Take Me Out
29/05/2006
I had a movie weekend
savouring the movies we bought while on vacation. My favourite of the lot (for now) has got to be Howl’s Moving Castle. It’s a typical Studio Ghibli film – more along the lines of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke than My Neighbour Totoro. But it’s all good.
Cos how often do you get a movie set in the Europe of The Sound of Music, but have characters hotter than Orlando Bloom’s Legolas? I mean, if an Asian-eyed blonde dude defends me from a bunch of sloshy oil men and then sweeps me off my feet literally while being all perfect and pretty and polite, damn, who isn’t going to fall for that?
And so it’s right there. This is why the ABC is always going to be that much more attractive than my local brothers. They’re the Asian-eyed boys complete with the manners of a Western culture. It’s the two-in-one deal, what Asian girl doesn’t dig it?
They walk different, talk different, laugh different, smell different, look different, think different. They’re not too shocking that you can’t bring home to mom and dad, but they’re that much different than my local brothers.
Yeah, on the inside, they’re just as flawed as any other average joe. But hey, average joe didn’t learn to flash his toothy grin when he’s getting cornered. Of course, there’s also the “dude” factor – when all else fails, they say dude and it’s funny again.
Anyway. Howl’s Moving Castle is a good movie. And in the English version, Christian Bale voices Howl (or How-ru, in Japanese). Now how cool is that?
Next on my Studio Ghibli list – My Neighbours, the Yamadas. Let me know when you see that in the stores.
Juicy
27/05/2006
It’s been a long two weeks
We hit the ground running – and haven’t had a chance to stop since we got back from vacation.
Some days it feels terrible, and I run over to the engineers and try to hide. Some days I don’t want to get to work.
This week was mostly show and tell week for me, while juggling a close-to-fruition project. That’s always tough, spending time working on data and slides and not on production. Of course, some people are better at that than others, which leads me to feel more despondant, almost as if the era of the individual achiever is over, and all we should be doing, is pushing buttons.
I’m tired just thinking about it.
This weekend I’m going to spend some time just being good to myself. I’m going to sleep in late, have ice cream, prepare a masque, maybe give myself a pedicure, and condition my hair. And dream about that S3 IS I really want, and will get later this year. Hee.
I’m back, and tired
16/05/2006
It was a looooong flight. And pretty full too.
And I was completely off about the prices of stuff at Narita Airport. Like one zero off. So everything was ten times more expensive than I imagined it to be, and I had to politely decline buying two pairs of earrings I’d already picked out to these Japanese girls who first didn’t know what I wanted, and then were going to wrap my stuff up when I told them I changed my mind. Hahahhaha.
Hope I wake up in time for work later.
goodbye, seventh uncle
13/05/2006
brother of my mother. am sorry I wasn’t there.
Juicy!
07/05/2006
I belong to the PAP held ward of Ang Mo Kio
What about you?
The weather here has been alternating between drabby and gray and clear and blue. We managed to get to the Japanese Tea Garden the other day when it was lovely. Skies were blue, weather was balmy and daylight lasted forever.
Last night I attended an event with KF’s cousins called Food For Thought, where companies and people pay to attend like a food fair by restaurants of San Francsico. I watched them serve tea at the tea booth, how cool was that, and then I went around to pick at stuff to eat. Filet mignon, eggplant, kobe beef, grilled ahi tuna in a taco, crabcakes, it was too good.
What I feel like right now, though, is a nice bowl of bak chor mee.
watch out for the traffic!
05/05/2006
The thing I like about San Francisco
is how you can take photos of stuff and it always looks better than pictures of home. I can’t explain it.
We spent the first couple of days here really just vacationing. We went to the zoo, went shopping, went visiting, had pho, had more pho, ate a lot, and took a whole load of pictures.
I had fun at Macy’s yesterday – had the nicest comestic counter lady do the most fascinating things with the least number of brush strokes! Anyway, a tinted moisturiser, eyeliner and a brush later, I walk away from the Laura Mercier counter feeling like a million bucks, and grinning like an idiot. We then went to Old Navy, where a store employee stops to chat with us and we find out that he went to Singapore last August and found himself a wife.
It was the weirdest thing.
Next on our to-do list: I’ve a kids’ birthday photography gig on Friday morning, an Asian Food fare to attend the same evening, San Diego and Legoland next week, a few dinner appointments with friends, and a couple of trips (more) to Fry’s, Walgreens and maybe Gilroy.
Stay tuned.
OOO, OOTC!
01/05/2006
Meant to put this up before I left, but here I am, at the destination telling you I’m going on vacation.
Be back in two weeks, when I’ve had enough of the really sunny yet un-humid weather, the blue skies and crisp air.
