down and up again

like i promised, i will be introducing a heart-warming and motivating movie that i came across recently. actually, i have watched two of such similar shows since i last post about "3 Idiots" in this blog. anyway, this show is titled "Soul Surfer".

basically, this film is a true story about Bethany Hamilton, a pro-surfer currently who lost her left arm when she was younger thanks to a unfortunate shark attack when she was doing what she loved the most.. surfing. so the entire film technically shows the life she had before the attack, during the attack and after the attack. probably the only passion was surfing from young and her dream of becoming a pro-surfer seemed to blur a little right after the shark attack. nonetheless, she persevere despite initial thoughts of giving up completely to progress to greater heights in her surfing career.

the film also included a major event in history which was the tsunami incident back in 2004.. i guess. there is quite a bit of relation to religion in light of her motivation to stand up again after the shark attack. nonetheless, even if you are atheist or what, i guess that this show is worth your time.

anyway, i also got hooked onto one of the songs used in the film after watching it. i posted it before and i would not have come across such a beautiful song if not for this film. so, in case you missed it, here is the song i am talking about.. this time with lyrics. meaningful lyrics that you can relate to the show.. probably because it was written specially for it. enjoy.

red

two years ago, i had one of the biggest regret which resulted to a short changing of fun from my stressed soul. two years ago, i could not find the time and money to get myself into a concert by one of my idol during her one night performance in Singapore.

however, she is returning this year and i have both time and money to go to her concert at last. Taylor Swift, thank you for deciding to make another tour to Singapore so that i can  ark off another point from my bucket list. go to a live concert by one of my idols.

this morning, ticket sales started at 10am and was trying desperately to enter the system to make the online purchase. my friends and i were busy hoping and trying to enter. apparently there was a long invisible online queue in the system. finally, i managed to get through but sad to see that the $288 tickets were all sold out and so i tried the $228 tickets. in between, there were lags and what not but ohh well finally got the tickets for us. and so my Monday morning was made in two hours.

before you judge me for having too much money or what not, let me caution you that different people invest into different form of fun and entertainment and mine is this for this half of the year. yes, of course, it is time to cut down some expenses and fun elsewhere. if anyone is going to this concert as well, do tell me. :)

my ohh my.. it is only the beginning of March but come on.. 12th June. i am so looking forward to that date now. on a side note, hope that evening will not have major World Cup matches haha.. or i might have to split my soul.

trying to believe

"nobody knows the price of this dream; and nobody knows what it took to believe, nobody"

new song i am addicted to after listening it from a inspiring movie recently. talking about inspiring movie, i watched a couple new ones and will be sharing them soon. meantime, just enjoy this amazing special song by Mat Kearney.