Sunday, March 26, 2006
Yesterday Once More
Soph kindly invited me to watch Doubt by Action Theatre on Fri. On the whole, I quite enjoyed the performance, despite initial reservations about local adaptation of the play. But I think the team pulled it off pretty well and I like its simplicity yet depths in terms of the thoughts it manages to provoke in you. Soph puts it down very well in her blog so I shall not bore by repeating it here :) Jubilee Hall seems so different from my memory. I went there in 2000 with my JC love interest to watch a local play starring Sharon Au. Quite a lovely theatre, quaint, with a quiet air of dignified grandeur.
Let's talk a bit abt appearance. I neva thot myself an attractive girl, but ppl like to beg to differ, in general. Last nite, someone told me that while he may not categorise me under "beautiful", there is something abt me that makes ppl look at me again and again. I have a peaceful appearance. So he always looked about and wondered which guy in church is my boyfren. But as he said, I always come alone. I was a bit surprised and told him, well, actually I dun have that many admirers to talk abt. I dun think I stop traffic though there were times when ppl actually come right up and tell me how beautiful I am and a few times, guys gave me their numbers and asked me to call them, which I never did. Once I went shopping with my bro and the shopkeeper said he wanted to ask him how did someone like him ended up with such a lovely galfren. Needless to say, my bro was not amused.
Perhaps ppl dun look at me that many times I look at myself in the mirror and see all that imperfections. Maybe I have a poor self-esteem, as some ppl have alerted me. Or maybe my taste in beauty differs from ppl in general. Hmm. Is this a reflection of the modern society's obsession with the impossible beauty as defined by fashion magazines and tv commercials?
Went to watch "Russian Dolls" with Chris this week. Din really find the movie much to rave about, though, as Chris said, some of what it said about love and relationship is very true. Am still pondering over the truth of the message at the end of the movie: that finding the right one is like opening up Russian dolls. Each layer contains a part of what you are looking for and you progress on till, at the end of it all, you find the core doll, which is the one you are looking for at the end of the journey. Something along those line; I am not good at explaining hee. Perhaps this can be a form of encouragement for my frens out there looking for love :)
Beginning to find that I like listening to French very much. Dr. Lockhart spoke a bit that day during Da Vinci Code talk and Eunice, too. Very melodic language. Maybe I'll consider picking it up. The movie showcased a bit of Russian, too. Will be extremely interesting to learn that! Chris kept laughing when the Russian ballerina said,"Paka."or something like that, meaning thank you, cos it sounds like, "Baka." Think in general, I am good at languages. But I have not been picking up as much as I would like to, largely due to procrastination. Hoping to improve my Japanese in time and pick up new ones too. I taught myself Bahasa Indonesia after my formal education in it stopped upon my coming to Singapore 15 years ago. Bahasa Indo and Malay is, as Prof Kratoska said, an easy language to learn, though difficult to be fully proficient in. Pleased to use this to advantage when putting up the Ford Factory exhibition recently.
Let's talk a bit abt appearance. I neva thot myself an attractive girl, but ppl like to beg to differ, in general. Last nite, someone told me that while he may not categorise me under "beautiful", there is something abt me that makes ppl look at me again and again. I have a peaceful appearance. So he always looked about and wondered which guy in church is my boyfren. But as he said, I always come alone. I was a bit surprised and told him, well, actually I dun have that many admirers to talk abt. I dun think I stop traffic though there were times when ppl actually come right up and tell me how beautiful I am and a few times, guys gave me their numbers and asked me to call them, which I never did. Once I went shopping with my bro and the shopkeeper said he wanted to ask him how did someone like him ended up with such a lovely galfren. Needless to say, my bro was not amused.
Perhaps ppl dun look at me that many times I look at myself in the mirror and see all that imperfections. Maybe I have a poor self-esteem, as some ppl have alerted me. Or maybe my taste in beauty differs from ppl in general. Hmm. Is this a reflection of the modern society's obsession with the impossible beauty as defined by fashion magazines and tv commercials?
Went to watch "Russian Dolls" with Chris this week. Din really find the movie much to rave about, though, as Chris said, some of what it said about love and relationship is very true. Am still pondering over the truth of the message at the end of the movie: that finding the right one is like opening up Russian dolls. Each layer contains a part of what you are looking for and you progress on till, at the end of it all, you find the core doll, which is the one you are looking for at the end of the journey. Something along those line; I am not good at explaining hee. Perhaps this can be a form of encouragement for my frens out there looking for love :)
Beginning to find that I like listening to French very much. Dr. Lockhart spoke a bit that day during Da Vinci Code talk and Eunice, too. Very melodic language. Maybe I'll consider picking it up. The movie showcased a bit of Russian, too. Will be extremely interesting to learn that! Chris kept laughing when the Russian ballerina said,"Paka."or something like that, meaning thank you, cos it sounds like, "Baka." Think in general, I am good at languages. But I have not been picking up as much as I would like to, largely due to procrastination. Hoping to improve my Japanese in time and pick up new ones too. I taught myself Bahasa Indonesia after my formal education in it stopped upon my coming to Singapore 15 years ago. Bahasa Indo and Malay is, as Prof Kratoska said, an easy language to learn, though difficult to be fully proficient in. Pleased to use this to advantage when putting up the Ford Factory exhibition recently.
// posted by Jenn @ 10:05 AM 
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