Life, Travel, GRACE

Watched this year Academy's Best Picture - The Shape of Water recently and fell in love with its score and music. After all, it also won the Best Original Score. It's a very simple story - love, hope and victory. Probably that's the ingredient of winning. On the other hand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has my upmost reverence. In my opinion, it should have won The Best Picture. The problem with this movie is that the theme of love and hope is not there. In fact, it's a movie full of hatred, revenge and foul language. But in the end, it turns out to be redemption and acceptance. Probably that could be the reason for not getting The Best Picture. And its score and music are better than The Shape of Water. Well, that's probably my personal taste.

The next day was cold as well. Decided to take up the free walking tour around the Old Town. Well, I read from internet resource saying that the Old Town is not actually old as the area has been renovated. Anyway, before joined the tour, I walked to the bus station (called Filaret) to check out the ticket, as I planned to take a bus ride to Sofia in the next few days. Residential apartments are aplenty, plus the thawing snow which made the street wet and slippery. Not a good time to walk actually. The bus station turned out to be quite run-down. Although the building facade looked ok, inside it was quite empty and run-down. Wanted to purchase advanced ticket but it was not possible. Buy on the travel day is ok, the counter lady said. So I continued my walking journey to the Union Square, where the official free walking tour should start. Good thing about this walking tour was that the history and background of the city were explained. At least I know the social impact of the constr...

Had a short trip to Eastern Europe countries in early March. Was attending a conference in Bucharest. So decided to tour some of the interesting places around Bucharest and Sofia, Bulgaria. After all, the whole region is huge. With a limited time and budget, so just settled with Bucharest and Sofia. Landed in Bucharest airport on 6 March afternoon, after a 12-hour flight from Singapore to Zurich. Was surprised to find out snow all over the places. Kinda late winter. Expected the next few days to get warmer. So the first place headed to was the conference hotel for check in. It was foggy when landed. Bucharest Airport. Quite a small size airport. Walking street along the Union Boulevald I guess that is the National Library Photos taken with iPhone 6s