our right?

Sunday, June 22, 2008 T: 19 22

Watching Jurassic Park reminds me how disgusting Mankind can be. We seem to be the only species that kill for entertainment. We throw animals into enclosure for our own viewing pleasure, denying them freedom and making them lose themselves. What on earth makes a guy throw a cat down from a few storey high just to test if it can survive the fall, if it really has nine lives?

What gives us the right to perform tests on rats and other animals to check if our medicine is safe for us? What gives us the right to neuter animals so that they won’t behave aggressively as pets in our homes? Sadly, it is this simple fact. The fittest survive. That alone gives us sufficient right and authority...

my sassy girl

Sunday, June 08, 2008 T: 21 20

When I watched My Sassy Girl for the second time, I did it with a greater understanding of the movie. It is not a chick flick. Rather, through the movie, I think the director or perhaps the scriptwriters wanted to show their own perspective of what love is. The movie consists of quite a lot of comic relief, but beyond that, it is also about overcoming grief, about sacrificial love. As I watched the movie, I could imagine the girl’s agony, the torturous feelings of being torn apart when she screamed her apologies over the mountains, the waves of emotions that conflicted within her. She could not forget her ex, and she knows it’ll be both unfair to the both of them if she stays.

Maybe the beauty of love lies in the phenomenon that a person can find a place in another’s heart. Once it is taken, there can be no way of replacing it. There can always be someone else, but the place in that heart is irreplaceable. The departure of the person would only caused an emptiness, as if a piece of the heart is taken away, a sorrow so painful, that makes one almost breathless when he think about it. In some, this hole may take only a while to be repair, healed, but in others, possibly eternality.

It is strange how the heart will feel the pain when it is just an organ pumping blood. The Chinese associated lots of words about emotions with ‘心’. Maybe the ancient Chinese are wiser than I am.