quotes from the film:

Kathleen Kelly: [writing to "NY152"] Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void.

Kathleen Kelly: [in an email to Joe Fox] The odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.

this morning as we sat in the living room in our pajamas surrounded by the morning papers, cornflakes and milk, cable tv started showing the film 'she's got mail.
i watched it before, a long time ago but not with mingyao, and i had forgotten most of it. there's something so poignant about the simple straightfoward lines and the meg ryan and tom hank's expressions. maybe what was made it extra special was that experience of getting to know somebody through the internet and falling in like, or maybe love, simply through the medium of words - that is such a powerful thing. and the point where meg ryan's character meets tom hank's character at the end of the show and uttered the words 'I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly', i was already crying like for the third time. made me think of, band room, orange ripcurl bag, irc.