Movies in Sep & Oct

In September, I caught two films screened by the Design Film Festival - 1. Hand Made with Love in France and 2. The Salt of the Earth. 

I watched "Hand Made with Love in France" as my debut movie in a refurbished Capitol Theatre. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and the venue. 

As for "The Salt of the Earth", it was a movie I caught together with Imel on 27 September. She gave me a lunch treat that day as well because it was her birthday month and she had a special discount at Coffee Club. That was really sweet and generous of her. 

Tonight, 23 October, I caught "The Martian" starring Matt Damon with Doris. It was a movie treat from her as she received movie vouchers from NTUC and kindly offered to share her complimentary movie vouchers with me. I treated her to a MacDonalds Samurai burger in return for dinner. 

I wanted to catch "The Martian" coz Troy has caught it a few weeks back and so has YK. It seemed to have received pretty decent reviews and turned out to be a decent film. However, in view of all the three films I've caught these two months, my favourite is "Hand Made with Love in France". Perhaps it's the theme of fashion, artisans, art, luxury and time honoured tradition that so captivated my attention. Or it could simply be the romantic, iconic backdrop of Paris which made it quite unforgettable. Either way, that's a film which I will remember for quite some time to come. Or so I hope. 

First Post in 2015

It has been over a year since my one and only post in 2014. 2015 is whizzing by and I had almost forgotten that I even have a blog in here. Since my last post, my dad has had a big toe amputation on his left foot. Both him and mum has moved back to Singapore from JB to live with sis and me. We have since hired a Myanmar helper called Mar Mar Oo to help care for dad and relieve mum of household chores. The dynamics at home has changed quite drastically for the past six months. It has been quite a challenging six months with dad's ailing health.

I spent the 2015 NYE with Guat Ping admiring fireworks from her Suntec office view, past midnight. The Gila Gals will soon meet to celebrate Guat Ping's birthday. Her 41st. Both Guat and I are entering into middle age, the youth of old age. I "celebrated" my 25th baptism anniversary this 7 Oct 2015 even though I could not take a day off. I served at EAST that day (It was registration period.)

I met this young pilot called T through M on 12 April this year. He has been my muse for the past six months or so. But I feel that it is a friendship that isn't really sustainable. Though, he has been quite a good support to me while dad was in poor health.