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Friday, January 07, 2005
Where Will You Be...
the day after tomorrow?
Got the dvd from Terence about one month back, and finally i got the chance to sit down together with my mum this night to watch the show. she always wanted to watch the show, but she didn't tell me and she didn't want to go to the theatres to watch it after knowing that i watched it already. feeling guilty, i borrowed the dvd from Terence to let my mum watch.
suddenly, i felt shows like these aren't in fact gonna be jus pure fiction after all. scenes like the huge tsunami scenes and the scenes where Americans tried to get into Mexico seemingly kept reappearing right on my tv set these two weeks. could it be god's way of saying "hey, some things cannot be kept as purely entertainment movies anymore".
when the film came out, how many of us actually dismissed the idea of such things happening? about natural disasters happening in areas which never got hit before? about countries that used to receive help, helping other countries in times of need? i still remembered a friend saying that mother nature creating disasters of epic scale is just pure unbelievable and when i said it's possible, he gave me the roll eye "you-must-be-dumb-to-actually-believe". i wonder wut he wud say if i actually recorded that conversation down on tape and actually showing him now.
thousands of families lost in the recent tsunami event. my brother-in-law's colleague's whole family has gone on to another world, while two of his other colleagues remained by hugging onto pillars and coconut trees with all their efforts for continous 8 hours. the survivors could laugh about their incidents (those two colleagues were actually amused by the fishes that were being washed ashore when the first wave hit and tried to catch them), but griefness filled them to hear of those who did not make it.
i feel terribly lucky to be living in singapore, safe from natural disasters like tsunamis and tornadoes. but for how long? are we really safe? what will we do when that day comes? will we give up hope? will we become irrational and do whatever comes to our mind to risk saving our own lives without realising we're walking to our paths of death? what will our government do? thailand reacted almost like how the vice-president did in "TDAT", hiding the fact from the ppl and could not react in time, causing unnecessary deaths.
this is the first time i watched the movie since the tsunami incident, and it was shocking. terribly shocking how believable some images came to be. (of course, not all...) interestingly, the last few scenes had the main characters smiling, all of them. what was in their mind? i kept thinking abt it, if i would smile if i survived such a thing. ya, perhaps. i was allowed to live on, maybe i was chosen to live on. i should live on fulfilling my mission and my dreams and live on as happily as i could. perhaps ppl have left us, for the rest of us to live on.
walked into macdonald's today to have lunch. tot of having a $1.95 double-cheeseburger and a $1.75 coke. saw they were donating an amount (forgotten how much) from the cost of each of the new Beef Prosperity Meal, to the tidal waves fund. bought that instead. an insignificant amount i must say, but i should always try my best to do wutever i can.
because i know one day we'll need help too. who knows where we'll be, the day after tomorrow.
sorry-for-sounding-utterly-cliche-ish,
johnzzon
Got the dvd from Terence about one month back, and finally i got the chance to sit down together with my mum this night to watch the show. she always wanted to watch the show, but she didn't tell me and she didn't want to go to the theatres to watch it after knowing that i watched it already. feeling guilty, i borrowed the dvd from Terence to let my mum watch.
suddenly, i felt shows like these aren't in fact gonna be jus pure fiction after all. scenes like the huge tsunami scenes and the scenes where Americans tried to get into Mexico seemingly kept reappearing right on my tv set these two weeks. could it be god's way of saying "hey, some things cannot be kept as purely entertainment movies anymore".
when the film came out, how many of us actually dismissed the idea of such things happening? about natural disasters happening in areas which never got hit before? about countries that used to receive help, helping other countries in times of need? i still remembered a friend saying that mother nature creating disasters of epic scale is just pure unbelievable and when i said it's possible, he gave me the roll eye "you-must-be-dumb-to-actually-believe". i wonder wut he wud say if i actually recorded that conversation down on tape and actually showing him now.
thousands of families lost in the recent tsunami event. my brother-in-law's colleague's whole family has gone on to another world, while two of his other colleagues remained by hugging onto pillars and coconut trees with all their efforts for continous 8 hours. the survivors could laugh about their incidents (those two colleagues were actually amused by the fishes that were being washed ashore when the first wave hit and tried to catch them), but griefness filled them to hear of those who did not make it.
i feel terribly lucky to be living in singapore, safe from natural disasters like tsunamis and tornadoes. but for how long? are we really safe? what will we do when that day comes? will we give up hope? will we become irrational and do whatever comes to our mind to risk saving our own lives without realising we're walking to our paths of death? what will our government do? thailand reacted almost like how the vice-president did in "TDAT", hiding the fact from the ppl and could not react in time, causing unnecessary deaths.
this is the first time i watched the movie since the tsunami incident, and it was shocking. terribly shocking how believable some images came to be. (of course, not all...) interestingly, the last few scenes had the main characters smiling, all of them. what was in their mind? i kept thinking abt it, if i would smile if i survived such a thing. ya, perhaps. i was allowed to live on, maybe i was chosen to live on. i should live on fulfilling my mission and my dreams and live on as happily as i could. perhaps ppl have left us, for the rest of us to live on.
walked into macdonald's today to have lunch. tot of having a $1.95 double-cheeseburger and a $1.75 coke. saw they were donating an amount (forgotten how much) from the cost of each of the new Beef Prosperity Meal, to the tidal waves fund. bought that instead. an insignificant amount i must say, but i should always try my best to do wutever i can.
because i know one day we'll need help too. who knows where we'll be, the day after tomorrow.
sorry-for-sounding-utterly-cliche-ish,
johnzzon
