Archive for March, 2006

I’m currently at the Jinjiang hotel in Chengdu. As you all know, I had a blast the last time I was here. Chengdu is truly a magical place, with delicious (and cheap!) Sichuan food and, more importantly, the cutest girls in the entire world. Alas, since I’m only in town for a little less than [...]

Haven’t posted in a while, and that can be entirely attributed to one thing: Steve came back to Shanghai.
When Steve (Xu) is back, it usually means that I call in sick and wander around town in a hung-over, zombie-like state. It also means that we sit around in a lot of karaoke places, drinking the [...]

These past few days have been rock solid, a 10 out 10. This is primarily due to a the following reasons:
1) If you google “Eric Hu,” guess which site pops up? That’s right, biatches (or, as Steven up in Beijing inexplicably spells it, biotches), it’s this blog right here. Which means that in this past [...]

Wang Lee Hom (王力宏) is a complete tool. He described his album as “chinked-out,” which he defines as:
The term “chinked-out” comes from “chink,” which was used to put down Chinese people. “Chinked-out” turns the negative meaning of “chink” upside-down, and uses it as material to form a musical style.
Chinese pop music does not have [...]

As some of you may know, I transferred to another position at the beginning of the year, which meant that I moved from an office in the middle of nowhere in Pudong (Wai Gao Qiao) to an office in the middle of nowhere in Puxi (Minhang). Since the Pudong office was essentially a bunch of [...]

Well, I don’t actually mean that, since I did get up early yesterday and put on my tuxedo so I could watch a tape delayed telecast of the ceremony. That’s 14 straight years and going strong of watching the awards show, and more impressive is that I’ve been able to keep that going since moving [...]

I know we’re well into ‘06 and it’s a little late to be doing this, but I figured that on the eve of the Academy Awards, this is probably the last chance I’ll actually get to write about what I thought were the best movies of 2005. Since I’m following the Oscar ground-rules that state [...]