Weekend Scraps

I had a good time scrapping with the ladies on Saturday. I finished 9 pages of photos from the cruise my son and I took. It was fun going back over all the photos and remembering how much we enjoyed that trip and the fun we had. He would like to go on another cruise. I told him that would be great and we would definitely go....as soon as he could pay for it. And, of course, we’ll have to find a ship without a casino.
Saturday night I went to see "The Departed" with some friends at the UC. The place was nearly full. It brought back memories of seeing movies at the UC when I was an undergrad. "The Departed" was very good and I can understand the recent nominations. There were so many characters who got shot in the head, however, that in the end everyone was just laughing about it. After the movie, I was surprised to learn from two Chinese friends that "The Departed" was a remake of a popular Chinese movie that came out in 2002. In fact, it was a 3 film series so there is a sequel to "The Departed" wherein we learn the identity of the police psychologist’s baby’s father. As quoted from the Hollywood Reporter: "The film, written by William Monahan ("Kingdom of Heaven"), derives from "Infernal Affairs," a hugely popular 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller co-directed by Alan Mak and Andrew Lau Wai Keung and written by Mak and Felix Chong. That too was a doozy of tight construction and breathtaking suspense. The story remains remarkably intact despite its transfer from cops and criminals in Hong Kong to a war between state police and a tough Irish mob in south Boston."