Let's see... 4th day of blogging will be a failure because I have a rehearsal tomorrow at 11.30, so I will have to sleep early and wake up early to be able to play my best. Though I'm bursting with ideas because I went out with Jonathan Lee today.
Well, alright, maybe I'll indulge this one... today Jonny (it's funny how he doesn't like being called that in public, but then again, this isn't public :p) said that he was feeling a little down and emo about romantic issues so he was going to ask if we all wanted to go out, but the horns couldn't make it (just in case you were thinking that on his off days, Jonny is actually the Devil with horns, no, the horns mean 'french horns' who are a couple, Liang Cun and Yue Zhi), so I went out with him. Yeah it felt a little weird thinking about it before I actually got out the door, because we've always gone out together only in a group. Once I met him, though, I didn't feel weird any more since anyways we sometimes eat lunch together at Great Wall in NUS and it's fine. Before we went though, he asked me to put his viola (aka his wife) in my house for safekeeping. While on the way out, we met my grandmother and I told her in Teochew, "He's not my boyfriend, okay?" Haha. They'll probably still just think that, anyways.
The movie we went to watch was 'X-men: First Class' and before the movie started we went to top up his card at the OCBC ATM at their branch, and while we were there I saw an advert plastered on the wall that I took a picture of, which was of 2 credit cards with the name 'JONATHAN LEE' on them. I had to take a picture of course, and Jon thought it would be a nice idea too, so I took one of him. Hehe. Then we roamed around Nex, doing nothing but walking and talking. It was actually nice. I like talking while walking because somehow walking activates my mind better. Then we met the Other Jonathan, Jonathan Maximilian Wong, who were with two other people from the church choir, Emmanuel and Angela. The two Jons talked (which was inwardly amusing to me but I didn't show it) and Jonathan Wong asked Jon Lee about getting into YST because he's thinking of doing a course there. When they were done, I asked, "Do you want to exchange name cards?" because I know that Jon Lee gives his out, and also that Jonathan Wong has name cards too. So anyways. A little detour. I don't know if they think that Jon Lee is my boyfriend. That would be majorly funny. My relationship with Jon Lee is almost like that between me and Colin. Though the way I said goodbye to him after he sent me home with his dad's car (I gave him a hug, i.e. I opened my arms and offered one (a hug, not an arm...!)) probably will just make them think even more that he's my boyfriend :p but really I just wanted to comfort him and make him feel better, and he did say that he felt a lot better after this afternoon, so I'm glad I helped. I was rather amused though when I returned him his viola, because he stroked it, put his cheek to it and said, "Awww..... did you miss me?" Heheh :D
The movie was good, I'd say, but Jonny said it was less than 2 hours and would have wanted it to be longer to extend some parts. Well whatever that is, I think that it was really exciting and I haven't been so happy about watching a movie for a long time. The last I watched a movie in a cinema was 'Letters to Juliet' I think (and I wasn't so happy about watching it), which I watched with the choir people almost exactly a year ago. Yeah, that is how frequently I watch movies. Once a year. Haha... While I appreciated the romantic reunion of the older couple, I really didn't get the whole young couple thing. Although the plot Is centred around these two young people, they really make me feel as if they were just put there to provide the audience with some kissing scenes, the connection between the two I just felt was... missing. They were warring throughout the vast majority of the film and then right at the end (i.e. last 15 minutes) they realise that they are each other's true love (if that isn't a constructed fairytale, completely unrealistic ending, I don't know what that is) and tada, kissing! And they'd just known each other for a week! Honestly now... I was more impressed with the quasi-subplot of the old woman looking for her lost lover, even after decades of separation. That, is romantic. Constant pining even after years of separation, that even with other people around, the love never dies...
Then again, it's really irritating how movie-makers just throw in a female just for the... romantic action. Even in places where there are likely no females, they just throw in a female, like in horror movies like Anaconda... and then unfailingly at least one female Always survives the one-on-one picking off to make the kissing scene at the end. Those movie makers even stick a female into places (especially for movie adaptations of books) where they were never supposed to be, like Around the World in 80 days and Journey to the Middle of the Earth. Of course, more kissing scenes. Call that entertainment!
Well. This was a rather long detour, interrupted by chats and reading of wikipedia articles about different types of evolution. I went there to check up something that I'd read in a link that someone sent me. Here's the link: http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=525 and of course, I had to check what the different types of view about evolution were. I concluded that I was a theistic evolutionist. I'm surprised because I came to this view independently of people in the church but then after I discovered that the Catholic Church does hold this opinion as well. Haha. I can't help thinking of my first experience with Christianity after kindergarten (yeah my mom, a closet Christian at the time, sent me a Christian kindergarten where they taught us how to pray, well, really, gave us words to repeat, and most of the time I had no idea at all what it was all about, so it doesn't really count) when I was in P3, and we all had to do morning reading. A classmate of mine brought her child's Bible, and then she showed me Genesis I and the creation of the Earth. Then she insisted that creation was true. And I said, "Well, that can't be true, because we all know that evolution is how everything started." Or something to that effect. I have no idea how, but by P3 I had already known about the theory of evolution and all the rest of it (I was and still am a voracious reader, and used to read even recipes and ingredients list, which was how I got interested in nutrition, but that's another story (reading ingredients lists in other languages was also how I managed to learn some words in other languages, haha)). I guess my parents were right in letting me loose in the mountain of encyclopaedias that we have in our house. :D
Alright... wow it's so late... gosh. (Yes I know that I didn't fully develop the whole evolution idea thing, but time runs out *yawn*) Berate myself for letting myself up for so long. Hope everything goes well tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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