This is happening with sickening frequency
27/01/2004
Down with a flu again
And getting progressively worse as the day wears on. I thought if I stayed at home yesterday I’d nip it in the bud. Evidently I was mistaken. So now I’m grumpy, pissed off, and generally tired of every damn thing. I’m not the only one who’s sick, but it doesn’t make me feel any better.
The unfortunate part about being sick is that nothing tastes like it should and I don’t even feel like eating. All those pineapple tarts and loveletters are staring at me with a pathetic eat-me look and I can’t bring myself to take a bite.
So the day flu by
Here I am, sitting in the office, wishing I was somewhere else instead. Spent the day reading blogs and miscellaneous Tony Leung trivia. What would cyberspace be like without blogs? But enough about me.
Me, My Yahoo! and I
This is pretty neat: an RSS module for My Yahoo! It’s lovely. I added Neil Gaiman’s journal feed into it. Works like a charm.
The End of the Affair
27/01/2004
Period Dramas
Ok. I finally finished the Condor Heroes VCDs. The HKTVB versions (in Cantonese, no less, so I think I missed out a good half of it) starting with Legend of the Condor Heroes starring the late Barbara Yung and Felix Wong, then Return of the Condor Heroes which starred a really young Andy Lau and Idy Chan, and just today the final instalment The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre with Tony Leung and a bunch of other miscellaneous chicks.
I can’t really tell which is my favourite, but the one I enjoyed the most was the one with Tony Leung, and we all know the plot had little to do with it.
But the major takeaway is this: Tony Leung is a far better actor than Andy Lau.
About the actor
So what is it about Tony Leung that’s just so magnetic?
I won’t attempt to speak for the rest of womankind, so if I say “we” or “you”, I really mean “me” and “I”.
Deep and dark
He carries this look of a man with emotional baggage, I guess. It makes you really empathise with him, and when he says (on TV of course) that he feels this way and that about you, geez, I believe him. I’ve seen him mostly in movies, and my favourite ones are the Wong Kar Wai ones, which he really takes and turns into pure magnetism on screen. He’s always the dude who gets jilted (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love).
Yet, you know he has a dark side, and he probably needs his space, and he thinks about stuff you would sweep aside. He is so intense, he doesn’t have to try, and that’s part of the charm.
No insecurities
It also helps that he looks confident even when he isn’t dressed up. There’s nothing like a man who isn’t insecure about the way he looks.
The way he sounds
He sounds deliberate and pleasant, not too cutesy like Andy Lau sometimes can be. He makes the scripts sound so sexy.
Strange sightings
So this is the bit I don’t get: how he and Maggie Cheung get paired up and look ok together. He looks a tad short for her, but yet it always turns out right on screen. It seems that they should carry on offscreen, but it hasn’t happened. Not that I’m complaining, of course.
Two Tigers
So Tony Leung is the same age as Tom Cruise (42 this year), although Tony is slightly older (27 June vs 3 July). And before you think I’m totally berserk, I’ll stop at this.
