Wednesday, April 22, 2020

22 Apr

My heart
Was pierced through
And bleeding
It hurts so much
Torn apart
An invisible knife cuts

In the morning
It all seemed like a bad dream
But I know things have changed

Do I trust?
Do I learn to be less dependable on others?
I am unsure
I do not know the way

Life has suddenly lost its meaning

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Arena

(known to self and others)
idealistic, religious

Blind Spot

(known only to others)
accepting, brave, complex, energetic, friendly, independent, intelligent, knowledgeable, loving, self-conscious, spontaneous, warm

Façade

(known only to self)
dependable, helpful, mature, trustworthy

Unknown

(known to nobody)
able, adaptable, bold, calm, caring, cheerful, clever, confident, dignified, extroverted, giving, happy, ingenious, introverted, kind, logical, modest, nervous, observant, organised, patient, powerful, proud, quiet, reflective, relaxed, responsive, searching, self-assertive, sensible, sentimental, shy, silly, sympathetic, tense, wise, witty

Dominant Traits

66% of people think that OdeliaGab is complex
66% of people think that OdeliaGab is energetic
66% of people agree that OdeliaGab is idealistic
66% of people think that OdeliaGab is spontaneous

All Percentages

able (0%) accepting (33%) adaptable (0%) bold (0%) brave (33%) calm (0%) caring (0%) cheerful (0%) clever (0%) complex (66%) confident (0%) dependable (0%) dignified (0%) energetic (66%) extroverted (0%) friendly (33%) giving (0%) happy (0%) helpful (0%) idealistic (66%) independent (33%) ingenious (0%) intelligent (33%) introverted (0%) kind (0%) knowledgeable (33%) logical (0%) loving (33%) mature (0%) modest (0%) nervous (0%) observant (0%) organised (0%) patient (0%) powerful (0%) proud (0%) quiet (0%) reflective (0%) relaxed (0%) religious (33%) responsive (0%) searching (0%) self-assertive (0%) self-conscious (33%) sensible (0%) sentimental (0%) shy (0%) silly (0%) spontaneous (66%) sympathetic (0%) tense (0%) trustworthy (0%) warm (33%) wise (0%) witty (0%)
Created by the Interactive Johari Window on 7.4.2020, using data from 3 respondents.
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Friday, March 6, 2020

3 March 2020

Sweet
Metallic
Bitter
Tastes
Heart
Pain
Stomach
Bloat
Dreams
Anguish
Confusion

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

15 Shorts commissioned by NVPC

The Brown Dog
By Eric Khoo with Jerrold Chong
Animation with real life scenes about a three legged brown dog who was abandoned and rescued by the founder of this no-kill animal shelter. The direction is good and I was gripped by the suspense of loud noises.

Under The Same Pink Sky
By Gladys Ng
About a Mandarin-speaking support group for breast cancer survivors

The Listener
By Kelvin Tong
Tinker Friend, a hotline for distressed kids. It is directed well. Shows the life of a latchkey boy whose neighbour passed away. Distressed, he doesn't want to confide to his mum. His mum had to call him in her day-job voice as a volunteer of Tinker Friend to find out. It's quite touching. They receive prank calls and genuine calls.

Majid the Legend
By Jianhao Tan and Ridhwan Azman
About this guy Chee who coached the national football star and this dude goes on to coach Fandi Ahmed.

Still Standing
By Kirsten Tan with Tan Wei Ting
About this aspiring architect who dreamt and built Pearl Bank apartments with a developer who believed in the vision of community living. In current time and in his ripe old age, he advocates conservation. Sadly, Pearl Bank Apartments was en bloc after 4 unsuccessful attempts.

Friday, December 6, 2019

Honey

Turkish film fest

Yusof's dad, Josef, is a honey collector. He goes out in the morning to collect honey from hives high up in the trees. Due to shortage of production, he goes to another place to collect. The scene begins with him trying to climb up to the branch but it gave way and he dies.

We only know about this later.

Yusof's jealous that his dad made a ship for his classmate but not for him. He has a nightmare and whispers it to his dad. An eagle guides him to school. He is never able to read and stammers. He covets the reward - a red pin which all this classmates have received except him.

The eagle guides his dad to search for better honey. They long and yearn for his return but he never did. They look for the eagle but it never came back either.

Yusof hears the eagle cry on the day of his dad's death. He runs into the first to look for his dad and falls asleep in there. It is also the same day he got the reward for reading.

Friday, November 15, 2019

Terminator: Dark Fate

Opening scene of Sarah being interrogated for warning people about something bad that's going to happen.

Next we see this Mexican brother and sister, Diego and Dani, going to work in a factory. A bad robot disguised as their father who was murdered by this robot, Rev 9, came to the factory to kill Dani. Another good enhanced human with robot powers, Grace, saved them and they escaped via a car. While being pursued, they were cornered and almost going to die when Sarah helped them escape by dealing with the bad robot with crazy big explosives. Dani and Grace escaped to a motel with Sarah finding them. Grace needed to rest and replenish. Sarah says every time something big is about to happen, she'll get coordinates for that location signing off with "for John", her dead son who was murdered by Arnold Schwarzenegger. They trace the coordinates to a cabin where they meet Carl, Arnold Schwarzenegger who has now adopted a family and developed feelings. He confessed that he regrets killing John and has been trying to make amends. He bids farewell to his family to join them on the fight and they go look for power weapons from Sarah's friend.

The bad robot catches up and they flee in a van. Grace says Dani cannot die cos in the future world where it's overrun by bad robots, Dani is a leader who saved her. They get into a huge airplane and drive off but the Rev 9 hangs onto it and they are forced to land on some turbine factory area.

They fight until Carl is out cold, Sarah cannot move and Grace is on the brink of death. Grace asks Dani to retrieve the power source from her heart and to use it to stab Rev 9. Sobbing, Dani did this and Grace dies. Carl wakes and they stab Rev 9 with the power source. Carl pushes him into the turbine and gets in with him to hold him down so it cannot resurrect. Before Carl dies, her announces "for John". Sarah and Dani looks on.

Few years later, Sarah and Dani drives to a school to see young Grace with her family. Dani vows to protect her at all cost. They set off to prepare and drive away.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Weathering with you


Director: Makoto shinkai

The colours are beautiful
Boy runs away from home and tries to make a living. He helped a person on the train who turns out to be his benefactor later by giving him a job as a weather reporter. He and the man's niece go in search of the girl who can control weather.

When he was really hungry, he went to Mac's and the nice staff gave him a burger. His best meal in Tokyo. She was fired for doing this and forced to prostitute. He saves her in time from the lewd act. She invites him home and they go on a date. He took 3 hours to pick a ring for her for her birthday. Worried that she'll not like it, the saleslady said she thinks she will since he spent so much time looking for it. On her birthday, he and her and her brother bunk in a love hotel. They sing K all night and by then she was doing too much weather control as weather girl. She was turning translucent and she showed him her body. It had been raining non-stop. 

She asks if he wants the rain to stop. He said yes and the next day, the sun is out but she's gone- lost to the rain clouds. The ring is gone- it had passed through her fingers. Frustrated, he searches for that Shinto gate which she walked through when she was praying for her mum to get well. It made her the weather girl. He had to dodge the police who wanted to send him back to his hometown. He picked up a lucky gun and fired at the police. The niece helped him escape using her motorbike. He finally found the gate on top of a high rise building and makes a wish with all his heart to meet her when he stepped into it. 

He did it- found her on cloud land and brought her back to Earth. Ever since then, it has not stopped raining and it had been raining in Tokyo for three years since then. He had to go back home and finish high school. He came back to Tokyo to look for her and visits his benefactor, who now runs a good print business. He looks for her and found her praying at the bend. They are reunited.