One Day

"What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance."

SWAG~

Theophilus London feat. Sara Quin - Why Even Try?

雖然沒有聽 Tegan & Sara 的歌，可是看起來很像小男孩的 Sara 穿著這寬鬆的衣服，唱著饒舌的歌，小小的一隻跳著舞，好可愛愛愛啊！可是她是女同性戀！！！

回到 Theophilus London，這個 FLYING OVERSEAS (HASAAN INSANE SADE MIX) 很讚！

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Director: Mark Robson
Writers: Isobel Lennart (screenplay), Alan Burgess (novel)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat and Curd Jürgens
Year: 1958
IMDB
My Rating: 3/10

Being Chinese,  this movie is absolutely terrible. So fucking corny, so fucking unChinese, and so far from the truth. Movie can be scary when you were trying to portrait a real story, and did it so badly. It almost destroy my faith in movies. Perhaps, movies really are just about using devices (eg. sad/heroic story plot) to ignite our emotions and sentiments. It doesn't mean anything at all... Can't believe that I've been let down by an Ingrid Bergman film.

She moves in a mysterious way...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Director: Milos Forman
Novel: Ken Kesey
Screenplay: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Csat: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Danny DeVito
Year: 1975
IMDB
My Rating: 9/10

This is such a powerful film. Excellent storyline and acting. Both very funny and devastating. A true classic.

Freedom

Mr Franzen hits home again with Freedom.

Much like his last novel, The Corrections, the novel revolves around a Midwestern family, and deals with complexion of family and society. Much of what's been discussed in the book is "current affairs" on politics, environment, and indie music scene. And the family drama is exactly what everyone at any age can relate to. I, for one, can really relate to the story to a point that a particular scenario was actually happening to me while I was reading the book.  I'm not here to explain the story, or review the book, I'm here to give a simple message: READ IT!

Just another note, this book is not as funny as The Corrections, perhaps more serious, more tragic, more depressed (everyone was somehow depressed in the story), but you can tell that Mr Franzen poured more of his true feelings and heart into this book. He is no doubt a great American novelist, inheriting the spirit of American literature.

Top 10 Rules for Writing Fiction by Jonathan Franzen

1. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

2. Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

3. Never use the word "then" as a ­conjunction – we have "and" for this purpose. Substituting "then" is the lazy or tone-deaf writer's non-solution to the problem of too many "ands" on the page.

4. Write in the third person unless a ­really distinctive first-person voice ­offers itself irresistibly.

5. When information becomes free and universally accessible, voluminous research for a novel is devalued along with it.

6. The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

7. You see more sitting still than chasing after.

8. It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

9. Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.

10. You have to love before you can be relentless.


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