~Thoughts of the Day~

A friend once ask me of this quote apparently by Abraham Lincoln.
"If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world".
I guess much of her confusion comes from friends being a weak trait and hence making yourself a strong person.


I guess, this quote is highly subjective to the person reading it. Depending on how much he or she progressed in his or her life. The way I see it, it is a more tragic quote than what people make it out to be.

The closest quote that probably resembles this is the quote "You're only as strong as your weakest link" but this usually denotes teamwork or team spirit. Abe's quote however is a much more personal than that.

While what "point" is, its highly debatable but assuming that it's "traits". Then weakest or lowest trait, this could mean that friendship is also lower than all your other traits including all the bad traits.The weakest of the weakest.

The more I think about it, the more I realized how true it is. Friendship is not always necessarily a good thing. Sometimes, you won't know as much about your friends as you'd like to. For all you know they are the worse kind of backstabbers or sabotagers you'll ever know. Letting a friend into you life also means inviting that "friend" into your most vulnerable parts of your life. Depending on what the friends does. He or she could potentially screw you over irrevocably; affecting the rest of your life. This begs the question, "Who are your friends?". Will you still let friends into your life knowing that they can destroy your life forever?

The most tragic thing is not when friends are no longer friends but rather the fact when friends betray friends.Not when friends have a fallout. It's human nature to protect themselves when they feel threaten but to betray another friend? Its a choice.

So how does this makes us the strongest? Think about it. Letting the RIGHT friend into your life.Letting that friend into your most vulnerable parts of your life and no one else. And letting that friend to "take care" of your vulnerabilities. When the weakest part of yourself is taken care of. Even better if the more RIGHT friends that you have. Doesn't that makes you the strongest that you'll ever be?

Probably Abe did come up with this quote, after all he is the biggest friendship activist I've ever known.

Cheers,
Kenny C.

A Kinda review of "Relationship Status"

One of the things you'll know about the movie that you watched is a good movie; is by the fact that you can't stop thinking about it. That and of course, the fact that the film is indie and being made with a limited time frame plus that its done without any support from Malaysia's major production houses. Woots!

While being indie does not guarantee a good movie but it does make the film so much more better especially if its a good film. For me, what makes a good film is it's ability to relate to its audience. I can't recall how many times I've genuinely laugh out loud or struggled to keep my snicker in because it was just that good. Truly Malaysian. For the first time, I've begun to see light at the end of the tunnel for the future of Malaysian Films(and its not a train). Yasmin Ahmad's death dealt a great blow to the contemporary film-making but seeing this, it give me hope and more inspiration to make films equally as inspiring as Khairil M. Bahir's "Ralationship Status".

Opps, got sidetracked a little. If you're reading this blog to get a rough idea of what the film's genre is about; Don't. One of the reason's I really enjoy it is due to the fact I watch the film without any preconceive notions of what the film is about. This applies to any other films that you watch. Without any expectations, allows for more surprises and a genuine interest for the film.

Now on to the review. Unless you're not on Facebook(Fb), chances are you'll get every single online jargon or terms that the film throws at you. However if you're a Facebook hermit who only comes online once in awhile, chances are you wont get some of the terms as well. heh. Then again, fret not; while Fb is the central theme of the film, what we're looking at are the story of characters' lives being connected by the Facebook. While it may seems weird at first with so many characters to follow but its gets better. It opens up with a lot of questions but eventually it'll get answered one way or another. It just up to you how do you see it.

If you're looking for a romantic chick flick, you're not getting any. The theme of the whole film in the end is about relationships but not in away that you'll expect in your typical romantic films. The characters develops in such a way that its so natural that you'll never realized something inside of them has changed. I liked the idea that there are no unimportant characters in film. They all affect each other one way or another. Stimulating growth. Along with seasoned talents, it no wonder the casts seem so natural in their characters and development.

Storywise, the film excels extremely well in drawing the viewers in. For a film with so much dialogues, it didn't felt as if its long-winded at all. Instead, every single line is straight to the point and delivered with such skill; that you might even be able to enjoy film with just the audio. And that is an exaggeration but it might been that good.

In the end, the obvious technical issues aside. "Relationship Status" is a good especially if

you're an avid Facebook user like me who seems to be on Facebook 24-7.That's an exaggeration

too other than the fact that I'm writing this at 4.45 am. You'll not enjoy it if you've never heard of

Facebook and consider yourself as a person who has no need to understand relationships in the

real world.Ok thats mean but you get my drift. Then again, this film has such a powerful message

that it's bound to change one's perception of how is Facebook affecting our lives. For me at least,

sometimes one needs to take a daring step outside the digital world.

The DVD's coming out at the end of this month. Go get it and G'nites people!

The Day March Came to an End.

I guess I would call this a new chapter of my life somehow.

Juz had the urge to start a new Blog. New Beginnings all over again!

After a week's worth of accumulated stress and unrest; decided on the last minute to abandon any motivation to start on my assignment. And decided instead to take a trip down Ikea and The Curve. Totally worth it!

Its weird how everything kinda puts itself in place. Ikea's food court was crowed as usual but I somehow found a place to enjoy my meal. Twas a moment of pure bliss and thanksgiving. Even the supposedly bright sunlight at 5-6pm didn't make it my meal unpleasant or scorchingly hot.

Went to Borders to finally spend my book vouchers. Found 3 books that I really wanted to read.Plus the trilogy of the Hunger Games at 50%.

Rm200+11.70 well spent.

Went to Starbucks to celebrate my purchases. And juz as i was about to leave, these guys with guitars started setting up. They were gonna perform for the earth hour.(Totally forgot bout tat!) Decided to juz stay back and enjoy the acoustic performance. I even got to know the performers. Ikhmal & Amir. Totally down to earth & friendly guys.

After a week of crazy stress and not having enough sleep; today feels totally surreal.

It feels good to be alive and I thank God for that.