Fast and Furious 5, or Fast Five was on silver screen for a month, but it was just imported recently to China. It has been a week, but I just noticed yesterday and I bought tickets immediately just to experience it coz I missed the previous 4 sequences, in theater of course.
The thing I love about Fast & Furious is that you have the opportunities to see these exotic cars racing on streets that keeps your heart beating fast. In addition, it does not keep you waiting, I mean the events timeline is very tightly arranged, fast pacing, I like that. Of course, the visual and audio effects are fantastic. If it were on IMAX, it would have been perfect.
Off the topic a little bit, I don’t know if you guys noticed from the beginning of the movie when the ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle) appears. But I do, as a mountain bike lover and a mountain biker, I could not help noticing the tiny logo of Fox in one of the forks of the ATV. I thought it was an ad sponsored by Fox Racing Shox, but then again, it does not seem everyone says anything about it. However, it is interesting to see. To learn more about fox, you can visit www.foxracingshox.com, personally I like Fox’s suspension forks but could not afford one yet.
Have you noticed it? By the way, Fast Five rocks!
Okay, so here I am again in Tehran, Iran after 2 hours on Emirates flight from Dubai. I start to like Emirates now for its service, I watched the latest movie on the plane by the way and the meal still keeps me full. Very good.
The most unfortunate thing is that the hotel in Tehran is very bad even though it is a 5-star hotel, comparing with the 5-star hotel in Dubai, it is like 1/5 of it and it is more expensive. I don’t think I will come to Iran again unless it is really necessary! I am telling you, it is not worth the money.
It has been 2 days in Dubai, just got the internet at my client’s office. The 5-star hotel does not provide free WIFI which sucks by the way, it charges me 30 AED per hour and 60AED for 6 hours. Another thing that sucks is that Dubai blocks Skype for which I could not make cheap calls, it is very bad.
The good thing about Dubai is that it is a shopping paradise. I went to the Dubai Mall, it is the largest mall in the world. There is the Palm, the Atlantis, Dubai Tower, Burj Khalifa tower that is the tallest tower in the world. That’s Dubai, but hot, very hot.
Two and half hours from Wenzhou to Beijing, and now I stuck at Beijing Capital International Airport waiting for the transit flight. Everything was going smoothly, from check-in to boarding the flight. It is the waiting that is painful especially when you have to spend 4 hours or so and there is nothing much you can do.
My next stop is Dubai, I have never been to Dubai before, well, I spent few hours at the Dubai International Airport during my last trip to middle east. Tell you what, I will have to spend 10 hours waiting for the return flight. God knows how I am gonna kill this amount of time then.
April 22 to 24, Dubai
April 24 to 29, Iran (Tehran and Isfahan)
It is long trip this time, from start to finish, it is 9 days. Almost half of the time will be wasted on the airplane or cars. When I come back to China, I will go to Hunan with 1 day rest to attend Sophia’s wedding.
What an arrangement! I hope it is fruitful with the negotiation this time.
I have been watching ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, and it was quite good to know what goes on around the world, I love the podcast, but sadly the “final pod cast” was released on April 7th reported David Muir. He only said the video podcast was no longer available in iTunes but full episodes are available on ABC website. However he did not explain the reason. Is Apple kicking it out of podcast category or what? I am wondering and quite eager to know.There’s got be some explanation.
Video from Youku www.youku.com
It is truly touching, I was tearing when watching it. I am sure you are too. Heaven’s Lunch is a short-film directed by a never-heard-of Chinese director Liu Xiaoyu, it is only 6-minute long but it feels like life long.
The movie is telling us that parents never stop loving us, caring about us. You must take quick action to love back and start caring about them before it is too late. “Don’t wait for pain to love a person.”, in plain words, it is that you must not wait to make your mom/dad a dinner or something, it will be too late until you realize that someone is gone forever. If you are a spoiled child, it is still not late to change you behavior and start loving your parents. For those of us who haven’t even made a dinner for them, time to do it now.
I wish Chinese directors, especially those so-called well-known directors, made more movies of this kind. I know that there are many western movies about parents and family, which by the way is that reason I like them, but they should be ashamed when seeing this. This is a fine piece of art, I recommend it to you.
Friendly warning: before you view this, make sure you are 18+, especially if you are a girl. 
Got this vid from Tudou, naked men putting up a show, see how astonishing it is and interesting. Some girls feel awkward, some are enjoying the moment of the show.
Are you enjoying it? haha…
From Tudou, www.tudou.com
December 31st, 2010
James
Today is the last day of 2010, everybody is hanging out waiting for the new year to come in about 1 hour, but now I am staying in my bed.
2011, what is your dream?
It was long after last time we party like last night. And yes, there was no better time to party than last night as we celebrate 3 things together: Sophia’s marriage, Nana’s going to Europe and working there as well as receiving the order.
I actually haven’t been drinking much for months but I re-activated my potential and drank a lot more than I planned. Although there were only 8 of us, we finished 8 bottles of wine. “What? That’s not much.” Remember 6 are women, who didn’t drink as much Lee and I did. Of course Candy seemed drank a lot. I got too wasted that I fell asleep in the cab on the way back to my apartment. Now my head is still aching like hell. But we were happy, that’s all that matters.
I think people talk from bottom of their hearts more often after drinking and we had stayed together and worked towards our common goals for years and yet we were about to say goodbye to one of our members, things could get even sensational for sure.
Thanks to Nana for her hard work, and wish her a safe and joyful journey. Stay in touch.
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