Movie Credits OST

These are songs which played during the credits of movies which makes you want to stay and listen to the whole song until the credits finish rolling. Bravo!

1. Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

This is the song that played when the movie Zodiac's credits rolled. Very contagious. Wonder how he sang with a vibrating voice.



Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity.


2. Extreme Ways - Moby

Always felt this song was very appropriate for a thriller. From Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum.



Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know.

"You are no longer David Webb. You shall now be known as... Jason Bourne."

The Bourne Ultimatum did not disappoint. Ends the trilogy very well. The movie is about 2 hours, thus not draggy at all. Paul Greengrass' trademark handheld shaky camera is a charm too. Let's just say, Ultimatum has the intensity of Identity and Supremacy combined.

At some points the almost omniscient super spy Jason Bourne almost had scenes similar to Minority Report (read: pre-cog). And notice the way cool people walk. They frown, they put their hands in their pockets, they look straight ahead, and every 5 seconds they will turn their head slightly to the left or right, and then look straight ahead again. And if you see someone walking like that, he is either

1) an amnesiac spy trying to find the truth of his past or
2) an escaped inmate trying to prove his brother's innocence or
3) Me trying (very hard) to imitate Michael Scofield.

Matt Damon is officially second coolest man on earth next to Wenworth Miller.

Random

1. Got a feeling my group is getting slack and passive. I think I have failed at my job. God help us.

2. Sean was partly right. Reading is for leisure. Somehow I always chose those books which are hard to read, and requires one to think very very hard. And I get very exhausted just by reading. My mind whirls, and I cannot forgive myself for reading A Body of Divinity that fast (one month). Nevermind that, I have made it my reference book. Somehow the books that I read, cannot be skipped even one page. Or even one sentence. Because if I do, I might miss out on a very important teaching. So now I am going to take a short break, do myself a favour and read some other genres as Sean suggested, and lighter Christian books. For a start, 'The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Stevenson. Interestingly, he called divinity 'dry', something which Sean thoroughly agrees.

3. Movies coming up: Bourne Ultimtum, Ratatouille, and Hairspray.

4. Met Yaoqi today at Army Open House Briefing. He behaves exactly the same as he does outside. Very playful, humorous, sometimes lame. Quite unlike a 2LT. Haha. AOH is going to burn my next two weekends. Which means more OFF which I cannot take.

5. ORD in two months! :)

Against Disputes

My mind is clear: if a dispute comes my way, I will siam it. More often than not disputes happen because one party judges the intentions of the other wrongly, and it is a very dangerous thing. For one, you might be wrongly accusing him/her. Who can judge the intentions of the heart apart from God alone? Are you so wise that you can judge the words that come out of his mouth? If not, let God be the judge. He will condemn the guilty, and vindicate the innocent.

Who Wants To Live Forever?

When love must die.



Many ways to interpret this song. But the way I see it, a very haunting song about Man's limitations and finiteness, and his yearning for love to last for eternity, a love which 'must die'. 'This world is only one sweet moment set aside for us... forever is ours today.' He tries to enjoy everlasting love in the boundaries of time, and succeeds in part, 'and we can have forever.' Like a foretaste of heaven, but never quite able to reach it. Touching, and sad at the same time.

One of the few songs where a musician sings 'forever' and you know he means it. The entire structure of the song, the beats of the drums and Mercury's voice says it all.

I am so Routine I am boring.

Sometimes I see people adapt very quickly to situations and I would secretly envy them. Maybe 'envy''s not the word, but rather a kind of pleasant surprise, a pleasant yearning to experience the same. How does it feel to not be routine? How does it feel to leave everything to last-minute and have that kind of anxiety that flows through you? Is it exciting? Is it fearful? Does it give you more things to talk about, and perhaps be less of a bore that you are? I realized for most of my life I am quite a routine and organized person.

I am never late for school. (okay, almost. Once or twice in 18 years of my life is insignificant.)

I place my ironed school uniform on the kitchen chairs the night before.

I never frantically search for things last minute.

My shoes are there. My socks are there. My bag is there.

I pack my bag the night before.

I don't go to school unprepared.

I read the timetable and know what to expect.

I know what I need to bring, and what I need to do.

I sleep before 12am.

If the next day is an examination day, before 11pm.

And I make sure none of my sisters use the computer to make me unable to sleep.

I make sure I sleep.

I force myself to sleep.

You know what is the funny thing? Sometimes I would think my life is rather boring, or well, something is just wrong. Say I need to sleep early. Sometimes you just cannot sleep. What normal people do is that they might wake up, and do something else useful. Maybe they will drink a cup of coffee and go study, or maybe they will just give up sleeping altogether and watch some late night shows. But me - boring me - never does that. I just lay on my bed, knowing that it is my job to sleep. Afterall, I have been sleeping at this time everyday for the past - I don't know how many years. And I don't know why I do this. It's just... routine.

Of course nowadays I am no longer like that. I have given myself some liberty to have some fun and excitement in everyday life. I no longer have such specific timings. (Though I valiantly maintain the timetable is a very useful tool to be disciplined! The timetable is what brought me through 'O' and 'A' levels.) And I will never be disorganized. But looking back, I find it amazing that I am so bloody organized to that extent.

And I think as I get older, I might becomes less and less organized, and the necessity to adapt quickly is what you need to survive, especially in the working world.

"Everyone Wants a Clean Slate."

I am astonished at how good Prison Break 2 is. While the first season focused more on the escape from prison itself (duh), and the ingenuity of Scofield (and the script), the second season really explored the emotional vulnerabilities of many characters. In one dramatic scene, Scofield confronted his brother and accused him that he does not care about the people they have hurt and caused to die in the cause of their escape, to which Burrows answered, 'Sara had a choice. Veronica didn't. I personally heard her die.' Scofield had also in several episodes shown his guilt, especially in ruining the life of Sara, unable to forgive himself. He also practically remembers every single person who has been killed, in jail and outside. Emotional scenes also involve Burrows himself, and even the 'bad guys': portrayed as people who are forced into doing evil, Kellerman who almost committed suicide, and Agent Mahone. Very touching. Prison Break is probably one of the best contemporary shows which deal so skilfully with sin and redemption. Needless to say, none of the characters are truly 'good', yet almost all of them have redeemable qualities. Criminals no doubt they are, but throughout the two seasons we know there are much more to each character. Sucre loves his girlfriend beyond any measure. C-Note is a family man. Scofield and Burrows are out to prove their innocence. Mahone and Kellerman wants to finish this dirty business and return back to their normal lives.

It is a show where lives have been lost (half of the Fox River Eight have either been dead or captured), where lives have been ruined, and one cannot help but feel sad for them. As so aptly said, 'Everyone wants a clean slate', and that clean slate is a return to the state of innocence. Needless to say, I am quite impressed at how this show has many principles which are similar to Christian principles, whether how they portray sinful people, and the necessity for redemption.

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Series creator Paul Scheuring has commented that the third season will consist of most of the original cast with new additions and that the overall theme will be "redemption".

They have become a part of you.

People close to you leave deep impressions on you, sometimes so much that they never really leave your life, though they may have indeed left.

How does one explain the feelings that I get, when I switch on the kitchen lights at night, almost consciously doing so as not to wake up my grandfather who is sleeping just outside? Only thing is: he is no longer there.

Or how I would almost expect that grandma will be there, kneeling on the sofa while praying, the moment I step out of my bedroom after waking up on a saturday morning? She is no longer there.

Or perhaps I would half-expect that a breakfast would be laid in front of me, perhaps a cup of hot milo or a simple cheese sandwich which Mum prepared, when I wake up to leave for school? Those moments are so rare these days I consider them gone.

Or perhaps how I would, in all loneliness and quietness, expect that I should see Mum asking a few questions about myself, before she hurriedly leave for her work? Those few seconds, are slowly fading away.

Or Dad, watering his plants before he leaves for work around 6am. Or maybe even something as simple as that long-haired girl walking to school, crossing the same traffic light as you, morning after morning without fail. You don't know her name, yet feel that you have known her for a lifetime.

These scenes, and these people are so precious to me, I wish I will never forget them. Or as the Beatles sang,

'There are places I'll remember, all my life, though some have changed...

All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all.'