Tuesday, March 15, 2011

how close is the moon now?

Japan.. Quake.. Tsunami.. Nuke plants.. Devastation.
the world over is moved and saddened by this unfortunate turn of events.
some pledge their support in every ways thinkable, some poke fun at it with dire consequences.

Me. Read the news and watched some videos over the internet. some things you gotta see for yourself to believe it.
Kept myself updated through the online media. social networks prove sometimes a faster source of info (especially) at times like these.. it's where all sources of news, and hoaxes, are gathered at..


today, through the msn site.. saw this image:


and it struck me immediately, a scene from what i remembered of an animation, japanese nontheless..




"ponyo on the cliff by the sea"


it used to strike me as a peculiar animation this one, with all the cutish-japanesey animations sprouted undoubtedly from amazing imaginations.
but this part here, turns out this did not boil from mere imagination,.. no, not at all.
so this is what the scenes really are like over there, when there are floods of massive magnitudes.

i'm sure, even after all these ... them japanese will be able to pull through and continue to flourish, as they've always did.









another itch scratched...

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Shawshank revisited..

i luv unifi ..
i luv the oscars (a few at least) ..
but most of all, i luv holidays ..

.. fell in love with mr morgan freeman in Shawshank Redemption.. fell in love all over again tonight. not exactly the usual typecasted hero; he had his fears, his 'small' moments.. but most of all i think, i fell for his voice amongst all .. and that quick american slang that he has, playing Red.


and this ..

127 hours ... it began as a solitary pursuit, of freedom unrestricted.

"a man can be himself only so long as he is alone; ... if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free." [Schopenhauer, "The World as Will and Idea", 1818]


and this, ironically.. the view from the pit, the bottomest of it all . . .

life's like that i guess ... ~ paradoxical; contradictory, nontheless true.


another itch scratched...