love psychedelico

it's just that i was listening to a song from the band with the name above. it's really a japanese band but they sing in english. but there's more than meets the eye. should check it out la.

in any case, ive seen the photos of both serene's birthday party and huimin & peiyun's yunnan trip. good ones.

it's nice to see the family photos of serene especially. uhhuh. somehow it's like every year from our birth, we almost always have photos chronicling our time on earth. it may not be that every birthday is spent with the same friends. we either haven't met them (like our 5th birthday) or they couldn't make it to the gathering one year, or like some friends you were closer to 10 years back weren't always able to see you on your birthday every subsequent year, and the like. but the family is always there. like a never-changing installation on the stage of one's life.

i enjoyed my many trips to china previously. and it looks like everyone had an enriching time over there. from getting to know the school kids to playing guest at the principal's home. many years ago i envisioned myself doing similar things. i will probably, in time to come. just 100 years ago my great-grandfather (paternal grandmother's father) was part of the greater fabric of china. not just chinese as a race, not just chinese as a way of mother tongue, but chinese in every sense of the word. we have since grown and developed in different grounds, like little seeds sown in a different yet similar type of ground.

i bought the dvd for "legends of the fall" recently. can't get to play it on the laptop. it's probably region-locked. because my laptop is meant to play asian dvds. could be a censorship issue. i've viewed it on my friend's mac though. rivetting all the same, through and through. watched "closer" and "the aviator". both were a good watch. i thought "closer" was a depiction so deceptively distant and intimate at the same time. wonder if any of you watched it.

ok till next post. my photos of the christmas holidays will be uploaded soon.