WORD MYSTERY

While researching for Christmas photos for the new banner ad I'm making for the office website, I chanced upon a site called This Jar of Clay.  How did I get there?  Well, it's because the image I right-clicked led me to this page.  Turned out, it was a blog by a young Australian guy.  And right there in the middle of my screen was this video.

After watching this, I was... wha...?!  ah... umm...  ack...  I mean, what the fudge!  But then, I step back and think about my reaction.  And that's just it.  We tend to over think.  I tend to over think.  We have this tendency to over-analyze situations that we fail to get our true message across.

LESSONS FROM A GIRL NAMED JUNO (OR HOW TONIGHT TURNED OUT TO BE AN EVENING OF S-E-X)

If there was ever a more intellectual film that I saw tonight, it would be Juno. I'm sure those of you who saw the film would agree. It's about a 16-year-old girl who got pregnant and decided to put the baby up for adoption. That was basically the beginning and the ending. But the stuff in between—totally what made the difference!

A Sucker for Love

I love watching love stories. What can I do? I am a girl! Tonight, I saw Sense & Sensibility. I never read the book, but I've seen the film a few times. And every time I do, I sigh. And ask—is love really the only thing a girl ever thinks of?

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to sound so cynical. But we're talking about Jane Austen here, and like Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility packs everything there is about love and romance and women being married off by their parents to worthy bachelors.

I love it how the film translates Austen's experience of bliss into the living-happily-ever-after, amidst material wealth or disinheritance. I feel for every female character in the film, and just watching them makes me want to desire what they desire. Plus, of course, the etiquette surrounding the period where the story is set—it just adds to the heightening of one's emotions!