first day in nus high.

dint really sleep well, had massive diarrhea in the morning. think stomach flu bah. quite serious liquid motion. but still, i had a relatively busy day ahead! headed to national museum straight after bathing and breakfast at macs. I can swear it is as though i am going there for the first time because i totally did not recognize anything inside! so i went to queue for the Musée d'Orsay gallery and collect/bought a headset to help explain the paintings. The headset girl was rather pretty. haha.

initially the art was not that awesome, but slowly, it got better. took quite a number of pictures. Its so interesting to see different things being depicted through art, eg. Samson and Delilah, Macbeth. There was a rather morbid section, on war. The paintings were dark and ominous. But the feeling it gives is so powerful.

The take away from this trip was certainly from one of the excerpts written on the wall. "Man as a solitary being - the only way human beings could escape the weight of science and technology was through the mind and thoughts"

next was meeting up with the army guys. had a good catch up and definitely a good movie, at least for me. hahaha.

It takes huge amount of self-control to do what George Clooney's character did. not only being the restrained one in terms of not exploding in front of his wife's lover, but also how he reasoned himself to determine how to handle the situation. His words, 'Over the phone he can escape, but not in person. I want to see his face, his reactions.'

Furthermore, he did the right thing to present the information about his wife's pending demise to the lover, giving him the choice to do the right thing to visit her one last time or be a heartless bastard; which he was the latter. All in all, despite the depiction of George's character as the distant husband and father, the entire movie we only saw how he calmly made the right decisions and was the man of the house.

His decision to impromptu find his 17 year old daughter and bringing her back home to take care of her sister.

His decision to not confront directly with his wife's lover in a heated argument.

His decision to not reveal his wife's transgressions to her parents. While at the same time bearing the brunt of his father-in-laws incessant scoldings of being a failed husband/father.

But the biggest take away is definitely his enormous capacity to love. To love unconditionally. To be able to forgive and continue to love the special one in your life despite of whatever they have done. Its just phenomenal.