Life

I have experienced a near-miraculous recovery due to tissues (ever notice how you nose stops running and your throat becomes sore instead as soon as you buy tissues?), vitamin C, ibuprofen, pseudoephedrine, tea and a large dose of Lisp. Now only the throat is a little sore. Got a lot of work things done, too, but am still stressed a bit.

Saw Lost in Translation and it was pretty good although I don't know why.

Got In the Mood for Love but haven't seen it yet because was working all day. OK, saw a tiny little extra where the director and the actors were interviewed. All three speak surprisingly good English (oh well, Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk grew up in UK so in her case it's not surprising). The really funny thing was that Wong Kar-Wai, who is known for working without scripts and hating scripts on general principle, said that he used to be a scriptwriter before he became a director. Anyways, I've seen the movie before. It's a very slow-paced thing about two people falling or thinking about falling in love. Well-done and well-acted.

Noticed that the skin condition on the tip of my finger (an allergy due to eating too much mangoes) totally obliterates fingerprints while it's there. A good recipe for doing crime: just eat a few kilos of mangos in advance and voila, no fingerprints. OTOH it takes weeks to heal, so maybe I'll just stick to rubber gloves if I decide to be a criminal.