Tsui Hark and Wonderland

I blogged yesterday on the film making of Tsui Hark. Which is excellent. But today I pay the price. The Macbook allows you to change the region code of the DVD to be played. ON the fifth play the region code on the Macbook stays the same. Forever. In my technological haze didn't realise and I have Double Team, another Tsui Hark film, and The Element of Crime by Lars Von Trier, which I can't play as the region code is different. [If anyone knows a remedy for this on the MacBook, let me know.]

This afternoon I dined in Wonderland, a restaurant specialising in Japanese and Korean food on campus, with three young men who are undertaking their degrees at HKBU. Intelligent, hard working and thoughtful. We spoke of Rupert Murdoch, men marrying well below there age and income level, games, and courses at university. Also we spoke of the Australian Monarchy [which is quite difficult to explain] and the difference between electing a President or the Prime Minster and President of the People's Republic of China. We also spoke of the financial crisis, and the size of farms in Australia. This was a wonderful lesson in how the world is distorted through different cultures and and different lenses.

I'm playing them in a few games of ping pong soon. So we will see how the reflexes and stamina hold up. I hope the Yoga is good for table tennis.

Als if you get the chance read, http://www.thechinabeat.org/, and the article on how doctors are approaching the issue of aids positive in China.

I forgot to travel with Radiohead and also the level two Mandarin exercise books, which would have been very useful. I also forgot pictures of the family to show [and prove] to the international students that I do in fact have people in another part of the world that loved me [well, at least liked].

The library has been good I've now got Debussy's Clair De Lune [suite bergamasque]; this is sensational piece of music. tonight I ventured into Jordan and Yau Ma Tei. Not good places when the rain fall is monsoonal and the shoes are sodden.

I'm planning to see Frozen tomorrow at Festival Walk. The early morning show is only $35 HK [about $4.50 Australian]. The movie sounds interesting. As adventurous as Tsui Hark, I doubt. As well paced and shot as Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, I doubt.

I couldn't get photos today in the torrential rain, while the other parts of the day I was in a tutorial or a canteen. Above is the cleaver I bought yesterday and also the Chicken Teriyaki [in low light] at Genfuku restaurant near the Seven-11 across the road from the Hong Kong Baptist University sports centre.

I also held the umbrella up for a grey skirted Buddhist nun while crossing Jordan St. I wonder if that will give you better points for the approaching life in a non-European afterlife? Probably not.