SERENDIPITY

"Serendipity"

"When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When that destiny has a sense of humour, you call it serendipity."

So when I watched this movie, the question that came to mind was: "Do you believe in fate and destiny?"

Personally, I believe in fate a lot but I'm also not the kind of person who will just leave everything to fate.

Kate Beckinsale puts it very nicely in the movie:

"Fate are signs…we have to read the signs, which will determine what happen."

I always believe that things happen when you least expect it. Sometimes I keep wishing for something to happen, and when I just let go, it happens. I guess when people are meant to be together, be it in relationship or just friendship, sometimes you really have to leave it to fate. 

Like me and my friend Huey Ning. She’s this really pretty chick I met at my National Service camp, whom I was intimidated to talk to. And little that I know, she would become one of my closest buddy in camp, and till today, we are still in touch. It was music that connected the both of us.

Yuin Yue, my closest buddy in college also came to be my friend because of fate. I have always felt that we have a lot in common the first time I saw her in class. Well for one thing, we ahem, we are both short and rocked a similar hairstyle. From far, we kind of look like twins. But we only talked and got close one or two years later and now we’re really close friends.

So I really believe is that if things are meant to be, it’ll be in place sooner or later. Even though we could have tried to make it happen, if it is not the right time, it won't. That said, that doesn't mean that we don’t have to work for it. We might just need to figure out when the right time is.

“Serendipity” is a movie in which Sara (Kate Beckinsale) leaves her love to fate. She doesn’t give Jonathan (John Cusack) her number after their first encounter (in which they had a great time together) because she thinks that if they are destined together, they will meet again one day. She asked Jonathan to write his number on a one dollar note and she then used the note. She told him that if that bill returns back to her hand again, she’ll call him. She also wrote her number on an old book, in which she would sell to a bookstore the next day and if the book lands in the hands of Jonathan, then he could contact her. 

Years past and both of them were supposed to marry someone else but suddenly they thought of one another and plan to search for each other again. Of course the girl would have to search for the note and the guy for the book. In the end, after some ups and downs finally they found each other.

So, I guess fate brought them together? But they still have to work for it. She has to travel from England to New York in search for Jonathan while Jonathan has to find that book, in whichever bookstore in New York. Being half a realist, I do admit all these seems like a pile of bull because in real life, after an amazing first date, you won't play games like these just to be funny.

My favourite character though is Jonathan’s best friend a.k.a sidekick in the movie – Dean. He’s freaking hilarious. Some of his lines were the best! 

Many people on Facebook picked this movie as one of their favourites. I guess if you are one of those who are really into a mushy love story, this one is really not bad. Not as good as my favourite "Music and Lyrics", but it is really worth a watch.