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Before Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight

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  This is the best trilogy I re-run in pandemic. Still cry, obviously. Still be the best ending scenes of all time in movie history (except Before Sunset). Still relatable to me personally. And don't make me start with the music.. The silent music as the scene is inaudible.  *** Here what I found most interesting from Before Midnight. (I should re-run the first two again in order to quote them): Not to be too consume with love. Friendship and work are what make us the happiest. “She took care of herself, and ask me to do the same, we have plenty of room to meet in the middle. We were never one person, always two. we preferred that way" -Patrick when asked about his late wife- If we want to truly know each other, we better know ourselves first This is real life, its not perfect but its real. *** To me, this trilogy has drowned me into an ideal kind of relationship. One that I never had, one where I can talk about everything and receive the equal response to whatever topic I'

An Ode to Solitude

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When the Sun sets, and the adhaan is in the air, what would you usually do? I only write a lot when it comes closer to D-day. Whatever the day is. I have been living a life where I can only think of the closest goal; assessment next week, public consultation next month, training event two months later, and I set my life around those only goals. I can only plan for four or five months ahead. Top. It freaks me out to see what my life will be after the next six months. I live day by day planning the nearest end; what’s for lunch, what’s for dinner, what’s for tomorrow’s meeting, task lists I have to check, on and on.  This afternoon, with mood swings and hormonal imbalance, I  lie   sit on my bed after changing my menstrual pad for the fifth times of the day, thinking.. what to do tonight? I can watch movies, or read, or simply creating design contents of my own brands, I can explore the words to do tagline for both HSL Cold-Pressed Juice and Sleepyhead, but instead.. I chose to sit