Sometimes, I wish my brain was like an inexhaustible database. Wouldn't it be nice if I could remember all the cool stuff I've read in their entirety? Well actually the brain is like that, isn't it? Just that mine was probably not wired properly, so every time I slot in some new component, another gets overwritten. sigh.
Which is why I need to put things down in words. And why I shall post (yet) more poems today.
Do you believe in an afterlife? in whatever form?
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
notes: This poem was left in an envelope for his parents by a British soldier Steven Cummins, killed on active service in Northern Ireland, to be opened in the event of his death. Apparently, it wasn't written by him, and its origins are unknown...
When You Are Old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
by W.B.Yeats
Another poem-wistful~ I wonder if I would feel lk this when Im old. In fact, I alrdy feel lk this, at least what's described in the 1st stanza. Sometimes I look in the mirror and find that my eyes have changed. They look harder, less vulnerable. Is that a good or bad change?
Ryo Kase~~
I think Clint Eastwood should have won Best Director for this year's Oscars, instead of Martin Scorsese.
I mean, Infernal Affairs didn't even have an original plot, and the HK original was still better. Ok, Iwo Jima was based on Gen. Kuribayashi's journal, but it wasn't entirely cut-n-paste material..Im not saying Scorsese doesn't deserve any Oscar at all, but why didn't the jury award him for his other, better (and original) films?
Anyway, this was sparked off after watching Iwo Jima recently. Somebody told me it was funny, and I was like,'What?? isn't it supposed to be one of those sad, poignant films? why funny?' You know what? She was half right- it did have some amusing bits. One particular scene where they suddenly cried, 'Long Live the Emperor' in unison just sent me chortling. I dunno why, the way they did it was just highly amusing to me.
Isn't there a popular belief that there's at least 1 stranger in the world who looks like you? Hey, maybe that's true.
Because there's this guy in Iwo Jima who really looks alot like *gasp* Micky!! Monki said he looks lk an improved version of Micky. (nope, i don't agree Monki!) He plays Shimizu, e kind hearted Kempeitai. The minute I saw him emerge from a helicopter in the rain, i went,' OMG! Micky!!' After that, I was like,' Please don't die please don't die~' So you can imagine my sadness when he did. sigh.
Some pple might say he died a coward, desperately clutching that white towel to his chest lk that, but I think otherwise. He saw that the so called 'foreign savages' were every bit as human as he was, and even their mothers were lk his own. What exactly was his fighting for? For the pride and honor of the Imperial Army? which expected the soliders to 'die in glory' for the Motherland all on their own without reinforcements? How do you do what's right? Does any right or wrong even exist in a war? I think Shimizu just saw the pointlessness of it all. Maybe he believed the right thing to do then was to surrender, because he believed his enemies were humane enough not to kill him. In other words, his surrender was an act of faith. But maybe faith doesn't exist in a war, because he became a tragic victim of it.
Ooh, the actor's name is Ryo Kase. He was in Nobody Knows too, as e minimart employee! I didn't know that!
I mean, Infernal Affairs didn't even have an original plot, and the HK original was still better. Ok, Iwo Jima was based on Gen. Kuribayashi's journal, but it wasn't entirely cut-n-paste material..Im not saying Scorsese doesn't deserve any Oscar at all, but why didn't the jury award him for his other, better (and original) films?
Anyway, this was sparked off after watching Iwo Jima recently. Somebody told me it was funny, and I was like,'What?? isn't it supposed to be one of those sad, poignant films? why funny?' You know what? She was half right- it did have some amusing bits. One particular scene where they suddenly cried, 'Long Live the Emperor' in unison just sent me chortling. I dunno why, the way they did it was just highly amusing to me.
Isn't there a popular belief that there's at least 1 stranger in the world who looks like you? Hey, maybe that's true.
Because there's this guy in Iwo Jima who really looks alot like *gasp* Micky!! Monki said he looks lk an improved version of Micky. (nope, i don't agree Monki!) He plays Shimizu, e kind hearted Kempeitai. The minute I saw him emerge from a helicopter in the rain, i went,' OMG! Micky!!' After that, I was like,' Please don't die please don't die~' So you can imagine my sadness when he did. sigh.
Some pple might say he died a coward, desperately clutching that white towel to his chest lk that, but I think otherwise. He saw that the so called 'foreign savages' were every bit as human as he was, and even their mothers were lk his own. What exactly was his fighting for? For the pride and honor of the Imperial Army? which expected the soliders to 'die in glory' for the Motherland all on their own without reinforcements? How do you do what's right? Does any right or wrong even exist in a war? I think Shimizu just saw the pointlessness of it all. Maybe he believed the right thing to do then was to surrender, because he believed his enemies were humane enough not to kill him. In other words, his surrender was an act of faith. But maybe faith doesn't exist in a war, because he became a tragic victim of it.
Ooh, the actor's name is Ryo Kase. He was in Nobody Knows too, as e minimart employee! I didn't know that!
