alright, i'm weird.
one minute i don't blog for months.
another minute i'm writing two entries in a day.
maybe that's what you call a writer's block (as if i'm one haha).
anyway i'm just inspired by some of the books i've been reading lately.
yes, somehow in the midst of my busy school life i managed to squeeze in a chapter's worth of reading time every night before i sleep.
and i've been frequenting the bazaar in arts forum where there's this book store where you may get some good titles (if you care to look) at a steal!
so what i reaped:
Life of Pi $2!!!
Bridget Jone's diary $2
Middlesex $5.90
but i narrowly missed out on this book i've been wanting to read because my hands happened to be slower than this girl who picked the same book out of the pile. bah.
actually i haven't read any of those i bought, save for bridget jones since chick lit is generally less brain stimulating and more relaxing.
loaned this book recommended by the oprah winfrey book club called Night by Elie Wiesel.
it's a slim volume of about 100 pages so i managed to finish it over the weekend. and i do recommend this book because it's IMO a simple yet powerful account of Mr Wiesel's account on how he managed to survive the Holocaust. it's rekindled the sorrow and disbelief i felt while reading another Holocaust related book, The Diary of Anne Frank. how can fellow humans treat each other like that?
these accounts can break your heart because as you journey with them through the pages of the book, an emotional attachment is forged. especially in both books, they are merely teenagers - Mr Wiesel being 15 when he was deported to Aushwitz concentration camp while Anne Frank 13-15 while living secretly behind their house's trapdoor.
but why do they have to suffer such terrible fates merely for the fact that they're Jews? i think that having lived in a much more carefree society i certainly cannot understand how such extreme thoughts came about. and one very paramount event that struck me in Night was when Mr Wiesel overthrew his faith. he did not deny or hate the fact that he was a Jew, but he was angry at the above for not helping the people who had total faith in Him. i'm a free-thinker so i cannot give my comments about this issue though i wonder what others who hold steadfast to their faith would feel.
so right now i'm quite fueled to read or watch more war-related material.
am interested to watch The Pianist, Letters of Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers. (psst jun, you should watch Iwo Jima since Nino has quite a big role in it!)
it's awesome how Clint Eastwood has produced two films from different standpoints (ie Letters from Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective and Flags of Our Fathers from the American perspective) because i believe there will never be absolute evil. i can even be inclined to believe that Hitler may not necessarily be evil even though he was essentially the mastermind to all that gruesome murders. No one's born evil. Besides the perspective of good and bad depends on which side you support.
and also channel 5's been promoting that oscar marathon quite a bit.
i've been wanting to watch Babel, The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine and Little Children.
ahhh haven't watched a movie in a long while, the last being Death Note 2.
maybe if i can spare the time, i should try watching alone. seems quite adventurous!
oh and of course i can't wait for black spidey ala Spiderman 3 and some Johnny Depp swashbuckling action ala Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End.
ok what a hefty post this turned out to be. *phew*
leaving you with a quote from Elie Wiesel's Night:
"'Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?' and a voice within me answered: 'Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows.'"
