Day 7 of Winter Break (WinBre) Sunday 12/20/2009

Today I was awoken by my mother.

I apparently overslept after spending a long winded day gift shopping, running errands and then tending to the persimmon harvest at home on sat.

So I saw two films back to back as well as an old episode of stargate universe, the finale before the new season after xmas.

The films i watched were valkyrie and the postman always rings twice. gosh, what a overdose on suspense, drama and extreme tension.

So Valkyrie in short is Bryan Singer's film starring Tom Cruise about the 20 July Plot within Nazi Germany when some Nazi officials and military officers conspired to oust Hitler from office. un fortunately, it was unsuccessful, but worthy in the books of history.

Postman was a 1981 adaption of a 30s crime novel about a hitchhiker who has an extramarital affair with a road stop's owners discontented wife as they conspire to kill the innocent husband so they can live happily ever after. The film kinda felt long and protracted at times. But there's lot of good acting and the scenery looks really authentic to the period. Unfortunately, I wasn't swept away.

So next, some films to watch. Infernal Affairs II, Happy Together, and the first years (a documentary on first year teachers.)

I'm also re-watching the original source material for Harmony Gold's Robotech: Macross, Superdimensional Fortress Macross. It's quite interesting and fascinating. More risque than the more commercial and family friendly American adaptation.

Well, Sunday involved a lesson about the concept of worship between man and God.

Then immediately afterwards, I went downtown in SJ to hand over some PS memory cards my friend's been wanting to get back. We ended up waiting uber long to get into the old spaghetti factory because of all the family events that night. But it was kinda cool hanging around in the alleyway near the restaurants entrance, taking snapshots, making funny poses and chatting about dim sum and what to order; which made us all the more hungrier.

I had the manager's special with a mitzhra cheese/browned butter and mushroom sauce which i must say was amazing.

Lots of dinner conversations, parlor games such as mime and talking about history, the power of memory within narrative esp. family stories (how we came to America etc.) and more importantly I got to know a few people around the dinner table a little more. TO reference this post, my friend's fellowship were a part of a holiday event involving xmas in the parks a white elephant and dinner at osf.

Well long story short, I ended up almost getting stranded in the parking lot cuz the ticket machine wouldn't read the cash i kept inserting. So i ended up scrounging up two ones and some loose change and managed to pay my three dollar fare and leave.

Got home, didn't even brush my teeth and then i just crashed.

didnt "wake up" until ten this morning.

I know, its break mode....