rant # 271204

Hatta’s Fish – feeling healthy..
The sixth time being treated with his freshly-caught fish. This time for the occasion of last dinner’s with tri. The day before, hatta was catching around 40 pieces of fish altogether! How I wish to be spoilt with fish daily, obviously love fish more than meats.

Phantom of the Opera – superb!!!
This movie has been my favorite one throughout the year, judging by its popularity as a famous renowned musical classical opera by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, I promised myself to watch it in the cinema, and I did finally on its first day screening on Boxing Day! Read the rest at your own expense, but I just love the story line – where the complex mixed feelings of a very ordinary human’s experiences of unhealthy jealousy, possessiveness, misunderstood intelligence, arrogance, and mischievous evil intents involved meet the lessons of love and forgiveness. You could feel the emotions portrayed creeping into your heart beats, if you are as sensitive as me. Also the grandeur of the props, outfits, the opera background, combined with the finest pictures of the breathtaking snowy backdrops, the very soft tone colors of the white, blue and blackish grey sky, minus the grimy dungeon behind what is a grand opera theatre have been both bracing and serene yet frosty, leaving you in a two-states of far from dreary experience. The castings are very much fine, simply because you won’t find famous names whose career-wise in film industry would have left you with some bigotry pre-occupation marks of certain casts, simply unfit to be involved in a renowned giant classical like this. The story ends with a mixture of sadness, happy-ending, and mysterious no-one-have-guessed-it-yet endings, left me in awe of the author’s creativity, very interesting. Nonetheless, it’s not a movie for everyone because of its musical nature.

Boxing Day Sale Frenzy – boring, just wondering..
What it’s been like this year, a huge sales record for retailers, yet also a big win for freak’n shoppers, though a bit less crowded compared to last year’s, having been a day delayed because of the public holiday falls on the weekend. And you’ve guessed it right; I don’t shop very often, very rarely in fact. It wouldn’t have been an exciting one to follow the story of a no-experience-what-so-ever-shopping-hater like me. In fact, one of the resolutions for next year is being more environmentally friendly, save the environment; go slow on materialism and consumerism, recycling wherever possible. Many times, I’m left to confusion on how to make use of the many stuffs (not that it’s very much more than yours, I believe it’s much less already) at my place, rather than just piling them up more and forgetting them altogether, thus never utilizing them, hopefully won’t be too lazy to sort them out to give away next year. The principle stays still, save the best for the right ones perhaps, since everyday luxury will rob your excitement away even when you deserve to enjoy one. Obviously, it’s far from saying that one should deprive himself of every goodness that life can offer, rather, if being luxury means being overly, excessive self-indulgent, selfish, uncaring, lousy spender, well, it’s not a stingy thing to challenge yourself to go slow, perhaps others are in need more than you.