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Hi everyone! Well my sis is leaving Singapore today for the US and I think the next time we see her will be in 8 months time. Bah kinda sad. My mum is worried for me ama, because she gets really emotional about my sis. Starts qqing and like losing sleep over her. And hotdamn if you're 96 these small jolts can really get to you. 

I think in the past few years my ama's been kinda more depressed coz her hearing has deteriorated and that really hampers her communication with people. Right until we bought her the hearing aid, she was qqing about being lonely. Yeah and then my sis ain't home so she's always worried. Plus, I swear everyday she says she'll be brought home to be with the Lord and the Great One has rewarded her request with nothing haha. Not that we want her to die though. It's just that 96 year old bodies are painful to be in. It's arduous for her to get up just to practise walking with a walker. 

Hmm oh wells in the past 2 nights I watched 2 movies. First up. 300. What a kickass film

Knowing that this could be a violent movie-of-the-year event I got my parents to watch it as well. Definitely one of the few times my movie interests coincide with my dad's. He's a steven segal fan -_-. Well the CGI was absolutely godly, and I think it also set a precedent for comic-book adaptations by giving the film a particularly hue and sheen such that it actually looked like a comic book. It's incredible. It gives the film a totally surreal look that blurs reality and fantasy.

Haha the violence certainly didn't disappoint. Limbs chopped off, decapitation, eye-stabbing, awesome gore. I can't take torture, but manly gore so owns. Lol such are my double-standards. Plot-wise it wasn't bad either. I thought the climax at the ending was pretty good (cept I realised that leonidas had about 10 easier chances to stab xerxes before this). One thing that troubled me about it was that the main emphasis of the film was that they were fighting for freedom, the right to be free men. And yet from the way they live under spartan law we see that their emotions are often constrained and inhibited because they are forced to keep up the manly image. So yeah I thought it was a little contradictory. Not completely, but just a little.    

The next one was a really heavy film. The Sea Inside directed by Alejandro Amenábar is a highly acclaimed Spanish film that raped the Venice Film Fest in 2004 by winning Best Picture and also Best Actor for Javier Bardem. 

The movie is based on a true story and revolves around a quadriplegic's bid to end his life by euthanesia after being bed-ridden for about 25 years. The Sea Inside refers to his fantasies about the sea and other things like intimacy that exist inside his head. The great thing about this movie is that it's not focused on the legal battle, but the guy himself Ramon Sampedro. It's about his pain, frustration and charisma. I mean he gets himself into a love triangle wtf, he's gotta be a charmer. The love triangle is interesting and it's really integral in pushing the storyline along but I'm lazy to talk about it haha. He kills himself in the end.     

Javier Bardem gives an astounding performance as Ramon. I cannot even describe how good he is. How he manages to make a quadriplegic attractive, humorous, even seductive while also conveying his suffering and bitterness is quite brilliant. It is a truly absorbing performance. If any of you have read Love in a Time of Cholera by Marquez, it's going to be made into a film and Bardem is going to star as Florentino Ariza aka the guy who becomes lovesick for like 100 years or sth (a difficult task I think -_-). And he's already starred in the Coen brother's new highly, highly acclaimed movie No Country for Old Men as the main villian. Uber versatile sia! 

Well one of the reasons I'm lazy to talk about the love triangle and stuff is that the movie is so heavy with symbolism and subtlety. I watched the making of the movie and only then I realised how dense it was with meaning and how dense I was not to catch any of it. For example, when he dies at the end suffering (coz he ate cyanide lol), the director was trying to say that if euthanasia was legal, he wouldn't be suffering so much. I was like holy hotdamn I r dum.

Ok I shall end off with 2 videos. One is So Small by Carrie Underwood, who at the moment is uber popular because of her clean, christian country music (the christian right is powaful!) and her chiobu image. I gotta say she is one of very few women I think can pull off boots well. The second one is Over You by Daughtry. The trendy xy told me about the song, and I've been waiting for the video to be released. Love the song. 

So small

Over You