loud sound of restaurant bustle.  protag sits quietly at the restaurant.  camera only shows his back side.  drinks his coffee and flips open his phone. ding.  mms picture comes through.  photo shows up.  slow motion.  he drops the phone. it bounces around on the floor.  sound goes dead silent.  cue ballad. and then the flashback.

the two met at a party.  laughter.  giggles. point of view from the protagonist.  bouncing camera represents laughter.  she's the life of the party.  pounding shots.  making jokes.  beating all the boys at rock paper scissors.  then looks up.  throws the pound over his way.  it's love for him.  he just leaves her be and watches from afar.  party scene ends/ flash towards fun in the park/ fun at home/ fun on the run/ its a perfect match.  but then the scene shifts to the airport.  he leaves, she waves. 

flash to present.  she's gone.  and nowhere to be found.  this was the first time he's had contact with her in a 2 years.  he's moved on.  he's also found out that she's been married to this white guy that treats her unfairly.  she's not happy, she gets abused has no where else to turn.  he knows she's crying as her friends have told him so.  he knows he'd take her back.  she just has to ask.  he knows she would eventually come back.  he's been too good for her. 

the cover and back to the dvd.

 

so poignant.

then there's always jung yup

 

cue music

 

 

 

 

i'll have to write more later...

 

7:37 AM

"how's the gf" becomes "do you still have a gf?" becomes...."now that you don't have gf, what are you going to do with..." becomes..."who is she again?"...and then it's do U have a gf?  oh i don't know.  yes i have a gf.  she definitely doesn't have a bf...hahaha.

 

 

 

8:32 AM

who writes this stuff??

 

 

 

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6:16 AM

Fake food samples appear prevalently in the windows and display cases of food-serving establishments throughout Japan. They are usually made out of plastic. The plastic models are mostly handmade and carefully sculpted to look like the actual dishes. The models are custom-tailored to restaurants and even common items such as ramen will be modified to match each establishment's food. During the molding process, the fake ingredients are often chopped up and combined in a manner similar to actual cooking.

The craftsmanship has been raised to an art form and plastic food has been exhibited at places such as the Victoria and Albert Museum. Regular competitions are held in making fake food dishes out of plastic and other materials.

The plastic food manufacturers fiercely guard their trade secrets as business is lucrative; the plastic food industry in Japan, by conservative estimates, has revenues of billions of yen per year. A single restaurant may order a complete menu of plastic items costing over a million yen.

In recent years, Japanese plastic food manufacturers have been targeting markets overseas, such as China.

if only american food looked like their pictures....

3:09 PM

taiwan is like home for me.  i wasn't born there.  i didn't go back every summer growing up.  in fact, my only association to taiwan were the years i spent there in my mid twenties.  as easily as i reacclimated back to new york last year, to finally go back to taiwan this time,  i realized tw molded a lot of who i am today.  gave me balance behind american-americanism...and a global asiany perspective on life.  the idiosyncracies of my life have now been subtly meshed with 排骨飯，火鍋， not too sweet palate, 綜合爆米花， raw chili's, the love for sesame oil and some other stuff. after weeks of not sleeping, and a birthday on a plane.  i slept.  13 hours.  and then we had a talk.  home sweet home.

QUUBE on monday night.

3:07 PM

when the cleaning lady came...."GOOO AWWAAYYY>>>LLEAAVEE MEE ALLOOONE"

 

3:01 PM

there's pajun face...

and then there's bah-wee face.

bah-wee isn't used so common.  so here's the opposite of bah-wee as how i was taught.

3:00 PM

is it just me...or do i meet more and more women who can't cook.  this is not a sexist comment.  it's merely an observation.  as most male peers can at least cook simple things like rice/noodles/eggs etc...whereas its more and more obvious that women peers i meet can barely even cook instant noodles.  it seems i am obviously attracted to the culinary handicapped, even though i probably need the caring-type due to this lifestyle i choose to lead.

and then is it just me or that i meet more and more people that don't want kids.  i've heard the argument that having kids is a selfish ideal of procreation.  however much the argument makes sense, it just doesn't hold that tangible sense of rationale.  odd.  5 years ago, to hear a woman say i dont want kids, didn't worry me too much as i figured hormones and natural womanly maternal instincts would take charge.  but at 30, to hear those comments to hold more weight...is definitely something to think about.

2:56 PM

i'm still playing fantasy football.  i'm still reading espn.  but it's well documented throughout the past 5 years that my interest in american sports has declined, waxing and waning even during the height of playoff madness.  and its even more noted that i just heard espn talk about michael vick as the ultimate redemption story...and i just thought...."americans...all this money and all this time to spend on leisure.  quite a luxury to talk about vick as the ultimate redemption feel good story when ppl around the world are starving"...there should be a relative salary to lifestyle ratio....where anyone over their own set amt should do more either spending more time or donating more money towards the greater good.

2:48 PM

how did i manage the whole trip to go out at night then have meetings during the day?  when i left spore.  it took me an hour to pack and head to the airport and not look back.  a bit of a bad taste.  as i said to fabian "he taught me everything i know.  i have nothing bad to say.  but i don't need to call him.  i got an ego too.  lets just leave it at that.  u feel me?"  so not only did i visit my old company and visit old friends.  and learn more about the asian market.  this industry is so small that its not just talking about market news, its gossipping!! good to catch up.  vitol/integra/eyemar/jereme/brightoil/emerald hill/odin/kpo/newton/butter/zouk/helipad/clarkequay....we did a lot.  zero sleep. gah.

  

bingin' and purgin'

 

skyping topless while watching iris.

starsky and hutch

shangrilah buffet is awesome.

1:19 PM

i haven't been back in 2 years.  and for all the reasons one would speculate about me being a bit nervous.  i was.  and it took all of about an hour before things went right back to how i left it.  nothings changed.  信義區 is much more developed now, there are more places to hit up. relatively speaking.  the psyche ward is the same.  and it is just.  unfortunate.  thank you wendy for taking us around.  miss "i know the owner everywhere".  11 bottles. 3 nights.  derrrrrr.

massage and facial right when i land.

掃墓 and beef noodle soup.

meetings all day....鼎王at night.

strike and bottles....and bday fried foods.

4:16 PM