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It wasn't exactly a day (the 8th) that I would refer to as, being pleasant.

Realised haven't taken one for a while so a quick snap. Nothing particularly exciting just some random bits that I took out of the closet before heading out. Corpus beanie; Number (N)ine frame and arm warmers; Hare l/s shirt; Neighborhood 05' shirt; Ralph Lauren scarf; Uniqlo pea-coat LVC and Gucci shoes, not much of a synergy there was really just, random since I did not plan to spend the entire day out.

Was talking to a few peeps during the day, I couldn't believe this actually happened to me as I couldn't recalled it ever did, well it did for a couple of times, but it was somehow different as I knew the others that I was with were carrying their, uh hum, keys, with them. Plus, since I'm staying with me and myself only I've always been extremely careful and cautious with my keys, whenever I left the house for a jog or whatever, I always checked. Unfortunately this morning around 10 11ish a moment of weirdness struck, the second that I stepped out of the house and hearing a sound of "bang", there was one thing, only one thing that crossed my mind, "Oh. My. Fuck." Yeah, I left my keys and I locked myself out. That's not the worst part, there was in fact nothing that I was carrying but a lighter, my phone, my wallet, they weren't there. I should thank the ones who made all the calls for me and this was one of the most fabulous day of my life which, I would probably never want to see it coming back into the play again.

Anyway.

James Bond 007: Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace -- When I was younger I never did like Bond, I just figured the whole thing was rather lame and dumb - He kills every single one of his enemies with one bullet whilst he could never get shot with dozens of machine guns or Kalashnikov firing towards him, come on what is he, Superman can't do better than that who the hell is he trying to fool here? ... But then when I reach a certain age and certain things do not seem to matter that much, I just thought, yeah, they are just movie, James Bond movies, sit back and enjoy the slick action; the gorgeous ladies; the ultra-splendid suits and of course the ass-kicking technology. So, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. It's more than clear that the former was better, (Not commenting on the acting here 'cause that's just not what Bond is about simply.) and I think Eva Green outweigh that Ukrainian Olga chick, who was also equally terrible in Max Payne, in every aspect. Yeah, try not to be so superficial for once here yeah? But wait, umm, I think that somewhat contradicted to what I just said? Well, never mind, come on it's Booond, Jammmes Bond. (What am I on about here..?)

Max Payne -- I don't know, the game is miles beyond the movie I guess.

300 -- For some reasons I just thought this is kind of a umm, low-budget one? After viewing, and umm, those abs ain't real I hope? Despite all those awkward feeling I would still give it an 8 because I'm a Frank Miller's fan and unquestionably, I had a great time watching this. The battle scene which is obviously one of the biggest selling point of the movie, was terrific and breath-taking, the characters were well portray, the whole thing was just immensely passionate. Don't miss it.

Resident Evil: Degeneration -- I found no words of expressing my inner feeling. I've been a long adherent, a follower of the mighty Bio Hazard (Resident Evil) video games and its creator: Shinji Mikami 三上真司. Degeneration, the first Bio Hazard CG anime movie is with zero doubt, "A must see for all the fans of the game." You won't get to suffer from all those stupid zombies played by human and the second-rated action nor acting nor whatever, no more Alice here it's the super dope cop Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield straight outta the Reccoon City. This is what they should have done at the first place, top-notch visual effect you could almost forget about how the story is like, (It ain't so bad though I was utterly disappointed with not seeing enough of Curtis Miller hah.) excellent one for all the fans out there, I can't fucking wait to see its sequel. Oh, one let-down, Angela Miller's dress.

Trailer:



Another anime that I started earlier, 怪 Ayakashi

2005.

I've been struggling to put out this entry, it was drafted straight after the 21st of November weekend at London, some issues popped up and I couldn't be able to get it written up, and due to the reason that I often try not to be overly sentimental about the past though most of the time, I am so, I think I will leave the major bit out at the mean time, for the rest of it anyway, here it is, just a quick update and some stuff about the year of 2005.

Regarding the items in the previous entry, the ones that are now sold: Two Louis Epi Leather purses; Prada boston bag; Burberry pouches; Armani coin bag; Bearbrick Kubrick set and the Vivienne Westwood wallet. Rest are still available, contact if interested.

When it gets dark so early, it's in fact rather annoying, not to mention when it rains.. I still prefer a little bit more of daylight sometimes.


Yum.

Fred Perry X Size? Tipped Cuff. 寄出.

A pair of new frame by Number (N)ine for myself. Dedicated to Buddy Holly the early rock and roll pioneer, was featured on the Spring/Summer 2007 Paris Fashion Week.

無可奈何 一肚子的气 一腦袋的火, 卻無處發洩的感覺, 是很操蛋的.

近幾年世界各地的郵局應該也從我這撈了不少錢. Comme des Garcons2 candle, 一份包裝得這樣小心得郵件, 寄出之后竟還能碎得如此徹底, 只能對楊同學說聲抱歉, 有機會補回. 當然, 究竟是Royal Mail操蛋還是中國郵政操蛋, 那就不曉得了. 最近還有其他很多的一些諸如此類的破事爛事, 不說了.

Been listening to:
The Best of Buddy Holly -- Around the 50's, probably a little bit too old for me, and I gotta admit I have absolutely no clue of who the hell he is before I purchase the glasses. After a little bit of research on Wiki it's about time to hear his music.
Kanye West: 808s and Hearbreaks -- That's a big jump isn't it. When I'm not doing anything in particular I would normally just let iTunes shuffle and do its job, then on several incidents I would have peeps popping out messages asking, "What, is that Bon Jovi playing!?" or, "You listen to the Pussycat Dolls?!" Yeah hah I know. It's just that I don't have that much of a strict preference over music these days unlike how I used to. I would enjoy Hotel Costes compilation; Won't mind listening to a bit of pop tunes, or some Hip-hop R'n'B shit where I could continue working on the moves; Chet Baker or Billie Holliday would have me both in the morning and the night; Would even dig out some old albums by the Marilyn or Korn when I feel like throwing my head around and, the Hip-hop Golden Age artists and the likes of John Lennon or old Guns N' Roses are always the ones among my top playlists. So don't give me that "Huh?!" type of expression the next time you see what's showing up on my messenger because I listen to almost every genre, not taking the piss just for a laugh. Kanye's album, well it's quite different to his previous works what I think at least, found it quite OK though. Annnd teaming up with Kaws is not considered as a bad move after "Graduation" with Takashi Murakami. I never really liked Kaws, and I will probably never buy anything by Original Fake, don't know why. One more thing, I still can't seem to understand why Lil' Wayne always has to be present?
陳珊妮: 如果有一件事是重要的 -- 繼拜金小姐之后睽違三年終于等到了她新的專輯.
張懸: 如果妳冷 -- 現場, 音質頗差, 部份歌感覺很像是聽衆自己錄的. 專輯的具體性質也不太清楚, 有演唱紅豆, 當時的月亮等曲目. 好得歌曲, 好得聲音, 好得音樂, 基本上也夠了.
The Pancakes: Everyone Has A Secret -- 05 年的一張專輯, 再次感謝Yvette san (笑). 直到現在還是很喜歡, the Pancakes.

仍是05年的, 幾部電影, 在硬碟里呆了一段時間了..
King Kong -- Love the cast. It did reach my expectation even though some of the effects seem kinda umm I don't know? Amateur? For whatever reasons, wasn't exactly one that's easy to film anyway.
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut) -- 194 minutes this is too fucking long.
Brokeback Mountain -- 05年不得不提的一部電影. 做了很多次想開始觀看的嘗試, 但最終都還是沒有成功. 有很多的原因, 一來影片本身不短, 再來是題材.

The Quiet -- This came out better than I thought it would be. A strong performance put up by the entire cast, Elisha Cuthbert and Camilla Belle were good especially, the soundtrack was pretty good as well, every single character involved has some kinda freaky sickness to a certain extent, it just somehow reminded you of how the reality is, of how we all are. Everyone has a secret.
Serenity -- An 8 out of 10? Why? It ain't bad, but an 8?

夜櫻四重奏 -- 有一段時間沒有接觸動畫了, 隨手挑了几部, 夜櫻是其中之一. 06年初開始的漫畫連載, 兩個月前剛播映的動畫. 談不上精彩, 故事算是頗為合情理地發展著.

Come to think about it, the title now seems pretty pointless without mentioning what I actually was going to mention, fuck it nevermind, time for bed.

不太相同的週末 & 週一.

Weekend:

For the record:

Comme des Garcons 錢包. 寄出.

Great night, great fun. Was wearing Corpus beanie; Hare L/S shirt; Undercover bracelet; LVC and Vans Moccasin. Kinda drunk, apologies to Kom san. Severe hangover the next day, spent the afternoon wandering around Westfield and had dinner at The Meat & Wine Co.


滿滿的酒瓶.

Kangaroo dish.

Birthday boy and his missus. 600G steak and lamb.


那碟袋鼠肉的份量是極其相當以及非常的少. 很快地解決了戰事. Thanks for the treat and hope you had a great birthday mate. The free red wine was such a killer lol.

Pizza, garlic bread and chicken wings ordered from last night. And coffee.

Later in the night. 洋蔥包菜炒, 豬肉 (笑); 豆豉鲮鱼茄子煲; 四季豆 & 腐乳焖鸡.. 啊, 是的, 是鸡, 没有后面了 (笑).

Monday:

這, 是一個充氣筒, 不是, 打砲機 (笑) 週末聽到的一個很有趣的名詞.

天氣很糟.

多久沒踫過球了. MLB New York Yankees hoody; Random shorts; Nike Air Force 1 High, need some proper trainers.

Quality. Can't stop laughing everytime I watch the clip. Good found. Annoyed British Telecom customer:

More stuff and Movies.

Meant to get this posted before I left on Friday but kinda forgot.

Some more arrival:
Comme des Garcons Energy C Parfum (Lime). Brand new sealed & cost less than retail, so why not. It's more for the summer though, still a while to go.
Opening Ceremony coat. The store is among the top 5 Men's Store in the USA, surprisingly. Check it out here.
Corpus beanie. Oh I'm such a beanie guy and this's probably the best I've ever purchased, smooth like butter. Will soon be checking out the CA4LA ones. Shout out to Harmanjot.


Traitor -- Starring Don Cheadle. I think I saw this a few days ago and I actually couldn't remember too much of it. Don is always the man to watch, it's predictable, but OK overall.

Burn After Reading -- Slightly overrated, with such a strong cast I was expecting something a shit lot better. [Spoiler]. Brad Pitt did a trememdous job he was the only one whom lifted up the whole thing in my opinion, not that the rest of them were particularly bad in any sort, just didn't impressive me that much. After Brad's role in the movie was shot dead, the story went a bit umm, shall I just say the line drawn between stupidity and humour, is sometimes rather vague and this goes more towards the former..
Tropic Thunder -- What the fuck is this. I mean, yeah well, I like Jack Black, funny in a nidiotic way and you have Ben Stiller and that Iron Man Downey dude, all the big names you know.. So.. I was really really really trying to enjoy it, but couldn't. Stopped after 20minutes or so.

Freedom Writers -- Been longing to view. It might well just be the best movies I've seen in quite a while. I've once said that I ain't normally a pussy whom watches a film and break down crying easily but for this one, on several occasions tears nearly bursting out, there were scenes of excitement, happiness sadness, ups and downs, very well directed. Elizabeth Swank, yet again put on a fantastic performance, and yes probably one of the best actresses out there in my opinion. The rest of the actors playing them "Freedom Writers", they were strong too, in delievering the message, it almost felt like they are actually telling their own stories, excellent excellent job. The soundtrack was indeed very impressive too. I've not read the original thing however just by looking at the film, it was intense whilst inspirational, I'm certain everyone could get something out of this, simply brilliant.

Taken -- Good stuff. One super cool mad fly father. See that's what a dad can and willing to do, as well as sacrificing for his own kids. Be nice to your old man.

內衣少女 -- Pretty funny.

H&M Comme des Garcons.

Okay, finally got some time sitting down and get this typed up.

Woke up at quarter to 9am, left the house at 11 and arrived the H&M Bristol store at around 12ish, the store was fairly empty, due to the rain, perhaps.

Window display.

Ladies' collection.

Men's collection.

Just a few words about this whole collaboration thing, well more than a few in fact.

I didn't like it at the first place, I don't like H&M or Zara or whatever similar type of shit, and you can quote me on that, I don't care if H&M had done collaboration work with Viktor & Rolf or Roberto Cavalli or blah, I just don't like it, and you can quote me on that too. The reason why I went to Bristol checking it out was because, despite not being a so-called "fan" of Rei Kawakubo I still have a shit loada respect for what she did and does, I felt that with a project like this I really ought to see it for myself before I could rant about anything at all. Another motive was that I was hoping to get the perfume as this year's birthday gift for Ms. K. Wong and so that I did.

Oh a huge bag isn't it.

Yea sorry that's all, nothing else. The other one is literally a souvenir for myself I'm not even sure if I wanna use it. With the collection, the women's wear was far more impressive than the men's, I knew that the Bristol store doesn't carry the full range but with what they have and what I saw, man this shit is tacky as hell. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't have said that because the cut and quality and everything wasn't exactly that bad, especially some of the knitwears, (Not the shirts nor the pea coat though, those are fucking horrible.) for H&M pieces & at H&M prices I would be happy to lay my fingers and own one pieces or two but now, that little number on the price tag has gone almost double or even triple, due to the added signature, with that sorta price the material won't feel so nice, which are the reasons why, making this shit worthless. In general the collection was rather disappointing, along with my trip, due to the miserable weather and the effort, though I felt fine since I've just come to realise that there's too much cash being dropped lately so I'm glad there wasn't exactly a trigger to pull today, plus I didn't get to experience any massive and crazy crowd like the rest of the world, fortunately.

NYC opening.

"Now give me my scarf bitch!"

Vancouver, London, New York, Tokyo etc. Honestly this is pure madness, people queueing up for hours, grabbing whatever they could while in store, I don't think any of them actually like the design or appreciate the project (Fucking vultures!) , I very much doubt they've even heard of Rei's name or the Comme des Garcons brand itself (Well now that they do anyway). And that, is probably another one of the many reasons making this whole thing seem nothing but a humiliation to me. And make sure you check out eBay, (Oh and here we have one more.) resellers, meh, it is simply unbelievable. And umm, I'm sure I've got something else to say but umm, yeah nevermind for now.


Then at around 1:30pm I was back in Hong Kong Bistro having my roast duck and char siu rice dish. And I was wearing a beanie by Uniqlo, neckwarmer by Number (N)ine, a 03' shirt by Neighborhood and a L/S tee underneath by aNYthing, LVC jeans and Gucci shoes. The shoes were proper fucked today some cleaning work is needed.. And then later on changed the beanie to one by Number (N)ine and shoes to Converse Jack Purcell, thanks to the rain.