Like I wrote earlier…I have been reading and watching movies. Much of the drive comes from my visit to Jia when we sat down for a heart to heart. Her analysis of me I guess what right. I do think a lot and about everything. It surprises me that despite the distance and the significant lags in our communication, she still understands me so well.

Yes I do think a lot and about everything possible. But then again, I don’t really know what else to do. I mean, doesn’t having a brain entails synthesis and analysis of the world around us and the world within?

Anyhoo, in my quest to save the few brain cells I am left with, I have been watching movies and reading books. Yesterday, I watched, to my great mortification, Brokeback Mountain. And I am going to leave it at just that!

Day before yesterday, I watched The English Patient for the first time. I know its ten years too late but somehow I never actually got around to watching it. I think I quite like the story especially the contrasting love stories of the Almasy/Katherine Clifton and hana.kip. Where one form of love completely consumed the Hungarian Count and the English lady, the other sustained and exalted two very different people. Love…there’s that word again. Augh!

Finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha and well, ever since I watched ‘Oshin’ as a little girl…I have been in love with the orient’s culture. Memoirs of a Geisha, for me at least was a very good read. It shows how a simple fisherman’s daughter became a symbol of beauty and power by overcoming the so called barriers of fate that everyone perceived she was born with.

As soon as I finished the book, I bought the DVD and watched the movie while the book was still fresh in mind. Though the screenplay somewhat varied from the book…as always, it was still a good movie and in my opinion, a zillion times better than brokeback mountain.

Shan’s here for a week and he too has brought plenty of short movies for me stay away from some impending brain processes.