Down

The preteen girl with school uniform entered the LRT holding her mother's hand. I could tell the number of chromosomes in every cells in her by one look at her face: Down Syndrome.
She was cheerful, greeting everybody with her friendly smile, shaking everybody's hands who were within her reach. By the time she was getting down, all the people within 10 feet radius were infected by her cheerful mood and waiving goodbye to her.
I shifted my focus from her to my newspaper. There was coverage on Sufiah Yusof. Left me wondering, "who are suffering more in this world? The one with IQ 180 or the one with IQ 80?"

Ride with the devil

I watched the movie ‘Ride with the devil’ by Ang Lee yesterday. An excellent movie. I will rank it among the best of Ang Lee’s. Made with a budget of RM38 millions, it grossed only RM635,096, which is the second lowest of Ang Lee’s movies. So, I will put it as the most underrated movie of Ang Lee.

Luckily for Ang Lee and his fans, this fiasco was followed by the huge success of ‘Crouching tiger, hidden dragon’, which I think is the most overrated movie of Ang Lee’s.

The significance of watching RWTD to me, is that, with this, I have watched all Ang Lee’s feature movies. Yes, all 11 of them. A huge accomplishment for an amateur movie fan like me. And this is the first time I did it for any movie director.

So, who will be next? Definitely not Alfred Hitchcock.

Quentin Tarantino maybe.