i've never been one for awards shows, but this year's crop of movies that portray gay, transgendered characters is really a good reason to watch the golden globes. it was amazing that brokeback mountain swept 4 awards (best picture! best director! best song and best screenplay), and transamerica got best actress (felicity huffman) and capote had ( Read more... )

i guess i've never really been into the whole snowboard, ski thing cos i'm probably not that coordinated and the one first time in the steep french alps was kinda scary, so... sledding is probably the sport of choice (for dummies) in winter. yup, absolutely no training needed. lol ( Read more... )

( desperate housewives spoiler )

gehry's evocative, sculptural forms have worked in most contexts: guggenheim (bilbao), dg bank (berlin), issey miyake flagship (new york city). strangely enough, the sculpted steel panels of his experience music project look strangely out of place and context in downtown seattle, next to the space needle and a drive-in macdonalds across the street ( Read more... )

had a great christmas with family folks in seattle. geez. one thing i definitely discovered was that surburbia is not for me. even though folks have it good here in the northwest - fresh air, perennial foliage, mild temperatures ... it doesn't quite have the buzz. so it was quite a relief to be able to buy the new york times at the neighbourhood ( Read more... )

every once in a couple of years a film like that comes up and really has this effect on me. the last one that really moved me was merchant ivory's howard's end. brokeback mountain isn't about gay cowboys, it's actually an epic love story that spans two decades, between two ranch-hands that didn't even have the vocabulary to talk about it. it's also ( Read more... )

kinda feeling bleah with a runny nose cos weather's turning chilly and the temperature fluctuations can be quite crazy ( Read more... )

mon to fri: rainprobably one of the most miserable weeks so far. it was pouring day and night and the roads were flooded. took more than an hour to get to work each day. i just cannot understand why the roads aren't repaired to drain away the water properly - it's insane how these people stand for this struggle with the elements every time it rains ( Read more... )

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fri
dinner and drinks with zee - a feisty girlfren who's worked in an internet media company in ny for quite a while now, at menkui tei. though menkui doesn't quite have the buzz of kenka round the corner - and less izakaya than noodle shop - the food is really great (and pretty inexpensive). this time round it was sauteed cod, soft shell crab, ( Read more... )