Stardust, Love and Enchantment

Dear Diary,

Planning with an ex-university classmate online now for a possible reunion this coming Sunday evening. Hope we can somehow make it happen. I manage to get my two other colleagues (who were part of our university “extended” clique) off the working schedule. Now, I will ask them tomorrow if they will be available for a meet-up with the rest of the clique. If everything goes fine, it would be a 6-men meet-up. Never happened before since university days I think. That’s about how difficult meeting up with a group of friends is when you start working.

Yesterday evening, caught the movie “Stardust” with a friend. It was a fantastic movie, especially in comparison with the super bad movie I watched previously named “Super bad”. Yes, I should have been suspicious and trust the title at face value. That one was an awful one… Rarr… wasted $6.50 on it. Anyway, “Stardust” was just so magical and oh yes… enchanting… that’s the word I wanted to find. In fact, the last similar movie would be “The Brothers Grimm” movie. Of course, the plots were totally different, one on love and the other on trickery respectively. Nonetheless, they both gave that strangely “enchanting fairy tale” feel which even “Harry Potter” movies and “Narnia” movies lack.

The story plot was quite a masterpiece and I wonder how the author imagined those imageries in his mind as he wrote. Once again, it is love that stole the headlines. Then again, such movies unfortunately sometimes lull the viewers into having huge expectations of romantic love when it is actually realistically not feasible. I left the movie with that yearn for such romantic love experience but was quick to dispel any lingering fantasizing because I am just practical, stony and realistic, haha… In my life, I think I can only say I experienced that kind of serious romantic love only once. It was a failure which almost derailed my pre-registration training to be a pharmacist. However, I somehow managed to pull through the intensive hospital training pretty comfortably despite having a super distracted mind, a broken heart and a shattered confidence.

What I learn from it is that love is irrational. I set my selection criteria then but yet I broke all of them. Compromising came almost second nature. I took about a year to forget that person and I am so proud of myself that I did it. Thank God for it too. Coincidentally, I bumped into another friend this afternoon. She was with this guy (possibly her ex-husband). She told me that she was signing the last papers to sell their apartment. It just seemed not too long ago when I was persuading her to reconsider holding on to her marriage. In a tinkling of an eye, she has almost completed the entire divorce procedure. How sad that love and marriages break down in the thousands in this era. Love in the real world is really something one must work hard to achieve, maintain and strengthen. Fairy tale’s love rarely exists if they ever do.

Okay, anyway…. Back to yesterday’s evening... After that movie, had dinner at “Manhattan Fish Market” restaurant and I thought their food tasted better than the original “Fish & Co” restaurants! Gave my friend a treat since it was just so coincidental that it was her birthday the next day (which is today)! Had that silken tofu at that famous “Rochor” stall at Selegie Road before proceeding home. It was past midnight. I am an “Andrella” and I hardly reach home after midnight.

Talking about food, we had this free buffet breakfast at Swissotel Hotel last Saturday morning by a Swiss health supplement company (no wonder, they chose “Swiss-otel”). You know something… A continental breakfast of bratwursts, harsh browns, orange juice, yoghurt, bacons, turkey hams, omelettes, fried rice, some exotic delicacies etc…. is always welcomed. =) I guess my palate is rather Western. Okay, half-day tomorrow and Deepavali holiday for me on Thursday! Yay! Life isn’t all too bad… but could seriously be better and more “happening”. Hope life is good for you too! ;-)

God Bless,

Andrew