The 81st Academy Awards

I watched the Academy Awards last night. It was quite entertaining actually, though at 3 1/2 hours long it was a bit tedius. Maybe that's why they changed the format slightly to make it more interesting, such as having the host do musical numbers every now and then, making the set designs more interesting with different backgrounds for different categories and even in the presentation of the awards in the best actor/actress and best supporting actor/actress categories. Apparently the ratings for the Oscars have been continuously dropping every year so maybe it's an attempt to revive interest in it and to make it more updated and lively. I think it's the right direction but they do need to do something about the time as I think nowadays people just don't have the attention span to sit through something so long and not that awfully interesting as most people are just interested in the few main categories. But overall it was a good effort and one can tell they tried their best so kudos to the crew and let's hope they manage to stem the lack of interest in the Academy Awards or even increase the viewership in the coming years.

Light sleeper..

I don't know why but I am and have been since late teens, a very light sleeper. Any noise, light, movement, etc will wake me up and I find it hard to get back to sleep again. Maybe it's a bad habit but one that has proven hard to break. The more I tell myself to don't care the more I do. Nowadays going to sleep is even a problem. And I've always had this, I don't know if anyone else has: If I don't go to sleep almost immediately when my head hits the pillow, and I start thinking and stuff and end up tossing and turning then I will not get good quality sleep! It's just weird..sigh.

Valentines double whammy!

Had a wonderful Valentines with my baby, tiring 2 days but felt like it was 2 days of Valentine which was nice. Day One we had buffet at Shangri-la Hotel, it was an extensive buffet with a lot of variety. And after we finished we had a nice stroll in the back garden and nursery of the hotel and a nice naughty kiss in the bushes :P I know what you're thinking! It was just a kiss, honest! Then went back into the hotel and the band was playing in the lounge and we decided to sit and listen, they were very good and obviously set the tone for Valentine's by singing love songs, that was the most magical part of the evening I suppose. We requested I Will Always Love You, which I suspect could become our Song..I got a cow teddy which we christened Cowy, that name reminds me of Simon Cowell for some reason! and I have him a shirt that I knew he liked and which he said he knew I'd get him, whatever!
The next day we went for lunch but I didn't eat cause I was still full from the buffet the night before but he wasn't, boy can he eat! Then we walked around the shopping mall, Pavilion, and he had to go teach yoga so I had to drop him back to his car, we met up again at night at Mid Valley and had dinner and dessert which was a nice end to the night but I was dead tired by the time got home and just dropped dead in bed! Altogether a very nice Valentine's I must say..One of the nicest I've had.

Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day. I suppose it would be the best time to think about and re-evaluate our thoughts and beliefs about love. Questions like what is love? Why do people need love? Why does love do what it does and makes us feel a certain way? What's the difference between loving one person and another? Can love surpass lust? Must love be monogamous and possessive? All of these and more, are pertinent questions and should be thought about for those who are love-inclined, so to speak :P
I think many people will have different answers to these questions simply because everyone is unique in their perspectives and feelings. Most importantly is that we all learn to love each other as human beings regardless of our roles in society or to each other. Because that is all we can do at the end of the day is to help create a beautiful and meaningful world that we leave behind before we shuffle the mortal coil. I think that is the ultimate love we should all strive to achieve..the pure unrestricted love of all things.

I hate hotels that don't pick up their calls..

I don't understand hotels that don't pick up their calls. I called 2 hotels today repeatedly and they didn't pick up at all! These were 4 or 5 star hotels at that! I thought maybe I got their numbers wrong and double checked online. It turns out countless sites listed the same numbers promoting this and that and I don't really see the point of that if we can't even get them to take advantage of all those wonderful promotions because they can't be bothered to pick up the phone. Unbelievable!

Discrimination at KFC!

Last night, after having a good workout at the gym, we decided to go and feed our ravenous hunger..Being as it was 10.30, that was late already and the shopping mall was closing. Most of the food places were closed as well, except for fast food, which made me wonder why fast food outlets always close later..but I digress. Anyways, after walking around for a while we ended up at KFC and decided to have that. when we queued up there were 2 young Malay girls in front of us and we heard the server tell them that there were no chicken left and only burgers, even though there were a few pieces of chicken in plain sight. The Malay girls then looked a bit disappointed but with a resigned look, ordered the burgers.
When it came to our turn luckily I decided to try our luck and ordered chicken and the guy hesitated before turning to the manager nearby, who also hesitated before telling him to give it to us. Therefore, my conclusion is that the staff wanted to keep the chicken and didn't serve the Malay girls because they thought they looked like pushovers and then when it came to us, we were chinese and most likely will know our rights and how to complain so they didn't dare take the risk. The staff were Malay and apparently the accepted notion that they always give preferance to their own race doesn't apply when it's food!
This small situation tells a lot about racial perceptions and biasness and human behaviour methinks!

not enough time for life to sort itself out?

I think why I feel so restless sometimes is because I don't trust life to sort itself out and therefore feel anxious about things not happening the way I want them to happen. I always take things too seriously I suppose and avoid making mistakes and having regrets to the point of being so afraid of being spontaneous and therefore robs every moment of its enjoyment. No wonder I feel it hard to relax. Plus the fact that I always feel like I'm just growing older by the moment and not enough time and opportunities to do everything that I want to do, and I do want to do everything and ot frustrates me that I can physically do everything! I wish I had superpowers that could help..sigh. Or some technology like the transporters in Start Trek where you can instantaneously be transported anywhere..

Just back.

Just got back from Taiwan, been a busy 2 weeks, first was Chinese New Year in Penang and then came back for one day and had to go Taiwan with my mom, ate a lot in Penang and Taiwan, gained a lot of weight, feel fat now, must go back to the gym already. Dunno why, feel so lethargic and stuff since I'm back. I'm hoping it's the jet lag but that's just an excuse since the flight was just 4 hours so what the hell is wrong with me? I dunno..