality and youth. That was why, he made deals with Devil. But the deal, was to give in any children he fathered to Devil when the child reached age of 16. When the little girl of Doctor Parnassus reached 16, that's when Doctor Parnassus worst nightmare came about. So deal after deal he made... Temptations and choices he had to face.

I thought, all the characters, Tony, Percy, Anton, the daughter, are reflections of Doctor Parnassus thoughts and temptations at different time. Because every human, at different time, we could act differently, having different characters and personality.

Percy was his angle every time he fell into Devil's trap, daughter was Love, Anton was heroic, Tony was trouble... The ending of the show, is all depends on Doctor Parnassus himself. Because he decided on which reflections to sacrifice, which reflections to stay.

I would like to watch this movie again, but not in the cinema anymore. It feels like The Matrix, you just have to watch 2nd time, to get a full picture of what the story wanted to tell you, in the hidden message.

Additional note:

I have never expected the transition of Heath Ledger to Johnny Depp could be so smooth. Wonderful!

Comfort

When it's cold, I get warmth from coffee

When I'm tired, I get a kick from coffee

When I crave, I go for coffee

(for your information, i haven't had coffee for a while, been trying to get rid of drinking that everyday, but doesn't mean not drinking at all :D )

Darth Vader, I am :P

I've finally made a decision, to pay $99 for a pair of Adidas Limited Edition, Star Wars Series. I just love my new Darth Vader shoes :)

The Box

Even the wrapper was Darth Vader :)

The Shoes

When Darth Vader meets Darth Vader

He's happy because the force is with him :P

Swimming happily in the world of Darth Vader

My colleague went to the shop with me during lunch time. He's not as crazy as I am towards Star Wars, but he'd like to check the Stormtrooper Shoes out too. I was persuading him so hard to buy, because I would like to "mind control" him.

(Actually the Stormtrooper shoes are better looking, because they're white. But, I'm just not going to buy Stormtrooper, seriously, I don't want to be the clones)

Unfortunately, he didn't buy. So me, the "Darth Vader" couldn't mind control anybody la~~~~

I'm sure I'll hear Darth Vader theme in the wind when I put this on >.<

Everything is in Everything

When you walked pass a hawker stall, you smell food. Do you smell rubbish too?

When you walked pass a rubbish bin, you smell rubbish. But do you smell food too?

I was running this evening, after work. I ran passed a hawker near my place, I smelled very strong seafood fragrant, and I saw the chef cooking. But a few seconds later, I smelled rubbish. There's a faint moment, the scenes of leftover food in rubbish bin came into my mind.

When we watched movies, we saw good in the bad guys. Especially when the kidnappers have grown feelings to the kids, when the bad guys missed their wives, when the... We also saw bad in good guys, especially when the cops killed for revenge, when the cops hid their own fault, when the...

There's always good in bad and bad in good.

In mathematical world, positive can be made up from two negatives, and negatives can be made up from a positive and a negative.

There's no distinct differences in this world, especially when it comes to relationship, when it comes to a person's character, when it comes to making a decision...

So why are we so judgmental to others' life?

So why do we sometimes persist on certain issue? As if we let go, we'll lose the world.

I guess if we can see the world, as a whole, where everything is in everything. I guess, all of us, can be a much more happy person than we are.

Right?

At least I think so.