Chelle and me had our first date after what felt like months. yeah it was months; we last went out proper on National Day. to think we're both in SMU... anyway, i liked the way Chelle made me feel that i'm a much more fun person to be with than the mikish guy =)

we had a good lunch at Ichiban-sushi... the kind of food that makes my taste buds orgasmically high... weird that the pics of us don't look too good... the ambience was fine, and i didn't look that bad... maybe cuz of Chelle... yup i decide that she should look the way she did in TJ.

Letters from Iwo Jiwa... it's the kind of wartime intricacy of blinding despair and shattered hope... i like the way cowardice and courage, wisdom and insanity, and patriotism and treachery intertwine within a person... i like the way the directorship managed a microcosmic localisation of World War II into the barren island of Iwo Jiwa. reminds me of the excellent Downfall. Yet again the American enterprise triumphs over Japanese furious discipline and hardcore nationalism.

Tuan decides that he loves war epics! and ooh, the Yasukuni Shrine had a line in the movie. i once spoke against my LTB professor, who thought Mr Koizumi shouldn't have honoured the war dead at the controversial place...

and i realize studying overseas does deprive people of red hot opportunities. like the JAL scholarship that sends scholars to Japan for a 3 week exchange program.