Mamma Mia! movie

10 Random Things I've Fallen in Love With in 2008


1. Lee Pace's hands
Lee Pace has very beautiful hands. I realised this when I watched The Fall (amazing movie; watch it. It's available on Youku) and a behind-the-scenes for Soldier's Girls. Lee Pace is a very beautiful man - yes, beautiful - in general, but his hands... *g*


2. House M.D.
House M.D. is one of the best tv shows ever written... Maybe the best. Ha, ha. Hugh Laurie's character, Gregory House, is perfectly balanced out with Robert Sean Leonard's Robert Wilson and Lisa Edelstein's Lisa Cuddy. The lines are perfectly scripted and wordy (for an American show), the humour is so British (for an American show) and the plots are so well laid-out. Go House M.D.


3. Coldplay
I've always thought that Coldplay was pretty good, but this year I listened closely to A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y, and I realised that all the songs contained a sentiment that was hidden somewhere in my heart. But let's move on before I turn too soppy.


4. Robert Wilson
From House M.D. Need I say more?

5. Pushing Daisies
This made me a Lee Pace fan. Quirky, odd, and brilliant, I'm a firm advocate of reviving the tv show again, or at least making a full-length movie to tie off the loose ends of the tv show.

6. Wicked
My first West End musical!! My Elphaba was Alexia Khadime, Dianne Pilkington as Glinda and Oliver Tompsett as Fiyero. I'd been hoping to go see Kerry Ellis as Elphaba, because my friend Jessica saw her as Elphie in February when she was in London. However, Ellis is on a short-term contract on Broadway. She's back in Wicked London, I think. I love the songs and the characters, although Fiyero should have had more songs and the plot got a little messy sometimes.

7. Colin Firth
I've seen quite a few Colin Firth movies this year - Bridget Jones's Diary, Mamma Mia!, and I rewatched What a Girl Wants. Colin Firth always brings a new dimension to his characters, especially Mamma Mia!. His character Harry could have been extremely stupid and flat, but Colin Firth brings this cute bubbliness to it. And Colin Firth makes socially awkward but secretly brilliant barristers more awesome than ever.

8. Lee Pace
He's brilliant and beautiful. There, I said it. Go Lee Pace. You're awesome.

9. Men in tuxes
Because guys nowadays wear their jeans too low, their boxers too proudly, their hair too shaggily... and the list could go on, but I won't take it out on modern guys, because despite some of them dress like that, their okay. But most guys nowadays are jerks. Why don't we all become celibate and hide in nunneries? Then all of MANkind will know what they've taken for granted.


10. Camping
I've fallen in love with camping thanks to Emma. I love you Emmy!!!! You're amazing, and so is your mum and your dad and your brother. (Yes, you, Tom. Behave.) Wales and even the mud of Bath and West, 50p showers that actually cost 1 pound because there isn't enough water to get the soap out of your hair.

Coldplay - Amsterdam

5 Random Things I Love About Shanghai

1. The random squabbles I see on the streets. No idea what it's about, but it's fun to watch.
2. My orthodontist clinic is on the same floor as the STD clinic.
3. They sell soy sauce at M&S, but no mince pies apparently. (I've not been there myself, but friend's mum did.)
4. You get to bargain and haggle, just like the good old days.
5. After a few months year, you tend to forget that clouds actually do exist.

I wanted to write 10 Random Things, but I just couldn't think of any... Not that I don't love Shanghai. I love Shanghai! It's a quite amazing place to live. But my mind is at a total blank right now...