Someone asked me earlier, if Orchard Road brought out the Christmasy mood in me. My answer in return was, “I am in a tulany mood”

I can’t believe how amazing crowded it was. There was hardly any space to move, walk or do anything in general. People just kept stopping in the middle of the walkway without any warning. It was utter mayhem at Orchard Road.

So much for the much-claimed recession. The tills were ringing till no end with snaking queues everywhere!

I had went there to get just a few items for the little kids… I came back with three huge bags!! Now I am stressing that I might have just forgotten a present for someone.

At least I got a few presents that I did not expect to purchase as I was suddenly inspired when I saw it.

By the time I was on my way back, I wished I had my own transportation as I was just dying under the weight of all the things I was carrying. Just only a couple of hours earlier, I was cursing and swearing at the traffic jams I was in just to get myself to Orchard road.

I cannot really believe I made it back from the mayhem without killing anyone.

In my back-to-back movies on Saturday, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist is the first one of the night that I had caught.

While the write up about it were fairly promising, I was wondering what I was doing watching another teen rom-com. Not that I didn’t like rom-com’s but one would think teenage angst and falling in and out of love would be so clique these days.

Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. While the whole show takes place over the course of one night, you forget that Nick & Norah are teenagers – who are just about to go off to collage – as the night unfurls.

They drive around New York getting themselves into hilarious situations while trying to find Norah’s drunken friend, searching for the location of a publicity shy band’s gig, dealing with exs and learning about each other and falling in love – yes all packed in one laughter filled night.

With the wonderful music throughout the movie, it definitely did set the tone wonderfully. That I also ended up blipping most of the songs from the show.

At the end of the day, the simple and down to earth story line, is what sealed the deal on this movie for me. Sometimes, simplicity just says so much. this is definitely a keeper and I am already dying to watch it again. Definitely going to get the OST when I have the time as well as the DVD when it comes outs.

The official movie site can be found here.

I had a late start to today as the morning plans were scratched at the last moment due to a non-functioning motherboard and the fact that I was up all night as I was sick.

So after a “wake up” call from my cousin who had already reached, I rushed out of the house in a frenzy down to Cathay to catch a movie – Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

After (a late) dinner, I had this crazy suggestion to watch Twilight

So my cousin listened to his crazy cousin to go and watch another movie within hours of each other.

While both movies are good (which I will blog about separately), I realised how much I miss going to the movies. When I was much younger, which obviously seems like a lifetime ago now, I used to go pretty frequently to catch shows. Sometimes, I’ll just turn up at a box office and catch which ever show was about to start. There were sometimes jewels to be found.

Then I started working, and I went to the theatre less and less frequently. Even to the extent of missing movies I had wanted to catch. My currently list of To-Watch movies, seems to be growing larger only.

In some sense, I lost a part of myself. Earlier today, I was just considering the fact that almost all people I know have great passion for at least one thing in their life, if not more. I keep hearing of the passion people have and I realise I have lost all my passions in life. Work has almost consumed my entire being leaving me very little time for my personal activities. I guess its starting to worry me, tho I know it has been worrying many for a long time now.

So I guess I have a new goal, to be less tied to work… reignite my passions, and in some sense find out what my passions are now since the old ones have long died. Maybe I should start with a visit to the theatre at least once a week then. 

I just saw a video that my cousin had on his facebook. He used to be in this society and they had compiled this video.

The video was put together with photos that have been taken over the years to commemorate the time that this society had spent together. As I watched it, it tugged on my heartstrings.  Not only because it was a beautiful video to keep for memory and for the future members to remember their seniors by, but it was a testament to one of the main things I wanted in life.

I’ve been to gatherings of this society and I see how the members interact. Its like they are family. I always wished to have belonged somewhere. To be part of something, of a group, of a society. For some reason, that was just not my calling in life.

Maybe in this lot for this life, I have been tasked to walk alone. Nonetheless, it makes me pine to belong somewhere.

Sometimes we get so caught up in life that we forget the simpler things that are always right in front of us. We work towards the good things in life to make ourselves more comfortable and in some sense, give our lives more meaning.

I started off today on a not too good note. My alarms went off at 6am (the same time for the past few days) all because of some stupid thing. But on my way out the door (when the sun was barely risen), I spied the bread on the counter top and snatched one slice.

As I munched on it while walking down, there was a certain sense of happiness within it. It has been ages since I ate a sandwich and longer still that I have eaten a slice of plain bread.

Tho I am craving for a McDonald’s pancake with sausage meal, I would say this definitely does make up for it.