So the main part of the Lunar New Year is now over and for some reason it has been a subdued one for me.
Tho most of the family came back for dinner and visiting, it still seemed fairly quiet through out. I realise that I have gotten more adept at answering the CNY question – When are you getting married – which came a lot more this year.
I think my relatives think I am an old spinster already left on the shelf that no one wants to marry seeing the way they look at me and wish me luck in finding a man in the upcoming year.
There were a few good things that came out of the celebrations; namely that is nice to know that my brother cares about me and that I spent some quality time not just with my grandma (who was getting frustrated that I never came home) but with my cousins as well. Since I don’t really know them very well, and there always seems to be this huge chasm between us, it was nice to be able to talk, laugh, joke with them.
I guess sometimes it all just takes a small act that no one really pays attention to, to make someone else feel so important.
Before the show opened, I had never even heard of the books. Being the worldwide phenomenon that it is, it was hard to escape the billboards, posters, walls of the Twilight movie.But it caught my attention due to the fact that it is about vampires. (Tho now, I know loosely based on them)
Vampires have always been an enigma. So many of us are enthralled and fascinated by their folklore and it is just strangely seductive. Real or fiction, I guess we would never know.
Movies about vampires have always been a solid deal – Interview with the vampire, the Blade trilogy, Underworld – and it has its third installment on the way out. The secretiveness of their world, the thrill of being the undead, their amazing abilities and of course their constant need to be in the cloak of darkness.
Obviously I had to go and watch it, due to it’s vampire nature not really bothering that it was also a romantic show and that I wanted to see their take on vampires which I heard was different from what we are used it.
I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the show. I must also say, the music from the soundtrack is also strangely mesmerising and seductive. So much so, that I have a tale to tell of the day after.
Since I am always skeptical of book-screen translations and that books will always have a special place in my heart, I decided that I wanted to get all four books together so that I would have no issues in reading them.
So off I tropped to the bookstore near my place and they had three out of the four books but it was the first book they were missing. Obviously that would not work, so I took a trip down to Orchard to check out both Borders & Kino. The Borders staff were extremely unhelpful and unsure of what they were talking about. In any case, they only had two out of four and the first one was not the cover I wanted. Kino on the other hand had all four but for some reason, I wanted to get the other three books from the bookstore near my place. So I purchase the first book and headed back.
In the three hours that I had left the bookstore, they had sold out all their copies. I was dumbfounded! So I trooped over ot another bookstore nearby only to find they had also sold out.
Frustrated and annoyed with myself and not willing to wait, I went back to Kino to purchase the rest of my books. It felt like I had travelled all over just to get those four books. But after I had gotten them all safely tucked into my hands, I was so pleased with myself knowing that I could just enjoy reading them now.
I must say that the second time around gave me a lot more time to enjoy this film more and more of the underlying messages came across.
As I had previously mentioned, the storyline is extremely down to earth and straight forward, which makes it fairly believable. We are just looking for someone to notice us, to realize that we exist on this planet. Whether it is by force you drag someone off the dance floor to say hi or just sitting and dancing on the hood of someone else’s car.
We are human and as humans, the need to be acknowledge sometimes rules our existence. It’s a basic human emotion that we all crave some form of attention. Be it once in a while, or a constant need like Tris, we all need validation by the people around us.
Sometimes you just need someone to come along and show you that you are not a fish out of water, that there is a soul mate of sorts – musical or otherwise – for you. That we some how fit into this vast universe.
I’m glad I got someone else hooked on this amazing yet not very publicised show. It least there is someone else to gush about how absolutely adorable and amazing, yet at the same time, simple, this show is.
