Super-busy week for me! I’m gonna get some much needed “me-time” and do what I do best: shopping! I’m going on a bus tour shopping trip to Erie, Pennsylvania tomorrow morning. I’ve loving the fact that the Canadian dollar is practically equal to the U.S. dollar now. Get ready for some bargains!
Bus leaves at 6am-ish.
I hope I don’t end up sleeping in.
Today made me really think about how in shape I was back in high school.
I joined a women’s social basketball league and today was our team’s first game. We won! I must admit I played pretty well for being out of the basketball loop for 6 years, but I think I’ll get my old handle back on the ball again soon. Sure after every 10 minutes of straight play I felt my heart palpitating and like I was gonna throw up (I really should’ve ate dinner before playing after work), but at least I got my workout for the day! :) Thank goodness it’s half-court basketball.
Geez… I wonder how my body would’ve reacted from the cardio shock of active basketball if I hadn’t been doing my Turbo Jam and Hip Hop Abs for the past month!
I played a pretty good game… got about 5 baskets, 4 steals and a bunch of rebounds. I guess my long limbs are good for something!
I think I have to think twice about putting in a new weave though, and forget about wearing my ‘fro, because all that sweat just sweated out all the work I did with my hot comb the night before…
It sucks that I don’t have wads of cash just lying around. I think I’m due for a new mp3 player… and the iPod Touch is it. As for the overview of this new gadget:
[The iPod Touch] features built-in Wi-Fi networking and a revolutionary multi-touch user interface—first introduced on iPhone—that makes it easy to find all of your music, video, and other digital content and enjoy it on the gorgeous widescreen display on iPod touch. The multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present the perfect user interface for Safari, Apple’s YouTube application, and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store—all of which come with iPod touch. An unbelievable 8mm thin, iPod touch features up to 22 hours of audio playback and up to five hours of video playback. Available later this month, iPod touch comes in 8GB and 16GB models for $299 and $399, respectively.
It’s a damn good thing I didn’t waste my money buying the original iPods/Nanos, because this one is just so sexy! :)
*starts putting coins in piggy bank to pay for iPod Touch*
Click here for the guided tour of the iPod Touch from Apple.
After 6.5 million hits, I’m pretty sure that a lot of you have already viewed the now infamous YouTube video in which Chris Crocker posted his alleged über-emotional, tearful tirade against all the Britney Spears haters. I say “alleged” because as you can see from the videos posted in his YouTube user profile page that he sure loves making a spectacle of himself for the camera.
Seth Green of Robot Chicken fame had me in hysterics after I watched his parody of Chris Crocker’s “Leave Britney Alone” vid:
And watch Robot Chicken Sunday nights at 11:30 on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Season 2 DVD available right now. So buy it!
I managed to get tickets to the Toronto International Film Festival‘s Midnight Madness screening of Wilson Yip‘s Flash Point Thursday night, and it was well-worth the $20. Especially because Yip was present at the screening and fans in the audience got a chance to ask him questions about the film, his work as a director and collaboration with the film’s action director and star Donnie Yen.
Here’s a short synopsis of the film: Honk Kong Police Inspector Jun Ma (Donnie Yen) is one of those cops which has a no-holds-barred sense of ethic when it comes to catching criminals and putting them to justice (while beating them to a pulp if needed). His partner Wilson (Louis Koo) is working undercover trying to go after a trio of blood-thirsty Vietnamese gangsters. When his cover is busted and Wilson turns into a target all hell starts to break loose. And when that happens you know hot-headed Jun Ma is gonna flip out and put a serious throw-down on the bad guys.
Flash Point has one of the most realistic fight choreography that I’ve ever seen in a film. This is mainly due to the action direction of the film’s star, Donnie Yen, who in an email expressing his regrets of not being able to make an appearance at the film’s Toronto International Film Festival debut, clarified his role in the film and his use of mixed martial arts (a fighting system that involves a wide array of martial arts techniques including Jujitsu, wrestling and Muay Thai).
In the first part of the film the plot mainly centers around Louis Koo’s character and his work getting the goods on the bad guys. This sort of narrative isn’t anything innovative: You have the vengeful cop (Donnie Yen), the witness that needs protection (Louis Koo), the girl (Fan Bing-Bing), and the bad guys who threaten the lives of the vengeful cop, the witness and the girl (Colin Chou, Ray Lui and Xing Yu). Flash Point may seem a little light on the action-side for the first two-thirds of the movie (only 87 minutes long), but when the real action starts to take place the wait will be worth it. Especially when Inspector Jun Ma battles the lead villain Tony (Collin Chou from The Matrix Reloaded) in an intense fight sequence. It makes you want to hope that the DVD comes with an extended version.
As a team, director Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen have a most intriguing style, as is evident in their previous work of Sha Po Lang aka Killzone (which I need to get a DVD copy of). Yip’s need to build character development and Yen’s desire for action was one of the most challenging aspects of filming Flash Point according to a Q&A after the film at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre. But the final product was worthwhile.
If you didn’t get a chance to see Flash Point, or you’re a fan of Hong Kong Cinema and martial arts flicks, make sure your buy or rent a copy when it’s released on September 27th. You’ve probably never seen more realistic action sequences than this before. This film will put all those wire-dependant, stunt-double needed, and special-effects suppressed Hollywood action films to shame.
on August 11, 2016