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Archive for January 2006

Review: Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha was a good book, but a terrible movie. It was aesthetically pleasing, but that’s about the only good thing I can say about it.
My main complaints:

Everyone had a different ‘Japanese’ accent.
The narrative, instead of staying true to the book, tried to sound too oriental.
Sayuri’s eyes were too blue in some [...]

Gong Shee Fa Tsai!

Happy New Year everyone!
I spent New Year’s Day drinking (to get rid of my killer headache) and helping W move. I hope this doesn’t foreshadow a year of hard physical labor and drunkeness.

Still Alive

I’m not dead, well maybe a little dead inside because it’s been almost a month (or at least it feels like it) since I’ve had interweb access at home. Some stupid thing with SBC DSL and their slowness, followed by a slow postal system, means I’m still waiting for my DSL setup package to come [...]

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