Memoirs

Just to add what Rayloc missed. Again, a disclaimer, the dialogue may or may not happened. I was suffering from severe mental lapses as my dried out veins were crying for a Coke shot...

I remember hearing about Jane getting to see Madeleine's new baby during the weekend.

"Was he cute?" Michelle asked.

(I caught myself before I laughed. It's one of those questions where there's only one appropriate answer… e.g. "do these jeans make me look fat?")

"Yes he was" Jane said without missing a beat.

"Was he huge?" Rayana mentions "The baby was a couple of weeks overdue, so he must have been big right?"

"Just the the right size." Jane says "Not too big, not too small, but juuuust right."

(Which coincidentally what Papa bear and Momma bear said when they saw Baby Bear.)

"And he's got such long fingers." she added.

"Oh he's going to be a pianist!" Rayana/Michelle exclaims.

(either that or a pickpocket, I imagine. j/k)

Which led us to the topic where Rayana says that he can't imagine Jared pushing a pram. Which further compounded our supposition as Jared started doing his austrian-german-governator impression. "Look at mine Ammms!" as he imaginatively pumps the pram up and down. Yep, do us a favour and don't have kids Jared. Hee hee.

"I mean it's so hard to imagine anybody having kids. Look at Madeleine for instance." Rayana says.

(Michelle and I gave each other a look and directed our eyeballs to the pot that was calling the kettle black.)

Which unfortunately she saw, as she flicks me on the forehead which made me stop my eye rolling for a bit.

Then it was books, particularly Memoirs of a Geisha, and its movie counterpart. Rayloc earlier mentioned that it's sometimes hard for books to capture powerful moments that only the big screen can. Like how the movie was able to portray a man falling off a bike after the geisha giving him a quick glance. Now, I haven't read the book yet so I have no idea how she did it, but I must say that's some pretty powerful stuff. Telekinesis? Or a sharp stick? I can only surmise.

Or how the film was able to capture how a geisha walks - real small steps, quick and butterfly like. Although I agree, I think it all depends on how the author writes it, my imagination usually works out for me if I get some hints from the author - as I do visualize well. If the author says, "The geisha quickly walked like a drunken sailor with a near bursting bladder." then I'd imagine small quick steps and butterfly like… although compounded with a strut and perspiration as he looks for the nearest latrine.

Now it was in the middle of this heated conversation that I get the chance to see Rayana's bubbly nature… literally. She thought it was an excited moth she was brushing off but it was more of her exuberance trying to escape and float away.

Anyway, the conversations jumped from one topic to another (read Rayloc's posting for more details) which finally ended up on how it was difficult to find a good agency for recrtuitment lately.