Reading
Allll the Pacific Rim tie-ins: Man, Machines & Monsters, The Official Movie Novelisation. Number of times I've seen the film: two. On the cultural appropriation/misrepresentation scale, it ranks somewhere between Firefly (offensive, but has other redeeming qualities which make me love the canon nonetheless) and the exemplary Avatar: The ( Read more... )

Watching
I was shocked by how much I liked the pilot of NBC's new crime drama Hannibal, which was beautifully scripted, acted, and shot. ( some spoilers for the pilot )

Wow, long time no update. I'm in Sydney until Feb 14, so if anyone here wants to catch up, just let me know.

Reading
I recently finished Siddharta Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. I bought it quite some time ago (in fact, it might have been the last time I saw
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ReadingJust recently finished on Kindle ( Read more... )

Vacation
Getting ready for my trip back to Sydney next week - leaving Monday night - and making a mental list of the films I want to see at the cinemas when I get there. Looper, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Cosmopolis, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, A Royal Affair.

Reading
I've just started Mike Carey's well-reviewed stand-alone novel, The Steel ( Read more... )

Looking Forward To
Fly-back to Shanghai this weekend. I need to get my regular dentist check-up, not to mention my hair colour freshened up, and there's a lot of packages waiting for me back in Shanghai full of goodies: muesli and chai that
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So, it's probably time for a update, don't you think?

WorkDividing my time between Kunming (provincial capital of Yunnan) in southwest China, and Shanghai. I'm still getting used to this whole "teamwork" business, and when you put a group of young people (I'd guess the mean age of the consultants to be about 28-30) in a city away from their homes ( Read more... )

Wearing
Asymmetrical striped dress from Jacqui E, soft black jacket from Country Road, and beige flats.

Makeup
Trying out blue eyeshadow, and in particular, the blue eyeliner look worn by Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Belgravia". A true turquoise or aqua, I find, is difficult for my warm skintone to pull off, but silvery-blues and blue-blacks are ( Read more... )

Reading
Just finished The Day of the Jackal, and cracked open The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard.

WearingLoose dark grey pants, house socks, lilac camisole (Abi and Joseph) layered under a white cotton t-shirt, and a brown and teal fleece jacket from UNIQLO. I'm staying a couple of nights at my parents' house in Qingpu (a suburb of Shanghai). It ( Read more... )

Wearing
Dark grey yoga pants and a lilac singlet top, both from abi and joseph.

Watching
Homeland and The Walking Dead. Yesterday, I was rewatching Caprica on DVD，and bemoaning the fact that we never got to see more of Lacy and Odin's story on Gemenon. Their growth in faith (hers in the One True God, and his in Lacy), and journey from ( Read more... )