Isn't it amazing? The more time I have on my hands, the lesser time I seem to have.
Doesn't make sense?
Let me clear things up.
When I am working up to 5pm, I have time to come back home, have dinner, surf the net, blog then sleep.
Yesterday, work finished at 1pm, I had my lunch, watched a movie, slept, woke up, had dinner, surfed the net then slept.
I totally missed out on the blogging part.
I had time. Lots of it in fact.
But then I was lazy.
(It's a good thing that I can identify my weakness, right?)
Anyway, I watched Slumdog Millionaire yesterday. I know I am a bit 'ketinggalan', but what can I do - the cinemas in Ipoh are not playing the movie!
I think it is a nice movie.
I don't know whether or not it is the best movie in the whole wide world, but then getting the Best Picture Award is certainly something they (whoever created the movie) should be proud of.
Even to be nominated for the award is something, but winning it - amazing!
One thing my friends and I came to conclusion a few years back about movies that win the best picture award - the movies are very philosophical, hard to understand, full of unknown meaning, not meant for shallow minded people like us.
But this movie is something I think everyone can grasp.
If you have not watched the movie, I think you should go watch it.
I am not going to tell the story and spoil it for you, but here is something I want to say - it is really sad to see that people in some parts of the world are actually living in such bad living conditions and suffering when we are so comfortable with our lives and can't stop complaining about how we don't have enough.
Isn't it sad that people are dying of hunger when we throw away our food because we are too full?
We complain of the heat when people die of cold.
In so many ways, we do not appreciate what we have.
We do not appreciate the people we have in our lives.
Sad, isn't it?
But then that is always the case - we never appreciate what we have until it is lost to us.
I read in Wikipedia that the movie is based on a book.
My mission now is to find the book.
In my opinion, reading a story is always nicer than watching it.
I know many people will not agree, so go on, watch the movie.
Hope you like it as much as I do.
Doesn't make sense?
Let me clear things up.
When I am working up to 5pm, I have time to come back home, have dinner, surf the net, blog then sleep.
Yesterday, work finished at 1pm, I had my lunch, watched a movie, slept, woke up, had dinner, surfed the net then slept.
I totally missed out on the blogging part.
I had time. Lots of it in fact.
But then I was lazy.
(It's a good thing that I can identify my weakness, right?)
Anyway, I watched Slumdog Millionaire yesterday. I know I am a bit 'ketinggalan', but what can I do - the cinemas in Ipoh are not playing the movie!
I think it is a nice movie.
I don't know whether or not it is the best movie in the whole wide world, but then getting the Best Picture Award is certainly something they (whoever created the movie) should be proud of.
Even to be nominated for the award is something, but winning it - amazing!
One thing my friends and I came to conclusion a few years back about movies that win the best picture award - the movies are very philosophical, hard to understand, full of unknown meaning, not meant for shallow minded people like us.
But this movie is something I think everyone can grasp.
If you have not watched the movie, I think you should go watch it.
I am not going to tell the story and spoil it for you, but here is something I want to say - it is really sad to see that people in some parts of the world are actually living in such bad living conditions and suffering when we are so comfortable with our lives and can't stop complaining about how we don't have enough.
Isn't it sad that people are dying of hunger when we throw away our food because we are too full?
We complain of the heat when people die of cold.
In so many ways, we do not appreciate what we have.
We do not appreciate the people we have in our lives.
Sad, isn't it?
But then that is always the case - we never appreciate what we have until it is lost to us.
I read in Wikipedia that the movie is based on a book.
My mission now is to find the book.
In my opinion, reading a story is always nicer than watching it.
I know many people will not agree, so go on, watch the movie.
Hope you like it as much as I do.
6 comments:
the movie is a bit overated, is just nice, but doesn't deserve an oscar, I still miss the days like when Gladiator won an oscar. That is a good movie.
like what they always say...good rugs to riches movies tend to be oscar favourites
You're not "ketinggalan" cause I watched the movie yesterday. I got to admit, it's a very good movie but they just can't forget about indian dance where they put it at the end.
The book is Q&A by Vikas Swarup. The storyline is similar but the book is quite different from the movie. It's a great book, but I can't lend you mine.. I don't know who's having it hostage!
kennhyn : I agree that Slumdog wasn't that great a movie, but I enjoyed watching it and the thing is, I didn't like Gladiator. I guess different people just have different taste.
shargila : I went to both the mph and popular in jusco ipoh - useless! they have such a small selection of books there! Waiting to go back Seremban and look for the book..have to read!!
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