I will watercolor this tomorrow because I refuse to work. I just had another shitty encounter with my manager today that I couldn’t help telling her off.

I no longer care because I’m dialing back soon anyway. If I bag that consultancy job, I will go on leave without pay for a month, just to prove a point to my manager and our APAC head that what they’re doing to me is already taking a toll on me mentally and physically. I can also tell them that I may or may not come back after the hiatus. Of course there is always the danger that they will call my bluff so I need to get more clients quickly within that one-month break if that happens.

But right now I am sticking to the timetable I initially set. I just need to have less engagement with my manager.

I finally finished Oppenheimer during my round-trip on Cathay Pacific. The thing with Chris Nolan is that he makes really long movies. I had to cut my movie viewing in half because that freaking movie is 3 hours long!

For two-thirds of the movie, I have been trying to figure out what’s going on. Only in the last 1/3 of the movie did I understand what this was all about: Oppenheimer is the American Prometheus and he has to suffer the consequences of stealing fire to give to the world.

There were many scenes in the movie that could have been cut out to make a more compact movie.

However, the last scene was so poignant that I could forgive Nolan for this long-winded movie.

“Now I become death, destroyer of worlds,” Oppenheimer said.

Now, watch Grave of the Fireflies after Oppenheimer and let’s see if you won’t become an emotional wreck after this.