Pondering

Sunday

Dim Sum breakfast with Famous 5 and family. Appetizing meal with a plus of warm, long missed company to render a perfect Sunday morning. =)

Afternoon: A trip to Tesco and 1U to get the list done and to buy brother an Ipod Classic.


Monday

Finished Teen Idol (Meg Cabot) while waiting for Chloe and Jo at AC. Met Tick Loong before they arrived, he's still the same old cheeky him. =p

Ordered a kaya + chocolate waffle and soon the 3 of us indulged in reminiscence of our college days, crazes, funny moments.. Vowed to The Fellowship of The Australian Coin and hugged them goodbye before leaving. Felt a little emotional, felt the past familiarity, not a tad of difference since we went our separate ways. =')


At night, Grace picked Zhen Shan and I out to Centrepoint for dinner at The Black Canyon. Dining with both working ladies clad smartly in their formal attires, I'd say though that we are still young at hearts - The 3 PTS Puay Chai frogs. =p Did a fair bit of catching up and the night was naturally pleasant, discussing about our futures and *ahem* personal current affairs.

All the best to you both!



Tuesday

Baby sister was at one of her best behaviors and we reveled in a session of Going-to-school-with-friends where we played along with our 7 toy friends, me being the music teacher and she being the PE "Hey jump like me" teacher.

Met Jian on MSN and she was extraordinarily high apparently because she was"deprived of testosterones". Thanks for the support, High Queen Jian! But I'd appreciate it more if you'd stop referring my prince as Prince Caspian The Uncharming. And I'm just as good being Queen Caspian alone, not Queen Caspian of Barbarians.


Felt sorry later that I have to leave sister at home while Aunt Lai Chin took Ying, Jiyian and I to Cineleisure for another movie: The Dark Knight.

But seriously, this is the best blockbuster of the century!


The storyline was riveting between morality and reality, and it did do us due justice for sitting through 2.5 hours of it! Every moment of it was gripping and the plot twisted and complicated in the darkness of the movie, with Batman grimly in the shadows. Also, the Joker, anarchic and "agent of chaos" is portrayed so creepily by the late Heath Ledger, with his twisted smile scars and stories of how he got them.


By and large, I feel that The Dark Knight explores realistically into its characters scope of emotions, and how fiendishly, the Joker takes advantage of humans feeble decisions between self-importance, sacrifices and susceptibility towards their emotions while constructing every dilemma. And its messages are evident how he wants to prove that nobility doesn't stand in our messy, disordered world, how we can be our own baits, how good and evil forces can overlap so easily. And probably well, that there are still some goods in humans.


I was particularly moved when Alfred decided to burn the crucial letter, seeing how the truth was best left unspoken.


It's true that most of us want a hero in our lives, maybe not realizing how their spirits are too, vanquishable, how white knights can be defeated, however moving it was that Batman desires to preserve the faith and protect the beacon amidst the darkness. I wonder..

Batman: Sometimes, truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.


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The Joker: I took Gotham's white knight, and lowered him to our level. It wasn't hard. Y'see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little...push.
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Lt. James Gordon: We'll have to hunt you.
Batman: You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, you'll set the dogs on me. But that's what has to happen.
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Alfred Pennyworth: Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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The Joker: When the chips are down, these civilized people will eat each other. You'll see. I'll show you.
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Batman: Not everyone's as ugly as you are...
The Joker: That's just sad... You can't rely on anybody these days...

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The Joker: You see, nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If I told people that a gangbanger was going to get shot, or a busload of soldiers was going to get blown up, nobody would panic. It's all part of the plan. But tell people that one tiny little mayor is going to die and everyone loses their minds!

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Harvey Dent: You thought we could be decent men in an indecent world. But you were wrong; the world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.


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Lt. James Gordon: Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now...and so we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector...a dark knight



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ps: A must watch!