where thoughts materialise.

So we're into the sixth version of my blog after the last version hung around for a year or so.

Now, a bit of info on this image. This photo was taken one lovely spring afternoon, featuring the iconic Old Well from the UNC Chapel Hill campus. I would like to think of this image as a tribute to my time in UNC Chapel Hill, the awesome friends I made and the memories I now hold dear.

A milestone in my life indeed.

I've dropped the tagboard cos its useless and taking eons to load. But thanks to Angela who helped me set it up, I still do like and will miss the pink interface.

So yeah, it's the sixth one you fellas!

Yours.

27 April 2008

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

"The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose."

This is Match Point, a movie of passion, temptation and obsession (I believe you can read).

Though it was a movie which had a plot far from envisaged (I was expecting something like Wimbledon), the storyline made good use of the analogy of luck to bring across the idea that sometimes, just sometimes, life is not as much in our hands as we think or feel it is.

Luck, it then asserts, plays a big and often life changing role. Perhaps luck is used as a scapegoat here for the larger context of the greater forces in life that renders us sometimes useless as authors of our destiny.

The story here is seemingly pathos but not so. It was not the best movie, boring at times, but it got me thinking.

That's why I love the movies. For two hours, we are relieved from the world. For two hours, we hear his story. For two hours, we experience something almost out of our bodies. For two hours, we see life.

nimgnoy let the night fall at 9:28 AM

2 comments

2 Comments:

At 1:22 PM, Anonymous said...: well said min min. match point doesn't have the most interesting plot, but it's certainly thought provoking.
phew... i felt guilty for dragging you to watch the show after seeing your sian face outside the theater. guess that was just your spaced-out-and-deep-in-thought face.
Yu Shen
At 11:50 PM, nimgnoy said...: i ate yu sheng 4 times this year, yu shen.

i wasnt sian. how can i be? i love your company anyway.