Been awfully busy lately.  Which is a good thing.  Been slowly adding to my portfolio, polishing up my resume, getting business cards and getting ready for all the events that comes with the Vancouver International Film Festival.  I'm lucky to have a month break from the set of "2012" at this time because I get the chance to watch all the movies and enjoy the festivities.

I recently saw "The Good, The Bad, and The Weird".  A Korean drama, action and comedy all in one.  And it was pretty spectacular.  Starring 3 of what I hear is Korea's biggest male stars, they were all out to get their hands on this treasure map to find some unknown treasure buried somewhere along to border of Russia and China.  The action was nicely executed, all 3 stars had great roles with the comedy guy (couldn't figure out the names exactly) being the crowd favorite with the sweet Korean humour.

Here's the trailer


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgdpz_0m-8

There are 350 films showing this year, and many of them are award winning already.  If you're anywhere in the Vancouver area at this time you should go and check them out.  I'm gonna see if I can catch a few more films.  I'm very excited to go to the many events and parties around.  Chance to hand out my new business cards (I already want to get rid of them cause I found better ones once I bought these).  And not to mention meeting all the big directors, producers and other actors.

Should be a fun week.

-Osric

I'm working on the film "2012" right now.  Working title is "Farewell Atlantis".  And they have me living in Cache Creek this week.  Population of 1200.  There is exactly 1 pub and lounge, 1 24 hour convenience store and 1 good restaurant.

One very cool thing about a several hundred crew and cast coming to a town of 1200 is that there is absolutely no vacancy anywhere.  We have booked out every last motel around.  The cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson and a few others including myself am staying at a Bona Paste Motel.  Fashionably pink, it features a new swimming pool!  About the size of very small backyard of a Vancouver special house.  They have booked up every hotel/motel in a 40km radius and have taken over several reservations (I feel really bad for those people).  And the best thing is yet to come.  Tomorrow there will be another 300+ extras coming on set.  Wonder how far they'll have to come down from.

Anyways, I'm gonna get back to studying my Tibetan.
Tuk Jay Che

- Osric

I need to buy a camera, don't know how to put cell pictures on cpu.

I have yet to see this.  But I've stumbled upon the trailer of Kung Fu Killers so I thought I'd share it for those who don't get spike TV.

"Trailer looks pretty good"


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOZQQ8Kc6q

Mariah Carey is holding a contest for the best remix for her song "I'll be Lovin' U Long Time".  First thing that came to mind was a very stereotypical Asian woman from bad American movies, but the song isn't as bad as that stereotype and a lot of the remixes are a lot better.

The thing about this contest is that you have to be one of the top 10 highest voted to even be entered into the judging stages.  So it's a huge popularity contest.  My music producer friend, Sean Yee has spent a lot of time on the remix, and is not established in the website, so he's at quite a disadvantage.  He's currently in the top 100.  He is a very talented guy and I love his work. 

If you have the time, please take a listen to his remix.  If you like it, please vote for him, everyone vote counts.


This link will take you to his contest submission.
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/2016

It's been awhile since my last entry but with good reason.  I've been really, really busy.

End of blog.







Hehe, now to expand on the busy.

MOVING OUT!

I have officially moved out of the house.  I am the first in my family to move out.  It is generally known that (in my family) you do not move out until you are married and have a career.  I have broken that and have moved into a very nice place with 2 of my close friends.  One friend who does Wushu with me and another who's a writer.  Living together has been very entertaining with very little conflict.  Except for a few minor details that could be an entire blog itself.  My desk is sideways and that's the way I use it.   For some reason my friend really likes furniture and tells me I'm not giving this desk the "proper respect it deserves".  For that I have two smaller coffee tables upside down and stacked on top of each other.  They make a very nice shelf.  I'll take some pictures sometime and put them up.

It was a huge shock for my parents you can imagine as I was always somewhat of a mama's and daddy's boy.  And this just really caught them off guard.  My mom had too much to say about it when I told you.


STRAY CATS STUDIOS

We're starting a film production company with a few other partners.  I kinda got everyone interested by recruiting them to work on a few projects together and kindling their interest.  We just purchased a Canon AH-X1 camera that we will be using for our next project.  A short film for the Asian Film Festival Contest here in Vancouver here called the Mighty Asian Movie Making Marathon.  Been a spectator for many years, and it's a lot of fun.  So hopefully we can put together something great.


SHOW AND DISASTER

One set back was that we were recently the victims of a breaking and entering.  After a few weeks of living at this new location we did not sleep in till 2am for the first time.  My Wushu group was doing a demonstration to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Ceremony.  It was our biggest performance to date, one that we have spent a month preparing for (that's a long time for us) and we were pretty happy with it.  We took the day off to relax, went to play some games with some of the kids in the group.  Just to get a call from the Realtor that our place was just robbed...  what an ending to the awesome game I was dominating.

11 people in the house.  The first time everyone was out of the house at noon.  Two asian guys in their mid twenties jumped into an open window upstairs and just walked into our 5 bedroom basement downstairs.  The owners came home and they ran off with some of the neighbours catching a glimpse of them before they drove off in their silver compact car.  The owners lost a camera and some cellphones.  They didn't seem like they looked at my room at all.  But they went into my friend's room, dropped a laptop they took from upstairs on my friend's bed and took his laptop instead (it's a very nice one).  Rummaged around his desk to find 200 dollars cash.  Went to my other friend's room and took his Ipod, some watches, including a very expensive Gucci watch he received as a gift from his girlfriend's family.  And as they were trying to take apart our sound system and get to the Xbox 360 it seems like the owners came home from superstore and they ran off.

The owners are great and we really like them.  But this whole event has gotten us overly paranoid.  We have asked for some changes to be made.  But we are really debating moving out again (in less than a month, such a hassle), except to a bigger, cheaper and our own house.  So that's a huge incentive unless they really try to make it up to us.  Cause we lost about 3000 dollars worth of stuff.  We did nothing wrong, we will take much more precaution next time around, but if its at a new place, we don't know yet.

I LOVE THAT I LOVE TO WORK

So after working a few days at Electronic Arts (always a pleasure), I got a supporting role on the upcoming feature film, 2012.  This is one of the biggest feature films to come through Vancouver so I was incredibly happy.  It's a gigantic ensemble cast, so if you want to know who's in it, just IMDB it, quite a few names.  The director/writer/producer is Roland Emmerich, he did "The Day After Tomorrow", "10,000 BC", and "Independence Day".  My character is another "monk" character.  I seem to feel like I'm gonna be type casted.  hehe, except it's a different kind of monk completely and I make my own projects that I can be whoever I want.  Yay!  I was there for the first day of shooting about 2 weeks ago, it was done up in Whistler.  The view was spectacular, they opened up the gondola for us so that we could be at the top of Whistler mountain while the sun was setting.  Was just incredible.  They also gave me a very sweet suite (I love bad puns!).  First time in a King sized bed I think.  Room was super nice but I didn't spend much time there.  One of the Alumni from my Wushu club was actually my stunt double, so we got to hang out and went to some bars.

I have a handful of days left on the project but it is spread out till December.  So they'll be flying me in and out of Kamloops, but that should be fun.

Hmm, I believe that is my life in a nutshell as of late.  Will post pictures if I remember to.