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by dav

Paris.

For some odd reason, I really want to be there right now. And not just a quickie trip like the last time (which was 11 whole years ago), but actually to be there, to enjoy it, to savour it, to eat everything, to smell the coffee and croissants, to not have to worry about the money thing…

I love my life. I just wish I could travel more. And for the first time, weirdly, I wish there was someone to travel with.

It must be age.

by dav

Moving out

I remember when Eric and I first stopped living together. Eric was the bestest flattie I could ever have, so much so that I cannot imagine living with anyone else haha! Anyway, after living together for five years, we moved out – he was going to Canada, and I was drifting along – and it seriously felt like a divorce. So earlier this year, when he moved out again (he moved back in after he graduated from school in Toronto), I was quite numb. I think he affected him more, he seemed a little upset, but I can’t imagine why haha.

Anyway. Today, I helped a friend move out. In the lift, after going up and down several times, I said to him, This feels like a divorce… and he smiled a sad smile, and agreed.

by dav

The Raid: Redemption

I went in not knowing it was an Indonesian film. Hahaha. And it was great! Seriously! Why has the HK film industry stopped making films like this!! So okay, it was pretty excessively violent, hence the R rating (or level III rating, as it is known here), but the action was great! There’s not been anything like this in Hong Kong since pre-Hollywood Jackie Chan… and that’s like 20 years ago…

Yay action films!

by dav

Happy Father’s Day!

Thanks to social media – and addictive iPhone games – I know and interact with a lot of people whom I’ve never actually met. Today, I met one of them, randomly, haha. I was at his place of work (I was there for a shoot), but I mean, who comes in to work on a Sunday… Hahaha. Anyway. So we met, and we talked, and it was interesting. It’s nice to actually put a face to a name. Hmm.

by dav

Mrs B.

Mrs B is an amazing vocalist and one of the best home chefs I’ve ever met. For some reason – mainly due to my sis, I think – she loves feeding me, and often invites me to dinners that she hosts, which usually I can’t go to because of work. BUT! Miracles do happen and tonight, she fed eight of us (including her hubby and herself) and omgosh I don’t think I’ll need to eat for a week. Over five solid hours of amazing, scrumptious food. I kid you not. And she’d already taken one of the courses out (thank God). It was so good I forgot to take pictures. Hahahaha. Lentil & leek soup. An amazing salad that was so simple but super fresh and perfectly dressed. A spicy penne. Salmon on creamy cheesy fennel. Amazing chicken drumsticks with a sauce that had apricots and shallots (among other things), with roasted potatoes (to die for) and mashed peas (deceptively simple, looks like wasabi but omgosh, I could eat a bucket of it). And then there was pie (and ice cream) (and tea!). And then there were cupcakes. And we didn’t even get to the macarons. Hahahaha.

Two words: SO BLESSED.

Really worried I’m going to be late for work tomorrow though. Oops. It’s not my fault dinner went on past 2am… hahahaha oops.

by dav

TVB City really does smell like rubbish…

And I’d always thought my sis was exaggerating. Hahaha. Oops. It’s because the landfill is right there… Walking out into the canteen area, it’s like Wooah… Stinky much!!

Anyway. It was interesting, I got a nice tour of the place (mainly the news department haha) and bumped into an old acquaintance (an actor who I’d worked with in 2006) (who my sis thought looked familiar, but which I put down to his being an actor… later she remembered that actually, they are both on the dragon boat racing team bwahahaha) and afterwards was driven to Tai Koo for homecooked dinner.

SO FUN. Hope I don’t have to go back there very often though. It’s far… Tsk tsk tsk.