Just got off the phone with my dad - recently he's been into talking about good movies. A bit funny in a way to me. So he was just telling me about slumdog millionaire - I should watch it..it's so good, winning awards, the director took 10% of profits into education fund for the child actors etc..And he's happy I've watched it.

At the airport the night I was leaving, we were sitting at a restaurant waiting. Him, my bro, sis and me. And he told us about this movie which was so good : TAKEN . He forgot the name but emailed me a few weeks ago about it. He told us the whole story and my father is pretty good at telling stories, I reckon. It made me interested in the movie but till this day, i still haven't watched it (but i'm still interested). I think he was captured by how this father (i think played by Liam Neeson) , divorced from his wife, ex-CIA, leading a bit of a depressed life now, was driven to go save his daugher who had gone to Paris with a friend, thinking of having a great time, but got kidnapped, thrown into prostitution (friend ended up dead) etc. My sister kindly listens on...and when my dad asks if she knows about this movie, she says, "yes dad, you already told this to me before"...hahahha
and just now on the phone, he mentions it again.

And supposedly Slumdog millionaire is up for the big Awards (which shld be over) against this other really good movie which he'll find out for me. Oh, besides watching a lot of dvds, he went to watch Redcliff 2 with this Uncle a few weeks ago but he didn't elaborate so I guess it isn't that great.

I watched a dvd my aunt borrowed from the library a couple of weeks ago called Empire of the Rising Sun (1987) - starring Christian Bale as a young boy. He was was this little talkative British boy (which he is in real life! ie. british) in China during the japanese invasion . He has so much energy, and just watching his survival and how he survives throughout his ordeal is kinda inspiring.

Anyway just felt like rambling on about movies

G'nite!

For those of you who know Kylie H.

And if you don't know- she's given birth!!!!!!!!!! 2.3 kg little Maddie on thursday 19/2 evening

It was really very funny ..amazing actually when I saw her msg yesterday at about 2 pm. I was really tired at work after a very very busy morning and was just sitting on my chair about to have lunch and then i went WOW etc so loudly, my colleague was wondering if i was really okay.

It's so amazing COZ i just had dinner with her on Wednesday night and she was supposed to be due in 2 weeks!!! we even talked about the baby etc among other things, i saw her little cot, Kylie was feeling okay, what do contractions mean etc etc etc....and before i left, i asked her " so how am i supposed to know when u've given birth?" so i made sure i took down her husband's mob no.

I'm so thankful we met on Wednesday. We've been planning to catch up since end of last year. Glad we nailed down the time and stuck to it!! And wow, just perfect timing.

When things like this happen or even other things, it always reminds me how opportunities come and go. Even when you're not in the mood to do certain things. After evaluating the reasons and constraints, I'm usually glad when I just did it! Whether I'm reacting to opportunities or proactively looking for them.

Anyway, it is always so nice to meet her. It was nice to chat and also talk about deeper things and pray together. She is such an encouraging older sister to me, and wise.

ahh such exciting news :)