Personal Resolutions

1. 선교비를 떼어 놓자.
하나님나라를 이땅위에.

2. 외모와 내실에 신경쓰는 사람이 되자
성질좀 죽이고 생각과 행동에 있어서 성숙한 사람이되자.
직장에서 일 열심히 하는 사람으로 인정받는 사람이 되자.
인터넷 고만하고 사람들 싫어하는 행동 고만하고 행동하기전에 두번 생각하자
정시에 출근하고 etc etc
저널을 써야겠다.

3. 책많이 읽고 목표삼은 어학, 음악,컴퓨터공부를 끝내자.
불어(읽을수 있을정도), 영어, 음악, 피아노, 컴퓨터,그리스로마신화등등
1달에 2권책읽기해야겠다.

그이랑 나는 올해 크리스마스선물을 20만원선에서만 하기로 결정했다. 하지만 그이에게 꼬옥 주고픈 무제한 영화관람회원권이 30만원이나 하는 것이었다. 뭐,, 할 수 없지 하며 구입한 영화회원권카드에 감격한 matt.. 역시 영화라면 꾸벅 가는군 :) Out of interest, 2007년 중 가장 좋았던 영화뽑기를 하는 차에 1년동안 영화관람에 쓴 돈을 계산해보았다.
지희--> 24만원 matt--> 100만원.
휴! 이거 절약을 한거 맞는거 같다.


2007년 CINEMA에서 본 나의 가장 좋았던 BEST 5 영화를 선정해보았다.
(click the link for trailers)
5. TRANSFORMERS
4. THE LIVES OF OTHERS
3. ATONEMENT
2. BOURNE ULTIMATUM
1. 28WEEKS LATER

UK Cinema에서는 아직 개봉이 되진 않았지만 you know how를 통해 보게된 추천작
* ONCE*

좋은 영화를 봤다.

Having told matt that I do not like to suffer from any kind of white knuckle rides or horror movies, I innocently started to read the book he casually recommended . lovely bones. It sent me shudder down on my back and a nightmare in the night. Now I am including a horror storybook to my list of avoidance. This book is about a girl whose body was amputated by a nextdoor phaedophile. She hovers and watches her family, her killer and friends throughout the story. It shows how people around her deal with their pain of losing her with time. In the end, it shows her emotionally broken down family is healed maybe through her death.

If I read it at another time, I might have enjoyed it but unfortunately I read it in December in England(do you know what I mean??) . It didn't help especially when I had to go through the dark forest every morning. This book will be memorable to me in a sense that I haven't actually enjoyed a page through to the end. I could see where the writer was going with the story but I just didn't like the undercurrent of her tone in the novel and felt she was overdoing it.

well,,, I was going to write my thoughts about babel here but I disgressed again. I loved babel. It covers a lot of issues that we face in the society and it got me thinking of love, broken love, alienation, humanity, immigration and lives in the developing world and foreigners in the west.
I break off from work till second of January next year and it buoyed me up all day. Today was the day I wanted to laugh aloud and appreciate the life watching a movie.

Nihility

Yesterday was the saddest day of my life.



I feel something inside me that I have trusted and would have died for crumbling down so fast. I think I will be ok again once I have grieved. It’s just that I fear I might not be the same person again.

Crispy air did me some good this morning. It calmed the wrenched gut down.

short term environmentalist

Simply put, Matt and I do not have a car any more.

For the first time in 6years, I am having to walk all over the place.

At 6: 30 every morning the alarm rings aloud to wake me up then I get ready for the 25 min brisk walk to the train station. i.e. umbrella, hat, hiking boots and gloves etc etc

After waving a good-bye to matt who overlooks my walk behind the bedroom curtains every morning, I go through the slanted woodland for 30 secs where shallow river flows closeby. This is the scariest bit of my early morning walk. It is literally a pitch dark as one can only see the sun from about 7:30am till 3:00pm in wintertime in UK. My imagination runs wild while I trot through the dark forest for 30secs. Some malicious human being could come out from nowhere and rape me then chuck me in the river! You never know! My surviving strategy here is to hold on tightto my mobile which is ready to be connected to matt and to use my sensory organs to maximum just in case I need to run away from danger.

After the forest, my journey to the staion is pretty much protected by drivers on the busy road who keep passing by me.

My alarm bell rings again towards the station where I have to embark on the gitty road whose sides are covered by a long wired fence to station and bushes next to the wasted land. That's where my visual inspection skill comes in handy here as I keep looking through bushes just in case of any ambushed human being.

On the bright side, I discovered pleasure in walking as it gives you time to ponder over things, makes you aware of your environments, appreciate what you have in your life and think about deprived people around you. Most of all, I never get late at work nowadays : )

However, I must admit deep down matt and I are a tiny bit ashamed of having to walk everywhere sometimes even in wet and miserible weather while others are assured comfort in their own cars driving past us.

So one sunday afternoon walking down from supermarket with 2 big bag ful of food and knapsack on our backs, we decided to pretend we are short term environmentalists. By walking everywhere we are actually reducing gass consumption therefore we are saving the earth!

Hope Matt and I can save our earth by CHOICE soon!