Day 98: Chungking Express

[He Zhiwu, Cop 223] Somehow everything comes with an expiry date. Swordfish expires. Meat sauce expires. Even cling-film expires. Is there anything in the world which doesn’t?

[He Zhiwu, Cop 223] We’re all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.

Day 88: Powder Up My Nose

So I was chatting with a friend, and in our conversation she mentioned “NET cafe” in Japan. I asked her “huh, such thing still exists in Japan? Because in my impression, quán net kinda went extinct a long time ago, since it’s common for every household to have internet access at home.” To that she said, “oh no it’s a different thing in Japan, just google Net cafe and you’ll see”. So I did, and yes, the first result was this, and it’s really a different thing, not at all related to a store where you can go there and rent a PC to browse the internet and get charged by hour. Man, what a misleading term.

Day 19: Pulp Fiction

Some fun facts (druggie “knowledge”) from Pulp Fiction, Quentin’s masterpiece.

According to a convention of drug users (as well as drug dealers), coke (cocaine) should be contained in “baggies”, while heroin should be stored in “balloons”: