Faith Like Potatoes

" The seed for a great miracle lies not in difficulty, but impossibility."

Recently watched this movie which describes faith is like potatoes. Love it!

Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. With nothing more than a caravan on a patch of land, and help from his foreman, Simeon Bhengu, the Buchan family struggle to settle in a new country. Faced with ever mounting challenges, hardships and personal turmoil, Angus quickly spirals down into a life consumed by anger, fear and destruction. Based on the inspiring true story by Angus Buchan the book was adapted for the big screen by Regardt van den Bergh and weaves together the moving life journey of a man who, like his potatoes, grows his faith, unseen until the harvest.




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Hash Browns with A LITTLE Dog Poo...

DEFINITELY
I would NOT eat that!
I would rather eat a whole bitter gourd fresh with garlic and onions as condiments...
(it's healthy you know!=p)



Thinking again,
I have probably eaten a lot of hash browns with dog poo,
sometimes it is with A LOT of dog poo.

Okay, this post is not an exposé
on the production of hash browns.
IT IS A REAL STORY=)

There were two teenager girls who begged their dad
to watch a movie with their friends.
"IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME," they said
"AND WE JUST GOT TO WATCH IT!
PLEASEeeeeee!"

The dad replied,
"Wait for 30 minutes to get a permission!"

Dad then went into the kitchen and busied himself.
After 30 minutes of desperate anticipation,
Dad came out of the kitchen and something smelled really delicious....

"Okay, children, you know that movie you wanted to watch
has some bad stuff in it..."
Immediately, the teenagers reassuringly replied,
"We two are big enough to handle those stuff,"
and saying with a twinkle in the eye,
"Dad, you taught us the good values, we'll keep it.
Don't WORRY!"

"Okay fine, I understand."
Then, the BUT came in,
"Well, you can go for the movie on one condition.
You have to finish these hash browns."

The girls were overjoyed.
That's like the easiest way of getting a permission!

Just then, before their joy were complete, Dad added,
"But I added some dog poo into the hash brown.
No worries though,
it's so LITTLE 
than you won't even taste it!"

The strange thing is this:
I would be so disgusted by
Hash Browns with A LITTLE Dog Poo...

yet I was so willingly eating movie hash browns
with occasional dog poo of profanity, nudity and vulgarity.

Movies nowadays are so commercialised,
willing to keep on pushing the borders of decency,
making sensations out of these things.

Movies that are supposed to be about cool robotics

tried to be more appealing to the humorous crowd

added jokes like "We are under enemy's scrotum".

In addition to that, focused much of the camera on the

Fox-y sexy body which wouldn't add any incentive for Transformers.

We are like supposed to be more "open" 

by watching some japanese story(ies)

to understand multiculturalism and clash of cultures

via sex scenes under the scorching Pilbara desert sun.

Taught to be more open,

I was like to suppose to watch the underlying nuances of meaning

in sex scenes where the female character wears the male's pants

during the international course?

Produce that during your English exam as well, thank you.

Aroused by curiosity towards

the award-nominated movies like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,

I watched it thinking it'll be a really good movie of exploring human aging.

FINALLY A GOOD FILM!

Oh, how I regretted watching it!

Okay, at first a visit to the brothel when he's a "teenager".

No big deal. Plus it's a funny sex scene!

Then, affairs with an married woman...

Okay, maybe it's about the issues of 

husbands neglecting wives' sexual and emotional needs?

Then, it turned into a continuous carefree life 

of wonderful, unadulterated sex with a childhood lover 

in the "youth" of their days.

I was hooked all the way through the movie,

refusing to off the laptop.

It was a terrible day when I realised 

Brad was in the Pit of sex.

He even said it, 

"I'm just your sex player."

Yes, there are stuff to learn from Mr Button,

but all I remembered was the sex scenes,

CARBON BURNT onto my brain, indelible.

Just like "I'm under enemy's scrotum"...

totally can't recall the cool robot fights.

Even if there are good lessons to be learnt,

sifting through all the bad chaff,

the bad far outweighs the good stuff.

It's hash browns with  A LITTLE Dog Poo...

All I wanted from movies is good entertainment

and if possibly good messages that benefit my life.

Moviemakers make movies that we demand.

We demanded new stuff, new sensations,

so they sensationalise all this stuff.

Today, I make a stand to demand for good movies.

I want good stuff like Wall-E.

I want robots and not Fox-es or scrotums.

I've eaten enough dog poo

and I believe I can learn good messages

like multiculturalism, sex, human rights

without the dog poo.

I DEMAND FOR GOOD MOVIES

Would you?

Or you won't mind eating

Hash Browns with A LITTLE Dog Poo?

And now, dear brother and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honourable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 

Philippians 4:8

Going Home

"It was a happy day, till I saw this video..." quoted from [The Great Wall of Text]

Ok, the title "Going Home" is not about Calvin the desperado

delving in escapism of EALD Mock Exam tomorrow

running his way back to Kuantan.

As Blurrie said, it was a happy day.

Calvin was really studying "disciplinely" for Chemistry...

Then time out, and he so happened to stumble across on his [Blogroll]

THE GREAT WALL OF TEXT.

There was this video with a familiar aunty's face.

So I press load and play.

It still takes quite some time to load.

And strangely he had the idea of watching movies.

He deleted many movies in his external hard drive

because many of those Hollywood movies

made him want to gouge his eyes out.

Then there seem to be this strange undeleted teen movie.

So he decided to "succumb into temptation" again...

He prays hard it won't be a teenage romance movie

with hints of premarital sex or passionate kissing.

It was CAMP ROCK.

It turned out to be a nice one

although there were the cliched "High School Musical" stuff

dancing and singing out of nowhere.

He loved the theme of being yourself, albeit cliched

Cliched but still forgotten by many.

Ok, happy movie over.

Time to watch the loaded short film.

So here it is.

The main thing of this post.

It made me think.

I hope it made you think too.

Curious?

Watch it...

Of Movies and Advertisements

Today's Economics class turned into movie class. Be jealous because Mr Wong managed to compress what he taught on microeconomic reform in other classes in two sessions into one session for Architecture 1. So there was nothing better to teach elsewhere than to share a movie. It was the Emperor's Club, one movie which I must say is very Mr-Wong-y. It's about principles and teachers. I love the dialogues, stupifying and cramming in lots of Roman history of Western Civilisation.

William Hundert: Excuse me?

Louis Masoudi: Huh? What me?

William Hundert: Yes, sir. What is your name?

Louis Masoudi: Uh, Louis.

William Hundert: Just Louis?

Louis Masoudi: Louis Masoudi, sir.

William Hundert: Mr. Masoudi, could you define the word "path" for me?

Louis Masoudi: Well, there are several definitions, I suppose.

William Hundert: Would "a route along which someone or something moves" be among them?

Louis Masoudi: Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. Yeah. I'm s-sorry, sir.

William Hundert: Follow the path, Mr. Masoudi. Walk where the great men before you have walked.

Louis Masoudi: Yes, sir. It's, uh - It's better for the grass.

William Hundert: It's better for you.

That's still some very "casual" talk. A history teacher reprimanding a student for not walking on the provided path can have such dialogues. One more thing I like is the subtitles. They are positioned on the person talking and makes things so clear. However, the plot was kind of disorganized after the Mr Julius Caesar quiz thingy. Nevertheless, a good movie. Something more than just meeting the eye.

Then EALD class we did on the techniques of advertising. Is this some sort of Media Day or what. Movies then advertisements. This happens only in AUSMAT.

Enjoyed Thai advertisement a lot. Smooth-E cream. Four consecutive episodes of an unconventional advertisement. Great plot and lots of humour. Laughed like ...HAHAHA. Then we had to do advertisements for Mr Dericks @ Bang D's poh lang chang (kitchen utensils and all the household paraphernalia). My team had to promote that Aik Cheng Instant Teh Tarik. Others promoted chopsticks, sponge (which Aqil ter-said as SPONGEBOB!), candles, spatulas and paper clips. You tell me how to advertise all this mummy's stuff! And we have an assessment on that! Talk about English assessment...

It's been a great day. Media played a great role. Just end with this quote from Mr Hundert the history teacher from the Emperor's Club:

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

Movies After Movies

Water.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

Rabbit-Proof Fence.

The Forgotten Woman.

There's so much movies to watch for EAL/D!

Water was a thought-provoking and beautiful story of widows.

I love Chuyia! So innocent and cute.

I admire Shakuntala! For faith and bravery.

Contrast to that, The Forgotten Woman was a forgotten show.

Guess the others sister director wasn't that touching in her documentary.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

Hear the name also bored already right?

But interesting topics it digs up.

Communication, cold war, understanding and willing to express emotions.

Father and child relationship.

Rabbit-Proof Fence.

Amazing perseverance to walk 1500 miles back home.

Kid's adventure and the want to "see mummy" so badly.

One inspiring true story.

Michelangelo and HP

For once, I was able to see the beauty

in that David sculpture of Micheangelo.*

And the Adam cannot touch God's hand thingy

in Sistine Chapel.

Perseverance.

Then there's HP.

The most boring-est movie I've seen thus far.

I guess only the first movie really captured me.

Since, not many read this blog yet,

must well spoil it...

all those totally "childish" romantic scenes

so little action...

the emotional part just leave my heart cold...

practically no scenes really stick in me...

you see

i'm even lazy to spoil it more.

Good night!

*Yeah, the one totally naked

in which most modern eyes are drawn to look at that "beauty"

pervertly.