It’s funny when we catch up with old friends and ask each other about other friends’ whereabouts and statuses. You know, the usual where-are-they-now and what-are-they-doing stuff.

And then when we talk about couples, we sometimes ask, “Are Mr B and Miss A still together?”

It’s as if we’re always not very supportive of their relationships, and sounds so mean but that’s how people usually ask questions and I don’t know why!

Maybe 20 to 30 years later, we’ll all ask “Is Mr B still alive?”

- - - - - - - - - -

Movie review!

Summer Wars

I’m already pretty confident that this movie will be in my personal mental list of top 10 movies of this year. The concept of the movie mainly revolves around this global virtual network (called OZ, something like our Google/Facebook, but way cooler and more interactive) that the world pretty much relies on for business, gaming and almost everything else. The problem comes when this supposedly super secure system gets hacked and chaos ensues.

What’s really awesome about this show is that, the director and screenplay writer have brilliantly married the two worlds that we live in (the young virtual world and the traditional real world), brought in a entire family of more than 20 interesting characters and still managed to tell an entertaining, original and meaningful story about love, family and technology…. and keep you engaged from the start to the end. The usual formula/approach for save-the-world stories like this is to have just one or two main characters to save the day, but here we have the Shinohara family, no wait, or even the community from all over the world, working together like a huge family to fight against a common enemy.

What a touching and epic movie this is. I’m SO going to get the DVD of this and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (same director and animation studio) this time!

This time!!

8.5 / 10

Received a phone call from my aunt on the first day of Chinese New Year, who’s residing in Canada now. Everyone in the family took turns to catch up with her over the phone and exchange well wishes.

While my mum chatted with her, my aunt said that after looking at my photos (in Facebook? maybe) she realised that I’m starting to look more and more like my dad back in his younger days.

To which my mum replied, “Yea, you think so too? I guess that’s good, if not we’ll have to worry who the boy’s real dad is. Haha!”

It was followed by a brief awkward silence. FHL lol.

I could almost see a semi transparent thought bubble over my mum’s head reading “Why the hell did I say that?!”.

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! =)