The Lost Thing and Cicada by Shaun Tan

I was supposed to edit videos because I've found that routine increasingly bogs me down lower and lower. When I was in Melbourne, I went into a bookshop and saw The Red Tree by Shaun Tan. Even though it's been almost two years, I still think about it from time to time. Today was one of those days. The graphics in the books and the short captions that say the most had left an imprint on me. I suppose I regret a little bit not getting it that time, but at least I took a picture of the cover to remember it by. However, I have to admit, RM 50 for a picture book is pretty pricey for a student like me, but I wonder if I thought about it so much, does it mean I should really have it?

Anyways, I looked Shaun Tan up to see his other books. So far, I watched the trailer for Cicada and The Lost Thing.

Gosh, tell me you didn't like it!! cus u can't.

"No sick day. No mistake."
This quote hit too close to home...

If you looked at the comment section, most of the school kids are commenting that they were shown this video for school. It's just a really ironic picture to me because I was an adult, halfway across the world (ok maybe I exaggerate because Malaysia is close compared to Australia) looking for the video. And the video rang true, yet again, with the kids being shown the video without grasping the full knowledge of it because perhaps they were too young to understand it or because they haven't gone through that dreaded path in life when you have to decide to give up your childhood dreams. :(
The lost thing inside all of us.

Midnight Gospel Review After Two Episodes

It’s the “last” week of MCO right now. Monday, 5.24pm. I just finished my Texas chicken and the second episode of Midnight Gospel. I suppose, two things that weren’t really what I expected to be doing at this moment? This was the second time we sneaked Texas chicken into my body, and the third time for fried chicken this lockdown. It’s funny and sad I guess, because why should we be hiding ourselves? Anyways, I didn’t think I’d like Midnight Gospel from the first episode. As I said, they rambled on and on for a long time and perhaps my bar was raised because it was Pendleton Ward! But as I continued where I last watched, my guards were down, and my eyes were slightly distracted. The colourful cartoons didn’t seem to bother me so much anymore. I guess it’s kinda like watching Adventure Time for the first time? Their off key music was different and caught me off guard but after a while it sort of grew on me, because of how itself it was. Then I realised that was what Midnight Gospel was, too. It was like those commentary videos with a random gameplay on YouTube. Although the vision and the hearing was separated, it might be off at first, but then you sort of got used to it. It had music, a pattern, a story. It was good enough.