Food for thoughts...

Actually I had these thought after watching leap years...heh heh...rented the DVD to watch last month, and it was simply awesome! Although the storyline is a bit unrealistic, as in which girl in Singapore would wait 16 years for a guy??? I would just find someone to get married lor...haha...but again, if you strongly believed that there was a right one out there, and so far you have no right feelings for anyone, perhaps you would wait afterall...perhaps. But I loved the settings of the show, the places the movie was filmed, it sort of gives Singapore's image a 'makeover'. Maybe to us locals, we find Singapore mundane, boring, and the least exciting place we are trapped in. But the movie brings out the flavours of this island. for example the places where the girls met up all the time - the place on a hilltop overlooking the sea, I found it to be a cafe at Mount Faber. The old shop houses that Lee Ann stays, the scene at the rooftop overlooking Singapore river, the cafe at chinatown, the cafe at One Fullerton...and the scene where Lee Ann was in her wedding gown looking out of the window of her shophouse, the way the producer played with the lightings, and the songs from Singaporean singer Corrinne May just matches perfectly into the mood of the show. It is simply enchanting and attractive. Everything was purely local taste, purely Singaporean. And yet it was the most beautiful movie I ever watched because I could relate better to it as it reflects OUR LIFESTYLE! These thoughts I have written them down in my diary but have yet to find time to blog it down...can see my last entry is about last year!!!

Well, I loved the movie...but sad to say, its indeed like a fairytale.

Ever since I was young, I knew what were fairytales. I had no problem of distinguishing between fairytale and reality. I knew that Santa Claus did not exist, but somehow I hoped that it did exist and I didn't mind doing silly things like writing letters to him and hanging socks on my window during Xmas, hoping in my heart that perhaps i was wrong, and that this fairytale might happen. I didn't mind waiting, and i didn't mind believing in it, and i didn't mind just trying my luck. But somehow, reality comes knocking on my door, asking me to wake up and move on with life.

I remeber that my friend once told me that she loves watching korean and taiwan love dramas because it allows her to escape from reality for a moment and enter into a world of love and fairytale, where love and romance existed, where we yearned to be, and yearn to somwhow feel the same way or experience the same thing that could be too perfect for the real world.

For a few minutes or so, I don't mind either, to lie to myself and live in denial, in a fairytale world of my own, just to get in touch with what we truly desire deep down inside us. Although I am skeptical about the existence of such fairytale love and happy endings, but deep down, I hoped that one day, something could move me to tears. I could read about love, watch about love, listen to love and tear easily, but I have never teared in real life because i have never experienced something that moving in real life, it never occured to me it could happen in real life.

Perhaps one day I'll give up waiting when its time....