Decisions Decisions

Chinese New Year had passed by for a couple of weeks. Reunited for a few days with family, relatives and friends. This year is a rather busy new year to begin with. We visited relatives from both sides of my parent starting from the first day of new year until the fourth day. Reunite during this special occasion every year and part to continue to pursue our dreams or rather going back to the capitalized and materialized world struggling for survival. What's the point of it recurring year after year? Why can't we just do whatever we like and stay together with our loved ones? What drives the system to evolve to this current stage?

I watched Cloud Atlas today before this film is being taken down from the big screen soon. Why I wanted to watch? Because I happened to know that this film was being directed by the same director as The Matrix trilogy and co-directed by the director of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. There are six stories being told in the film happening in the past, present, and future and each are indirectly related by means of published books and musical piece in each stories. I find the film a bit gore in some scene, nonetheless one of the story are quite humorous regarding four elderly escaping from an old-folks home. One of the themes (I think) in the story regarding a journey of a lawyer in the 19th centuries and in the story setting in the post-future world where human civilization was returned to the ancestral type with hunters and witch-crafts surrounds in the idea of the strong will rule over the weak or it just happened to be. In overall, I think the word 'decisions' can be used to summarized the whole film where each decisions made in the past will form the present which leads to the happenings in the future. Oh ya, the original story is from a novel by David Mitchell and the musical piece, Cloud Atlas Sextet is mixed with a bid of sadness and fantasy inside.

A lot had happened in the past two months and I need to make some important decisions this week on where to go in the future. I hope of what I make will be a wise and fulfilling one.