The 1st weekend of the new semester has just passed, too fast... Spent saturday sending my grandma and aunt to the airport before meeting up with Sonny and TYH to go watch Taegukgi. In case some of you do not know, Taegukgi is the korean title of this excellent war movie, whose English title is Brotherhood. What an excellent movie it was, this isn't just the average crappy Hollywood-made war movie. Taegukgi is something more, as it interplays the human emotions involved and the movie truly showcases Asian Confucianism values which Hollywood movies fail to grasp. This movie has replaced Spiderman 2 to be the best movie I watched for the year. Basically the movie is about the life of 2 brothers that was interrupted when they were drafted into the army to fight for South Korea. The elder brother decides to be the hero to win recognition to allow his younger brother to be sent home to continue on the family line and to act as a beacon of hope for his family. Though the storyline seems simple, it includes a lot of good scenes which depicts wartime, how ideologies caused a separate Korea, and practical human emotions. The middle of the year is truly a great time for movies, since Zhang Yimou's latest creation, House of Flying Daggers is also out. Hope to catch that movie soon and keeping my mouth closed for this one could be even better.
Yesterday, Sonny was saying how much I frequent the airport and come to think of it that is qute true. I guess I drive to the airport at the rate of 2 times per month. And I will be going to the airport again to fetch my parents and little brother tomorrow. Maybe only the taxi drivers drive to the airport more frequently than me !
Sunday is traditionally the slowest day of the week but mine seems to go in a flash. Altered the judging form for the Solar Innovations event and then went to Great World City for lunch, and I got the episodes of 'Triumph in The Skies' that I have not watched since I left for Indonesia. The VCD rental outlet now has the poster for this HK Drama 'Twin of Brothers' out and will definitely rent this series after watching finish the ones I rented. Sigh the new semester has just started and here I am still thinking of watching TV and movies.....