Train

Tonight I'm listening to a few old chinese pop songs. It brings back memory of the old days... when I was still a kid with the biggest ambition of getting a big bag of gummy candies. It's a long journey to come to this point.

Arrrr! I need to save money!!

Grizzly Man

Warm at Night

These days the air had became colder than the summer days. The autumn is suddenly here, and it signals the flu season as well. Fortunately, I have not gotten sick and needed to stay in bed to bear the misery of an ill person. Therefore...

I thank God for the procession He had given me so that I can keep warm at night. Even though my fireplace is not working (due to a water tank repair is undergoing in this building, so the gas had to be turned off.) I thank Him for my health, my wealth, and my relationships. Furthermore, I think I should thank Him for forgiving my sin and giving me eternal life.

With grateful heart, today I turned my eyes on this Indian movie trailer: GABHRICHA PAUS (THE DAMNED RAIN)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSzUN_E8Q4

If you haven't heard (as I too haven't heard about it previously), then you should be informed that some farmers commit suicide because of crop failure and the mounting debts. It sounds implausible, isn't it?

I guess not.

Reading Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood

Lately I've had the fortune to pick up a book by Margaret Atwood. Previously I've read one of her books before, a science fiction called "Oryx and Crake". It's nice as a casual read but I do not consider it an excellent book. Most of time, I would prefer Isaac Asimov. However, this book, Bluebeard's Egg, is quite interesting. I like the well defined characters, and the miniscule details Ms. Atwood paid to human interaction and emotions. All the stories take place in ordinary places and times. I feel like she's giving a description to the fleeting feelings we often felt but we scarcely paid any attention to them, like pointing out a grain of rice at someone's face. Then we would think about it, and laugh at our insensitivity to an obvious situation. It's been a long time since I look forward to the Skytrain ride which I can fully enjoy reading the book, oblivious to everyone and things around me. Or is it a good thing?

Watching "the Visitor"

I'm still watching it. So far it's quite interesting.

A Father's Prayer

A Father Prayer Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee - and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail. Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, have not lived in vain. - General Douglas MacArthur (May 1952) I really like this prayer. I would have done the same, among praying for all these things, to put my son's life in God's loving hand.

Figure skating

Evgeni Plushenko @ 2006 Winter Olympics Very nice, dramatic performance.

Movie: Into the Wild

Am I going thru DVD too fast? Soon there would be nothing interesting to watch. I thought this movie would be boring, seeing this is a story about a young man had gone into the wilderness and abandon everything he knows behind. The movie turns out quite fun to watch, despite my initial doubt.

Movie: The Counterfeiter

A friend said too many sad movies is bad for the heart. I agree with her. The movie I watch tonight is sad. It is sad because it is true, or was true. The Counterfeiter is a movie about a counterfeiting operation during World War II to fund the German war effort. We know that the Jewish people who helped the effort would be treated better than other inmates in concentration camps. It had happened not a long time ago, but soon to be forgotten. We seldom ask ourselves what does clean linen mean, because it is not a life and death decision. I seldom look up the sky and ask why am I been given much, because I want more. People say happiness stem from one's attitude. Do they realize what it means? I'm touched by lives, the lives of the people who are less fortunate. There is nothing wrong with it. In fact, it makes God's words the more alive. Matthew 25 34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'