After London, we flew out on a glorious day to Cannes where the annual film festival had already opened and the weather was even more glorious.

First check out the apartment, Michelle and I stayed in.  I've been to Cannes numerous times and this is definitely the nicest apartment I've stayed in.

After settling in, Michelle and I headed to registration and on to the Palais floor … we were after all there for work … so as much as I wanted to throw on my bikini and hang out on the beach, I found myself manning a booth taking questions about Singapore film.  Thank goodness the company was good 🙂

There were a couple of celebrity sightings like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie … just realised, how you see them in the magazines are how they look like real life at the festival 🙂

The thing I like about coming to Cannes is the quaint little eateries, like this tea place where the service was good which is very unusual in France 😛

Lovely ice mint tea and fresh tomato, basil and mozzarella cheese … yummmmmmmilicious and of course, we went to the great wood-fire oven place too.  We had a little dinner party at the pretty apartment, it was all really quite lovely.  The only thing was that I wished I was on a holiday … … the Italian guy who was making our pizza was so nice and even took a picture of us by the oven 🙂

Jules and I were entertaining ourselves taking pictures while we were waiting for the pizza to be made.  All in all, the 60th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival was rather quiet.  We were busy enough for work and made enough time for hanging out with friends.  With Jules moving to Japan, it's likely to be the last official trip we make together … coz never say never, I say :)  Maybe one day, we'll both be there because the film we made was chosen to be screened there!!  And maybe, just maybe one day they'll ask us to be part of the publicity too 🙂

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… not exactly since most of it was spent in meetings and crazy traffic so it's more like 1 day in London 😛 … I'm slowly learning that all modern cities have insane crazy traffic which makes me grateful for the traffic in Singapore, even at it's worst it's not as crazy as some of these cities I've had to visit.  That's my favourite part of going away – coming home but I digress this post is suppose to be about London.

After the wedding, unlike most brides, I didn't go on a honeymoon but a work trip.  Two days after the wedding to be exact.  Yes, A. is a pretty cool guy 🙂

So after a 12hour flight on a pretty empty place, we arrive in Heathrow on May16, at like 6am in the morning and although, I haven't been back in London for quite a while, the dreary weather was still the same.

Still there is something about London that is quite intriguing, I'm not sure is it because of my love for the authors who wrote about England from Enid Blyton, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, William Blake to Dylan Thomas … hang on I don't think Thomans is from England per se but going through the streets of London brought out an intense need to write.  Wonder why being home doesn't do quite the same thing to me?

Just when I thought the dreary rain was going to kill my inspiration, I saw London like I never have before.

Blue beautiful skies, warm weather and smiling faces looking up while they're walking about doing their thing.  Ideas were rushing through my head as I sat through meetings trying my best to look interested but really, all I wanted to do was sit in a park and write.

So in London I finished a beat for an animation short.  The idea has been brewing in my head for a while and I've only written a scene here or there.  Now I have to finish the script and next stop getting it done … hmmm somehow I think that's going to take a lot more than a trip away.

Keeping my fingers cross that I'll find my way back to London again and hopefully with a little more time so that I get to see little Saffy and her Mummy, Nat whom I didn't get a chance to even say hi to.  So, Saff dearie if you're reading this till my next trip to London, HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, Ahoy Matey 🙂 *parrot flies off my shoulder in the direction of London*

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… ok these last few posts are VERY OVERDUE postings and I'm not in Hong Kong at the moment, just thought I clarify that coz I confused a friend into thinking I'm in Hong Kong at the moment 😛

So for here's the last retrospective post about the last day in Hong Kong where Jules and I checked out of our hotels early in the morning, met for breakfast before hitting the stores 🙂 and then to the airport for our flight home.

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It was such a fun girlfriend day, chit chatting, giving/receiving the necessary second opinion when shopping and just having plain fun because no straight guy friend would understand walking into every store of a mall just to check things out 😛

So yes, I'll miss you, Jules but can't wait to read about your expeditions from Japan 🙂

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… ok, this is really late but it's been a while since I was last back in Hong Kong so here's the update from the city after we left Seoul.

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So after waking up overly early in Seoul, got on the plane, we were in Hong Kong before mid day.  Needless to say our hotel room at the Marco Polo wasn't ready so I had to change out of my travel plane clothes into my presentable work clothes in the handicap washroom of the lobby … asked my boss for 15mins … felt like Superman  and I was ready to hit the Hong Kong Filmart in what I think was about 15.8mins.

Marco Polo Hotel is on the Kowloon side and the Filmart was on the Hong Kong Island side.  Left to my own devices I would have trekked my way on the MTR and found my way across through the tunnel.  Thankfully I had my boss with me who lived in Hong Kong before and showed me a real treat in Hong Kong.

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Day01

I'm back in Santa Monica … this time for the AFCI Locations Trade Show where all the different locations in the world gather in one place and try to woo films to come to their respective destination and guess what happened?  Our package has been held up at customs … apparently because it contains a flammable substance … we reckon it's the liquid paper 😛

But after being harassed by me, it's been released … finally and we'll have our brochures and stuff tomorrow … so yes, we started Day01 with what ever we carried with us on the plane … and no one would have been the wiser 🙂

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