What time is it there?

10:43 am GMT... in about 19 hours, I'll be home back in London...

It's sad to think that my HK trip is about to end, as I'm getting ready to board the plane tonight.  I had such a great time, thanks to T, Pat, Stephen, Mark, Boon... and the great people whom I met,  Sam, Angela, Kevan (!!) and Oki.  I'm glad too that I had time to catch up with my old friends, Eva and Irene, thanks to these two who got me to experience my first 12-hr karaoke marathon!  I've come to the conclusion that the theme song for上海灘  ("Shanghai Beach" I guess would be the English translation... the old TVB series w/ Chow Yun Fat) is the best thing to sing in the k-room!  Plus last night's k-time with Kevan and Angela... I guess this trip turned out to be quite karaoke oriented.  Considered that I normally don't sing, that's alot...   And I got to hang out with Eugenia, which was awesome, as usual.  Gonna miss her so when I go back to Blighty!

I think I finished doing what I needed to do here - prepped and shot some b-roll (thanks to Panasonic and David,) met some great people regarding my feature project, did a preliminary local budget, finished discussing the music for T's short... and even did an interview at Diesel w/ Jto, Derek, Kim and T.  So all in all, it's been a very productive trip.

As much as I wanna go home, see my family and friends and sleep in my own bed, I always feel sad when I have to leave HK... partly because I don't wanna part with my friends here, and partly because this city feeds me loads of inspiration...  though I think I've had enough of the humidity and heat... I'm somewhat looking forward to the London chill...

My social life will end the minute I arrive London, I have to hide and start rewriting my scrīpt.  For me, it's the most important part of screenwriting and I often find myself stuck even more during my rewrite... I need to detach myself from what I've written and to look at it somewhat "objectively", so that I could be open and do changes if need be...  Basically, it's the time when I have to "kill my darlings"... (Dax, would you agree?)  Anyway, I'm sure I'll blog more about this later once I get that going...

In the meantime, I'm just thinking how much I'm gonna miss everyone here, the AnD office and admin bear...  hopefully, I'll get to come back soon and start my feature... fingers crossed!

p.s.

Pat - you and me... "Zombie"!