Laid back Saturday

March 10 – Saturday and John decided not to go to work – YEAH!! We hung out at home, then wandered Soho (area below our apartment). We went to the frame shop & picked out frames and matting for some of our favorite photos. The man & his wife were very nice & helpful. I felt kind of dumb having to ask their opinion on everything, but I’m not used to doing this sort of thing. They were very helpful.

We tried to go to a Lebanese restaurant for an early dinner, but they didn’t open until 6, so we got sushi from our local grocery store & had a relaxing dinner at home. We watched The Departed on DVD. Pretty depressing movie, but people here were very excited that it got he Oscar because it is based on a movie about HK & written by a HK guy. People here were upset that at the Oscars I guess someone said the movie was based on another movie, but they said Japanese instead of Chinese. The woman who told me this was just amazed that someone could get Japan & China mixed up. She said Japan is very small, China is very big – how dumb does someone have to be to get the 2 countries mixed up. She said I guess because we all are Asian, then Americans think we are all the same. We are very insulted that this guy didn’t know the difference. This was Hong Kong’s chance to make the big time & he thinks we are Japan. It funny how upset this one woman was about it. But the guy should have gotten it right if he was going to bother to make the point. At least now you all know!!