Looking Back
February 15, 2008 – 11:13 amLooking back into the past week, CNY, Chinese New Year, is always a festival of mixed feelings, at least for students. I have since retired from that student life (at least for now), but I still remember the good ol’ days. CNY ranges anywhere from mid-Jan to mid-Feb, or perhaps even later. These relatively early dates, so close to a long year-end holiday just a few weeks before, can cause some CNY symptoms. Which is, students have this mindset - school hasn’t really started yet, wait till after CNY then I’ll start studying hard. After all, everyone wants to enjoy during CNY, and hasn’t really gone back into ’study mood’ since last year’s holidays.
So it creates this atmosphere, at least for me and people I know.
CNY is also a time of firecrackers and fireworks. Spectacular, to the newcomer, but the fireworks that are spreaded all over the town makes it hard for spectacular photos. Of course, the sounds and smoke can be quite annoying, especially when one is trying to enjoy the CNY’s eve movie. Fireworks are hardly legal around here, but apparently a lot of people don’t care. They don’t mind shooting off hundreds of ringgits in a few minutes. It’s mind-baffling, why anyone would waste their money on such unproductive and illegal business.
Truly quite ugly pictures of fireworks, hardly the work of even an amateur, but….
Looking still further back, and bringing the past into the present, recently I’ve been rewatching old episodes of Alias’ season 4. I know it has ended for two years already, so when rewatching, it’s kinda funny, to remember how jumpy and excited I was during the first time I watched the episodes. It’s almost comical now, to see Sydney (the main character) in deep distress over her season 4 premiere’s dilemma of ‘my father killed my mother who hired a hitman to kill me and now my half-sister who doesn’t know who killed our mother wants to kill whoever it was that killed our mother’.
Quite a complicated, messed-up thing that we know only existed because the writers thought the actress as Syd’s mother wasn’t coming back, so they wanted to kill her offscreen, but towards the end of the season, she was coming back, so what else? Ended up Syd’s dad killed a clone - the handy dandy Alias excuse.
Ah, the good ol’ days. But funny how I can still go on and on about a drama series that has since become non-existent.