You are currently browsing the Travel Light blog archives for July, 2008
Here are mine in no particular order:
1. Be a famous blogger
2. Write a book
3. Visit the United States and Europe
4. Start my own business and be successful at it
5. Learn how to make my own website template
6. Contribute money to CCF’s building fund
7. Buy my own house
8. Retire early at 40
9. Meet a suitable partner and marry him on a hilltop
10. Help more people
11. Have a memorial plan
What are yours?
My glitter tattoo kit
With some inspiration I got from joining a Google group, I’m launching a new career in glitter tattooing. It’s actually an expanded business line since I’ve been doing face painting for half a year now. Sooner or later, you’d find me in weekend parties mingling with kids, babies in a Bob stroller and their yayas. Yesterday, my trial kit was delivered to the office. If the quality of materials is perfect, I’ll ask a friend in the United States to buy boxes for me and ship it here together with her balikbayan box. The last time I ordered my paints from London was around 4 months ago when I was still holding on to my MasterCard then. The shipping charges cost nearly the same as the item I purchased. But I don’t mind sacrificing quality of materials over price. By the way, if you’re interested to have a smashing glittery party for your child, a colorful school fair or anything that crosses your mind, just send a text message to 0906-2066277.
By the way, I didn’t realized being in a Google group entails a flooded Gmail inbox. I couldn’t figure out how to disable the mad flow of email exchange and read those messages on the web instead like in a Yahoo group.
Heath Ledger as the Joker
Heath Ledger’s character as a deranged ego-maniacal crime lord called the Joker overshadowed Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne in the movie “The Dark Knight”. That terrible and creepy greasy clown make-up constitutes an obscenely bad dream you don’t want to find yourself locked in. He is pain and chaos, misery and destruction. Gotham City is no longer the Winter Park real estate where Tim Burton’s Penguin and rubber duckie used to dance and rule. Director Christopher Nolan introduced pain and destruction to Gotham in many odd ghastly forms from breathtaking car chase scenes and Batman stunts, exploding buildings to the dramatic transformation of Aaron Eckhart’s Harvey Dent to a scarred villain called Two Face. It’s the darkest Batman movie ever but Nolan did it not without some satirical comic relief. Heath Ledger’s Joker lines (“You complete me…”) could draw smiles on a viewer’s face even without the help of his pocket knife. And yes, he gave me headaches, too.
The Dark Knight was one of Heath Ledger’s last movies but it was one of his best by a thousand miles so far. No one could have done Joker better than him, not even a Johnny Depp could match it. Ledger’s Joker came in the mid part of the movie and left the world longing more for such an incredible sterling performance and wondering what might have been had he lived.
