Saturday, February 09, 2008

happy cny =)

i'm thinking that thousands of others probably have the same entry title as i do - but who cares as long as we're all sincere!

anyway, CNY's the same as every year, except that yesterday i went to watch 2 tearjerkers at the cathay. i know P.S i love you's opening on vday, but it doesn't hurt to watch it earlier and so doo and i did :X

the number of pieces of tissues used for P.S i love you was 4 :X with all 4 of 'em remaining soaked in my precious tears even at the end of the show cos i was practically crying continuously throughout the 2 hours i was seated in the cinema, except for certain parts of it where it made me laugh. and obviously, as with reading the book, whenever the guy signed off with "P.S I love you" i'd just cry and cry. Why? because every letter he wrote was written because he knew she couldn't live without him, and he knew that his death would be harder for her because she's the living. I must say that if I hadn't read the book, i probably wouldn't be tearing endlessly. because I remembered certain things and the intensity of those things, and I thought about them during the show, it just made me feel Holly's pain and cry even more. For example, the book could express how much she needed to hear Gerry's voice from his voicemail so she never cut off his mobile phone line, but in the movie that's just displayed as her lying on the bed and listening to it (which looks kinda one-off). Another example was that in the book, Holly was wearing Gerry's clothes so that she could still get a wift of his smell even though he was physically gone - and even so, his smell would slowly fade off into her own (so freaking sad). And being so engrossed in crying, I didn't notice in the movie that she was wearing Gerry's clothes until doo pointed it out to me that she actually was. :X furthermore she was fooling around in them, and not mopping around aimlessly in the house - eating for the sake of eating, and falling asleep only when she gets tired. so I suppose if anyone intends to watch the show without reading the book, it may be a good thing cos then it wouldn't make them cry as much as i did X_X! the mind can be so powerful. anyway, the good thing about the movie was that it showed me how beautiful ireland was :X and basically, it puts a picture to the characters and all - which is why people like movies - because it's visual. still, i'd recommend that the book be read for the INTENSITY of the entire story to be felt. boohoo :(

okie, on to the 2nd movie: Away from her. I used only one sheet of tissue on this because by the time the next wave of tears came, the first round had sorta dried up. And also, i had probably cried too much during P.S I love you to have more than what I had during Away from her, so I just sat there feeling terribly sad. Away from her depicts what I would call the losing battle (yes it is so negative and pessimistic of me) that we have with Alzheimer's disease - I hope i spelt it right, and it is a disease and not a syndrome right? OK i should've checked this up before typing. Well, I call it a losing battle because it is degenerative, and as said in the movie, caregivers (possibly spouses if in a home environment) have to be prepared for the condition to worsen, and not improve. It just deteriorates from my experience with my grandma. So well, there's this elderly lady and her husband who have decided that she go into a retirement facility. While her husband was reluctant to let her go, she knew she had to even though she knew they both didn't want to (Men should know how to drag their women away some times...). It's so sad cos she said that at that point in time it wasn't up to them for them to do what they liked to anymore. And I feel that she was so brave to tell him that 30 days isn't a long time as compared to the past 44 years they spent together (well isn't it because they haven't exactly been apart for more than 30 days before in those 44 years that makes it actually LONG?). Well, after a month at the facility, true enough as I had guesesd, she had forgotten him (OMG) and he went to visit her daily.. only to see her holding another man's hand and tending to his every need T_T. i don't know how anyone could bring themselves to witness this kinda thing and not cry on the spot. Anyway, after a year she remembered him and the show ended that way. Nobody knows if she'll remember him the next day, or the following day, but I guess that's what it is like with Alzheimer's.

enough of sad movies. Ailay, Eric, doo and i are going to catch happier ones later XD! And i'm hoping we could make it in time to Orchard to get my popcorn plushie, and hopefully visit substance HAHAHA. jiahui tempted me on chinese new year's eve when i couldn't go anywhere but home after work cos i was working till 450pm and she told me there was a 50% discount (but actually i was quite sure they wouldn't have anything nice in my size left so I wasn't too excited - but i just wanted to go down one of these days to see if there're any new arrivals - i hope doo doesn't see this). whEEEEE!~ it's saturday and now it dawns upon me that I am getting closer to Monday. OMG what happened to thurs and fri? X_X

4 weeks more to the cruise trip :D
bee at 8:11 AM