six impossible things before breakfast


today after church mingyao and i went to watch tim burton's alice in wonderland. throughout the show i was a little confused because events in the film did not seem to be in total coherence with the book. it was until the part before alice slayed the jabberwocky that i realised that tim burton wasn't making a film of alice in wonderland, the book per say, but an adaptation of alice going back to wonderland when she was older.

the phrase - Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast - as uttered by alice as a memory of what her father said to her before is actually said by the queen in the book, but i thought it was a beautiful inspiration in the film.

six impossible things before breakfast

at the end of the show i was trying hide the tears - which was quite funny since this wasn't a tragedy - brave people don't think about being brave. they just do what they have to do.

on another note i was reading 'the little price', and the first chapter has this story that i first heard about in the first year of architecture school when my tutor made us do an exercise of trying to think beyond the commonly perceived and i thought how beautiful that illustration was.



"I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:



The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

'the little prince' - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"