Do you like me for who I am?

*Warning: Might contain spoiler*

I'm on a TV/movie spree again. Just watched Happy Birthday yesterday and Blood Diamond (abbreviated as BD below) this afternoon. I have cried a bit for both movies... actually more for the latter. Well, I'm a big crying baby when I watch movies, so there!

DiCaprio has grown up a lot and his acting in the BD has greatly matured and improved. He was a bit show-offy in The Aviator, but he's doing just right in BD. Gosh, I love his accent! It is strange that the movie has a white person as the lead because it's all about the life and stories of the black Africans. But if the movie doesn't have DiCaprio, it will not arouse much interest despite the controversial topic. Anyway, Jennifer Connelly was as attractive and beautiful as ever and her character was her usual tougher type of woman. (I'd definitely say Alicia Nash is a very strong woman!)

There are so many other movies that I want to see these few weeks! But unfortunately none of those are HK movies. In fact, there aren't any HK movies showing except for Happy Birthday! I want to see Babel, Fur, Marie Antoinette, and The Perfume. The Perfume has been on my reading list for years but I have never gotten around to it (not that I have gotten around to any of my class reading). Now that the movie is showing starting next week, I guess I'll either have to watch the movie first and then read the novel later, or... screw the novel. There's been a lot of adaptation lately (from novels to movies). Is this a trend showing that screenplay writers are running out of ideas with new plots and stories? Or is it simply because there are too many good novels and the best way to bring them out under the spotlight is to transform them into a movie??

Prison Break was action packed as expected. But too many people died. I was so sad that Charles couldn't make it and it ended like that for him. Ah well, too many sad things happen all the time.

Urgh, I was so mad that I've forgotten to tape the first episode of Hotel Babylon. Actually this is another novel-TV adaptation creation. The TV CM looks pretty good but don't really know much about it. Hopefully it's not like Las Vegas. I don't like LV much, the style of the series is rather strange.

I was catching up with last week's 4400, (there are only 5 more episdoes left!) it was rather heartbreaking to see that Maya was still having trust issue with people. "Do you like me for who I am?" I guess it hits her really hard because of her "gift" and she's still too young to figure out if people are treating her well because of the gift or not. Not that I have any special gift like vision-seeing, but it's also a question I ask myself often enough... the you could be a friend, a colleague, a... I guess I just have issue with self-confidence. Maybe I shouldn't care about what other people think that much, and just concentrate on what I think about myself. That'll be very hard!