I am Your Sunshine

千辛萬苦的一場比賽。(知道是哪裡辛苦的心照不宣就好了)
混亂又緊張的上半場 (指的是要一直切換視窗的我)，再來是精彩鏡頭一定會 lag 掉的下半場。像是Lampard的射門　（聽說是獸巴厲害過人，舍瓦長傳，LP goal。) 就在看著看著畫面凍結，到半分鐘後又開始動，左上角顯示 1:0… 唉唉

希望明天的比較會好一點。

不過這場跟上周六MLS all-star比起來要有模有樣多了。上一場真是混亂。

昨天買了束 Vendela (米白色的玫瑰)，因為難得看到一束都很漂亮的，忍不住就買了。

另外想要開這瓶一年前買的 Cab 已經想很久了，今天正巧沒有空腹不會太晚又氣氛正佳，就趁機開了他。
(剛好明天要找 Cindy 來家裡吃飯，可以順便喝這瓶。)

軟木塞已經有點鬆散，初倒入杯中的香味不是很撩人*，還好味道仍與我的記憶一致，鮮明而有個性。初時溫潤漸漸刺激，入喉微辛最後暖暖的火從胃中傳上來。

不是什麼很甜的酒 (紅酒甜起來很可怕)，我也講不出什麼具體的正面形容詞，只能很抽象地說，喝下去一連串從圓融裡又有一點點格格不入，到一陣欣喜的感覺，接著是一股不知從哪冒出來的新鮮味道，然後腹中擁出暖暖的滿足，
忍不住再來下一口。

*應該是我最近喝太多香檳跟甜白酒的關係, 害我對紅酒香有了不正常的期待。說到這點，前幾天有朋友來 (其實是室友的朋友)，我就開了兩瓶 Finger Lakes 帶回來的白酒，Dandelion 跟 D’Artanan，大受好評!

看了一下這一兩個月要上映的片子，怎麼有種電影荒的感覺。不是暑假嗎?
想看的片:
Scoop (limited) – Hugh Jackman + Scarlet Johanson by Woody Allen

現在期待的片:
Accepted -有趣
Step Up -無法抗拒舞蹈片
Invincible – I also cannot resist uplifting movies adpated from real stories.
The Guardian – Ashton Kutcher actually looks convincingly serious. Good for him!
The Covenant – Dunno… looks good. but thriller? (not even sci-fi?)

[updated]
下半年的行程已經滿到不能再滿, 感恩節的機票是貴到還能再貴 (很討厭是沒一個人的計劃已經定了，這樣我都不能買機票 只能看著它越變越貴)

真恐怖

九月想往北邊跑，如果真的來，假就要豁出去了。 (<-有個XX不知道我這是在說他...) 秋天就去西雅圖, 去不成就算了。還有下一個跟下下一個秋天。 想去紐約看音樂劇，但要有伴才行。 Vic 邀我去 FL，Miami 聽起來誘人，雖然... 我又不從事海上活動 orz (感恩節的票價已經到五六百了，開什麼玩笑，那我還不如回台灣 ~"~) 聖誕節最好就是邀人家來，這樣就不用多請假 :D 不過剛發現聖誕節只要請三天就有11天假耶!! 那還是出去玩好了 應該要咬緊牙關多存點錢，才能豁出去個一年半年衣食玩樂無虞。 什麼都要錢，真是。

Gonna have lunch with the boss I’d never had at Brik’s. Amber suggested the place. the place where “someone” always wanted to go but we never really did. (Cuz I prefer French over steak XD)

I’m so so glad I finally went, despite all those people saying “Ahh… I don’t understand what they’re doing” and “no closure!!??” I should be ashamed that I was hesitated about watching it (apart from one of the reasons that my movie pal’s alerady seen it.) How could I have doubts about oh captain my captain?

It was a complete blast. Captain Jack was mesmerizing as always and there were so many parts that were refreshing and creative and fun. The Flying Dutchman was spetacular. The name alone is quite romantic. It’s fun how they, from captain to the crew, all look like seafood. (Yummy~)

Well, okay, not exactly images that will perk up your appetite. My apology.

Anyway, I really like the movie. Not a moment I felt dull. (Well, perhaps when Orlando Bloom talks to that irritating Keira Knightley.)

ps. And I thought that Norrington looks familiar. and he turned out to be Jack Davenport, the Steve from Coupling!! I knew I know him!

Can you tell? Susan’s beloved Steve :)

搞得好煩啊 ><~ 總是令人討厭的消息多過令人開心的

到手。

其實不想今天晚上看 Felicity 的。剛看完 Laura，更早時才看完 The Red Shoes，然後 Chelsea 輸給 MLS all star (好吧，其實不是很在意這個。不過是第一場熱身賽。) 心情其實有點沉重，尤其是看完了 Gene Tierney 的傳記。

但是敷臉時沒事做，只好放 Felicity 來看… XD

I shall never forget the weekend Laura died. A silver sun burned through the sky like a huge magnifying glass. It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection. I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York. For Laura’s horrible death, I was alone. I, Waldo Lydecker, was the only one who really knew her.

A classic ’40s ’50s detective film noir starring the elegant Gene Tierney who only appeared in the half of the movie and was glamourous and stunning. She was composed and graceful and her acting was subtle and convincing. It’s a hord-boiled style of mystery story about love, jealousy and moral conflicts.

Very very worthy of my 87 minutes plus special features.

“The way she listened is way more eloquent than speech.”

Watched Gene Tierney’s biography. It was even more dramatic than the movie. The unluckiest lucky girl in the world, so her ex-husband described her. A beautiful person from within to out had lived little time of happiness. She was suffered from betrayal, heartbreak and loss of her love which led to her mental illness.

So sad… poor Gene

實在很懶得寫心得。

兩片都是超過我期待的好看。簡單，不會太老套，大部份令人愉快。非常適合在周間看。

John Tucker Must Die
Jesse Metcalfe, Desperate Housewives 裡的性感高中生小園丁, 飾演萬人迷籃球隊長 John Tucker。他同時交往的三個女朋友 – 啦啦隊長 Heather, environmentalist Beth 以及身兼數職的 Carrie 分別由 Ashanti, Sophia Bush (of One Tree Hill) 和神似很多女演員的 Arielle Kebbel (曾在Gilmore Girls 中飾 Dean 的妻子 Lindsey)。再來就是目擊 John Tucker 偷吃的校園隱形女孩 Kate (可愛的 Brittany Snow)。
看來主要角色都是電視圈出身。

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跟我想像的不太一樣，很高興預告沒有洩露出太多東西。雖然是可以預料的走向，但看起來不會太無聊。

一直都覺得這首歌很可愛，查了歌詞才知道原來 “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me” 的前一句是 “Soy un perdedor”, 難怪我一直聽不出來。(而那句其實就是西班牙文的 “I’m a loser” XD )

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說皇馬想拿 Owen 換 Lampard (最好是會把 Lampard 賣掉@_@)，
而 Owen表示對皇馬心寒，也想離開。
但最有趣的是，新聞內有一句說風聲一出去，曼聯跟利物浦也來參一腳，
說利物浦要拿Jose Antonio Reyes來換

可是… Reyes 明明是 Arsenal 的球員… XD

昨晚躺了一下睡不著，上樓想拿點東西喝
剛好 Kedi 及朋友們正在喝他們前幾天去 Sonoma 的戰利品，見我出現馬上盛情相邀。
雖然我沒有很喜歡喝香檳或是氣泡酒，但還是很高興我的 flute 終於又有機會派上用場。
(最近都是在用 shot glass 喝純米大吟釀，或是拿去年的 Mondavi 杯子喝紅酒。)
看著氣泡緩緩上昇，淺嘗了一口，發現竟比我喝過的都要來的好喝。
(兩周前我才在 Mumm Cuvee 喝了五種耶!)
但後來我發現好喝的原因竟是因為它嘗起來實在太像白酒而非香檳啦!
跟我去年喝過的一支 Riesling 有很類似的味道及口感。

Some people have the ability to tell pretty lies and make them sound sincere and not at all affected.

(Not talking about me XD
I’m sincere when I’m sincere.)

it’s bashing time.

Squiddy wrote an article on CaughtOffside – It’s not our fault you’re greedy, is it?

I agreed with some of his points. However, he tends to believe that everything Chelsea did, every decision made is absolutely right and righteous. Well, come on. There’s no perfect person; there’s no perfect club. When your club is wrongfully accused, defend it. When the club is not totally innocent, just keep your mouth shut. Defense makes you look ignorant and blind.

But there are some arguements that were made to attack Chelsea just for the sake of attacking. There was one person pointed out that

1. Liverpool and Chelsea want SWP
2. Man City demand 20M
3. Liverpool can not pay, Chelsea can.

How is this Chelsea’s fault?

and one replied

its your fault you let yourself be blackmailed and pay over the odds. why shouldnt we?

Isn’t it funny in a so very typical way? It’s like the ancient arguement that whether the fault falls on the girls who’s raped because of wearing a short skirt or the rapist, like saying that it’s your own fault to have so much money, and my robbing you is fully justified.

A girl walked over and sat on the chair next to me. I glanced at her, noticing she had “Everyone Worth Knowing” in her hand. I couldn’t help but had another glance because of the book and that she’s speaking Shanghainese on the phone. But aside from the book and the language, she has nothing resembles Sheila. The girl is actually slender and tall. So I took two more looks and went back to my book. Five minutes later, I found her looking at me when I raised my head for anothger sip of my latte. Our eyes met for a second, and she caught it. “Hello, Lori.” she said. I hid most of my surprise and merely lifted one of my eyebrows. “I’d prefer Lorainne. You are?” She’s well-prepared. I can tell. “I’m Sheila’s friend. My name is Missy.” I contained the urge to roll my eyeballs. She continued when she realized that I had no intention to say anything else and was going to return to my book. “The thing is,” she tried to sound calm, “Sheila wants to meet with you… if you don’t mind.” “Why?” I remained patient. I’m usually nice to strangers. “Ugh… she kinda wanna get to know you.” I could act like I don’t know a thing she’s talking about, but I was in no mood playing games with her. It’s a waste of my time. I just wanted to read my book. “Why?” again I asked. Her composition broke a little bit, “She wants to be friend with you.” Ha, I thought. I wondered why some always want to be friend with boyfriends’ ex’s. Anyways, I could have thrown another “why” at her, but I was afraid that she might cry. To avoid a possible scene, I replied, “but the desire is, unfortunately, not mutual.” She froze for a second or two and squeezed a tiny bit of a smile, said “Oh… okay. I’m sorry to bother you.” She took off with her book right away. What a hypocrite. Birds of a feather flock together. How true.

In my opinion, Sheila is a very traditional Chinese. She is able to comfort herself in every possible way. Q philosophy, if you happen to have some knowledge about Chinese literature or culture. I’m sometimes amazed by her attitude, but mostly I regard it with contempt. Optimism and thankfulness in a way maybe, but pity and low self respect are more accurate.

He had a peculair mix of competence and cluelessness that marks the suburban computer geek.
– Karen Joy Fowler

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory… The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient – at others, so bewildered and so weak – and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul!
– Jane Austen

Listen to the Original Cast Recording

Spontaneity can sometimes bring you bigger surprise than you expected, while well-preparation keeps you from unexpected hindrance on the way.

If you can still recall, I listened to The Light in the Piazza soundtrack for the second time on Monday evening, which aroused my interest in the musical and therefore went looking for SF show info, and luckily, I got a email from SHNSF saying all seats for preview show on 8/1 would be $45. I searched for available seats, and 2 pretty good center orchestra seats turned out. I called chun immediately and the next thing I knew, I was booking the tickets. (I’ll skip the process where we debated whether we should buy tickets from craiglists and are we really going to watch another “first show”?)

I wasn’t going to see the show when I first learned that it will be on during Aug, cuz for all I knew back then, it’s just a love story takes place in Italy and they assembled the cast in a real short time, which indicated a good chance that the performance will not be superb. But as my curiousity towards the show increased and that low price ticket for excellent seat looked so tempting, I decided to go. Plus, going to the show saved me from struggling whether I should go to LA this weekend, cuz I used my travel budget for musical. Sorry, Greg. (and Ronaldinho and Eider.)

It turned out to be spetacular. Though we did miss the first 15 minutes because of BART delay, darn. The singing was beautiful (except Frabrizio’s second song. And come on, you were in the orginal cast. What’s the matter with you?) and we were instantly amazed by the sets. HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE WE LAST SAW A EXTRAVAGANT SET? For the past 6 months or so, we saw The 25th Annul Putnam County Spelling Bee, Death of a Salesman, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Urinetown and A Chorus Line. Almost all of them were one set from start to end, if you count moving stairs (Urinetown) and switching mirrors (A Chorus Line) as changing sets, well. The story was simple and sweet with delicate details and gently exaggerated Italiano expression. I particularly love the preformance of Meg Johnson. Though in the poster she looks as if she were a passerby, merely a mother companied her daughter, Clara, who fell in love in the foreign city. But no, she was actually the center of the story. How she protected her daughter and how the love once she had had faded away. And through the somewhat operatic music and refreshing melody, the truth about Clara was revealed subtly. What a grand enjoyment.

I didn’t realized until recent years that I was given everything when I was a kid.
It’s too late to cherish it but it’s better late than never to be thankful.