I wanted to see this for the last few months after seeing some artist's post up stills from the set. Luckily I was able to catch a screening in CWB this week before it left the HK Island theaters.
'Gallants' (打擂台) is a bit hard to describe properly... Its a martial arts themed comedy that is an homage to HK Kungfu flicks of the 60s and 70s. The story is ...Read more
Another lunch at the La Meridien Hotel at Cyberport (home of the pumpkin dessert). This time I ate at the Japanese restaurant adjacent to the lobby, called 'Umami' (旨味). As fish is off the menu for me, I was considering the , but instead I tried the udon. <...Read more
On Monday night a few of us were able to check out the HK Premiere of Barbara Wong ( 黃真真)'s latest film 'Break Up Club' (分手說愛你). I posted my premiere pics here yesterday if you haven't seen...Read more
OK, I put my money where my mouth is. I surfed over to the THREEHK (3HK) website and got on the preorder list for the brand new iPhone 4 (aka iPhone4 aka iPhone4G aka iPhone 4 HD):
http://iphone.three.com.hk/website/en/roi3.html (Registration of Interest... I'm registered!)
iPhone4 not goin...Read more
Went to the Hong Kong Premiere for Barbara Wong's new film 'Break Up Club' (分手說愛你), starring Jaycee Chan, Fiona Sit and featuring Hiro Hayama.
Last weekend I was in a 7-11 with a friend buying drinks, i was going to get a regular Sprite but she suggested I try the new flavor of Sprite... Green Tea Sprite!
Long time etchy blog readers will recall that I'm always down to try a new experimental flavor when offered the chance (remember Read more
Philip Ng is featured in one episode of RTHK's 5 part series 'Kungfu Quest'. They did some promo recently as the show is launching very shortly. The official site for the show is here:
Since I began getting involved with advertising and marketing as part of my duties at alivenotdead.com, I've started taking notice of different kinds of display advertising. HK is a global leader in some forms, especially on or in public transportation.
Last year I wrote a few blogs about the marketing that Nissan Cup Noodles did in the MTR at Admiralty Stationand also with their Read more
One of the bonuses of my current job is that we get a lot of free clothing, mostly T-shirts, on rare occasions something fancier like shoes or jackets. Because of this, and because I'm totally not a fashion person, I find that I actually buy very little clothes... (maybe only once every few months will I buy something like a new pair of pants or a sweatshirt, etc. Maybe a concert T-shirt to support the artists....
What I've slowly come to realize is that nowadays almost 99% of the clothes that I actual...Read more
Another one from the 'better late than never' file!
On April 24th I went over to Macau for the LMF Wild Lazy Tour show at the Venetian. Even though I went to both nights in HK in January (did you see my videos from that show? they ...Read more
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