Across the universe

Watched across the universe.
People going across the universe, meeting people, knowing people, loving people, losing people, missing people, fighting for people.

I've always known that the world is big, but I, being a arrogant human-being, was never once truly afraid of how vast it is, never once truly impressed by it's size either. Perhaps with modern technology, man can get really arrogant.
You think you can keep in touch with people so well with sms and msn, but one day, you find yourself no longer knowing someone whom you cherish.
I think a plane ride is so convenient, a long distance call is just a skype away, that I am not taken back by my friends leaving me, across the universe, to australia, to china.
I think Time past so fast that it will be alright.
But Now I think again, I am a little afraid.
I am afraid of losing people.
Every morning when my father goes out to work while everyone's either sound asleep or not yet asleep, at 1-2am, I never dare to say good bye to him. There is something in me, which freaks me out. I always say "zai jian" the chinese gd bye.
Nel is leaving for australia, and so wil jac, and so will jiemin be leaving for china for half a year. Everyone's leaving.
They are going across the universe.
Yes, a Skype call away, a msn away, an email away but yes, it is still a far far away land.

So dear friends, please make friends there.


One thing which turns me off in Across the universe is how easily they fell in love.
Haha, was talking to mattina as we left cathay and we had this conversation:

MAT
My friend is getting married! She is same age as me( 21).

Me
huh?!

MAT
Ya! And the thing is, it's actually true love! ( how can this happen?! kinda tone)

ME
WHAT?! oh man...

MAT
Ya! I cannot believe it! So it actually exist. . They had been together for 6 years. So she's saying like, since it's a matter of time, so just get married before he gets to army. cus he's a sign on, so he actually gets into ns later. ya.

ME
But marriage is not pure romance, it is not something which love is enough. No money how to get married.

MAT
YA! exactly. She's someone who will plan de.

ME
Then how come?

MAT
Well... I guess it's true love? ( still cannot register kinda tone)

ME
ah.... ok...


Haiz~ well, we both have a hard time believing in true love will actually come to us. Maybe it is more like we have a hard time believing in the concept of true love. It is like too weird or too romantic a concept that it seems to not hold any sense of security. \

Love... what a overrated word.