I had a really great weekend with my friend Willie visiting from San Francisco. We started off having the most amazing seafood dinner--copper river salmon of course--at Waterfront. The weather was perfect as we sipped our wine to a beautiful sunset and ended up talking for hours and hours. On Saturday, we headed off to a baseball game at Safeco to watch the Mariners vs. White Sox. In the evening, we watched a fun, silly Asian American play about love and relationships (aptly entitled sex in seattle) followed by a fun party at LaToya's to celebrate her birthday. Yay. I really miss having friends that have known me for so long surround me. It's amazing that Willie and I have stayed in touch all these years. I do wonder if we would have touched base as much if he were still in Beantown...sadly, probably not. I'm glad at least someone's out here on the West Coast with me.



Caught the last bit of the trilogy that I haven't seen yet at SIFF---Infernal Affairs II. I'd strangely seen #1 and #3 already but not this second one, which is a prequel to the first one. I liked it although it was definitely not as good as the second one. There was a lot more slow character development in this story, which was extremely fascinating given the context and outcome of the main characters shown in IA1. I don't think this movie would have been as interesting to see without having seen the first one--as Pierre attests (he was rather confused walking out of the movie!). Still, if you've seen the first, see the second..and then the third. The trilogy all make up a great good cop/bad cop story out of Hong Kong...with some amazing acting. Speaking of, that's probably why IA2 didn't seem as exciting--Tony Leung and Andy Lau are missing from it; rather, actors that play the younger versions of their characters are present...somewhat unemotional actors I must say who don't convey the amazing subtle feelings that Tony/Andy can in their facial expressions. Still, as I said, the character development is interesting..and there's still plenty of bloodshed.



I got 3 more invites on my gmail account. hmm..who to invite? I immediately sent one off to Sri who had wanted one. It's tempting to give it a try on Ebay where these accounts are selling anywhere from $0.01 to $100,000. Curious what I could get. I'd rather, really, just invite someone I know who will truly use and enjoy these services. Anyone?