Saturday, December 29

Hobbies

Since I was a kid, I've liked playing guns, Lego, snooker, master mind and bridge. Could have been something wrong with my genes, am I supposed to be a man ?


Tuesday, December 25

Monday, December 24

FAITH


Faith is full confidence that God can rescue us from anything. Faith is also full commitment to God even if HE chooses not to rescue us. Heroes of faith know nothing can kill them if God wants them to go on living. Heroes of faith also would rather lay down their lives than deny God.

"This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith"

~ 1 John 5:4 ~

Thursday, December 20

The Satisfied Wolf and the Ewe



A wolf, well-gorged with food, saw a ewe lying on her back on the ground unable to right herself. Realising that she had collapsed from fright, he approached her and reassured her. He promised that if she would utter three truths he would leave her alone.

So the ewe began by telling him she would like not to have to meet him again, or failing that she would like him to go blind, and thirdly she wished that wicked wolves would meet violent deaths so that we would suffer no more harm from you and you would make no more war against us.

The wolf acknowledged her veracity and left her to her own way.

~ Aesop's Fables ~

Friday, December 14

HEALING



Healing is a life time process;
throughout we learn to forgive and forget.

Time will tell as time will heal.
Bury our wounds yet let the scar to be seen.

An unexamined life is not worth living.
All ups and downs, merits or mishaps, in the end;
it is the journey that matters.

Over the years I have built a bridge for myself;
between the present and the past.
I moved forward, yet looked back once in a while,
seeing those hardships I'd endured as rewards.

If I fall... I stand up where I fell.
If things don't change, I change my way of looking;
in that sense, my sanity sustains.

Monday, December 10

Her Destiny


Happy Ending

In the final scene, Ariel and Eric are seen kissing on their wedding day. Both humans and merpeople turn out for the wedding, Sebastian escapes Louis again, and Triton accepts Eric as a part of the family.

Sad Version

Ariel is faced with an inherently unjust universe, where her love for the Prince and her wish to gain an immortal soul have a chance only through terrible sacrifices, privations and risks. Although Ariel has demonstrated over and over again by her courage, compassion and noble sacrifice, that her unconditional love for the Prince has failed ultimately. Ariel dies after throwing herself back into the ocean, dissolving into foam on the water, becoming a spirit of the air.

Saturday, December 8

Forever Knight


TV Series: "Forever Knight"
Can't Run, Can't Hide (1994)


Director:Jon Cassar
Writer:James D. Parriott (creator)
Genre:Drama / Horror / Crime

Cast (Episode Credited cast)

Geraint Wyn Davies ... Det. Nicholas 'Nick' Knight
Catherine Disher ... Dr. Natalie Lambert
Nigel Bennett ... Lacroix
Deborah Duchene ... Janette
Natsuko Ohama ... Capt. Amanda Cohen
John Kapelos ... Det. Don Schanke

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Richard Campbell ... Damon
William Corno ... Vampire
Von Flores ... Tran
Nicole Greenspan ... Beverly
Gabriel Hogan ... Young Soldier
Clark Johnson ... Casey Brooks
Bernadette Li ... Vietnamese Mother
Richard McMillan ... Abraham Lindley
Gordon Michael Woolvett ... Kyle the Grocery Boy

This was a very different Vietnam story. It puts LaCroix and Knight in a situation similar to the My Lai massacre, except this time the vampires were the good guys.

While Knight was a medic and LaCroix was a Special Forces officer, the bad guys were some out of control soldiers who shoot up a local village due to reports that a Viet Cong soldier is operating from within. As a result of the massacre, LaCroix, who shows emotion and sympathy for the humans and takes some actions that will cause several deaths and a lot of confusion many years later.

The rest of the story involves Nick Knight trying to figure out who is killing the old veterans, and how they are connected to each other. It is an interesting mystery, since LaCroix is lying to Knight just as he usually does. Knight spends the whole episode following false leads, and the victims are reliving their guilt as they try to avoid death. At the climactic end of the story, there is a surprise twist that vindicates some of the paranoia of the soldiers back in Vietnam.

Yet there are some heavy issues regarding guilt, accountability, and whether some sins can ever be forgiven. It is a good story because it spreads the guilt around and does not show one side as being good or innocent. Even Knight and LaCroix end up looking guilty in spite of their efforts to take the high road.


http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/foreverknighttrilogy/index.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0581599/

Monday, December 3

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY


A film you may find it intriguing, dedicated to Eagle, my lovely pet.

Quote of the movie: You see, in this world there are two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns... and those who dig. You dig.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo) is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The plot centers around three gunslingers competing to find a fortune in buried Confederate gold amid the violent chaos of gunfights, hangings, Civil War battles, and prison camps.

CAST

Clint Eastwood as Blondie: The Good, a subdued, cocksure bounty hunter who competes with Tuco and Angel Eyes to find the buried gold in the middle of the two warring factions of the American Civil War. Blondie and Tuco have an ambivalent partnership. Tuco knows the name of the cemetery where the gold is hidden, but Blondie knows the name of the grave where it's buried, forcing them to work together to find the treasure. In spite of this greedy quest, Blondie's pity for the dying soldiers in the chaotic carnage of the War is evident. "I've never seen so many men wasted so badly," he laments.

Lee Van Cleef as Angel Eyes: The Bad, a ruthless, unfeeling mercenary named "Angel Eyes" Sentenza who kills anyone in his path. When Blondie and Tuco are captured while posing as Confederate soldiers, Angel Eyes is the Union sergeant who interrogates them and tortures Tuco, eventually learning the name of the cemetery where the gold is buried, but not the tombstone. Angel Eyes forms a fleeting partnership with Blondie, but Tuco and Blondie turn on Angel Eyes when they get their chance.

Eli Wallach as Tuco: The Ugly, Tuco Benedito Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, a comical, oafish, fast talking bandit who is wanted by the authorities. Tuco manages to discover the name of the cemetery where the gold is buried, but he doesn't know the name of the grave - only Blondie does. This state of affairs forces Tuco to become reluctant partners with Blondie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly

Saturday, December 1

THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE


The Phoenix and the Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.
But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurrer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou, treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Here the anthem doth commence
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.

So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none;
Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen:
But in them it were a wonder.

So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
Either was the other's mine.

Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.

Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either neither;
Simple were so well compounded,

That it cried, 'How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.'

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.

THRENOS

BEAUTY, truth, and rarity,
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclosed in cinders lie.

Death is now the phoenix' nest;
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,

Leaving no posterity:
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.

Truth may seem, but cannot be;
Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;
Truth and beauty buried be.

To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair;
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

~ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ~
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