March 2007 Archives

Guys,

pls take a look at these and pass it on to ur frens!

http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin

http://www.petitiononline.com/golfinho/

Stop the killings of dophins!
Less demand less killings, no demand, no killings!

Things that come easy, people don't cherish it.
Things that are hard to come by, people will at least put in more effort to cherish it.

Good things don't come easy.
Easy things aint usually good.

There are exceptions, but generally there are more hits than misses.

Been wanting to put down this entry for the longest of recent times...
Almost wanted to drop it, but someone invoke this feeling in me again, thus i decided to "pen" it down while I am still not "z" monster-inclined....

Since young, I always had this thinking, this innocent thought, that love is a very simple affair.
A guy meets a girl, they spend lots of time together, happy times, they understand each other, almost telepathic, they fallen in love.
Thats it, thats how it was "to be".

As you grow older, lots of things starts to change.
Attempts at r/ships failed one after the other.
After ZR, i had a few more r/ships.
None last.
Of all the ones that past me by, I only regretted about Gloria.
she's a good gal.
Cares for me a lot, concern for me a lot, give in to me.
Of course there were flaws, but it was nothing compared to what she meant to me (after I lost her that is...).
I never treated her well at the start, when I began to treat her better, really love her, starting to shower with love, all became too late... she left...

Humans are like that.
Only treasuring something after they had lost it.
My friend told me , good things don't come easy, if it comes easy, you won't cherish it.
True.
This is what i been telling myself, "learn to cherish before it gets too late!"

But looks like I am having this so-called retributions....
My last ex, didn't cherish me.... giving me all the colds after a week of r/ship... a WEEK! 1 FUCKING WEEK! Can you believe it ?
After some time, she came back to me, asking for a chance....
Isnt this a classic case of "treasuring something after you had lost it?"
The current one ? She treat me like shit.
Said she likes me, but i doubt so... more like I am the backup, the one that will be there for her.... if her priority fails, there's always me. =)
I wanna give up really... Mind is telling me the realistic thing but heart tells me other wise.
I will try to give up and forget i think.... cause I really cant stand it when people bo-chup me...

Friends tells me i treat people too good, too kind... thats why I am easily played with... too gullible... hahaha... ya, i agreed... I am just too used to being the foolish one.

To that gal although she will never see it -
" I ever told you that I can always try, I can always attempt. But once I reach my threshold, I will give up. I think my threshold been reached. I am giving up. It hurts. The way you treating me. The way you bo chup me. The way you said you don't like me. The way you insulted me. I can be good to you, always treating you like my precious baby, but somethings will end when you don't cherish them, this is one of the thing.
Maybe you will realised my absence after some time, but more likely, you wont missed it at all, maybe at times, whereby you will think "where's that dumb ass who will take me to movie, eat at restaurants, fetch me and send me home any time of the day, been to ?" think that's my only usage...
I am sorry, but i am retiring from service.... good bye...."

Caught 2 movies lately.
Namely "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Letters from Iwo Jima".
Both movies invoke some feelings in me and taught me a few lessons or 2.
Think I shall go movie by movie, thought by thought, in order not to jumble up the entry. =)

The Pursuit of Happyness

In The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a family man struggling to make ends meet. Despite his valiant attempts to help keep the family afloat, the mother (Thandie Newton) of his five-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) is buckling under the constant strain of financial pressure. No longer able to cope, she reluctantly decides to leave.

Chris, now a single father, continues doggedly to pursue a better-paying job using every sales skill he knows. He lands an internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm, and although there is no salary, he accepts, hopeful he will end the program with a job and a promising future. Without a financial cushion, Chris and his son are soon evicted from their apartment and forced to sleep in shelters, bus stations, bathrooms, or wherever they can find refuge for the night.

Despite his troubles, Chris continues to honor his commitment as a loving and caring father, using the affection and trust his son has placed in him as an impetus to overcome the obstacles he faces.

Driven by the adversity of life, a man might be able to release his full potential, or even over what his able to do.
This point is proven in many examples that we heard of.
Like the mum defending her kids from the tiger, fending the beast off after a hard battle.
All these is possible!
This is called WILL power.
When you set your mind to do something, and so focus in accomplishing that task that you forgot about your fears, your uncertainties, and go all out to do what you wanna do.

I can still remember this saying from the movie by Will Smith to the son,
"Son, when others tell you that you can't do it, don't let them put you down! They can't do it! So they said you can't do it too!"
and I will add this, "when you believe in something, go do it! Believe in your beliefs!"

Like my previous post, I wanna do something! I wanna make my life a worthwhile one. I wanna strike it big this life and nothing is gonna stop me from doing that!
"Do you wanna just live through life or do you wanna live a life ?"
Think bout it my friends. =)

Sixty-one years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soils. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them, Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe). With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi’s unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.

War-flicks never fail to impress me!
I am always glued to war-flicks!
There's just something about them that intrigues me.
And I ever had this dream to collect and own all the war-flicks that were ever produced in vcd/dvd forms! =D

So here we are, a movie bout WW2.
Rather, towards the end of WW2.
2 movies by Clint Eastwood on the tiny island of Iwo Jima.
The Allies version were told in the "Flags of our father", and the Japs in this.

Once again I was impressed by Clint Eastwood.
How he managed to linked a few short stories seamlessly into a big one! How he was able to intro the movie and end it from present to the past and then back to the present again, thats REFRESHING!

And the cast! wonderful acting! especially to Ken Watanabe and the actor that acted as Baron Nishi in the show, forgot his name! Think without them the show wont have the impact it had.

2 things from the movie.

One, the way of the samurai, or more specifically, kamikaze.
Rather to commit suicide than to fall into enemy hands and be killed by them which is consider a disgrace in the way of the samurai.
In war, I would call it giving up easily, letting the enemy gain an easier path to their victory.
Rather than to commit suicide, why not fight till the end and give the enemy a more difficult time ? Take out as many as you can and make yourself useful! rather than giving up and killing yourself... who are you to judge that all is loss ? You only really lose it when you die....

Two, "Do what is right, because that is the only right thing to do."
A letter from an American Soldier, sent to him by his mum.
Baron Nishi wounded the soldier, and decided to save the man even though his medical supplies were running low, his reason ? Simple, "would'nt you want the Americans to save you when you get shot by them?"
Ok that was kinda stupid, but still it was very honorable of him to do so.
But the quote above makes lots of damn sense.
Don't think it need me to explain further.
"Do what is right, because that is the only right thing to do.

Challenges are to be conquered,
Obstacles are to be overcomed,
Myths are to be broken.

Whenever someone thinks you cannot make the cut and puts you down, you doubled it up and prove to yourself (not him!) that you can do it!

They said i can't, I said I can.
In three months time, they'll know that I can. =)

Sometimes its more to a matter of whether you wanna do it a not, rather than you can do it or not.