Friday, January 20, 2006
the point is, they lived

all right, i'm feeling much better today, really. no more talk of darkness. hmm why do i think of the phantom of the opera? there's a guy in the right wing who plays the starting chords of the phantom of the opera on the guitar everyday. it's starting to grow on me. there's something about a guy who can play a musical instrument.

it was annie's birthday today. happy birthday annie! =D we gave her several gifts - a photo collage [candy's idea, but i helped hurhur], and some gifts. i wanted to do something special [because you're only 18 once, and i didn't really have time to make anything, and birthdays are meant to mean something more than cake and presents], so i got candy and sumin to make her walk from their geog tutorial to the avt [sorry i didn't know the distance was that great] with her eyes closed. when they'd gotten her seated in there, still with her eyes closed, i started playing tonghua [this chinese song that she likes; i'd gotten the score from aman]. when she opened her eyes, she started crying, and then i didn't know what to do, so i just kept on playing, but by then i'd gotten all nervous and agitated and i started playing wrong notes so it was really embarrassing. oh well. at least she liked it. sort of. does crying count as liking it? or maybe it was so painful that she started crying. oh well. it was a fun birthday anyway. for us. cutting the cake and giving her retarded and embarrassing gifts. why is it that our friends' birthdays always have more significance than our own?

watched 'ever after'. i don't really like drew barrymore, but that's not the point. the score was rather moving, not to mention the landscape. and oh i like the servant boy. the prince was a bit of a royal pain in the ass, and cinderella was rather pitiful, although she was likeable as a child. but i like the twist to the story. it's a lot more realistic. but i've been thinking, what if it was true? think about mulan. she defied the highest authorities to do what she thought was right. why couldn't cinderella have existed, have attended the ball, have stolen the prince's heart? but it's really more realistic that he should reject her first. i mean, isn't that human nature? what is love, without trust? but then you have to wonder if you even earned that trust first. i like this line from the movie. the last line: ' the point is, they lived.' it came after something about them living happily ever after.
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