In my life, I love you more.
There are so many things I wanna blog about actually, and that itch began two weeks ago when I watched this really awesome French film called The Divine Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) at Alliance. The film was fricken inspiring and deeply moving! I kept thinking about my parents (yes, again) and it didn't help that the cinema was filled with the older folks who were weeping away as well. Sigh, I'm still grappling with the issue of my parents growing older. Anyway, the film deals with the true story of a French Elle magazine editor who became paralysed. More like a vegetable actually as he could only move his left eye. Can you imagine? JUST the left eye?! Every single scene was perfectly shot and brilliant captured I can't even begin to fully describe it. And I really felt that I was there in his shoes - when he desires to be free from the sinking feeling of the diving bell and the imagination he has to be absolutely free like a butterfly. And most times, he does it with a great sense of humour which I thought was the best essence of the entire film. The part when he was learning how to speak again (by blinking his left eye ONLY - 1 blink for YES, 2 blinks for NO) was especially heartwrenching. It was an eye opener to witness how patient and understanding his speech therapists were and then it hit me how much I wanna do the whole social worker thing again. :( And what really got me was his relationship with his dad. There's a line in the movie when he said, "we are all children. we all need approval." So true. Sometimes we forget that even how grown up we are, or how experience our parents are, some kind of approval is always nice. What a pure gem this one is. Definitely one of the more beautiful films I've seen this year.
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My weekends have been filled with so many things lately. School, the awesome flea market at the start of the month with Manisha, the super fun annual jalan raya with my sec school friends and I had close friends over for abit of catching up during this Raya season. It's also always nice to see my favourite people with some planned and some I take as wonderful surprises. :) But this weekend is gonna be entirely different kind of busy. The plan is to have abit of quiet time for myself and for my assignments. To say I'm swamped this month is truly an understatement. I'm so behind my classes especially my PR class I dunno what to do with myself and how to begin!! ARGH so seriously I better just wake myself up and get those damn things done. LAST WARNING.