Grey matter

Hi there,

It is nearly winter here in Melbourne. My room is freezing 24 hours a day: since I moved to Melbourne I has never been a proud owner of any heater, or fan, or anything that makes life easier. So as usual here I am curling up in layers of clothes and blanket, dancing my way off assignments and eating sweets with hope that it will make me feel better. Another week has passed and I am confident to say I was so busy doing nothing the whole week.

This week is strange, properly because of the weather, properly because I am strange just like that. There is this uneasy feeling burning inside, spreading from my heart to the very tip of my fingers, and toes, and everywhere; for no freaking reason. I tried to talk it out, or call it names, but there is no use defining what it is, that feeling keeps bumping in my chest everyday when I am trying to sleep. I guess sometimes things just kind of bundle up and make a huge rock, uni-stress, coming-home-stress, future-stress, family-stress, relationships-stress.. all that jazz. I also have one explanation that this is caused by me reading Catcher of the Rye and getting in Harold's role, I do that every time I read a book I like. Whatever the reason is I just hope this feeling will go away soon.

A video exhibition in NGV. I walked around alone a lot lately.

And also consume a large amount of tea and biscuit.

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I am planning to do another photoshoot, like the one I did with Linh back then; and this time, it is about me. Which is ultra weird. But since I can't draw, I can't write and I can't sing, I guess all I can do to express some mediocre thoughts of mine is photographing them. But posing in front of Linh's lens is out of the question, and dragging a tripod around the city is also pretty much impossible, or maybe I am just lazy. Oh well, will try to figure it out later.

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WHAT I HAVE BEEN WATCHING:

Weeee it has been so long since my last movie review yeah? To be honest for some reasons I have lost all confidence in using my words to analyse movies, they are simply not good enough. But after all what I do here is simply expressing myself, so I guess I will just need to try to improve.

1. The Grandmaster

For me, a Wong Kar Wai movie is guaranteed for perfect cinematography and emotional frames, yet I was so used to his way of seeing things in small details like in Chunking Express and In the Mood for Love I didn't expect The Grandmaster to be THAT epic. Everything. Don't be decieved by that boring poster that it is just your normal kung-fu movie, because it is way wayyyy more than that.

In short, The Grandmaster is about the life of Ip Man - the Grandmaster of Wing Chung, you know, a type of kung-fu. Hummm how can you describe a Wong Kar Wai movie, because it is never about the story but the movement, the glorious colour of every scenes, the shivering feel in every touches of the actors.. My favourite scene is this one, is it just me or this is supposed to remind you of "The Last Supper"?

However, this is not my favourite movie of Wong Kar Wai to be honest, the winner is always In the Mood of Love. There are parts of this movie that I can't comprehend, like who is that guy in White Rose Barber, and the parts with Ip Man's wife as well, she just kind of fade out in the second half of the movie. But still, The Grandmaster is an awesome, jaw-dropping beautiful movie.

2. The Vow

Ehhhh, in my defences, I certainly am not a fan of cheesy chic flick movies, so it is expectable that I don't like this. The Vow is about this happy, totally utterly in love couple. One day the wife lost her memory and the whole movie is the story of how the husband trying his best to make she remember him and their glorious love again.

To be perfectly honest, in my opinion this movie is made just to show how hot Channing Tatum is and how beautiful Rachel McAdams is, that's all. The plot is way too Disney-like and some parts are just simply not logic (she doesn't know him, remember, why the hell would she go skinny dipping with someone she doesn't know?). I don't know, properly too cheesy for me. But even when compared to other romantic movies like About Time, this is still, like, meh.

3. It's Kind of A Funny Story

A pretty good movie for teenager, reminds me of "The Art of Getting By". This film talks about 16-year-old Craig and his short time in a mental hospital. What I like about this is that how it portrays the people in the hospital are just all funny, considerate and lovely like "people from outside". And the way the film ends as well. They didn't end it with the cliche "through this experience I am cured and become a good citizen of the world" like most teenage movies, Craig wasn't "cured", he helped others, and from that he learnt to become better. I always like the process than the result.

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There is someone that has been sending me beautiful music on ask.fm, and then I reply them with a song. I try to make that a conversation (as in the lyrics / mood of the songs are like continue each other) but I don't know if the asker notice haha. Anyway, thank you, whoever you are, your taste on music is awesome. I am dying to know who you are and just have a music-trading-conversation on Facebook or something, so please do contact me, I may look weird but I don't bite I promise hehe.

Anyway, An (flxxsh) introduced me to Frank Ocean and I am totally charmed. The flow and his voice feel like melting in each other. Not the kind of music I normally listen to but good music is always good: