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  • The Time Traveler's Wife Aftermath
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    Monday, Sep 28, 2009 7:15PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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    The Time Travelers Wife Movie Poster
    Just got home from watching The Time Traveler's Wife.
    Starring on eof my favourite actress Rachel Adams. She's amazing!
    Saw lotsa girls with puffy eyes exiting the cinema while I was entering.
    Therefore I expected to weep through the movie.
    In fact, I am half way through finishing the novel.
    Been looking forward to it much and I am now satisfied having watched it.
    Surprisingly, I didn't shed a tear though it was heart wrenching at times.

    After the movie, I came back to my apartment and while waiting for the elevator,
    the lady security said to me '' This will be the last second day I'm gonna see you''

    I turned to her asked '' You leaving? "

    This is the beginning of  our 30 min long conversation. She told me about her ill fated life. I asked if she has any children cuz I wonder why she's still working at her age and why isn't anyone taking care of her. She shook her head... eyes welled up.. and told me she has five daughters. But none cares about her apart from her two youngest twins who are already 17 whom she gets to see once in a while. She says she tries her very best to explain to them the importance of education, hoping that they'll cherish their chance to have a better life than she has but they wouldn't listen. They wouldn't care about education. 
    This lady was born in a poor family, she started working at eight, and like every other girl, she sought for marrying into a better life at 18. Obviously, that didn't work out. instead, she was physically abused by her mother-in-law as well as her husband. Taking the kids into consideration, she could've bare to put them through a divorce. In a blink of a tearing eye, over thirty years have passed. Now, she's nearing sixty, divorced, with no money, no family to love her, parents dead many many years ago.....  

    I couldn't say much to make her feel better. I just wished I'm Henry from The Time Traveler's Wife and give her a lottery ticket and at least that will pull her out of her money problem. 
    Since I couldn't do that , I gave her my time to listen to her. Gave her a packet of my favorite tissue paper to wipe her tears. Gave her my number to call me when she feels lonely in future and at the end of it, I gave her a hug.

    My eyes were teary... so this night is meant for a night to weep after all. 
    It was simply for a different reason. 

    I took the elevator up to my flat. Saw a young boy, around 23 years old cleaning out the garbage. I wonder, if he's gonna do something about his life or is he gonna do the same thing he does everything evening twenty years from this very night. 

    At many times, I think that when we were still in school, the teachers, the parents, everyone else, they kept telling us to study, they kept forcing us to study and we used to think it was just for the results, or simply just to please our parents. These days, kids don't give a damn about pleasing their parents, they're not scared of their parents like how we were. Therefore, they don't care about studying. 
    What most of us didn't know that playing truant, not doing our homework, failing at tests, at exams, giving up school is gonna cost us our entire lives. We didn't know the seriousness of it till maybe when you're 50 and lonely, then, it's too late. Way too late.... so sad...

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  • LeonAng
    LeonAng
    posted on Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 11:59AM [Report]
    I read the novel too.. When you reach the end, you'll realise that the novel has a darker ending than the movie. Quite a few critical points left out by the movie as well. I guess the movie is more centered on making the audience feel good. =)
  • power2r2004
    power2r2004
    posted on Saturday, Sep 26, 2009 12:11PM [Report]
    I need to attend the HKCEE in 2010.I'm the dernier candidate so I really need to bear the BIG pressure.Fortunately,I care my study as well as I always remind me don't be lazy.
  • rottendoubt
     rottendoubt
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 2:08PM [Report]
    oh man ... i'm on the same path ... 50 and lonely!  =/
  • JasonChau
    JasonChau
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 12:47PM [Report]
    That's why I decided to work hard at school when I was young. Because I knew if I didn't, life would be even harder for me and my family in future.

    Talking of studies I went through the whole process of education...from primary to secondary to college then uni (I spent 4 years at uni). By the time I finished I had about 16 years of education behind me. This is surprising because when I was very young I was a very poor learner. I couldn't remember much. I changed school at least twice because of homework issues I had at the time at my first secondary school, where the teaching was poor and my teacher almost never gave out homework.

    During my second secondary (which was a private independent), when my classmates were messing around in class, teasing me and hanging out with girls and going to parties, I just decided to dig my heads into the books - because I knew it was the results that was to be my future - and being a fee paying school my family had a real vested interest in my future success. I remember when the time came for the exams, by the time we finished it all and we all got our results, the difference between me and them was so apparent. Whereas I got some of the highest and best marks in class (especially in English and Art - my fave subjects), my classmates - the ones who had been messing around - got really bad ones. I remember them going home with their families, their heads bowed down and feeling shameful and remorseful for their actions - because they couldn't look their parents in the eye and say to them they actually worked hard and made good use of their hard-earned money. I remember the look on their face was the most depressing and demoralising thing that happened in their life - because through messing around they had destroyed their parents trust and hope of a future in them. I could feel their pain and I felt so sorry for them, but I could do nothing, because at the time, they just didn't want to listen. And when people don't want to listen, you can't do anything except allow them to be....and allow them to learn from their own faults.

    For me now, of course I see the merits of the hard work I had put in then. I've been working for 10 years and now I have my own distribution and printing business and can now do whatever I want in life...including meeting girls and going to parties. You could say for me now, success has truly been bittersweet. :))
  • scottiehui
    Official artist Scottie Hui
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 11:28AM [Report]
    I wanna check out this film.  Sad about the lady tho.
  • freestylerchick
    freestylerchick
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 7:31AM [Report]
    it's sad when kids forget their parents like that...more than the money & the high grades they could give their parents, i think the most important things that should always be there are LOVE & CARE!!

    there's no other precious gift our parents can ever receive that seeing us leading a good life....& not forgetting where we came from...
  • andy_lau_spain
    andy_lau_spain
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 3:27AM [Report]
    they're gonna do a tv series abt Time traveller's wife =)
    and abt the rest...well, sometimes not even studying can help u...
  • Flagday
    Flagday
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 3:12AM [Report]
    We make our choices and then are doomed to live with the bad ones.  Even good choices sometimes go sour.  But one thing that can never be taken away from any of us is a good education.  It does not always result in a lifetime of happiness or wealth but it is something so many of us have placed before us.  Whether we choose to partake is as you said just something a kid does not appreciate.  Having a good family is not a choice but the luck of the draw.
  • shancai1978
    shancai1978
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 2:08AM [Report]
    this is a good moive!
    i have watch it too!
    i like the story of the moive!
  • vivianwysiu
    vivianwysiu
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 1:58AM [Report]
    Rachel McAdams is gorgeous!
    So sad of that lady. I wish I can help her.
  • Etchy
     Etchy
    posted on Friday, Sep 25, 2009 1:34AM [Report]
    wow interesting encounter!  Its sad for sure too.

    I hope her employer has been doing MPF for her so she'll have some money for retirement.  That won't solve the problem of her daughters, but at least it would help her life more comfortably.

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