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Saturday, 24 January 2009

  • What you least expect always happens.

    When I thought I'd never see Leo again, I met him in a Starbucks.

    When I thought he'd also like me. I was rejected. He said he doesn't want a bf at the moment..

    2009 is not a very good year.


    Top 25 Woody Allen Quotes

    1. Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

    2. He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

    3. As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

    4. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

    5. I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

    6. I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.

    7. I don’t have to ‘freedom-kiss’ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

    8. I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

    9. I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

    10. I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia

    11. I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

    12. I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

    13. I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

    14. I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

    15. I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

    16. If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

    17. In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

    18. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it’s all over much too soon.

    19. Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

    20. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

    21. Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.

    22. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

    23. What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

    24. When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

    25. You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

    I like #20 and #25. What about you?

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

  • Since I began to use computers and particularly internet, I have been becoming more and more impatient. I've heard that somebody's friend was a classmate of Leo, but that is not very useful for me, because I am not that familiar with that somebody. I think I am giving up. I am not a very persistent person, esp in front of temptations. "I can resist anything but temptation."

    I prefer an extrovert or introvert? I think both. I met a new friend called Ming. He was so full of energy even though he had worked for more than 10 hours. He is the complete opposite of Leo. He just can't stop talking while leaning his whole body towards you.


    Someone sent me a satire on gay marriage. It's quite funny. It says: gay marriage is like putting the screw in the wrong hole or two holes rubbing each other. I have heard a lot of ppl saying: yes, I agree that homosexuals should have the rights to do what they want, BUT...I've heard a lot of these "buts". Like the recent amendment of the domestic violence ordinance. Those fundamental Christians also claim that: yes, I agree that homosexuals should be protected, BUT...this will lead to the legalization of gay marriage because of the word "domestic". I strongly believe that Jesus would not tolerate any kind of violence. If those so-called Christians really follow His preaching and "love thy neighbour", why would they think that their neighbour should not be protected? Afterall, what they have for us is: hatred.

Saturday, 13 December 2008

  • The best way to mend a broken heart is to meet somebody else. Sex is easy, love is not. To "meet" someone is easy, but to "know" someone is not.

    I met this guy called Leo. He looks average but is gentle and caring. I really like his timid smile. But after the night, he's gone. Only after that did I realize I want to see him more. But in this 7-million ppl city, how can I find just one person? I don't even know if Leo is his real name.

    Love is fate. That's why ppl turn to horoscopes.

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

  • Currently
    Querelle
    By Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl
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    All of you said I should not reply him, but I wished that somebody might say, yes, you should.

    You guys are right. I should not have replied him, cos I got no reply. Oddly enough, I bumped into him. He said hello, but I was so angry that I said nothing. I should not have done that. Maybe there's still a chance that we become friends.

    Watched "Querelle". I have tried to read the novel it's based on by Jean Genet, but it's too abstract and boring for me. The film is a lot easier to understand. It's about a sailor who uses his beauty to commit crimes. He has been getting what he wants until he falls in love with a man who resembles his brother (in fact played by the same actor). So, the message of this film is: love makes men weak. Quite right, isn't it?

    This film has a camp setting, with lots of half-naked sailors. The acting of Brad Davis isn't really good, but there's quite an explicit depiction of anal sex (in terms of the 1980s standard). What surprised me is Jeanne Moreau from "Jules and Jim" looks sooooo old! Ageing is horrible. I'm so afraid of getting old.

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    Yes, this is very retro. It's the cover of a paperback in the 1950s. (via: gay on the range)

Sunday, 02 November 2008

  • Currently Watching
    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
    By David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson
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    If someone emails you and tells you that he is not going to see you again. What will you do? Reply him or not to reply him? I am doing the later.

    Watched Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. I watch this film because of its music which is absolutely beautiful and I am sure many people are familiar with the main theme. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is based on a novel by Laurens van der Post. It is basically a story of prisoners-of-war detained by the Japanese during WWII. But one of the main stories of the film, the sexual attraction between the British POW played by David Bowie and the Japanese officer played by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and also a side-story of a Japanese officer sodomizing a Dutch POW, are in fact added by the director Nagisa Oshima (the director of another gay film, Gohatto). He explained Laurens van der Post was not very happy with the creation, but he insisted in adding these epsiodes because the film is played by actors only and he relied on Japanese female audience for the box office (we know they are crazy about that boy-love thing).

    Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a beautiful film. The scene I like best is when Ryuichi Sakamoto is to kill a rebelling British POW and David Bowie rushes out to protect his fellow man. Sakamoto and Bowie confront each other face-to-face and suddenly Bowie sees the love in Sakamoto's eyes and kisses him which makes Sakamoto collapses. The other scene that I like is when Sakamoto cuts the hair from Bowie's corpse to send back to a shrine in Japan.

    Oshima's addition makes the film particularly Japanese. If there weren't any flashbacks of Bowie's life in England, it wouldn't seem to be a film based on a story written by a western author, because the addition is far more attractive than the original which centres on the cultural difference between the Japanese and the West. Ryuichi Sakamoto looks young and attractive in the film. It is an additional bonus.