dunno which is worse… 8 days, which compared american idol finalist diana degarmo to shrek’s princess fiona (in her green state) or…
my mum, who called her diana degemuk*…
*gemuk is ‘fat’ in malay
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i recently completed reading forrest gump by winston groom. can’t believe that it’s been about ten years since the movie came out. it’s still on my all-time favourites list. i knew the book was different - forrest becomes an astronaut and a chess champion among other deviations - but he is different character-wise as well.
right off, i noticed that book forrest was more bawdy than film forrest. while he still retains a certain naivete about the ways of the world, he also seems to screw up royally, especially with respect to Jenny. in the book, she leaves because forrest gets caught up with his fame as a professional wrestler. after the many twists and turns their relationship take, she gets married to someone else.
everything else is more or less tied up with forrest’s booming shrimping business (no great storm resulting in a monopoly here… he learnt how to set up a shrimp farm while in vietnam). characters from throughout the book come under his employ.
where jenny is concerned, he finally finds her again. and there’s a forrest jr. just as in the movie. but she’s married to another man. ok, the book isn’t a fairy tale. despite jenny dying in the movie, the fact is, forrest and her got married. that was one of the most powerful things about the movie… that love lasts over time and space and that there is - to an extent - a happily ever after.
i dunno, the book’s ending just didn’t click with me. if jenny’s marriage to another person was groom’s dose of reality for the story, then he should have just left the jenny thread alone after the final time forrest and jenny part. the people who wrote the screenplay did a wonderful job of turning the book into the film. they retained the most suitable storylines, fleshed out the characters and made the forrest and jenny love story really click.
i had to stifle tears when forrest was at jenny’s grave in the film. the book left me bereft of any feeling for forrest or jenny.
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i think we still knew each other
at the opposite ends of church
you in the choir loft
me at the sanctuary
sometime, somehow
we found out that the other person
wasn’t as bad as everyone else
had made us out to be
strange how things happen
i’ve had more best friends than girlfriends
and you’ve outlasted them all
not that i would want you to be my girlfriend
that position has already been filled
and even if it wasn’t… nah!
(think ja will have something to say about that too)
thanks for being there for me
when i received my As, when i broke up with serene
and you know more than most
how long it really took
for me to recover
i also remember all the drinks that we’ve had
okay, maybe not all
but the saturday nights at victoria bar
when we would talk and drink
and dream of the future…
but now, the past
remember the aircraft carrier and how we ‘forged’ our tickets?
remember our new year’s outing arranged on the phone as we counted down?
remember blasting ‘brimful of asha’ on repeat when i visited?
remember when england won the rugby world cup?
i was looking at photos of us the other day
where did those slim young men go?
full of idealism, enthusiasm and alcoholism
or so everyone said
we’ve grown weary, haven’t we?
still, i believe
deep down in each of us
we hope and we pray
if not for a better world
at least for a better day
thank you for being my best friend
i don’t remind you of that often enough
especially as the moons pass
thank you for seeing me through excrement
you know what they say about a friend in need
these words are all i can afford now
these words, i feel, are not enough
in describing your place in my life
but these words are all i can offer
and you have my word
that i’ll be there for you for life
what’s a decade?
a lifetime of wonderful memories
and on this, your birthday
i wish you a lifetime more
i did a really short photo shoot for the editor of the magazine I work for on an ad hoc basis. this was wednesday morning. i’d never been to the zoo so early in the day. the ed wanted to have her photo with the orang utans.
we were done by 10 a.m. since i got into the zoo for free, i figured i might as well hang around, see the animals and take photos. the zoo wasn’t too crowded ‘cos it was a weekday. in fact, it would have been less crowded if not for the hordes of kindergarten and lower primary students who had just completed their mid-year exams.
i took a photo with a python. i watched the primates show, which was entertaining. there’s a new elephants at work and play show, which is really good too. got to take lots of photos. also watched lots of animal feedings. thoroughly enjoyed the polar bear feeding. the enclosure seems really small, after having seen the polar bear shores in sea world, gold coast.
besides the animals, i caught sight of a chin-dian wedding couple taking photos in the zoo. well, it wasn’t just taking photos with the scenery… two of the elephants were walked from their enclosure to a more scenic part of the zoo for photos with the couple. they must be loaded.
i left the zoo after seeing what i wanted to see and finishing all my film. errrr… finishing all my memory card space. i’m not into deleting photos on the spot unless they are really bad. can’t really see much detail on the camera’s LCD. by the time i got home, it was almost 4 o’clock.
xl events/magazine photo shoots are always a delight. 
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