Love ACTUALLY is all around

Every Christmas Hannah and I have this cheesy tradition - we watch the movie "Love Actually" starring Hugh Grant. We are not really a big fan of him, but that movie always stir up some emotions in us. It started years ago when I moved to NY alone. I caught this movie on the TV during 2004 Christmas. It was snowing outside, warm in the apartment. I miss my family. Years later, I shared the movie with Hannah, and now it somehow becomes our "tradition" to watch this movie every year.

"Love Actually" has one of the best opening monologues -

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspision love actually is all around."

And this morning in the newspaper, once again, we proved that love is actually all around. Scott Jones was comforting his girlfriend, Alexandra Thomas after she was injured when they were overrun by a phalanx of riot police during the ice hockey final riot in Vancouver. This image of the couple kissing quickly spread around the globe!

If you look for it, Love actually is all around. :)