Ryu's Blog

New Year is a convenient time to reflect on the past and plan for the future. Reviewing my older entries
remained me of my more sentimental, idealistic self (for those who’re too lazy to go through the past entries below, this one probably sums up my current views well). Although years have passed, it seems like I haven’t change much. I’m still not satisfied with myself, want to be more true to myself and to live life my way. I want to be able to focus more on the moments in life, treasure simple things in life, and discover what I’m seeking.

 The theme for my New Year plan is Self: to get back to the basics, focus on myself, and to test whether it’s possible to become better through conscious and consistent efforts. From my experience, personality seems rather stable through time and hard to change, but this might be because most people don’t genuinely want to change themselves too much, as it could entail loneliness. Details of my New Year plan will be left for another post.

Back to something lighter, I spent my New Year Eve watching Jay Chou’s movie ‘Secret’. Although I read a few negative reviews, the movie is above my expectation and I like it. Given how hard it’s to film a movie (anyone ever trying to use a video camera to film something nice would understand), the movie’s pretty good as a 1^st attempt by a singer. I can understand now why Angi likes 桂綸鎂 (Kwai Lun Mei) so much. She might also become one of my favourite actresses. I’m looking forward to watch ‘The Most Distant Course’ played by her as well.  成海璃子 (Riko Narumi) is another young Japanese actresses that I think is very talented, which is good as I’ll have more movies to look forward to.