Collect Moments

To be really frank I didn't except much from this movie when I decided to catch it earlier tonight, all I knew about it was that it's about a pig that flies, as hilarious as it sounds. But it turned out that it's one of the best watched movies I have seen in life. It was such a well-thought masterpiece with a perfect balance between humour and seriousness all at once. It was a movie about egoism, nationalism, militarism, humanity, romance and feminism. And perhaps much more subtle messages that I may have missed. The movie depicts the post WW1 period where the protagonist, a former Italian WW1 ace pilot, Porco Rosso who has seen the mass destruction and lost of lives during his near-death experience at war, was being hunt down by the Fascists government as he turned anti-war and won't fight for his government anymore. The anti-war sentiment and anti-nationalism were brought out coherently via conversations and behaviours of Porco in the storyline. Which could be th...

Hello may. Looks like we are approaching mid year very soon again. Time passed even faster when you started working isn't it? Coincidentally today marks my 7 months mark with LTA. This is pretty much it I guess? Work really doesn't leave much room to engage in anything else, so as much as possible, I  try to exercise the time off mindlessly so make time more worthwhile. Doing something is better than doing nothing, although a lot of time I find myself guilty as charged for doing nothing. Lnr is away for 2 weeks for work at Denmark hence I got to live by myself for these two weeks, much as I thought I would do a lot of things alone, living life like how it might all otherwise been. Sometimes I wonder how life is gonna be if I were single still, that probably means a lot more me time and I will likely pour a big chunk of my salaries into different enrichment classes, travelling to new places alone, spending afternoons at cafe doing people-watching. Oh all these while I am just ...