What Women Want

Gong Li, my favourite actress, hence brought me to the cinema for this show, What Women Want, a remake of the Hollywood version played by Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. Have not seen the Hollywood version, but watching Andy Lau and Gong Li as a couple seems a little odd, for me. Nonetheless, I was willing to give the film a try since it features one of my favourite female leads. Separately, both look stunning for the part, Andy Lau very lean and slim, Gong Li gorgeous and at her top fit form, being a women at her age, yet, both together, something seems to be missing. Not that I expect a great deal out of a romantic comedy, in terms of story and what not, but the chemistry and the relationship part has to be just right. Maybe as a film, it tries a little too hard to be funny? But having being able to read a woman's mind and thoughts is good enough to know a woman well, I wonder? What women really wants out of men or even their lives for that matter beats me, though I am a woman myself. But there are some things in life that we do know for sure what we want and don't. You will need to go the extra mile to find out if you are the opposite sex. By the way, Happy Valentine's Day.

The Eve of Lunar New Year

It's that time of the year now, my memory of Chinese New Year back in our small hometown was filled with activities like spring cleaning, putting up CNY ornaments (CNY new year cards received, paper cut-outs, ang pows, Chinese Calligraphy written by my dad, or at times me and my twin sister, hanging up lanterns), cooking and baking (flipping and folding kueh kapik in white gloves, in front of the steamy hot stove, cookies and more), visiting relatives and friends all around town and collecting ang pows. Chinese New Year has since evolved into something more subtle and less chaotic, with some of us not in town these days, family get together got a little smaller and simpler. Funny in a way, when you have more people and bigger family together, things tend to be merrier and so much more fun...I guess Chinese New Year celebration can still be fun, as long as you celebrate it with your love ones. It may not be as exciting as I remembered as a small little kid, but nonetheless, meaningful. Let's put on your best cheongsam, a bright smile on your face and go celebrate this 2011 Lunar New Year in great style and fashion. Talking about cheongsam, it will always remind me of Maggie Cheung clad in her beautifully body hugging one in my favourite film, In The Mood For Love. My old post on the film and 2046 here. Have a fabulous year of the BUNNY and may it be a prosperous one for everyone out there xoxo GONG XI FA CAI

Close My Eyes For Better Days

Out of all the anger, frustration and disappointment lately, just feel like watching a heart-warming love story on big screen (again, the foolishness of liking to be fooled and disillusioned). Why should we not live a beautiful love story in real life when you can fabricate all things pretty in an alternate world of fantasy and images, which is never close to real after all. But real love in real life is never as simple as being portrayed in the make believe world of empty promises. Why should there be expectation, why should there be commitments and responsibilities, why should there be obligations, why can't it be just doing it out of love, out of pure care and genuine concern for the other person? Why should it be told, why should it be requested, why should it be asked? Tired, exhausted, disappointed, fatigue and utterly speechless all rolled into one big balloon of questionable doubt, are all these still worth while after all these years? Who am I doing this for and why I am doing this again? Let's get onto the hot air balloon of wishful thinking and just float away, far far away, into the land of no return, away from all these meaningless expectations...away, away, away, away, away, away from it all, away from mySELF, away, just go, go, go away...that's all I need, that's all I want, that's all, that's just all. Too much? Never...