Posted by pruet on Oct 4, 2007 in
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Once upon a time……a king gave a feast. The most beautiful princesses were there. A soldier who was standing guard saw the king’s daughter go by. She was the loveliest one, and he fell instantly in love. But what is a simple soldier next to the daughter of a king? One day he managed to see her and told her he could no longer live without her. The princess was so taken by the depth of his feeling that she said to the soldier:”If you can wait for 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, I shall be yours.” With that, the soldier went and waited one day, two days……then ten, twenty. Each evening the princess looked out and he never moved! Always there, come rain, come thunder. Birds shat on his head, bees stung him, but didn’t budge. After 90 nights, he had become all dry and pale. Tears streamed from his eyes. He couldn’t hold them back. He didn’t even have the strength to sleep. And all that time, the princess watched him. When 99th night came……the soldier stood up, took his chair, and left.
From Cinema Paradiso
Posted by pruet on Sep 12, 2007 in
Quote “เพราะลลิลเป็นผู้หญิงที่ทำให้เขาอยากมีชีวิตที่สุขสงบและทำตัวให้มีค่าควรคู่หล่อน จนยอมละทิ้งเรื่องราวเหลวไหลในอดีตไว้เบื้องหลัง”
- ทางสายพระจันทร์เสี้ยว, ประภัสสร เสวิกุล
Posted by pruet on Apr 3, 2007 in
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Thought Borders is going to close all book stores in UK, including those in Australia and New Zealand. Well, it certainly includes the Borders at Jam Factory in Melbourne, which is one of my favorite book store when I spent my life there. The place was my “no-place-to-go” place and where I bought most of my books, including the whole set of TAOCP. I always hope that I will revisit there when I’ve a chance to go to Melbourne again, but it seems to be a forever hope now….
Farewell my beloved book store, I will miss you every time I read.
Posted by pruet on Mar 25, 2007 in
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She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post.
From C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Posted by pruet on Nov 27, 2006 in
Books 
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
- Blowin’ in the Wind: Bob Dylan [video from youtube]
I’m in love with Pen-eak’s works when I watched “Last Life in the Universe“. I will not express my opinion about the movie here, because this blog entry is not about the movie. When I heard that there is a book which concludes some interview with Pen-eak, and the writer is Worpoj Panpong, I deadly want to read it. So, I bought it and asked a sister of mine to ship it from Bangkok, of course, I asked her to read it also, and she likes it.
Who is Pen-eak ? I believe the easiest way to answer this question is to watch his movies. Of course, I don’t know him personally, but from his interview, his personality which is expressed in the book is very similar with his movie. I didn’t say that he’s perfect or his movies are perfect. There’s many down-side of his life and also some holes in his movies. But, well, as we know, human are imperfect. The different between human and computer is our imperfection. The different between real life and story in movie is also the imperfection of our life. His life is also.
The point is, he accepts his imperfection and lives with it peacefully. Sometime, we know that we’ve problem or short coming in our life, but we just don’t accept it. We should not seek for a perfect life; instead, we should seek a way to live with our life, even it’s imperfect.
Life is a long journey and it’s shorter than we thought. When you found an imperfection in your life, sometime, fix it, sometime, accept it and live with it.
Posted by pruet on Sep 3, 2006 in
Quote How to read by Nick Hornby
Posted by pruet on Jun 21, 2006 in
Books 
“Oh, no … don’t,” she corrects him: “it’s pain that changes our lives”.
The last rhyme of the song “Iris” is still floating in the air when I finish this book by Steve Martin. Some words from the book still stay afloat in my head. When the love triangle happens, the question of choosing and be chosen will be arise. Of course, at least one of the parties will not be so happy of the outcome.
Steve Martin, acclaimed actor and writer, told us the story of three people, who spin around each other by some unspeakable words, or the words that should be spoken but not. The central of this story is a girl, Mirabelle, whose life is so unfounded. With some brief flashback, the writer told us how she was betrayed by her own father, and how she became a “shopgirl” at a glove counter, “selling things that nobody buys anymore…”. Undoubtedly, that is how she looks at herself, especially when the story is moving toward the ending. The second party, Ray Porter, is a rich man who tries to seek a good love, with a lots of definition and restriction. The final party, Jeremy, tells us that, before you can find a true love, you have to accept yourself truthfully.
By describing itself as “a novella”, the book tells the story of the three parties with “realistic and satiric in tone“[1]. Steve martin doesn’t hesitate to contribute a couple pages to detail a daily life of Mirabelle, and uses only one short paragraph to describe the relationship between Marabelle and Ray in a six months period, and how the relationship was getting worse. The pace of the book is, I guess, control by the emotion of the characters, not by any absolution time frame, so sometime, the book goes very slow, so we can absorb the sadness, loneliness, or depressed of a character. On the other hand, the book can go very fast when nothing is important enough to be written down there. The author may allow the readers to use their mind to illustrate the live of each character by themselves.
To conclude, shopgirl is well written and very tasteful. Also, the story is told wisely, and the author doesn’t look down the reader by telling every detail excessively. I was very delighted while reading the book. Finally, I agree that it is not happiness but “pain that changes our lives”.
[1] http://faylicity.com/book/book1/shop.html
Posted by pruet on Apr 26, 2006 in
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Fairy tales are more than true -
not because they tell us dragons exist,
but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
G. K. Chesterto
from wikipedia://Fairy_tale
