The Savage Orient

20th April 2010

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Sadness, and Courage! Hong Kong - day # i haven’t a fucking clue

Hmm, which to start with first? I’ll start with sadness, and end in a positive note! (oh hollywood..)   Skip to the picture if you just want the happy!

I met a cool girl at this club last weekend. Called her today to hang out. David and I met with her in Tsim Sha Tsui and got some drinks. She’s really pretty and funny, but the whole night was awkward (well, I’m just awkward in general).

Never do anything in groups of 3

When you’re walking on the street, there’s never enough space for three people to be lined up, so someone always has to lag behind or jump in front, and in either case that person usually misses the conversation. And it’s usually me!

We thought she was going to bring her friend. Life is so much better when your group number is evenly divisible by 2. Otherwise, someone is always left out. That’s why I hate that dumbass Garden State movie (SPOILERS): At then end when the girl and the dude are making out and the other dude is just standing there? Bullshit. Cause that dude has always been me. Even numbers, or peace out.

Language Barrier

I don’t speak Cantonese, David really wants to speak Cantonese, English isn’t her first language, and she just got a tongue ring, so….it was just hard talking in general. Especially for me, cause I’m awkward and stupid. David tried being a good friend and filling any awkward silences with conversation, but that ended up just isolating me even more, cause the conversations would often dissolve into Canto.

He kept punching me to sit next to her as we went from place to place, but I totally didn’t get it. Plus I wasn’t feeling a good vibe, so I didn’t want to force myself on her and make things awkward if she wasn’t interested. He tells me I should stop being a baby and just take a damn risk in life.

I think all the awkwardness was just in my head. And then I made it come to life. So so stupid…

The two of them ended up talking with each other more than I talked with her. It’s that damn language barrier! Or something I dunno…

The night ended with “bye!” and that’s it. Not even a “lets hang out again sometime.”  I’m pretty sure I’ll never see her again. My heart was feeling really empty the whole trip back to the house. David and I actually got in a huge argument over all this. We were yelling at each other pretty loud in the streets, at the station, on the subway…it was crazy. We were really mad at each other….over a buncha stupid shit. Its funny, we had a very similar argument two days ago, roles reversed, over some other girl, hahahahah.  Yup, that’s us. Like brothers. But this kind of shit just bring us closer together. AWW HOW CUTE JUST LIKE A HALLMARK CARD

NOW ON TO THE GOOD NEWS!!!!

YYYYYEAHHHHHH!!!!  LOOK AT THAT GRASS!!!

WOOOOOO!!!!

WHATS THE EXCITEMENT OVER I DONT KNOW!!!!

Oh yeah, I just showed David THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF MY BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE and he was really fucking impressed. Like, really!  I hope he’s not lying just because I had that fucking shotgun pointed at his head.

He had no complaints. Nice! He just….enjoyed it!!! And said it was creepy!!! Even though he was there when I was filming! YESSSSSS   We talked about some of my shots and the pacing and SFX and such, and it seems like I got across exactly what I was trying to do (at least, for these first two minutes I should him.  The rest of my film could suck for all I know…), and I made it entertaining! ^_^

This truly gives me the energy to finish it. It’s so satisfying when you hear someone actually enjoy your work; the crap you’ve stressed over so damn much. GWAAARRRR ULTRA POWER CUBES!!!!!

So good news for anyone who cares. You will see this movie, somewhere in the near future.

Goddam I hope people like it. 

GAH! TOO MUCH HYPE! TOO MUCH PRESSURE! MUST SLEEP AND DREAM SOME SCARY DREAMS!!!

Speaking of which, ever since I started making this scary movie, I’ve been having nightmares every night. I almost never have nightmares!!  Get outa my head.