right now... all i smell is smoke. my room-mate is smoking in the room even though there is a smoke detector. she was too lazy to go out for a smoke.. (and it is freaking -20 degrees celcius outside now.. and that's not even including wind chill) and asked me if she could smoke in the room. i said no initially.. obviously.. but then i kinda caved in. sigh. i really need to grow a more solid backbone sometimes...
i just caught the departed just now at the theatres... yea dont know why it's showing so late here. i wanted to see how the americans would kinda translate wu jian dao. and.. i really didnt like it. to me infernal affairs is so great because it's just.. other than the fantastic plot and great actors.. it's just really woven into such a beautiful story. it might be a mob movie, but there's no unneeded violence or sex or whatever it is. but the departed is completely... f this f that.. the whole entire show.. i've developed such a deep hatred for that word it was just extremely extremely distracting and pissing. i dont know. i just felt like.. they took such a beautiful plot.. film.. and ruined it. hollywood style.
this week has been.. really interesting... i would have blogged more but i just got sick of myself. but some things which have stood out for me... one is my international relations class. my professor.. is very against a lot of things that america stands for now... you can tell he really loves his country, and more than anything feels just extremely sad at the way things have become.. before i came to the states with my simplistic knowledge and easily manipulated emotions, i felt sorry for bush. it really is a damn shitty job being an american president and i felt that along with enduring so much shit people still throw even more at him... when it's just such a difficult job. but after this class.. we're reading this book called 'sorrows of an empire' if im not wrong.. i've realised a lot more things.. and am honestly... very disgusted at how... this country is conducting itself throughout the world..
digression.. somehow. somehow. i feel like.. everything i say and do is being monitored. im probably paranoid. but i try to pick and choose my words very carefully...
it talks about american militarism.. how america is spreading their empire which it does under its unknowing citizens.. do you know the US has a reported 700 plus military bases throughout the world? and that's not even counting in those unreported. and many of these boast of the american lifestyle... whole load of fancy houses, golf courses, resorts, bars, clubs etc.. which greatly affect the lives of the local people.. and many of these bases are retained on completely stupid reasoning... sigh. my professor did time at one in taiwan.. and he knows what it's like. im too tired. not gonna spend anymore time on this shitty subject.
there has been some forum on racism held on campus.. which i went to.. it was extremely emotional.. but in a way it also showed how stupid things are.. and really the difficulty in trying to determine and differentiate right from wrong. some things which might seem to be against you.. people can take advantage of that and turn it into some positive argument.. complicated issue i dont wanna go into either.
yesterday i watched 2 chinese movies with some americans on these two floors.. i wanted to get i not stupid and show them a singapore movie.. haha but crap. the library was closed (yea i saw it in the library. amazing huh.) so i got wu jian dao (hahaaa.. no im not obssessed. it's just.. such a damn good film) and a jackie chan show.. and they loved it! and the girls were saying how good looking andy lau.. edison chen.. tony leung etc were.. hahaa. but in the jackie chan show.. there were a lot of ABC actors like daniel wu and nicholas tse.. who would suddenly burst into an english phrase in the middle of a cantonese rant. and they thought it was just.. kinda funny.. and weird. they said it was like a white guy trying to speak and behave like a black guy. like k-fed. i thought that was really interesting.. esp when they asked me do asians think it's cool.. like all these english phrases and things.. sadly i think quite a few do. not in sg.. but.. in certain countries like hk and taiwan where people dont speak english usually. hmmmmmm..
i think what most americans have seen of jackie chan too is rush hour and all.. where he acts kinda stupid and hilarious.. but he's different in hk shows.. he's more of an actor.. more himself in a sense.. and when we were watching it.. one of my friends said.. she'd never seen him like that before. and she also said quite subconsciously... that he doesnt act like that in american movies coz americans are stupid. he only makes stupid movies for them. i was slightly stunned for a while.. and im sure those are not the reasons.. but.. i guess.. in a way.. if you wanna talk about racism.. everyone is racist in their own right.. we might feel that the west wont get or enjoy our films.. and of course the west have their own thoughts about us... i've experienced my fair share of racism i would say after i came to the US.. it doesnt have to be i'll kill u now coz u're chinese kinda thing.. im sorry. i mean SINGAPOREAN. it's just small actions.. looks.. anything. but i guess the important thing to remember.. which ive kinda learnt is... it doesnt matter what the race.. treat everyone as an individual. like.. don't pigeonhole someone on first impression.. coz there are really cool people around.
it was a great night.
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