I could’ve sworn I had an eventful month. In retrospect it wasn’t all.  I was just glad I caught two films I’ve been meaning to watch since last year; Sarah’s Key with Kristin Scott Thomas and Never Let Me Go with Carey Mulligan. Both films falls under my “gripping,vulnerable and raw” category. The reason I love films like these are because of the subdued highlight on commercial appeal but rather dwells on the simplicity of story telling. Of course on occasion I do appreciate star-studded films that involves connecting stories (ie: Valentines Day).
I expected a bitter end for Sarah in Sarah’s Key [ Sarah’s Key follows an American journalist’s present-day investigation into the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (where French police in German-occupied Paris on 16 and 17 July 1942 rounded up 13,152 predominantly non-French Jewish emigres and refugees and their French-born children and grandchildren, who were then shipped by rail to Auschwitz where they were murdered). It tells the story of a young girl’s experiences during these events, vividly illustrating the willing, and even enthusiastic, participation of the French bureaucracy, including the Paris police and French army in aiding and abetting this Nazi persecution and the plundering by the Germans and French of the victims’ property.[3] It is also a story of how a farmer and his wife, and by extension a number of French country people, hid and protected Jews from Vichy France authorities, the Germans, and French collaborators, at great risk to their own lives.]source: Wikipedia.
It turned out in my opinion that she before she was completely corrupted by her childhood and loss that she achieved a bit of happiness and peace before her death. The retelling of the story tells us that even though a person is capable of great evil he could also be capable of greater good. A very rare commodity, yes?
Anyhow in between catching these films I made myself a bowl of chicken and malunggay soup.
 

Ingredients:
1 minced onion, a clove of minced garlic, 1 thumb ginger sliced, 1 chicken breast cut into bite size pieces, 1 cup malunggay leaves
Procedure:
In a small casserole heat oil then saute garlic,onion and ginger until aromatic. Add chicken and cook through. Add water and boil until tender. Season with salt and pepper. Add malunggay leaves,cover then turn off heat.Serve immediately with rice or as is.
Going back to my story, I just recalled that I also received a good news from my endocrinologist, I was told I no longer need to go through a thyroid surgery procedure. Eventful enough,isn’t it?