He Said, She Said

Post number 99...this is my last chance to think of something seethingly brilliant to write for my 100th. Why I put this kind of un-needed pressure on myself, I don't know. Should I let it roll over into a Wordless Wednesday? Should I talk about the newest member of our family? Should I stop blogging forever because I've created such a monster called "100th Post" in my mind that I just can't live up to my own expectations?

And then, I think, you probably all don't care. In all probability, you most likely didn't even realize that I'm almost at the 100th mark...

Have you read Jason's post yet? You should read his before you continue with mine...

You see, I feel the need to have to justify the fact that I went to take a shower during what he now considers one of his most favourite movies in the world: IP Man. Which I also think is a strange name for the movie since its neither the Chinese title or the meaning of the Chinese title. But seriously, you should watch it (if you're into Kung Fu flicks)...and when you do, you can tell me what its about. Ok, granted his Chinese is better than mine -- but how can you watch a film when you don't understand the entire dialogue??? What if you miss something very important -- like when the wife says 'we should call the baby after your kung fu master who died saving us from the Japanese and preferred his wife's green tea to all others?' The jist of the conversation is that you know they're talking about naming the baby. My point is the detail! How can you watch a movie and be satisfied not understanding the detail???

This is the second time we've tried to watch this movie -- I can't find it in English no matter what the cover says. It stinks. I think, its like Americans trying to watch "The Castle" for the first time with no understanding of the Australian culture. Anyway, I just find it awfully frustrating not knowing what's going on in movies, so that's why I went to take a shower.

Also another question is left burning in my mind: Is this a guy thing? Is this really how they see life in general...Well, I got the jist of what she was saying.
Well, yes but you forgot to put the yoghurt in the fridge.
But I saw there was yoghurt!

Yes the jist. But ah! The details!

And just to be perfectly clear on one other thing -- I don't watch Hollywood films such as Troy or whatever other movie we picked up a while back at Wal-mart that was supposed to have English and didn't in Chinese either. The same as I don't watch IP Man in English but I like to have my English subtitles so I know what the heck is going on and don't have to work my brain to understand everything...movie watching in a foreign language isn't very relaxing. But I will say it was really funny listening to the Chinese dubbing trying to pronounce 'Achilles' since Chinese doesn't use the 'lah' sound in the middle of anything. I think in the first 10 minutes of the movie, 'Achilles' was pronounced differently every time they said it. There was a lot of hesitating before saying the word and an awful lot of mumbling...you could just hear the Chinese cursing the Greeks in the back of their minds...