ZHONG GUO REN

First day of work. I wanted to wake up early, but ended up getting up at noon.

As I was heading out to work, I saw that I got all these mailings in my mailbox — two Ivy CDs I got cheap from Amazon Marketplace and Greencine also sent me 3 new DVDs.

Had dinner with my faux-Australian co-worker Mike at the Asian food court in Allston tonight. The Bulgogi Bibimbap

was tasty. Their language may sound harsh, but their food is damn tasty.

Started watching So Close after I got home, one of the DVDs I got in the mail. It’s supposed to be pretty good, but I just can’t concentrate: Shu Qi and Zhou Wei, two of the leads in the movie, spoke Mandarin, which makes sense because they’re from Taiwan and Mainland China. Karen Mok, on the other hand, is from Hong Kong, so she spoke Cantonese. If I watch the movie in Cantonese, then I get the horrible Cantonese dubbing when Shu Qi speaks; if I go for Mandarin, then it’s the other way round. I really don’t want to watch it in English, either. Maybe French?

p.s. If my last few postings were an indication of any sort of trend, it looks like I’ll be posting photos of beautiful Asian dark-haired women everytime I write here. Not that doing so is a necessarily bad thing…