A Sad Ending

I slept "early" today. In the morning, I made myself breakfast by cooking the 1 pack of Buldak ramen I had stowed away along with 2 sunny-side-up eggs. Or, at least they were supposed to be if I didn't break the yolk. But I still ate my breakfast and suddenly came up with the idea to just eat hakaw and congee later in the evening as a "mood booster" thing. Since I was gone for the past 2 days again, I had a lot of catching up to do and a lot of tickets to handle. Thankfully, it wasn't much and I was able to catch up fairly quickly in terms of things. I just had work and work in the morning to deal with, same around noontime.

My day was mostly boring just being by myself, and it felt lonely. But it's okay, I still trudged on because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have lunch per se. My mood became lighter in the afternoon and I was able to finish up my tasks for the day. I had an early out from work and prepared to go outside. And I eventually timed out and headed to BGC.

I didn't have anything planned aside from watching How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) because I saw a friend watch it and they posted it on their Instagram. I wanted to see if it was good so I quickly got there and thankfully found a free seat for the time slot I wanted, and it didn't have any free seats for the time slot later in the evening. I was pretty lucky in finding a seat, but I had problems paying with both of my cards and the popcorn didn't have any available flavors (but I still got a bucket of it). There was a row of girls that sat to the left of me and the seat to my right was unoccupied for most of the movie, despite it being a paid Director's Club seat.

The film started and it was really good. I don't want to comment much about the story for fear of spoiling it, but it just moved me. I remembered my grandmother through the film and how we used to take care of her. I could hear the girl next to me start crying and, eventually, I was having tears. By the end of the movie, something was revealed that just made me cry outright. I was crying and I was honestly shocked that I was. Movies are my favorite thing to watch and, while I've seen a lot of them, very few have made me cry. Past Lives (2023) made me so sad, but it never made me cry this much. I guess I cried a lot because I miss my grandmother and I had some regrets about her dying 2 years ago. I was just a crying mess at the end and I instantly thought of inviting my sister to watch this with me next time.

I was crying really bad but eventually, I calmed down. I had to walk a bit to get to Uptown BGC and visited the same Tim Ho Wan restaurant I did before for some hakaw and congee. I also got Hong Kong noodle soup as another side. I just browsed Reddit and invited my sister while eating, but my situation didn't feel that lonely after watching the film. After eating, I was supposed to visit Starbucks on 32nd Street to grab a coffee and hang out with the laptop, but I decided against it since the weather looked bad. I just went home.

When I got home, I just played Overwatch for a few rounds, got POTG twice, and ended on a POTG win that proved to be a good match. I ended the day there and today was unique in that I cried a lot, but I wasn't sad at all. I wonder how my sister will react to this when she watches it with me on Sunday.