Tuesday, April 11th, 2010 - Two months and 22 days since arriving in Beijing.

I got a call from Maya this evening while I left after having dinner with some friends. She asked me what I was wearing and I thought to myself that that was just a little odd. But I went with it, "Ok, I'm wearing a jacket, and a sweater, and jeans, shoes" (my Mandarin's great now, haha), and she said "No, no, no". Turns out she wanted to know what my sizes were. Maya is the casting director for the film I've been in consideration for. Two...Read more

Oh China... Traffic. 4th Edition.

There are many Chinese stereotypes. A very prominent one is that Chinese people can't drive and being in Beijing that has become hard to ignore. When people mention a Chinese stereotype to me, I always say that we're almost a third of the world's population, so we should not only have the world's worst but the world's best at everything as well (Chinese people aren't short either once you visit a Basketball schools...). With so many million cars on the street here in such a small areas, it&...Read more

Blog: Tuesday, Mar 16

I find myself ignoring AND again!  NOoo.. must not.  Been a little busier, which is great.  I still update my website quite regularly, so to save time I will post bits of it here starting with this last weekend's activity!

"My Chinese friends here don't get much of a chance to exercise with full time jobs on the weekdays, so to make up for it they usually do some sort of physical activity on the weekend. It's Saturday, it also happens to be hike day.

I haven't been on a hike in a long time but I ...Read more

2010 Vancouver Olympics

Olympics have come to Vancouver and I am in Beijing.

I won't miss the crazy traffic, the hours waiting in line for many of the events and all the restricted areas that have popped up Downtown, however,  I do wish I could experience the extra hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, the festivities, the victory celebrations and the hockey atmosphere. 

One of the simple pleasures I've had in the past few weeks is waking up early enough to catch the Men's Hockey games.  Canada vs. Russia this morning ...Read more

And hello again

So it's been a year, 2 months, and 4 days since my last entry, I figured I would get back to posting here.  Seeing that I'm in Beijing now, all of those events I get invites to I could actually attend finally!  Rather than ignoring seeing that it has always been on the other side of the planet.

A quick entry to start.  Later on I'll post more pics and stuff probably.  I've been in Beijing for a month now, primary focus to learn Mandarin, speak, read, write.  I'm doing pretty good so far, I can get around everyday l...Read more

2012 Wrap Party

The wrap party for 2012 was pretty intense.  There was a guest list of 550 people, but I'm sure more than that attended, which is normal.  The Plaza club on Granville here in Vancouver was decorated in a Tibetan village sort of way.  Some of the background performers were even invited to enjoy the open bar with one stipulation... they had to wear their costumes, just to add a touch of authenticity.

Was a crazy night, there was delicious finger food, open bar, photo booth that came with a long line up and of course great music to f...Read more

Fighting Faith : Short Film

The last few months has been a very busy one for me and I'm very thankful for that.  Aside from working on the huge blockbuster "2012", I had the opportunity to work on a short film between shoot days on "2012".

The Storyline:

The film is called "Fighting Faith".  It's the story of Alex, a gang boss's son, who is being trained by his father's lieutenant, Kyran, to fight and help accomplish his father's goals.  Kyran, who fights with ice is his veins, is as loyal as ...Read more

Teaser Trailer for Roland Emmerich's "2012"

This is what I have been doing for the last few months not blogging here.  Just finished a short film (I'll blog that later), going to film festival events and this.

This is probably the biggest budgeting film ever to be done in Canada.  For me it's an adventure going on set.  Never know where I'm going to end up.  The cast for 2012 is as huge as the movie with many established actors.

It stars John Cusack and Amanda Peet.  Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson, T...Read more

Awesome Body Builder

Saw this, thought it was pretty awesome and figured I'd share it.  This made me laugh but I was very impressed at the same time.

Video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gfg5OouFo6M

WCCMA Wushu, another dinner, another demo, shot with XH-A!

Me and roommates just got this new camera, so tested it out for the first time here with a Wushu demo for another anniversary for one of the many Chinese associations around.

Not your usual demo, we decided not to wear the usual silks or use traditional music (nor anvils and hammers). But you can't hear that since we forgot to record the sound (still getting used to using the camera) and so I just put in some music that's kinda similar because I didn't have time to find the right ...Read more