Seems like I can't stay away from this blog!! Sim, welcome back to the blogsphere!! Haha I will visit your blog regularly for more exciting updates.
I was attempting to reign in my blogging and concentrate on the story I was working on, but I am just an easily distracted person. Well, if that's the way it is , that's the way it is.
End of the Berkeley extension writing classes, and am aching for more. I told Lee, I wish he loved to read and write too, but he just groaned a little. I always crave to talk to someone about writing and reading.. But I've learnt my lesson: everytime I try to talk to Lee about reading/writing, we almost inevitably go into an argument. The same is true when we discuss China... It's crazy, I don't even understand why I feel an obligation to defend China--it's not like it's my country. It's like a complex in our relationship. So whenever the topic crops up at night, we now tactfully steer away to other subject matters.
So just random updates really. My writing instructor said on the last lesson: We've got to make writing an addiction. She can't be more right. But I'm already addicted. Reading Harry Mulisch's
The Assault. Excellent excellent read. I showed the book to my classmate---a rather annoying but rather adorable/funny guy, but he didn't like it. That just made me realize. It is indeed a rare to find someone who can understand another person's aesthetics. Som rare partnership like Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf's relationship is like a god-given gift. I used to think that it is something I want in a relationship. But now, I've realized, it's not something to ask for. It's given. I should stop being such a pighead and appreciate my lot. Lee is not all bad. In fact, he's pretty good. I just wish he liked books.
By: Nippy | Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 1:24 PM | | 
Over the years, the excitement just wears off. But still, when I woke up this morning and got your emails, I couldn't help but feel happy. Thank you. There's nothing to say this year, other than the fact that I am glad I found all of you along the way. Thank you for the birthday wishes? I miss you too.
By: Nippy | Friday, August 20, 2010 at 2:09 AM | |
Just read New Yorker's Daniel Denby's review of the movie inception. You can read it on this link: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/26/100726crci_cinema_denby
What a prig Denby is. I hate self-proclaimed film critic/intellectuals like him. It is not because I thought that inception was a great movie It is not. But it was a fun ride, that's for sure. But this man is ridiculous--he doesn't have the mental capacity to understand what inception is--it's a popular hollywood movie--not a filmic piece of art. He analyzes it like it is a film for class. Hello, Mr Denby, can't you understand that this movie is supposed to be for entertainment. Yes, dreams are fertile places for film makers to dig into. But before you sink your claw into something, at least have the decency to look at it for what it is before drawing audacious comparisons. Comparing Nolan's inception to Bunuel's masterpieces is uncalled for and honestly ludicrous.
And just his tone, ugh!! Drives me insane with loathing. It is so chin-up-look-down-on-your-popular-movies. I'm sorry but I can't stomach this kind of arrogance. I know, I over-react, but I hate prigs like that. Comparing Bunuel to Nolan's inception gave that away. Its so : oh-if-you-are-not-smart-enough-to-know-bunuel-then-of-course-you'll-enjoy-trash-like-nolan's inception.
We all know Bunuel is gem. Comparing flashy ad paper to a piece of gem only shows the stupidity of the person comparing it, not how lousy that ad paper is.
He says: "Buñuel was a surrealist— Nolan is a literal-minded man."
Precisely! Then why are you comparing them?
By: Nippy | Tuesday, August 03, 2010 at 2:44 AM | |
