Tonight, after dinner, I stayed over at my brother's to watch the movie House of the Flying Daggers. This movie is very much like the Crouching Tiger one. The girl is of course very pretty. One thing though, the Chinese do not seem very good at doing sex scenes. It involved a lot of tumbling around and nothing more. Not to say that more is good but seriously, they were tumbling around until the very end of the scene. Over and over and over. Okay, to be fair, there was a scene in Crouching Tiger that was good. Enough said.

My point is that people in the past have lived lives more dangerous than ours in many ways. They fight and get killed for love and honour. These days, we get killed for crossing the road without looking both ways. How sad is that. Modern society really is hopeless and lack the flair of times past. Of this, I am convinced.

Their idea of courtship involved riding across meadows, chasing each other. Ours involve going for dinner...and a movie. What has modern society done! It killed romance. That's what it did.