~It's SummerTime!!~

Monday, September 18, 2006

It's a Sunday nite. I just got back to jw's house. Weekends always pass by too quickly for my liking. Don't you feel so? Maybe that's becoz like they say, all good things come to an end. & this one always ends fast.

This weekend has been rather quiet for me, staying home watching movies and basically juz lazing around doing nothing. It's been long since I slept at home, and boy did I sleep alot! I feel like I'm sleep-deprived and weekend is the time for me to 'make up' for it. I muz have slept for at least 15 hours in the 2D1N that I was home.

Back at home, I watched another couple of movies. First was 'Minority Report' by Tom Cruise, though it was released few years back, I never had the chance to watch it till now. It was really kinda cool, how the

show depicts the future. I'm amazed by the technology, like how they scan your eyeballs and detect your ID, how the mobile vehicles will look like, how advertising will become incredibly digital and targetted, how pple can invent something called precrime. It's scary, but it may jolly well happen. Such shows always fascinate me, though they may be hard to comprehend at times. I muz say Steven Spielberg is really good.

Second show was 'The Family Man' by Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni. Happened to watch it coz Mummy recorded it on tape. I didn't know what show it was, but was attracted by the title and thought it might be interesting to watch and Nicholas Cage has always been such a terrific actor. Ended up I did love the show, and it made me teared. I seriously wonder why I cry sooo easily when watching movies. Just so easily gan dong-ded by the scenes and tears don't seem to know how or when to stop.

The show was about Jack, a successful vice president of a company who works on Wall Street, and he once gave up the chance to settle down with his college girlfriend Kate to fly to London and concentrate on his career. When he was back, he had money, he had fame, he had power and he had respect. He thought he had everything he wanted in the world. Till one day, an unexpected encounter led him to experience a 'glimpse' of his life, bringing him to experience a life where he was married with Kate, coupled with 2 kids named Annie and Josh. Jack became a husband tied with a family who lives in the suburbs, and he works selling tyres and makes a meagre income every month

. Of coz, intially he wanted his original life back!! How can a successful man like him possibly be tied to a family, where he has to learn to change diapers and take care of kids. No way. But then, when the glimpse was about to end, he realised he had gained something that he never had before. Kinship. Family. Love.

Isn't that what's most important in life? But Jack chose to give up when he had the chance with Kate. Sometimes, regrets come only too late.

Not all of us will be endowed with the opportunity to experience a glimpse of our lives. It's true that we don't know what we have till we lose it, but we also don't know what we've been missing till it arrives. But all I wanna ask is that: How can work ever be more important than family? It can never ever substitute the family that you have, that I have.

Never... Don't ever become a slave of work or money. Sounds cliche, but there are so many things in this world that money can't buy. Happiness is one, and kinship is another. These things are what I need for a fulfilling and well lived life. What are the things you want in your life?

~Summer~ 12:16 AM