Movies with a wrong ending

Witness (Harrison Ford)

• One day of love can be enough for a lifetime.
• The presence of Mr. Hochleitner is superfluous.
• Some people might find it reasonable to accept the advances of a Mr. Hochleitner (a 'friend of the family') at last, however that idea seems strange to me.

Discovery of Lea Salonga

Yesterday I discovered Lea Salonga on YouTube.com
Lea Salonga is a Musical singer, currently singing on Broadway, New York.

Actually I had discovered her in 2001 but didn't pay attention at that time.

Another singer, Leah delos Santos, was having a rehearsal on a plaza in Berlin (Germany) in 2001 while I was having a walk and was passing by. The singing caught my attention and I took a break and became interested in the songs. I did some internet research later on and came across the name Lea Salonga, too (due to the similarity of names).

However, I did not know anything specific about Lea Salonga apart from some sound recordings that I found on that occasion and which did not please me too much at that time since the live experience of Leah delos Santos had impressed me more.

Now yesterday evening by chance I came across Lea Salonga again on YouTube. I had the chance to watch a video of her first major audition on the Phillipines in 1989 when she was 18:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xyePzdGA

It seemed to me that she just saw the song Sun and moon that evening for the first time at the grand piano with Claude-Michel Schönberg, the composer. The song belongs to the musical Miss Saigon which refers to the Vietnam war and came out in 1989, the year of the audition.

Actually I hadn't known that the guy at the grand piano was Claude-Michel Schönberg but guessed correctly that he was the composer which I found today when I checked it on wikipedia.de

What totally smashed me however was, how professional Lea Salonga behaved even though she was only 18. But I guess after being in business for about 10 years you learn that. (She started singing about 7 as she said in one of her interviews). I never could have done what she did when I was her age.

She was even so cool to ask Claude-Michel Schönberg for an autograph before she started singing. Of course, I guess she wanted to show that she knew his previous works and probably flatter him a bit, too, thereby making him be more patient in case of lapses.

But on the other hand she really showed how cool she was even just a few seconds before an all decesive audition. Maybe that impressed those guys there, too?

Meanwhile, Lea Salonga is married and has a baby daughter. She married in 2004 and got her baby daughter last year in May 2006. Currently in 2007 she is on Broadway again

My personal wishes for Lea Salongas future are that
* she keeps some of her natural determination
(that she showed in her first audition for Miss Saigon)
* she stays real,
* she stays cool,
* she does not get envious or jealous on other performers who are younger 'cause it would destroy the purity of her heart and make it opaque.

I think she overacted a bit in Inside the Academy (PDA Phillipine TV Academy soap?) where she kinda obviously seemed to play the role of a mother which she actually became in 2006.
I would say that people don't expect her to play the role of a mother - just being a mother would be sufficient from my point of view.

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Audition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0xyePzdGA
Inside Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-WRjv0VHc
Biography: http://www.filipinoweb.com/leasalonga.html
Biography: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758964/

End of discovery.

The lost letter in "Ubi Caritas"

Today I would like to tell a story to the dear reader of a programmatic song called "Ubi Caritas"
(Where there is charity).

Once upon a time something dramatic happened to this song: 'Cause after weeks of work on the lyrics, one night, the night before the writer of the lyrics wanted to carry the finished lyrics to the printing shop, he actually died.

Sadly, a wind blew through the open window that night, too, and the lyrics got blown to the slightly dirty floor.

Luckily enough, the writer had told his friend about the finished lyrics before and so the paper was found and finally published.

And you could say, in those days, it became kind of a hit.

However, because the original paper was blown to the dirty floor, a letter was covered by some dirt making it look as if the letter was being crossed out.

The letter that got "crossed out" was an "s" actually.

Because of this, the true meaning of the song got actually lost: The lyrics as they were published were:


"Ubi caritas et amor, ubi caritas, deus ibi est."
Thats Latin and it actually means:
"Where there is charity and love,
where there is charity, there is god."

Not bad but actually not as devine as the original meaning:

"Ubi caritas est amor, ubi caritas, deus ibi est."
The translation of this is:
"Where there is charity, there is love,
where there is charity, there is god."

And this means that...
where there is charity, there is god
and...
love is god (and god is love).

Do you realize the difference? Pretty powerful the difference, huh?

Well, normally fairy tales have a happy end. This one obviously doesn't. But I do hope that one day, the lost "s" is rediscovered.

But until that day, let's keep ourselves aware that
god is love because god shows charity.

Million Dollar Baby

The "Million Dollar Baby" depended her life on the cheers of the audience and thought that she was meant.
But she didnt know that the audience cheered another boxer the next evening and a year later nobody thought about her anymore.

Nobody loved her and she was loved by nobody. Somebody read her some literature. But he didnt teach her love cause he didnt know love himself.When she was laying down handicaped in her hospital bed she thought that she was dead. But in fact it was the only time when she had the chance to become alive. But she didnt know and nobody told her.

There she had the chance to forget about the physical and awake her mind. Instead she killed her body and thereby killed her mind, too.

She was full of self-pity and fear that people would forget about her. And she was right. 'Cause the qualities that she had gained in the gym were exchangable.

She never discovered the human inside herself. And her trainer neither. She never discovered the love inside herself. Neither did her trainer.

She never realized that there was a flower growing in the sun and never let her thoughts strive in the clouds of the Himalaya. She never saw a child dying in Africa and never smiled at the soul of her clients in the restaurant.She defined her happiness by the physical qualities that she had gained in the gym.

She never discovered the beauty within her physical body.

And never realized that some people smiled at her soul. Mother Theresa was in the restaurant more than once and she didn't realize.

The "Million Dollar Baby" had a dream to become someone famous and when she had almost succeeded she had an accident and had to realize that she could not HAVE her dream fullfilled anymore.

So she decided to die cause she couldn't HAVE anymore, she would just be able to BE.

But she wasn't satisfied with just BEING.

She didnt love herself enough for just BEING,
she thought that without HAVING, life was not worth living.

All you do

All you do is not too much,
because you need not do it.

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People often help out other people and...

* think they're doing a good deed.
* think the other one would need their help.

However... noone... not your brother, not your sister, not your father nor your mother is indispensable. Not your teacher, not your boss, not your wife... and especially you yourself are not indispensable.

People are stronger than you think they are...
and that includes you yourself.