Why do I cry for my grandma even it's been three years since her death?
She's the kindest person I've ever known and she cooked great dishes... But when she left the world I was not by her side, and I know at that time she missed me, because she asked for me, her favorite grand child.
Nanny, if there's karma then you must be a happy little kid again now, for the day you left was the night before Children's Day, and you were then ready to become a little kid again. I believe you'd be happy whether in this world or the other, ever since.
2005-12-29
2005-09-27
Comments on Sex and the City (part 2)
What kept me in front of the screen is simple-- the reflection of myself in the characters. Basically I believe people can only be understanding only when they recall the same thing in their own life, and fortunately this is not so difficult because humanity is largely the same. As a kid I was wondering if what I thought was peculiar or eccentric, later did I find that many others thought the same, only that they kept silent. No wonder if one successfully speaks for the majority, the echo from them will be overwhelming.
Well it's a bit away from the topic so let's return to the series. Women seldom speak publicly about their private life, while this TV series intend to break the silence. The four leading actresses resemble 4 different types of women, winning a large pool of audience that could find their own image in them. Perhaps you'll be like none of them exactly, but now and then you feel what you think spoken out by one so accurately. Carrie always asks the questions concerning most of us, hence she inevitably becomes popular-- Many, many people claim they're jus like Carrie not because they're small-figured, working as a writer and buying ridiculously expensive shoes, but because they ask these questions. While asking these, we think we are her.
Not necessarily should the four represent all people, as we can see, the four women have quite a lot in common which is not so common among the mass. They've decent job, at least look sleek and have good tastes. And most of all, they have the courage to search for real love. Around them there is a world many couples are just marrying for marriage's sake. They're special for they don't want to compromise. The depression they've gone through touches our hearts and invokes our sympathy, while actually we're sympathizing with ourselves. At the end, all of them find their true love despite the winding path, we need such tales for comfort, and to gain some optimism about our own issues.
As the story comes to an end, Charlotte got her baby's picture, it was a lovely Chinese girl. Miranda, having moved to Brooklin, ran out to find her stray mother-in-law in the street and bathed her tenderly. Convalesced from breast cancer, Samantha lost her confidence in the bedroom and even suggested her boyfriend to make love with other women. Smith did not say a word, he flew back overnight with a bunch of daffodils that hasn't bloomed. His love gave Samantha the courage to finally admit her angst and anticipation. On Smith's return day, the buds fully bloomed together along with their romance. Carrie completely lost herself in Paris, on finding her old necklace, she broke up with the selfish boyfriend of hers. At the mean time, Mr. Big was in that city finding her. The two laughed and rolled on the floor in the hotel after Carrie tripped him to the floor to stop him from fighting with Aleksandr. At that moment the real Carrie and real Mr. Big, revived.
The last episode of season six was a great shot and the fairytale fulfillment of all wishes. When the four reunion in the Big Apple, background music presents an airy pace and rhythm of expectations. The story starts with sex and ends in love. All those who didn't know the answer, who knew the answer but never got it realized, who pretended to not care, who once actually did not care, finally revealed the true feelings deep inside. No matter how much drama or tale the series encorporates, or how much one likes the characters and their ways of life, Sex and City is a story about telling the truth. People just cannot deny a series that is frank.
Well it's a bit away from the topic so let's return to the series. Women seldom speak publicly about their private life, while this TV series intend to break the silence. The four leading actresses resemble 4 different types of women, winning a large pool of audience that could find their own image in them. Perhaps you'll be like none of them exactly, but now and then you feel what you think spoken out by one so accurately. Carrie always asks the questions concerning most of us, hence she inevitably becomes popular-- Many, many people claim they're jus like Carrie not because they're small-figured, working as a writer and buying ridiculously expensive shoes, but because they ask these questions. While asking these, we think we are her.
Not necessarily should the four represent all people, as we can see, the four women have quite a lot in common which is not so common among the mass. They've decent job, at least look sleek and have good tastes. And most of all, they have the courage to search for real love. Around them there is a world many couples are just marrying for marriage's sake. They're special for they don't want to compromise. The depression they've gone through touches our hearts and invokes our sympathy, while actually we're sympathizing with ourselves. At the end, all of them find their true love despite the winding path, we need such tales for comfort, and to gain some optimism about our own issues.
As the story comes to an end, Charlotte got her baby's picture, it was a lovely Chinese girl. Miranda, having moved to Brooklin, ran out to find her stray mother-in-law in the street and bathed her tenderly. Convalesced from breast cancer, Samantha lost her confidence in the bedroom and even suggested her boyfriend to make love with other women. Smith did not say a word, he flew back overnight with a bunch of daffodils that hasn't bloomed. His love gave Samantha the courage to finally admit her angst and anticipation. On Smith's return day, the buds fully bloomed together along with their romance. Carrie completely lost herself in Paris, on finding her old necklace, she broke up with the selfish boyfriend of hers. At the mean time, Mr. Big was in that city finding her. The two laughed and rolled on the floor in the hotel after Carrie tripped him to the floor to stop him from fighting with Aleksandr. At that moment the real Carrie and real Mr. Big, revived.
The last episode of season six was a great shot and the fairytale fulfillment of all wishes. When the four reunion in the Big Apple, background music presents an airy pace and rhythm of expectations. The story starts with sex and ends in love. All those who didn't know the answer, who knew the answer but never got it realized, who pretended to not care, who once actually did not care, finally revealed the true feelings deep inside. No matter how much drama or tale the series encorporates, or how much one likes the characters and their ways of life, Sex and City is a story about telling the truth. People just cannot deny a series that is frank.
2005-08-30
Comments on Sex and the City (part 1)
Despite the sex scenes and talks, this series is in general, about love. The relationships related to the four women, Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte, make up the soul of this drama, which lasted for six years and ended in happiness. Everybody started with a typical metropolitan chaos, wandering and dancing with their feet off the ground, unsettled in their mid-thirties' anxiety. They have decent jobs, lots of recreational activities, handful of love affairs and seemingly casual sex.
Samantha is the oldest among the four, and sometimes even dissolute. She dates numerous guys of virtually every type people can imagine, just to fuck them for one weekend, and no sequel. A so-called 'bad woman' in a Chinese, or probably most moral systems, yet she shuts out the judgements and shut in the fun for herself. Miranda is a terrific lawyer, yet she is always less confident facing the other gender, her neutral personality holds back her appeals to men, and her reasoning, though sharp and completely cool, never finds a way toward happiness or true love. Charlotte has good taste and inborn artistical beauty, yet her eagerness for marriage makes her a little silly and desperate now and then. Carrie is the most fashionable one in the quartet, the speaker of the four in each theme. She's sensitive and insightful, but the ability leads her to bewilderment and pain in her own affairs, again, and again.
But, no matter what they experience, the four will gather for a lunch or dinner, discuss their dates, boyfriends, surprises, or heart-breaking moments, of course, as the title shows, their never ending love for the New York city and sex experiences. Men are coming and going all the time, but in the center of all tornadoes, there's a peaceful corner to talk and hide.
If this is just some fashion show or display of nudity, then it could never have attracted audience for six years. People can see the wrinkles on their faces deepen with time, Miranda gave birth to a baby during the middle of the season which spoils her figure, and curiosity about how people in Big Apple spend their night fades quickly after visiting a dozen of openings, clubs and restaurants. So what keeps me in front of the screen?
(to be continued...)
Samantha is the oldest among the four, and sometimes even dissolute. She dates numerous guys of virtually every type people can imagine, just to fuck them for one weekend, and no sequel. A so-called 'bad woman' in a Chinese, or probably most moral systems, yet she shuts out the judgements and shut in the fun for herself. Miranda is a terrific lawyer, yet she is always less confident facing the other gender, her neutral personality holds back her appeals to men, and her reasoning, though sharp and completely cool, never finds a way toward happiness or true love. Charlotte has good taste and inborn artistical beauty, yet her eagerness for marriage makes her a little silly and desperate now and then. Carrie is the most fashionable one in the quartet, the speaker of the four in each theme. She's sensitive and insightful, but the ability leads her to bewilderment and pain in her own affairs, again, and again.
But, no matter what they experience, the four will gather for a lunch or dinner, discuss their dates, boyfriends, surprises, or heart-breaking moments, of course, as the title shows, their never ending love for the New York city and sex experiences. Men are coming and going all the time, but in the center of all tornadoes, there's a peaceful corner to talk and hide.
If this is just some fashion show or display of nudity, then it could never have attracted audience for six years. People can see the wrinkles on their faces deepen with time, Miranda gave birth to a baby during the middle of the season which spoils her figure, and curiosity about how people in Big Apple spend their night fades quickly after visiting a dozen of openings, clubs and restaurants. So what keeps me in front of the screen?
(to be continued...)
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