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Traditionally, Hong Kong cinema has exported martial-arts skills, tough-guy personas and the ability to leap from tall buildings in a single take - but its actors are only rarely in demand for their acting.



When it comes to standing still and giving a dramatic performance, Tony Leung Chiu-wai is practically the only name on the list.



Leung is one of the few Hong Kong actors to have won an international acting prize (best actor at Cannes for Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love), and it's an exceptional year when he doesn't win something at the national film awards.



He has been called Hong Kong's answer to Johnny Depp, partly because of his adoring female fans and age-proof pin-up looks (he's 41), but also for his ability to switch between small art films and big commercial ones without missing a step.



As well as Wong Kar-wai, he has worked with other high-end Asian directors - China's Zhang Yimou, Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien, Vietnam's Tran Anh Hung - and has starred in local hits such as John Woo's Hard Boiled and suspense thriller Infernal Affairs, which was Hong Kong's biggest box office hit of 2002 and is due for UK release this week.



But where Depp is the lovable eccentric, Leung is the tragic hero - solitary, sensitive and vulnerable. He has a way of conveying suppressed emotion, with furrowed brow and eyes welling with tears, that makes women want to take him home and look after him, and men want to emulate him. Read more.



Listening to: Revolution Radio

Or: AskMen.com





I'm looking forward for this movie.



Listening to: Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

Stuff that I am playing with these days:

1. Gentoo. Lots of them. My team will be annihating Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 and deploy Gentoo on over 30 plus PCs.
   
   
2. Plone. Finally, a chance to mess around with Python.
   
   
3. Jboss. I just can't run away from Java. *Sigh*.
   
   
4. PostgreSQL. Finally, a better RDBMS than MySQL.
   
   

Nothing. Interesting. Really.

To get a sun block...


... and a shave.





Listening to: Massive Attack - Future Proof

Let's get this straight. My mastery of the Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien is limited to exactly 28 swear words. For example, I can say "ni de mar de chao hai" without blinking an eye or passing gas. And I can do that with while having one middle finger right up my nose.



OK. I'm kidding. I like LMF or lazymuthafucka because they swear a lot. I mean, every song in their album is dedicated to the perfecting the usage of Cantonese/Mandarin and Hokkien swear words. I don't understand most of the words, in fact I can't even distinguish between Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkein, but mention a swear word and I can recognize it right away. 28 swear words, to be exact.



Anyway, I like LMF not because they swear, but because of the brand of music that they play. Hip-hop, grunge, funk, garage-trash-rock. Listen to the songs and you'll know what I mean.



This one particular track, which I don't know the title, is one of my favorite. The Realazy Wofo is a short track that I like as well.



So, for this week's SOTW, I present two songs, from LMF. This song is dedicated to all the lazy motherfuckers out there. Peace out!



SOTW: LMF - (I don't know the title) and The Realazy Wofo