Family

My parents are here on a so-called cooking tour (my father has a unique sense of humour).

They're here to cook for us while my sisters sit for their mid-term exams. They have been here for nearly two weeks now.

I have been busy with work, as usual, and I have not had time for updates.

Please stay tuned until I do. :)

Family

Love

"In sickness and in health, until death doth parts us"
Mr. and Mrs. L are the pharmacy's regular customers. They nearly always come to the pharmacy together. They stand patiently at the counter whilst I get their medications ready. They would make small talk whilst waiting, the kind that husbands and wives make after being together for a very long time, yet are still very fond of each other. When I go to the counter with their medications, Mr. L signs the scripts and tells Mrs. L to pay for the medications. Mrs. L exclaims in feigned indignation, "Pay with my money? You give me money only to take it away from me?" She proceeds to tell me sotto voce, "That's to make sure that I won't leave him" and she smiles. I then jokingly reply, "Who does the cooking?". Mrs. L says, "I do! I do everything and he does nothing!", to which Mr. L affirms, "I do nothing". They carry on their bantering all the way to the door.
Mr. L, on one occasion of him coming to the pharmacy without Mrs. L, told me that Mrs. L had a bad back. "Goodness knows she has a bad back, with me as her burden all these years, but don't tell her that."
Mr. C is by Mrs. C's bedside every day. She is a shell of her former self, sleeping most the time due to the pain medications given to her. She can no longer talk nor walk from weakness, her eyes lighting up when she has visitors, her eyes the windows of communication when speech fails her. Mr. C sits and watches over her, his love for her is silent but strong, stated not in words but in actions.
They know better than others the meaning of love, love that transcends mere words. I am moved to awe and tears. I hope to begin to understand, if only a fraction at a time, what love is all about.

Love

不爱

陶喆-不爱 专辑:太美丽

快阻止时间倒转

当我们再次遇见

这样的表情最适合隐瞒

我依然爱你很深

别再多看我一眼

别试探我真的感觉

我怕认不出又会重眷恋

你连背影都温柔

不爱就转身离开

一个人把回忆推翻

不爱 for the love 未来

你和我的信任我也不回来

不容许陷害前伴

误解了别离的悲

不可能送来这遗憾的爱

我们都真实对白

不爱就这么离开

一个人被寂寞煎伴

不爱只守着被爱

I love you forever 不能说出来

不爱就转身离开

一个人我学会忍耐不爱去那找被爱

I love you forever 微笑着离开

I love you forever 就这样不爱

不爱

KT은 나의 첫번째 사랑 이다

그러나 그는 나의 마음을 아프게XX다

KT은 나의 첫번째 사랑 이다

I Don't Need Your Concern

From the instant you dealt me with the blow,

I no longer need your concern,

Whatever hopes and dreams are truly illusions,

We've past the point of no return...

Do you wish to see me better so that you won't feel the guilt or conscience?

I don't need your sympathy,

Whatever hopes and dreams are truly illusions,

This is the way it has to be...

Shall we be friends and pretend we've never happened?

What is the point to this whole charade?

From the instant you dealt me with the blow,

The dice have been thrown, and destiny has been made...

I Don't Need Your Concern

The Painted Veil

This time on the plane, I watched a grand total of THREE films back-to-back - "Music and Lyrics", Because I Said So, and The Painted Veil.

For starters, I was glad to pass the chance to see "Because I Said So" in the theatre... I couldn't imagine sitting still in the seat without wanting to jump up and run towards the big screen to strangle BOTH Diane Keaton's character Daphne Wilder AND Mandy Moore's Millie Wilder, as a result knock myself silly against the screen AND get escorted by the theatre attendants for portraying violent behaviour in the screening of a M-rated film (M for Moderate Sexual References, NOT Maniacal Nutcase Portrayal).

"Why did you watch it in-flight, then?", you may ask. I am a masochistic person, after all... I have read the reviews on this film, I know that it's bad to say the least, I just wanted to know for myself just how bad it is. Yes, it's bad. There are two saving graces, though. After watching it, I am most grateful to have my mother as my mother and not a persona of Daphne Wilder breathing down my neck. The other saving grace is Gabriel Macht. His smouldering gaze and enigmatic personality was the driving force for me to endure 1 hour and 41 minutes of paranoid mother-daughter behaviour.

The surprise film was "Music and Lyrics". I was told that it's not so good, but I personally found it to be pretty good. I especially liked the parts where Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant get together to compose the song and sing it together, and the ending where Hugh Grant sings a different song to win over Drew Barrymore. I really like the two songs, and Hugh Grant's singing voice sounds like a cross between John Lennon's and Elton John's. :)

(Way Back Into Love theme song from "Music and Lyrics" sung by Hugh Grant and Haley Bennett)

I watched "The Painted Veil" last. I didn't know what to expect, but the title intrigued me, as did the synopsis. The opening musical theme swept me away, as it faded to open the first scene, I just couldn't stop watching. Come turbulence, toilet breaks, air sickness, this film had me under its spell. Everything from the cast (Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, and even Anthony Wong Chau Sang!), the dialogue, the plot spoke volumes to me.

I would get "The Painted Veil" on DVD for remembrance. Good films are hard to come by, and it's worth it to get it for collection. :)

"Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people."

(The Painted Veil Poster (taken from http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/p/z/N/thepaintedveilposter.jpg)

(A La Claire Fontaine - ending theme song from "The Painted Veil" - sung in Chinese by Shang Wen Jie)

The Painted Veil