Things;

1. 127 Hours

Based on the real-life story of Aron Ralston. If you check out Aron's page on Wikipedia, you'll find out what his story is about.

To summarise, guy goes mountain hiking without letting anyone know, guy gets stuck in his hike in a very deep part of the mountain with a big rock crushing one of his hands, guy cuts off hand with dull knife to escape. There, 40 words.

Side note: The amputation scene in the movie was so real and intense that it made several spectators faint in the premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. 0.0

Plus points: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) as director and James Franco as Ralston. READ: James Franco!!


2. Am going to snip every page covering the Galas by-election out of the Star newspaper, starting from today, yes

Surprisingly, it's actually kind of interesting to observe politics when you get the whole idea behind it (courtesy of Malaysian Studies). My dad also pop-quizzed me about Galas this morning while I analysed the newspaper cutting. BTW Galas is the state level seat while its parliament level seat is Gua Musang. (Not so interesting a fact when you don't understand the whole big picture)


3. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual (reasonable) act of worship.
-Romans 12:1

Dead sacrifices in the Old Testament. Living sacrifices in the New Testament.

Living sacrifices; to die to self (this not physically but spiritually), to be selfless, to act in His obedience.

To quote Pr Chris Kam on his pulpit message: "What is the hardest thing to do? To die to self."


4. Not forgetting, assignmentspresentationeditingtopicaltesttwofinalexaminationsin2weekstime. Yup, that's how crowded my brain is now. It's as if I only have 127 hours left!

Sweet dreams (cover)

I admire people who can cover songs in their own interpretation well. Here is a Pocahantas-lookalike and -soundalike singing "Sweet Dreams".

Hauntingly beautiful. It might be a bit sloppy and sleepy for some people, but it kept me awake (while I was working on my assignment). Haha.

If there's anybody out there who is reading this at all, sorry for the lack of updates. It's not that I have nothing to update, in fact I have a lot of things going on in my head. Err, maybe not a whole lot lah, but I've got a few..! But I'm losing the interest to blog. Hah, at least not interested now. I'm pretty fickle minded right. Sorry =/ My cup is dried up. My blog is getting dusty. My eyes are closing. My assignments are coming. My assignments' deadline are coming. My assignments' deadline are coming fast. So yes, bear with me. Or you don't have to. Haha. Me just taking personal responsibility here and putting up a notice that this blog will be off to nap for the mean time.

Will still be reading your blogs (if you blog, that is). Don't be lazy like me!

I like

I like your post.

Because it's honest and true.

To grow

Just when I think I know oh-so-much, God who is oh-so-mighty-and-faithful reminds me that I have nothing good in me. Selfish, invisible pride has been there all along, and I'm blinded by its proud flash of smile. I need to put on that dull, plain mantle of humility, and to be willing to be fully dependent on God, not my own strength. Thank you God for saving me.

And the above quotation slash picture (from Google) took the words out of my mouth on how I want to grow in my thinking and questioning. Whether it is with God's Word, or with people, or with knowledge.

I only have the breadth of the subject. Not the depth.

Again I say, thank you God.

Don't forget your homework

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in action. As a young kid! Aww.

Inception (2010)

This movie is not advertised much around here. But its impressive cast (Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Joseph Godon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy), and the good review that The Star gave (5 stars) persuaded me to go watch it.

Tagged Joanna with me and oh boy, were we glad we went for it!

No robots, no vampires, no werewolves, no aliens, no toys, no comic book characters, no 3D.

The movie explores the human's subconscious mind through its theme revolving around dreams. Sounds like a movie that will put people into deep sleep (and dream), but it wasn't. Violence is involved, but it is highly intellectual. People who like to think (while watching movies) should go and watch this.

Not gonna spill too much beans on this one. The lesser you know about this movie, the better. I haven't watch a good Hollywood movie in a long while. Inception was a good fix.

This movie left my friend thinking about the power of the mind. And how God has given us fantastic minds... it all comes down to how we use it.

Every actor gave their convincingly powerful performances which only solidified the film's turnout.

I give it a 8.5/10.

PS: Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 500 Days of Summer looked so sharp in the movie!


:D

Credits to Google Images.