I’m just being ironic to myself with the title there.

I was watching the recording of the 82 Academy Awards. When Sandra said Meryl was a good kisser, and she at the end thanked Meryl as her lover, I for once thought she was a lesbian. By googling I found that she wasn’t. At least there’s no official words for that and she has been married to a male, no official words on whether it’s a marriage of convenience either. So, well.

The Hurt Locker is an unbelievable movie. It’s surely the best motion picture worthy of the name! I watched it the very night after it was awarded, and I didn’t find it that good immediately. But after I couldn’t stop thinking about it, thinking about every scene in the movie, and sank deep in digesting the message delivered: war is like drugs… Excellent masterpiece! Not to mention it’s crafted by a female director. Highly recommended!

It was very moving to just watch those awards winners giving their emotional speech. I watched the awards last year, and that was also very touching. Though I can’t feel what they have been through, I am sure they have put all they got on the performance, and what can be seen on screen will tell us what and how they have done. It must be truly colorful.

It’s been nearly four months since I started to work this job. I felt not very comfortable because I live and work in such a populated environment. Probably the number of people I come across in a week here is more than that I see in a year in Stirling. Zhuhai is becoming as crowded as Guangzhou. In terms of average occupyable space, China is definitely a small country.

How many people out there is unknowable to me. But it’s a terrible thing to hear only a few different voices in such a big crowd. I mean, I have been talking to many different individuals. We chattered, expressed our ideas, exchanged our opinions. But I don’t see many original perspectives. Say among 100 people, 30 are worrying about paying back their house loan, 30 are concerning their marriage while they are only 25 year-old, and 40 are moaning about getting low paid. It’s sad, not to others, but to myself. I feel being dumber. I can’t freshen my mind as often as I used to.

Thanks to Nickie, I got to watch the documentary series about John Lewis from BBC Two. The genre is the kind I like. How interesting it is to see Andy Street tackles the worst recession in history for John Lewis! The marketing campaign part and the Cardiff branch opening part are very mind-sobering. Although JL’s partners were moaning about the recession and getting lower paid, they tried to overcome the worst.

The third episode which is the last one is coming up next Wednesday. That will be talking about JL’s future. But for now, I already read from the news that JL has got their partners a big surprise even 2009 was a miserable year for everybody. The fruit is sweet.

Just to think about those academy awards winners and the management team in John Lewis, how different it is to be in the movie industry and the retail industry, and the high tech industry which I’m in now? One thing is undoubtedly the same – the requirement for innovativeness. Well then, how about to give a fishy stare at the sky for a moment? Or to think fast, browse a bunch of webpages, absorb some new ideas and points of views. Or maybe even to chat, but with whom? Damn it now, I really don’t know how I am going to survive without Internet.