Long Time No See

Hello everyone! Haven't said anything here in a while, so just coming up to say hi.

It'll be a lonely weekend for me this week - Shit's going to be out with Paul, Ass with Ty, Xun with his friend and Calcal's in Thailand, E and Nat are still away, and everyone else is busy or occupied in some other way, so I suppose I will be spending some quality time with my bed (apart from my family obviously).

But thankfully I'll be quite entertained during the week. Will be watching Kungfu Panda (FINALLY) with darling Beatrice!! I couldn't bear to subject poor Calcal to such (imaginably) unspeakable torture the last time, so we watched The Incredible Hulk instead, which turned out to be not bad. Liv Tyler is HOT!! She's not skinny at all, but she's so pretty, it makes me feel so happy.

Speaking of non-skinny beautiful actresses, I think Anne Hathaway's also becoming increasingly gorgeous. Since her time as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries 7-8 years back, she's transformed into this versatile actress that can carry those beautiful coats and dresses so well (and be of human proportions at the same time). Anne Hathaway was also surprisingly awesome in Get Smart as Agent 99, her wardrobe is simply amazing, but that is not the only reason why she really stands out here. I think she's not only the pretty face this time, as most female counterparts in spy movies tend to be, but an actual partner, someone who adds quite a lot of value to the show. But Get Smart is really funny, go watch it!! Disclaimer: I'm quite easily amused so don't blame me if you don't find it funny.

But in terms of hotness I think no one can beat ANGELINA JOLIE PLEASE she is a GODDESS and I CANNOT WAIT to watch Wanted but I should shut up about this before everyone slaps me for being TOO repetitive and over-excited. ISN'T SHE JUST AWESOME!?

Okay I should stop talking about movies, though I've really watched so many of them in the past month. In addition to these I've also watched Indiana Jones and Made of Honor which are really not bad at all, rather entertaining.

So essentially yes, I've traveled more than 30 hours to come home and I've been submerging myself in American popular culture again. Awesome.

Some Random Things

It’s difficult to get used to Windows all over again after being addicted to my beautiful white Macbook Xiaobai (who’s not so white anymore) for a year, but I think I’m more or less back on track after 2 weeks, even though I’m still doing some shortcuts that don’t exist on this computer. I wonder who would ever switch back to Windows if they had a choice actually, or maybe I am just biased.

SACO outing last night was pretty awesome, I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in a long time (other than the last time I had dinner with Bea Ass and Teacher Chen). It was just nice to see everyone especially people like Jiadi and MRR and Quarter because I haven’t seen them in ages! And Auntie dazzled (some prefer to say shocked the hell out of) all of us when she arrived unfashionably late but fashionably dressed!! Her new curled hair just looked marvelous on her and you know I never praise people other than Shit, Sammi and of course myself. And she wore EYELINER and LIP GLOSS!!!!

And of course we had full attendance other than the Peking Duck who’s still stuck in a you-know-where. Before commencing our dinner we had a moment’s silence for her because she’s still having exams HAHA the poor kid. After dinner we went to Swensen’s for our favorite Earthquake Ice-cream and Quarter ate some more ice cream when we moved to MacDonald’s after. And of course there was a gift-exchange session when Shit gave us sweets for herself (she made us accept them and un-wrap them for her to eat) and MRR gave us the Fuwa dolls from China and Auntie gave us tissue paper.

And we were talking a lot about random things until it was time to go home. But at least it will be SACO Kbox Stayover soon!! I really love these guys I think they are absolutely irreplaceable and the most obliging people I have ever met!! Wonder what life would be like without SACO, I really can’t imagine.

On a completely random note, I spent a little of yesterday and today translating all of Sammi’s 3-page article on her experience in Sichuan for fans who don’t read Chinese. I think even though she’s a little odd and rough around the edges at times she’s really pretty good at expressing what I’ve always wanted to but never been able to, like her ideas about humanity and charity. She mentioned how most of us are charitable, but how many of us would be willing to go all out of our way and out of our comfort zone to help others? (I can think only of Mindy who does) Maybe most of us just donate a little money and are contented with what we have done for the next few months. The best thing is she doesn’t say all this to criticize or judge others, but merely as if she is just contemplating human nature. I think it’s because she reads a lot and she is, basically a very intelligent woman. Like AH said, “she understands, she understands better than all of us”. Which goes to show that one’s level of education may not prove anything at all considering as it is I’m already a lot more qualified than she is.

SACO Outing

SACO outing later today - I'm so excited!!!! Haven't seen some of these guys in more than 4 months!!

Promise

There was a 7 hour long charity show today organized by the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild (amongst others) for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. About 500 artistes from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong participated in the event and I think they managed to raise quite a sum. The song the artistes are singing above is "Promise", a song written by Andy Lau. If I'm not wrong it's an old song of Beyond's.

Even though parts of the show were rather disorganized (understandable for such a long show involving so many people) and some singers really cannot sing, I thought it was truly touching that so many artistes flew in specially to contribute in some way or another. I bet it was hot, sweaty and disgusting and they are not paid at all but 500 actually turned up. Five hundred!!!!!! And people like ASOS flew all the way in just to say a few words of encouragement and Zhang Xiaoyan who hasn't appeared in ages also flew in to host parts of the show, amongst many many other Taiwanese and Chinese artistes.

Of course the artistes in Hong Kong have also been extremely involved in charity work. Andy Lau is especially respectable, he really has been leading all the charity work done for Sichuan since the very beginning. Andy Lau, Sammi and Joey Yung also visited Sichuan over the past couple of days to motivate the rescue workers and to see for themselves the magnitude of what has happened. I think they've just arrived back in Hong Kong today and instead of taking a break they've embarked on this 7-hour marathon of a concert again. I'm not sure if I can do so myself honestly.

The Hong Kong showbiz has always been associated with vanity, bad press and scandal but really this event has really shown everyone how much they are able to help people if they work together and direct their power to the correct purposes.

I think that's what's precious about human nature. Despite all that is negative, despite what happens, we always find strength to pick ourselves up. Even when we are discouraged by how nature rampages parts of this world mercilessly again and again, or when we forget momentarily to care about other people in the midst of our so-called suffering, there will be people who are compassionate enough to spend some time to remind us to help, or at least remember, those who are really much less fortunate than we can even imagine.

It doesn't really matter how much you contribute, but do try to help the people of Sichuan rebuild their lives.

You can do so at the following websites:
www.worldvision.org
http://www.artistes512.com (This is the official website for the aforementioned event, click on "pay online".)