Archive for May, 2007
May 27 2007: Advanced Notice
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I’m going to Beijing at the end of the year from late November till early January. From there I’m moving onto Shanghai for a week (or two), then onto Hong Kong for Chinese New Year - and there I’ll be making sidetrips to Taiwan and Macau. I have about forty relatives in Hong Kong, all of whom are eligible to give me red pockets. Mmm, spending money.
The timetable isn’t set in stone yet (plane tickets have yet to be purchased, etc.), but it’s pretty certain that’s what I’m going to do. So just to recap - late November till mid-February I’m going to be fairly absent from the Internet scene. Like last year though, I’ll still be able to jump on once a week or so just to update everyone on what I’ve been doing, but otherwise, Jingwen may very well be dead during that time.
Just in case you wanted to know…and also, to see if anyone else will be in that area of the world during that time. Anyone want to meet up?
May 26 2007: The First Sign
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I’m currently sitting under the covers in his bed on my laptop, writing an essay. He’s sitting next to me on his laptop writing an essay. The television is on in front of us, with an Australian Rules football game playing.
What exactly does this symbolise?!
May 25 2007: Review: POTC: At World’s End
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It seems as though “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” was created with one simple purpose in mind: to put as much Jack Sparrow as possible in the movie. Considering the fact that Johnny Depp is very very easy on the eyes in what will in future clearly be seen as his career-defining role, the purpose itself isn’t at fault - rather, it’s the butchering of the plotline in order to fulfill this purpose that would confuse most audiences.
Stones that turn into crabs, crabs that turn into stones, a million different incarnations of Jack Sparrow (shirt on, shirt off, jacket on, jacket off, bandanna on, bandanna off…) manning the Black Pearl? It all adds up to one very strange dream-like sequence where the audience is left baffled and disoriented. The movie would have done well to find a less confusing way of depicting Jack’s flighty and fragile state of mind.