The Break up

Went to see the Break up last night, I expected nothing more than just an ok and watchable chick flick drama for a quiet Saturday night. This turned to be an interesting movie since it reveals a fairly real-life view, the very human side, of a struggling relationship and its potential reconciliation. Several scenes made me nod and see the points. Not quite a romantic comedy one, I laughed, I cried, I smiled and at the end I left the theatre feeling a little empty.

It's impossible to swim in the same river twice. But one can be a smarter and stronger swimmer as you now learn the current. Cherish the breaking up. Life does not always go your way. And in that truth, it's a world of magnificent possibilities.

I better go to have a nap...making a lazy Sunday.

Asia discovery

If there is a place where you can see mixed races & cultures & scenes and where you can feel time goes anti-clockwise, and where there should be endless excitement yet still a mysterious space waiting for you to discover, for me at least, that should be the Far East.



My favorite quote from a traveller's journey discovery.

"Being a stranger means being free and expereincing the weightlessness of the self. There is no longer anyone to tell you who you are -- and so you are no one. If Andre Malraux was right when he wrote that "Europe believes that whatever does not imitate its reality represents a dream," this explains what is so appealing about Asia, the chance to journey through a dream, to cut loose from your own identity and conscious will and abandon yourself to other forces; to immerse yourself in the murky waters of the unconscious and become invisible, even to yourself."

-Carten Jensen- from "I Have Seen the World Begin".

So true. To becoming nobody and let's observe what others and surroudings can offer...it makes life sound more tasteful.

Drawing skills

Another idea of the host. Unless you drew a picture of yourselves, you weren't allowed to step your feet beyond the door. Ah....only creative people could get in. Jan decided to swop drawing skills of each other.

I started. Almost a little confused- da vinci code-sort of work, I managed to complete this mission impossible task. It wasn't too bad. He started. I found myself looked like a man (!)

Gallery 155

Tess and her roomates, Ae & Morgan, turned their sweet home (address #155) to be a small but cozy photo gallery last Saturday night. Everyone had to bring at least a photo as a pass ticket to get in. What a great and fun idea! I went there with Jan to share our artistic sense. Here are what I was proud to bring along...

Viewed from my old condo, fire engines tried to put out a big blast of old shophouses.

Sangklaburi, near Burma border. The supossed to be longest wooden bridge of Thailand.

An early morning on a trip to samed, an accident of a big heavy loaded truck --- flipped over and headed up to the air.

Jazz and a raining night

Grey sky had put me down over the weekend. My mood seems to somehow be a bit better today. Bangkok and, I guess, much of Thailand have been experiencing almost everyday's drizzle and gloomy weather. My plans this evening were to visit a spa for a review, then join an opening of a photogarphic exhibition "Virtual Bangkok" and head my way to a temple for the candle Buddhist day. All had to be cancelled.

I ended up driving in a bit of traffic with a jazz radio station on. Jazz music in a raining night....umm...not so bad... "Kisses in the rain". My favorite "Fly me to the moon" and others that I don't know. The warm embrace of tunes made me smile with myself (like a crazy girl) with lighthearted feelings all a journey home. I wish I already had a bag packed at the back of the car and was driving for a trip somewhere now....