Aug 23, 2025
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via Mandy Forlenza's Instagram // Mandy Forlenza captured this picture of Asa Butterfield arriving at the Hong Kong International Airport, in which he was greeted by his Chinese Asanators, before heading to the ferry to Macau, China!
via Instagram // Asa Butterfield informs us that he has made it to the ferry, even though he was a little late for the ferry. He is now headed to Macau, China for IFFAMACAO to promote his upcoming film, #JourneysEnd!
via Instagram // Asa Butterfield is departing Hong Kong and is about to take a ferry (a type of boat) to Macau, China for the IFFAMACAO on December 8th through December 14th!
Music Today
In 2000, The Beatles launched their first official website www.thebeatles.com. in 1976, Led Zeppelin scored their seventh UK No.1. As for more modern music stuff, for today's most viewed music Justin Beiber has taken 2 top five spots. Although Justin is climbing his way to number one Adele has been holding on to it for quite a while with “hello”. At the pace Adele is going she has a very good chance at taking the top spot of the most viewed of all time from Taylor swift.
A little life update.
The past week or two have been particularly eventful ones in my life. As you might've guessed from these ramblings, this boy called me from China and told me he was still in love with me.
Crazy, right? So let me give you some background.
He is spending this year abroad doing research (he spent the fall in Rome and is currently in Beijing... the exact same program I did two years ago) so we decided to end things, mainly because of the distance, when he left for Rome this fall. Things ended pretty amicably between us, but for whatever reason, we hadn't really talked at all until a few weeks ago when he called me while boarding his flight to China.
Because obviously, it's a good idea to call someone you haven't spoken to in months while flight attendants are yelling at you to turn off all electronic devices, right? Boys, I'm telling you, sometimes they don't use their brains.
Anyway, we started e-mailing back and forth after that, and then we started talking on the phone, and so on and so forth. The next thing I knew, he was telling me how much he missed me and that he was still in love with me and all other kinds of sweet stuff that he had planned to wait to tell me in person but just spilled out then instead.
I was shocked but relieved, overwhelmed but absolutely giddy. I'd recently started going on actual dates with other boys... and I hated it. Even with the attention of these smart, sweet, handsome men who currently lived in the same city as me, all I could think about on those dates was how much I missed him. Despite how stubbornly I tried to get over him, I realized, around the same time as him, that I am very much still in love with him as well.
After a few days of talking as much as humanly possible, I thought he was joking when he offered to buy me a plane ticket to Beijing. I studied there two years ago, and he knows that I miss it desperately.
So this long, rambling post? It's my round about way of telling you that a boy just bought me a plane ticket to China. Excited doesn't begin to cover how I feel right now.
I leave for Beijing in less than two weeks. This is all crazy, flat out insane, and I know that. But I'm insanely happy, grinning like an idiot, and for whatever reason, I just feel sure this is the right thing to do.
*Side note: When I asked my boss if I could take time off for this last minute vacation, she laughed and said "Hey, when a boy you love buys you a plane ticket, you don't ask questions... You just go." My boss is the coolest. Life lessons at the office, for the win.
Don't Know How We Managed It
The visa came!! Yaay. With 3 days to spare. Currency is ordered, flights and visas in hand. Just to sort travel insurance and we are on that plane on Tuesday! Now after all that panicking... It is finally sinking in. Ohhhh gawd! We're moving to China.
Anna May Wong in China Bound, photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise (1929)