Life is not a To-Do List, as it reads on Kat, my Berlin host's, wall. Coincidently, had a meeting with another Kat in "Intestinecity". When things get accumulated, you got to put them down on a list.
So, next book to read: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book acquired the hitchhiker's way - borrow)
Film to watch again: Bin Jip (or 3-Iron), Kikujiro No Natsu
Here's a trailer with the cute music by Joe Hisaishi. It seems almost guaranteed that if Hisaishi is doing the music of the film, it can't be bad.
Watching this brought back lots of memories about that summer 5 years ago, before I went to HK. Still the happiest summer ever. Memory is a tricky stuff. I, or we, keep on calling the best summer, but how happy exactly we were, there's no way I can recall.
5 years later, on the other side of the continent, I remembered this movie and that summer. The same thing that summer is on play again here and now. This time, I am the audience, and the people changed.
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is... 42 Def. the next book to read. ok, maybe not the next, after Crime n Punishment, Kafka on the Shore, Immortality... Heck, who knows.
The whale in 1:54 def. is awesome for his 1min 8 sec existece.
Some quotes from the film It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the *third* most intelligent. The second most intelligent creatures were of course dolphins who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of the planet earth. They had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits. So they eventually decided they would leave earth by their own means. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the star-spangled banner, but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.
The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if at all possible. Unfortunately, Arthur Dent has never read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Presidents don't have power, their purpose is to draw attention away from it.
[about the Point of View Gun] The Point of View gun conveniently does precisely what its name suggests. That is if you point it at someone and pull the trigger, they instantly see things from your point of view. It was designed by Deep Thought, but commissioned by a consortium of intergalactic angry housewives, who after countless arguments with their husbands were sick to the teeth of ending those arguments with the phrase "You just don't get it, do you?" [Zaphod aims the Point of View gun at Trillian] Trillian: It won't affect me, I'm already a woman.
Fine. Fine, take it. Because my head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any one of them has ever brought me one iota of happiness. Except for one. The one. The only question I've ever wanted an answer to - is she the one? The answer bloody well isn't forty-two, it's yes. Undoubtedly, unequivocally, unabashedly yes. And for one week, one week in my sad little blip of an existence, it made me happy.
