*apologies*
cheers to koryl, ann, nic & bonnie... will be back soon! 2 weeks...
i know i've been unforgivably slack at updating lately and i'm so so sorry! it makes it doubly hard because i can't even view my own page... blogs (but not xangas) appear to be censored in china... but know that the lack of updates is not due to lack of noteworthy happenings in shanghai. this is a great city (well, it's not like hong kong...) and i'm having loads of fun most of the time. it's been 3 weeks here and i wouldn't know where to begin if i were to tell you everything that's been going on... from milla's sob stories to crew gossip to peculiar cultural quirks to illegal activity to my many new insights and enlightenments....
the highlight of last week, of course, was d's visit. we had a whirlwind tour of all the must-do's: dinner at xintiandi, shopping at the xiangyang market, people 7 (heh, derek can tell you about the bathrooms..), art museum, the bund, and the obligatory hang out with my colleagues at park 97... but now he's gone, and i'm all alone again... :( i'm glad we've had lots of practice at the distance thing :)
i went to see cold mountain last night, and it blew me away. a beautiful film. i love surprises like this. i know i'm a little behind on these things, but i hadn't heard much about the movie, and just thought i'd give it a shot. was i surprised. the characters and story wove together so beautifully - it was a perfect blend of romance, action, conflict, mysticism, and feminist ideology... heh. and now jude law has a new fan.... ;) i was so shaken up by it, i needed the 20 minutes walk home at midnight to process it.
today was sunday, but it felt like a tuesday, because thursdays are fridays for me and fridays are like sundays... you follow? anyway, i had to remind myself that it was indeed the Lord's day, and i actually had the time to go to church! i will refrain from saying too much, lest the central government tracks my words and come busting down my door... it was an experience. tomorrow, i'm obliged to go to the zoo with cameron and his mom, and another crew member's wife and kids. we are going to call this a "fieldtrip" in order to bulk up his school hours, of which he is way behind. we had monkeys on set last week, which were apparently taken from the zoo. i wonder if we'll run into them tomorrow...
oh by they way, sorry if my layout is doing any serious damage to anyone's eyes. i can't see it here, and i can't be bothered to find a new skin at the moment so, in short... too bad. :P it's time for me to go to bed now.
cheers to koryl, ann, nic & bonnie... will be back soon! 2 weeks...
i know i've been unforgivably slack at updating lately and i'm so so sorry! it makes it doubly hard because i can't even view my own page... blogs (but not xangas) appear to be censored in china... but know that the lack of updates is not due to lack of noteworthy happenings in shanghai. this is a great city (well, it's not like hong kong...) and i'm having loads of fun most of the time. it's been 3 weeks here and i wouldn't know where to begin if i were to tell you everything that's been going on... from milla's sob stories to crew gossip to peculiar cultural quirks to illegal activity to my many new insights and enlightenments....
the highlight of last week, of course, was d's visit. we had a whirlwind tour of all the must-do's: dinner at xintiandi, shopping at the xiangyang market, people 7 (heh, derek can tell you about the bathrooms..), art museum, the bund, and the obligatory hang out with my colleagues at park 97... but now he's gone, and i'm all alone again... :( i'm glad we've had lots of practice at the distance thing :)
i went to see cold mountain last night, and it blew me away. a beautiful film. i love surprises like this. i know i'm a little behind on these things, but i hadn't heard much about the movie, and just thought i'd give it a shot. was i surprised. the characters and story wove together so beautifully - it was a perfect blend of romance, action, conflict, mysticism, and feminist ideology... heh. and now jude law has a new fan.... ;) i was so shaken up by it, i needed the 20 minutes walk home at midnight to process it.
today was sunday, but it felt like a tuesday, because thursdays are fridays for me and fridays are like sundays... you follow? anyway, i had to remind myself that it was indeed the Lord's day, and i actually had the time to go to church! i will refrain from saying too much, lest the central government tracks my words and come busting down my door... it was an experience. tomorrow, i'm obliged to go to the zoo with cameron and his mom, and another crew member's wife and kids. we are going to call this a "fieldtrip" in order to bulk up his school hours, of which he is way behind. we had monkeys on set last week, which were apparently taken from the zoo. i wonder if we'll run into them tomorrow...
oh by they way, sorry if my layout is doing any serious damage to anyone's eyes. i can't see it here, and i can't be bothered to find a new skin at the moment so, in short... too bad. :P it's time for me to go to bed now.
posted by jana* at 12:38 AM
