Emotionally Challenged

Just finished watching 神雕侠侣 The Return of the Condor Heroes 2006. Have watched many versions before but the story never failed to touch me deeply.

The Broken Heart Cliff

After they returned to the Passionless Valley to obtain the antidote for Yang Guo's poison, Yang Guo threw the antidote that Xiaolongnü had fought to retrieve down the Broken Heart Cliff. Since Xiaolongnü's wound was incurable, Yang Guo did not want to live without her. However, Xiaolongnü did not want Yang Guo to die. She jumped off the Broken Heart Cliff, leaving a message for Yang Guo that said they would meet again in 16 years. Realising that Yang Guo did not see through Xiaolongnü's message, Huang Rong tricked him into believing that there is a "Divine Nun of the South Sea" who comes around every 16 years and has the ability to heal Xiaolongnü. Heart-broken, Yang Guo believed her and returned to the Condor who he had befriended earlier and continued his martial arts training, and developed a new palm technique called Melancholic Palms, which responses to his disability and emotions. Yang Guo waited for sixteen years. He spent his time developing his martial arts with that divine bird and then wandering the land, becoming a well known hero. On the day he was supposed to meet Xiao Long Nu, Yang Guo found out that Nanhai Nun did not exist and that she actually jumped off the cliff, so he jumped off the cliff to join her in death.

问世间情为何物，直教人生死相许

We don't see this in reality at all. In contrast, the kind of complicated relationships people get into these days is depressing to me. I remember there was a scene when Yang Guo said that some people are able to shift their affections around different people easily, but some people would only love once in their entire life.

As for myself, I will wait for a true love. Or probably just waiting for an impossible.

The Beaufort Hotel at Sentosa is a nice getaway from city life. But it’s quite expensive, which probably explains the exclusive peacefulness we get to enjoy. No noisy MRT sounds. No human traffic jam. No work stress and complicated issues. No noise pollution. No need to see the people I don’t like. Comfortable and relaxed. Though it’s just for a short while, it has no doubt lifted my spirits.

So, thank you for the Chanel compact. And thanks for having me there. I appreciate it.