Life, Travel, GRACE

You gotta watch this movie in IMAX. With intense soundtrack and great filming photography, you will be hooked. It's a very very simple movie - evacuation of troops from a place called Dunkirk. Very minimal dialogue but the acting is sufficient to portrait the scene. The story is depicted in three scenarios with different time frame but each event is interwoven. Very interesting indeed. My guess is this movie should be nominated for its cinematography, editing and soundtrack. By the way, I still prefer Interstellar. Maybe because I'm from science stream education background.

Not a new movie. It has been released for a while. Just got to watch it on HBO lately (was it HBO, or Fox Movie? Never mind which channel). Superb acting by Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman. And know that this is Alan's last movie before he passed away. You should've seen him in all the Harry Potter's movies. Back to this movie, besides the good acting, the plot and the development of the storyline are excellent. Gripping and intense. This is the warfare of the modern day where drone is used to surveil. Decision is made based on the image channelled via the drone or bug. Pretty interesting. When military people decides to take out the life of a group of terrorists (including the suicide bomber in this movie), protocol comes in. Every decision made has to be weighed for its consequences in terms of collateral damage, legal implications, diplomatic consequences and humanity. In the end, the ultimate purpose outweight the rest, where some distortion or improvisation acts are incl...

Last Sunday's sermon was about how to achieve happiness in Christ. All the while we have been  portraying Christ as a savior dying for our sins on the cross. This have been translated into images or paintings of Jesus (i.e. Jesus on the cross). But why not we visualize Christ as a happy person. In fact, he rejoices in God. Surely his face should be radiant and showing happiness. Otherwise, children won't come near to Jesus. Thus, a laughing Jesus should brighten the day. Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence...Proverbs 8:30 (NIV)

Somehow the experience of commuting by train reminds me of the circular train trip in Yangon two years ago. Back then, there was not many tourist places in town. So taking a local train could be a good idea to check out the activities of the locals. In fact, circular train is one of the must-do activities in Yangon. The journey took us about three hours. It started from downtown, travelled north to airport area and then came back to downtown, in a loop. There was bumpy ride in certain section. We got to see where the locals live as well. Overall, it was an eye-opening experience, although I got bored towards the end of the journey. Inside the train Food vendor selling fruits in the train Some of the huts seen along the way The train stopped in one of the stations which appeared to be a local market. Back to train station   Photos were taken with iPhone 4s.