Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine was such a fantastic movie. One of the best I've seen for some time. Really shd go catch it.
The family is dysfunctional, there are issues of drug addiction, homosexuality, pornography, depression etc. But how the script writer just injected humour in bringing across his message. That we are basically all messed up people, carrying with us all our personal baggages. And yet at the end of the day how we accept each other, and learn what it truly means to be human. It challenges the definition of success, being loserish and all that. As one of the character says- he thinks that life is just a series of beauty peagents. But at the end of the day- life I think, is what we define and make of it. How we define success, or how society defines success, and what it means to just be ourselves. How the writer pokes fun at the irony of how society functions in putting up fronts- when these fronts can be even more dirty than people who seem dysfunctional outright. Or how the most dysfunctional people could actually be more human, than those who put up a front and do not admit that they are also dysfunctional in the same way on the inside.
But it was all brought together with many humourous parodies/ironies/actions etc. ;) And yup, maybe life is like that- we shdn't take things too seriously and accept that there will always be imperfections.

A pastor said that self-righteousness is worse than un-righteousness. I find that so true. And so very profound. And so what if I have a semblance of perfection on the outside? On the inside we are all messed up people in need of our saviour. We can't do things on our own.

I had an enjoyable day today, met HY for lunch at Tanjong Katong for clayfish horfun at a coffeeshop. Cheap and yummy! I got myself a dinosaur too. We went to parkway, I ran my errands and she went to gym. I sat down at Burger King and read C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity for a bit (very good and philosophical book). And very very spontaneously, we decided to have dinner with her cousin and brother at night, and then catch Little Miss Sunshine.

I would have wanted to catch the 715 show, and not the 935 one, if not that she felt it was too rushed. We ended up having quite a cosy time, the 4 of us. Was telling her how I miss group settings so much. ;) Got home at 12ish am...yay. Finally a break from my usual sat and sun routines....and I felt so happy today. :) I learn to take things less seriously amidst the imperfection.