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Friday, June 30, 2006
I watched Superman I last night and thought this would make great wedding vows for Mrs. Wong:
Can you read my mind?
Do you know what it is that you do to me?
I don't know who you are
Just a friend from another star.
Here I am, like a kid out of school.
Holding hands with a god.
I'm a fool.
Will you look at me?
Quivering.
Like a little girl, shivering.
You can see right through me.
Can you read my mind?
Can you picture the things I'm thinking of?
Wondering why you are...
All the wonderful things you are.
You can fly!
You belong in the sky!
You and I...
Could belong to each other.
If you need a friend,
I'm the one to fly to.
If you need to be loved,
Here I am.
Read my mind.
- thought by Lois Lane while on her maiden flight with Superman
This scene was so romantic. The last couple of lines just slayed me. *sobs*
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
I've just finished reading "A Song For Arbonne" by Guy Gavriel Kay.Something about the cover caught my eye and made me pick it up. I don't usually read medieval fantasy, but Charles De Lint praised it as "the ideal novel", so I borrowed it.
That was a good move. I was won over pretty early in the story. By the end, I had laughed, cried, became both frightened and excited.
It's such a beautiful, multi-layered story. Kay managed to weave in so many themes and created characters that I really felt for. There is politics, religion and war. Love in all its aspects. Music.The way the plot worked out was brilliant, it tied up all the loose ends and everything was set right. But ending right does not mean a happy ending.
I love how tragic this book is. I love how everyone practices self-denial and restraint for "the greater good". Isn't that just how life is? Happiness is a fantasy. Duty is the reality.
As I read the final pages, I just wanted weep. Both for the fate of the characters and for there being no more to read.
p.s. in one alternative cover, the hero looks like Eric Bana. *screams & dies*
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Coinage in a Game of Castles and Nations
Thy table set with rarest wine,
Choice meats, sweet-ripened fuit
And candlelight when we dine
In Fionvarre.
On we two the high stars will shine
And the holy moon lend her light.
If not here you will be mine
In Fionvarre
Queen Ariane: When the day comes that a man and a woman of our society may wed because they choose each other freely, then talk to me of loyalty. But so long as women are coinage in a game of castles and nations, then I will admit no such duty and will dedicate my life to changing the way of things.
King Blaise: Why should it matter if you are quiet or not?
QA: Discretion is at the heart of all of this. I am not here to bring shame to anyone, least of all myself. There is no public duty I owe my lord or my people in which I have been found wanting. The duties I owe myself are different. What happens alone at night between two people who are adults about it need not impact upon the world in any way.
KB: Then why bother? Why bother to be together?
QA: We come together to glory in the gift of life that the goddess gave us... or the god, if you prefer. Sometimes the best things in our lives come to us of a night and are gone in the morning. Have you never found that?
- A Song For Arbonne (1992)
by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Normal relations
On occasion
Future possibility
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
SMS-ing with darling Lesley:She: Don't let stress get to u. Have little amy moments :)
Me: What are those?
She: La di da at raffles, shop for trinkets, eat a chocolate cake, read a graphic novel, throw dartboard pins at YODA :)
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I feel really stupid.
I got nagged again - the third time in 24 hours. And it's for really dumb things that I SHOULD'VE anticipated. But I didn't. My ex-Manager would've probably known to look out for these lapses, but I totally had no clue. Will foresight come from experience? What if I'm just that brainless?
I used to think that they need me around. But as I hobble from one minor glitch to another, I wonder if they aren't better off without me. I'm probably slowing them down.
It has been so long since a superior told me I was an asset. Maybe because it's been so long since I was one. I used to be so cherished, back in my little pond, but in this big ocean, I'm drowning. More and more, I feel like I don't have what it takes.
I can't see how I will develop the know-how of my ex-Manager, the brilliance of that AM or even the competency of an ex-Exec.
What am I doing here, walking among giants?
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
It's been so long since last I blogged. And after such an absence, it's very difficult to start again. But my friend wisely said today, "Sometimes you have to let go of an imperfect post." There's a tendency to overthink blog content, to rework sentences and to retouch photos. But sometimes, you have to step back and just let it be published.After being eyeball-deep in work for about 8 weeks, I've taken about 3 weeks to de-pressurise. It's like slowly ascending to the surface after deep-sea diving. You can't go too fast, or you'll get the bends. I capped off the recovery process with a mini-break and enjoyed - all too briefly - the life of a lady of leisure.
The workplace is radically different now. Old faces have been replaced by new blood. The work is new too. And more changes lie ahead.
I think I will let go now and publish this. :)
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