Earth Day

Happy Earth Day 2010!!

你今天吃奇異果了嗎?

發現了一個好笑又catchy的廣告
很搞笑

空氣人形

Just got back from a screening of “Air Doll,” or “空氣人形." I'll talk a bit about the movie since I haven't really done this before. It was a thoughtful little art house Japanese film by Hirokazu Koreeda. The movie is about a life-size inflatable doll that comes to life. While her owner is away during the daytime, she would wander out to the outside world, during which she meets a variety of people and even works at a video rental store and fell in love with a co-worker. Yes, the premise sounds bizarre, but the movie is able to carry it through while conveying its messages: the emptiness and loneliness of urban life and what it means to be human. These messages may be done many times in other movies, but here it’s another creative way to present them.

One of the main themes it brings is the inability for people to connect to each other, to share their sorrows. Because of this, they are empty inside, like the doll. This is quite reflective of the current society. As the doll with a soul learns to become human and fills the emptiness inside, she also discovers that the human characters live lives that are empty, always relying on a “substitute” to release their troubles and feelings. Though I think it is also important to note that the world can't be without the hardworking kindhearted people which the movie didn't mention.

As the doll goes around the city, she also collects glass bottles, fragments, and things in which one would consider garbage. But she finds the beauty in these objects. When she walks, she notices grass, flowers, and dandelions. All these small objects may signify the things we missed as we go on our lives. By the way the scenes in the movie are all well-crafted and beautiful to look at. It’s interesting how the glass bottles are transparent and we can see light shining through…just like herself...

Anyways this is an interesting movie…weird and shocking at some parts (well it is from Japan) but overall I definitely recommend this movie. It premiered at Cannes Film Fest in May and Japan in September 2009. Oh and the lead actress is Bae Doona… she’s Korean who speaks near-perfect Japanese. She was amazing here…hmm both acting and body haha.

March

...of the Penguins? No not really, though I think that film is pretty heart warming. I'm just catching up on stuff since February. Let's see...oh yea spring break was from March 18 to 28 and was probably the only thing worth mentioning out of that month.

At the end of December last year I finally told dad how to download some Taiwanese shows like 豬哥會社, 綜藝大哥大 and 綜藝大集合. That gave him something more to do to fill up his daily activities. And since the internet at home is no doubt provided by Turtle Inc., he had to wait several hours...hmm make that more than ten hours to download a two hour show. He used the computer my sister didn't want anymore and was that computer a raging firetruck! The cooling fans must be running on Red Bulls because it was just too loud!! He mitigated the annoying sound by putting up our Blu-ray player container next to the computer to block the sound when they sleep. That was hilarious! I brought the HP computer back home during spring break so they could use that to download instead.

Anyways it was very enjoyable watching those shows with them during the nights that week. Those shows really gave them something to look forward to after a long night of hard work at Lai Lai Restaurant, and they certainly end the day with fun and somewhat nostalgic note.

二姊 moved into their new house in San Jose area. I would have to say it is a really nice place: nice front/back yard, great view of the mountains, and convenient anywhere you go. They painted Tesla's bedroom baby blue, and Tera's pink. I would say Tesla's bedroom feels like going to Hawaii. It has that nice, relaxing, and refreshing feel whenever I walk into the room. Another thing is that 大姊 and Erika live 10 minutes away so they often have dinner together. And on Fridays mom would be like a caterer bringing everything over there for dinner. What a task!

Oh and I also get to go to Toys 'R Us and BestBuy. That Samsung 3D TV in BestBuy was gorgeous. Though you look weird having to put on the glasses every time you want to watch 3D. I think the TV comes with 2 glasses, so unless you want to pay more, only 2 will get to watch 3D...well, unless you switch around or something..."alright 5 minutes! my turn!!"...When will glassesless 3DTV come out??

Mom, dad, big sis, and Erika are in Taiwan right now (went back on March 31). They'll stay in Tainan for a month! I have my 200-minute prepaid calling card ready...wow I've already used 100 minutes of it O_O