Tinker, Tailor

We were having some male-bonding during lunch at a nearby coffee shop.

“Hey check out the menu,” I pointed to the stall just beside us, “they have vegetarian fish fillet, vegetarian fish head, and even vegetarian lamb stew!”

“Anyway vegetarians won’t know the difference,” quipped Conrad, “since they’ve never tried the real thing before.”

“That’s if they were born vegetarian,” said Jason, “most vegetarians were… converted.”

“Anyway I don’t see the point of being vegetarian if you still crave all that meat,” I said.

“Yeah, it’s like driving a Toyota with a Ferrari logo,” said Conrad, who was into cars, “it’s still a Toyota.”

“Yeah,” I agreed, “it’s like giving a blowjob, without swallowing.”

I think they gave me the WTF! look.

How many people out there, fully aware of their shortcomings, still dare to stand out to pursue their dreams - and will not back down despite so much pressure?

This was a quote from Ris Low, as reported in the Straits Times article ‘I will not give up crown’.

Put it this way - there’s no way she could have said that. There’s no way she could have constructed such a complicated sentence.

Yeah this is a short post, but I’m posting it only because it’s too long for Twitter

I posted this tweet about a week ago:

Must not watch time travellers wife. A lot of reports of uncontrollable tears. Bad for my tough guy macho image.

But due to unforeseen circumstances, I was put in a situation where, to make the long story short, I ended up sitting in a movie theatre that was screening that very movie.

Being the tough macho guy that I am, I bravely decided to watch anyway.

The movie turned out pretty good (the girl in the movie was cute).

Except that I wasn’t sure which was the right place to cry. My friend didn’t shed a tear either, even though she is more feminine than me. (A lot more actually.)

Come to think of it, I think those who cried their noses out seemed to have read the book before, and thus filled in the blanks with sadder stuff.

* * * Possible spoilers ahead * * *

I might have been tempted to eke out half a tear if the final scene was a little different-

The part where the wife was running towards Mr Time Traveller? If he had vanished away completely just before they touched… boy… that would have been awesome.

And I wouldn’t mind catching the sequel - the Time Travelling Girl. Especially the appearing scenes.