Curious Cat

Taken at Tower of London, April 2012

Honestly, I paid 20 quid to see the crown jewels, the biggest stones of which were taken from Africa, are you getting my drift here? I don’t want to offend anyone, but I just find something wrong with that. 

Also, I am in love with this song at the moment:

An incredibly late one of Valentine’s Day -

To wake up one day, like any other normal day, fighting sleep, rubbing blurriness from your eyes. Little do you know sometimes, that some days won’t be just like any of those other normal days. Because sometimes, someone who loves you, will surprise you as you groggily walk to your microwave oven, with a gift-wrapped present. You might stare at it for some time, not really understanding. You might gingerly stick your hand into the oven to poke that clumsily-wrapped surprise object. You might fight a smile as you take it and bring it closer to your face and, as well, the urge to tear open the wrapper and slowly peel the tape off, one by one. Walking to work is like walking on a cloud, a new pretty thing on your wrist, and you open the door to greet your colleagues - only to find another surprise waiting on the carpet of your room - obviously, unhappy thoughts don’t stand a chance against such a stubborn someone who loves you. Your thank yous begin to become redundant, especially since you find yet another amateurishly but eagerly wrapped gift under your dining table when you arrive home, and when you think there can’t be anymore, is the biggest one by far waiting for you, wrapped a few times over, making you laugh, and then words, to warm your heart, and then memories, lovingly collaged, to remind you that you’re one of the luckiest people around, because there are some days when someone decides that normal just isn’t enough.

raining today, lost my umbrella, just got home but I don’t want to sleep yet, restless as hell. pictures are from a drier night. 

“Love for Life”

I watched this movie last Monday with my sister. It’s about two of hundreds of Chinese villagers who contracted AIDS by selling their blood for money. I downloaded it off asiatorrents because I kept seeing posters of it in Beijing (last May) and in Hong Kong a few weeks ago.

The movie (starring Zhang Ziyi and the incredibly handsome Aaron Kwok) was set in rural China during the 90’s. It’s all about living and dreaming despite being faced with the fact that your death is imminent. Despite the hope-filled supposed theme, however, it was still incredibly depressing. I think they should’ve made the final scenes a bit less tormented if they wanted to stress the redeeming point that I think they were trying to make.

xxx