As I was telling Chris and Nam Jae over the weekend in Vegas, this is most certainly the movie I would make if millions of (extra) dollars fell into my lap. I say this, of course, without having seen the finished product. But the idea isn't too far from what I had after Shaolin Soccer and disappointing Japanese treatments. Meh, it's at least worth a rental during Christmas.

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I love ヴェラ because she took the 豬血糕 I did a real bachelor's job reheating—meaning cracking open the lid—back to the microwave, stood in front for some time, and returned with it completely transformed, the cilantro neatly stacked on top of each piece, the crushed peanuts and chili sauce (and heat) more of a presence than a formality, determined as she was to convince me that the brownie-like version at Kanpai a week before was, and she's right, a poor introduction to the delicacy.

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…Had a thought: why not keep the account, save twenty bucks a month by removing the BlackBerry service (after all, I'll need some kind of mobile), and take my chances that extending the contract or assuming a new one will save me from ponying up hundreds for a different phone in the future?

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The perv in me is telling me to keep the 786-7878 number I got for my company phone (even if I don't know Taiwanese), but the last T-Mobile rep I spoke to says it goes with the account if I Change-of-Responsibility the remainder of the 2-year contract. If I hand over just the Pearl, I'm stuck with the $69.99/month and only my old RAZR for the SIM. And paying for a new BlackBerry—although I must admit the form factor and push e-mail have grown on me, so the rumored Q4 update is all the more appealing. But I'm not about to concede the slightest leverage, you know?

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Had this idea last night to make my last day here anything but anticlimactic, but no one seemed to agree with me. Why don't people ever want to make a single moment of their lives act out like the end of a Korean drama? Is it because there's the matter of the plane ticket that has to be refunded after the flight's canceled? Speaking of which, my new theme song is 백수별곡 from 메리대구 공방전. ヴェラ and I don't fight nearly as much, but things can be trying. Yesterday we were eating lunch in the park and I was trying to make serious conversation when the grape tomato in my mouth squirted out. Then start up again, and a leaf fell and landed on my head.

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