as of late

I'm back in NYC.  Home sweet home!  What a whirlwind the last week or so has been.  Last week, I was in Shanghai, Pucheon in Korea, and then New York in a 7 day span.  I'm kind of done with aeroplanes but I think for as long as I do what I'm doing, the travel is just something I'm going to have to accept.  Whenever Richard Branson perfects that space travel idea of his, I'm signing up.

I just spent the past 6 weeks in Asia - primarily in Shanghai again - and the heat was gettin' completely unbearable.  But I had to be there to wrap up voiceover work for Shanghai Rush.  The season finished out and I'm hoping some of you got to watch!  Apparently, enough of Shanghai did that they would like to do a second season - though nothing's in stone.  Let's keep our fingers crossed, but no matter what happens, I'm thankful I had the opportunity.  I had tons of fun with it, learned lots about Shanghai and China in general, and made lots of great new friends.  On top of all that, it allowed me to immerse myself in the Asian film/tv industry where I met a lot of people and will hopefully get to work with some of them on future projects.

During my stay, I got to attend the Shanghai International Film Festival which was great.  I'm developing a feature that was in the co-pitch program there.  Then, last week, I went over to Korea and participated in a film development lab in Pucheon as part of the PiFan Film Festival with a different feature I'm working on with my filmmaker friend Ted Chung.  If I haven't shared his work on this space before, do yourselves a favor and check out his short films.  He's got an uncanny ability to brilliantly tell a story that draws an audience into his characters.  After meeting him at East West Players in LA and knowing him for over 12 years, I'm really excited about working on his first feature with him.  It's a real honor.

I'm developing yet another feature set in China and so between these producing responsibilities on 3 films and counting, SR, and another hosting gig that was offered to me by the same network that aired SR, it's keeping my plate full.

I got home in time this past weekend to catch some stuff at the New York International Asian American Film Festival.  I was surprised at myself for experiencing no jet lag during the weekend.  But then Monday came and for some weird reason, delayed lag set in and the past couple of days, I've had some sleepless nights and zombie like afternoons - like right now as I write this.  Don't I sound as dry as a desert right now?

I gotta return to SH for a couple of weeks in a few weeks so I'm bracing myself for the long flight again, but until then, I'm going to soak in my New York moments and what's left of the summer.  Compared to China, it feels like winter here!  I guess I live a hyphenated life as a Chinese-American and, accordingly, I'm living a hyphenated life between China-America.