"Same Same But Different"

I think I have a new love. I had watched The Reader not long ago (when I should have actually been writing papers/studying for exams) and I instantly fell in love with the movie. I also think I have fallen in love with the actor who plays the main character of young Michael Berg - David Kross. Wow what a cutie! Now he's going to be playing in the movie Same Same But Different with another beautiful co-actress. Looking at the production blog of the movie really makes me want to visit Southeast Asia again (it's set in Cambodia)...though they also have pictures of fried tarantulas and other yum-yums... but I haven't gone back to Malaysia in maybe 13 years? I just don't know if the movie will be released in Canada or even North America because it's directed by a German director (Detlev Buck) and will be released in Germany in October. It just sounds like such a beautiful movie, and it's based on a true story! Anyway, this is my fangirl moment of the day. I will likely have more entries about David Kross and this movie later on... just thought I'd share my new boy-actor crush ^.^; (because UNlike just about every other girl I know..Robert Pattinson is kinda weirding me out).

Karl Marx speaks Mandarin

So I was in Switzerland in December visiting my boyfriend. We went to Luzern after visiting his mother in Göschenen. We were walking around the city and about to cross a street to view the water (Lake Lucerne). Across the crosswalk, there was an older man in a suit. My boyfriend whispers to me that he looks kind of like Karl Marx. We start chuckling a bit, and then it's time to cross the street. As "Karl" walks toward us, we try to keep a straight face. When he passes us, he says in a very low voice to me: "Ni hao". This could be because there are many many Asian tourists in Lucerne but for some reason not in the rest of Switzerland, and since I'm Chinese, perhaps he was trying to practice his Mandarin on me. After "Karl" passed us, we immediately burst out laughing as we cross the street. It was the funniest and most unexpected thing to have happened in Lucerne. So we concluded that Karl Marx lives in Switzerland and speaks Mandarin.