At Constellation 2 with my good friend Mr. Moscow Mule: http://twitpic.com/wzt7 #
At constellation 2 after all u can eat japanese after buffet brunch at golden jaguar. My body hates me. #
@jennwong went to thai place on jinxian, then kiito’s, then shelter. Looks like we switched places for a night. in reply to jennwong #
Another religious [...]
Tags: twitter
Just received this e-mail greeting card from the PR agency AsiaMedia. They do a pretty good job with their clients, as I frequently get e-mails and invites to events even if I don’t always mention them in my writing. Sure, it’s their job, but I know plenty of flaky PR agencies who live off of [...]
Tags: asiamedia, chinese propaganda, christmas
I just had a brief Google chat with my friend Jean. She’s living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with her husband and son. She’s very pregnant and is returning to the hometown in which we both grew up to have her second baby. She is a Wellesley and Georgetown grad and used to play volleyball and basketball [...]
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Oscar season is upon us, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named their award recipients. Kudos to giving some shine to Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E which I saw by my lonesome self on a late August afternoon at the Pacific Place movie theatre in Hong Kong. I saw that right before Dark Knight, which was [...]
There has been lots of buzz surrounding Burger King’s Whopper Virgins (agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky) campaign, in which documentary filmmaker (and 70’s skateboard phenom) Stacey Peralta travels with a Burger King funded production crew to remote parts of the world and conducts Big Mac/Whopper taste tests for people who have no concept of what [...]
Tags: advertising
A WTF moment when I came across the following paragraph from a Bloomberg piece on the famous Shanghainese establishment Jesse:
I personally consider roast fatty pork to be the pinnacle of Shanghai cuisine. It is to this city what the cheese steak sandwich is to Philadelphia or Rice-A-Roni to San Francisco. The incarnation on offer at [...]
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