Tuesday, February 20, 2007
it's the chinese new year once again.. with all the great food, meetups wif friends and relatives and not forgetting the ang baos.. there's also mini gambling sessions with my other cousins that we have only in the new year.. glad to see everyone doing so well and so happy..
what's the significance of this new year?? actually, i dunno if it has lost its significance.. it seems different from the previous new years ever celebrated.. the mood is there but it's just that it's not as lively and fun as before.. or maybe because i need to book in tonight and that's why i'll think it's a bit different this year.. come the next new year, i'll be about less than 3 months from O-R-Din but in the meantime, it's still a long, long way to go..
caught a great new year movie on the tv yesterday.. it's called my girl.. it's a very funny and entertainin show i should say.. it's that thai movie whereby Jeab, a young man working in Bangkok, receives word that his best friend from childhood, Noi-Naa is to be married. While driving back to his hometown, the memories of his friendship with her come flooding back, and their story is told in a flashback.
Jeab and Noi-Naa live in a small city. Their fathers are rival barbers, with shops situated next to each other, with only a sweet shop to separate them. Jeab's father favors efficiency and uses an electric trimmer. Noi-Naa's father, meanwhile, has a more contemplative, artistic approach, and uses scissors. Jeab notes that the results of both methods seem to be the same.
Jeab was to cross a busy street to play with the boys, and he fears getting hit by a car, he stays to play with the girls, which makes him the target of much taunting by the boys.
After that, He earns the trust of the boys after winning a soccer game for them and passes various tests in order to join them. But the one thing he must do is sever his ties to Noi-Naa. Jeab does so, quite literally, by cutting a rubber-band jump rope, which Noi-Naa is skilled at playing with.
From that moment on, Noi-Naa refuses to talk to Jeab. Then, one day, Jeab gets word that Noi-Naa is moving away. And, of course, on the day she is to leave, Jeab oversleeps and misses the chance to say his final goodbye to Noi-Naa. Jeab then give chase to pursue Noi-Naa and her family in their moving truck. But the motorcycle breaks down, and the truck rolls out of sight. Jeab is to never see Noi-Naa again... until her wedding when both of them already grew up (adapted from wikepedia)
like this show a lot.. it's a very heart warming show though the ending was kinda sad.. it's like the love they shared were so innocent that the kids didn't know it was love though the stuff they've been doing were like that of a couple's.. other than that, i am also reminisced of my childhood days.. playing of soccer, eating ice cream, running off to play after school, playing of country erasers to win other kids' erasers in contrast of this show when the kids blow the rubber band to topple another one to win over his rubber band.. oh ya, that Jeab kid won lots of rubber band to make a rubber-band jump rope for Noi-Naa that he broke but he didn't get a chance to give it to her.. that's such a pity.. though the scenerio was a bit different but the same old feeling was there.. just that i was short of a childhood sweetheart..
chinese new year's over just like that, gone in a blink of an eye.. i enjoyed myself very much, won a 'lil bit of money but it could have been more lively, that's my opinion la.. gotta book in tonight and i'll be the stand in platoon sergeant this week as my platoon sergeant is on leave.. dunno if it'll be fun or troublesome to be in charge my other fellow 13 sergeants..
going to have a shooting test this saturday.. 200$ for marksman..but i don't get to book out!! Arghz..
