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The Yankees are playing the Padres at home… Suddenly think those players look good in their home jersey. I think I’d look good in it, too!

Wang Chien Ming was hurt when running bases in last night’s game. (Frankly I was running bases yesterday, too, and I wasn’t hurt… He’s a good athlete and def. more fit than me and he got hurt from just running??? But anyway…) Let’s hope he is not hurt that badly and can come back soon. But so far, it doesn’t sound good…

I had fond memories of it from my NYU days… But the Kinko’s brand is no more…

is that when I go eat, the serving is usually so small!!! And then I’d get hungry so quickly after a meal… Damn…

and I’m so tired……

Taiwanese golfer, Yani Tseng, just won the LPGA Championship, becoming the second younger winner of a LPGA major (and the first Taiwanese to do it?). Nice! See the story on ESPN.com.

The “Party World KTV” is a knock-off. It’s not the cashbox chain from Taiwan and it’s not very nice!!! Grrrrrrrrrr……….

Seems like a nice city. Modern and clean! Still a bit crowded but not so bad… Have a lot of places I’m familiar with, like Borders (bookstore), HMV (music and movie store), California (fitness center) and even Cashbox (KTV)… I think if I lived here, I’d enjoy it!

(Do not read if you haven’t seen the movie and do want to know the plot.)

Before going to see this movie I heard that it got bad reviews in the press. But whatever… that usually doesn’t prevent me from going to movies I wanna see. Although just this week I was disappointed once already by Indiana Jones. Anyway, I was looking forward to seeing this so I went.

I thought the movie showed a lot of believable human emotions — in part because of the story and in part because of the good acting job. I was especially moved by the scene when Carrie left the library and ran into Mr. Big on the street, instead of kiss and make up, she hit him with the flowers in her hand and with a lot of rage. It was interesting that she yelled out “You humiliated me” instead of something like “How could you do this to me?” or “You hurt me.” Perhaps the writers were hinting something about Carrie’s character. That being humiliated was somehow more devastating to her than anything else.

Anyway, in general I thought the movie was good. The story moved quickly and was generally very engaging. But of course, I was also upset by the big happy ending when all was said and done. That was the one thing I didn’t like Hollywood movies! I like my movies to be realistic unless it’s clearly a Sci-Fi or fantasy movie. In life we don’t often get happy endings like in the movie. That in the end Carrie and Mr. Big still got married just ruined the movie for me.

Oh well…