sometimes, when i have too much time with nothing i'd really want to do, the tendency is to return to some memories of the past, to haunt myself... to revisit the hurt...
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Inflight Entertainment - "The Holiday"
... it is strange how the mind searches for things that relate to the emotional state that it wants to identify with ...
I was channel surfing during the flight and chanced upon "The Holiday" which was already about 50 minutes into the show. This was one of those SQ flights that had non-on-demand services, so the movies would run at the defined timing with no options to pause, or to turn back time. It almost felt like the dark ages...
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/theholiday/
i was amused by how corny Cameron & Jude's characters are in the show, but eventually, there was one scene that really took my breathe away. It was Kate's character, who talked about her past relationship. i could so relate to that ... perhaps it is not so uncommon to feel like that afterall.
The hurt wouldn't go away yet. In fact, I still have some difficulty to sleep well at night, an unusual thing for someone who never has problems knocking out in bed within a minute or two. But now that I am back in 常州, and will need to concentrate on work once again. 加油！
I was channel surfing during the flight and chanced upon "The Holiday" which was already about 50 minutes into the show. This was one of those SQ flights that had non-on-demand services, so the movies would run at the defined timing with no options to pause, or to turn back time. It almost felt like the dark ages...
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/theholiday/
i was amused by how corny Cameron & Jude's characters are in the show, but eventually, there was one scene that really took my breathe away. It was Kate's character, who talked about her past relationship. i could so relate to that ... perhaps it is not so uncommon to feel like that afterall.
The hurt wouldn't go away yet. In fact, I still have some difficulty to sleep well at night, an unusual thing for someone who never has problems knocking out in bed within a minute or two. But now that I am back in 常州, and will need to concentrate on work once again. 加油！
Sunday, April 1, 2007
常州 - First Look
Was in China for 3 nights, in a place called 常州 (Changzhou). The trip from Shanghai was about 3 hours by car, due to the heavy traffic conditions. The roads, I must say, are quite well constructed, being new and all, but with the speed of development in other areas, it is unlikely that the road infrastructure can catch up with the traffic growth. But then, which city or country can claim not to have traffic jams. If there were no jams, could it be that there is too much of a redundancy in public infrastructure?
Did not have the time to go sightseeing during this trip, but saw enough of the city to know that progress is extremely rapid in places outside of the main cities of Beijing and Shanghai. We hear all this in the news, and through accounts from others, but physically seeing this is another thing altogether.
In contrast to 大庆 (Daqing) where I had worked in the most in China, the hotels in 常州 are extravagant, and the surroundings are very developed, and in some areas, not unlike Singapore.
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